SunDevilPilot

The mounting plate comes from MonsterTechUSA. Both the Virpil Warbird and CM3 bases use the same mounting plate. You can get it grey like mine or black. Great company with some really nice mounting solutions (just a fan, not associated with them).

Issue not resolved. Doesn’t work for me.

You in VR. Changing the setting makes no difference on mine…. Tried -15 also and nothing. .

Despite changing the helmet ring angle in the special tab it doesn’t seem to adjust in game (in VR). The BS2 worked fine… Is this feature not implemented yet?

The avia cams…. The ones that were installed by the factory.

I ran my CM3, 200mm Extension and Alpha grip for a while with no springs and just the drag clutches ever so slightly on.. My precision for hovering went way down. Went back to the light springs, the soft center cam and no dampers. I read in the Apache DCS manual the helicopter does provide resistance like the springs would do.. Only, on the real helicopter the feedback can move with the stick when it is force trimmed. I fly way better with the springs active. I too was hoping for more with the clutches in the CM3.

No need for the full left or full right pedal. Especially if you went to zero collective…. There would be minimal torque with no collective. Leave some collective in there…. It will roll quite easily.

There is also a little rubber spacer at the rear of the junction box to take some load off the clamp.. This spacer is just two stick on rubber feet I stuck together to make a little rubber block. The block is just wedged in there… no damage being done to the collective by sticking anything to it.

Here it is with the weights. Just a note on the clamp. I have some 1/8” rubber under the clamp / around the collective to give the clamp some clearance on the friction adjustment for the throttle. With the rubber on there the clamp can scoot back onto the tapered collar near the main box giving some clearance. You can just see the rubber strips between the clamp jaws and the collective arm in one of the photos.

In addition to the stabilizer you see in my initial photo I have 8 ounces of Archery Stabilizer Weights on the end…. This resulted in a perfect balance. You can buy the weights from Amazon. They look like washers that screw onto an all thread stud.

I did a counterbalance mod using a Ram brand clamp, a one inch ball and the counterbalance from my compound bow. Perfectly neutralizes the weight of the collective. I loosened the tension to almost nothing when I installed the counterbalance. Friction is in no way needed to hold the collective in position with this setup, friction is just used to as a function of preference. I highly recommend the modification.

Will be watching. I have mine but haven’t set it up yet. Waiting on some 80/20 aluminum parts to build the floor base / stand with. What’s the issue with it being a slider?

Something is weird with the trail rotor authority.

Sim shaker vibrates when entering VRS…. A little screen shake would be ok I guess.

Make a physical barrier to stop your head from moving which corresponds to the virtual world. You’ll only bang your head into it a few times until you learn the limits.