Joby S4 no controls when starting from parking slot

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: When starting the aircraft from any parking slot, you will have no control over pitch, roll or bank. The aircraft is also not accelerating in hovermode and is blown away by the wind.

Workaround: Start the aircraft from a Helipad or runway.

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:

Joby S4

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

No add-ons used.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

Every time loading the aircraft on a parking slot.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Load the aircraft on any airport on a parking slot.
  2. Start the aircraft. In Hovermode you will already have not full control over the aircraft.
  3. When it switches to flying mode, you have no controlls over the aircraft.

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:
Keyboard, Mouse, XBOX-Controller

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No Developer Mode

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
RX6600M

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
64GB RAM
Windows 11 Pro

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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I attempted for around 2 hours to fly this aircraft from cold & dark without success by following the instructions in the manual. Although one has some slight control over the aircaft in Hover mode, the aircraft is highly unstable, even with TRC enabled, and has a tendancy to bank sharply to the right & crash, even in windless conditions. If one does reach the transition to flight stage, shortly thereafter the aircraft either accelerates, loses altitude & crashes, or banks to the right & crashes.

If starting on the runway (hot-start), the aircraft is much more controllable and can be flown.

Note that I’m flying the aircraft using a Logitech 3D Pro, configured to use the controls as per page 49 of the manual, though I have not found the control mapping for the Fly/Load Mode.

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Yah both the the E-VTOLS I tried to fly but I cant for the life of my find the correct bindings for them.

I get them to bank to the left or right either.

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Same for me, it is ok from the runway but not working from cold & dark.

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• When spawning to Gate at EGTE and EGBB using the Inibuilds A320 V2 I start outside of the aircraft but non of my controls (mouse,Keyboard or Flightstick) are working. Works fine if spawning ready for take off.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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Cold and dark start results in no control once in the hover. That is from a parking slot or custom start point on the ground.
Only starting in “ready to fly” can I control and fly the aircraft.
One other bug I see is if started cold and dark the pilot’s head is sticking out of the top of the aircraft. This does not happen when starting in “ready to fly” mode

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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• Taking off from the Needles helicopter pad I made a perfect transition from hover to forward flight! Taking off from the large field in the middle of EGCJ, I couldn’t get out of hover, and then lost stability as though I had crossed controls, and crashed.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• No longer a problem with build SU1 v1.3.23.0. Controlled flight from a cold-n-dark status is now possible.

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Moved to User Support Hub since a solution has been marked.