View Full Version : tail rotor not working?
hjscm
05-09-2005, 10:05 AM
okay this is wierd. sometimes the tail rotor stops woring. happend twice in flight but happens a lot when i go to spin up. i am flying the dominion 90 and tried some other that i downloaded. is this a known problem?
thanks
vitek
05-09-2005, 11:38 AM
If the tail rotor contacts the ground the drive system will fail. I'm working on a change that will only let the tail fail if it hits the ground with a user specified force factor.
As for it happening in flight, I have to ask if you were doing anything near the ground or other objects. If you were not, then I need to investigate further. If you were, there is a pretty good chance that the tail touched down.
Travis
hjscm
05-09-2005, 06:24 PM
actually it is during spin up so the tail isn't hitting the ground. and happend in flight only about 10' of the ground.
BigVanVader
05-09-2005, 07:59 PM
Sometimes during spoolup if full negative is applied the tail rotor will touch and fail.Ive had it happen to me several times.Its most obvious on the heli that i built which has a little more power and collective authority.
vitek
05-10-2005, 01:26 AM
actually it is during spin up so the tail isn't hitting the ground.
The tail can hit the ground on spool up pretty easily. It happens in real life to. I managed to do it with my Ion just this last weekend.
happend in flight only about 10' of the ground.
I looked through the code for different ways to break the tail rotor. I did not see anything that I wouldn't expect.
If you think it is a bug, make a recording of a flight where the tail rotor breaks in the air and post it here or e-mail it to me.
Travis