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I just got TrackIR myself and have been messing with it a lot. Right now I use SHIFT and ALT Scroll Lock for TrackIR center and pause. It works well.

lol, true.

Look harder, I already explained it by correcting just about everything you said about it. And you said that torque is applied via the swashplates.. This has nothing to do with the torque you get from your torque indicator. Nothing. You indirectly implied that torque is measured at the swashplates.

But, you'll always have the white triangle, the to/from indicator. It depends on how you set the course bar.

And if you really believe that irl the whole rotor system would snap off without any major forces acting on the helicopter you have a very simple mind. Also, this situation is extremely unlikely.

Ontopic, because the topicstarter is wrong, the sim is right. Imagine the rotor system snapping off, it would generate huge forces of imbalance and physics changes. Here's another video proving my point.

Torque is basicly the power exercised on the twisting of a shaft. Has nothing to do with swashplates or push/pull rods. Can you quote what you've found in official documentation?

DME reversal for TACAN. Aircraft I've flown with TACAN are the PC-7, TH-67, UH-1 and CH-47.

I'm only being direct, sorry if that comes over as hostile. It is however pretty frustrating to see complete noobs trying to tell me I'm wrong which huge erroneous posts full of false statements. What the hell are they thinking? It's like saying cars have square wheels so they can roll.

To be complete in my reply, I'll quote and correct the errors and tell you all how it's really done (just for the coordinated turn part). Define standard turn... Standard rate turn? Or just a normal turn? In reality, to fly a coordinated turn you will always need some pedal input to streamline the airframe into the turn, especially sinde you DO need to make collective inputs. If you don't make collective inputs, your helicopter WILL descent. This is very logical because your lift vector becomes less since the thrust vector is now banked into the turn. IS true, it's very simple... if you don't, you'll descent, or you would have to pull back on your cyclic to trade airspeed for altitude, this would not be a coordinated turn. The base torque setting is useless... what if you're flying at 10.000ft? Or ehat if you've burnt off most of your fuel? Your base torque is useless, unless using it in lesson one for the ABSOLUTE newbie. And I mean absolute. yes you do... lmao... you HAVE to use the collective to maintain altitude... what else would you suggest then? Using the pedals??! Come on............. If you practice doing these procedures, you will turn at a consistent rate of speed and a constant altitude. It takes practice but once you see how to put it all together, it will become second nature. Not true. You'll lose airspeed in the turn.

Lol.... torque is absolutely NOT measured at the swashplates or push/pull tubes... so... Wrong. Not all helicopters do a hover power check. Wrong again. Also, the stuff you're saying is like for the basics of the basics of flying. When you're just a tiny bit more experienced, you don't really use those numbers anymore. Your instruction on how to make a turn is basicly total bullshit. You use collective in turns to maintain altitude, if you want it to be a coordinated turn ofcourse. What you're describing might be good for theory, or for a demonstration, or flight lesson number one, but has nothing to do with flying a helicopter properly. Most of it is half, or totally wrong. I'm a helicopter pilot myself, I kind of know what I'm talking about here.

Yes it is.

This video shows I'm right. http://youtu.be/NF0MPGautHA The tailboom snaps immediately after the main rotor is damaged.

Bullshit. Physics are at play. Try playing with a gyroscopic wheel. Like having a bicycle wheel spinning in your one hand, now try giving input with a finger from your other hand. The output is 90 degrees off. Not that many aerodynamics at play with a bicycle wheel.

Backward pressure is something different than pulling back on the cyclic.... The reason for back pressure (not pulling back, just exercising a little pressure) is because the helicopter will tend to nose down if you don't.

But... gyroscopic precession has everything to do with the 90 degrees offset. Why do you think otherwise?

Falcon, centrifugal forces have nothing to do with the 90 degrees offset, it's just gyroscopic precession.

Madcat is totally wrong about pulling back on the stick though. In a turn with a helicopter, you just pull a little bit of collective, NOT cyclic. You adjust your cyclic and pedals as necessary to maintain a coordinated turn. Pulling on your cyclic would decrease speed and decrease turn radius until you come to a hover... That wouldn't look much like a coordinated turn :-)

Already in the airforce, already flying helicopters, already got hours on the Huey. I really do not need your advice lol. Extremely happy about the realism of this Huey sim, but not everything's perfect. I'm talking ontopic because in this particular situation tail rotor sound would most likely not be present in reality because it'd be broken. Not comparable to the forces you have with an autorotation at all... Please guys, don't make these weird assumptions... As if losing the main rotor system is a very smooth maneuver lol... If for some strange reason the tail rotor would still be working and would still be spinning, very unlikely, you'd probably only hear the engines spin like crazy. Even though there's a governor, there's now so little resistance, the governor can not maintain the engine's rpm within normal limits. It's not designed for that.

Yeah, using the TACAN you also get the to/from flag.

Sorry to disappoint you, but in this specific area the sim is lacking realism. A little bit of common sense and system knowledge would be enough to know that the tailboom would probably break off, or the power train for the tailrotor would fail somewhere if the main rotor came off. This isn't really offtopic.

The sim is just severely lacking here, that's the whole (futile) problem. Btw, why switch the governor to emergency, why not just shut it off?

Everybody knows there's a governor. But will it still work if the main rotor flies off? The RPM would spike up tremendously, that's for sure, probably breaking a lot of stuff :-) Might even break the whole tailboom if you ask me.

Why worry about such a futile thing which is probably unrealistic in the first place? If you think about it and analyze, what would likely happen when the main rotor snaps off is the turbine whine up to a very high rpm because all of a sudden there's a lot less drag and friction, so you'd definitely hear that, the tailshaft would probably overspeed and break.

Simple, ATC could for instance say to hold overhead the field, or make one orbit on downwind, or a five mile final. You name it. It's ridiculous that departing aircraft get a higher priority over landing aircraft... That's the opposite of reality.