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:smilewink: what you guys think? (oh some parts look blurry.. but thats because i forgot to put my catalyst control center on for my driver..)

yeah, i think only rFactor can deal with DCS. i don't know which one to choose... the best thing in it? the ammount of systems to learn and the time it takes.

Thanks REL! :D Well, there are a lot of different simmers and everybody has the right to exist. There are even people building a cockpit and sitting infront of a PC with a flight suit and helmet. Not for me, but hey, if they love it that way..thumbs up. Well, when I talk about the environmental system (the system everybody jumps on now), I don't necessarily mean the temp in the cockpit, but an environmental system is used for a lot more stuff than cabin heat. Its pressurizing the g-suit for example. What do you do if you have a problem in that system and your suit is not working anymore. Do you think you can pull all the g's over a longer period? What if you have a cabin fire. How do you get the smoke out of the cockpit? Which system is pressurizing the cockpit and what happens if you have a sudden loss of cabin pressure at high altitude, especially in fast movers? This stuff I am talking about and not if it is warm or cold in the cockpit. Of course it makes no sense to simulate these systems, if all the surroundings are not up for it and dont take it into account. However, I am looking for a sim that just does that and any simulation company doing that for me and others will get my full support and again, if people don't like that hardcore, I have no problem if they scale the sim down. In the end its the fun that counts and the definition of fun is different for different simmers....my 2 cents :)

If there is a way for people from the community to implement these extra Features I say … why the hell not??? The more the better!!! One man Joke is the other man Excitement. So stop making jokes about People suggestions because they are ED customers too !!!

Hairdryer? Now that's a cool idea, too bad I don't have much hair :D I've heard that US fighter pilots have flight suits where they can take a leak during long missions. I would like to have that modeled in DCS:Warthog :D

Bull. The air-conditioning system which you will never operate as it has zero effect on you kills nothing if its switches and dials aren't operative. Yeah, I'm sure they'll come in and install a hairdryer in for you for that 'hot and dry' AC mode they'll model ;)

After the trials against the Mi-28A conducted by the Soviet military in the late 1980s, it was decided the Ka-50 was the better helicopter, not only in terms of specific capabilities, but also as a general platform for developing future combat helicopter operations. Relative to the time and other hardware in service, the Ka-50 was pushing the envelope in many ways. The Soviet military chose the Ka-50 for service, but instructed Kamov to address a number of shortcomings of the test prototypes. These included enhanced night combat capability, defense systems capability, interoperability with ground forces and reduced pilot workload. Presumably, at least some of these improvements would be forthcoming as Kamov continued to develop the aircraft. As it was however, the USSR fell and the initial production batch became the only and final production batch, more or less in the form presented in DCS: Black Shark. It's also the form in which the Ka-50 took part in actual combat operations over Chechnya. It's known that Kamov continued to experiment with various IIR systems and, more recently, with missile warning and jamming systems. As far as I know, no RWR was ever tested on the aircraft. But then again, RWR don't appear to be standard on any Russian combat helicopter. Some, only some Mi-24s were equipped with them. Today, Russia appears to be decided to keep in service the few Ka-50s built in the original production batch and adopt the few that were not completed. It's possible some avionics retrofit will be conducted on these, most likely to include the missile warning systems and possibly jamming systems. I would be surprised if there was any retrofit of the attack systems. The Ka-50 "legacy" can only continue with the Ka-52, a helicopter much more fit to todya's standards, with IIR sensor(s), glass cockpit design, possibly a multimode radar. However, the Ka-52 is still raw, despite being officially adopted into Russian military service. In today's Russia, being in "mass production" usually refers to equipping 2-4 squadrons. At least, this is the case with the Su-27SM and the "mass production" Mi-28N. As I've said many times on this forum, the Ka-50 can only be understood in relation to the overall economic and political collapse of a nation. It, like most other Russian military hardware, was and for the most part still is in freeze-form for almost 20 years. Sorry for the rant.

Now take a look at the F-16! It's a 70s design alright but... Just like TFlash mentioned before me, scattered switches all around the cockpit is a bad way to go. It's like pimping your car with all the gadgets you can think of but in such manner they end up all over the place like you had a tsunami few moments ago! Now why I said F-16, if you take a look at a startup procedure of a F-16 you'll notice it's pretty simple and logical. You start from your left panel (near your left elbow) and rotate slowly clockwise across the pit to end up on the right hand panel hitting final switches to power up HUD, UFC and DL. It's pretty easy to remember and to become a second nature, isn't it?! Wiring diagram is a b***h but you as an end user feel pretty confortable! No need to look around to much, waving hands frantically! The other hand is poor or no HOTAS implementation, I mean it's a single seater so instead of hovering 4 miles away from that Osa hiding in the treelines while planning your attack and powering your systems (flippin' switches) HOTAS with most important attack commands would be a better solution! I just can't imagine it took Kamov 25 years to develop the 50 and end up having product that's looking for immidiate patch!

No. Right now the test team is focused on testing a rather large Black Shark patch/update.

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