Helicopter Bell 407 Clunking Sound

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Brief description of the issue:

When engine running and when flying, there is a clunking sound, seems to be related to yaw input, even small yaw input.

The sound I hear (from experience IRL in 206B and 206L) is the yaw pedals hitting the stops, so certainly I do not expect to hear this except if you booted in pedal engines OFF.

Flapping does not actually make noise, it’s a blade movement in the disc, not a clunky thing.

When I first heard it I thought was an animal loose in the luggage compartment :wink:

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That’s Asobo’s version of what the rudder pedal movement sounds like.

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I also expereinced this clucking sound and found it to be caused by controller mapping. The default “helicoptoer” preset for my Thrustmater TCA Sideside had the z-axis mapped to increment / decrement tail rotor. (Not tail rotor axis.) I have rudder peddals that I’ve mapped to the tail rotor axis and had physically locked the z-axis of my joystick. Unforunately, the Thrustmaster TCA is very “noisy” in that the z-axis was registering unsolicited input, thus causing the rail rotor to hit its hard stop. I cleared the z-axis settings from my controller profile and now the clunking has stopped.

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Thanks Bullet,

I’ll try this, but two things:

  • Even really small inputs, with little yaw change, caused the clunking.

  • IRL if you booted the yaw pedals to the stop, you hear the clunk. But once engine/rotors turning, now way you could do this or hear this.

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Mine seems to do that when I make an abrupt control movement, and the rotor droops.

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I’m currently having this issue with Hotas 1 and TM pedals.

No matter what binding I use I don’t have smooth tail rotor control…I hear a bang and it spins around!

I’ve tried using just the stick and it’s the same.