Where is the ground effect?

[mytai01]

There is not ground effect at all on this thing. I can make a slow decent and it continues all the way to the ground with no noticeable ground effect. Is that how it really is?

[BronzeYardNo11]

It's there, it's just not as much as a huey though.

 

It's a smaller airframe, not a lot of surface for air to bounce off of.

[Yurgon]

My impression is that ground effect is actually incredibly strong.

 

When I come in straight and level to land on a rooftop, the chopper will bounce into the sky as soon as I'm over the roof, and I have to push the collective almost all the way down just to maintain altitude, let alone descend.

 

I don't know if that's what it's like in the real chopper. The Huey's ground effect modelling feels very spot-on to me, but I can't say if one or the other is more correct.

 

Edit: X-post WTF?! Is this so important that you have to bring it up twice in 6 minutes?

Edited June 19, 2016 by Yurgon

[ESAc_matador]

I am finding very difficult to do the taxi, at 3-5 ft and just 10-15kmh... any recomendation?

[BronzeYardNo11]

any recomendation?

 

Wait for ED to release the next update, hopefully with the new Gazelle changes.

[Mt5_Roie]

New update will make little tweaks to the FM which should help. But remember it all comes with time. You didn't learn to drive a car in one day, so flying a helicopter is no different. Took me about three weeks once I joined the team to get comfortable flying her as low speeds and take off and landings. I'm still no expert either.