Gary Hall

nevermind its done. I'm such an idiot :) how do i delete this thread?

so my x55 arrived yesterday (yay) but i dont have a bloody clue how to set my left throttle to operate the collective! can any patient kind soul give me a super noob step by step guide on how to do this please

I'm not getting frustrated at all I'm actually enjoying slowly making progress. i started not even being able to take off now i can take off and fly around a bit. just barely scratched the surface on what i need to learn though

thanks esb77 that helped a lot. i can now tke off and stay in the air (yay) but when i try to change difrection i spin out of control crash

ok so i was looking the through the keybindings and saw that "collective" was not assigned to anything. now i was actually able to take off (WOOOOOT) but after about a minute of flight my helicopter threw a tantrum and crashed on its side also when i am moving forward on the ground (any speed) my heli pulls to the right and i have to twist the stick quite a lot just to get it to go in almost a straight line. is this normal?. i still dont really get how to use the throttle also with collateral do i press the button once or do i hold it? sorry for the super noobs questions but i am making progress :) EDIT: i didnt see the those replies when i opened the page

so lets see if i got this straight. moving the stick forwards and back pitches my nose up and down. left and right banks my helicopter left or right. twisting my stick spins my helicopter left and right. what exactly does the throttle do and what do i use to go up and down?

thanks all for the replies :) I'm based in London, UK my background is,well i played alot of flight sims since back in the c64 and amiga days though i havent played any in the last 7ish years or so. as for helicopter sims this is my first. i played super heuy on the c64 but i dont think that counts as a sim :p

i got dcs world and the mi-8 helicopter at the same time so i am very new I'm using a madcatz fly 5 stick once i have my engines started (autostart) i slowly increase the throttle to get lift then i raise of the ground by a few feet spin uncontrollably in circles then land upside down. what am i doing wrong? (other than landing upside down :P)