19 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

I bought this. Sadly the TDS GTNxi integration is totally inop (aside from the units appearing which they do). The CDI needle cannot be turned to the DTK, the CDI doesn't deflect showing left or right of course. The range readout is wrong/inop and the CRS doesn't work either I didn't check PMS. The GNS530 integration is working somewhat fine. I tried to file a bug report that the Glidepath doesn't work during an RNAV approach with vertical minimums (such as LPV). But they are saying they modeled it based on the 1990s version and it isn't going to support that. But they also stuck a GNS530W in this bird.... the W means WAAS lol. Soooo perhaps they should revisit this idea. Plenty of N2's have LPV capable units.

ILS's do work though just fine.

@sd_flyer The AP took me a long time to get engaged. You'll definitely want to map out force trim and beep trim on your peripherals. Checkout 13.1 in the manual if you have issues getting coupled flight working. Basically make sure you're like totally stable and trimmed before engaging CPL - cause mine wouldn't engage like 8 times. Finally after trimming everything, I pressed it and also used ALT and HDG... the heli pitched up and down abruptly then finally settled and held ALT and HDG.

The sounds are excellent

The flight model seems pretty nice - I mostly hand flew it, and finally got the AP working it seemed to do the basic modes just fine. Didn't try a coupled ILS yet. Coupled NAV on the GNS530 worked fine.

The visuals are solid as well.

I spent 54 USD on this - It's a hefty chunk of change for a helicopter with no WAAS integration and broken TDS GTNxi integration. I bought their 500C almost when it came out, and the TDS was also poorly integrated in that. It took them over 8 months to do it (mostly) properly.

If you just want a semi fast helicopter to play around in, and don't care about RNAV approach capability or anything, it's a solid helicopter.

I really hope they can get the TDS working. That's mostly why I bought it. Thankfully I used paypal though so I can potentially get money back - I'm not waiting 8 months this time on a 54 USD product.

I have mapped force trim , trim release and other mapped. The problem I have is that neither trim doesn’t work. If I accelerate I have to physically hold stick forward and unable to trim helicopter. With other Thao’s helicopters I never had a problem like that .

14 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

I have mapped force trim , trim release and other mapped. The problem I have is that neither trim doesn’t work. If I accelerate I have to physically hold stick forward and unable to trim helicopter. With other Thao’s helicopters I never had a problem like that .

Can you show us your mapped controls?

7 minutes ago, Soul Rebel said:

Can you show us your mapped controls?

2 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

You need to asign TRIM RELEASE-PRESS AND TRIM RELEASE-RELEASE to button 9 and inside each one:

TRIM RELEASE-PRESS:

-Imput repetition marked

TRIM RELEASE-RELEASE:

-Imput repetition NO marked

-Set control on release marked

That way when you keep pressing your Trim you can move freely and when you release the button It keeps the position.

26 minutes ago, Soul Rebel said:

You need to asign TRIM RELEASE-PRESS AND TRIM RELEASE-RELEASE to button 9 and inside each one:

TRIM RELEASE-PRESS:

-Imput repetition marked

TRIM RELEASE-RELEASE:

-Imput repetition NO marked

-Set control on release marked

That way when you keep pressing your Trim you can move freely and when you release the button It keeps the position.

Thanks for the help. I did what you wrote, but flying is still a mess. When press trim release helicopter hold attitude for few second then pitch up abruptly up. Situation is getting proportionally worse with increased speed. It seems works better with speed below 60kts

6 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Thanks for the help. I did what you wrote, but flying is still a mess. When press trim release helicopter hold attitude for few second then pitch up abruptly up. Situation is getting proportionally worse with increased speed. It seems works better with speed below 60kts

Check out the Toag discord, they're talking about that. It's got to do with moving the collective with the trim release. Changing the power output without pressing the trim release will result in that ubrupt movement .

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by petejohno1

Well, I flew all my MSFS helos yesterday, and after just a quick flight today in the Dolphin, I’m prepared to disable/ignore all of them save the OH-6/H500.

The Dolphin handles night and day better than the SeaHawk, so that one especially is now Disabled - with prejudice!

The S-76 is still okay-ish, but the engine /rotor indications remain SNAFU. Will have to see what the Dolphin niggles turn out to be. If not too bad, the 76 is OUTTA HERE, too!

One thing I’ve noticed is that during ground taxi, pulling back on the cyclic to slow your roll seems quite ineffective. I’ll have to check the Discord and see what’s up with that

@ryanbatc while I understand your frustrations, there’s no way in heck I’m giving this bird back! 🙏

$54 very well spent (IMHO)❤️

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by UrgentSiesta

21 minutes ago, UrgentSiesta said:

@ryanbatc while I understand your frustrations, there’s no way in heck I’m giving this bird back! 🙏

One other person says their TDS isn't working. But the devs have it working and so does one other person (with a screenshot).

So I guess I'll have to troubleshoot between them and TDS. Isn't flightsim fun?

I also bought the S76... That had some serious GNS issues - I tried bug reports but Josh told me I was being annoying or something. I should have sought a refund but whatever, it's not that much money.

Anyway on this product, everything is a lot better than the S76... just not sure why TDS won't work. I'm also not a huge fan of the inop LPV Glidepath. I hope they can get that supported as the GNS530W itself is WAAS capable. I love flying approaches in addons - that's kinda how I sim.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by ryanbatc

14 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

One other person says their TDS isn't working. But the devs have it working and so does one other person (with a screenshot).

So I guess I'll have to troubleshoot between them and TDS. Isn't flightsim fun?

I also bought the S76... That had some serious GNS issues - I tried bug reports but Josh told me I was being annoying or something. I should have sought a refund but whatever, it's not that much money.

Anyway on this product, everything is a lot better than the S76... just not sure why TDS won't work. I'm also not a huge fan of the inop LPV Glidepath. I hope they can get that supported as the GNS530W itself is WAAS capable. I love flying approaches in addons - that's kinda how I sim.

🤙

Hand flying approaches is one of the most satisfying things to do, IMHO 😎

I am loving this Taog release as well. I have not had the time to dig too deep into a flight using the TDS GTN yet (on this bird....I've used it many others and love the TDS GTN). In one of the preview streams I watched the other day, the streamer used to fly the Dauphin for real and he was one of the test pilots for this release. He said the Taog Dauphin WILL fly an approach, all the way in, but the 3 axis auto pilot does NOT control the collective, so the descent has to be managed either through airspeed or angle (I think...trying to remember the details). Collective will still have to be managed manually on descent. I don't know if that helps you at all @ryanbatc but something to think about.

The Dolphin on the other hand DOES have a 4 axis auto pilot, so the situation might be a little better on that side.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by sniper31

2 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

🤙

Hand flying approaches is one of the most satisfying things to do, IMHO 😎

Absolutely and I do that as well... but just hoping the functionality is there since the cost of this product is quite high for a helicopter. A lot of my simming is beta testing, so shooting approaches is one of most structured things to do. I also fly approaches for airspace fam/SA at my job, just to stay current. And learning new avionics is also one of my favorite parts of simming.

31 minutes ago, sniper31 said:

I am loving this Taog release as well. I have not had the time to dig too deep into a flight using the TDS GTN yet (on this bird....I've used it many others and love the TDS GTN). In one of the preview streams I watched the other day, the streamer used to fly the Dauphin for real and he was one of the test pilots for this release. He said the Taog Dauphin WILL fly an approach, all the way in, but the 3 axis auto pilot does NOT control the collective, so the descent has to be managed either through airspeed or angle (I think...trying to remember the details). Collective will still have to be managed manually on descent. I don't know if that helps you at all @ryanbatc but something to think about.

The Dolphin on the other hand DOES have a 4 axis auto pilot, so the situation might be a little better on that side.

Yeah I can understand the thrust or collective would be controlled by the pilot.

For now I need to go back to the manual and review some things - it's a complex bird for sure!

There's a lot of positive things right now like the visuals, sounds and flight model!

5 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Thanks for the help. I did what you wrote, but flying is still a mess. When press trim release helicopter hold attitude for few second then pitch up abruptly up. Situation is getting proportionally worse with increased speed. It seems works better with speed below 60kts

So I was chatting with a guy on discord about how this helicopter works. Manuals don't really help me that well I'm more of a visual learner.

He said you need to bind the trim release to a toggle. It's that grey button the cyclic. (Or you can click it with your mouse but thats annoying while flying). But anyway you can bind it by searching AS65 trim or something. So for normal hand flying, that button needs to be pressed! I was doing it backwards. I thought it's unpressed while flying by hand. I was fighting the AP. Press it for normal hand flying.

Then when you want to engage the AP, this grey button must be NOT pressed! Make sure Lane 1 and 2 is lit green (this is the VIP version, the N2), try to get into a straight and level flight path, and engage FD, press HDG and ALT, and then CPL. The servos will kick in and take over.

I've found 4 guys now with an inop TDS so I'm hoping we can find a solution to that. But Taog and crew have been responsive about it, and some of the other minor bugs I found. It's seeming to be a great helo. I saw headsets in someone's pic but I'm not actually sure if there's ANR simulation - I would love to have it (along with LPV GP support) - I think a heli of this cost should absolutely have headset/ANR simulation.

I see on discord people experiencing issues like me. Helicopter does random uncommanded jolts, banks, pitching up or down . They come and go . Basically it's unflappable for me.

3 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

So I was chatting with a guy on discord about how this helicopter works. Manuals don't really help me that well I'm more of a visual learner.

He said you need to bind the trim release to a toggle. It's that grey button the cyclic. (Or you can click it with your mouse but thats annoying while flying). But anyway you can bind it by searching AS65 trim or something. So for normal hand flying, that button needs to be pressed! I was doing it backwards. I thought it's unpressed while flying by hand. I was fighting the AP. Press it for normal hand flying.

Then when you want to engage the AP, this grey button must be NOT pressed! Make sure Lane 1 and 2 is lit green (this is the VIP version, the N2), try to get into a straight and level flight path, and engage FD, press HDG and ALT, and then CPL. The servos will kick in and take over.

I've found 4 guys now with an inop TDS so I'm hoping we can find a solution to that. But Taog and crew have been responsive about it, and some of the other minor bugs I found. It's seeming to be a great helo. I saw headsets in someone's pic but I'm not actually sure if there's ANR simulation - I would love to have it (along with LPV GP support) - I think a heli of this cost should absolutely have headset/ANR simulation.

I did correct binds with help above (in this thread) I'm still experience very odd behavior . I was successful to use autopilot only once. I'm not sure what I did wrong after, but it simply wouldn't work. if I let go of controls with engage CPL with both ALT HDG helicopter neither holding altitude not heading. Then, I experience random uncommanded jolts, banks, sudden pitching up and down. It looks almost like severe turbulence, but I can't figure what causing it. Could it be something odd behavior of autopilot serves? I have no idea.

TDS is also inoperable for me. It doesn't link to HSI in nav mode, rendering it useless for me