no, just put in in community folder, it’s a standalone mod, never put it in the aircraft folder! Now you need to reinstall the original helicopter to restore the helicopter
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It was standalone!
I tried re-installing it right away, and it’s fun. I’m enjoying Mi17 the most I’ve ever had.
thank you.
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I finally tested the modification AFCS with a non-centering Gladiator NXT joystick.
No code changes required!
The only thing you have to do is ignore the force trim button and simply fly woth the joystick. When pitch / roll autopilot is set to 0 / 0, it maintains the attitude resulting from stick position.
See attached video. Diamond is my stick position, I’m not moving it once I stabilize 5 degrees nose down, cross is cyclic trim that the system automatically adjusts as I speed up, keeping 5 degrees nose down
Track for entire flight:
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Hi ! no mod for V 2.4.9 ? Your mod seems to be very appreciated but unfortunately I do not have version 1.05 to try it… thank you by the way
Yeah, things are in a bit of a limbo right now. I was hoping to integrate AFCS as well as flight model. Since AFCS is a rare thing, I was negotiating commercial agreement with Cera, but so far that didn’t work out. They might be waiting for Asobo AFCS, that will likely disappoint but that’s just my speculation at this point.
Since 1.0.5 is effectively obsolete, I need to decide if I update for 2.4.9 as freeware or keep holding out for Cera to change their minds. It’s a dilemma. I’m sorry that impacts end users. We’ll try to get out of this somehow
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UPDATE (for 1.0.5)
We have ALT / collective autopilot
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cq37esLY19F8YNt-rdS8O2cKqIJaPPr5?usp=sharing
Press the rightmost button on autopilot control panel in level cruise to engage automatic collective control maintaining current altitude, regardless of nose pitch adjustments
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Do we have any improvement mod for 2.4.9?
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Not yet. I was holding off until 2024, I’m actually still holding until it becomes a little more stable.
I want to combine improvement mod for updated hip with FS24 port
UPDATE 28.11.24
I started experimenting with upgrading mod for Cera Mi-17 2.5.0 for FS24.
Aircraft works almost without issue. ENG OUT warnings stay ignited. Rest works without issue, including AP-34B, except force trim.
FS24 changed something in input event handling, we have trouble with bindings to native controls such as force trim or roll/pitch attitude adjustments. Everything that’s on the virtual cockpit autopilot panel works
If you have a non-centering joystick like VKB gladiator or Puma PFT it’s mostly flyable.
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