Thomas C. Gray / National Park Service · Public domain · Bell 206 above Devils Tower National MonumentBell reworked an unsuccessful military observation-helicopter proposal into the commercial JetRanger. The resulting 206 family became widely used for passenger transport, observation and utility work. The familiar single-engine versions use a two-bladed main rotor.
The 206B JetRanger and stretched 206L LongRanger are separate branches of that story. Their cabins, engines and equipment are not identical. Cowan documents each model's trim, autopilot and stability-assistance features separately.
Bell 206 JetRanger
Bell’s anniversary account records Smith’s departure from Fort Worth on 5 August 1982 and return the following year. The journey brought a helicopter normally associated with local transport into the history of long-distance solo aviation.
Powerhouse records additional fuel capacity, navigation equipment, an autopilot and camera installations in VH-DIK. Its description also identifies survival equipment and later North Pole additions, showing why this individual expedition aircraft should not be treated as an ordinary passenger JetRanger.
First flight: December 8, 1962 (206) January 10, 1966 (206A)
Developed from: Bell YOH-4
The 206B-3 manual describes magnetic brakes and force-gradient springs in the cyclic circuits, alongside adjustable control friction. This describes the documented trim equipment; a simulator profile must separately state whether local force trim is enabled.
The FAA handbook explains the characteristic two-per-revolution vibration of a two-bladed rotor. It may be felt through the cyclic as well as the airframe. The profile uses a rotor-related texture to suggest that rhythm; its gain is a simulator setting, not a measured hand force.
The FAA describes a transient vibration as the rotor moves into cleaner airflow. That gives a simulator a reason to provide a short transition cue rather than a vibration that remains equally strong at every speed.
The FAA describes shudder and degraded control effectiveness in vortex ring state. The profile cue is intended to make disturbed rotor airflow perceptible; it is not a substitute for the simulator’s aerodynamic model.
An eight-minute JetRanger ride at Farnborough when he was nine stayed with Berry for years. A later trial lesson renewed that enthusiasm, but adding the type to his licence meant a difficult choice about a limited training budget. He decided that learning the turbine helicopter was worth the additional commitment.
The course challenged the confidence he had built in the R22. Unfamiliar hydraulic controls, greater weight and a new cockpit made previously comfortable tasks demanding again. Berry especially valued instructor Paul White’s calm approach and emphasis on understanding the aircraft. His account is openly affectionate, including the pleasure of the turbine’s sound, but its strongest theme is the mental adjustment from feeling competent in one helicopter to becoming a learner in another.
Middlebrook introduced the reporting team to a JetRanger II from Atlantic Aviation at Teterboro. The aircraft’s cabin helped explain its appeal beyond traditional utility work: entry was straightforward, the windows were generous and the reviewers found useful room in the occupied seats. The middle rear position was less accommodating, a detail retained alongside the favourable first impression.
Flying on a cool winter day, the team found quick control response that could encourage overcorrection at first. The approach also required adjustment to the helicopter’s ability to retain speed. They measured cabin noise and described the vibration rather than relying only on appearance. Their report preserves a contemporary introduction to the developing turbine transport, while distinguishing the conditions they experienced from comments other pilots supplied about turbulence.
Smith’s journey required him to fly, navigate, communicate and record the view for a documentary. The museum’s account describes the exhaustion of the first Atlantic leg, after which he considered abandoning the attempt. Family reunions and periods of maintenance punctuated a trip completed in three stages, with substantial help from people arranging matters on the ground.
Crossing the North Pacific brought another unusual logistical task: finding a cargo ship able to provide a refuelling stop along the route. The successful return to Texas in July 1983 completed the circumnavigation. Smith continued using the helicopter for further adventures before flying it to the Powerhouse Museum in 1990. The donated aircraft and film preserve both the record and the personal work involved in making the journey visible to others.
Bell reworked an unsuccessful military observation-helicopter proposal into the commercial JetRanger. The resulting 206 family became widely used for passenger transport, observation and utility work. The familiar single-engine versions use a two-bladed main rotor.
The factory starting point selects Bell 206 JetRanger across MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020, X-Plane 12, X-Plane 11.
Spring resistance builds with the selected airspeed response. A separate aerodynamic term adds speed-dependent control load.
Local force trim holds the selected hardware centre. Autopilot following is off.
Cyclic damping is on. Its configured gain is 0.35; it resists hardware motion separately from the spring and aircraft stabilization.
The Bell 206B-3 flight manual describes adjustable cyclic and collective friction, together with magnetic brakes and force-gradient springs in its cyclic force-trim system. CowanSim's 206B3 and longer-cabin 206L3 have separate manuals and optional HeliSAS procedures. FlyInside and DreamFoil implement different dynamics and stability options. A software trim-release command, sound or stability setting does not provide a continuous physical cyclic-neutral position.
The gains are normalized profile settings. They describe the chosen effect balance; hand force depends on the device and its output limits. IAS references are tuning values rather than operating limits. Physical acceptance of this revision remains pending.
施加于模型产出的一切、在设备上限之前的最终整体输出缩放。
调高: 一切(弹簧、载荷、效果)一同增强。
调低: 一切一同变柔。
设定理由: Scales overall profile strength while preserving effect balance, subject to device and output limits.
把摇杆拉回中央的基础回中力。其他所有力都叠加在它之上。太低,正常飞行中摇杆会发软;太高,它会与你的手较劲,并掩盖叠加其上的细微提示。
调高: 更硬的回中,更抗手。
调低: 更软的杆,只靠气动载荷。
设定理由: Magnetic brakes and force-gradient springs provide mechanism context for cyclic centering; longer cabin or rotor audio does not establish a heavier cyclic. The baseline spring is 0. Its low-speed blend reaches baseline strength at 55 KIAS.
CowanSim 206B3 user manual — MSFSCowanSim HeloSAS autopilot manualCowanSim 206B3 user manual — X-PlaneCowanSim 206L3 user manual — MSFSFlyInside B206 user manual — MSFSBell 206B-3 Flight Manual中央附近弹簧保持安静的小中立区,让静止时的微小移动不会咔嗒作响。更宽更安稳但更松,更窄更精确但可能在中央附近抖动。
调高: 更安静但更松的中央,旷量更大。
调低: 更紧的中央,静止时可能抖动。
设定理由: Sets travel around the centre before the baseline spring resists. Smaller values engage it sooner.
作用于两条持续轴载荷的主缩放,在它们各自的独立平衡之前施加。配置文件通常不动它,而是调校两条轴载荷。
调高: 两轴载荷一同加重。
调低: 两轴一同减轻。
设定理由: The aerodynamic-load gain is 0.35 with an indicated-speed reference of 100 KIAS. This supplies speed-dependent loading alongside the spring.
弹簧达到全强度的空速。从起点到这里,随着气流在操纵面上增强,回中逐渐变硬。
设定理由: Sets the IAS where the low-speed blend reaches baseline strength; high-speed stiffening also uses it.
在偏转载荷之外,回中本身随速度变硬的程度。零则中央手感恒定;越大,巡航时回中越硬,起落航线上越松。
调高: 中央随速度明显变硬。
调低: 任何速度下中央手感恒定。
设定理由: Adds permitted spring resistance above the full-blend speed. Zero removes this high-speed increase.
速度驱动的中央变硬上限,防止高速飞行把弹簧无限上紧。
调高: 高速允许更多总硬化。
调低: 硬化更早封顶。
设定理由: Limits the squared airspeed ratio used for high-speed spring stiffening; it is not a device-force cap.
由副翼偏转和空速产生的持续横滚载荷,独立于俯仰调校。与升降舵载荷一起,决定评测中常说的操纵协调比。
调高: 横滚力更重。
调低: 副翼更轻更灵。
设定理由: Roll and pitch aerodynamic scales are 1 and 1, respectively. They set the aerodynamic axis balance. No custom spring-travel curve is enabled.
由升降舵偏转和空速产生的持续俯仰载荷,独立于横滚调校。这是决定机型俯仰重量的主杠杆。它不影响副翼、弹簧、配平或抖振力。
调高: 速度下持续俯仰力更重。
调低: 升降舵更轻,握持更省力。
设定理由: Scales pitch aerodynamic loading; pitch spring travel and trim responses are separate settings.
每个稳态俯仰或横滚力到达设备前的上限,防止猛烈机动中砸击或饱和硬件。
调高: 削波前更高的稳态力峰值。
调低: 更柔的上限;猛烈机动更早被抹平。
设定理由: Caps directed-force output. Native spring effects and device limits remain separate.
启用低速弹簧介入窗口(上面的起始/全强度节数)。关闭时弹簧在所有速度下恒定。
设定理由: Allows baseline spring strength to rise with indicated airspeed where the control law permits it.
在静止、空速尚未产生气动力之前,弹簧还剩多少。下限高,停机时摇杆结实;下限低,则是停放轻型飞机那种钢索松弛的感觉。
调高: 停机和滑行时杆更结实。
调低: 停机时杆发软,只随速度苏醒。
设定理由: Sets low-speed spring strength as a fraction of baseline when blending is enabled. One keeps full strength.
弹簧从低速下限开始向全强度攀升的空速:起飞滑跑中操纵面"苏醒"的那一刻。
设定理由: Sets the IAS where the low-speed spring blend starts rising. This is a feel threshold, not a flight limit.
气动载荷达到设计满值的指示空速。它把整条载荷曲线锚定在飞机真实的速度范围:172在110节就载满,喷气机要晚得多。
调高: 载荷来得更晚;杆轻到更高速度。
调低: 载荷来得更早,巡航更沉。
设定理由: Sets the IAS reference for aerodynamic loading. It is an estimate, not published cruise TAS or a flight limit.
升降舵配平缓解持续俯仰力、移动杆的安定位置的强度。在100 %时,配平得当的飞机不需要保持压力——正是真实飞行中"用配平消掉载荷"的流程。
调高: 配平消掉更多持续力;100 %时满配平可完全抵消。
调低: 即使配平也仍要持续用力。
设定理由: Scales supported pitch-trim relief and permitted centre movement. Zero removes pitch response.
横滚配平的同类缓解。多数通航机型没有真正的副翼配平,所以保持为零;有横滚配平的机型获得相应的值。
调高: 横滚配平消掉更多持续力。
调低: 横滚配平作用更小。
设定理由: Scales supported roll-trim relief and permitted centre movement. Zero removes roll response.
由轮速和地面类型(铺装、草地、砾石)产生的滚动振动。
调高: 杆上更强的地面质感。
调低: 更平滑的滑行。
设定理由: Sets rolling texture strength, modified by speed, surface and undercarriage configuration.
来自伸缩缝、车辙和粗糙地面的短促离散颠簸,为持续隆隆声打上标点。
调高: 接缝与车辙的冲击更清晰。
调低: 更柔的地面细节。
设定理由: Sets gear-bump texture during ground motion, separate from touchdown impact.
由飞机自身失速警告系统触发的专用抖杆器振动。只有真有抖杆器的机型才有值;其余全靠气动抖振和喇叭。
调高: 更硬的抖杆器。
调低: 更含蓄的抖杆器。
设定理由: Sets triggered shaker strength; inactive while the shaker feature is disabled.
接近失速及失速警告响起时的机体抖动:这副机翼宣告不满的音量。断失干脆的机型抖振收敛,让喇叭承担警告。
调高: 更强的失速前颤抖。
调低: 更含蓄的机翼;警告交给喇叭。
设定理由: Sets stall-buffet strength. Zero removes the cue without changing simulator stalls or warnings.
接近马赫极限的跨音速抖振。对接近MMO的喷气机有意义,对到不了那里的活塞机和涡桨机为零。
调高: 接近马赫极限时更强的跨音速抖振。
调低: 高马赫下更平滑的飞行。
设定理由: Sets high-Mach buffet strength; onset and full-strength thresholds are separate.
襟翼伸入气流后机体的低频振动,发生在它们真正做功的速度窗口内。
调高: 襟翼做功时更粗糙的飞行。
调低: 更柔的进近襟翼。
设定理由: Sets flap buffet at the configured position and speed gates. Flap movement texture is separate.
可收放起落架悬在气流中引起的机体鼓振。固定起落架机型为零,它们的机体外形从不改变。
调高: 放起落架时更多鼓振。
调低: 放起落架飞行更干净。
设定理由: Sets gear aerodynamic buffet; movement and ground-contact cues are separate.
机轮触及跑道那一下的单次冲击,按下沉率缩放:轻柔着陆是耳语,结实到达是一记闷响。
调高: 触地时更硬的一击。
调低: 更柔的到达。
设定理由: Sets landing-impact strength; landing telemetry and response shape determine the pulse.
反推或桨叶beta区工作时的滑跑振动。无反推机型为零。
调高: 反推下更粗糙的滑跑。
调低: 更含蓄的反推。
设定理由: Sets reverse-thrust vibration with valid reverser and engine conditions. Zero removes the cue.
从慢车到全功率跟随转速的持续动力装置振动——前方有东西在烧油的永恒提醒。
调高: 杆里更多发动机。
调低: 更含蓄的发动机。
设定理由: Sets estimated engine vibration using configured telemetry and response, not measured cockpit vibration.
仅在模拟器报告襟翼舵面确实移动时的持续振动。它跟随真实作动器的运动和故障,而非估算的计时器。
调高: 襟翼移动中更多振动。
调低: 更含蓄的襟翼行程。
设定理由: Sets texture from observed flap movement; a command without movement does not establish the cue.
自动驾驶指令可以让杆实际移动多远。在MSFS中保持极小,因为移动的轴可能被读回为飞行员输入;零则完全禁用跟随。
调高: 自动驾驶让你的杆移动得明显更多。
调低: 几乎察觉不到的跟随。
设定理由: Sets admitted AP-follow gain, not a percentage of travel. Runtime ownership and input limits still apply.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Autopilot following is off; the configured spring and load retain the hardware feel.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Permits centering hold during a supported AP state, separate from following a moving target.
设定理由: Sets admitted AP neutral-hold strength; inactive while neutral hold is disabled.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Retained for compatibility and group membership. Trim relief, rather than this flag, controls centre movement.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Allows trim relief with supported control law and valid telemetry. Axis authorities set its amount.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: An enabled local latch approximates holding a hardware neutral. CowanSim's SAS-dependent software trim and the aircraft's magnetic-brake system remain separate scope. Local force trim is on. It holds a selected spring centre with strength 0.55.
CowanSim 206B3 user manual — MSFSCowanSim HeloSAS autopilot manualCowanSim 206B3 user manual — X-PlaneCowanSim 206L3 user manual — MSFSFlyInside B206 user manual — MSFSBell 206B-3 Flight ManualWhether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Allows load-factor changes to modify permitted spring laws. Passive fly-by-wire feel can suppress it.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables rate damping with the configured coefficients and control law.
Where this effect reaches full strength (or has fully faded, for washouts).
调高: a more gradual build to a later peak.
调低: a quicker build.
设定理由: Sets the final flap index for detent normalization. UP plus three detents uses maximum index3.
Where this effect begins fading in.
调高: the effect begins later.
调低: it begins earlier.
设定理由: Sets the first flap detent that admits buffet; this is a handle index, not degrees.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables aerodynamic cues; each still needs nonzero strength and its simulator conditions.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Permits shaker at supported warning conditions; the switch does not establish aircraft equipment.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables ground effects; each still needs its own strength and contact or motion telemetry.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables engine cues with nonzero settings and valid running-engine telemetry.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables accessory cues with configured strengths and observed accessory movement.
The strength of this effect.
调高: a stronger effect.
调低: a weaker one.
设定理由: Sets texture from observed gear movement, separate from aerodynamic and touchdown effects.
| 参数 | 数值 | 控制作用及原因 |
|---|---|---|
| Spring strength | 0 | Magnetic brakes and force-gradient springs provide mechanism context for cyclic centering; longer cabin or rotor audio does not establish a heavier cyclic. The baseline spring is 0. Its low-speed blend reaches baseline strength at 55 KIAS. |
| Spring deadband | 0.02 | Sets travel around the centre before the baseline spring resists. Smaller values engage it sooner. |
| Force gain | 0.35 | The aerodynamic-load gain is 0.35 with an indicated-speed reference of 100 KIAS. This supplies speed-dependent loading alongside the spring. |
| Master gain | 0.85 | Scales overall profile strength while preserving effect balance, subject to device and output limits. |
| Spring full-strength speed | 55 kt | Sets the IAS where the low-speed blend reaches baseline strength; high-speed stiffening also uses it. |
| Airspeed spring stiffening | 0 | Adds permitted spring resistance above the full-blend speed. Zero removes this high-speed increase. |
| Airspeed stiffening cap | 5 | Limits the squared airspeed ratio used for high-speed spring stiffening; it is not a device-force cap. |
| Aileron force scale | 1 | Roll and pitch aerodynamic scales are 1 and 1, respectively. They set the aerodynamic axis balance. No custom spring-travel curve is enabled. |
| Elevator force scale | 1 | Scales pitch aerodynamic loading; pitch spring travel and trim responses are separate settings. |
| Maximum output force | 0.55 | Caps directed-force output. Native spring effects and device limits remain separate. |
| Autopilot · Follow enabled | False | Autopilot following is off; the configured spring and load retain the hardware feel. |
| Autopilot · Follow authority | 0.05 | Sets admitted AP-follow gain, not a percentage of travel. Runtime ownership and input limits still apply. |
| Autopilot · Neutral hold enabled | False | Permits centering hold during a supported AP state, separate from following a moving target. |
| Autopilot · Neutral hold strength | 0.6 | Sets admitted AP neutral-hold strength; inactive while neutral hold is disabled. |
| StickFeel · Trim feel enabled | False | Retained for compatibility and group membership. Trim relief, rather than this flag, controls centre movement. |
| StickFeel · Trim relief enabled | False | Allows trim relief with supported control law and valid telemetry. Axis authorities set its amount. |
| Aero · Max flap index | 4 | Sets the final flap index for detent normalization. UP plus three detents uses maximum index3. |
| Aero · Min flap index | 1 | Sets the first flap detent that admits buffet; this is a handle index, not degrees. |
| Aero · Amplitude | 0.5 | Sets triggered shaker strength; inactive while the shaker feature is disabled. |
| Dynamic-pressure blend | True | Allows baseline spring strength to rise with indicated airspeed where the control law permits it. |
| Minimum spring factor | 1 | Sets low-speed spring strength as a fraction of baseline when blending is enabled. One keeps full strength. |
| Spring wake-up speed | 15 kt | Sets the IAS where the low-speed spring blend starts rising. This is a feel threshold, not a flight limit. |
| 力反馈调校速度 | 100 kt | Sets the IAS reference for aerodynamic loading. It is an estimate, not published cruise TAS or a flight limit. |
| StickFeel · Elevator authority | 0.3 | Scales supported pitch-trim relief and permitted centre movement. Zero removes pitch response. |
| StickFeel · Aileron authority | 0.3 | Scales supported roll-trim relief and permitted centre movement. Zero removes roll response. |
| StickFeel · Force trim enabled | True | An enabled local latch approximates holding a hardware neutral. CowanSim's SAS-dependent software trim and the aircraft's magnetic-brake system remain separate scope. Local force trim is on. It holds a selected spring centre with strength 0.55. |
| StickFeel · G load enabled | True | Allows load-factor changes to modify permitted spring laws. Passive fly-by-wire feel can suppress it. |
| StickFeel · Rate damping enabled | True | Enables rate damping with the configured coefficients and control law. |
| Aero · Enabled | True | Enables aerodynamic cues; each still needs nonzero strength and its simulator conditions. |
| Aero · Gain | 0 | Sets stall-buffet strength. Zero removes the cue without changing simulator stalls or warnings. |
| Aero · Gain | 0 | Sets high-Mach buffet strength; onset and full-strength thresholds are separate. |
| Aero · Gain | 0 | Sets flap buffet at the configured position and speed gates. Flap movement texture is separate. |
| Aero · Gain | 0 | Sets gear aerodynamic buffet; movement and ground-contact cues are separate. |
| Aero · Shaker enabled | False | Permits shaker at supported warning conditions; the switch does not establish aircraft equipment. |
| Ground · Enabled | True | Enables ground effects; each still needs its own strength and contact or motion telemetry. |
| Ground · Gain | 0.15 | Sets rolling texture strength, modified by speed, surface and undercarriage configuration. |
| Ground · Gain | 0 | Sets gear-bump texture during ground motion, separate from touchdown impact. |
| Ground · Gain | 0.5 | Sets landing-impact strength; landing telemetry and response shape determine the pulse. |
| Ground · Gain | 0 | Sets reverse-thrust vibration with valid reverser and engine conditions. Zero removes the cue. |
| Engine · Enabled | True | Enables engine cues with nonzero settings and valid running-engine telemetry. |
| Engine · Gain | 0.12 | Sets estimated engine vibration using configured telemetry and response, not measured cockpit vibration. |
| Mechanical · Enabled | True | Enables accessory cues with configured strengths and observed accessory movement. |
| Mechanical · Gain | 0 | Sets texture from observed flap movement; a command without movement does not establish the cue. |
| Mechanical · Gain | 0 | Sets texture from observed gear movement, separate from aerodynamic and touchdown effects. |
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