Need info on LTE for a simulator
Hi All,
It's been a while since I've posted here when I had to stop my training a couple of years ago due to illness.
Anyway, since then I've been involved in the desktop simulator scene. These days I'm writing a program that runs alongside Microsoft Flight Simulator and augments the flight dynamics, adding torque yaw, LTE, improved low speed instability, control sensitivity and whatever else I can find ways of making it do. My aim is to make Flight Sim that little bit more representative of the control inputs required to fly a helicopter. Initial feedback from folks who still fly has been positive.
What I'm looking for at the moment is information on LTE. i.e. Assuming a helicopter is hovering, at what windspeed would you begin to encounter main rotor vortex interference on the tail assuming the wind was from about 300 degrees on a counter-clockwise rotor, and at what windspeed would a wind from 270 degrees put a tail rotor into vortex ring state?
I realise this is all platform specific. I'm just after some ballpark figures for say a 206 or R22, as my software allows the user to adjust all the parameters to suit a particular model.
Best regards,
Si