CONTROLS
For hovering T/O:
- Trim aircraft full fwd and keep VTOL nacelles at the middle
- Slowly place throttle at 34%
- Hover rotorcraft at 100ft from ground and put nose down at 20-25 degrees to gain speed.
- At 80mph, slowly place throttle at 45% and move VTOL at 1 dash above middle.
-Trim the aircraft carefully so as to achieve level flight and/or positive climb of rate and move engine nacelles as desired.
- Retract the landing gear.

For Hover Landing:
-Decrease airspeed at 200-250mph and select a landing spot.
-Place Throttle at 30-32% for slow-to-normal descent or 27-29% for steep descent.
-Trim aircraft for level flight and move gradually VTOL at the middle and/or slightly below.
- Extend landing gear when airspeed is below 180mph.
-Keep the airspeed between 40-60mph and correct any heading slides with yaw inputs.
- As approaching the ground (70-80ft) increase throttle at 32-33% and hover aircraft above desired touchdown point. For touchdown, decrease slowly the throttle below 25% with the rotorcraft completely level. Slight forward move is permitted but NOT slides and/or rolling motions.
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Further operations:
AG1 + Trim: Side-doors operation and lighting
AG2 + Trim: Ramp-door operation and lighting
AG3: Navigation and anti-collision lights for night operations
AG3 + Trim: Fuel boom extension
AG4 + Trim: Hoist mechanism extension, searchlight operation and SAR lighting
AG5 + Trim + VTOL: Side-mounted M61 Vulcan guns operation
AG6: Weapons Jettison operation and Flares operation (through RocketPod option)
AG7: Sonic-Light Emitting Buoys for CSAR and Maritime Detection missions
AG8: RCR de-activation for enhanced stability at fwd flight and airspeed above 400+ mph.
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WARNING: IT FLIES BETTER WITH A JOYSTICK OR A GAME CONTROLLER
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CV-26M Pulser is an Operational Variant Upgrade (OVU) of the CV-26K Legionnaire aircraft, specialized for Maritime Patrol, SIGINT/ELINT and CSAR missions. It is a military, tilt-rotor, heavy-lift, medium-sized rotorcraft capable of a large variety of missions. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft. It is equipped with the:
- AN/APN-381 multimode navigation radar, consisting of precised navigation and air-to-ground modes including Monopulse Ground Mapping (MGM), Doppler Beam Sharpening (DBS), high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Terrain Avoidance/Terrain Following (TA/TF), skin paint (for Station Keeping-SKE), maritime detection, weather/turbulence detection, wind shear alert, and ballistic wind measurement (for precision airdrop).
-AN/APY-10E multi-mission surface search radar able to provide high resolution radar images in both overland and water modes, including color weather, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), periscope detection, and navigation. ISAR mode is capable of both detecting, imaging and classifying surface targets at long range using a variety of ultra-high resolutions. Radar is located at the underside of the aircraft.
-AN/APQ-190 Thermal and E-M Tracking Radar Sensor (TEM-T.RA.S.) – side-looking radar designed to search, acquire, and track ground and maritime thermal (UV/IR) and electro-magnetic (F,J,K,L,X,Y,Z bands) signals, located at positions up to 120 nautical miles. Radar-exported coordinates are used as a reference point to give the gunship’s weapons and navigation system a bearing and range to the desired target.
-AN/AAQ-86 Infrared Detecting Set (IDS) – long-wave infrared (LWIR) band Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) (mounted on top of the windshield)
-AN/ALR-99 – digital Radar warning receivers (RWR) scattered throughout the aircraft.
-AN/AAR-134 – UV/IR-based Missile Approach Warning and Avoidance System (MAWAS).
-AN/ALQ-196 Low-Band Jammer (LBJ) – low frequency DRFM jammer-based ECM.
-AN/AAQ-84 Aspis – laser-based Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM) (mounted on the rear fuselage near the rampdoor)
-AN/ALE-47 Fully Automatic Countermeasure Dispensing System (CMDS) – chaff/flare dispenser.
-AN/AAQ-33B Sniper XR, Advanced Targeting Pod - Special Mission Derivative (SMD) that provides positive target identification, autonomous tracking, GPS coordinate generation, and precise weapons guidance from extended standoff ranges.
-FLIR Star SAFIRE 380-HD Electro- Optics and Thermal Imaging turret.
-Apache Arrowhead MkII Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS), comprising a nose-mounted and a side-mounted sensor suite for precise target acquisition and night vision enhancement systems.The thermographic camera on it can precisely locates low signal thermal sources.
-AN/AAR-258 – Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) arranged to two separate probes, for Maritime Detection missions, located at the aft fuselage.
-AN/SLQ-74D active pinger ranging sonar-luminar sono-light buoy (SLB) located inside the aircraft in special deploy platform (SDP) behind ramp-door.
- Link-16 Tactical Data Link (TDL) for transfering the tactical picture in near-real time to Command and Control Centers and to friendly forces (both aircrafts and ships)
-3 x M61 Vulcan guns (2 side-mounted, 1 nose-mounted)
-hoist mechanisms, searchlights,ramp door, side-doors
-multiple ordnance for maritime and ground attack (gunship) and air-to-air self-protection during deploy.
Crew: Minimum three: pilot (P), co-pilot (CP), weapons systems officer (WSO) (plus loadmaster-LM for cargo missions, mission specialists-MS for SIGINT/ELINT and Maritime Patrol and Detection missions, pararescuemen-PJ for CSAR missions)
Capacity: 40 troops fully geared or 30 paratroops fully geared or 25 litters with 8 medical personnel.
Cargo compartment: width 3.0-4.05m X height 2.25m
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After some practice you will be able to hover and perform many maneuvers and you will be able to accomplish many mission scenarios. Pay attention to yaw inputs and corrections and be smooth and positive in control every time. Please have in mind to keep the CG in current position for better stability and performance. Have fun and leave a comment if you have any question or any suggestions for improvement.

Upvote and many regards for the original craft and its creator Ahtzee. He provided a great aircraft body for me to start experimenting and keep upgrading my design.