Need Auto Hover Help

[Chops]

I have watched the Producer's Notes and searched this Forum for help regarding Hovering and Auto Hover. However, I am still unable to pull it off.

 

I have included a track where I used Auto Hover, resulting in a crash. Hopefully someone can offer suggestions on what I am doing wrong.

My vertical velocity was minimal and did not exceed the tolerances mentioned in the manual.

Auto Hover Crash.trk

[IanC58]

If anyone else watches the track then fast forward to the end as it goes wrong at his destination airfield.

Heres what i thought i saw,

When you went into hover mode you were offset from the runway heading, you applied yaw to the right to line up with the runway heading still in hover mode, the new heading was held but were you holding onto the rudder for this?

You descended slowly whilst maintaining the new heading, at about 3 mtrs in the dust the helo banks back to the left as if it is trying to get back to your origional hover heading which was offset from the runway heading, trims are not neutral.

 

I hope thats how i remembered seeing it.

EDIT - Screenshot added

 

Edited May 3, 2009 by 74_Fox
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[159th_Viper]

Do not use Auto-Hover to attempt a landing. Automatically disengages in any event at a certain altitude (5m AGL IIRC).

 

The moment you engage Auto-Hover, your AP/Dampener systems are in all probability at the limit of their 'endurance' due to you forgetting to properly trim the Helo immediately prior to engaging Auto-Hover - Trim, Trim and Trim again, often: Important! - You then descend in a 'relatively' stable state and the moment the Auto-Hover automatically disengages, your Helo returns to it's previous state resulting in the Trench-Digging experienced.

 

Also - If engaging Auto-Hover, it's essential that your Airspeed is approx 5 or less as indicated and again, you are trimmed for Hover.

[muamshai]

1. Speed should be visible in your HUD

2. The vertical pipper should be visible in the center of HUD

3. Trim chopper as desired.

4. Press autohover button

[Distiler]

I saw the track. You were too low (less than 5 meters) and the autopilots switched off.

[Chops]

Thanks for your input guys, sorry I didn't mention that it happened at the end of my track.

 

I watched Wags use Auto Hover in one of his Producer's Notes to land, and he had no problem. Do you have any idea on how he was able to do it?

[IanC58]

Read the above posts fella and experiment, my pic of you just before you crashed shows you out of trim and Viper said the hover mode will be auto disengaged at 5 mtrs on descent so your trim settings are active there.

Wags videos dont allow you to see the trim guage to clearly and i don't think there is an auto hover mode training video ingame.

Edited May 3, 2009 by 74_Fox
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[Chops]

Roger that Fox, I re-read your post. I guess the lesson learned is to get the helicopter on the heading you want and trimmed, before engaging Auto Hover, and don't mess around with heading changes once it is engaged.

 

In my track I moved to a new heading to get parallel to the runway and then trimmed.

 

When the Auto Hover disengages at 4 meters (correct ?), and the helicopter is trimmed properly it should continue it's descent and land without incident.

[IanC58]

More practice means you will become less reliant on auto hover for landing especially.

[joey45]

I dont use AH for landing.... only hovering..

 

pratice is the only thing we can do. Once we know where we went wrong we can pratice on our mistakes.