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I know, I stopped using it at version... 2011sp2 I think. Much of the complex shape modeling was addressed in... 2007 ? To late for the project I had problems with though. Now I'm cracking the Autodesk Inventor, just can't afford the Solidworks anymore to just mess around, I'm not employed as mechanical engineer at this moment.

7.62x51mm NATO ? There were no marking rounds certified for military use in that caliber. Although yes, there are such rounds, manufactured by the Northern Arizona Munitions. But same as similar rounds in 7.62x39 and 7.62x54R, those have next to no penetration - hence the name "marking rounds". Don't think you can do much damage with those to a truck. Maybe if you dumped 2 second minigun burst into the wheel hub you could set the tire on fire ? Not much more I'm afraid.

I can assure you, no one is shooting API ammo through the minigun, only ones you can find are the experimental US T101E1 and Belgian or UK PI86 - both have collectible value being 60 years old, and harder and harder to find (and really expensive). Cars on those videos are "spiced up" with various reactive materials, to give a nice show. Plus you can light gasoline with a spark created with the steel core of AP round striking on any steel surface of the car - you can't do that with jet fuel or Diesel.

AAP 7210.007-1 Royal Australian Air Force Flight Manual UH-1H 19th April 1982 - 2nd June 1998

I will be working on some panels and a collective. Although since I fly many different aircraft, those will not be entirely Huey specific. Plus if Occulus Rift comes here, there will be no need for exact panels with displays - so I'm planing minimalistic panels only with function controls, will made those on laser cuter in either Duraluminium or Steel (funny thing, have access to those - cheap, but no acrylic).

I would have to pull up a certificate for that type of ammunition at work, but the amount of incendiary mixture in 7.62 bullet is very small, it will create pretty flash when hitting a hard target, but to light up diesel fuel ? I don't think so. .50" M8 API couldn't do it, and that's ~4x more mixture.

There should be a bit of delay before the gun starts spinning, but barely noticeable (0.3 sec.) + first half of turn should be "dry", because the feeder/delinker is feeding rounds when a barrel and its chamber is in lower position (6-o'clock), while the firing position is up (12-o'clock) since the gun is spooling up to 2000rpm at this time, the delay here is around 0.05 sec. So from pressing the fire button, to first shoot should take roughly 0.35 sec. The guns should stop firing after 3 seconds because of automatic system disabling the feeder/delinker, and gun is spun without any ammo for 0.3 second (10 full revolutions) before stopping. Note that in Vietnam the miniguns were fired for minimum 2 seconds, because of jams resulting by continuous "bullwhipping" the ammo belts if shot in very short bursts.

AN/ASQ-132 IR illuminator: Two of those were mounted on the M21 weapon system as part of the INFANT project - "Iroquois Night Fighter and Night Tracker", a night Huey gunship. Those were IR spotlights that would illuminate areas where the flex mounted miniguns were pointing.

Nothing really changes from what I wrote about for the door mounted M-60 machine guns, same round, same terminal ballistics, only 6 times lower fire rate.

Didn't meant that in any other way, than to say, that our back-and-forward was probably distracting both of us from our daily routine. Other things could be achieved during that time. Everyone have their priorities, and Belsimtek is free to do anything we write here about, or not, it's up to them. But inaccuracies will be called out whenever found, that's the way flight sim communities work - it's all about virtual representation of those machines, inside and out, static and dynamic. It's developers job to figure out which have higher priorities and assign resources accordingly.

The Low RPM light will light up whenever your rotor RPM drops off the green arc. If you're finding yourself in a situation where this happens in normal flight (for example - mountain flying), beep the governor up, but don't forget to beep it down later to 6600 rpm N2, when you no longer need extra power, because when the EGT damage will be modeled, you will damage your engine flying like that. [edit] Ahh, sorry, its been a long day - no there is no key to assign to the low RPM warning sound switch, not at this stage anyway.

The short and unfortunate answer is: no. Simple physics, the JetBox is 3 times lighter than the Huey, and have no lag between pilot input and execution. You need light, and responsive helicopter to fly like that. JetBanger, Kiowa Warrior, Hughes 369, etc... AS350 and Bo-105 are pushing it, but in the right hands should do same as that B206 did. I've seen Mi-2 fly like that once, but the pilot was pushing his luck.

That is an excellent question, and the answer like with most ballistic weaponry lies in: "it depends on the ammunition". It fires the same round the M-60, M240 machineguns and M-14, M24, M40 rifles (to name only a few), non of witch was made for engaging machinery, but primarily to engage infantry. Although armor piercing (M61 and M993), sub-caliber Sabot armor piercing - AKA "SLAP"* (M948/M959) and armor piercing incendiary (silvertips: US T101E1 and Belgian PI86 - also used in the UK) are also available, but with 3300J of energy at the muzzle, their effect on hardened target is, well... limited. The best penetration you can expect is 1/2" of hardened steel with the SLAP round, barely enough to go through a Level IV plate in ballistic vest, and the resulting hole is 5mm in diameter - not much effect on target. So using those rounds on hardened or mechanical targets is like stabbing a thin plywood with a screwdriver, you will do some damage, but not very destructive. Now, if you want to wreck havoc on the trucks, what you need is a .50 cal machine gun and some NAMMO-Raufoss NM140MP (made on licence in US as Mk211 Mod 0 and Poland under original name), those are anti-armor-incendiary-high explosive-fragmentation rounds, stand back and watch the fireworks :smilewink: Up to 2" of steel penetration, fragmentation effect, incendiary effect, hot enough to light kerosene fumes - that's what you need against those pesky trucks on your lawn :thumbup: In case of the UH-1H you could potentially use those with M2HB or M3M machineguns for gunners on M59 mounts, or with either XM14 or FN HMP machinegun pods on the bomb racks. *SLAP - Saboted Light Armor Penetrator

Pretty much all of the above, plus that second video is an Bell 212, that one had SCAS* form get-go. Feedback, peripheral vision, hours of experience. But don't worry, we're getting there, plus the environment is still not as complex as the real one is. We don't have to deal with turbulent, descending and ascending flow of air over EVERY object in the game. Given enough time anyone of us can fly like that in the DCS. *SCAS - Stability Control Augmentation System, Bell first used it on AH-1G, then on the model 212.

Yes it is. Can we even see the right seat - right shoulder patch ?

I don't like your attitude Robert. And I don't think you even know what nitpicking can be with that kind of products. And apart from that, you don't understand how the whole thing works - requiring Belsimtek to work on ATC ? Weather ? Are you serious ? What they have to do with the core mechanics of DCS ? They are developing the UH-1, nothing more, nothing less. I require true representation of function, this includes the modular nature of both pedestal, and overhead panel, lack of it cough my eye, and I called on that, and you call me a pathological nitpicker ? Seriously dude, you need to calm the **** down.

I'm not even looking for errors, that's Belsimtek testers team job, not mine (I do this kind of thing for other developer), but after researching aircraft like this for a few years, you notice things, and really, really fast. Ever did anything to your Chinook, and noticed how fast the crew chief got it ? Similar forces at play here. :thumbup: Hahaha, if we ever meet we can discuss such practices - before graduation I did my "practice" in a maintenance hangar in Polish Navy Air Base :thumbup: Huey is a puny little helicopter, lets talk the big iron, that weigh 9+ metric tons before the fuel truck arrives :smilewink:

Welcome to computer flight simulations world, where all your senses except for sight and hearing, are cut out. Striving for progression is paying attention to details, every... single... one! Otherwise you're game would still look like this:

I'm in test group for a different company developing modules for flight sims. Since Belsimtek product cost is similar to the cost of products I test, I am expecting same attention to detail, and what I'm writing about here is not even what is considered a standard. Lets talk about the angle of the screws and turnlocks shall we ? :smilewink: Or are you saying we should expect half-donkeyed products ? Weta43 brought this on himself saying what I understood as looking for correct modeling inside, which as you can see is not the case. And people do give a ****.

Two things: 1. those are not military aircraft cockpits, in those you need panels that are approved, certified, military stock number (like NSN, JIM etc.) given. In our case the blank 5.75" wide panels are only choice. Like that NSN #5975-00-939-7622 (Bell #204-075-266-1): 2. all of those are fixed using the turnlock mount, all of them have those screws or rivets (ouch!) visible. DCS:Huey does not.

Yes it is. It's an option, not everyone have time to wait for the rotor spooling down for up to 3 minutes ;) It is essential for ships operations though. Operating in high winds would require it also. Both are the reasons why the Kiwis got those on their UH-1H.

Shooting the Minigun into the water: Remember that what you see as ricochets are mostly just the tracer material stripped off by the force of impact.

It is NOT an Mi-8. It's Mi-14, although initially based on the Mi-8M it has a LOT of changes (the engines and transmission for example are the same as on the Mi-24, but de-rated).

It is partially disassembled, so it can show you that the central pedestal is only few L-beams drilled and tapped to accept the panels, not a single solid piece of material, like it is on the DCS:Huey currently. Show me those covers in the DCS:Huey, there are no blank panels on the central pedestal, as I showed you on the screenshot.

Because I want you to look at how the central pedestal is constructed, look aft and you'll see the blank panels, look in the middle and you'll see that the pedestal itself is just a frame to bolting on those panels. In the DCS:Huey it is a solid, look below the ADF or armament panel to understand what I mean - there are no panels there, neither functional, nor blank, so it would simply had to be a hole there.