Andrew,

I had exactly the same experience that you did until a guy told me to
reduce the "realism" control to a little less than maximum. Prior to
that, if you are hovering and pull the stick back a little the
helicopter will start to climb, nose first. This is what will happen
if you are moving forward, but in a hover this shouldn't happen.
Reducing the realism setting back a notch helped a lot. I have no
trouble doing autorotations now and it flys more like a real
helicopter.

Note that I said "more like" a real helicopter. It still has a lot to
be desired. The Search and Rescue demo was closer to the real thing
as far as flight modeling, however,FS2002 wins as far as controls and
the other aspects.

Dennis.

"Andrew Crane" wrote:


"ChopperJon2" wrote in message
...
Microsoft flightsim is great and realistic. Use the bell 206. or download
an
r-22 addon from simviation

Microsoft Flightsim is nowhere near approaching realistic in its flight
models of any helicopter.

- c of g appears to be behind the tail
- can't autorotate
- flaring doesn't reduce descent
- low rotor RPM doesn't affect lift, doesn't cause nose-down pitch
- descent rate far too high on low collective
- translational lift, VRS, t/r VRS, flap-back, and lots of other stuff
not modelled

etc, etc..

It's basically a plane that can take off vertically, not at all like a
helicopter.

Regards
Andrew

welcome



Dennis Hawkins
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