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Mockingjay Recon Chopper
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Vehicles: Vehicle, Air, Rescue, Exploration, Advanced
Tags: v0.6.13
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26 Feb, 2019 @ 5:14pm
20 Mar, 2019 @ 11:39am
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Mockingjay Recon Chopper

Description
This is a basic helicopter designed for my Stormworks survival series, so it's lacking a number of advanced features like autopilot.

Throttle is gyro controlled now via the collective controls.

Added an altitude hold system (PID still needs a little tuning) and cruise control. Both use the instrument panel controls because the keypad is still locked in my survival game.

Uses the Instant Consumption in L/Min microcontroller:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1584698047


What it does have:

Winch
Adjustable spotlight

Nav & landing lights

Multi-Function Display: use the MFD select button to cycle the digital display between Altitude, Fuel Consumption (Liters/min), and estimated range at current speed & fuel.

Lo/Hi Gear toggle: Low gear is for takeoff/landing and lifting objects. High gear is best for long flights, greatly reduces fuel consumption.

Altitude Hold: You can set desired altitude using the up/down arrows on the dash or press hotkey 1 on the seat to set your current altitude as desired. Pressing 1 a second time flips the system back to the dash setting.

Cruise control: Use the arrows on the dash to set the cruise from 1 to 9 (corresponds to 10-90% forward pitch). In high winds, the altitude hold may have trouble maintaining altitude when cruising at 9.
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General Curmudgeon  [author] 14 Mar, 2019 @ 7:08pm 
Made some tweaks to the controls. Running the throttle through the gyro has fixed the barrel roll problem in cruise mode and actually increased fuel efficiency somehow. Both throttle and collective are controlled with up & down controls now.
JackAttackJRMV 6 Mar, 2019 @ 3:06am 
First Advanced Helicopter I've found that only required the parts I already had unlocked. I took off with out the cruise mode on just fine ( I didn't see it at first). When I did finally find the cruise control I was going 40m/s and the Heli proceeded to do a barrel role into the ocean. Other than that its great.
Dunewolf 4 Mar, 2019 @ 3:52pm 
Good chopper - but sadly the arctic update somehow broke the way cruise mode worked - as this was build before arctic update and flew fine with cruise mode before - now it wobbles and crashes when cruise is enabled.. one way around it is to put the up/down from gyro to control throttle of engines and collective. Select tool and set min throttle to 10% or so - for starting engines. the existing throttle besides the pilot seat can be changed out for something else until a workaround or fix or better idea comes along to fix the wobbly issues.