Main Rotor Separation from Helicopter

[VampireNZ]

So yea - interesting story. Track attached!

 

Minigun version, take-off and some light hovering to test out the GE. Still some funky things going on so head out to runway, takeoff and cruise down the coast a short way. Gently land on the beach and go to outside view to check heli positioning...and watch entire main rotor pop off the helicopter.

 

Now I know what everyone will say - "Oh but you must have been doing 4G inverted dives with Mig-28's - noob" etc.

But I think you will agree the flying is pretty casual and controlled, and I can guarantee I never hit 100 power as I have the Y-axis saturation on the collective set to 80% to help with the GE handling.

 

Oh yeah - and the fault in the de-brief screen was listed as "Aw shoot.", not sure I am aware of that system on the Gazelle....

 

Was thinking it was possibly sand damage because I wasn't using the intake filter, but the engine kept running fine - so if it was related to that (see damage on top of helicopter caused by who knows what) then I think the damage model needs work.

 

In any case - this might prove useful to hopefully get to the bottom of it for someone else who still flies this module.

Rotor Separation.trk

[Devrim]

Can't load the track.

 

It says, "Need modules for load mission: Helipads"

[Polychop Simulations]

Hi VampireNZ,

 

It would be great if you could supply me with a trackfile without mods. Would be very interested to see if we can replicate this behaviour.