Autorotation

[Milan Kojterer]

Is it possible to learn autorotations with FMS? How?

Best regards
Milan

[Jimbo]

I think it is, although I've found it to be difficult. Having not yet flown the real thing (I've just finished building a Raptor) I'm not sure whether I'm doing it correctly, but I basically fly as high as it will go and then throttle almost completely down. Pitch the heli forwards so it does a near nose-dive to the ground, then pull back when very close. Hopefully will good timing it will land without too much of a bump. I think when the throttle is down the blades are in negative pitch (for inverted flight), but with enough forward momentum you can pull it back so that it doesn't slam into the ground.

[Ben Tate]

For an auto you are supposed to idle the engine and just control the pitch of the rotor blades. I haven't tried doing it in FMS yet but as the throttle and pitch are linked with no obvious way of idling the engine I don't think you will be able to. Having said that I haven't made an interface yet so it is possible that by setting up throttle hold on a computer tx. you will be able to do it. This will only work if FMS is taking separate signals for throttle and pitch, like CSM does.
Hope this helps