bluepilot76

Yeah there is, but if I told you I'd have to kill you... Carrier landing.trk

Bucic, afraid a quick search on google only revealed a wikipedia article, mentioning an inversion and dodgy thermometer, can you provide the technical details so I can understand why the engines iced up? I see that Mi8 has very long inlet (intake) which would have some serious icing potential in it.

I would just like to add, that I was impressed by the precision of the OPs flying. I think he quite clearly demonstrated the problem. In my opinion his attitude adjustments were not as big or abrupt as the guy taking off in the Kamov video.

Who mentioned the T word anyway! dammit I hope it wasnt me!

Hey, like I said Im not sure about it, but come on now, icing inside a turbine is surely not going to happen.. Icing of the intake WILL happen if anticing is not on in icing conditions. The reason I brought it up is that those icing graphs with the clouds and +10C etc etc are all over the piston engine PPL manuals, I recognise them very clearly. They relate to carburettor icing which is the most common cause of engine failure in light aircraft and is very easy to occur is you are not aware of the dangers. therefore they are drummed into you all the time in PPL training. Dont recall them so often through CPL or MCC training but maybe I am just getting rusty. I suppose the reduction in pressure as the air goes over the aircraft structure will cause the icing point to occur in warmer than 0C, but not 10C warmer. Other thing to look out for is supercooled water droplets falling from cold air above in warm air below, then definatley you will have problems. Anyway having said all that I better go and read up on that nasty crash.

The one I have been watching, I seem to recall he climbs, side slips a bit , swings the nose through 90 degrees whilst accelerating, climbs more, turns about 90 degrees again, accelerates more, climbs more. I wouldnt say the attitude adjustments were small, see above, some of those manoevres have huge gaps in trimmer use. The only time it really calms down is when he gets onto course at altitude, after turning along the road. Then of course he hardly has to touch anything because the AP is holding required trajectory. Is there any other good KA50 in cockipt videos, I couldnt find any?

hmm no I dont think so, its a quadrophonic or something. However I dont mean it should actually calculate all of the vortexes or anything like that, it could just be, wheels on runway, runway wet, take the third exit. (TBH I dont really see the point of a lot of whats modelled, individual bullets and things going on out of sight somewhere between some AI. At least I think thats the sort of fidelity the DCS is at isnt it?, but really whats the point?) Its like those philosophical statements; if a tree falls in the forest, does it really make any noise. Well yes probably, but do I care if I dont hear it? I would rather the processor was making the AI around me look vaguely believeable. I Maiden are awesome arent they. Did you see Bruce was doing 1 hour long sim sessions in his own full motion 737 simulator, with him, for 666pounds! All sold out unfortunately...

I asked over on Avsim for a reccomendation for a good FSX helicopter addon and was unanimously told to get Dodo sim. Cant remember the exact name. Can look on the lapdog and find out if your interested. Apparently it is the dogs Bs for flight model etc. However I was REALLY dissapointed with the quality of the virtual cockpit. It has a mechanical wear and tear model though which makes things interesting. Coupled with very high quality photographic terrain and decent add-on weather it is reasonably enjoyable. And to add, I think anybody making any sort of flight sim should be encouraged, not shot down. The more people in on this, the bigger the market, the more money, the better the chance of their one day being a truly amazing simulator. It is good for beginners if flight models are dumbed down a bit too. Noone can get into a real heli and expect to survive without some training.

Its a good point, Maybe ED should fix the AI flight model so it looks realistic.

In the (famous/fabulous) YouTube Kamov Ka-50 Cockpit view video, the guy only trims something like 8 times through the whole transition from sitting on the ground to airborne, to changing course as well as changing altitdes and speeds, so I think that trimming after every small movement of the cyclic might be a bit much? I dont see any of those big bumps in the video.

P.S. If you look at ncimike3 's excellent picture, you will see much more of the belly of the tanker. That is because he is lower. I think I fly it even lower than that. In RL there would be badd dirty air up that high behind the tanker so the boom is designed to come down at a steeper angle into the clean air. As a result the boom receptacle is probably only designed to work at that steep angle. Through excellent flying it sounds like you are flying your receptacle right up to the boom, however the angle is wrong. If you are lower the boom operator will actually move it in the last few inches. You do not need to fly it all the way onto the boom.

Hey Fakum, That looks too high to me. I had problems like that, it seems easier if you are higher because it is easier to see the picture straight out the front - not having to look up so much. But the hookups if they come at all are likely not to be successful (connected but no fuel). Try a metre or 2 lower. You will need to be further forward as well so that the boom can still reach you. Give it a go.

I am not sure about this; That chart and the below +10C thing is certainly the case for piston engines with a carbureta, because there is a massive reduction in temperature as the air speeds up and reduces in pressure in the carb. As the air goes into a turbine the air pressure would decrease slightly at the inlet but all of the fans at the front are designed to increase the pressure so that a huge volume of combustion will occur in the chambor. Therefore I think that turbine pilots are concerned at temperatures closer to zero than piston pilots. As for the dust protection, how long would you need to fly your shark in the dust before there was any effect? I can see wear being a great feature in a dynamic campaign but as it is we get a brand new shiny shark at the start of every mission dont we?

CHeck your controls calibration in windows before loading sim. Mine (rudder axis) has started going hardover and seemes to need calibrating before most sessions. Never used to do it, not sure if its the sim , windows or the controller. Having said that you really do need to use lateral trim in the A10C but as already posted it should be in trim in the training sessions and is usually only after you drop a bomb off one side.

Oh well Demnogornot, you know the saying "great minds think alike" lol. Unfortunately it seems noone else sees the potential!

Couldnt attach as got logged out. FD all the way of course! manoevres.trk

Viper, checked your tracks thanks for posting them, Both seem to confirm that you can manoevre the shark freely in AP if your last trimmed position was a stable hover. You can manoevre the shark freely in FD no matter what your last trimmed position was, because the angular stabilisation will not try and return the shark to your last trimmed position. However, against the AP method: Your last stable position is a stable hover and a heading. so your are manoevering fairly freely but the shark still wants to return to the last trimmed heading. I reckon that will be why so many people are turning off the HDG channel. Surely that is not reccomended. Its all about cockpit resource management. Most pilots are actually competant at flying a plane safely without crashing into a mountain whilst doing other things. The autopilot can help with that, but only in safe airspace. Not where there is obstacles such as buildings, missiles, other aircraft, birds. It seems only suitable to me in navigational phases. Summary: AP has a time and place where it can be helpful FD has a time and place where it can be helpful People who are struggling to enjoy smooth flight with a feeling of complete control should look again at flying with the FD mode ON I am a near beginner and have been repeataedly told not to fly in FD. Its dangerous for some reason. Or AP allows you to concentrate on other tasks. To be honost, the BS weapons systems are not very complex. Realistically theres ATGM and a gun. Big deal. A10C it aint! Theres not that much to do with your head down. A pilot in complete control of his aircraft does not even notice his hands and feet are moving, same as driving a car. Your brain can cope with more than that. And to finish on a lighter note, attached my airshow practice. it aint pretty, but theres no blood spilt!

Long and drawn out? that actually sounds quite simple by warthog standards! Going to try that once Im fed up of crashing blacksharks again.

Cant think of a good title for this. In Condor Gliding Simulator you can fly your glider around the course and (if you want) see your previous attempts at the same time, as other gliders populating your world. Its really good to try and beat your old time. Its not that relevent to DCS as you wouldnt really be competing, but for example you could gradually build up a sky full of your previous flights. The effect would be like having a nice busy traffic pattern, or a busy battlefield, only the other planes arent just AI, they are actually you. One step further, we could share our tracks so you could fly offline in a mission with someone else. Does that make sense at all? We already have tracks and the option to replay them so its simply a matter of allowing you to replay a track but be in a different aircraft. Simple! (SAYS HE WHO KNOWS NOTHING OF PROGRAMMING)

Definately +1 they have them in RoF, why cant we have them too? Not been much of a problem in the A-10 but would be really useful in the Shark.

This is how it seeems to me. It seems more analogous to an aeroplane elevator trim. I find in FD mode I feel like I am trimming for a specific speed. I can trim for 250 and fly around like that. . I can then slow to 200, but I can feel that the chopper wants to fly at 250..because that is whats its trimmed for. You can trim for 250 and slow down to 50. you are stuill perfectly incontrol but near the end of your sticks travel so you feel like re trimming.. Its the same in a Cessna. I can trim for 100, but fly at 75. Its uncomfortable, the plane wants to fly at 100. So I retrim for 75. Now I am flying at 75 with the plane in trim. But this is the important bit.. I can fly in any direction at 75... I dont need to retrim for North if before I was flying South.I am trimming for speed.

Thanks Viper I will check it after work, still 5 hours to go. Incidently it might be fun to have a blackshark airshow online, or blackshark races around some course in a city somewhere. Maybe you guys are doing that already. I know its not by the book, but it would be good practice and a lot of fun. Im going to see if I can replicate that guys airshow lator.

Viper do me a favour and go and try again with FD on (blue light on). Maybe its a while since you tried it. I swear it is easier than AP mode. Of cours it should be, all it seems to do is lose the AP modes positional stabilisation, NOT the helicopters stabilisation. Going back to my first ever post on this thread. FD mode sounds like it should "put you on rails" it sounds like a heavy duty autopilot mode. In fact you are left with the helicopter unburdoned with the APs clunky course holding every time you press the trimmer. Go an fly some crazy aerobatics with the FD on, and trimming. I swear it will be as smooth as silk!

Yes I mentioned that he wasnt trimming on my first post of the day. Just in case noone wants to go back that far!

Because the annoying aspect to me is that when I turn the machine the machine wants to go the other way. Unless I trim trim and trim again!. It is jumping from one small flight path to the next, not a smooth transition. Except for the guy in the video.