Dodosim Bell 206 released!!!

Thanks for all your tips. My biggest problem when (attempting) to fly helicopters is that during the takeoff, hover and landing I have a habit of going backwards!
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I suppose I had better keep practicing.
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Regards,
Ian
 
Dont hesitate to go to the outside view from behind. That will give you an idea of how the stick movements effect the heli. Ignore the gauges,dont stare at one area and stay ahead of it. The lag especially on the defaults helis is horrible. Say the heli begins slightly going backwards,by the time you add forward stick its already really moving back and then when the forwards imput catches up, this problem just continues. That where alot of people misunderstand the problem. They naturally reduce joystick sensitivity and add deadzone to the stick and or/ reduce the realism settings to "dumb" down the heli. This may make the heli more stable but you loose alot of the ability to precisly control it. Worse if you learn this way then moving to a Dodo is going to seem like balancing a marble on a bowling ball. Find you a heli with wheels, go out to KEDW and practice away. At least then instead of digging the skids in the ground you can roll it out.
Also for a while take off with the nose slightly forward and fly out forward. Same with landing. Always be moving slightly forward. Again this is where a wheel heli will really help or use one of the DODOs with floats on the water.
 
New alternative rotors here:

http://cid-5ffab2d3eb4ba77f.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/DoDo|_FSX|_rtrs.zip

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As a frustrated FS helicopter pilot for many years I'm really enjoying the Dodo 206. For me I started off on the hardest difficulty (I figured if I'm going to learn how to fly it then I may as well learn properly from the start. First couple of hours was tricky but not impossible. You can hear when you are treating this bird rough!! Sounds unbelievable, but I'm finding it easier to fly that the default helicopters and long flights are not tiring now. I'm using a Saitek Evo Joystick, Saitek yoke throttle and Saitek rudder pedals and none of these stop moving once I'm airborne!!

Ian - I had the same problem of flying backwards when transitioning from forward flight to a hover. I guess it's not having wide peripheral vision to judge the movement of the helicopter. I've had less occurences of this in the Dodo 206. I can pretty much land with grace now (still have to be travelling at 3 - 5 knots though).

Bob - Thanks again for the rotor texture. Your work is much appreciated. :ernae:

JimJam - You say you are looking for new challenges with scenery in FSX. You say you are bored with Helgoland, but have you tried landing on the moving warship that circles the island? About 5 hours practice, with real weather I managed it repeatedly. Then the wife came in and I crashed....:icon_eek:

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Regards

Andrew
 
With regards to the flying backwards problem when you're transitioning from a hover to forward flight, it's worth knowing that with only the pilot, the 206 has and aft CofG. Try adding the weight of a co-pilot to the spare front seat.

We demo'd the 206 at the Weston-Super-Mare sim show a few weeks ago and a lot of novice sim pilots had a go. Ending up flying backwards was very common! Things only start to get more difficult then as it tries to flip round on you due to the weather-vaning.

Si
 
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