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00:00:00 – 00:18:53
Mark from Sim Hangar details the official inclusion of helicopter support in Microsoft Flight Simulator, providing comprehensive guidance on configuring controllers and fixing bugs to enhance helicopter flying experiences. He reviews the Airsoft release "Landmarks North Sea," promising a detailed review soon. The video thoroughly explains setting up the Turtle Beach Velocity One flight stick, creating and customizing control profiles, and clearing unnecessary bindings like landing gear and throttle. Mark highlights issues like improper centering of the Hat 2 switch and adjusts the dead zone settings for precise control. He elaborates on helicopter mechanics, crucial instruments, and the setup of key controls—collective (throttle), cyclic (pitch and bank), and tail rotor. Configuration includes mapping trims, highlighting the importance of proper control allocations and solving conflicts to ensure accurate power management and flight control. Practical demonstrations show hovering, maneuvers, and landing, culminating in an invitation for viewer feedback and engagement.
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In this part of the video, Mark from Sim Hangar explains that helicopters are now officially supported in Microsoft Flight Simulator. He provides guidance on configuring controllers and fixing a known bug to improve helicopter flyability. Mark highlights the Airsoft release of “Landmarks North Sea,” which includes numerous ships and platforms, promising a full review soon.
He details the necessary steps to ensure a smoother helicopter flying experience, beginning with adjusting assistance options. Key tips include enabling ‘assistant tail rotor’ and ‘assisted cyclic’ for easier management. Mark addresses a bug causing helicopters to default to the wrong flight model. He instructs users to switch the flight model to Legacy, set all presets to realistic, then exit and restart the simulator. Upon re-entry, users should revert the flight model to Modern to correct the error. Finally, Mark prepares viewers for creating a helicopter profile using the Turtle Beaches Velocity One flight controller.
00:03:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker explains how to set up and customize control bindings for a Turtle Beach Velocity One flight stick on a PC. They mention that the changes and bindings will apply regardless of the peripheral used. The speaker reviews the default profiles provided with the flight stick, highlights the differences (or lack thereof), and explains how to create a new profile by duplicating the default one. The new profile can be named as desired.
The segment guides viewers through clearing and reassigning bindings that are not needed for helicopter flight, such as the landing gear and throttle. The process of deleting these bindings involves clearing the current input and validating the changes. The speaker also addresses a minor simulation bug concerning category re-opening in the menu and provides a workaround. This setup segment focuses on ensuring that the flight stick configuration is optimized for helicopter control.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker focuses on cleaning up and optimizing control configurations for a flight simulator. They delete unwanted control profiles, keeping only essential items like autopilot toggle, light toggles, auto start, and camera settings. After clearing the setup, they suggest creating a blank profile for future use. The speaker highlights an issue with the Hat 2 switch on the Velocity One flight stick, where moving the switch up results in continuous movement due to improper centering. To fix this, they adjust the dead zone settings for the joystick axes to ensure correct re-centering. They save these settings and prepare to configure controls for helicopter flight, explaining key helicopter components and controls, such as the collective (throttle), cyclic (joystick for pitch and bank), and tail rotor.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses helicopter mechanics and configuration for flight controls. The tail rotor provides stability by counteracting the helicopter’s natural tendency to spin in the opposite direction of the main rotor. Ideal cockpit viewing angles are outlined, emphasizing the importance of monitoring critical instruments like vertical speed, altitude, horizon, speed, and rotor power. Moving to the configuration steps, the default profile is mostly discarded except for autopilot, lights, engine auto start, and camera assignments. The collective axis (throttle) is set up by searching and assigning it to a joystick axis, ensuring it operates in the preferred direction. Similarly, the cyclic controls are configured by assigning the joystick’s longitudinal and lateral axes to manage forward, backward, and sideward movements.
00:12:00
In this segment of the video, the presenter focuses on configuring various trim and control settings for flying a helicopter using a joystick. Initially, they set up the “Rotator trim reset” to a trigger button (button 18) for quickly resetting trims to zero, which is crucial for landing. Then, they configure the tail rotor axis for yaw control by mapping it to the joystick’s twist axis (L axis Z). They move on to set the main trimming functions for longitudinal and lateral trims. For longitudinal trim adjustments, buttons 17 and 16 are used, while lateral trim adjustments are mapped to buttons 8 and 4. This setup helps alleviate pressure on the joystick, making it easier to maintain desired flight attitudes, particularly important for devices with considerable tension like the Velocity One flight stick.
00:15:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the process of adjusting and validating control configurations, including solving conflicts by clearing inputs and validating changes. They emphasize the importance of ensuring all control allocations are correct, particularly for power management and primary flight controls. The speaker runs through a checklist to confirm the correct assignment of cyclic control, tail rotor axis, rudders, and trim axes, with a reminder to apply and save the changes before testing them in the simulation. In the simulation, they demonstrate manipulating the controls to achieve lift-off, maintaining a stable hover, and performing various maneuvers such as banking and pitch adjustments. They illustrate the fine control needed by making small movements and testing lateral and longitudinal trims. They also mention their lack of experience as a sim helicopter pilot while attempting a landing.
00:18:00
In this part of the video, the speaker describes the process of transitioning from forward flight to hovering while flying a helicopter in a simulator. They invite viewers to share their experiences with helicopter simulations in the comments. The speaker expresses hope that the configuration guide provided will help others enjoy their helicopter simulations more and mentions plans to spend more time in the virtual cockpit. They encourage viewers to subscribe and like the video if they found it useful. The speaker also discusses the challenges of landing from an external point of view, and after successfully landing, thanks the audience for watching and bids them farewell.