WINGEDHUSSAR Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 I have harriers and helicopters (and F-35B), and ive looked around for this, but how can i map (on keyboard) thrust vectoring commands, atleast for VTOL aircraft? Quote
Snailman Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 As far as I know they are ctrl_+ and ctrl_- by default. Quote
WINGEDHUSSAR Posted February 21, 2017 Author Posted February 21, 2017 As far as I know they are ctrl_+ and ctrl_- by default. ok cool, that worked, but i cant get a Harrier off the ground, got it to hover (starting from air) but cant get one off the ground Quote
Snailman Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 The Harrier was designed to start in short rolling take off. Early models can only take off vertically if empty. Try rolling a bit, accelerating to 50-100km/h, then turn the thrust. Same can be done with Yak-38 and 41 as well. Quote
fallenphoenix1986 Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 ok cool, that worked, but i cant get a Harrier off the ground, got it to hover (starting from air) but cant get one off the ground It can be done but not if you want to carry enough fuel/armament to do anything useful. Quote
WINGEDHUSSAR Posted February 22, 2017 Author Posted February 22, 2017 The Harrier was designed to start in short rolling take off. Early models can only take off vertically if empty. Try rolling a bit, accelerating to 50-100km/h, then turn the thrust. Same can be done with Yak-38 and 41 as well. It can be done but not if you want to carry enough fuel/armament to do anything useful. yeah, i figured that out, missiles, bombs and full fuel make it heavy. also realized that maybe VTOL would be better useful with a joystick instead of a keyboard, i have crashed so many times. Quote
Snailman Posted February 22, 2017 Posted February 22, 2017 sure... take care of weight. As far as Yak-38 I did it intentionally on the edge, so it can VTOL with light ordnance only. Thrust vs weight ratio. You can calculate, IF Thrust - Take off weight > Ordnance then you can vertical off. Contemporary Harriers were the same, but they had the STOVL doctrine from trampoline from the start, Yaks had to develop this technique later on (1982-). Geez.. man - without joystick? That's quite masochistic if you ask me Quote
WINGEDHUSSAR Posted February 22, 2017 Author Posted February 22, 2017 sure... take care of weight. As far as Yak-38 I did it intentionally on the edge, so it can VTOL with light ordnance only. Thrust vs weight ratio. You can calculate, IF Thrust - Take off weight > Ordnance then you can vertical off. Contemporary Harriers were the same, but they had the STOVL doctrine from trampoline from the start, Yaks had to develop this technique later on (1982-). Geez.. man - without joystick? That's quite masochistic if you ask me i had a joystick, but its not working, using keyboard now. its not that bad, but in the case of VTOL aircraft, i need a joystick Quote
yakarov79 Posted February 24, 2017 Posted February 24, 2017 i had a joystick, but its not working, using keyboard now. its not that bad, but in the case of VTOL aircraft, i need a joystick re-asign controls.... temporary when my stick was "disabled" i set throttle controls decrease was Z increase was X....key....and vectoring was ctrl+Z/ctrl+X it was pretty easy to controll..also rudder on A/S and D was Speedbrake. Quote
WINGEDHUSSAR Posted February 24, 2017 Author Posted February 24, 2017 re-asign controls.... temporary when my stick was "disabled" i set throttle controls decrease was Z increase was X....key....and vectoring was ctrl+Z/ctrl+X it was pretty easy to controll..also rudder on A/S and D was Speedbrake. been using the default Keyboard mapping, my issue is transitioning from vertical to horizontal flight. i turn on wing leveler, which does fairly well keeping me from cart-wheeling into the ground (atleast with the Harriers, F-35B is hard to handle). im getting the hang of it though, i can get a MV-22 off the ground without crashing. Quote
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