Stefan Graber

Dear Eagle Dynamics bosses! It's great that you're always bringing out new modules, which I'm sure bring in a lot of money, but PLEASE let your very talented employees (programmers) FINALLY get back to working on the main programme, which has seen more and more critical errors creep in over the last 1½ years of perceived stagnation!!!

Bravo ED!!! You're almost there: FINALLY, sling loading has been working again, at least partially, since version 2.9.4. The first load can be picked up several times and dropped off again at different locations without damage. Unfortunately, all subsequent loads (from the second onwards) still jump somewhere and destroy themselves. At least F1 = cancel works again.

Bravo ED!!! You're almost there: FINALLY, sling loading has been working again, at least partially, since version 2.9.4. The first load can be picked up several times and dropped off again at different locations without damage. Unfortunately, all subsequent loads (from the second onwards) still jump somewhere and destroy themselves. At least F1 = cancel works again.

The fog in DCS makes a nice visual change and is challenging to fly in a helicopter, but as long as the AI is coming in a dive through a 500 metre high bank of fog with its on-board cannon (not a guided missile), reducing the players standing on the ground to wood chips, it makes no sense. We've been waiting just as long for the AI on the ground to finally stop being able to see, drive and shoot through houses and trees.

Is there perhaps already a solution for this? Thank you! # -------------- 20250501-151610 -------------- DCS/2.9.15.9599 (x86_64; MT; Windows NT 10.0.19045) G:\DCS World\bin-mt\edCore.dll # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 00007ffe3c815652 00:00000000 SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: 'G:\DCS World\bin-mt;', symOptions: 532, UserName: 'S_t_e_v_i_e' OS-Version: 10.0.19045 () 0x100-0x1 0x0000000000025652 (edCore): b2DynamicTree::RemoveLeaf + 0xC2 0x0000000000024fd9 (edCore): b2DynamicTree::MoveProxy + 0xC9 0x000000000003deda (Effects): Effects::loadShipWakeConfig + 0x23EA 0x000000000003e7de (Effects): Effects::loadShipWakeConfig + 0x2CEE 0x0000000000168f1f (Visualizer): smSceneManager::DestroySceneManager + 0x1134F 0x000000000016f6eb (Visualizer): smSceneManager::regLua + 0x5DCB 0x00000000001543cc (Visualizer): smCamera_Implement::getClipRegion + 0x1C17C 0x000000000013e44c (Visualizer): smCamera_Implement::getClipRegion + 0x61FC 0x0000000000158c62 (Visualizer): smSceneManager::DestroySceneManager + 0x1092 0x00000000000338e1 (edCore): ed::thread::_get_current_thread_id + 0x71 0x0000000000021bb2 (ucrtbase): _configthreadlocale + 0x92 0x0000000000017374 (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x14 dcs.log-20250501-151610.zip

The altitude data for this helipad is incorrect: Metric: X-00010726 Z+00008034 Lat Long Standard: N 34°55'39" E 35°59'31" Lat Long Precise: N 34°55'39.15" E 35°59'31.32" Lat Long Decimal Minutes: N 34°55.652' E 35°59.522' MGRS GRID: 36 S YD 73311 69096 Altitude: 334 m / 1097 feet

Thank you very much Flappie for looking into the annoying slingload problem. But as you can see here, the same stupid mistake exists with the self-destructing external loads when gently setting them down, because they often bounce around for metres. --> PLEASE keep at it and help not only me, but above all many Chinook users to finally be able to transport external loads again!!! Thank you very much! Aerobatics Europe Syria-20250418-160605.trk

Suggestion to Belsimtek to rework the Huey (flight model) for an additional charge of e.g. € 15. It's just a pity that in DCS you can do three loopings in a row with it.

Thank you very much for this tip, I didn't realise that. I've been wishing so much for this bug to be fixed since version 2.9.4.

Slingloading Bug in Multiplayer and Singleplayer since version 2.9.4.53990 not fixed again ... Cargo gently unhooked on the ground jumps into the air or several metres to the side. To a spectator, it looks as if the external load is mounted on a metal rod directly through the cockpit to the front during the flight. What a pity! At least the UH-1 load works on the ‘Rotorheads Server’. Some other external loads flip upside down after being hooked onto the rope and cause the helicopter to shake wildly, causing the pilot to ‘black out’. And then there has been this other slingloading bug for years, which requires a 15° inclination of the helicopter so that the external load does not swing up completely unmotivated. (Aerobatics Europe Syria-20250122-213829) Aerobatics Europe Syria-20250120-234532.trk Aerobatics Europe Syria-20250122-213829.trk

Oh my God - ED! Not only Chinook owners are waiting for this terrible slingloading bug to be fixed (unhooked load jumps up into the rotor, or jumps somewhere) in multiplayer mode and also want to get rid of the second external load in singleplayer mode, which stubbornly hangs further down without a rope. Last versionLatest version in which everything works: DCS 2.9.4.53990 Aerobatics Europe Syria-20241224-220115.trk

Unhooked external load jumps into the air and destroys helicopter. Aerobatics Europe Syria-20241213-134808.trk

Unfortunately, that doesn't help here either.

This shameful slingload bug is very persistent! Aerobatics Europe Caucasus-20241204-201758.trk It is simply sad ... Aerobatics Europe Syria-20241208-194626.trk

It's a real shame - it would be a viable option for helicopters to be able to transport external loads - just like in DCS in the past (... in 2023). Aerobatics Europe Caucasus-20241102-182434.trk

It is a tragedy: Since version 2.9.4, slingloading has been unplayable because the external load placed gently on the ground suddenly jumps into the air and destroys itself. Aerobatics Europe Syria-20241031-000903.trk

DCS 2.9.8.1214 - And unfortunately the slingloading bug has not been fixed again. Aerobatics Europe Caucasus-20241002-180213.trk

Oh my God! Unfortunately, the external load released on the ground is still bouncing 20 to 30 meters somewhere or even up in the air instead of simply remaining in place - message: load has been destroyed. Aerobatics Europe Syria-20241001-121608.trk Aerobatics Europe Caucasus-20241001-130317.trk

same with me

The external load of other players wriggles extremely!! The last working version was: 2.9.4.53990

Unfortunately, the unhooked slingload still bounces around 10 metres after being released ... Aerobatics Europe Syria-20240814-210843.trk

Oh, it's a pity... As always, I use the command "Open External Cargo Hook - Pilot" instead of "External Cargo Autounhook". Now the unhooked external load no longer shoots upwards like a rocket from below, but suddenly appears after a leap in the air 10 metres next to the drop-off point, or after F1 cancel and reload in (!) the main rotor after the release ... with the same result.

The possibility of sling loading is completely broken. - That's probably why we still have to wait for the Chinook. In multiplayer, even the first load pulls the helicopter into the ground; in single player, the external load (not just MODs) is hooked in the wrong way round, which leads to extreme shaking and the second load blows off the tail of the helicopter.

The first load works perfectly, but when picking up the second load, strange things happen and the load can no longer be released. It's not only with MODs ...

Multiplayer, slingload rope, Huey UH-1H, As soon as the rope is hooked in, one of the two players sees the load hanging on the taut rope, while the other sees it floating freely above the ground, while the unhooked rope wriggles wildly up into the rotor circle.