How to fly the Joby eVTOL

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I have to share this… I found a video on YouTube by the factory that makes the actual Joby eVTOL. This is how you fly it.

  • Throttle Lever to 50% when taking off or landing, in Hover Mode, and in normal flight mode, business as usual.
  • Garmin Screen: Far left Soft Key ‘Unplugged’ Selected
  • Garmin Screen: Middle Soft Key ‘Flight Mode’ (not Load Mode) Selected
  • Garmin Screen: Middle Soft Key ‘Load’ Mode will be for charging and opening doors. Motors stay off. With Flight mode active, she is ready to fly, joystick and throttle effect engines (motors or fans).
  • Joystick/Hover/Ground mode, Takeoff Land (Screen will show engines pointed up and ‘Hover Mode’ window showing active)
  • Joystick Back is ‘Up’ and Joystick Forward is ‘Down’. (Hover mode only).
  • Twist Joystick is Yaw/Rudder
  • Bank Joystick is Aileron, or side movement in Hover Mode
  • Take-Off via pulling back on Joystick, push forward on the Throttle and you begin forward movement. Note engines changing angles, from upwards to forwards. At a certain point, the window of the flight mode goes from ‘Hover’ to ‘Flight’. Then its back to normal Flight inputs. Put back is up and push forward is down on Joystick, fly it like a normal plane. Same for throttle. So Hover Mode is totally different then Flight Mode.

She will auto hover, and she appears to hold your VS. I didnt mess with Autopilot yet, but she might have ‘Fly By Wire’ systems, which is point and go, then let go and she flies herself.

Note, if you are hovering and there is a cross wind, she will appear to be leaning. She is banking into the wind, holding position.
AUTO SHUTDOWN… When you land, and throttle and joystick are in the blue, centered, she will shut down. If you have a wheel up in the air, she keeps running. Land with ship pointed into the wind and she will shut down. All three gears must be down.
Charging. Tap the far left Soft Key on the Garmin screen and go to Charge mode. 2nd Soft Key is ‘Charge Rate’ (for the sim). 8X will be Plaid Charge mode.

Fun…!

Video Tutorial

Happy Flights…

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Some screenshots showing the readouts for Hover mode and Flight mode, and locations of the Soft Keys for the various modes and door controls, recharging, etc.

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Thanks for all this info. I’m loving this thing but I’ve been struggling a bit with it. It really is great fun to fly.

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In the real S4, the Left Hand Inceptor has a spring+cam return to center, a lot like most joysticks do. This returns the LHI to the 50% position. You can see this position on the left G3000 MFD in FS2024, denoted by a box which you place the LHI command dot inside. If the dot is above that box you will accelerate and if it is below that box you will decelerate, and if in hover, you’ll actually back up. Make sure to map and use the decelerate to hover/waypoint button, which can be used with the LHI in the 50% position, and this will bring you to a nice station keeping hover in TRC (Translational Rate Control).

A trick I use with dual throttles like William is using in the video above, is to leave one of the throttle levers unmapped and in the 50%position, and map the other to “throttle” (Surge), and in so doing, you can find the 50% point by feel, simply by pulling the throttle lever to align with the unmapped second lever.

To map those features mentioned above, note the following:

DECEL TO WP implementation is based on having a defined arrival airport as this will be used as a target,
activating it requires a long press of the LHI “DECEL” button, current implementation will default to DECEL TO HVR if no destination is defined in the flight plan.

The following functions can be mapped to your joystick or external hardware by looking for the key bindings in your controls menu

(FUNCTION==>FS2024 KEYBINDING NAME)

SPEED HOLD MODE ==> ARM AUTOTHROTTLE

SPEED SELECT INC ==> INCREASE AUTOPILOT REFERENCE AIRSPEED

SPEED SELECT DEC ==> DECREASE AUTOPILOT REFERENCE AIRSPEED

DECEL button ==> AUTOPILOT AIRSPEED HOLD (short and long press are supported)

DISENGAGE button ==> TOGGLE DISENGAGE AUTOPILOT

synthetic vision should be enabled in the MSFS G3000 for the flight path vector to show. This can be done via the pfd softkeys :
PFD SETTING => ATTITUDE OVERLAYS => SYNTHETIC TERRAIN

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