If you learn the basics first then landing will become much easier. The banking in this case is the amount of correction needed to counter the main rotor's torque.ĭon't worry about landing until you've mastered the more basic flight controls.
AIRPLANE CONTROLS ARMA 3 FULL
In the video at the end of this post, look at how much the helicopter banks when flying straight and level, and compare that to how much the helicopter banks when taking off with full collective. Note that, if you increase collective, the torque generated by the main rotor increases - so you have to apply more corrective pedal at a high collective than you would at a lower collective. All of these rely on building muscle memory with your feet, allowing you to correct the helicopter's axial rotation with an appropriate level of sensitivity in the anti-torque rotor. Your first challenges are going to be maintaining a hover, navigating taxiways and flying straight and level. It is possible to fly in the AFM with mouse & keyboard but the learning curve is much steeper, your movements will be sloppy and you'll find that building muscle memory takes weeks and months rather than days. You control the collective and a governor automatically adjusts the throttle to maintain an appropriate rotor RPM.īefore venturing into the advanced flight model any deeper, I would suggest you get yourself a set of flight controls - some sort of analogue throttle control, a joystick and generic rudder pedals. However, in modern helicopters (and in Arma helicopters), you don't control the throttle. In old helicopters, you'd have to carefully adjust the throttle to match the collective's setting so that the rotor RPM didn't reach dangerously low or high levels. Throttle is the main engine power and affects rotor RPM. But collective and throttle aren't actually the same thing -Ĭollective is a flight control that adjusts the angle of the main rotor to generate lift, also increasing aerodynamic drag and therefore reducing rotor speed, or RPM. To avoid confusion below, I will refer to "throttle" and "power" as "collective". The torque of the main rotor causes the helicopter to spin in the same direction, and if you want to fly in a straight line, you have to cancel out the induced rotation (hence why the tail rotor is called the "anti-torque" rotor). Arma 3's advanced flight model offers probably the best simulation I've found so far of actual rotor-wing flight, and while it isn't quite the real thing, it gets stuff right that other simulators don't.įor those of you that are completely new to the advanced flight model, the key difference is that the main rotor now generates torque. It's a steep learning curve but it's also incredibly rewarding.
AIRPLANE CONTROLS ARMA 3 HOW TO
For those of you interested in learning how to fly in the advanced flight model, I've written some notes below and made a short demonstration video to show you some of the stuff I'm talking about.
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