This is the Comanche history, as told by the some of the key members of the Comanche development team. This is the story of a program that enjoyed strong support at the most senior levels of the Army and DoD – until it didn't. From 1991 to 2004 Comanche went through six program restructures, mostly due to reductions and stretch-outs in Army funding. The program never stayed stable for more than a few years at a time. This is a story of great accomplishment and much frustration.
So, what happened? How did Comanche become expendable? How did a program that was originally scheduled to enter Low Rate Initial Production in 1996 get delayed to 2011? How did an aircraft originally designed to replace the Army's light scout/attack fleet grow to become a virtual replacement for the much larger, heavier AH-64 Apache? Army rotorcraft fleet so it would remain viable in Afghanistan and Iraq.… This terrible choice was necessitated by the lack of sufficient funds for vertical lift aviation.” Then, with only two prototypes completed, the Comanche had to be sacrificed in 2003 to field upgrades to the existing U.S. First, inadequate R&D funding levels during the Clinton administration stretched out its development over two decades. Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the Vertical Flight Society, wrote in the January/February 2017 issue of Vertiflite magazine: “The RAH-66 Comanche was the most advanced helicopter ever built. Cody also reportedly said the aircraft was ‘easy to fly’ and should be put into the hands of soldiers as soon as possible.” Twelve weeks later the program was cancelled. …Cody said that the Comanche had ‘exceeded his expectations’ and was particularly impressed by the rotor system, engine response and control. RAH-66 Comanche Comanche Helicopter, Military Helicopter, Military Aircraft, Jet Fighter Pilot. According to the January 2004 issue of National Defense he “…gave the aircraft a stellar review. Cody, Army Deputy Chief of Staff and an experienced aviator, flew the Comanche. I use a Saitek X65 and pedals now, by the way.On December 5, 2003, Lt. If anyone could do that or place a nice simple arm-rest/joystick, please do so.ĭitto with the too-thin Comanche (Attack) stub wings.
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Sorry, but I don't know how to move the center cyclic on the Apache over to the right for a proper SAC joystick. I have, however, set them currently without the 2D pits assuming no one else is having this problem. That way you can see the 2D panel if you cannot click on buttons in the 3D pit. You can also go into Planemaker/Viewpoint and uncheck the upper LEFT box (in the grid of checkboxes on the bottom) that gets rid of the cockpit object when looking forward. If these aren't clickable and your other aircraft are, let me know.
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Hopefully the rest of you can click on the buttons, because my install is having issues with that in the 3D pits. Also assigning a button on your stick for Take-off Pitch Trim will be useful for clearing pitch to level. Yaw and roll trim should still be available to you on your HOTAS, preferably on rotaries. I'm open to suggestions on how to achieve those. The only thing it's really missing is low-rpm stalling, vortex ring stalls, and overtorque damage. Angular control rates, top speed, and envelope limiting are optimized according to the best documentation I could find and the constraints of not using a Plug-in like a helo version of XFCS. Trim ranges have been adjusted in concert with this to provide an approximation of modern helo fly-by-wire with Artificial Stability running. I chose the lesser of the vertical angles for implementation to be conservative since X-Plane 8 does not allow such pivot angle asymmetry.Īuto-trimming of pitch loads is active for normal joysticks to give crude Attitude Command/Attitude Hold (ACAH). The gun has been given a 100 degree by 11 degree field of pivot and been slightly adjusted in specs. There are no functioning bay doors.īlock III Apaches will have provisions for Stingers, so those have been mounted. Speaking of which, the Comanches now have internal weapons which have a half second drop delay to clear the aircraft. The tail-mix gear ratio has been adjusted, but the coupling is not perfectly linear so a little yaw trim will likely be required in most hover states, depending on altitude and gross weights due to loadouts, fuel, etc. You should turn on Yaw Damp to better crosscouple and damp tail rotor control.
The Apache fuselage wireframe, panel, and HUD-only modes are also tweaked. explicit posting permission through emailīoth have slightly altered engines and heavily modified HUD & artificial stability. desire in author's original readme for community to improve Note: The Apache won't load properly in V9 and 10 without the textures removed right now, so only "raw" version works.
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