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I've been playing Black Shark for two weeks now. Basically new to sims, though somewhat familiar with aviation. So I'm still trying to get the hang of all the systems, and the piloting. And the systems while the piloting. Last night I played a mission online that still has me all excited. I don't remember the name, something about The Other Side, I believe. Mission was to fly through the mountains into Georgia and attack an outpost or some such. We started with 3 on the server, set out our loads and took off. As I had never done this, climbing through the mountains was amazing. Trying to get to optimum lift speed, struggling to cross the peaks with a heavy load of weaponry, pushing the chopper to the limit. I was having a blast, but danger lurked! Along the way we lost one wingman due to a badly set de-icing switch and subsequent engine failure (Dust protection was on). The remainder eventually made it to the ingress point and began the attack on the compound. We eased into position and fired away from our safety. I took my time, eventually wingman left to reload, while I loitered around cleaning up the remains of the base. It was then that I noticed my fuel guage was much lower than when I had last checked it. Oops, seems I was hypnotized by the target. In fact, I had somewhere between 500-600Kg of fuel, I don't exactly remember. This was going to be close. I turned for home immediately, stressing out all along as I pushed the chopper back into the mountains. Don't go fast, fly efficient I kept telling myself. I was getting more worried as the flight progressed. By the time I hit the apex of the mountain climb I was looking at around 200Kg of juice. I had altitude, which was good, as the airfield was much lower. So I continued on, keeping the collective as low as I possibly could, with a small descent rate and constant speed of 140. I was transfixed by the small dot of an airfield that was crawling so agonizingly slowly towards my little airplane on the ABRIS. I was a madman. The closer I got, the faster I let myself descend, the lower the collective. Within a few kilometers of the airfield I had less than 40kg fuel, only in one tank, now being cross-fed. I lowered throttle to idle. The cockpit warnings beeped away steadily as I descended while maintaining close to 80% rpm. I was on a great slope. When about 50m up, and at the airfield, I put the power back up to full and went to land on the ramp. As I tried to stabilize hover just before setting down, the RPM began to drop. I panicked and set her down with a bit of a thud, but no damage. I was back, I had made it. I don't think there was more than 10Kg of fuel left in the tank. What a rush! As for the Ed Macy moment title, those of you who haven't read the book "Apache", he has a similar low fuel return, albeit, in much different circumstances. It's good read. I tried to watch the track of this mission to get some more accurate figures, but in the replay I seem to shoot all my vikhrs into the dirt, and then swerve my helicopter into the mountain wall. I didn't remember doing that yesterday, I thought I had flown back...but....wait, can I see dead people? In reality, I think the replay errors in this case come from the fact that I use TrackIR and the HMD with turn-to-target. My guess is the positioning is slightly askew even when I never switch views during the playback. I've not yet tried to play it out completely at normal speed, as it was a long mission. Oh well. Now, I ask, does anyone else have any wonderful DCS moments they'd like to share?

Hello to all community! I'm proud to present you BSVP (Black Shark Virtual Panel) software. This software is allow you to visualize main analogue gauges of Black Shark simulator on separate monitor or even on networked PC (Notebook or Netbook). Like old LOVP, BSVP allow you to configure gauge panel in any way you want. By default - realistic placement included. BSVP was made in 3D engine Quest3D, all gauges are rendered in 3D. ADI cylinder now have proper form, gauges are smooth and clean. Besides, night lightening for panel was made (syncronized with simulator) Hope you will enjoy this project, and happy flights! :) Here's project page: http://3dvrm.com/bsvp/ From the page you could also download latest LOVP software with photo-textures. P.S. Ask me freely if you issued some problems or have some comments :) P.S.2. Thanks to DickDastardly and ggg87 for all they're help! Works with DCS World 1.2.1!

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On one of the three routes in "Freeflight" you have to cross mountains at about 2000m. Is this enough?

I think it's actually impossible to guess the aircraft from the look of its INS. So let's consider topol-m a winner! http://www.northropgrumman.it/website/eng/litalPage.cfm?id=43

Another hint, make sure to set Weapon Burst for the rockets to Med or Long!

^^^ nope it`s mine :P Integrated Navigation System? or Inertial Navigation unit?

Plane is P-39 Airacobra

Ram and CPU speeds are still important and relative to the Frame Per Second. The i7 just uses and outputs RAM more effectively by having a native triple channel controller, to my limited knowledge. If you are going the Intel i7 920 CPU then there is no point in getting RAM faster the 1066 MHz as this is what it throttles the RAM speed to natively, unless you then overclock the RAM speeds in the BIOS. In which case you are then governed by the motherboard specs and it's ability to use the more expensive, higher MHz RAM. So, if you want to get into overclocking, then yeah, invest in better RAM, but if your the sort of builder/gamer that installs his hardware and doesn't play with it to extensively then I'd sit at 1066 MHz. A good article to read is Tom's Hardware review on this very topic. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-scaling-i7,2325.html Hope this helps. I'm still learning about this as I go as well. Good Luck.

The stick itselfe might be great, but considering how I can play my favourite sims (DCS, Il-2) at this moment, I say no.

Thats because it doesnt really support Multi CPU aka multithreading. The SIM simply changed the default CPU affinity setting to not be forced to run on a single core. It just helps Windows manage the background tasks better without affecting framerate.

I actually ran out of gas on return to the airbase on that same mission. Luckily, I was already on short final and expecting the flameout, so I was able to autorotate onto a taxiway. SOmehow managed to not bang it up too much. What I forgot at the time, and would have been a great help, is that with no stores remaining, and so low on gas, you can fly just fine on one engine (don't expect to hover, of course). That would cut fuel burn in half, and you could just do a running landing at the airbase.

Hi guys, Just came back from a work trip. LET is progressing very well. I am about complete with the first video, and have started the shooting for it. Potential beta testers were contacted today (check your Private Messages inbox!). The aim is for the first video to be out by the end of the year, but it's a little too soon to be sure. So, progress is good, material is coming out, all is well! As usual, stay tuned :)

Сдесь есть шаблоны текстур самолётов, формате PSD http://www.lockonfiles.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=200#cat http://www.lockonfiles.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=257#cat

посмотри чифтек или кулермастер БП. оба считаются тихими, плюс дешевле тт стоят. например у меня стоял кулермастер на 600ватт - у него правда вентиль сдох, пихнул в него 800 оборотов 120мм - ничего, работал. Сейчас 850-1000 ватт чифтек, вентиль 140мм обычно работает на 600 оборотов, в нагреве до 1000.

Всем кватит. Ветка создавалась не для разборок. Хотите разборок - у РАФ есть собственный форум....

Нифига. Сначала всем плюсы в репу, а только потом - бан.

То есть ты просто ненавязчиво поинтересовался? Интересная манера ). Припомни свои наезды на сервере, после которых, кстати, я и сказал, что если ты не выложишь трек из которого ты сделал столь дальновидные выводы, то я буду ходатайствовать о твоем бане. А оказывается, это ты так общаешься. Можно было нормально попросить, я никогда не отказывал адекватным пилотам. Проблема в том, что каждый считает, что он Дартаньян, и не дай Бог его сбить. Понятно, что такого супермастера честно не свалить, поэтому свои претензии можно смело высказывать. Причем чем грубее, тем лучше, пусть знают свое место. Причем большинство Дартаньянов самолет вообще не чувствуют ( в ганзе полные нулищи), но с удовольстием обсуждают аспекты пушечного боя. «Я сомневаюсь, что Маркс прав, поэтому он неправ».(с) «Вы говорите, что дважды два — четыре. Но вдруг дважды два — пять? Тогда ведь всё не так!»(с) «К вашему посту "Имитация замыканий в языке Java" я написал десять комментов, что вы — тупое быдло и урод, что я вас ненавижу, в гробу имел ваших друзей и хотел бы откусить ухо вашей собаке. А вы их все стёрли. Что, правда глаза колет?»(с) Как то так....

Дорогой Фланк, заюзайте, пожалуйста, мануал, настройки графики настройки железа, тракир и главный инструмент виприла. После этого вы станене непобедимым. Я бы мог Вас научить если попросите, но обычно мноим только кажется, что они хотят научитсья, а когда начинаешь учить им кажется все это скучным... Длинных неинтересных тренировок никто не любит...