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Helicopter rotors exponential outputs

16.6k SilverStar  yesterday

Hi SimplePlanes community,
I noticed a long time ago that helicopter rotors were not giving a constant output in SP; it means that when you put 50% pitch input for example, you will reach a certain pitch rate, but it you put 100% pitch input, the pitch rate is greater than 2 times the measurement taken at 50%.
I know it happens for Pitch and Roll axes, and it is very annoying, because most of the time, the helicopter will do 2 barrel rolls or loops when you try to avoid something, and when you reduce the max angle of the blades on these axes, you need to put a lot of input.
I think others will have already noticed it, but I never saw someone talking about this issue.
Tell me if I'm wrong, but for me an helicopter rotor output has to be constant to the input...
That should be fixed for SP2 if so...

EDIT 29/04: There are XML parameters in the "RotorPerfScalars" section for that ! The problem is that the expo is set on 1 by default, and should be 0 by default. Thanks Jundroo for considering that if you pass by.
However, no linkage speed parameter...