Major Issue with individual Helicopter Engine Control due to N2 Values not being independent

Version: all

Frequency: Consistently

Severity: Blocker
(Low - quality of life, workflow optimization, rare enough to not impact production, etc…
High - critical but workarounds are available, important feature not working as expected, frequent enough to impact production
Blocker - prevents from working on the project, prevents from releasing the product)

Marketplace package name: if applicable

Context: What package? When editing or mounted from Community? In main menu or in flight? etc…

Similar MSFS 2020 issue: the same problem exists in msfs20

Bug description: When trying to control the engines of a twin engine helicopter separately there is currently a major issue that prevents this individual engine control from working as intended. The issue behind is the same one I have already reported in relation to autorotation behavior. Helicopter rotor clutch broken
The N2 values of both engines and the rotor RPM are glued together and cannot change independent from each other, however exactly that would be required in many situations. This bug report is supposed to show the major consequnces this has, not only for autorotations but for individual engine control as well. With the the current problem it is impossible to properly control two engines independently, no matter if the “use custom throttles” option via lvars is used or the engine governor targets are chanded individually as demonstrated in the first video.

The second video demonstrates that only a sychronized engine control can avoid this issue.

Repro steps: as shown in video

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Please allow me to back Ben up here,

There seems to be major flaws in the engine setup and the videos above are clearly showing the challenges we are facing to natively bring double engine helicopters to the sim.

Regards,

Taog