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You are forgetting the fan Jokes aside, you are still rather fast on increasing rotor pitch. Give the governor a second or two to stabilize the rotor rpm every few degrees of rotor pitch, especially when you are becoming light on wheels. For the tail rotor, dont let a yaw develop. You need more power on the tail rotor to stop a developed rotation than just holding it steady. The moment you are pushing the right pedal hard, your rotor rpm drops to a level where generators are turning off. You are doing it right in general, just try slower and smoother!

No further comments or track file? Stop advertising your twitch channel channel here then!

I did watch the video, he should have never left the ground again after the first terrain contact (from overpitching). The aircraft clearly shows signs of not being airworthy... Whatever aircraft systems/parts he broke there, this effect seems not reproduceable without a track file. The speed increase on instruments after takeoff seems inconsistent with what the visual picture shows, my first guess would be some damage to the static/pitot pressure probes. It does look very weird and buggy in the end, I agree. I'm also curious to find out what caused this... maybe OP uploads a track file! Commenting VRS during a shallow approach while overpitching shows a lack of situational awareness to me somehow though...

Speed decreasing, sinkrate developing, increasing rotor pitch to stop sinkrate, rotor rpm going down... aircraft going down from overpitch.

This looked like a classic case of overpitching.

My guess would be you are not turning off the pedal damper? All maneuvers shown in the video are possible in the DCS hind, performing them as smooth as the demo pilot is another story.

Helicopter sinking through building when trying to land on helipad.

Oh it isn't that hard. Any ham fisted dynamic manoeuvre does the job usually :D

To get directional stability without working tail rotor in cruise flight you need the stabilizers. The most common way to lose your tail boom in game is collision with main rotor blades. In this case, it usually cuts the boom at a point that these stabilizers are gone as well. So best you can do in this moment is cut the fuel, try to touchdown with no pitch or bank and cushion with remaining rotor energy.

The cheat to land the DCS Hip is learning how to quickstop it. Once you manage this to a full stop mid air without losing altitude, just repeat it close to the ground and lower collective, ez game :joystick::pilotfly:

The DCS Mi-8 has huge power reserves... But yeah if you want to come in the last hundred meters vertical you will have to take at least 20 seconds to do so VRS free! SWP below HOGE altitude can only happen if you pull in power so fast that rotor RPM drops because Governor is a bit slow.

The difference between "settling with power" and VRS is in the aerodynamics. During settling with power the engine/rotor is decelerating your descent by applying power. If you had more room downwards you would stop at some point. In VRS the engine/rotor is accelerating your descent by applying power. If you had more room downwards you would accelerate more. At some point where VRS is fully developed (whole rotordisc in downwash) you will lose the lateral and longitudinal control of the cyclic and cross-control/sidestep/vuichard recovery is not an option anymore. At this point you can only lower the collective and hope you get out of this air column any random direction before you hit terra firma. Of course people screw up their approach and blame it on the wrong suspect sometimes.

The Lynx story sounds like it might have slightly raised your heartbeat when it happened. :smilewink: For the stuck pedal exercise, might sound stupid but i really need to focus (too much:doh:) to keep my feet still to simulate it. Otherwise I get that "Forget what my feet are doing" effect and just move them automaticaly where they dont belong for the exercise. So a little support from the Sim would help here... It's great to practice "no pedal" takeoff and landings already though. :joystick::pilotfly: Will have to demonstrate stuck pedal soon on checkride on H269...

Thank you Oldahpilot for your well formulated post. You clearly have a lot of experience to share and I am happy to read more about it. I heard the story of the Gazelle which lost the TR drive and realized it only half an hour later. For the DCS Huey I would really like to see anyone demonstrate a power on landing with a clipped tailrotor. I had to try few times after coming too close to a tree/fence/ground during hard quick stops and it was always a huge relief flipping that fuel cutoff switch after spinning few times all around the place. In the DCS Gazelle it would actually be really helpful to have a manual TR drive failure mode as I have not managed yet to fail the fenestron otherwise.

Your approach works on certain types depending on how much altitude and speed you got to start with. But you wouldn't stop but rather run it on to a flat surface between 80 and 110 knots depending on weight and wind.