mattpeckham Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 So I was practicing my startup procedures this morning, and...well... Ladies and gentlemen, always start with your physical cyclic's throttle at idle, not maximum. :doh:
RvETito Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 Cyclic? I guess you mean collective. "See, to me that's a stupid instrument. It tells what your angle of attack is. If you don't know you shouldn't be flying." - Chuck Yeager, from the back seat of F-15D at age 89. =RvE=
mattpeckham Posted December 18, 2008 Author Posted December 18, 2008 Cyclic? I guess you mean collective. Nope, cyclic. "Physical" cyclic = real-world joystick, ergo the joystick's throttle. :)
hews500d Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 the wheels seem ok... :megalol::megalol: Darrell
AlphaOneSix Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 Nope, cyclic. "Physical" cyclic = real-world joystick, ergo the joystick's throttle. :) Right, in game it's the collective, but it's a throttle on your joystick. I think I have that right. ;)
JonK Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 Reminds me of a belly up fish. Either way....I think she's dead, Jim.
mattpeckham Posted December 18, 2008 Author Posted December 18, 2008 Right, in game it's the collective, but it's a throttle on your joystick. I think I have that right. ;) Yep, we both mean the same thing, just slightly altered semantics. ;)
SlapStik Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 If anyone asks what happened back at base just tell them it was a killer cross wind caused by a micro-hurricane (by micro I mean a new pilot's skill) :joystick: SlapStik TM Warthog #1547, TM TPR Pedals, TM MFD pack & TIR4
arthuro12 Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 Lesson 1: For practice, always put inmortal on. Lesson 2: .. THROTTLE DOWN D: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
RedTiger Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 I wouldn't recommend putting immortal on. Yes, it will save you the pain of crashing during start-up like you did here, but if you decide to fly around, you won't have any of the realistic damage like your rotors snapping off when you get a little too happy with the controls. I guess it depends what you're going for and how far along you are in learning the start-up. If you are 100% not concerned with getting off the ground for the moment, then it would help! :) Me? I just have crash recover on.
mattpeckham Posted December 18, 2008 Author Posted December 18, 2008 If anyone asks what happened back at base just tell them it was a killer cross wind caused by a micro-hurricane (by micro I mean a new pilot's skill) :joystick: Or in my case, new-wannabe-pilot. :helpsmilie:
quyes Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 If anyone asks what happened back at base just tell them it was a killer cross wind caused by a micro-hurricane (by micro I mean a new pilot's skill) Does this means when he's when he's no longer a new pilot he can go by the callsign of just "Hurricane"?? :music_whistling:
Focha Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 My worst survivable crash was in 159th server too. I was in that target training mission over WP7 when after spending missiles and canon I was going to spend rockets when a Vulcan rip off my tail immediately I headed home, in the way back my main and common hydraulics went out, I never add so much hard time trying to keep attitude within the hydraulics failure limit attitude. I was literaly moving X52 all the range in every direction, obviously without at least one hydraulics the gear didnt work so I had to land on the belly, as I was landing the loss of hydraulics was so severe that the chin and tail were constantly hitting the ground. Finally after some time bouncing I was able to shutdown the helicopter and go to my kitchen to make one of those calment teas! I only can thanks ED for making the most complex rotorcraft simulation available for the common mortal. It must have been a lot of hours reading aeronautical books, making calculations, programming, even maybe making rotorcraft physics models and finite element simulation. Thank you all for the hard work. Now... Make more helicopters. Lol. Best regards for all. ASUS N552VX | i7-6700HQ @ 2.59GHz | 16 GB DDR3 | NVIDIA GF GTX 950M 4 Gb | 250 Gb SSD | 1 Tb HD SATA II Backup | TIR4 | Microsoft S. FF 2+X52 Throttle+Saitek Pedals | Win 10 64 bits
Bobcat Posted December 19, 2008 Posted December 19, 2008 Just keep practising :) I was having massive control problems with the K50 but gradually started to learn all the auto mode functions / idocynricies etc. It all suddenly came together and I'm flying with a lot more confidence now. This doesn't stop me doing stupid things though; I was "fiddling" with the nav screen last night and forgot to activate the alt hold mode. When I returned to normal forward view I was at 600m and still climbing lol. What a perfect target for the bad guys... Bobcat
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