New Video: Real life flying Part 2

[nightsta1ker]

Great video again. The new camera angle really helps demonstrate the control usage. A couple of questions...

1) What's the calculator-like object you have sitting on the map ?
2) There seems to be quite a bit of yaw around your heading once you get to altitude (from about 1:45 onwards). Is this turbulence ? Over-control on the pedals ?

1) It's a chronograph (timer), very handy for timing warm up and cool down periods as well as the length of flight time for fuel and navigation purposes and ESSENTIAL when flying under instrument conditions.
2)Turbulence/dissymmetry of lift in the tail rotor. All helicopters do that. The R22 is particularly notorious for it (watch my R22 flight video on my YouTube page). Fighting it with pedal input will just wear you out (and usually make it worse). My feet barely move on the pedals. Flying helicopters is all about applying PRESSURE on the controls, rather than actually MOVING them. If you move a control a measurable degree you will usually get a drastic response. All the little bouncy wobbles you get in flight go largely ignored or you will wind up "chasing" the aircraft all over the place. Rather, the pilot must observe TRENDS in the flight behavior rather than chase the little ups and downs and yaws. It's really quite a natural and fluid feeling when you are up there though.

[Seth0351]

Where do you fly at? Im flying up at Harvey field sometimes with snohomish flying service

[nightsta1ker]

I fly out of Auburn with Airwork LLC. I also fly out of Boeing with Classic Helicopters.

[Justin Gattis]

Thanks for sharing, I've never seen anything like that ( the actual pilot input), I'm going to play the TOH preview now and pretend I know how to pilot something other than a lawn tractor. XD.

[ravenn]

great video nightsta1ker... i had a couple hundred hours in a 269c after i got out, a lot of fun to fly ...but why are the doors on? :P

[nightsta1ker]

great video nightsta1ker... i had a couple hundred hours in a 269c after i got out, a lot of fun to fly ...but why are the doors on? :P

Good question.

[MD500Enthusiast]

Well as long as people are posting vids of them flying here's mine for how a helicopter should handle when doing autorotation, infact this is the first full down auto i've ever done in a hellicopter i've only had like 3 hours in(R44) i flew the r22 in training. Unlike in game where the helicopter rolls right in real life the helicopter doesn't roll that excessively but does have a translating tendency that feels like it's "drifting" right instead of the way exagerated roll in game. There's also a vid of me doing my first run on landing in R44 though i had a brain fart at first and my instructor corrected me just in time, i'm sure some of the more experienced pilots will spot it very early =D. Also as a note about how small the inputs on the controlls are in a real helicopter i don't think it's feasible to replicate that in a sim because in a real helicopter you have infinite definition in your controls where in a joystick for pc you don't. I think it's much better to program the controls where the larger movements will mimic the small movements we use so it doesn't feel overtly sensitive. Also notice how easily i loose airspeed without pitching up so excessively like we have to in the game, as it is right now it will make speed control during landings very difficult.

Here's the full down auto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQceGuRHNg

Here's the run on landing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KphsVRESa7s

Here's a vid of hovering autorotation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpfpm..._order&list=UL

Here's a vid of a normal approach to midfield where i turn into the taxiway and landing at our parking spot plus shutdown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOExE..._order&list=UL

[BoneBoys]

Thank you!

[zoog]

Nice vids, thanks

[mmaker]

nice vids..

i always crash when i try to land in arma2 when the engine doesnt work... looking in those videos it seems you go in pretty steep.. rather then go in flat? Is it because the rotors pick up more speed so it can "break" easier??