I am looking for some guidance in regards to maintaining greater stability on take-off and hovering for helicopters. As of right now, the helicopter I'm designing strafes to the right on take-off. I believe it's from the rear stabilizer counteracting the centrifugal force from the main rotor, but I'm at a loss on how to effectively mitigate that. Is this simply just a quirk of helicopters in general or just a design faux pas? In addition, if you have any sources of helicopter design pointers, that'd be excellent.
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@Jokowi @Noname918181 @ArcturusAerospace Thank you all, with the combination of your suggestions, I've made some stellar headway. First stable reiteration uses a gyro and coaxial rotor system. One of my main rotors likes to explode on landing, so I'm using XML to fix that.
Thanks again for the help!
@Noname918181 OR you could set up an easy coaxial rotor system and not have to use XML...
If your talking about the "auto-yaw" when taking off, it is normal for most helicopters with a standard configuration to do that. To remove it, set the value of any tourqe of the min rotor to zero, Then set tail rotor power to minimum
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Use Gyro and little bit XML magic