I know how to change the performance curve for my Cabri tail rotor pedals in Settings. - Sensitivity L & R, Dead zoneeeeee, Neutral, Extremity dead zone and Reactivity. I know what it’s all about. But I can’t mirror what happens in real life on the sim… In real life the pedal performance is something like this … "Deceleration and spot turns are where you need to understand your fenestron. Unlike a conventional tail rotor, where the thrust to power relationship is linear, a fenestron is more effective at low pitch, but less effective between about 40 and 80 per cent pitch. From 80 to 100 per cent it is significantly stronger. "
This means that the MSFS curve’s top right quarter is an S shape and the bottom L quarter is the opposite. But you can’t create this shape in Settings, you can only ceate sa single S curve going through where the axes cross.
Is there a solution? Or do I have to continue flying unrealistically?
Am no expert, but there doesn’t seem to be any compensation for a fenestron’s (I had to google it) non-linear output in real life. It appears to be something that pilots simply have to get used to…
The elephant in the room though is the way Fenestrons handle . Pilots who are used to conventional tail rotor systems often find that the ‘feeling’ of controlling yaw is less responsive or takes more input to achieve the same result.
So it would seem that trying to adjust curves to accommodate a fenestron-equipped helicopter is unrealistic. Just leave them as they are and get used to how much input is required.
The solution is to change the helicopter’s tail rotor behaviour rather than your pedals, that’s the thing that’s wrong by the sounds of it.
But the sim is supposed (and we want it) to reflect the helicopter’s tail rotor behaviour. The sim’s available pedal response curves won’t do that.
I agree with the others that the fenestron response is part of the flight model. Just leave your pedals on linear settings.
If the response in the Cabri is not what you are expecting, maybe create a Zendesk ticket.
Seb seems to be very proud of the Cabri flight model, but I cannot really judge if what you describe is modeled realistically.
I never thought to do this. It works! Many thanks. It would appear that Seb has “modified the linear curve in the background, unseen to the user” and it seems to result in the correct, decidedly non-linear, response displayed in a real Cabri G2.
All the best,
Brian
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