StarHopper

Instead of TrackIr, you can use a webcam and get a copy of FaceTrackNoIr. It uses the webcam and tracks your face. Its free. A little shaky and it takes some getting used to, but it generally works. http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm

That was awesome!

Interesting. A start towards an Arma like world.

Thats what I do. You've got to wait for the aircraft to become stable then hit trim and wait. If its off, wait and stabilize, then trim again. Over and over, till its stable and exactly what you want. If just takes patience, practice, and time.

Well, if we can record the .trk, that will work. As long as Zoom Player or Media Player can play it back. I'll have to try it when I get my comp back.

You might have to hit function - pause or function - break to get it to work. Its that way on my laptop.

Any chance we will ever get a better track editor? With rewind, pause, and fast forward? When you fly a 40 minute mission or so, and just want to see one part of it, its a real pain to get 20 minutes into the track, and then also not be able to rewind it.

Yeah, I was remembering at one point when this happened. I was retreating after an attack run, and my engines were struggling to lift me up the side of the cliff toward the FARP. I probably pushed the overweight bastard a little too hard. :music_whistling: Yet, at other times, when flight has been pretty serene, at low altitude, straight flight, speed somewhat beneath the caret, collective midway, I get blade clash. No warning, just boom. And I was being careful. These are the times I question what happened. If I ever see this happen again, I'll get a track.

No, I'm flying the instant action mission at no more than 2000 meters ( I think its meters ) off the ground at times, and usually no more than a few 100 meters. I'd love to look at the tracks, but I'm without my comp for a week or two. I just thought I'd write and see if anyone else had found any problems with the sim or knew what was going on. Thats another thing this sim needs. A better track viewer like falcon had where you can rewind, pause, and fast forward, with a lot more statistical "inside" simulation information, so we can see "exactly" what going on beyond the copters sensors, including the variables of the "world". Would explain a lot.

Hmm, ok, thanks. I was questioning it, because I've had the rotors blow when I was below the caret and no alarm ever sounded. And I was flying pretty level and straight. I'm beginning to think there is some other factor involved than just cyclic or speed. Sometimes the engine feels like its binding at times for no reason I can put my finger on. Like something has built up causing it stress. And yet I don't see any damage on my instruments or on the outside (F2) view. This seems to happen after I've been doing a lot of maneuvers, but yet now I've slowed them down. Sometimes, even a while afterward. Its like the copter can't let the stresses go. Maybe I stressed out the engine? Inner mechanical failures that aren't showing up on the Ekran? I can't show any tracks right now, because I'm away from my comp for about two weeks. Buts its nice to know that the caret does calculate for TAS. It wouldn't be much good otherwise.

Just make the skill level of your wingman "ACE", and then turn him loose on 'em. :music_whistling:

And when you die, they can bury you in it!

The charts kind of blurry on my comp and I can't really read it. And now, I'm without my comp for about 2 weeks. So, I was wondering if someone had made a chart up. @Alpha - Are you sure the caret adjusts for altitude? I've been fly straight and level at speeds slightly below the caret and still have my rotors cross. This is one dangerous aircraft! They ought to call it Widow Maker! I can see why they haven't fielded many! You can usually tell when your in trouble. The engine sounds like its binding, so maybe there is stress on it. That's when I try to carefully get slower and more even in flight. But at other times, there's no warning at all. Flight feels fine, and I'm slightly below the caret, heading straight and level, but my blades suddenly go "boom"! And I fall out of the sky. Its the one problem I haven't been able to figure out yet. Everything else seems correct damage wise. The only thing I can think of is that maybe collective got slightly high. But usually, I try to keep it no more than midway, because I've learned through experience that keeps the blades from breaking, even in steep dives. On a steep dive, I floor the collective, and flatten out the blades. Works like a charm! Still, the ruskies need to work on this chopper some more. Maybe raise the top blades up a little more. And put some Igla's on it. The copter's not very good at shooting even other heli's when they're moving fast. Hard to lock with the shkval, the gun can't seem to calculate a correct shot and always misses, and the Vihkers don't have the maneuvering capability to stay in the laser tunnel. This copter feels VERY experimental.

Hey guys, does anyone have a chart that shows maximum air speed (IAS) at different altitudes? I keep crossing my rotors at high altitude. Thanks.