nikoel Posted March 13, 2022 Posted March 13, 2022 (edited) Hey guys I've been always frustrated with helicopters in flight simulators. I go through phases every few months, but each time after flying in them for an hour, I'm always a bit saddened as they are no where near what a real one feels like. However with the introduction of the Apache I got a second wind motivation to overlook all that The SuperLibra with the extension actually provides a lot of travel, overall fairly close to 1:1 to many of the real helicopters out there. In the past I have taken the springs out and tightened the dampers. An overall an acceptable stop gap solution. It eliminates the 'auto recentering' of the stick. This however gave me a lot of stiction. Basically this was a necessary evil due to large lever effect of the extension. I had to tighten the dampers on the cyclic by quite a bit to achieve enough stability and feedback in the stick to keep it from what felt like falling away from me This got me thinking. All winwing, or someone handy with a 3D Printer/Lathe gotta do is give us a very simple cam with just a little bit of upwards gradient to prevent the cyclic of falling forwards/backwards/side-side with a very weak spring. Which is strong enough not to let the cam completely collapse but weak enough not to have to constantly fight it An other additional idea is to create squares that fit over the top of the two rollers so now the rolling motion is replaced by friction created by two flat surfaces Alternatively the surface of the cam can be made of something slightly resistant to 'roll'. Think office chair wheels on top of carpet vs wood Maybe even magnets like this amazing solution for X55 No one seems to have talked about this on the winwing side of things so I thought I get things at least started in case there are already solutions out there that I have not thought about Any further ideas Edited March 13, 2022 by nikoel
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