Helicopters are bouncing around wildly on startup of missions

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

Helicopters bouncing around on skids at the start of missions (even inside the hangar). Appears to be after they’ve been moved from one location to another with a different elevation. Many times bounces so wildly it crashes, then the mission stops. Many times the sim crashes then as well when attempting to return to the Headquarters screen.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

No mods. Nothing in community folder.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Once it starts, seems to happen on every subsequent mission.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Move the helicopter from where it is to another area with a significant elevation difference (say from Utah, to Alaska.)
  2. Attempt to load a helicopter mission (either H-125, or Cabri).
  3. Watch the thing bounce like mad before it’s even started, in the mission pre-scene.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
DX12

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

NVidia 4030

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
Tricked out rig, yo.

MEDIA

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes

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• Only happening for me on player owned helicopters.

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• Can upload footage when past “New User” restriction. Video shows helicopter bouncing wildly during Pilot walk up scene, a quick fade to black via “Skip to take-off,” then helicopter boucing during passenger arrival and when player is given control for startup. Clip ends before helicopter is destroyed in a crash.

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Adding to this might helps some:

I got this to stop (I think) by going into Free Flight in the area where my helicopter is hangar’d and flew around for a bit and landed.

Then went back into missions and voila … suddenly my helicopter wasn’t bouncing around any more.

I think maybe this bug is related to moving the helicopter from high-altitude regions to lower ones and maybe it’s updating its “ground” location and because the skids are bouncy, it’s causing the bouncing.

Just a theory.

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Yes this is happening to me as well. I have not been able to play a career mission in a few days and with all the bugs I experience in the other missions it has made it almost impossible to make any meaningful income. Please fix this!

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I tried you solution and it seems to work for my employee career missions sold my heli as it would get smashed every time I start a freelance job basically bankrupting me so have not tried freelance yet.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes, owned helicopters completely unplayable

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• Helicopter bouncing at the mission briefing screen and then crashing immediately at the start of the mission. Destroying helicopter and lowering reputation over repeated attempts.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• yes (but only intermittent)

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• the issue occurs intermittently and sometimes in free flight mode, sometimes in career mode

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same for me. can’t play career mode at all anymore. and I lost a ■■■■ TON of reputaiton and money

It happened after moving a helicopter from an altitude airport to the LIMA airport in west italia.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• Intermittent. Not specific to helicopter variant. I experienced the issue with the H125 under multiple variants, even moving across the world to try different locations. Still had the same effect.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• All helicopters both in missions (employee and frelance) and in free flight.

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• was flying helicopters all day then all of a sudden they started bouncing in the hanger and then as soon as the fly screen loads as seen in the OP’s screenshot. Not setting had been changed between flights.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes, for me it s in career mode after moving an aircraft to another platform.

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• Has happened 3 times now at different locations

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• Mine says mission failed after the helo bounces around and crashes

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