I spent a few hours experimenting last weekend without any success.
My intention was to determine the minumim runway length for this AI helicopter.
I tested all this at my NAS Patuxent River scenery because I have different helicopters AFCADs available there and they work with other AI helicopters.
- Take off behaviour of the AS350 is normal.
- When using VFR flightplans the AS350 crashes into the ground when in the base leg and does not turn into final approach at all.
It then taxies back cross country towards the AFCAD file
- When using IFR flightplans the AS350 will descend in a large circle far away from the airport and finally crash.
- The AS350 would take off from one AFCAD and do touch and goes on a different AFCAD file.
However when returning to the first AFCAD where it took off it again crashed before turning into final approach.
I also tried different altitudes in the flighplan but it also does not make a difference since the AI enters the landing pattern right after takeoff
It seems to me that this is related to the FDE of the UTT AS350.
Any ideas?