X-Plane settings

Boxhacker · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:57 pm Post subject: X-Plane settings

Hi,

Im trying to setup pane on my mac to fly like a real heli so i can get some practice in whilst I'm saving and waiting for my medical.

When i take off and increase the collective i seem to yaw right quite significantly until i reach around 1000ft where it seems to stabilise. is this just normal torque effect or do i have something wrong? all my controls are centralised in the settings menu.

cheers

clark

flip2 · High Flying 'Torquer Joined: Sep 05, 2009 Posts: 225

I have no idea about whether your sim settings are accurate, but certainly in a real helicopter you must add left pedal while raising the collective to prevent right yaw... 'feet off' neutral pedals in the hover will get your attention!

As airspeed increases, a real helicopter will benefit from weathercocking stability and other aerodynamic jiggerypokery which will reduce the severity of uncorrected right yaw.

So I'm guessing that:
Yawing to the right on takeoff is accurate if you aren't adding left pedal
The right yaw seems less pronounced at 1000ft because your airspeed is higher

animalsticks · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject:

Ask someone who has a licence to have a try and give you some feedback.

Someone on here may live near you.
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Boxhacker · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Thanks for the replies, I'm a bloody idiot every time i get the problem is whilst I'm raising the collective. But i was sure that i was holding it steady so i had my mate film me and sure enough i was pulling up on the lever without even realising. lol.

doh

cheers

clark