Tail rotor assembly randomly falling off?

[Redlinebuzz]

Maybe it's just me but, so far I've had three instances where my tail rotor assembly has fell off, once from take off, which I put down to my HOTAS controls not being in sync when I did the startup which was understandable maybe, but twice in a hover it just fell off resulting in a crash, wasn't over stressing the engine, hovering about 100ft, no damage previously in flight which was only 5 mins since take off. Tried co capture footage but I was ucing the Oculus and DCS crashed when I tried to save the track. Anyone else have this ?

[mattebubben]

Were you multi-crewing?

 

Since ive had this problem a few times when trying to multi crew (the tail falling off).

 

Some times the Tail even falls of before take off when you multi crew.

 

And are you sure you were not over torquing it? no red lights flashing even for a moment?.

(throttle never close to max?)

[Ramsay]

I've spawned with tail damage carried over from a previous flight, when using the same Gazelle variant.

 

Here, after crashing elsewhere,

• I re-spawned in a 'hot parking' slot,
  
• took off and crashed due to strange flight behaviour
  
• I re-spawned again, and switched to the F2 external to check for damage
  
• the engine, main and tail rotors are running but I'm not going anywhere with that broken tail
  

 

My work round is to temporarily re-spawn in a slot with a different Gazelle variant (L -> M, M -> L) and then switch back or restart DCS.

 

Other times I've thought the tail had fallen off without reason - the track replay has shown, I've struck the tail on take-off/landing without realising.

Edited September 3, 2016 by Ramsay
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[Devrim]

I encountered similar problems, but didn't have a track.

 

Falling off tail part at respawn, or other take off problems (I pull collective but she lays right side, although my all behavior was correct) at mission start...

 

I try to catch a track or video recording. Then I'll open a bug thread.

[Redlinebuzz]

I'll pay more attention to what's happening from now on, I know for sure that once it fell off from a cold start, performed by me, I noticed a weird noise just as the rotors got up to full rpm, then when I took off immediately started spinning, the track did show the tail falling off just when I noticed the noise, well before I touched the collective.