Bearfoot

As far as I can tell, and if you don't care about the LARP-ing "realism" of it, there is also no functional need to switch out of the CPG seat once the bird is started. At least in DCS it seems you can fly it as adequately (or adequately enough, anyway) from the CPG seat.

I have my CPG flight control axes mapped/mirrored to my pilot's. Cyclic, collective, and pedals. When in the CPG seat, I request controls from pilot (as CPG), start moving the helo to where I want to go and only *then* switch to pilot seat. It's then a seamless transition. All this is before the SAS saturation thing, so no idea how it's going to hold up with trim etc.

What do you use to trim the memory?

Nice ones folks! Would love to see some fictional old-school-but-cool Arctic/winter dazzles too

Thanks Raptor9 -- these examples really help pull it together!

Thanks! Appreciate the insight. Things are beginning to become slightly less fuzzy! So we use the FTR to update the FMC what the reference is regardless of the hold mode, but the hold mode determines what gets "held" with respect to the reference. As you come in for a hover then, would you typically engage the hold mode while at speed and then action the FTR as you slow down to 5 knots? Or just engage the hold mode after stabilized in a hover (and then maybe use the FTR to sweeten or fine tune the hover/heading etc)?

So in the above example, you engage ATT hold at 70kts, and then pull the stick back to decelerate, actioning the FTR every now and then to recenter to new reference locations as you slow down? E.g, as you pass through 60, 40, 30 etc. knots (not exactly at those numbers) you would be constantly retrimming to the new speed, all the while the hold mode on?

Right now there’s no position hold that I’m aware of in game, velocity and attitude hold are in their beginning phases. While you have an indication that the hold mode is active it’s not doing anything for you at those speeds but idk just a guess and they haven’t released anything official yet. Really?? Hah. It fooled me. LOL. Placebo effect is strong. I was thinking, look how easy it is to hold a hover with this position subhold ... when it was me all this time So, whether eventually with the position hold or currently with the other hold submodes, adjusting/interrupting/actioning FTR does not change or disengage the hold mode?

The manual says that activating the FTR starts to "decay" the SCAS: Does this effect the hold modes in any way? E.g., if I have engaged attitude hold < 5 knots, and then I action the FTR for > 3 seconds to recenter the SAS, in DCS at least I remain in position hold. Is that how it's supposed to work?

No doubt! After reading the referenced manual section above, I think I now see how the "philosophy" of the system is quite different from how I imagined it. The figure is also useful in showing what submodes kick in at different speed/altitude combinations.

That was really helpful, thanks! SME Content Creators: It would be great to have a "The Dummies Guide to Understanding and Making the SCAS Work for You" I'm finding figuring it out like putting together a puzzle with made up mostly of pieces of wisdom dropped in various forums and discords etc. by SME's . I just found TM 1-1520-251-10 has a discussion on the SCAS in pages 95-99, so hope that fills out the understanding more.

Ah, that makes sense. Would be nice if someone mirrored the repo sources

Anyone getting this error? Anyone getting this error from OpenComposite? Anyone getting this error from OpenComposite? I used the dropbox link

(1) I guess that makes it slightly faster -- still have to fuss about to line up cursor with the target. It's probably relatively less tedious in the real thing, but I have no curves set up on my cursor control input, so small adjustments requires some finesse. (2) Ah, you're right. I've been seeing the TADS cross not George's, I think

He *says* he does ....