Aerofly FS 2 Robinson R22 Helicopter Released!

  • You don't have to manage the rotation speed or the rotor, that is taken care of by the governor, default on, default enabled, default not assigned since you don't need to do any changes to it.

    You don't need to adjust the throttle at all. I have don't even have it assigned and it works perfectly. Just increase collective and the power will be increased automatically, by the governor. Just ignore all the engine management and raise the collective, that will lift you up.... If you want to descent just move the collective down again. No need to adjust any rotation speed!

    Thanks Overloaded and Jan

    I did not know this very practical and resolutive aspect automatically (the 'governor') in the helicopters. You have explained it to me with remarkable simplicity and efficiency.

    However, I observe that when acting on the collective (to ascend) quickly, the response is slow, and apparently the intensity of the sound of the blades is the same and apparently there is no increase in speed of the blades to ascend with certain speed. I understand that to ascend with ... speed!, The blades would have to spin faster. I'm wrong?.

    Well, I wrote to this point, but before sending my answer, I made a flight applying the advice you give me, and in effect, this 'GOVERNOR automatic throttle', works quite well, what happens is that it does not allow violent accelerations that can be reached in airplanes. Here, we must do it more gently.

    However, I observe that the rotations of the blades remain unchanged (optical effect) regardless of whether it ascends, descends or moves horizontally.

    Well, as Overloaded says: "Now, it's like riding a bike ... practice and practice, Only this way you can master the trade of flight in this new and formidable toy".

    Once again, thanks IPACS, THIS IS AN AUTHENTIC WORK OF FLYING ART, and ... again, Thank you Overloaded, Jan and larrylynx. Your explanations, as always: HIGHLIGHTS!

    Kind regards. Delfin

    Oh, and ... one less demand, to IPACS. It was a magnificent end-of-the-year gift.

  • Let's see John

    Initially the helicopter is on the ground, it is supposed to idle. Next we have to accelerate (increase the r.p.m. = Throttle); once the rpm is increased, we gently activate the collective, and consequently ascend. Once we reach the desired altitude (with rpm at approximately 75% of its power (or any other), we would continue to move horizontally.When we want to descend, we must necessarily decrease the angle of attack of the blade, consequently, it will increase its rpm (consequence of the decrease in lift), and here again, we have to decrease the throttle, otherwise, the blades would increase in excess their rpm

    If my reasoning is wrong, I beg you to explain it to me, but I have a hard time believing, that it is not necessary to act on the power applied to the helicopter engine and that we solve everything with the collective, once certain rpm of the blades has been reached.

    Regards: Delfin

    It's a bit odd at first I agree. On the ground, at idle, the engine is just ticking over and the throttle would be twisted towards you, it's like a motorcycle throttle that goes the other way. Once the engine is warm you would twist the throttle away from you, the rpm rises and you will see the engine rpm needle rise too on the instrument panel. You twist the throttle to about 75% and then the engine revs run away from you for a second and then settle again as the governor takes over, but you don't need to touch the throttle any more, the power comes automatically now when you need it.

    So the collective pitch lever is down, engaging the clutch involves belts tightening behind your head, and the thing makes a few weird noises and vibrates a bit, as the rotor starts to come up to speed. At this point the other needle on the rpm gauge rises and they match each other in position, that's when you have a happy helicopter.

    Then, as you raise the collective it increases the pitch of all the rotor blades, which needs more power to maintain engine rpm, supplied via the governor as it senses the engine rpm dropping.

    Edit: sorry delphin, I was writing this post at the same time you were writing the one above, but also, yes, the rotor rpm always stays the same during flight, it's the pitch of the blades that moves it in any direction. Collective moves all the blades of the main rotor at once to go up and down, cyclic moves them differently to each other, making you go sideways and forwards/backwards etc. The tail rotor changes its own collective pitch via the pedals to give lift but at right angles to the rotor disc.

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    Edited 2 times, last by John Hargreaves (November 30, 2018 at 5:26 PM).

  • It's a bit odd at first I agree. On the ground, at idle, the engine is just ticking over and the throttle would be twisted towards you, it's like a motorcycle throttle that goes the other way. Once the engine is warm you would twist the throttle away from you, the rpm rises and you will see the engine rpm needle rise too on the instrument panel. You twist the throttle to about 75% and then the engine revs run away from you for a second and then settle again as the governor takes over, but you don't need to touch the throttle any more, the power comes automatically now when you need it.

    So the collective pitch lever is down, engaging the clutch involves belts tightening behind your head, and the thing makes a few weird noises and vibrates a bit, as the rotor starts to come up to speed. At this point the other needle on the rpm gauge rises and they match each other in position, that's when you have a happy helicopter.

    Then, as you raise the collective it increases the pitch of all the rotor blades, which needs more power to maintain engine rpm, supplied via the governor as it senses the engine rpm dropping.

    Edit: sorry delphin, I was writing this post at the same time you were writing the one above, but also, yes, the rotor rpm always stays the same during flight, it's the pitch of the blades that moves it in any direction. Collective moves all the blades of the main rotor at once to go up and down, cyclic moves them differently to each other, making you go sideways and forwards/backwards etc. The tail rotor changes its own collective pitch via the pedals to give lift but at right angles to the rotor disc.

    Completely agree with you, John

    My previous answer was based on the fact that this was a piston engine, and secondly, I did not know that 'automatic control of the power to be developed: (governor)', depending on the loads that we apply to the helicopter.

    I had absolutely no real knowledge of helicopter piloting, and my reasoning was correct in the absence of the 'governor'. But the existence of this mechanism changes everything. In short, what is always sought is: "that mechanisms work for us, and make us work easier", and ... little by little, it is achieved.

    Thank you for answering. Thanks to these efforts, we are all learning more and more.

    Regards: Delfin

  • The thing to remember with a helicopter is that the rotor rpm does not change to climb or descend. It’s the rotor blade pitch angle that changes. That change in pitch requires more or less power to maintain the same rpm. The governor controls that by changing the throttle position automatically. When the pitch changes on both blades collectively you climb or descend (hence the name of the ‘collective’ lever which drives the swashplate up and down). When the swashplate tilts it creates a change in pitch of the rotor blade once per cycle as it rotates (that’s where the term ‘cyclic’ comes from).

  • A DOUBT:

    I have assigned two keys to control the tail rotor (they are the same as those that control the aircraft, the steering rudder), and I observe that they do not act at all, on this tail rotation. I also observe with amazement, that it is not necessary, since the R-22, stays aligned, and does not need control of that rotor. Is this the behavior of this R-22 in the 'novice' version, or should I do some Adjustment or configuration ?.

    Regards: Delfin

  • Hi RiftFlyer

    Just a slight correction. The governor does not control the throttle it controls the engine rpm at a set throttle position. In gas turbine helicopters the throttle is placed at the flight idle (max throttle) position and it never moves unless you want to perform engine off landings (autorotations) or to shut down. Some have an extra lever (Westland Lynx) which pushes up the the rotor RPM to 107%, never did know why it just did.

    Hi Delfin

    Helicopters normally require less anti torque (tail rotor) when in forward flight as static lift devices around the tail apply lift to counter act the rotor torque automatically. The Gazelle tail fin is one big wing when viewed from the top, above 30 knots or so you can take your feet off the pedals and it will keep straight

    Hi Overloaded

    Your right it is, its called phase lag and is about 87 degrees

    Steve

  • Hi Overloaded

    the swashplate is tilted in the direction of the intended rotor tilt (otherwise you would have a one-per-rev change which in turn would tilt the rotor to be aligned with the swashplate).

    The gyroscopic effect is accounted for by the links that connect the blades to the swashplate, these are very roughly about 90 degrees ahead of the blades respectively. Everything looks ok, I guess IPACS didn't miss anything.

  • The gyroscopic effect is accounted for by the links that connect the blades to the swashplate, these are very roughly about 90 degrees ahead of the blades respectively. Everything looks ok, I guess IPACS didn't miss anything.

    What he said. There is a phase shift and we don't have to specifically implement this, due to the nature of our physics simulation the gyroscopic effect just comes out of the simulation, without the need to fake it.

    Its the real world geometry of the blades being actuated 90° in front of the swashplate that makes it possible to tilt the rotor in the same direction as the swashplate.

    The same physical effects can be seen in the Camel airplane, the high inertia of the rotating engine and propeller cause a yawing motion each time you pitch up and down. That is the exact same physics, a rotating mass which you try to tilt up and down but your input causes another movement when the propeller is rotated 90° later.

    And before you ask, yes the gyroscopic effects of the tail rotor are also simulated. Even the tail rotor driveshaft twist...

  • Thanks Frank and Jan, my helicopter time and reading up was over 30 years ago when the R-22 was a low volume, very new machine. Low inertia-light weight, floppy, coning, unloaded, zero trim rotors were not in the media that I read. The tiny R-22 rotor head and swash plate together with the high leverage required for zero trim operation means that the rotor arms are very long and are not much short of 90 degrees ahead of the rotors. I acknowledge my ignorance.

    I have just read that the trimless R-22 needs a significant cyclic force to be held in the cruise, shades of the rudder trimless Bf 109 in the climb.

  • Great Helicopter, so far the best I ever flown in a flightsimulater, but I've noticed that I need now some serious, good quality, controllers to fly in profi mode. I struggle the most with my rudder pedals, they are to less sensitive around the center, I always overpitch the tailrotor, almost unable to fly in profi mode.

    kind of interrested how you manage this?

    me in profi mode<X

    Pro flight trainer, but not cheap! flies like a dream with the new R22

  • Does Ninobaumann's pedals come with software to put in a 'reverse S' curve to make the centre movement less sensitive, a bit like a shielded horn ballance on a real rudder (like in the Cessna 172) where the rudder only gets horn ballance assistance after a hard initial pedal movement which moves it out of the airflow shadow. Control device software often comes with curve adjustment, not appropriate here as there is no fixed central and neutral position for the torque pedals.

  • I have just read that the trimless R-22 needs a significant cyclic force to be held in the cruise,

    This I find confusing???

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  • I've been doing things in the R22 that perhaps I shouldn't - vertical dives, hopping around skyscraper rooftops etc, it's a lot of fun and one of the best helicopters I've flown in any sim.

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  • Thank you for your reply's, it's more an hardware issue but I already think about an investment in new hardware. currtently fly with the Thrustmaster 1600 hotas system, the Stick offers petty good sensors.

    Think about to buy the new Thrustmaster pendular rudder pedals, now idea about the stick at the moment.

    A helicopter pro flight system would be nice to have, but I like to fly airliners (airbus) more than helicopters, at the moment:-)