General ground effect on helicopters

Hi,

Not sure if this is in the right category so just move me if needed.

Is anyone else having issues or just not feeling it with the ground effect? not talking about the rubbish over objects or helipads, just in general. I’m not using any assist, and i have a puma x control setup. I find myself working the collective too much at 2-8 feet altitude, juggling the helicopter up and down and its just not settling on the “pillow” of air at all. And as a result of slightly having to move the collective up and down that much it is obviously affecting how much i have to counter steer with rudders and cyclic… am i losing my mind here??

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Not losing your mind. I got the same feeling. Helicopter behavior in ground effect is extremely unconvincing (compared to e.g. DCS which does get it right IMO).

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