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I`m sorry, I seemed to have missed something....but, what new Mi-8MT model?

You have my vote :joystick: I think if someone (I`m not that good with 3D modeling) would make a good 3D model of it...ED might think about it. If it helps I have the manuals and friends and flight-school colleagues that fly the Mi-8/17 as well as acces to them.

Actually the MEL is a list of allowed defects. If an aircraft has a defect that is included in the MEL than it can fly. For instance. If the Aft No.1 Fuel Pump in the Boeing 737 brakes...you can still fly the plane, but you have to take an extra of 1200kg of fuel onboard.

For transport Mi-8/17 is the king and queen.

Perhaps in a more or less distant future a good Mi-8/17 simulation will come out. Plenty of things to do with it :smartass::music_whistling:

Hm, MiG-21 Lancer :music_whistling:

One of the loudest civilian jets I`ve heard is the oldie but goldie BAC 1-11. Then there are the Russian jewels Tu-134 and 154. Not only they sound loud, but they also smoke a lot. On the military part I stood many times inside and next to a MiG-21 and a Mi-29 at full AB during testing. You can`t even hear your thoughts. That is what I call loud. Also the Su-27 makes more noise than the entire Frecce Tricolori team. I fly a 13ton helicopter, but the loudest helicopters I`ve heard must be the R-22, Agusta 109 and CH-53. In windy days the Agusta sounds like a machine gun :D

That`s nothing. 37 degrees in the summer in the cockpit is quite cool. Most of the Mi-8/17s have only two fans in the cockpit and in summer the temperature can get as high as 50 degrees. We fly butt naked ;):joystick:

Yes, you are very correct here. Might be that a single canopy is a tad expensive than a two piece. Think of the F-22 incident where the electric engine that closes and opens the window burned out. They had to wreck a 180,000 dollar canopy to get the pilot out. If it had a two piece they only had to cut through the canopy, leaving the wind screen untouched. Remember that not all countries that`ll buy the F-35 have the amounts money US has.

Never flown the Viper. I`m from the other side of the world if you know what I mean. The closest I got to a F-16 is when the T-birds came to show their shiny jets. What a beautiful show it was. Hat off to those guys.

A variometer, at least we call it like that in this part of the world, is a vertical speed indicator. I must tell you that English is not my native language so missunderstandings can occur. Now let`s get back. Trusting your oponent flight skills is a mistake. Do your own positioning and not relate to the enemy`s position. "If he`s in the air and flying so am I"...this is a no. He can be a dumbass and go right into the ground and you`ll follow him in. It almost happen to me in real world. I followed my leader blindly (I was young and restless :music_whistling:) and almost hit the trees. Fortunatly no one was hurt during that flight...only after the flight when the commander kicked our butts. We don`t do any dogfights in our helicopters. I fly a 13 ton helicopter. But when we fly in formations I keep the helicopter in front of me between certain window frames. I know that if I draw a virtual line between the corner of the panel, the middle of the distance between window frames (the middle of the widht of the window...excuse the English) and tail of the front helicopter I know that I`m at 25 meters behind (that was an example). Without the frames I would have to relate to other methods (laser range finder which we don`t have, or who knows what method I must develop to know the distance and keep me away from the other helicopter`s blades). I do this thing instinctivly it doesn`t require extra energy. So window frames aren`t that bad. I hope you see my point. I`m not saying that F-16`s one piece canopy is a bad thing. It provides the best view in the house, but in my view (at least for me) it takes a little longer to get used to it.

Good luck with that during tight dogfights. I usually keep my eye on my enemy. Most of the times I know what`s the position of my aircraft relative to the ground and relative to my enemy, but there are times when I get lost and I need to find asap a fixed visual cue to acertain the position of my aircraft..so I move my eyesite (or using my corner vision) to the window frame (the one that sets apart the windscreen and the canopy). If it`s paralel to the ground then my nose is pointing down, if it`s perpendicular on the ground then my nose is slightly up. I can`t do this sort of thing in the F-16. I have to look at the HUD, as you suggested. How many hundreds flight hours you must have before you can join? Above 750...1000 hours? We could just throw away the artificial horizon, variometer, altimeter, compas. Yes, sir, I do. I fly military helicopters for 15 years now. And I started on jets.

It only gives good visibility, but when it comes to knowing the position of your plane relative to the ground...this is where it gets a minus. You don`t have a fixed visual cue to see where the nose is poiting. During dogfights you can get in some really awkward positions. Your internal ear tells you something, G presure something, your gut instinct tells you something else and you see something different than what the other three are telling you. Thus having a Su or MiG type of cockpit made out of two pieces you can see more quickly what`s your position. Also during formation flying you can estimate distances between planes better with a two piece canopy. My two cents.

I bet he`s friend is flying it. Last time I saw the Sniper it was a bird house for sparrows near the hangar.

:megalol: LOL, that`s MiG-29 Sniper. Photo taken at Aerostar Bacau, Romania.

As a pilot it`s good to know that my aircraft won`t go berserk if I pull high AoA. This is the point of the Cobra: maneuvreing at high AoA. During a dogfight I know I can pull the crap out of my Sukhoi without getting into much trouble...just some vibrations. I know that my engine won`t flame out, the plane won`t spin out of control...my only focus is to maintain energy for maneuvreing to shoot the the enemy down. If I`m in a position when I consider that doing the Cobra will save my butt I will do it. It`s good to know my plane can do it. I know my enemy doesn`t have my maneuvring advantage and I can use it against him. This is the whole point.