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I think he's talking about once N1 reaches 5% (Though I generally wait for 10%) to introduce fuel.

Something like that. If you're planning on doing any crazy loops or maneuvers, make sure you're pulling a bunch of power to keep the G-forces positive in relation to the helicopter (Even though it may be upside down :pilotfly:) This method is not approved for the real life. Like at all. Seriously. Guys. Don't do it.

That sounds like it would be tremendously taxing on the ground/tower side of things at even slightly busy airports. I'm at a relatively small airfield; if we had to ask permission to start engines every time we did a simple run-up, the air waves would be clogged with useless garbage... Even here, we only need to call ground to get on the taxiway. We can re-position on the ramp pretty much right up to the taxiway to do an engine HIT check without talking to anyone. Granted there are general guidelines and gentlemanly decor that must be adhered to (like staying on the lines/staying away from other aircraft & people working on them), but we don't have to ask permission to do any of it.

In the real life, my pilots don't talk to tower until they're ready to taxi. :music_whistling: Once they're ready, they call ground for permission to taxi and then they talk to tower to take off once they get to the runway. Or they can just call tower if they want to do a present position take off because helicopter, f*ck yeah.:thumbup:

Oh crap, just got your question. It shouldn't take you too terribly long to turn on battery power, generator, set the electrical buses, the fuel pump, hydraulic pumps and start the engine. I would recommend doing all of your avionics checks at least at idle, if not fly (Or prior to supplying battery power). I know the colder it gets, the shorter amount of time you have, if you can start at all.

There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to reach tower, ground power supplies the same power as the generator at fly.

40 seconds:music_whistling:

And once your engine starts, you have to hold the starter for 40 seconds (max) or wait till N1 reaches 40% and it is self sustaining.

You also should have the power available to recover simply by pulling more collective. In theory... :music_whistling:

The trick is once you start descending about 1500 fpm pull a little more and more collective and you'll fall faster.If you pull too much too quickly you'll be able to pull out of it. Contrary to popular belief, there are in fact two ways out of VRS; the lesser known being Jeremy Clarkson screaming at the top of his lungs. This is assuming you have the power required to do so. If you don't, you'll just make it worse. And then the ensuing fireball will probably kill you.

While I'm certainly no real-life Huey pilot and can't vouch for the realism in this regard, you appear to be correlating difficulty with realism. Just because it may be easier than it used to be, doesn't make it particularly unrealistic. http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2209715&postcount=16

To be perfectly fair, it shouldn't appear anywhere that isn't loose dirt/sand... :music_whistling:

Ive been told that they never turned the trim switch on in the real thing, but that could have easily been an IP (Instructor Pilot) blowing smoke up my ass. I personally never use trim anyway; after I removed that big fat spring from my warthog, it tends to like to stay where I put it. :joystick:

I wish! Then they'd be half way realistic.:thumbup: You shouldn't be able to adjust the brightness of NVGs; in the real life if its too dark or too bright, tough nuts. There have been plenty of times where I'm flying over the ocean on a zero-illum. night and I can't see ANYTHING with my goggles other than a dark void with the occasional white-out from the anti-collision lights flashing. Or it could look like day time with the moon over head on a cloudless night.

Don't ask me, I don't buy the NVGs. :p

This. I use ANVIS-6 regularly and you can only change your focal distance. You're supposed to set the focal distance outside the cockpit and use your peripheral vision to see the instruments.

Here's what the army says about it.

Is this what people are complaining about with the collective issue? Not a bug. Like at all. Seriously people. Stop complaining about this. My pilots flying a UH60M (in the real life) with all those crazy FCS computers have to deal with this as well. It's especially annoying when you have a block of concrete dangling from the hoist 100 feet below and you're trying to put it on a tire. Welcome to flying helicopters. The thing is .

I'm fairly certain that it was ruled out; mostly because , as far as I know, it was only ever put on Alpha and Bravo models.

Like Golani said, you need to be gentle. Your power margin is pretty narrow with the huey, especially with any sort of load.

I took the spring out of my Saitek pedals, works amazing and allows me to "trim" my rudder. :joystick:

I think there may be a problem with the meat servos in your helicopters. ;)

I'm not following either of you about the "collective sensitivity issue" I'm using a TM warthog without any curves and it handles just fine... :huh:

Realistically speaking, the GAU-8 isn't able to penetrate anything harder than the back side of a T-62. Click me It's only a 30mm, there's a reason MBTs use big cannons... :thumbup:

Also dust. ;)