Only this Asobo R66, the gamepad doesn’t work. I loaded the same settings and other aircraft work.
On a C+D start I cannot get past the two warning pages on the GPS (ignores the Enter, Enter inputs). Can anyone else please confirm if it works for them on the R66?
Yes it works.
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What kind of wind conditions? Robinson’s sway a little bit in the yaw axis if it’s windy.
Here’s a video flying around my home town in a R22 with around a 11 knot wind.
Why do I get a beeping low rpm warning while hovering? The engine torque increases drastically and the helicopter starts to spin like crazy. This also happens in the air with 50 knots approach speed and all gauges in the green area. It just comes out of nowhere.
You need to open up the throttle for the engine.
Throttle is at 100 % and if I press the „toggle engine gov“ button it will beep constantly and never end. Is the governor maybe on by default now? How do I open up the throttle?
EDIT: Strange, today the issue with the low rpm warning seems to be gone. All I did yesterday was to engage the rotor brake by hand (not by a keybinding) and to release it. I also decreased the sensitivity of the tail rotor axis. Now there is just the HYD warn light always enlightened after a cold and dark start. This doesn‘t happen if you start the helicopter with a key binding.
EDIT 2: Oh there is a little hydraulic pump switch on the cycle. I should have read the before starting engine checklist with more attention..,
It sounds like you are turning the governor off, and the beeping is the low rotor rpm warning.
There isn’t a switch in cockpit to know if if’s on or off, so it may help to bind “rotor gov on’ and ‘rotor gov off’ separately so you know which position it’s in.
Yes. I don‘t touch any keybinding related to the governor anymore and I guess there is no need to do so at least for the Robinson R66. I can‘t believe how much fun helicopters actually are. The simulation feels great and you surely have a way more intensive binding to the world underneath you. The cockpit of the Robinson is perfect. The only downside is my aggressive way to fly. I burned all the fuel in less than 50 nautical miles and that is obviously just wrong. We‘re talking about a heli with a range of around 400 nm and fuel flow of 23 gallons per hour. I hope I will do it better in the next short flight.
EDIT: Once again I was out of fuel just after 50 nm into my little 88 nm long trip. LittleNavmap lists a freaking fuel burn of 67 gph for cruise and just 7 knots headwind. I’m targeting a cruise speed of 100 knots. Is this too much? Wat is going on? I‘m switching to the Huey and look if I can fly at least 100 nm with it.
EDIT: Is there no way to lean the mixture in the simulation?
I fly the R66 quite a bit and am unable to replicate your experience. It flies very much like the real world R44s that I fly. Yes, the fuel burn is higher but not even half what you are experiencing. All I can suggest is don’t touch the governor. It is on by default. If you have it keybound to your HOTAS (if applicable), remove it. The R66 is one of the best models in the sim, free or marketplace.
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Amazing heli, the modeling and handling is perfect
Only thing I would have liked is if the breakers worked (they are interactable but don’t have any effect)
And if the EFB tablet was added
Now I feel like I‘m lost. I didn’t touched the governor yesterday and my fuel burn is this high. What is your torque in cruise? I‘m always in the 80-90 % range and if I‘m below it I will sink. Altitude is always between 3000 and 3500 feet. There is something I must doing very wrong.
I am nearly always at max torque. And this may or may not be a weakness in the model. I typically fly at 100% to get the performance I would expect. But no one flies the real thing with so much pull. Max continuous torque is 83%. However, I have only flown the -44. It may well be that the -66 as modeled is nuts on.
Because I pull so much, the low RPM warning pings quite regularly. This would be an extreme no-no in the real thing. Even in the -66 as modeled, the low RPM tone must still be taken seriously. If you let it persist more than a second or two, RPM will only droop further. Each percent of drop is a massive reduction in available power and anti-torque. Ideally, fly so that you never hear the horn. The reason I fail at my own rule is that I use it for crop dusting in Career. To do it quickly and efficiently, safety gets sacrificed.
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I have to map the throttle of my flight stick to „COLLECTIVE AXIS“, right?
There is also an issue with my flight plan in the EFB. It just disappears from time to time, so I‘m wondering if the refueling before the flight might also be bugged. Nah, that‘s nonsense. The gauge shows always a full tank.
I think you are doing it right. Sometimes a reinstall is in order. Also, I should mention that I am on an XBOX.
I can‘t believe how different both versions behave. Seems like everything is fine on Xbox. Am I the only PC user experiencing such a high fuel flow? I was searching on Google about my issue and the AI has just written something down I‘m very familiar with. I think it literally quoted me.
Simulation Bug: The most likely cause is an inherent bug in the R66’s flight data within the sim. Users report burning a full tank in under 50 nautical miles, when the real helicopter has a range of around 400 nm. The reported in-sim fuel flow of 67 gallons per hour (GPH) in some cases is nearly three times the real-world R66’s burn rate of approximately 23 GPH.
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You’re not the only one observing this. I noticed the really high burn rate as well and confirmed by reading the fuel burn rate reported by Little NavMap
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I am sorry that people are experiencing this. But honestly somewhat happy to learn (or have confirmed) that the PC and XBOX versions of FS24 are fundamentally different. For ages I’ve complained about quirks with the B407. But other clearly knowledgeable users noted none of the odd behavior that made it so unpleasant to fly for me (an XBOX user). I was either crazy and/or we were actually flying different sims. (XBOX, “Modern” FM, No Assists)
Nop you are not the only one, I ran out of fuel on my last AG mission, and I started with almost half of the tank, so approx 25min of flight
I’m on PC. I’ve never noticed any issue with fuel burn rate…