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Thanks ever so much for the replies! I kinda hoped for one or two but you guys made me believe again! ;P As soon as I finish work and get home I wll try all these. Thanks again for help! Darek

Hi All, As many of you I have great problems with hovering... I read most of the posts here, tried doing what they say and lost loads of time (instead of learning the cold start procedures by heart... ;))... Please, help! I enter an already working, ready-to-fly chopper with a default - GROUND TRIM. I have PITCH, BANK and HEADING APs activated by default. I add ALT HOLD AP to them. I gently add power and lift off the ground. Slight foreward movement of the cyclic counterbalances the helo's slide to the back... OK, I think - all I need to do is trim this baby! :smartass: When I achieve "an almost stopped" position as I call it:D, I press the T button and release it imediately. I am smarter because I have read the manual that said all the NON-FORCE FEEDBACK joysticks (as is my X52) need to be brought back to neutral position just after pressing the T button... I do exactly that! And what happens? My helo gets even MORE backward slide movement and drops down from the sky... I try again... And again... And... I'll just skip a few hours... :cry: After a "while" I start to experiment... Perhaps all the four AP "holds" need to be deselected?? Who knows? Clueless as I am I struggle to make the damn thing at lease LEAN TO THE FRONT! No go! My personal Ka-50 can only go backwards... or even more backwards... No way I can trim it to go forwards... I skip this lesson... 1. Why trimming the "close to hover" helo brings it to a big, steep slide to the back? 2. What AP configuration should be used to create a hover? Bank? Pitch? Alt? Heading? I move on... Perhaps I'll just use the Auto-Hover option - RAlt+T Oh no, I won't! Why? Cause it does exactly the same thing! It makes the helo go back and as it cancelles all the "holds" except from the ALT, I end up spinning round and crashing... Yes, you guessed right... - I ate my teeth on A-10 in Lock On but never flown a helo sim before... Oh, but I will! I am stubborn and I will find a solution to this! ... Sooo.... :helpsmilie::helpsmilie::helpsmilie: 1. How does Auto-Hover work? 2. Why does it make my helo go backwards again? Yes, I know - the default, ground trim is set but I thought it's called AUTO for a reason... 3. How to operate Auto-Hover? Last but not least - as I said I have an X52... It so happens the game makes a distinction between left and right Shift keys and the X52 profile editor doesn't... Is there a way to make it start??? Now, I am not angry as I am aware of the fact it is me who makes mistakes - not this superb sim... I just don't know how to learn to do it right! The manuals are so much NOT ENOUGH to get even the basic knowledge on how to master this beast... I hope I find some answers here. Please, have mercy and once again, for the thousenth time - explain these things to me and others with similar issues. I'd be most gratefull for any kind of help! Regards - Darek G.