NuclearWinter

Just checking, but you had the profile set up for DCS.exe and not the launcher right?

Thanks, that's how I'm doing it now (maintaining VVI instead of zeroing collective) and as mentioned in my last post I am having a much better time now. Hovering no longer seems to be a problem for me :thumbup: I was originally zeroing collective because that's what the FAQ on this forum suggests.

Thanks for the response all. I've got much better at hovering since I started being less aggressive with the cyclic when pitching up (around +10 degrees depending on speed) and keeping my focus on the VVI a lot more. Just went through Para_Bellum's tutorial mission (found on SimHQ), followed the waypoints while practicing low altitude flight and hovering, destroyed a bunch of stationary targets and successfully landed back at the airfield - I love this sim :)

Hello all, aside from enjoying some LB2 back in the day I'm a complete beginner when it comes to rotor sims and am flying with full realism settings on. I'm having trouble with getting into a hover consistently and started off by following this advice from the FAQ: It seems that sometimes I can start up a mission and have no problems transitioning from flight to hover by smoothly dropping collective to zero, pitching up to around +15 and trimming, then increasing collective as necessary to maintain alltitude. Once speed gets to below 20kph I can activate auto-hover and all is right with world. I was doing this earlier perfectly almost every time, but... Other times I'll start up a mission to practice and find it much more of a struggle. Typically what happens in these cases is that as soon as I zero collective and pitch up, I lose altitude so fast that I get trapped in a vortex ring before I can do anything to prevent it (I can escape from the vortex if high enough, but at low altitudes it ends very badly). So what I've been doing now is pitching up first, trimming and then reducing collective a much smaller amount (not zeroing it); as long as I'm ready to adjust collective if altitude starts to drop then I can slow down enough to activate auto hover. However I tend to climb a lot this way as I don't lower collective so much. Or sometimes even my speed will drop only as far as around 40 and then start increasing again as I realise that I'm now flying backwards! I'm unsure why I sometimes have no trouble, and other times it's a struggle. I'm thinking that it could be wind related though. Ok, I'm not sure if any of that makes much sense, but I'm mostly wondering what techniques or differing methods people are using to hover? Any tips to share?