THROTTLE HOLD?

[HELISAN]

Hi there all fms users
This is only my second post but I have to say that I have learned a lot from this forum since I joined a couple of months ago.Today I have a question and hope someone can help me.Im useing my futaba skysport 4 to fly FMS (helicopters) and cant do autorotations. Now will it be posseble to do autos if I use my JR?or is there another way of doing this.
Many thanks
Helisan

[johnhlong]

Just a thought or two on the subject.

I would think you need at least five channels to do auto rotations on the real helicopter. Pitch has to be seperate from the throttle.

Now in the sim ????
I think I played with my pitch channel being assigned to the pitch channel of the sim. (You need to use one of the interfaces that suports more than 4 channels since pitch is usually on channel 6? of your radio).

I 'm not sure you even need throttle on the sim when you fly helicopters.

When you use the pitch channel on a 6-8 channel radio I (think??) the pitch in the sim would follow the different pitch modes you have set in your radio.

Soulds like something I need to play with as soon as I get home from work.

In the sim, will the initial desent build up rotor speed before the flare like a real auto rotation ???? I have no idea.


John Long
Seattl, Wa.
USA

[HELISAN]

Hi John
The questions you are asking is exactly what Im asking. I have build myself the serial port interface for my JR but still no joy. Thanks for your reply
speak to you later
Cheers
San

[Michael_Moeller]

At the moment the heli-calculation model is too weak to simulate auto-rotation. The throttle has no influence on the heli, all helis are simulated with constant throttle. The lift can only be controlled with pitch.

Michael Möller

[johnhlong]

Lets put a seperate throttle for helicopters on the wish list for the next revision.

In the mean time, I would like to say that the current version got me hovering my new heli on the first try. (I did spend almost a month on the sim before trying the real thing).

Great work.

John
Seattle, Wa.
USA