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This feels like a bit of a bugger for co-operating with Apaches: If I wanna give them a waypoint to point their Hellfires at for buddy lasing, the actual coordinates are easy to say over the radio, but Kiowa seems to do waypoint elevation only in meters, while Apache wants feet. Anyone aware of a way to get one or the other to switch units? I mean sure, the Apache's ground database will get close automatically, but still it'd be nice to at least have the ability. Or if I need the Apache to aim at the top floor or Burj Khalifa...

Mmm... With how underpowered the 7.62mm rounds in DCS are I feel like it'd be pretty pointless. .50 BMG is a lot more useful. Cool, tho, but not very useful.

Yeah I don't entirely get where that was coming from, I lost avionics, then engines and finally hydraulics after being shot by an Mi-28.

It makes no difference, at least on my non-FFB stick. Not a bad shout tho.

I'm using the no trimming options because I have an unsprung joystick. When I turn off the AI pilot, the center point of my joystick trim gets left where the AI pilot had it, and I need to hit "trim reset" to get back to normal. If I've set the trims to be off in special settings, _nothing_ should IMO ever move my trim center under _any_ circumstances.

Don't know how you managed that, I just got shot down by an Mi-28 (short burst took out my avionics and made my engines shut down) and, autogyro landing not working out properly for me on this attempt, my helicopter exploded upon impact with ground.

Right now it seems to be working as the Instant Trim option on ED's helicopters, and indeed you can't hold it down and then release to set. You'll want to hold the helicopter stable, press the button and IMMEDIATELY jump to the center.

Wings were like 10, main around 35 yeah, central pod like 45.

Which guns? The wing gunpods, central gunpod and nose gun all shoot in different places.

To everyone helping out with the FFB, cheers! We got it working!

By the trimming mode do you mean this: "JOYSTICK WITHOUT SPRINGS OR FFB"?

Which I can't do, since I'm joining as someone else's WSO.

With what settings do you get it to work properly for you? My buddy has a Rhino, and was struggling with it yesterday. He couldn't get the trim to work in the way it "should", i.e. the force center moving.

What Ryan said, it's been out for hours already. I like to set up notifications for new releases on any mods shared on GitHub.

Is there a similar clickable option for the rear seat? Whenever I'm backseating the throttles always stay in the locked back position, not moving with the pilot's throttle. EDIT: Should have said this more clearly: I'm backseating for someone else.

JEEZ, the new v1.2 flight model makes hovering _butter smooth_! This is now right up there with the post-updates Gazelle as my favorite hovering helicopter, and it's not even actively damped/stabilized! It was a lot of fun even before, but jeez it's just hecking awesome now.

Thanks!

First the WSO Maverick controls: I can slew the seeker around OK, but I can't enable zoom. In the manual's WSO section for the Maverick it says the following: Half-action command on the hand controller does not command a zoom, it enables slew momentarily. So far I've not found any of the inputs on the hand controller to be able to enable zoom on the D Maverick. I suspect the flight stick trigger would work, but I haven't bound anything to that since I wanna leave the pilot stuff to the pilot. Similarly I can't pop off the cover with the hand controller, which doesn't really surprise me. I expect that I would need to bind the flight stick trigger for this as well? Next up Jester: Can I get a confirmation that Jester is unable to lase targets at the moment? I could get him to lock up a point on the ground pretty well, but laser guided bombs definitely didn't guide. Worked fine with a human WSO. The manual does mention Jester's Pave Spike capabilities will be expanded on during EA, so I guess this is one of those things. I would also kinda like it if he could do stuff similar to what Petrovich and George can do in the Hind and Apache, i.e. I could tell him to look at an area and he could spot targets there.

The 12-vis and 9-vis bindings are working the wrong way around, to enable 12-vis you need to press the button that's bound to 9-vis, and vice versa.

Related to this whole subject, though maybe not the thread: I've been having quite good accuracy with slick dumb bombs, but the CBU-87s and RockEyes always stop well short of where I'm actually aiming. Feels like it's not taking into account the bomblets slowing down after the bomb opens up, is this possible? I.e. if the CBU-87 or RockEye never opened up, the bomb would land where I'm aiming, but because it opens up the bomblets fall short?

To my understanding reading the manual, the "radar boresight line" is used for the a-g radar stuff. A-A radar is horizon referenced.

Honestly, in my experience it doesn't even have to be very close. I've had it successfully arrest a slight climb/descend just fine after putting myself into "attitude hold" to change flight levels. The "stick not being perfectly centered" thing tho is a very likely candidate.

And acceleration equals zero when thrust forces = drag forces. EDIT: Man that emoji annoys me... It was supposed to be a simple smile, not a laughing face...

Good catch! Thanks!

Yeah, but he as the pilot can climb, it's just George who can't. I.e. there's a discrepancy between the torque behavior the helicopter exhibits while he's in control, and when George is in control.