Hueyman

You are true when saying it is more academic than practical... but it may produce important differences at some high Flight Levels for sure ... And if you want to plot your nav in flight, using the IAS as a speed reference while flying at 10 000 ft ... the times between all waypoints will be much overestimated as your TAS will be much more than the IAS ... That's why they mainly use GS ( ground speed ) on GPS or such while cruising, so, even better than TAS, it gives the aircraft's speed in respect of the ground, so, no need to calculate wind component etc etc... But yeah, this is off-topic hehe. Just to say that VNE remain the same, but it may be reached much earlier while flying high ... don't think in the real Huey as the higher you are, the weaker the turbine is, so you have hard time trying to get high airspeed in straight flight, but in fighters such Mig 29 etc you really have to watch carefully your charts for not flying over a certain IAS ... at 60 000 ft, things can get really weird, and happen sooner than expected ;-) ( just try to reach the sonic boom at see level and at 35 000 ft, and observe the IAS... you'll see what I mean ... ) And for the governor, I am not a T-53 expert for sure, so don't know how this one really works... but I do know the P&WC PT6A series engine quite well, and this one has three governors ... while the pilot can only control one : the CSU ( Constant Speed Unit ) that is tasked to manage the oil flow through the prop hub for pitch change, thus trying to reach the pilot-selected prop speed). The 2nd one ( built in the CSU unit ) is the Power turbine governor, that limits the Np to approx 6% above the selected Np in both Alpha and Bêta range ( reverse ) The 3rd one is like a fail-safe one, more or less another overspeed gov ... All of that to say the pilot control one Governor, while there is actually, from a mechanical point of view, three govs... Is it the same for our T-53 powered Bell ? I don't know, but it seems pretty logical. When you switch to EMER mode, with max power on ground, collective down, you can't reach the 100% Ng ( N1 ) speed... is there a correlation between collective stick and FCU, to allow a larger max Ng in function of collective position ? I don't know where to find this answer, and didn't read what they said on the provided manual ( my bad ! ) Anyway, it isn't possible now to take off again from Elbrus mount... I tried everything, running landing ( low on skids, skiing on the snow with skids to try to reach ETL stage ... smoking hole in the ground ). Even tried to burn as much fuel as I could to make it as light as possible, then try to take-off then descent in autorotation down the FARP ... as this mission is timed ( injured ... ) I failed, but it was manageable ! very hard but manageable

Sorry for that but what you say is false ... VNE do not decrease with altitude at all... it is a structural limit that is in function of the True Air Speed ( TAS )... what you read on your airspeed indicator is the IAS ( Indicated Air Speed )... and with density altitude ( pressure decrease etc ), the IAS becomes buch lower that actual TAS ( actual speed in respect of air mass ) That explaining, for example, at 15 000 ft, 110 IAS means 135 TAS for example ... for professional pilots, there is a formula which I never use as I'm only PPL and flying generally under FL 065, that allow us to determine the TAS according to temperature off the standard ISA conditions etc etc ...

I feel your pain Mav' ... I thought I answered the problem on post N°2 of this thread, don't understand why every one said exactly the same, like if you were bombarded lol ... and it took 5 pages !! Good luck in your investigations, well proven facts CANNOT be denied... they can be ignored, not denied

Great footage mate, really ! I'm so impatient to be a military heli pilot ... finger crossed I'll success the very hard exams to achieve it ... In a couple of days now

That black thing is a tube my grand father made : Standard aluminum tube, painted in black, cut with around 15° forward slope ( to allow the stick, when centered, to be comfortable, if it was straightly vertical, aft movement would be very hard and painfully to achieve ) Then the whole thing bolted with 8 wood screws on the wood floor

Thanks to everyone but I wasn't really looking to be applauded lol ! Just wanted tp bring good matter for this being definitely solved, once for all

Wishlist ? I WISH they release final polished, debugged, optimized and improved versions of both helos sooner than later .... Yeah, I feel like asking too much hehe

Lol, I am Valentin, I just copied their answer, which I asked them from my mail address ... so they replied with my name ;-) Finger crossed too ... but last update didn't show anything positive ...

Don't know if it is due to that, but, without being too pride, I'm a really good sim pilot, precise etc on DCS helis with that rig... and the Hotas, with the extended stick, is certainly for something ( don't remember when I still got the X52 )

I think I saw on the specs on DCS.com that this one required higher specs than the Huey, like an i5 for ex .. : Mi-8 : Recommended system requirements: Operating system 64-bit: Window 7 or Window 8; CPU: Intel Core i5 or better; RAM: 8 GB; Hard disk space: 10 GB; Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 or better; Sound: DirectX 9.0c - compatible; DirectX: 9.0C; Joystic; requires internet activation. Huey : Recommended system requirements: Operating system 64-bit: Windows Vista and 7; Processor: CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400, AMD Phenom X3 8750 or better; Memory: 4+GB; Hard disk space: 7 GB; Video: Shader 3.0 or better; 896MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 DirectX 9.0c or better; Sound: DirectX 9.0c - compatible; DirectX: 9.0C; requires internet activation.

:thumbup: Absolutely, and it's true it's on one side a great choice as people now are free to wait final release, or jump on the prototype. The problem isn't here, it's that the improvements should come quicker, as many people already bought the Beta of the Huey at full price, months ago ( when was it ? April ? May ? ) What I'm afraid of is DCS to become a sim filled with more unfinished products ( while really high quality ) than finished ones, it leaves a bad taste you know ... The risk is when they will have their Huey, Mi-8, Cobra etc out as a pre-beta, I doubt they will be really motivated to come back on a one year old product to still improving it much... so they will fix one or two issue and then rename the file " final 1.0 " ... Finger crossed I'm all wrong !

I would love to buy it, unfortunately I'm very rick-rack on money now, and have to buy the upcoming masterpiece in an other simulator world : the Saab 340A on X-Plane 10 by Leading Edge Simulation It hurts me to say that, but I will have to wait this to come to sale to afford it, even though I would really give as much as I could to support Belsimtek ... But maybe one thing that also avoid me to buy this another open Bêta is the fact they don't bring much fixes/improvements to the Huey, and in the last 1.2.6, things were changed ( new slick version ) but many things were broken ... Some guys ( like I did ) took the time to make detailed threads about a specific problems, proving with accurate facts that there were some things to change and it isn't changed ... worst, it isn't even confirmed to be corrected for final release ( if any ? ) I think, most than money, it is that fact that avoid me spending 50$ on another Work in Progress product ...

Same here ... a more easy way to configure our Huey, payload, equipment etc ... Like the normal/deviator exhausts, M60 yes or no, miniguns yes or no etc

Don't worry guys, he knew he was absolutely wrong and ridiculous as soon as I told him it was an AI heli, on post N°2 ...

Man, seriously ... I thought if you were the kind of person noticing suuch subtile things, you would also notice at 00:30', it's an AI Mi-8 taking off ! And AI Aircrafts always have a " on rails " behavior, that isn't new... For your second problem, it isn't, real good pilots ( as the guy who flew for the video is probably a real Mi 8 pilot ), know what anticipation is, and he definitely known that he has to increase collective a bit, and so right pedal at the correct moment to stop the descent, with the help of the ground effect also ... Good pilots don't mean everything is too easy or unrealistic, it only means that 80% of you are ( sorry to say that ) only good for making holes in the ground ... But the main subject is to be happy, so if everyone is happy with that, that's nice ;-)

Hello People ... you know, I never expected such an answer ... FROM BELL TEXTRON THEMSELVES !!!! They finally answered my request of searching good proof for Huey rotor mast orientation ... they provided this, the latest word in this affair ... Their answer : " Hello Valentin, Thank-you very much for your question and please see the attached information from the 205A-1 MM. Page 4 of the pdf shows the 5 degree forward tilt of the mast for the 205A-1. Regards, Jim Dawson Bell Helicopter Customer Support and Services Technical Publications " And the joined file : 205A1-MM-CH06 (1).pdf

I agree diveplane, downloaded your soundmod some weeks ago ... I think it should deserve more " promotion " as I really felt like with the heavy two bladed heli in front of me

When I watch a real Huey footage, what is the further from reality IMHO are the " plumpy " overall look of the virtual one, mainly due to it's mast being too backward ( dedicated thread already ... ) , a bit too high landing skids and the visual blade appearance of the pitch being way too coarse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO3C_lJhhrs Other than that, it is one a hell of an impressive job they did, honestly

That smells release within 5 months for sure hehe !

Very very nice IFR !! This shows both cabin floor lines are almost the same ( except the virtual Huey is maybe not as backward as it should BUT that may also be the fault of the pict perspective etc ... ) and it is clear now the +5° applied to the mast in respect of cabin floor is definitely there in the Huey, while it is definitely absent in its virtual counterpart

Okay totally understand

Yes yes ... And Krebs, Nate, PilotMi8 etc ... you are part of BST or ED ? You should know a little more than us about the next upgrade isn't it ?

Okay This was hard to demonstrate finally ... I admit it is always hard to change our own original opinion, mine too ... When we think we are right, only few things can change it ! In that case, no one, me too, was actually 100% true ... Hope they will take the truth out there and correct what need to be corrected, no more nor less ..

Yes, but that is not the point of this thread sorry ...

Wow you are looking very far dude ;-) I like it ! If you search somewhere in my old posts, you will see I already told that these skids were too high AND not the same orientation as the real ones. I got an answer back that this 80's era model was like that ... still unsure From what I know about 205, there are 3 landing skids model, the 70's Vietnam era ones ( lowest ), the high ones currently equipping some of the 205-A1, and the very high ones for firefighting operations. These higher ones are more an inaccuracy than a " 80's era " version. Also, I don't really understand this version with composite blades etc ... that tail rotor version really shows it should belong to Vietnam era Hueys, with heavy metal blades, normal ( for msot ) straight exhaust and lower skids, as well as a bunch of other things I didn't noticed for sure ... I think the actual skids are a bit high but not to bad angled, the Huey really have that backward fuselage pitch attitude on ground, regardless of loading ( you can see the CG limits are really close to the main mast ) But the mast definitely has to be moved forward a bit