Althar93 Posted July 15, 2023 Posted July 15, 2023 Hey all, I finally got the Gazelle in the Steam sales after eyeing it up for a little while / waiting for the new FM. I am enjoying it & its simplicity and have flown a couple of training & instant missions. One aspect that I am currently struggling with is : maintaining altitude whilst in a hover. I am not sure if this is related to the fuel / weight bug that has been discussed lately, or if I am doing something wrong, but essentially even at full collective, and with some good altitude to begin with, I simply cannot gain/nor maintain altitude. This makes it impossible for me to conduct pop-up attacks and also means that over time, if I do not have any forward motion, my Gazelle will slowly but surely descend back to the ground. Am I doing anything wrong / is this expected, or is this a (possibly the same fuel/weight) bug? Thanks in advance!
MAXsenna Posted July 15, 2023 Posted July 15, 2023 Hey all, I finally got the Gazelle in the Steam sales after eyeing it up for a little while / waiting for the new FM. I am enjoying it & its simplicity and have flown a couple of training & instant missions. One aspect that I am currently struggling with is : maintaining altitude whilst in a hover. I am not sure if this is related to the fuel / weight bug that has been discussed lately, or if I am doing something wrong, but essentially even at full collective, and with some good altitude to begin with, I simply cannot gain/nor maintain altitude. This makes it impossible for me to conduct pop-up attacks and also means that over time, if I do not have any forward motion, my Gazelle will slowly but surely descend back to the ground. Am I doing anything wrong / is this expected, or is this a (possibly the same fuel/weight) bug? Thanks in advance! Try with less than 50% fuel or less. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
Althar93 Posted July 15, 2023 Author Posted July 15, 2023 Thanks, just tried empty with 10% fuel and climbing /maintaining altitude in hover is no problem. I take it the instructions for the missile training mission, to first establish in auto-hover is not possible as a result of the loadout/fuel?
MAXsenna Posted July 15, 2023 Posted July 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Althar93 said: Thanks, just tried empty with 10% fuel and climbing /maintaining altitude in hover is no problem. I take it the instructions for the missile training mission, to first establish in auto-hover is not possible as a result of the loadout/fuel? Oh, it's absolutely doable with the current fuel loadout, but the auto hover function is currently disabled in the new FM, so it's kind of tricky, to both hover and shoot the missiles by one person. Not THAT hard if you know your DCS helicopters, and you have an extra stick or what not for the Vivianne. The take off is the take off before gaining speed is the hardest right now for me. But I just opened all the missions in the editor and reduced the amount of fuel. Just practice hovering with altitude, and you can pretty much listen to the engine to know if your going up or down. Cheers!
Althar93 Posted July 15, 2023 Author Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) 12 minutes ago, MAXsenna said: you can pretty much listen to the engine to know if your going up or down. Oh I don't have any issues flying/hovering from the copilot's seat and using the Vivianne at the same time. My issue is that in the Weapons training mission, even with 100% collective whilst in a stable hover a few hundred feet off the ground, my vertical speed won't remain positive, and the Gazelle will just slowly descends, all the way to 5 feet or so, where it seems happy to sit. Having tried a few loadouts with the mission editor following your advice, I acknowledge hovering with a constant altitude is not an issue with less fuel. Edited July 15, 2023 by Althar93 1
MAXsenna Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 Oh I don't have any issues flying/hovering from the copilot's seat and using the Vivianne at the same time. My issue is that in the Weapons training mission, even with 100% collective whilst in a stable hover a few hundred feet off the ground, my vertical speed won't remain positive, and the Gazelle will just slowly descends, all the way to 5 feet or so, where it seems happy to sit. Having tried a few loadouts with the mission editor following your advice, I acknowledge hovering with a constant altitude is not an issue with less fuel. Ah, then you're good! Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
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