ChrisUK27

Yeah that would make sense as the hover range is around 0 to ~40knots, beyond that you're transitioning into forward flight.

Hoping to have some time later this week to have a nose at the new updates, this is probably the largest one for a while, even if it is restricted to the cockpit. It's good that we're getting tweaks here and there, but there's still loads to do!

One can of 200 rounds is daft!! Give them at least three times that, once the first can is gone, pause whilst the gunner reloads in-flight then go again, similar to some of the ground vehicles. No way should you have to land to rearm a Chinook after one can lol!

What you'll find for a straight in approach is that as you pull back and the DASH, LCTA's motor you'll reset the cyclic to the middle then pull back again. If you want to stop quickly I find a good old handbrake turn (quick stop) does the trick, sometimes you may balloon up a touch if you misjudge it, but you can knock the speed off pretty quick.

I noticed both of these things, I'm in the process of creating another YT video. The ramp needs to be up slightly not all the way down and the door gunner who I initially thought doesn't engage anything, actually does but perhaps only in specific circumstances, I've managed to capture it and will post hopefully later this evening.

Agreed, inside the Cab it's mostly the whine of the transmissions, what I'd really like is the noise of the PTU's especially when starting up, moving the controls around whilst working off the APU.

I can operate the M60's with the mouse. I've not changed any key bindings or anything, it was there by default and works well. Next step is for the door gunners to operate autonomously like the Huey, cant be that hard to copy the Huey gunners. What is unrealistic is only one 200 round magazine, come on they can carry loads! Give us a reload please ED.

Something else that may help you from the manual: "Another means to observe this simulated trimming procedure is to display the Controls Indicator overlay while in game by pressing [RCtrl + Enter]."

Press one brake pedal (Doesn't matter which) and all four brakes operate on Chinook. Although you need to press both in to be able to pull the parking brake out to lock that in position.

I think there's only ever been one instance of this happening on Chinook and they were lucky to come back in one piece. A fully articulated head doesn't like barrel rolls or loops. Probably the best example of the limits it flies to is demonstrated by the RAF Odiham Chinook display team, although that said in recent years they've had to tone it down a bit, but still incredibly impressive!

To taxy think of Chinook like a shopping trolley (Cart), the aft right has the power steering actuator and the aft left castors, the front do nothing. You can only turn the aft wheel so far before it goes 'Out of range', in this instance you'd see a warning caption and the power steering would disengage, to get it back in range sometimes you can lift into the hover (If possible) and the rear Flight engineer (Crewman) would give it a boot to get it back within range! The actuator would automatically pull the wheel back round to the centre (Switch selected). So if this model is anything like that then try no to do sharp turns, 50% may be too far.

Great photos. What happened to the aft work platform?

Not looked too in-depth yet, but suggested edits: Overhead - PTU's on with APU before ECU start (We want to hear them squeal) Overhead - TQ share Centre - Parking brake on Centre - LPI is missing? Please move the Blades, they should never be parked like that, rather they will be off centre, see my rough scribble

That Chinook website has been up for decades along with it's attachments, manuals, photo's etc. as the website says it's all information that has been publicly released, if not they would have been shut down years ago. I've visited over the years, the spinning Chinook Gif has been there since probably the late 90's and it's still going Although I get the point of reminding people about sharing information. I'd also be surprised if ED's CH47F developers have not had a good look through it or heard of the site as there's still a lot of basic similarities. @HMSSURP you have another YT sub from me, although I'll never call it a 'Hook', always a 'Cab'

Tbf if you asked most people to come up with a design they'd probably come up with a similar thing, Polar display and something for height.

This is how they do it on the Miltech MSFS 2020 CH47D. Works ok but there's no audio calls yet, not sure if they're planning to add them but would be useful in DCS. It's a similar style to the UH-1 Huey USL display. The Red dot on the polar display shows you where you are in relation to the load, the bar on the right shows the ideal height above the load. Also shows what hooks you are using and the cargo type.

Some from the RAF. The 40th anniversary paint scheme, the Squadron 100th anniversary paint schemes, Gulf war 1 paint scheme and finally Bravo November, the most famous Chinook in the RAF in it's Mk1 colours in the Falklands.

Well I suppose we had the trailer a while back, we also didn't see anything like that for Kiowa till on the day of release?

Extended range fuel tanks are additional fuel tanks that are installed within the cabin. Pipework connects them to the refuel system so they can be filled and pipework to the tanks so they can be used as any other fuel tank to feed the engines. The aircraft can take up to three internal tanks which could be an option for 'Fat cow' operations, where they can refuel other helicopters or tanks etc. from a Forward refuelling point. Although that has the drawback of taking up most of the cabin and it's heavy! So you'd expect to see one or two fitted if in a role where they need to use cabin space and the extended range this extra fuel gives you. The picture shows a tank, larger black box, with the Fat cow kit in the smaller box in the foreground.

Hi thanks, yes aware of how to find it. What I should have asked is if anyone can recommend any MP servers using the Kola map?

Which MP severs are running the Kola map, I'm thinking of picking it up in the sale, thanks.

Unless you want to perform a rapid 'Aft pylon removal' https://www.chinook-helicopter.com/chinook/aft_pylon_removal.html

All ED need to do is swap out the title 'Early access' to 'Paid Beta' and then we'll all be on the same page. That's what I'm buying into, early beta access where I get my hands on the aircraft and am prepared come across bugs, annoyances and issues (Deep breath...) and feed them back, not early access to a V1.XXXX module. The annoyance would only come if nothing gets fixed such that I didn't want to fly it. The Miltech MSFS Chinook is a prime example, their first flight model was so bad I didn't want to fly it despite paying for the full module, but now a version or so on, reacting to feedback it's much better.

Well some people did want a B - D model Chinook

I'd say yes, Chinook is a very stable platform as others have mentioned. I very much doubt that because there's no full AFCS/DFACS on early access it'll be unflyable (Challenging) akin to no AFCS at all, although that said the MilTech MSFS Chinook version was messed up at the start (fixed now). There will be some stabilisation for sure, remember we're talking about software here, they can make it fly similar without having the exact same functionality. A 'Basic trim system' will be fine to get going with and I imagine will be very similar to that of the Huey, perhaps the only significant difference people will notice when it's added is how easy it is to land. It's probably summed up really well in this comment from https://verticalmag.com/features/golden-years-html/ "A crew chief recently transferred to the F from the D model probably said it best, “I miss having pilots. . . we’ve got button-pushers now.”