Auto Hover? Anyone?

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Aside from jumping into CPG seat, after bringing Apache to manual hover, is there an autoHover function?

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

46 minutes ago, DmitriKozlowsky said:

Aside from jumping into CPG seat, after bringing Apache to manual hover, is there an autoHover function?

Nope. At the moment we only have ATT hold activated at 5 knts and below to help with hover. But you have to be stable and trimmed first. Works well for IGE hover, more tricky with OGE hover esp if you are transitioning from flight and if the SCAS decides to 'disagree'.   

 

[Scaley]

2 hours ago, DmitriKozlowsky said:

Aside from jumping into CPG seat, after bringing Apache to manual hover, is there an autoHover function?

Sort of. It's the "Attitide Hold" function mentioned above. If you activate it at 5KTAS or below if functions as position hold, so it tried to hold the position it had at activation. It's only been added in the last patch so is still a bit WIP. It also only has 10% control authority, meaning it only has 10% of the full range of cyclic movements available to it FROM THE TRIMMED POSITION (which is important)  To use it you need to get to a stable hover and trim for that hover, then activate it. If you do that it's actually very good and you can definitely sit hands off almost indefinitely even in strong winds.  

NOTE: It has no control of collective - that's up to you Altitude hold, which is a separate function, is coming later. Once we have both then you combine them to get a proper hover hold. 

[dburne]

I find ATT Hold to work pretty well for me in maintaining a hover.

[YoYo]

On 6/3/2022 at 12:02 PM, DmitriKozlowsky said:

Aside from jumping into CPG seat, after bringing Apache to manual hover, is there an autoHover function?

Now it works only with trim function as attitude hold mode. You must slow down to 0-5kts (not more!) and use Trim to left, short press. 

You can check this video also how it works (for me perfect, however you must go to this the first stage of hover manually):

 

[gav88888]

Once below 5kts the ATT and ALT holds do a good job of holding a hover, the problem for me is getting it below 5 as its very twitchy