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Ah right, its just a case Ive gotten so accustomed to what the sas was doing for me and then struggling when it was absent. Thank you for explaining.

Hey Brad, In your updated force trim usage video you don't recommend holding the ftr at a hover because you loose the benefits of the scas and I definitely concur with that. My question is should we expect any major changes to the handling and feel at low speeds with the ftr depressed or is it about where it should be?

Also can confirm this issue is still persisting. Not being able to quickly designate with the tads and fire and instead having screw around with the radar, ensure the nts is actually the target I want is obviously not ideal in time sensitive situations.

Have a good one fellas.

Hey Lord Vader, thanks for your reply. The mission is the edited quick action persian gulf weapons range. Only changes are added fcr domes to the apaches and placed two shilkas. As you can see in my screenshot the shilkas are correctly showing rings but the in mission tsd placed t03 and sa8 markers don't. Prior to the patch the generic targets had a 3km ring and the others varied by id type, which is obviously useful for situational awareness. Track included, if it helps. rings.trk

Is anyone able to show/hide TSD threat rings since the FCR patch? Toggling the show > thrtshow > right mpd buttons doesn't seem to have any effect.

Apologies for the dirt, forgot where I was.

[Removed]. Anyways, I use this voice command to then either enter with the cursor or if I know the waypoint/target/controlmeasure number I want input in the keyboard unit and push on.

A screenshot isn't going to help since you have to bind it all anyway. It's just using a voice macro to quickly get to the input field for the DIR to. So when I say 'DIRECT' it pushes the buttons on the MPD to get to the point where I can steer the cursor with my stick and click and boom that's now my waypoint/target. It's just stuff a CPG would be doing independently.

Personally I find the most useful part of storing target points is displaying the threat rings ( I think 3km), it's easy to create a quick picture of where you need to be especially vigilant and expect enemy fire and can help you maintain stand off distance around a cluster or 'zone' of enemy units. I like to use voice attack to quickly do the DIR input buttonpushes then select a target point on the TSD with the cursor to orient myself towards the target area I'm focusing on next. With some practice you can use the TSD kind of like a FPS game minimap.

If you're getting shot at the only proper move is to drop the collective and evade. Try to keep a stand off distance of 5km+ to stay out of the envelope of most threats.

The only time I struggle controlling the aircraft with the ftr depressed is at a hover, so as Im bleeding off the last of my speed I let go of the ftr and bring it into a hover and land.

If the current version had the roll/pitch changes but the yaw remained unchanged it would be perfect. It wants ALOT more left pedal and even slowly putting in collective the nose just wants to go making even gradual decelerations sloppy, back to messing with controls I guess.

I wonder if this is the same issue with the AI bot being unreliable with the limas, some sort of desync occurring that isn't present when operating the CPG seat solo.

Yes this became an issue I think in the April patch. For now what I do is set the bot on gun and engage at will then I WAS and DEWAS the gun as the pilot and this seems to 'reset' the bot and it will do another burst. I repeat as necessary.

Additional track if required. Shots from varying speeds, altitudes and ranges with only a handful hitting. georgelima.trk

This needs to be addressed, there's no good reason for the discrepancy between self fire and getting the bot to.

Changes to the FM seem good, the reliability of the lima on the other hand not so good.

George will arm when you slave him to your los and safe when you tell him to cease fire (this also returns the tads to the fxd position forward). If you arm the aircraft prior to george performing it automatically via slaving he will not override this when you tell him to cease fire.

In the special settings of the AH-64D. It defaults to instant trimmer mode which if the physical stick it no returned to centre immediately it will essentially double your control input making you buck around like a horse. Central position trimmer mode makes it so it won't recognize any control input until the stick is returned to centre. They both have their pros and cons but I only use central mode. I recommend watching youtube videos on how the trim modes work because it's confusing at first.

Central Position trimmer. Trim, hands off controls, hand back on.

I think your hitting on something that people maybe need to be more aware of. If you don't fly a helicopter in DCS for a while, apache or whatever you are going to have to reacclimate. It's not a personal failing to fiddle with the control axis to get them usable and comfortable. The more time you spend flying and practicing you can dial things into your liking. We don't fly helicopters in DCS because they are easy.

A question you may naturally now have, is if you can have multiple missiles in the air and hit targets in succession. You can. Either by jumping in the front seat or firing the missile yourself in the back seat and utilizing George's NO WPN > Lase (Right Short) but it takes good timing and the targets have to be fairly close together. The ability to 'fire and forget' is why a lot of people are excited for the radar hellfire variant coming soon.

Also with option 3. I'm not sure if it's just a muscle memory thing being used to the damping of the SCAS or a general skill issue but holding FTR at a hover goes about as well as lighting myself on fire.

Video description is how I did it. People who know how to make custom binds like zrads FLIR/TV ones in the dcs userfiles can do it that way.