Nubbit

Thanks, but I just tried it again and I get the same behaviour. I have an options file with all the stuff the way I want it. In the updater I select preset "Default", then I import the settings from my configured lua. I then press save. With Default still selected I start DCS, and all my settings are way messed up, closing DCS I see the messed up settings populate the Default preset as well. The same thing happens when I select Preset 1 and change the settings in the updater manually too. This is so frustrating, I really want to be able to change between VR and Pancake easily.

Hello, is there a "For dummies" guide or equivalent somewhere? For some reason I just can't get any graphics options I set in the updater or in-game to stick when using this. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure out what.

Dutch here, but I think I can just about understand what you're saying there xD "Greetings to everyone who is Afrikaans or from South Africa"?

I'm thinking your windows might be screwing with permissions / folder ownership?

Any landing you can walk away from. Besides, looks like you have all the important bits.

I can't comment on how severe the drop/lift should be but yes it should be like that I believe. What's happening when transferring from hover to translational lift is that the rotor blades start constantly chopping into fresh air, and also hitting the air faster than when in a hover. (Think waving your hand outside a car window when stationary and then when driving 90 mph.) The increased relative speed of the rotor to the air translates into increased lift, hence the helicopter will suddenly climb a lot more when entering translational lift. If you reverse the whole process and drop the airspeed, going from forward flight into a hover, the rotor blades lose a lot of their efficiency once again, requiring more pitch to keep the lift. If you don't judge the application of collective to add properly, when the rotor loses all that delicious translational lift it drops like a brick, likely even dropping you into VRS. So basically no, afaik you're not doing anything wrong, you just need to get more flying in and learn to anticipate the transitions inbetween different stages of flight (IGE, OGE, translational lift, etc).

It's the "Master Caution Landing"

I have the same hardware as you and have no troubles with the huey, just takes practice. My hog is unmodded and I don't find it too stiff at all, you're not performing surgery you're flying a helicopter. Same goes for the center detent on the pedals, any gentle rudder management will be far enough away from the center to worry about the detent. I'm no engineer but it seems to be there is pendulum effect there, but since the body of the pendulum (huey) has so much mass it drags the rotor around a bit, hence the ball on a seal effect. To me that seems right.. but then again I'm not a real pilot in any way shape or form, just my 2 cents.

Once in the general area of where you want to land, flare steeply and drop collective to nothing. Ride the VRS all the way down to 100 feet, raise collective to over halfway, slam the anti-torque to the left and nose down to get out of VRS, gently bounce on ground effect, land, done.

Also some issues, sending a PM as well

So I wanted to make a tutorial video showing people how to escape the VRS deathtrap... and for some reason it's now harder for me to get into a VRS than to stay out of it....

Amen to that. Curves are fine in normal fixed wing because generally the worst that can happen when you suddenly go full deflection on a control surface are easily correctable aerodynamic nasties. When the cyclic on the huey suddenly goes balls-out due to curvature you might blow your entire rotor assembly off the mast, it's happened to me when I was messing with curves.

There is a circuit breaker for it. Controls -> Circuit breaker panel -> CB RPM warning system. I can't try it out because for some reaosn I don't hear a warning xD the light comes on but no warning tone for me.

There is a circuit breaker for it. Controls -> Circuit breaker panel -> CB RPM warning system. I can't try it out because for some reaosn I don't hear a warning xD the light comes on but no warning tone for me.

Huh, didn't even know that was there. Learn something new every day I guess. I don't know if it's displayed anywhere else.