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Helicopter physics when close to ground

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I haven't tried all the choppers yet and please excuse me if this has already been asked

..but in the H125, Is anyone else finding the sudden extreme rotation of the heli when close to the ground, fairly severe? It's like I've clipped a tree or power pole with the rotors. I'm hoping it's not msfs24's take on ground effect and it's here to stay.

Edited by dogmanbird

I also had this phenomenon. Tried the Bell 407 with which I was able to hover and land reasonably well. So it might be a special problem of that 125. Trying all the choppers is kind of a pain as the sim crashes more often than not when downloading the new package.

It's a known bug / limitation of the new advances in their "CFD"... Sérgio / Helisimmer mentioned it.

I should mention that I didn't experience it though in my few flight tests.

They ( ASOBO ) are still fine tunning it, and from my experience with that same 125 and the Robinson 66, they felt more convincing, "down" to the autorotation...

A rw Heli Pilot and also youtuber has a lot of good things to say about them, so I have to "go with him" 🙂 :

 

Edited by jcomm

Learning to fly gliders since 1980

Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.

(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)

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