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Normally I would put cruise table from the flight manual here, but we all know that above 60kts the power settings don't correspond with either correct pitch, nor correct speed. Therefore saying that you flew too fast, and should stick to 90-100 kts range is not really valid in current build. Experiment with air speeds, and wait for newer iteration of the FM, then we'll try apply the flight manual data.

The point is to perform an ILS approach to landing in a Huey. Let's take Sochi-Adler airport, runway 06 - that runway has decision height of 180m MSL. If you want to limit someone from performing a landing on that airport, you set the cloud base below, or put up a fog with less than 2300m visibility. If you want someone to land there, the visibility has to be above 2300m and cloud base above 180m MSL. Now, with 300m MLS cloud base minimum available to set up, the whole thing is not very stressful, you go from IFR to VFR well above the decision height, no stress, no second-guessing.

The difference is: you can't get out of fog by descending ;) BTW minimums for airfield still apply either you fly airplane, or a helicopter, if you don't see the runway at decision height, you can't land. That's why there has to be a cloud base barely over minimal height - to perform IFR approaches here. Because the ILS on Huey isn't suppose to get you to the landing spot, only to the runway decision point - from there on its VFR.

Viper, sorry man, but that doesn't count, you've set up FOG up to 1000m MSL with 20m visibility. What we want to see is cloud base bellow 300m MSL (say 120m MSL like it was here few days ago).

There is an NVG mod, that address some of the issues - the visual side, not functional: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=100333&highlight=NVG+mod I don't think much can be done without going deep into the game engine, as just like most others - there are no near infra red light emitters - and that's the most of the spectrum that night vision is picking up.

The aviation goggles (talking about AN/PVS-6 and AN/PVS-9)are meant to be hands-off devices, so the brightness gain is adjusted automatically. There is no such functionality in DCS, so we have to do it manually. On the other hand, we can't adjust focus in the sim, and this can be adjusted on the real devices... not that there is any need currently in the game, as we can see everything clearly. Here's AN/PVS-9 with a distant storm, you can see the flash protection somewhat working, that's actually a function that is developed constantly because of the high inertia of the system - still can't respond and drop the voltage quickly enough, maybe this will be fixed with superconductive currently being developed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmaaMFH3eAw

Except for compass, non of the gauges are really illuminated so they appear as black holes under NVGs in current build. To work around that with our current build we have to fly with the white dome light on. Still quite far from the real thing Wonder when newer build will be released, as instrument illumination was shows even before the pre-release.

Yes there is room for improvement everywhere. It's not my intention to put any developer on the fence and demand certain issue fixed. What I'm doing here is more of educating about what we should see if some work would be put here - like modeling the right warhead, fuses, and effect on target. Right now we can probably kill a tank with practice warheads (didn't tried that, it will probably take a while), and we do no damage at all to any target with white phosphorous, because the rocket goes through them harmlessly, until it impacts the ground - creating smoke effect (no damage at all), or the illumination flares are going too far before ignition... etc. etc. You see, it is especially frustrating since the FFARs are the main armament for this Huey - and I won't even repeat myself about the wrong launcher and rocket motor combination here.

The Mk.5 is not beloved by me... I actually despise its existence in this game - this was the warhead that was only in storage in Europe and continental US during Vietnam conflict, and after that, only in US Navy, because US Army and Air Force got ride of it as it was ineffective against any of the newer Soviet tanks. The US Army introduced the M247 warhead pretty quickly, and this warhead should be in the sim - it's still in storage (not in use, as guided and cluster munitions are more effective anti-armor weapons). PS. I have a nice book with drawings of shot patterns overlay on tanks for the GAU-8... it's not that many hits really.

Well yes, when the gun jams with the bolt in forward position and not locked, or you have a primer failure, this gun can cook-off. What I'm writing about is when the gun is fully operational, and the trigger is released.

M60 fires from an open bolt, when you release the trigger - bolt will be locked back and chamber will be cleared - no possibility for a cook-off or any other effect that would cause weapon to fire on itself.

The back-light of the instrument panel doesn't work, so the instruments are only readable with NVGs when you turn on the white dome light... in reality with that light on, everything inside of the cockpit would be a bright blob.

Yes, going through the ETL is quite violent in the sim, I can't really say anything of the real Huey on that topic though. But I've never felt anything this severe on any helicopter I was a self-loading-cargo. It's up to anyone with lots of UH-1/B205 stick time to judge this.

How come? You have hydraulics and force trim in the way. Any feedback stops at the hydraulic actuators, and the force feedback makes the cyclic balanced so it can't amplify fuselage vibrations. And even helicopters that have no force feedback, but an hydraulically boosted controls - like the S-58 don't transmit any forces to the stick. A pilot from Northwest once said to me that it's "like flying a wet noodle" :smilewink: no feedback at all.

It's still the military, so one would have to ask either in the Navy Command, or in Aviation Brigade headquarters, can't deal with such things locally anymore. Just found the internship practice book, some of the activities sound more awesome then they were: ^ at this point my professor gave up and approved the whole thing, without asking me what the "Kalmar" is, and what was I actually doing with the bomb racks :megalol:

I will buy it, but I'm rather ambivalent toward the Mi-8. Would rather like the Mi-14 with SAR and ASW missions, or any other helicopter really. I don't work on those helicopters, I sort of did during my internship. They don't really allow an intern to do anything on his own, so it was sort of a prolonged introduction to mechanics and maintenance procedures mainly on airframe structure, avionics (navigation, data recording), sensors and weapon system. Don't think a civilian can get into an internship like that anymore though, it was in times when base commander was the undisputed ruler ;) It's different these days.

Navy Air Base :smilewink: Although I can do pictures outside of my work area if I get permission, would do some of the Mi-8 MTV-1 and Mi-14, but the maintenance hangar is one big construction site at this moment. And don't have time to bother people on the flight line.

I found it some time ago on a 4x4 page - someone was modifying his differential installing diff-lock, and put it together like that. I can't do pictures at work. Even my phone is locked in.

No problem, but here's something we both can laugh at: The instruction do say to safetywire those... but as you can see someone don't really know how to perform that operation ;)

Don't know what's so funny :noexpression: :huh: NASA Reference Publication 1228 page #8. PS. Also look inside heavy duty differentials.

On the collective levers those are single nuts that vibrate and go up and down, any technician would start doing voodoo dolls of engineer who would think to secure each single bolt separately with a lockwire. Where with the pitch links you don't really have a choice, the whole assembly rotates so the lockwire is more secure way of locking those in place, you shouldn't use cotter pins on parts that spin.

Actually all front line Army Hueys got at least Tacan by earaly-mid 1980s, many had Doppler, few even had INS (EH-1). GPS is only on the ones still operational - either standalone (US DoS) or coupled with Doppler (New Zealand, Spain). Huey is such simple machine you can do wonders with its equipment, as long as the CofG is right and current in reasonable limits. For example, did you know you could incorporate the Light Weight Launchers and programmable Hydra 70 fuses ? Pretty easy to do if you have an AH-1F donor for parts :music_whistling:

Especially today, when all aircraft have either Doppler, or Inertial navigation systems, with addition of GPS for in-flight updates. The backup navigation system to that is Tacan... NDBs are absolutely last resort.

I am at work :smilewink: , and sleep ? Well my boss thinks that I will get plenty of rest when I'll be dead :music_whistling:

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