Dang, I think I may be on the way to figuring out these godforsaken beastly devices. It's getting to the point that they are fun to fly, even! I've been crashing these things for years in FS9, where, as I understand it, the helicopter flight rules made them more difficult to fly than in real life. I can't speak to that. All I know is that I could crash them just as easily in FSX as I could in FS9. But lately I seem to be getting the “hang” of it, for some odd reason. I've never messed with the realism settings, always have been “full right”.
There's so many things you have to work separately, but together! :isadizzy: I can now, during the “near hover” portion of the final approach, caress the left rudder pedal to swivel the nose just a smidgen, while arresting the slight rightwards drift with a hint of left stick. I still tend to land with just a touch of forward motion. Makes landing a lot easier. But if I want to land on the back of a cruise ship, I'll have to practice the hover more...
It's all very cool.
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