CERA Sim BlackHawk released. Sticky 9/21/13

[kdfw]

For the life of me I can't find this download.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...=109418&sort=d

[joe bob]

Much obliged sir.

[Damien]

Being a military veteran, I'm really wanting to love this aircraft but I keep finding issues. Currently,

Brakes do not want to release at times. I'd gone from CH Pro rudder pedals to Saitek combat pro Pedals.. I do not have this problem with other aircraft.

Very odd high speed flight behavior. Take off and depart straight and level at 151%TQ to 150 Kts. Kick over full right rudder. What should happen is a very slight change in course momentarily. What happens with this bird is that the aircraft maintains course but completely loses airspeed, completely changes direction of flight (aircraft changes direction of movement sideways, in reverse and again sideways in the opposite direction while maintaining course.) Rudder inputs via the pedals show correct deflection in the VC without spiking as well as no other deflection of the cyclic.

Testing with other Cera helos show no such uncontrolled behavior exists with the same FSUIPC profile using the same control equipment.

I'm not some new guy that has no clue what I'm doing in an aircraft. I've taken ground school, Been with MSFS since MSFS 5. Had the registered version of FSUIPC for a few years now. I own and regularly fly all of Cera sim's Helos, several from Nemeth, a few from Aerosoft and fly the Dodosim b206 on level 5 settings. I fly with high quality controls. I use the thrustmaster warthog and saitek combat pro pedals. all equipment has been calibrated properly in FSUIPC. the only other aircraft I've had problems with was the Aerosoft Huey X which seemed like it did not like HOTAS controllers. (Many people had problems with this aircraft.) I fly on a PC that I built specifically for flight simulation. Intel I7 3770K @3.5Ghz, 16GB Ram, with an NVidia GTX 670 graphics card running Win7 64 bit.

Regarding the landing gear sound issue I'd mentioned earlier in the thread, I still hear the sound when the landing gear button is pressed. I'd contacted Cera Sim about it but have had no response from them. You would literally have to write in the code to refer to the sound to play it when the gear was cycled, or they copied the FDE's from another aircraft with retractable gear. How difficult would a patch be to verify your software and remove any reference to landing gear sounds?

Sorry for the rant.

-Damien

[airattackimages]

I have a suggestion in the meantime... quit pushing the G key.

[joe bob]

I see your problem,you left your engines back at the lz when you pulled 151% torque.
I would have expected better from a dodo level 5 military veteran.

I can't say as I have ever had the brakes not release.

[Damien]

I see your problem,you left your engines back at the lz when you pulled 151% torque.
I would have expected better from a dodo level 5 military veteran.

I can't say as I have ever had the brakes not release.

Yeah.. I normally don't fly at 151% TQ, just had some odd behavior and started playing around at it.

-Damien

[Damien]

I have a suggestion in the meantime... quit pushing the G key.

:salute:Aye Aye!

-Damien

[Damien]

Alright, I think it's related to how the UH-60 and OpusFSX work together.. On a hunch I shut down OpusFSX during the flight and the poor flight behavior stopped. Quite odd. I'll have to verify my Opus settings and try a reinstall.

-Damien

[Damien]

It appears to be a problem with one of OpusFSX's DHM camera effects (3DOF Bump aircraft) would cause a left sliding issue during heavy control deflection. Known to effect the Default (Acceleration?) F/A-18 and some issues with the NGX. In order to fix it, you need to turn off those specific camera effects.

-Damien

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/424464-...3dof-disabled/

[Damien]

There was a small problem with the ability to retract landing gear.. (try it..) When I E-mailed Cera, their response was

please open the aircraft.cfg and change the contact points.[contact_points]

point.0= 1, -25.312, 0.000, -6.100, 1600, 0, 0.800, 180.000, 1.000, 1.280, 1.000, 0.0, 0.0, 0
point.1= 1, 4.622, -4.573, -4.500, 1600, 1, 1.100, 0.000, 0.969, 1.300, 1.000, 0.0, 0.0, 2
point.2= 1, 4.622, 4.573, -4.500, 600, 2, 1.100, 0.000, 0.969, 1.300, 1.000, 0.0, 0.0, 3
point.3= 2, 27.55, 0.0, 7.97, 1000, 0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0, 4
point.4= 2, -0.23, -27.64, 7.82, 1000, 0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0, 4
point.5= 2, -0.23, 27.64, 7.82, 1000, 0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0, 4
point.6= 2, -38.37, 0.0, 6.24, 1000, 0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0, 4


Works great for me.

-Damien

[ST0RM]

Cera dropped the ball on this one. Their reputation for high-quality helos led me to buy the H-60, only to be let down.

Why haven't they released a patch for the many known issues with the Blackhawk? 3 months seems a bit long. Having you mod the aircraft.cfg file is not the answer, although I will try it.

If you only fly in single player, you are fine. But forget about M/P.

-S