auto pilots blinking and turning off

[KidBomba]

Hello,

 

I have learned to turn on the black shark blindfolded :) yay!!

 

And I can hover and move the thing around. What puzzles me is the autopilot (heading, pitch, bank) sometimes, they start to blink and w/o warning they turn off (or is there a warning)?

 

whats the reason behind this and how what is your advice to make sure they stay on?

 

also sometimes, I cant even turn them on!

 

(I just know that when those AP go off, BS goes wild , uncontrollable at times and thats the end...basically....the few times I recover......I manage to turn them back on and everything is normal again).

 

Cheers :pilotfly::smartass:

Edited August 8, 2009 by KidBomba

[LKNANML]

1. To low... I think it's about 4m from the ground they can turn off..

2. Damage from being shot or pushing the heli to far out of the envelope.

Few others I can't find in my book right now

[KidBomba]

cool thanks!

[nemises]

yeah , it happens, though I've never been too happy with the explainations as to why.

 

The few times it's hapenned to me I notice it generally tends to be when I am in auto hover, and have (accidentally or otherwise) trimmed in too much rudder, + am using auto-turn to target mode, and the shkval reticle slps out of the shkval fov.

 

I might go on a bit of a manhunt next week to try and pin down the exact set of circumstances...one think i know is I'm not below 4 Mtrs ..

 

...could be a function of low RPM, though I'm pretty sure the autopilots are driven off the DC bus (ie batteries) ...

[LoBiSoMeM]

The few times it's hapenned to me I notice it generally tends to be when I am in auto hover, and have (accidentally or otherwise) trimmed in too much rudder, + am using auto-turn to target mode, and the shkval reticle slps out of the shkval fov.

 

 

Same here.

 

Is it an idiosincracy of Ka-50 AP function or some kind of bug? Auto-hover + auto-turn and target lock off shkavl fov sometimes disengage AP channels.

[Arclight]

Loosing hydraulic pressure causes it too, if I recall correctly. Either from combat damage or forgetting to switch it on (lower right on auxiliary control panel). No hydraulics, no AP apparently. :D

[slowhand]

hey guys i think if you push the bird outside its ap limits... they will shut dwn and need to be reset...if your try'n for som ...oh my god thing ...you did in a fix wing bird..its not go'na happen..you need to fly tht beast w/a lite hand and soft feet..hope tht helps