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First of all, I don't think people think you are an ass****. Everyone just wants to convince you are wrong very badly ;) About the feeling of a simulator I want to say one thing. Remember that we are flying a very realistic simulator with "toy sticks". What a sim developer can't do is controlling what stick you use to fly. This is VERY important for how the simulator feels (stick arm length & pressure). I'm sure, if you would load DCS BS in a military simulator pit, it will be extremely close to the real thing.

What bugs? :D

Oldflyer, I would really like to see a track of your flight. The single player tracks are saved in the Ka-50\Missions\Tracks folder. I have some experience in military heli simulators and the first time I flew DCS Ka-50 I was stunned how close it came to my "real" experiences. I only fly and study the flight model into detail by looking at movies. Although there is certainly room for improvement, DCS Blackshark is for sure todays very best modeled helicopter sim for the PC.

Bug report I think everyone flew in to one of the hangars with their Ka-50, it's challenging and great fun :joystick: One time I flew in to it I knew I was close to the right wall but for sure, not hitting it! There I was, slamming in to the ground while the rotor blades flew all over the place. It appears the "hitbox" of the hangar is shifted. To make it clear I flew a track to show this bug. I hope it will be fixed in the next patch. :)

Welcome vrv! Congratulations with your copy of BlackShark. You will not regret it! :joystick: Good luck :D

The yellow levers "Thrust" controls RPM setting of the engine and can be left in the middle. With the "Collective" you change the rotor blade angle what you use to go up and down. In BS options you should assign the collective control to your slider or throttle on your joystick.

Wow thats a great explenation of the physics! Though I'm still not really convinced what you subscribe is the only couse of the rocking. But it made me thinking, could it be that high air speeds combined with an increasing cyclic push or dropping the collective is making the airfow comming down on the helicopter too fast for the rotorblades? With other words, creating rotor drag on top of the disk slowing the helicopter down in an unnatural way?

I think I should do some more research to this behaviour to find out when it exactly happens. Note that in this movie the engine failure is not part of the example, though it could be also one of the couses of the rocking. I think forward cyclic at high speed, combined with a collective drop is the best way to introduce this out of control rocking.

Thanks for your reply but I was talking about a situation of high speed and not a normal vortex ring state situation. To make more clear what I mean I found a tutorial where it happens. See the second landing attempt in at 3:20 and 3:46.

Question: Dropping the collective suddently while flying at high speed couses a wild rock to the Ka-50 (quick nose down and left right rolling). Is this another kind of vortex ring effect?

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After being out of the routine for a while, I did a major update on the list of LockOn Aerobatic Teams. As some may notice the list did not grow this time. I removed all faulty links to what appears to be inactive or nowdays nonexistent teams. The reason for doing this is simple. The list of LockOn Aerobatic Teams is not intended to be a history book but a list of virtual formation aerobatic teams flying lockon today. If you find your team removed from the list while your team is still actively flyng lockon, please send me a new request by PM or Email. Thank you.

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After being out of the routine for a while, I did a major update on the list of LockOn Aerobatic Teams. As some may notice the list did not grow this time. I removed all faulty links to what appears to be inactive or nowdays nonexistent teams. The reason for doing this is simple. The list of LockOn Aerobatic Teams is not intended to be a history book but a list of virtual formation aerobatic teams flying lockon today. If you find your team removed from the list while your team is still actively flyng lockon, please send me a new request by PM or Email. Thank you.

Zeker vet! Too bad there are no subtitles but the point about these two movies is that this is the first simulator which can simulate all the movements and Gforces in a jet fighter. Lets call it "a centrifuge and a simulator in one". Something I would like to have in my room! :P Thanks for posting!

Your computer is not powerful enough :D

Nice :) Thx for the headsup LD!

One strange thing though, I have multiple installations on my computer and it happend one time that only one installation did have the problem (until after reboot). Anyways thx for the tips, appriciated!

Happens sometimes, rebooting solves the problem for me (for a while). It might be a GeForce card issue, I have a 8800 GTS/500.

Heared about that crash, glad no-one died in the accident. Great pics by the way! Here is something else, Ka-50 HUD action :joystick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG1E1lgTsLw&feature=related (It might be posted before but I was too lazy to look for it ;))