gavinc
October 20th, 2008, 10:23
Hi
I have been trying to sort out a minor but annoying (at least to me) feature of helicopters:banghead:. This is the fact that the rotor blades rotate even with the engine off, or so I thought!
When I was converting Greg Pepper's FS2002 Sikorsky S-51 I went prowling for a decent FS2000 or FS98 air file to replace the default one with. That is when I came across Ignacio Mendive's S-51 (which is a CFS2 model) and lo & behold his rotors don't rotate until the engine is turned on.
I dropped Ignacio's air file into Greg's model but the rotors still turn:isadizzy:, next I stripped everything out of Greg's airfile that wasn't in Ignacio's, the rotors still turn:isadizzy:.
Since then I have come across a couple of other models whose rotors actually are controlled by the engine.
Does anyone know what controls this? I am starting to think that it is hard wired into the model.
Thanks
Gavin
I have been trying to sort out a minor but annoying (at least to me) feature of helicopters:banghead:. This is the fact that the rotor blades rotate even with the engine off, or so I thought!
When I was converting Greg Pepper's FS2002 Sikorsky S-51 I went prowling for a decent FS2000 or FS98 air file to replace the default one with. That is when I came across Ignacio Mendive's S-51 (which is a CFS2 model) and lo & behold his rotors don't rotate until the engine is turned on.
I dropped Ignacio's air file into Greg's model but the rotors still turn:isadizzy:, next I stripped everything out of Greg's airfile that wasn't in Ignacio's, the rotors still turn:isadizzy:.
Since then I have come across a couple of other models whose rotors actually are controlled by the engine.
Does anyone know what controls this? I am starting to think that it is hard wired into the model.
Thanks
Gavin