Just some silly thing...

[Cradle]

Was long since i wrote here but i check the threads almost everyday.. but i havent played the game that much. I sort of learned the basics and did some missions but then i didnt find the time or energy to play as hard core as the game demands..

 

but i played yesterday and for the love of me i couldnt get the track following autopilot to function.. i engaged it and the bird woud do just about everything else BUT follow the course..i tried everything.. but at the end found my self in a "swing like" motion over a nearby town..back and forth.. back and forth... back and forth... made me seasick.

 

i even tried different missions to se if it was some "indended" faiure in that mission..

 

then i struck me.

 

i had been pressing the "T" button and not the "R" button.

 

i had trimmed and trimmed and trimmed..and NOT engaged the autopilot at all!

 

that was happen when you dont play enough. ;)

[PatriotCFS]

So the KA-50 has cruise control....

Haaaaa

Learn something new here everyday!

[Waldo_II]

Oh man, I KNOW, right? I understood everything there ever was to know about the autopilot before I knew of the route mode toggle button. That was the last thing I learned and it took me FOREVER. That is why I stressed it so in my autopilot tutorial.

[isoul]

Real life helicopter pilots goes over "maintenance of skill" again and again. Once they haven't flown for some reason they go for a maintenance.

[Napa]

I have this sim for a year and I found out about the "R" key LAST NIGHT!!! I watched that producers note "navigation" over and over and over and couldn't figure out how M.Wagner enabled the auto route. Last night I thought I should watch over a stock track mission and pressed R-Ctrl + Enter to enable the cyclic-collective control view and saw an "A" symbol on the top right. I thought I must have missed something. I looked again over the controls menu and found it (note that you cannot find it under the autopilot list, its somewhere down below). This made my day and the flight more enjoyable.