Nerdwing Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Hey there, sorry for the weird title. http://www.mediafire.com/download/13mfgga5chu118l/Huey_Landing_Kinda.trk This is a track of me taking off in the Huey and circling briefly, and landing. Everything about it is awful. I've included in it the control-position window, so you can further see exactly what Im doing at any moment. Does the stick behavior seem unnecessarily squirrely to you? Even when held "still" Im getting alot of shaking, it would appear. I'm trying to figure out if my Logitech Extreme 3d Pro has enough life in it to continue flying the Huey, or if I'm going to have to get something new. Thanks for any input!
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Flagrum Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 (edited) Hey there, sorry for the weird title. http://www.mediafire.com/download/13mfgga5chu118l/Huey_Landing_Kinda.trk This is a track of me taking off in the Huey and circling briefly, and landing. Everything about it is awful. I've included in it the control-position window, so you can further see exactly what Im doing at any moment. Does the stick behavior seem unnecessarily squirrely to you? Even when held "still" Im getting alot of shaking, it would appear. I'm trying to figure out if my Logitech Extreme 3d Pro has enough life in it to continue flying the Huey, or if I'm going to have to get something new. Thanks for any input! The shaking stick - that looks like a hardware issue - bad potentiometers. But anyways, all in all I found it not too shabby. :o) (but then, I am a huge helo fan but by no means an expert) One thing I found a bit odd, though. Your handling of the collective. While it is good that you are correcting continuously and steadily, it looked a bit too nervous to me. Could perhaps also be the same issue as with the stick? Or do you really adjust up-down-up-up-down-down-do?-up!!-up!-down-up-down all the time? :o) My advice here would be: adjust the collective continously, but more smoothly. Every change in the collective changes the torque and thus leads to yaw that you also need to adjust with your pedals. edit: For training, to get a better feel for the helo, maybe you want to try this: 1. take off into a hover, preferably out of ground effect (i.e. > 20 ft). 2. Accellerate and maintain heading and altitude. 3. Decellerate back into hover while still maintaining heading and ideally altitude. 4. go to step 2 Edited June 30, 2014 by Flagrum
JAMMER61 Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Sounds like bad pots. I had a Logitech 3d that the pots gave out in less than a year of heavey use (heavy input spikes on the X and Y axis) You can try to calibrate your joystick and make sure both axis are stable. If it is spiking, replace the pots or buy a new stick (warthog if you can afford it).
Nerdwing Posted June 30, 2014 Author Posted June 30, 2014 Argh... so it'd need a replacement eh? I'm looking at finally moving up to a T-16000M so hopefully it'll last while. I've just used and replaced Logitech Wingmen up until now, on my third in 10-ish years :P I'm not technically inclined enough to replace the pots I dont think. I'll keep in mind the advice on collective too, and try and take that into account more until the new stick. It cant help to drop that habit early, I figure! :)
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