Lifting the Huey

[Peter22]

Peter22, glad you're making progress.

 

I watched the track you initially uploaded, and here are some recommendations.

1) To simulate wear and tear on UH-1/Mi-8 engines, Belsimtek allows the engine to degrade over time, or with overuse. When placing a UH-1 or Mi-8 on the map in mission editor, the engine resource slider always defaults to 90%. I looked at your track file and the Huey slot is indeed at 90% health, so your engine wasn't performing as well as it could. I would recommend putting it to full. It will be the last tab in the Helicopter Group edit box.

2) For practice flights, I would recommend taking less weapons. With miniguns and 7-round rocket pods, the gross weight is over a 1000 pounds higher, which is a substantial increase in load for a single-engine helicopter.

3) Practice taking off into the wind while in ground effect until you get above 25 knots (past ETL). This requires less power and will get you used to the maneuver when carrying those heavy weapons loads.

 

Happy flying :pilotfly:

 

Affirmative...I have to practice and use the pedals to gain some torque and nose down little be and just get use to it..

I ll keep in touch

Thanks

[kingpinda]

Peter22, glad you're making progress.

 

I watched the track you initially uploaded, and here are some recommendations.

1) To simulate wear and tear on UH-1/Mi-8 engines, Belsimtek allows the engine to degrade over time, or with overuse. When placing a UH-1 or Mi-8 on the map in mission editor, the engine resource slider always defaults to 90%. I looked at your track file and the Huey slot is indeed at 90% health, so your engine wasn't performing as well as it could. I would recommend putting it to full. It will be the last tab in the Helicopter Group edit box.

2) For practice flights, I would recommend taking less weapons. With miniguns and 7-round rocket pods, the gross weight is over a 1000 pounds higher, which is a substantial increase in load for a single-engine helicopter.

3) Practice taking off into the wind while in ground effect until you get above 25 knots (past ETL). This requires less power and will get you used to the maneuver when carrying those heavy weapons loads.

 

Happy flying :pilotfly:

This was not the reason why Peter couldn't lift off. I played the track and took over and was perfectly able to take off by just increasing collective..

 

Its really weird that saturation at 100 percent doesnt work properly on the thrustmaster warthog Throttle. I have the same device and with default axis settings I get the full range...

 

Peter it just occured to me... Did you install the afterburner clip in the throttle... Meaning you need to pull up the throttle to get over the bump to get full range? Maybe you bought it from someone who has had it installed. This means you have two bumps. Bump one lift throttle from off to idle and bump 2 from end to max?

Edited August 30, 2015 by kingpinda

[Peter22]

This was not the reason why Peter couldn't lift off. I played the track and took over and was perfectly able to take off by just increasing collective..

 

Its really weird that saturation at 100 percent doesnt work properly on the thrustmaster warthog Throttle. I have the same device and with default axis settings I get the full range...

 

Peter it just occured to me... Did you install the afterburner clip in the throttle... Meaning you need to pull up the throttle to get over the bump to get full range? Maybe you bought it from someone who has had it installed. This means you have two bumps. Bump one lift throttle from off to idle and bump 2 from end to max?

OK I have the clip in the throttle as default from factory, should I remove it?

[Peter22]

Yes. Unless you want to edit the axis stuff.

yeap I just removed and works perfect......that was the problem, now it is there a way to set up the axis to simulate the same effect?

thanks

Peter

[Peter22]

I just did it.... in collective select slider and user curve and then deadzone to 35....DONE..!!!!!!