dene maxwell wrote: > > A few observations though; (in the Euro-copter) > a) the throttle works in reverse (what would be flat out in a cessna is > actually minimum in the Euro-copter) hence my almost landing in the > middle of the harbour.
This is correct. In a helicopter, the collective is a horizontal lever located to the left of the pilot's seat. By convention, pulling back on a computer joystick throttle is equivalent to pulling up on a real collective. This isn't too hard to get used to, though switching to a tilt-rotor or vectored VTOL aircraft can be confusing, because in those cases pushing the throttle forward is what gets you up in the air. Try not to think of it as a throttle, think of it as a lever that makes the rotor disk convert rotational energy into lift. If you ever autorotate or fly something with a manual throttle (neither of which YASim supports IIRC) that will help you manage your energy. As it is you don't really have to worry about RPM, I don't think any of the fgfs helos are underpowered enough that you can actually drop the RPM past the green zone. > b) the FG dsocumentation is wrong regarding rudder. It's not <0> & <,>, > but<0> and <Enter> on the numeric keypad. I think this is an old error. Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
