majorshooter

Situation: hover over cargo, AP pitch/roll, altitude and heading engaged. In this situation I am having quite a hard time keeping the aircraft on the same heading. More often than not I am yawing more than anything else. I have cheap rudders (pedals) that come with my Logitech force feedback steering wheel. Force feedback is off. According to Chucks Guide: When in hover, the autopilot stabilizes the helicopter in pitch and roll, as well as heading when the pedals are released (feet off the pedals). Also in his controls setup section he stipulates zero deadzone for all controls. 1. In my case would it not be better to have a slight deadzone in the rudder pedals in case the simulation thinks there are small inputs (feet on pedals) from a slight jitter in rudder control inputs. I have not tested this yet as I just thought of it. Soo... He also mentions: Autopilot functionality in hovering flight can be verified by checking the zero indicator unit for fluctuations in the "К" (roll channel) "Т" (pitch channel) "Н" (yaw channel) servo displacement indicator needles. 2. Does this mean I can check the zero indicator and if it is making slight adjustments for the aircraft and the needles are moving on their own it indicates it is operating correctly? Or does this mean if there are needle movements it is not working and the aircraft is moving off heading? I will test this out tonight but any advise would be appreciated. PS: I have successfully completed my first sling load mission in the Oilfield Campaign but I find operating the aircraft in a hover has not been consistent, hence this train of thought. Cheers!

I purchased both the map and the FA -18C. I wanted the map originally because it looked like a fun place to fly helicopters. I wanted the plane as it is the closest thing to our Canadian CF-188's and I had never purchased a plane in DCS before, just helicopters. And it was my birthday so why not... :music_whistling:

The autopilot pitch/roll fails to work for me every now and then on the Oilfield campaign. The light will not activate and the pitch/roll is very unstable. I have also noticed that the green light sometimes blinks for a millisecond when pressing it. I have even had the AI say "autopilot on" once when trying it off and on numerous times. Exiting the mission and starting over clears the issue for that instance. Yesterday I also had an issue with the right engine not starting. This is the first time this has happened to me. I tried shutting it off and returning the handle to the rear, then selecting crank instead of start thinking maybe I could crank it and clear any fuel out and try again. Maybe not the correct line of thought but we used to have to do that on the old Continental 9 cylinder radial engines before startup so why not try. It didn't work and I had to restart the campaign to clear that... Anyway you are not alone in this issue. By the way; I have heard people mention repair once or twice in passing. Is there a repair function? Maybe in the comms menu??? Cheers!