T.Power

ED should ban whingers from purchasing EA. It's the equivalent of being allergic to peanuts, eating peanuts and then blaming the manufacturer for making you sick.

Totally agree, it's EA so it's bound to be flawed, seems daft putting money down for EA and expecting a finished product, but ya know, some people were born to whinge.

I figured one of the mods was as most of my static templates for Kola are broke.

Same here, I bought the F-15C separately before buying FC3 and I also got the SU-33 with the Super Carrier module, both are showing, the other 4 fail authentication.

Thanks BN, big love.

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+1 for team it's not a big deal but we really appreciate the update.

If patience isn't your thing, there's always War Thunder.

The updates look amazing and well worth the wait, very pleased to see the Dome of the Rock amongst the landmark buildings and the updates to the Giza plateau, and Petra at some point too. Was interesting to read that new TDKs have to be developed for some of the new rock formations, I guess that's why Petra has to wait. This area of the world has an incredibly rich history and was not represented (understandably) in it's full glory in early access.

Page 7 tells you all you need to know about Rotors, they are dangerous to fly, human error is the single biggest cause of rotor accidents, VRS is a real issue and there was at least one attempt to ban rotors completely at least in the US, circa 1950 IIRC. I still run out of pedal flying the Hind for around 10 months, these things want to kill you. https://www.h-a-c.ca/IHSS_Helicopter_Safety_History_05.pdf You should try desaturating your joy axis if small movements cause you to stall so easily.

I'll throw my two cents in as someone who recently upgraded from a X52 to a full Winwing setup with pedals. I own all the rotor modules aside from the Kiowa, I mostly fly the Hind which has it's own quirks and nuances, but I fly them all periodically to remind myself of the differences. The Apache is a very odd machine, as someone else pointed out it's a truck not a sportscar, and I really do feel that the Apache suffers from feeling like it's actually a sportscar to the point I used to have my axes with saturation set at 20 and I used the trimmer all the sodding time. Desaturating the Joy axes really helped me learn to fly it like a truck, then I used autopilot modes to help transition and landing, because when VRS sets in with the Apache, it appears nigh on impossible to stop it. Rotors really do benefit from longer sticks with dampers and soft springs.

They're very challenging even with a decent HOTAS and pedal setup. After hours of focusing on Helos, my respect for real world rotor pilots has roofed, these things are insanely dangerous to fly!

Stanlesuper's LUT creates some very odd lighting in the Hind at night unfortunately, it's not useable.

Only if you over do it, part of the issue is that there's not enough contrast in the standard settings, if you fix the contrast you must desaturate to compensate, as a trained graphic designer my eyes see the issue right across the palette, if you start tweaking individual objects you'll likely make a mess, adjustment layers are last in the chain (mostly). You can easily fix with this Reshade with zero hit to performance by using curves plus either saturation control or technicolour which is desaturation plus a tint which if used sparingly can be quite effective. Curves gives you individual luma and chroma control, you can use either or both, that's personal preference but you can control bloom and crush blacks at the same time. Does anyone know how accurate their monitors are? What's the Delta etc? Seriously just use the adjustment layer, if you mess up it'll be a lot easier to rectify and you can do that on the fly. After some fiddling Levels and Vibrance combined are the best solution due to better bloom control.

I'll 3rd that, it would appear after my initial reccy in my Hind that the extreme FPS drop issue has been addressed. New texture maps also generally look a lot better although I am seeing an underlying crosshatch pattern in one area I'm currently playing in.

Thank you! That's exactly the kind of data I needed, I'm an audio engineer by trade so I like to understand everything from a bottom up perspective, the reductionist perspective.

There must be plots of the engine torque curves, that's useful information, it should be calculable, I can fly the Hind just fine now, I want data.

It would be really handy to have throttle% to speed correlation to make dialing in precise air speed easier. Data on the torque/anti torque relationship with the collective, and there's still some dials I don't quite understand, there's a green light that comes on in certain slip situations, and proper take off/transition/landing techniques. Most of my problems are solved due to my Winwing HOTAS and Pedals upgrade, but now's the time to weed out bad habits before they become muscle locked.

It would appear that ED are at least aware of the issue as it has broken sling loading for some users which is a huge problem with the impending release of the Chinook. Thanks again for your work, it really livens up the airports.

My entire Heli Cargo static objects folder appear to be missing and don't load, that's probably why the sling loading is broke for some people.

Missing object identified, Static Fuel Tank in Cargos is missing for me, I've even tried a full repair on DCS and it doesn't appear so this must be a non ID'd mod component, I've deleted the entry in the stm file and it now loads and saves. The textures are in the bazar so it's part of the core and not a mod, I found a Reddit thread where some users are reporting missing static objects after the 2.9 update, specific package for me is Heli_Cargo.

Yup that was me, I am fully up to date with my mods and I still cannot get KT to work, but all the other templates work, I'm out of ideas and I've spent way too long trying to figure it out. Saying that I just saw a thread on how to identify what's missing by reading the STM file.

A manual would be really helpful, it's by far my favourite mod but lack of hard data makes the learning curve quite steep especially for transitions and landing as it's really easy to induce VRS in the Hind. There are a few videos showing the technique but they're no replacement for actual data.

Pre-purchased and suitably excited.

That's what I did it's set up for the Hind as that's what I fly, but all the missions are fun, I might even purchase the Viggen just so I can carpet bomb.