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Thunder Tiger Raptors 30-90 - Imperio > Raptor 30 Pilots???

buckshot
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I am training on the Realflight G2 simulator w/the Raptor 30 and I have a concern. I stabilize in hover and without changing my throttle setting I begin to put it into forward flight. First of all it doesn't want to hold it's altitude like the Impala trainer does (it actually begins to gain altitude) and second, the part that really concerns me, is when I bring it out of forward flight back into a hover it drops very quickly out of the sky and springs off the ground. It doesn't hit hard enough to crash but it does bounce a bit and then goes back into the hover I had previous to the forward flight. My question is should it be doing this? I have about 10 hours in using the Impala trainer and it never once did this. It would always slowly settle out of the sky right into a nice soft hover without dipping below the previous altitude I had it at before the foward flight. Please keep in mind it did this without having to adjust the throttle setting. With the Raptor 30 I have to throttle up atleast 1 click just to keep it from bouncing off the ground. My question is does the real Raptor do this or do I have a problem with my simulator? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

-Buckshot

03-12-2002 Over year old.

d-n-jensen
Veteran
Location: Bellevue WA

Perfectly normal perfectly healthy

03-12-2002 Over year old.

Virtual1
Senior Heliman
Location: Waterloo, Iowa - USA

The Impala is probably the one that's not acting quite normal. You have more lift when in forward flight than when hovering because you're traveling in air that's not already being circulated around. When you get close to the ground, you get 'ground effect' where the ground is preventing the air from circulating around, so you also get more lift there. So you're flying forward, you stop into a hover, (thus losing lift) and lose altitude, and as you near the ground you get into ground effect (thus gaining lift) and sort of bounce back up a little bit.

You'll see this when you get behind the sticks of the real thing, Raptor or otherwise.

03-12-2002 Over year old.

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Michigan PI
Senior Heliman
Location: St Clair Shores, MI

Sim Pilots

Buckshot, one thing to remember is that what you have is a simulator. Although G2 has excellent graphics and you can do sliding autorotations, even the latest release still lacks in the physics department. Unless you already know how to fly the real thing and know what it "feels" like, it is difficult to set up just like a real model.
Not to get back into the great simulator debate, but I have found CSM V10 to have much better physics.
Yes, I own both.

03-12-2002 Over year old.

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crash1953
Veteran
Location: Washington State

every time you give a raptor a control input it takes a little engine power away and thats what is happening to you on the sim you dont have that