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Hi all. I'm fimiliar with a lot of the other aircrafts but I'ld like to learn how to fly the helicopters.  Does anyone have any tips or words of wisdom on flying the default Bell Jetranger?

Thanks!

There's a really good helo tutorial here at SimV.  I've recently discovered how much fun they can be, and I wouldn't have been able to do so without it.  (I believe Pete wrote it.)

The one thing I took out of the tutorial that got me the farthest was to think of your throttle as your up and down and your stick as your forward and backwards.

Use very very very subtle movements, and don't forget to use tiny bits of rudder to counteract the torque of the rotor.

It's quite fun!

Good luck!

I would highly recommend going through the Hoversafe Acadamy helo courses. Once completed, you will be flying helos like a pro

Thanks for those places.
I will look them up.

   You can probably find dozens if good tutorials online, but my advice is that you use you throttle to help fly.

 for instance, if you're descending, just set the throttle to 20% instead of pointing the chopper downwards as though it were a fixed wing aircraft.

  Or if you're taking off, set the throttle to 100% and keep your stik centered.


    Mike thurman

It was once said that a Helocopter is 60,000 individual parts flying in a lose formation. But, the Bell Jetranger is one of the easier helos to fly in FS but you basicaly have to forget what you know about flying fixwing.

A previous post was right, the Colictive (throtol) controls up and down and the Cyclic (stick) controls forward, back et al. and the Anti-Torque pedals (rudder) keeps you from spinning around like a top.

So where flying an airplain is "feet and fist" flying a helo is "Fingers and toes"  You have to be a balet dancer to get all the controls in the right order to atain forward fligh. One of the tuts will tell you how to set your control sensitivities to better fly a helo. But I have to change them for the rare ocasion that I am flying a fixed wing. If your joy stick does not have a throttol you will need to get one, you will need one because in flight you are constantly making subtel adjustments to all the controls all the time.

All in all it takes patents and practice.  Please drop me a line with any Qs and welcome to the (very elete) world of Sim Helos.

Kevin "Scotch" McGlothlin
Denver

This all sounds so familiar.  

Do you pretty well need the rudder pedals to be able to fly the jet ranger?

Do you pretty well need the rudder pedals to be able to fly the jet ranger?

Na, I use a joy stick with the "wrist twist" rudder peddals.  The auto rudder works OK if you are only flying in a streaght line.