Skycrane loss of collective / bouncing

[Lost8486]

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: When in career mode, have not tested in free flight the skycrane loses collective control and the aircraft bounces up and down if you hit Esc to go into the menu, and return.

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue: s-64 aircrane

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? have nothing installed

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? everytime i go into the menu while flying

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

1. Start construction career mission (haven’t tested in free flight)
2. Start flying forward flight
3. Hit Esc to go into the menus.
4. Return to flying

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: Logitech Extreme 3D Pro

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

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

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX4070Ti super

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

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring. I’n the video im moving the “power” collective, up and down with no effect on the aircraft.

aircrane issue

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[FatalSpartan93]

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• I have the same issue resulting from the same thing OP is doing.

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• I dont have anything additional aside from I have the same issue and it forces me to restart the mission.

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[LonelyEU1012]

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• Yes, same issue detected.

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[Airking26]

same for me. I did not even have to press ESC first. It just happened during the approach to the pickup zone for the first “golden” mission of heavy construction missions. It began to flap like a bird and even with the collective in idle it did not descend?!

another thing I noticed with the skycrane was during the ATPL(H) exam. When already landed and parked at the parking position it suddenly burst up some hundred feet into the air on pressing CTRL+SHIFT+E to shut down the engines!?

[TKossi]

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• same to me. Auto-Hover On or Off doesn’t do anything.

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• It is much too sensitive to Windy situations. Even hovering in 100ft is not possible due to the bouncing and fluffy Windeffects.
I use Thrustmaster Rudder-Pedals, T16000 Joystick plus two Throttlequadrants with one Lever as Collective.
What I find out that the Helicopter seemed to be better respond and flyable with lower power settings for empty flights, and about half power for the heavy crane flights.
I am glad to hear how to tinker this topic to have it flying calm with precission I saw in IRL.
And some mor thoughts: When the Wind condition is too heavy no pilot would even think of doing the nonsense - mission for construct an heavy power pole. Everyx pilot wouldf wait until the wind-conditions are at 0 kts.

If relevant, provide additional screenshots/video:
• sorry, haven’t made some. In the video above one can see how the rotor is bouncing - the pendular situation is not shown.

[BenJV4]

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

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• same behavior as OP in first career mission (gold one). Loss control of collective and very strange flying behavior overall. Pitch trim was not working as well, seems that roll trim was working but not even sure cause of the strange behavior. Tried to remove all assist but the bug was still present

Edit: after second try with all assist off since the beginning of the mission, I had no issue at first, but as soon as I hit pause and back, the issue appeared again so definitely a bug related to pause/unpause.

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