S-64 Sikorsky Skycrane full manual

I found the possibility to upload full manual for my S-64! Here it is - how-to-start description and falure management description.

CONCEPT AND FEATURES

S-64 SIKORSKY REWORK

This is Classic S-64, build number 003. Oldest of still used, made in 1962, had crashed in 1974 and rebuilt as S-64E. Few months ago I already published it, but many days have passed and eventually global rework was done.

CHANGELOG

1. Bugfixes. Many small improvements and repairs.
2. New,
completely custom autopilot, not trying to kill you.
3. Power and weight lifting capabilities - it`s more powerful now and can lift it`s own weight, just like the real one.
4. Reliability - malfunction system have been updated and improved. Now the helicopter is more reliable, but, on the other hand, there are more systems to fail now.
5. Design - redesigned using new smooth wedges, hid some hinges for smoother and better look.
6. Weather now affects your piloting experience - icing simulation and de-icing systems added. And it can fail, as any other system.

FEATURES

1. A realistic set of systems, adjusted for playability. For example, a real helicopter has 4 hydraulic systems, for a model, this is overkill. Still, there are more than 10 different systems that interact realistically with each other.
2. Real scale and parameters. Maximum speed, fuel, capacity - all correspond to the real, except for the flight distance. No one is interested in flying a helicopter that you don’t need to refuel at all.
3. A set of three versions of this helicopter.
4. The falure system - individual failures on each engine, and for the main systems also - more than 20 problems in total, for each there is a solution how to survive and repair, and continue flying.
5. Engine wear system.
6. A set of additional equipment corresponding to real prototypes.
7. Realistic control and behavior in flight, as far as possible in this game. That is, if the helicopter shakes, then it is not just shaking.
8. The design of the cockpit and the helicopter itself is as close as possible to reality. Do not ask why any buttons or devices are called like this and are located like this - they are located this way in reality.
9. Rotating shafts!

STARTUP PROCEDURES

1. Climb into the cockpit.
2. Find the MASTER BATT switch on the panel between the seats (center panel). This is the main power. Enable. The alarm will start shouting.
3. Turn off the alarm. Instrument panel button under the lamp "MASTER CAUTION".
4. On the overhead panel on the left, find the lighting control and turn on the DOME LIGHT switch.
5. On the overhead panel, find the control of the auxiliary power unit. Enable APP MASTER. Press and hold APP START until the it starts and the APP ON is lit on the main failure panel (instrument panel). Now we have 10 minutes of electricity for launch procedures.
6. On the overhead panel, find the MAIN THROTTLE and set it to the IDLE position. This is the main engine control lever, it has 4 positions - OFF, IDLE, NORMAL, EMERG. In the OFF mode, the engines will be (surprise) shut sown, IDLE make it work at idle, NORMAL - normal mode, EMERG - when it is necessary to lift a heavy load, set speed record, or if one engine fails.
7. Near the main throttle, open fuel valves for 1 and 2 engine (FUEL VALVE).
8. On the center panel, enable the FWD FUEL PUMP. Check whether the 1 FUEL label on the failure panel and the light near the switch go out. If it does not goes off - go do the repair.
9. On the central panel, find the IGN switches, turn on IGN 1. Check whether the 1 IGN on the failure panel goes off. If it hasn't gone off, go repair it.
10. On the top panel behind the MAIN THROTTLE lever, locate the STARTER buttons. Press 1 STARTER. Wait for the launch, ENG OK will light up on the failure panel. Turn off the starter.
11. As engine 1 and rotor reaches more than 30% RPM, enable 1 GEN and HYD STAGE 1/AFCS and HYD STAGE 2 on the central panel. This is the control of the first and second hydraulic systems and the autopilot, which is inextricably linked with hydraulic system 1. Without the first hydraulic system, the autopilot does not work, and the helicopter as a whole does not fly - the swashplate is powered by it.
Check on the failure panel and on the AFCS panel that there are no alarm labels for these systems.
12. Turn on IGN 2, on the instrument panel turn on FUEL XFEED. This will provide fuel from the front pump to the engine 2.
13. Turn on 2 STARTER. Wait for the second engine to start, check the ENG OK light on the failure panel. Each engine has a quick start system, if another engine is also running at nominal RPM, the engine can be started from it. After started, turn off the starter.
14. Switch on 2 GEN and AFT FUEL PUMP. Disable FUEL XFEED. Check for failures.

ATTENTION!!! Enable alarm from p. 3 back! There shouldn`t be any alarm sounding.


15. Turn off the APU - the overhead panel, turn off the APP MASTER.
16. Check ROTOR RPM % on the instrument panel - 36%. Both engines are ENG OK and revs also at 36%%.
17. Press 1 and 2 on the keyboard - this is the A/P hold for altitude and heading.


18. Set the main control lever to the NORMAL position. Wait for the ROTOR light to go off. Release the parking brake - 6.
19. Using W, roll out of the hangar. If for some reason the helicopter is already flying, press down button to land it.
20. Start to monitor failures. Do not forget that this helicopter is old, and anything and anytime can crumble in it. The probability of breakage is higher, the higher the engines RPM. Therefore, it seems pretty hard to break something on IDLE, but on EMERG everything begins to fall apart.


If everything is ok, the helicopter is ready to fly.
With AFCS enabled, the control is simple.
1 - hold altitude. The autopilot monitor on the right shows the altitude that the helicopter will hold. UP/DOWN changes altitude to hold.
2 - heading hold. Holds the direction in which it was pressed. Adjust by A/D.
3 - hold speed. When pressed, automatically sets the speed to 40% and starts flying forward. It is regulated by w/s buttons, from -20 to 120. 120% is the maximum speed, only on an empty helicopter, throttle set to EMERG.

ATTENTION! To make it controllable with one hand (to use second hand for the camera control), the controls are changed. Slide control is set to LEFT/RIGHT buttons, and heading control is set to A/D buttons.

FAILURE GUIDE

Breakdowns and what to do with them.

This helicopter equipped with failure system, engine wear and replacement system, and general durability system to widen the flying experience.

FAILURES

Breakdowns are of four types - light, ordinary, severe and catastrophic.
1. Light falures makes your flight a bit uncomfortable, nothing more:
- Main batt relay falure. Not a problem if you have generators running.
- De-icing system falure.
- Lighting (cockpit, panel or external lights) falure.
Action advised: continue your flight with precautions.

2. On an ordinary emergency light, the instrument panel master caution light up steadily. You can fly with caution, if possible, would be nice to land somewhere and do some repairs.
- Generators failure. One working generator is enough.
- Fuel pumps failure. One working pump is enough, if FUEL XFEED switched on.
- Hydraulic pupms failure. One working is enough, if HYD XFEED switched on.
Action advised: continue your flight with caution, land if possible, make repairs.

3.
On heavy failures the MASTER CAUTION light flashes, and the alarm is very unpleasant.
- AFCS system failure. A few seconds after the occurrence of such a breakdown, the helicopter will lose all automatic control systems, and will be controlled only manually, without stabilization. In this case, the chance to reach the site and land on it is hardly visible, but there is one.
- Engines ignition failure. Causes massive engine power drop.
- Oil system leak. Causes loss of oil, leading to loss of oil pressure, which leads to engine disintegration.
In case of failure of the ignition or oil system, the best choice would be to immediately stop the damaged engine by turning off the IGN. It will also help stop the leakage of oil, which gives chances to continue the flight after landing and repair.
An empty helicopter can fly on one engine set to EMERG mode.


<SPOILER ALERT !!!>
!!! If you want to understand everything yourself - do not read further !!!
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After you have successfully found a site and landed - look for the "Repair" button. Perhaps it`s hidden close to where you are sitting. Perhaps under some opening hood. In the same place, by the way, is hidden special monitors, it prints error codes:

15 - AFCS system - Advanced Flight Control System, first implemented on helicopters some kind of fly-by-wire autopilot analogue. And it`s broken now. The helicopter is controlled entirely by your hands.
23 - the engine fuel pump 1 has ditched.
24 - the fuel pump 2 of the engine ditched.
With these breakdowns you can fly, but do not forget to turn on the FUEL XFEED valve to feed both engines from one pump.
25 - 1 hydraulic system pump failure, but you still can fly. It powers swashplate and the AFCS system, so if the pressure in the system falls below the allowable, the autopilot will fail, and the helicopter will no longer obey the controls and generally stay in the air. It’s good that there is a valve between the first and second systems, you can turn it on and feed both systems from one pump.
26 - Failure of the pump of the second hydraulic system. It feeds the winch, the system maintaining the horizontal level of the chassis, and external equipment. You can fly, but the winch will not work, the helicopter will be crooked on the ground, and you will not be able to put out the oilrig fire. But, again, there is a valve for this case. see prev. paragraph.
29 - engine 1 generator failure. You can fly, but with one generator the voltage can drop, and after it powers the hydraulic system pumps, as well as in the engine oil system, pressure there will also drop. What will happen without hydraulic systems, see above, and that without oil - see below.
30 - engine 2 generator failure. No different from the previous one.
31 - very bad failure. The ignition system of the first engine. Immediate loss of thrust, the second engine will have to keep the helicopter flying and continue to turn the dead engine, which does affect the survival rate quite badly. The best option is to turn off the stalled engine (there are corresponding switches overhead) and solve this problem on the ground. It is possible that in order to maintain controllability, the remaining engine will have to be set to EMERG mode, especially when flying with cargo.
32 - failure of the second engine ignition system.

The remaining falures are considered mechanical, not electrical, and no indication is provided for them. You can identify them, if you follow the devices and register on what is happening. For example, if the oil pressure warning suddenly flashed, it did not just happened for no reason. Perhaps low electric charge, or maybe a breakdown of the oil system. How to understand? Well, check the battery level and oil level. This is a quest, after all.

ATTENTION!
If you have no desire to solve quests or you have already solved it, leave the Repair button pressed and the helicopter will stop breaking down.

Engine wear

Engines wear from:
- cold start
- operation with low oil level (below 3)
- operation with low oil pressure (below 3), without pressure, engines become unusable very quickly
- flights (and parking) at too high RPM and in EMERG mode. Approximately 10 minutes of life is in engines in this mode. Do not allow unwisely rpm madness.

In case engine life drops to 0, you can`t use this engine anymore, there`s no procedure to repait it. But there`s replacement procedure and spare engines provided with the special forklift. Look in my creations for that.

GENERAL DURABILITY

As you fly, your helicopter losing it durability; lower durability means more often failures. To fix this situation, there`s MAINTENANCE button, which resets helicopter condition to 100%. I leave the quest to find it to you.

[grug]

oh ok

[kknd_3apa3a]

it`s outdated manual for way outdated craft. I don`t support it. Use newer one.

[grug]

every time i let go of uparrow it falls

[grug]

it doesnt hover

[thundercat2016]

I cant seem to get the fuel pumps working

[celticcross98]

gotta ask where can i get the rest of the helos that are in the pic above

[kknd_3apa3a]

hope you have fun with icing already

[Snow the Avali]

lol, and thanks for answering my question as i have only been using this in the Arctic.

[kknd_3apa3a]

cold start means first start, when oil systems are empty, and engines have to make few revs without oil, before oil pressure builds up. and yeah, have a good time in the ocean )

[Snow the Avali]

Also by a Cold start does that mean like starting it in the Arctic or what?