atsmith6 Posted February 26, 2013 Posted February 26, 2013 Hi I've looked in the manual and I can't seem to find the reason for and correct use of the engine governor speed control switch on the collective. It can be set to "low" or "normal", but when and why would I use this? Also, during normal flight well within parameters and very basic movements of the flight controls, I get the rotor over-speed warning beep from time to time. The throttles are set to auto and as I said, no extreme manoeuvring. Any ideas? Many thanks in advance!
-MadCat- Posted February 26, 2013 Posted February 26, 2013 Hi there! Can't tell if this is correct, but if my mind serves me right, I read quite some time ago, that it's used while descending on en route flying when dumping the collective all the way isn't enough. I personally use it for that and when taxiing on the airfield, where running the free-turbine governer in low mode still provides sufficient power. That way I keep the EGT lower when on ground and save some fuel too (at least I think so :D ) Link -> Stateful button commands for many DCS modules
JG14_Smil Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 It helps you descend quicker. Yellow Zebra lamp should be blinking the whole time it is on, just like the checklist says and the way it used to before World came along and screwed things up for BS.
Daniel M Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=93443&highlight=autorotation See AlphaOneSix's replies, but JG14_Smil is on target I also do what Madcat does for taxi-ing (when i taxi...if i taxi....i like taxi....)
Griffin Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 ...the way it used to before World came along and screwed things up for BS. Have the bugs been reported? If there are so many inconsistencies, we should raise complaints collectively and have the testers lobby for us. :)
atsmith6 Posted February 27, 2013 Author Posted February 27, 2013 Thanks so much for the replies, and the link to the other thread. I've tried out using the low / normal switch (DCS World 1.2.3 + KA-50 Module) as you guys explained and as pointed out I almost never see the yellow zebra lamp. It does get rid of the overspeed warning sounds on descent, very happy about that! I do find that initiating normal descents (around 1-2m/s) in normal flight even for very short durations will cause a momentary rotor over-speed warning tone. If I'm doing hover practice around the airfield (I hover at around 3m in flight directory mode and hover taxi along the taxi ways etc to learn the feel of hover-based manoeuvring) I get the over-speed warning very often. Is this normal? If so, I'm comfortable that I can move on Once again, many thanks for the replies!
AlphaOneSix Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 If you're getting the overspeed warning, it typically means that you are moving the collective too fast...specifically, you're lowering it too fast. You should not be getting the overspeed warning, so you should practice lowering the collective at a rate that will not trip the warning. Or just keep doing what you're doing, I don't think that it causes any damage in-game if you overspeed a bit from time to time. Frankly, if the way yo're doing it works well for you, it may be best to just keep doing it and ignore the warnings, as long as they only last for a brief moment.
seikdel Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 I'm confused on what we're talking about. atsmith6 says "rotor overspeed" and also talks about the zebra button. Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are two completely different things. The zebra button flashes to warn you of low rotor RPM, right? That does not correlate with the overspeed warning. The overspeed warning refers to the turbine speed, and happens when a) you demand too much of the engines with the EEGs turned off and b) when you dice your blades and the rotor RPM jumps up. So is atsmith6 talking about the zebra button/rotor RPM warning, or the turbine overspeed warning that Betty alerts us to?
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