I have collected a bug list related to helicopters and helicopter missions. I ask all helicopter users who have not voted yet to vote! Voting is important because there are many helicopter problems, but it is difficult to see and find the specific helicopter bugs among the hundreds of bugs. To fix the bugs, votes and user signals are needed.
Common helicopter faults:
Helicopters jump in and out of ground effect when near raised platforms, the CFD is not calculating the drop
MSFS 2024 Helicopter Turn Coordinators and Slip-Skid Indicators are Inaccurate
Helicopter rotor washout / Intense dust effect, snow effect kills FPS during takeoff and landing (-15 FPS)
Bugs in career mode:
In Career mode / There is no SAR - HOIST mission on land. / SAR- Hoist missions are only available in water areas
Helicopter SAR missions want you to land in unsuitable locations
Career mod / helicopter agricultural mission not playable / chemical refueling truck inaccessible due to obstacles
Agriculture truck landing pad too small
Robinson R66 rotor brake activation still wrong in AG missions
Helicopter side of Career Completely Unplayable
H 125 helicopter faults:
MSFS 2024 / H 125 helicopter Airspeed Indicator / The pointer of the instrument is too large, it protrudes at both ends, runs into the numbers, and covers the numbers
Multiple bugs with each helicopter model as well. E.g. the H-125 requires almost full forward stick when flying straight and level. There also seem to be a major lag in torque response in the H-125.
The sky crane is almost impossible to fly… no matter where you have the pedals it’s spinning one way or the other… there’s no sweet spot… for some reason they also have the rudder controls and tail rotor controls bound to the pedals as default for helicopters which makes the pedals return to center which is not correct. For all other helicopters I changed this…But the only way to fly the skycrane without spinning is to have it setup like this and constantly hold the pedals so it doesn’t spin…
I’ve had issues with the helicopter cargo missions (South of France area).
After picking up the load and climbing away, the drop off location vanishes. It’s still there on the EFB but even if you fly right over it, the mission steps don’t sequence and you cannot complete the mission. Occasionally the drop off point suddenly changes to somewhere >6000km away. Again this happens during initial climb out.
Cargo colliding with invisible obstacles whilst flying at least 1000ft above terrain. Mission fails because of it.
Experienced both of the above at least 5 occasions each. To the point I’ve pretty much given up on those missions and gone back the the very scarce rescue ones. If you can find some, that is…
Turn coordinator → I don’t thinks It’s fixed
No hoist on land → not fixed
SAR missions want you to land in unsuitable location → 50% fixed for me, I still sometimes see target close to the wood or on a slope, but game now allow you to land far from the target so It’s ok, but It can me improved
AG missions, truck positionned in tree or houses → Not fixed at all
Truck too small → It’s indeed small but usable, some in real life are are the same size
R66 rotor brake trigger → fixed
h125 mirror too big → not fixed
R66 Gov off → not fixed but workaround available
Unfortunately, there are a lot of serious bugs affecting helicopters and missions. I have collected some important issues. The development team is not working on bugs affecting helicopters at all. Please start intensive repair work by the team. Thank you on behalf of everyone!
Indeed this part of the game seems a bit abandoned, the last major change was the release of the hoist landed SAR mission, but It’s not really exciting because the target have the same pattern as the SAR landed mission, there is no difference, the best thing would be to have totally random target spawn, and having the ability to choose between landing or hoisting, depending of the terrain (flat hill or near lake = land, target in the tree or on an high slope = hoist)
The electrical rework of the h125 on SU4 is more broken than before as I stated in this topic:
The AG truck still spawns in the trees or in buildings, no visual assistance when hoisting, wich is hard to manage without playing on VR) etc etc