Help! I've done something stupidly obvious to my helos...

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Help! I've done something stupidly obvious to my helos...

Postby dtrfish » Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:40 pm

...but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what.

I changed the default flight to one where the plane was sat in a parking space with its engine off, but all electrical/fuel switches on, just awaiting a mouse-click on the starter button. Now, when I create a flight with one of my add-on helicopters (Medco Huey or PaveHawk) they sit there with their rotors turning at almost 100%, but as soon as I pull up on the collective (ie. joystick throttle) the rpm's fall away, the helo doesn't do more than lurch, and it just sits there at about 50% rpm until the collective is bottomed again.

I know I must have left something switched off, but I've scanned every pixel of both helicopters' control panels in both 2D and VC views for a switch I've missed, but I can't find one. I've tried Ctrl-E to do an auto engine start but to no avail.

What have I missed? I just know it's going to be something painfully obvious...
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Re: Help! I've done something stupidly obvious to my helos...

Postby DaveSims » Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:58 pm

Push Ctrl-F4 , I will leave the rest of the obvious to you... ;) ;D
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Re: Help! I've done something stupidly obvious to my helos...

Postby dtrfish » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:01 pm

*Looks up Ctrl-F4 in Commands list*

Ah. Oh.

That thudding noise you may have just heard was the dulcet sound of head meeting table. Many thanks!
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Re: Help! I've done something stupidly obvious to my helos...

Postby DaveSims » Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:56 pm

It happens to the best of us.  ;)
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