From: Josh B. <jba...@at...> - 2006-06-23 23:53:48
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Martin Spott wrote: > Josh Babcock wrote: > >> I like your todo list. I would just suggest one more thing. If you look >> at a helo from behind, the rotor disk will be canted slightly to one >> side in straight and level flight. The side force offsets the side force >> of the tail rotor to prevent sideslip. In FG, instead of the rotor disk >> being tilted to the left a few degrees, the whole aircraft is. > > This might very well be a phenomenon that's unique to helicopters which > are based on this hingeless rotor concept, aircraft and rotor mostly > move as one entity. They vary significantly from the typical Bell rotor > style: > > http://www.christoph31.de/cgi-bin/MasterFrameReunion.cgi?http%3A//www.christoph31.de/foto/details.php%3Fimage_id%3D590%26 > > Martin. Yeah, this behavior may be appropriate for the bo105, I have a picture of an EC-135 with a semi-rigid rotor in a 1" hover that has that has that same tilt, though it might have just been wiggling as it lifted off. Most of the rotors out there, however, are still fully articulated. There are even a significant number of teetering rotors still flying. Just about every Jet Ranger has one. It is definitely not right for them. As far as I can tell, YASim treats all rotors this way. Josh |