Hover physics in helicopters broken

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the helicopter will suddenly ballon up sometimes 50-100ft with no change in collective, somtimes even if quickly lower collective to compensate it still balloons up. I have tried this in various wind and weather conditions, high altitude and low altitude, cold and hot and with almost every helicopter available. I have assured it is not a peripheral issue or double bindings. I have no assistances on and wake turbulence disabled because im sure everyone knows what a can of worms that is. This happens mostly in and out of ground effect but i have found that even a hover at any altitude is much more unstable than it should be. Holding a hover should not require so much adjustment of the collective.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

very often. though can be compensated for by constant unneeded collective adjustments.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. load into helicopter cold or hot.

  2. try to maintain a 3-6 foot hover over different terrain.

  3. helicopter will ballon up with no collective input.

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?

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

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

MEDIA

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You don’t mention an a/c in your bug report but I see you’ve tagged the R66. Is that the only helicopter you have an issue with?

I don’t fly the R66 but I haven’t experienced this issue with the default 407 or 125, Taog’s 500C, Huey or Lama or Fly Inside’s 206B3.

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nope it happens in all helicopters. You’re probably experiencing it without noticing. If you constantly adjust the collective and fly a lot then you dont notice it. however i fly irl and holding a hover shouldnt require constant collective adjustments that msfs does. My post is for the devs to hopefully see and try to replicate and ultimatley fix. Thanks for your input.

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Pretty sure I’d notice if I

but probably worth mentioning which helicopters to give the devs something specific to try and replicate.