@NineLine
Very short track file, but I was dumb and made it a cold start. At least it verifies its not just on hot starts
EDIT
Made 2 more tracks, 1 with a hot start and 1 clean from the ME.
You can see that originally starting with the 4 tanks and then removing I still require near 100% for my hover check, whereas when I get a clean bird from the ME its roughly 60%
Also, excuse the sloppiness, I don't fly rotaries often
AH64 ext tanks.trk
AH64 ext tanks2 - Hot start.trk AH64 no XT-tanks - Hot start.trk