KAL-1000 Priority/Override

[SlushyFox]

Hello! I'm still learning the ins and outs of the KAL-1000 controller but, I'm currently making a co-axial helicopter and trying to make it consume as little liquid fuel as possible when needed, but also try to make the flight controls as snappy as possible; especially on yaw control by increasing torque limit temporarily when the rotors has to spin up faster instead of making them producing max torque 100% of the time.

For yaw controls on the helicopter I used RPM limiting where one rotor will either spin faster or slow down and while the other does the opposite to provide left or right yaw controls.

I plan on having one (collective torque limiter controller) where torque limit increases or decreases for both turbo shaft engines as collective pitch increases or decreases on the rotors. I plan to bind this one to the "Main Throttle" action group.

Then I'll have another (yaw torque limiter controller) set up for torque limit but as soon as soon any of the yaw controls are pressed it overrides the (collective torque limiter controller) regardless of current position and defaults back to the last position of the (collective torque limiter controller) as soon as yaw controls are depressed.

TL;DR version: I want a KAL-1000 controller that overrides another KAL-1000 controller that both use torque limit and defaults back to its original torque limit setting of the overridden KAL-1000 controller when not activated.

I hope my wording wasn't too confusing, but any help in how to do this or insight would be much appreciated.

[Wobbly Av8r]

Not sure of the size/power demands of your helicopter, but my experience is that the turbine motor is a real pig when it comes to fuel - you may be better off going electric and placing a fuel cell or two to supply the energy - in a recent thread, I discovered that using the smaller -16 sized electric motor, I was able to raise a simplified co-axial machine from the surface of Eve to 25,000m on 11 kg of fuel.

While your requirement may be for the more powerful motors, I would think that electric + fuel cells will at least resolve your fuel consumption issue.

Edited September 7, 2020 by Wobbly Av8r