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With the Airtraffic script out now, this would be a great addition to the DCS world. I hope you are able to provide us with the mod soon :)

There are mods out there with white UN vehicles from Combined Arms, perhaps raising this question to the mod maker might result in some answers?

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AlphaOneSix did a great job at explaining the various systems of the Mi-8 using RL pictures, drawings and diagrams. All these little gems were discussed in detail in their own thread and as such, got pushed down the list. Since this information is important and, in my opinion, a mandatory read for every Mi-8 pilot, I'm posting them here for everyone to read. Here goes: Ice protection system: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=152402 Fuel system: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=151933 Hydraulic system: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=152670 Flight controls: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=152786 Electrical system: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=152830 Fire protection system: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=151326 All kudos and praise to AlphaOneSix, thanks man, great stuff. If I've missed a system, please let me know. Let's hope we can get this stickied!

For more information regarding the fuel system: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=151933&highlight=fuel+system We should get Belsimtek to sticky these "how does it work" threads from Alphaonesix.

The generators are directly connected to main rotor RPM, go below 90% and they switch off and take a load of electronics with them. They do come up when main rotor RPM gets above 90% though. Fuel pumps, as long as the service tank is full, it'll gravity feed the engines. Even in the case the fuel pumps are switched off, you're able to fly until you empty the service tank. In fact, you only need to run the two main pumps to fill the service tank, the third one is optional.

It's not the linebacker, it's the missile. The linebacker fires an IR SAM and although Radar SAMs are addressed to your aircraft or the enemy's, firing an IR SAM is addressed "To whom it may concern".

Can you stop posting in this thread? Everythime I visit the forum my heart skips a beat when this thread pops-up :)

Make your farp as per normal template, have all the vehicles in one group. Now move those vehicles to some outlandish corner part of the map where nobody looks. Place enemy defenses at the FARP Make a trigger that teleports your vehicles to the FARP once all defenses have been destroyed. Voila, instant working FARP. If you want, you can spice it up by having friendlies slingload in some cargo crates before you teleport your FARP vehicles. I've tested this a couple of times and it worked flawlessly.

Same as with the Mi-8. If you yank the collective, main rotor RPM will drop as the electric governors cannot inject fuel fast enough into the turbines for them to counteract the suddenly requested torque demand. The whole concept of gas turbine engines and their governors is to keep engine RPM in a small bandwidth that allows for one specific rotor RPM regardless of collective setting and keep it there. Any upsetting of this balance and the system will reset itself to the stable condition it was programmed to. If you upset the balance by a large amount, engine RPM will drop and main rotor RPM will drop as well.

So you can boogey while taxiing, great, but it isn't going to win wars you know..

For clarification, I did not see many stutters. I did get the occasional frame-load freeze but nothing major that would prevent me from flying. I'll upgrade in due time before 2.5 hits. I flew the Mi-8 in that mission, so low and slow. What struck me was the warping and random moving around of all the units when connected to the server, be it player, aircraft, ground or AI. I never experienced anything like that.

Dxdiag attached. DxDiag.txt

Homing can also be done on the R-828. Set a unit in the mission editor, advanced waypoint, transmit radio on a frequency corresponding to one of the R-828 frequencies. Set power to 100 and loop continuously. Now, activate the R-828, set to compass instead of normal and your HSI needle will point to the radio beacon and will "follow" if the unit moves. A video of this can be found here:

If anybody wants to join as a red SU25T and/or KA50 in our upcoming event on the 13th of September, please send me a PM on the forum. There are slots for 2 x KA50's, 4 x SU25T and a tactical commander.

The 132nd will run this mission on september 13th with the wing and other interested parties. I'm making a detailed briefing which I intend to share with the mission maker.

Don't forget he's doing 124 kts IAS - (30 carrier speed + 11 knots headwind) = 124 - 41 = 83 knots ground speed, that isn't much at all although I do agree with the short stopping distance.

Our wing tried it last night, just three people but we had a blast! Sue, without SEAD the A10's were wingclipped but finally I got tanks into the area and they made short work of the SAM site but then came the other suprise! I won't spoil it but we had good fun. One thing of note, we're still on 1.5.6 so briefing for tactical commander didn't work, that should be fixed in the new version. We're looking to running this mission again but with a full complement of our wing to have most, if not all, the slots filled. Thanks for the mission!

Set up a mission with a target and make markers with other vehicles or structures at 500, 1000, 1500 and 2000 meter distance away. Set unlimited fuel and ammo and have at it. Make sure to read the manual and learn how to read the diagrams and set the sight. With training, you'll get rockets on target eventually. There are scripts out there that will help you "score" hits against strafe targets so you know if and how good you hit the target.

And this is a point that you need to take note of because you'll get caught with your pants down on landing or take-off when your real pedals are centered and your virtual ones are somewhere else. Perhaps it is an idea to reset trim first before taking off again after landing?

The heading channel is not an autopilot, just a damper. It'll try, within its authority, try to keep the nose into the direction it was activated in. Although very useful in flight, the Mi-8 has, as any other helicopter, a natural tendency to need quite some pedal input on take-off to compensate for the additional torque induced by high collective setting to get airborne. Once through Effective Translational Lift, required pedal input is severely les required and that's the point the heading channel will keep the nose pointing in the right direction. What is most likely happening is that the heading channel is at the limits of its authority AND setting the pedal input to compensate (shown by the yellow icon in the AP channel heading window) but is too slow to compensate the torque. Bottom line, learn to take off using pedal input instead of relying on the AP channel.

Have you checked the mission editor? It has a slider for AI gunners accuracy. Select the helicopter and use the icons in the lower right corner to look for the tab showing a slider for accuracy.

Increase collective slightly until you've established a hover, if the generators do not fail at this time, you should be good to get underway as hovering taxes the main rotor RPM the most. Add forward cyclic to get into ETL (Effective Translational Lift) without adding collective or perhaps a tiny bit. Once you've reached ETL (noticed by buffeting of the helicopter, than smoothing out) you will climb on your own without adding collective as your main rotor disc is now eating fresh undisturbed air, adding to its lift. If, at hovering, your generators fail, you need to check loaded weight, anti-icing and dust protectors.

I don't know the mission 6 details but if you're entering a hover at 400m above the ground, it's going to be a long, long way down. If it's a mountain or elevated pick-up, go through the diagrams and calculate your fuel and set the appropriate amount to be as light as possible. Approach the landing zone at a lower altitude so you can get into a hover just a few meters above the ground or make a running landing if at all possible. One other thing to look for is your icing panel and see if it's active and if you receive any icing warnings during the flight, you might just be in an area of air with icing problems. Check your dust protectors to see if they're active yes or no as they bleed some power from the engines. That's all I can come up with other than increasing motor RPM to emergency but that's solving a symptom, not the problem since generator failure is locked to Rotor RPM and decreasing Rotor RPM is linked to power problems in the engines due to ice, dust, damage or pulling too much collective. Treat her like a lady on a first date, nice and gentle, make small adjustments to controls to see how she responds. On a side note, exiting a VRS condition can also be done by moving the cyclic left and adjusting pedals to compensate for yaw so as to exit the VRS sideways instead of dropping the nose and exiting forward. See more here: http://www.specializedheli.com/study-blog/2015/9/18/swp-settling-with-power-vortex-ring-state

Great stuff, I love the improvements. One thing of note though, but it's most likely because its WIP, I can't seem to find the high-voltage transmission towers in the 2.2 screenshot. Will they still be included?