pbrad74 Posted May 29, 2009 Posted May 29, 2009 First off, I have been waiting since '07 for this to come out and finally got it. I am having a blast even tho I have two major issues. 1) Missions not compatible with Vista!!! What?!!! No where on the box does it say that. WTF 2) Try try and try. Cannot get to fly a stable flight. I have been flying helicopter flight sims since '02 and thought myself as fairly proficient. I can hover, transition into forward flight etc. but coming out of forward flight all I get is a see-saw motion in my heli. I try to trim but it isnt helping. :mad: Can someone please help? Thanks.
Panzertard Posted May 29, 2009 Posted May 29, 2009 (edited) 1. Should'nt be a problem if it's this mission: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=695698&postcount=10 2. Take a quick run in the Training missions - notice the 3 stabilizing modes of the Autopilot. It's truly more a "damper" than an autopilot, hence you may want to get familiar with it's modus. :) There's several threads about it, on how to get the most out of the autopilot. Here's a quite nice one: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=41367 EDIT, Oh and also: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=41370 Edited May 29, 2009 by Panzertard The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it's open | The important thing is not to stop questioning
JG14_Smil Posted May 29, 2009 Posted May 29, 2009 develop trim technique. practice. edit axis curves so saturation Y is lowered (I use 65) and less curve is used. when I first got the sim, I wondered how people kept the helo so stable. When I concentrate on the above items, my helo does just what I want it to do (most of the time :)
nemises Posted May 29, 2009 Posted May 29, 2009 First off, I have been waiting since '07 for this to come out and finally got it. I am having a blast even tho I have two major issues. 1) Missions not compatible with Vista!!! What?!!! No where on the box does it say that. WTF 2) Try try and try. Cannot get to fly a stable flight. I have been flying helicopter flight sims since '02 and thought myself as fairly proficient. I can hover, transition into forward flight etc. but coming out of forward flight all I get is a see-saw motion in my heli. I try to trim but it isnt helping. :mad: Can someone please help? Thanks. Hi Brad, 1) Don't worry about the campaign warning about Vista compatibility, this is a left over message from the beta days, and is no longer valid (and is to be removed I believe with the patch release) ... the game is fully compatible with Vista, and infact, many people have had better overall peformance on Vista than with XP (check out the DCSMax utility if you run multi processor / multi core, this can greatly improve performace in vista) 2) you might be "double transform" trimming by accident, OR you may have the stability augmentation turned off! Eather of these two things could result in a horrible see-sawing ... I'm sometimes flying along, and notice the ship is suddenly bucking like a bronco. A quick look down to the right confirms the a/p channels have switched themselves off. -Make SURE the a/p channels are ALLWAYS on (Yaw, Pitch and Roll), these are the blue buttons to the right hand side (the 4th one is altitude hold, which can be turned on and off as required). - press ctrl-enter to get the controls overlay up .. this will show if you are double transform trimming ... what I mean by this is, if you pitch the cyclic forward (for eg) and trim it but fail to return the stick to center quick enough, you will get a massive double transform pitch forward...if you then retrim to that and fail to return the stick, you could get a triple transform! The easiest way I have found to make sure this doesnt happen, is to press and hold the trim button 90% of the time, and only release it when flying at the correct attitude...when releaseing hte trim button, also IMMEDIATELY return the contrls (both cyclic and rudders) to center physically... on the ctrl-enter overlay, you will see where the controls are now trimmed to.
pbrad74 Posted May 29, 2009 Author Posted May 29, 2009 (check out the DCSMax utility if you run multi processor / multi core, this can greatly improve performace in vista) Where is this at? As far as training, I have done those yet it is still a challenge just to get it to do what I want. I guess I just need to practice.
Groover Posted May 29, 2009 Posted May 29, 2009 Where is this at? As far as training, I have done those yet it is still a challenge just to get it to do what I want. I guess I just need to practice. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=40037
pbrad74 Posted May 31, 2009 Author Posted May 31, 2009 Ok, after hours of playing around, I finally got it!! Not an ace yet but getting there. Ha! :pilotfly:
Panzertard Posted May 31, 2009 Posted May 31, 2009 :thumbup: Good to hear! The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it's open | The important thing is not to stop questioning
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