hover activate???

[wolf_288]

Hi

I can´t see anything in the hud when hover is on/off anyone know way??:music_whistling:

[Triangle99]

Above the hud, are a bunch of buttons - one will illuminate to show that you have auto-hover engaged.

[JG14_Smil]

I think HUD only shows hover circle when it has been reset to the nav mode and not in a weapons mode. As Triangle99 said, there is a small green light for it on the overhead panel.

[Ightenhill]

Im still having problems with this.. I activate it at the desired speed..Practically zero but the airplne wants to start a constant slow spin, I try to correct with the rudder but it just snaps back..

[AlphaOneSix]

Just activating auto-hover at zero airspeed is not good enough, you have to actually be in a stable hover at the time. For example, if you are nose-high and just "passing-through" zero airspeed on your way to negative airspeed, this is not good enough in most cases. Get the aircraft into a stable, trimmed hover, and the auto-hover will work like a dream.

[manne]

Nice, I had some problems with this too, sometimes the KA starts to slowly spin left or right, so maybe the manual stable hover was not 100% stable. Thanks for the explanation AlphaOneSix.

[Migo]

Could also be a heading pointing to another direction, a slightly trimmed rudder or Auto turn to Target.

[Shez]

If I don't hit Rctr + Enter to see where my rudder is actually at. Hovering can become a real pain real fast. Especially if you happen to have your rudder trimmed over and then cancel it. Now you'll start spinning all over the place. And if you didn't know you were trimmed over it gets really confusing. I really wish they would give us the option of disconnecting the rudder from the trimmer.

[Dethmagnetic]

Hi

I can´t see anything in the hud when hover is on/off anyone know way??:music_whistling:

 

If you are in anything other than the vanilla nav mode the auto-hover indication doesn't display... if it's not there reset your weapon system by hitting Backspace. Also make sure that you don't have the triggers flipped to fire your cannon, they should be in the default position.

[viperBAT36]

i've got a problem with the blades making contact while trying to trim to controlled flight.warnings go off,then i see parts of the rotors flyin' off from cockpit view! am i "over-trimming"? i can see the blades on the port side of the 'Shark almost intersecting....Wow! Great realism!...MAN I LOVE THIS SIM! i'm having a blast just trying to keep this great helo in the air! KUDOS to the ED team!

[EtherealN]

If you are using the old trimmer method and you are not fast enough with centering rudder input, it is possible to come to a situation where you get double inputs, like so:

 

You are in forward flight, maneuver, and find yourself requiring 40% right rudder to maintain the ball in the centre.

You trim, but don't centre fast enough.

You now have the centrepoint act as 40% right, plus whatever right you still have. This can sometimes be enough to cause rotor disc intersection.

 

Another possibility is that you are just going too fast, too high, and giving too strong inputs, which would combine with the above to cause bad stuff to happen.

 

Generally, you should seek to trim so often that you never have to make a "large" trimming. It should be second-nature to the point that you don't actually think about it.

 

A trk file that shows what's happening to you would be able to give a definitive answer.

[viperBAT36]

great,dude! i'll try to upload this track when this happens,albeit dail-up(yeesh...i'm embarassed)your post is right on point.i ran-up game and tried different method with good result....no problems now.over-input is problem.i adjusted and now have way better results!thanks!

[sobek]

i've got a problem with the blades making contact while trying to trim to controlled flight.warnings go off,then i see parts of the rotors flyin' off from cockpit view! am i "over-trimming"? i can see the blades on the port side of the 'Shark almost intersecting....Wow! Great realism!...MAN I LOVE THIS SIM! i'm having a blast just trying to keep this great helo in the air! KUDOS to the ED team!

 

 

Plz don't hijack this thread, it's about auto hover. For information on how to avoid blade strikes, use the search function, there's a life worth of reading about that exact topic out there, you just have to pick it up. ;)

[viperBAT36]

sobek...i WAS talking about auto-hover....when i go initiate the hover and keep the helo from spinning i think i'm over trimming causing the blade strike.hijack....good lord.

[manne]

Just activating auto-hover at zero airspeed is not good enough, you have to actually be in a stable hover at the time.

I have been thinking about this today and the question that eventually popped into my mind was: why use auto-hover if you are already in a perfect stable hover? If this stable hover is already correcting for wind etc. because it's stable, what is the use of auto-hover?

[EtherealN]

Manne, because a stable trimmed hover is not "perfect". You will drift with wind and all kinds of things happening.

 

Note that A16 wrote "stable hover", not "perfect stable hover".

 

What the auto-hover does is that it compensates for those influences like wind, recoil from your weapons and so on to ensure that you don't drift too much.