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Ideally you want to make a friend to fly with, but if that's not possible, the suggestions above are all good.

I've already commented on this in other threads. Run a search and bring it up again. It's an important topic.

Ground based ATGMs will also destroy M1s pretty easily - especially on flat terrain.

That's why Russia has the Su-25 and the Ka-50. M1 eaters.

You need more details. You should explain exactly how you mess it up.

Wikipedia is a good source, but not for research citations. Thx for the vid!

Yeah, I hope they put it back soon. Very important for a transport helicopter.

I would like to see a way to point out things. AI crew should point out targets and areas of interest. Perhaps some kind of marker should appear on your display. In the Mi-8, for example, the two crew do nothing. You could also use this to simulate friendly radio coms when flying with other AI units. In multiplayer, voice coms are not always available. Being able to broadcast and highlight targets would really help. In multicrew, it would simulate pointing or other body language.

Amazing. Wanna see these in action!

Thanks for the mention, Cib. The Steam group is a great way to meet new pilots. Start a post there if you want to fly with others. I think a lot of people are waiting for the Sept 1.5 release right now.

Rise Of Flight does the shared default system quite well. Check it out if you're interested. Saves a lot of time with new modules and device changes.

Agreed. Preferable would be user defined common control defaults. I should be able to bind rudder, flares, safe toggle etc. once then have modules inherit it on request. After that, you can make module specific adjustments.

Very nice

Overheating? Have you dusted the cpu and gpu fans recently?

Very nice

I'd love to join, but well outside my playing hours. Have a great run!

To elaberate, we are waiting for an update from and old version of directX. It really isn't worth trying to upgrade for the current version unless you have excess money and play a lot. We are expecting the update in a few months.

Wait for the engine update.

Great point. This is the kind of thing I would like to see answered in the sim itself. Units and equipment need space and weight assigned to them so things like this can be calculated in-game. When aircraft get hit, passengers should also be damaged.

Happy to pay for it if it helps you make the DCS skies more interesting. Can't wait.

Would it be possible to make a script to refuel other aircraft? Or at least, aircraft / vehicles that could be refueled by the Mi-8.

Yeah. To be honest, I'd love to be able to fly the Mi-26 or something like that. Then we could carry 90 troops!

The Mi-8MTV2 can carry 30 troops according to Wikipedia. 30. We need mission and script makers to take note of this. Dropping five seems like a waste of time for this amazing aircraft!

TZ is the fuel transport version, not sure if our version can / should.

You may feel that way, but you really don't. Once you get used to the trimmer, you'll never look back.