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OH-1 Ninja

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Description

Name
Kawasaki Heavy Industries OH-1 Ninja
Creator
Tat Nishioka
Status
Development
Dependencies
bo-105 (sounds)
License
GNU GPL

Screen-shots (click to enlarge)

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Manuals

Keys

Ctrl-D
Toggle SAS (Stability Augmentation System; improves stability)
Ctrl-E
Toggle CAS (Control Augmentation System; improves controllability)
Ctrl-F
toggle Auto Hover
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Starts engines
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Shuts down engines
Page up/down
Collective

Features

  • AFCS (Automatic Flight Control System) includes:
    • Stability Augmentation System (SAS) - improves stability of all direction
    • Control Augmentation System (CAS) - improves controllability
    • Auto hover - enables you to easily take off and land
    • Semi-automatic coordinated turn - automatically adjust the tail rotor for stable turn
    • Active tail horizontal stabilizer - improves pitching stability

Notes

  • General Notes
    • No gauges and MFD (Multi function display) are available at this moment
    • This aircraft is made for FlightGear 1.9.x/CVS and is maybe NOT compatible with 1.0 or earlier.
  • Essential notices on flying OH-1
    • Engage auto hover within +/-20 kts
      • Otherwise OH-1 will be starting vertical climb, and then maybe stabilized.
    • OH-1 loses its altitude a bit when disengaging auto hover, so be careful.
    • Gently control collective while auto hover is engaged
      • Otherwise OH-1 loses stability, and vibrates heavily.
    • Never exceed 140 kts, or OH-1 will nose up and stall.
    • Semi-automatic coordinated turn has a side effect
      • OH-1 may unexpectedly turn left or right a bit at the beginning of semi-automatic coordinated turn is enabled

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To do

  • Gauges, MFD
  • More authenticity
  • More accurate engine, rotor configuration.
  • More stable CAS, SAS, and automatic thingies

Earlier versions

Not available

Revision history

  • 2008/08/17 13:07:33
    • Added: CAS driven TailRotor collective adjuster, which improves stability in yaw axis
  • 2008/08/17 09:24:29
    • Reorganized: moved AutoHover from CAS to AFCS
  • 2008/08/15 00:37:42
    • Added: CAS and auto-hover mode; still in very early phase...
  • 2008/08/12 17:40:53
    • Added: SAS enable/disable switch; Modified: max-collective is not 15 (was 10)
  • date: 2008/08/12 10:30:56
    • Added: Stabilator - an active tail horizontal stabilizer
  • 2008/08/10 02:54:08
    • Modified: tail rotor power for stability when actuating throttle
  • 2008/08/09 06:49:43
    • Newly added: Kawasaki Helicopter OH-1 Ninja

Note:

Older history can be obtained from CVS repository