CFS2 Helo in FS9 Issue

[Mick]

The other day I rediscovered Baldy's CFS2 Sikorsky HO3S-1 on floats. I gave it an FS9 flight model, panel and sounds, upgraded the skin for FS9, painted a couple new skins, and got ready to start it up and take some screen shots.

It started right up with engine sounds, smoke and a spinning main rotor, but the tail rotor didn't move. I can't get it to spin.

Does anyone know a way to rotate the tail rotor?

It's probably something inherent about a CFS-2 model in FS9, but I pose the question in the hope that someone can surprise me with an answer.

I have a dim recollection that this question, or a similar one, was posed some years ago about one or another CFS-2 helo, but my memory may be playing tricks on me.

 

[Shessi]

Hi Mick,
It will be the airfile and /or the ac.cfg file, very likely the airfile. To test, swap a working Fs9 helo airfile. If that doesn't work swap the ac.cfg file as well. Once working you can then twaek the files to fit the helo.

Cheers

Shessi

 

[Mick]

Hi Mick,
It will be the airfile and /or the ac.cfg file, very likely the airfile. To test, swap a working Fs9 helo airfile. If that doesn't work swap the ac.cfg file as well. Once working you can then twaek the files to fit the helo.
Cheers
Shessi

Thanks Mark, but I already tried that. I started by using the aircraft.cfg and air files from Obio's update of Greg Pepper's HO3S on wheels. The tail rotor of that model spins as it should. When I saw that the tail rotor of Baldy's model wouldn't turn, the first thing I did was try it with its original cfg and air files to see if it worked properly that way, and the rotor still didn't turn. I presume it turns in CFS2, but I don't have that sim, so I can't check to be sure.

I even wondered if the tail rotor might have been set up as a second engine, but no, the original cfg file just has the one engine.

The more I think of it, the more it seems like it's just an example of how models made for one sim might not work exactly right in a different sim. But for the moment I'll hold out hope that there might be a fix.

If I knew how to make models I'd just put floats on the Greg Pepper model. Then I'd do the same thing with the AlphaSims S-55/H-19. But I don't, so I can't, so I hope someone can figure this out. If not, I guess I could fly oit with the tail rotor not turning. If I avoid Spot view I guess I wouldn't notice...