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  3. Posted

    I have been following TOH since before launch and happily preordered. I can honestly say that Fred's recent involvement has been the most exciting news in TOH since the first thought of a virtual preflight and interaction with the sim world the ARMA engine provides.

    It was a little bit sad when Nightstalker and a few of the other Hovercontrol members gave up on the sim because of lack of realism. Fred's involvement hints at the promise of a realistic FM in TOH. Very, VERY, exciting.

    I have also been guilty of a lack of faith. I started a 3-d model of a mosquito air that I do hope to finish someday when time allows.

    Quiet as it has started, the buzz here now on this forum that Moach and Fred have brought their talents to TOH is steadily growing.

  7. Posted · Edited by zentaos

    Great Fred!!! I can't wait to test this!!!

    I will update with feedback when I have a chance to fly the new model.

    EDIT:

    Wow! For the first time since I installed TOH, I actually have command of my helicopter. The cyclic is light and responsive. I am able to control slow speed maneuvers with authority.

    It seems as though I don't need to pull as much pitch as I thought I would need to achieve lift off, but it may be due to load out. The feedback feels correct, I slowly add left pedal as I bring the collective up, you can sense getting light on the skids, add a touch of forward left cyclic, and....amazing! Lift off into a stable, controllable IGE hover. Translational lift, as you mentioned is absent, I was not able to gain lift by increasing forward speed past ETL without an increase in collective pitch. However, tail rotor effectiveness/efficiency seems more correct. I was able to relax left pedal input past 40 knts IAS and have neutral pedals at cruise. Heavy flaring for quick stops required large amounts of right pedal as you would expect.

    Keep it up Fred!!!

    This is by far the best flight experience yet with TOH!!!

  11. Posted

    YES!!!!!

    Sven, there are a few of us that have more than a casual interest in TOH. I have been around since the beginning, ( of TOH ) and have seen a few impatient users give up. The community had been working on improving the flight model but also gave up.

    ...but,

    I have seen an almost unflyable FM improve vastly over the last few months. It's on it's way.

    I really want to help too, but I have very limited time as I work full time, run a small CAD contracting business, and have 3 young children.

    Thromp was very helpful to me when I wanted to begin modeling a new helicopter to add mosquito but I haven't worked on it much because I haven't found the time to overcome the learning curve yet.

    Your interest has not gone unnoticed.

    I for one, am very grateful for what you have already brought to the table!

  14. Posted

    There was a flight model tweak/mod for ToH from one of the guys over at hovercontrol, but it was for a much older version of ToH. I don't think I've seen any more ToH stuff over there, unfortunately. I'd love to see hovercontrol members interested in ToH - they do such amazing things with FSX and they could surely do great things with ToH too.

    Yes, Nightsta1ker had done some initial tweaks with a few other members of the boards here, but I think they all lost interest. The FM has definitely improved from 1.01. It has a ways to go, but it's definitely improving.

  17. Posted · Edited by zentaos

    It's actually a closer resemblance to a bell 412. Which is the great grandson of the Huey or UH-1. The Huey was a single engine variant or the bell 205 Iroquois, with a 2 bladed teetering rotor system. The next generation added airframe improvements and the addition of a second turbine as the bell 212. Further advancements in the airframe and 4 bladed rigid rotor system led to the bell 412. TOH doesn't have bell licensing so there are small details that are not exact representations of the actual aircraft, hence "medium" helicopter.

    ** but yes, as far as the helicopters included with vanilla TOH, the military medium helicopter does resemble a Huey **

  24. Posted

    I have been watching the forums for the last few months and not really posting except for some updates on the controls setups, and I must say, I have been very saddened by the lack of discussion concerning the flight model. It seems as though BIS has given up on VRS and other realistic effects. I hope this is not the case. ....but I sure am glad everyone is getting there ARMA content working. :(

  25. Posted

    they are watching...

    Two torque issues identified and for the most part agreed are:

    1. Lack of torque induced yaw

    2. Unrealistic tail rotor authority at speed.

    The other thing I'm seeing is what appears like exaggerated pendulum reaction on cyclic rather than over sensitivity. Relatively small inputs result in large swinging. We get bank angle followed by drift rather than drift followed by bank if that makes sense! Anyone agree?

    I completely agree with this. It's not a joystick sensitivity/curve issue...it's almost like the rotor disc is rigidly mounted and the cabin twitches with every move of the disc. IRL, a helicopter seems to "slide" around with small cyclic inputs before any cabin attitude change occurs.

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