Hi Syd and all, I could not go to bed when I saw that you uploaded the first files of this helo to CVS, waited some time, downloaded and tested it.
Thank you very much. I enjoyed my test-flights (used some different airports on the world with different winds) very much. And I was very surprised about the flightmodel in this early development stage. Ok, you really have to do a lot (!!!) pedalwork and this little helo really likes to put the nose into the wind, but that is what I expected from such a light helicopter. But hovering, HIGE and HOGE, and landing are pretty nice (if you have the nose +/- 30 deg into the wind you can even "kiss" the ground very soft). It was a little more tricky to get down on my "home" landing platform, which was 90 deg to the wind - but also possible. Normal flight-maneuvers (I did not test autorotation) are also pretty nice (as far as I could test it within the short time). AND you made a close-up panel like for the S76, especially very nice for those days in the future when we can sim features of a piston helo and want to check the instruments a little more (although the governor of the Robinson eases much, you must be able to maintain rotor RPM without the governor //emergency training). To have a R22 in the sim is especially nice as you can find so much documentation and training-instructions on the net. And it is a demanding helo if you want to learn to fly within the flight-envelope. Ok, this was just to share my enthusiasm about your new project with you :-) and all other readers. Thank you once again. Regards Georg EDDW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
