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I recommend to enter the mission planner from the briefing. There you can easily use the ruler function to readout radial and distance from TPH (for example), which should be usable in the GARTH area (That is where I also lost LSV reception, 90 NM seem to be a tip beyond LSV coverage) Probably it's worth to transform most of the waypoint descripting TACAN readouts to GRL, since GRL sits in the center of the whole area and should provide service at most of your corridors...

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And this is a (not your!) misconception by Ranqi. I see why the relation nose-down tilt and forward-slide appears reasonable on a first glance. But the truth is, the 'built-in' tilt is not intended to produce a forward drift while picking the helicopter up. And it certainly isn't allowed to induce such movement during transfer in to hover in ground effect. In fact the nose down tilt of the rotor disc in 'neutral settings" is pretty common with helicopters. It enables the crew a more comfortable control during cruise flight. If the disc was not tilted, you would have to induce the necessary rotor disc tilt only by applying stick nose down. This would bring the whole helicopter in a more nose down attitude and therefore you would have to sit pretty straight upward with your upper body and your head would have to raise constantly to have your eyes at the horizon. Yes, you might have to counteract the initial tilt when lifting up the helicopter, still touching the ground. If controls are applied correctly and your are leaving from a level situation without slopes, your front skid ends will lift up first. Then, applying more collective pitch, the back ends (one single end) of your skids will leave the ground at last. And all this without any lateral drift. It is this maneuver which seems impossible to do right now. Hence this discussion didn't reach its end yet.

I absolutely agree with Flamin_Squirrel. Sitting light on the skids without sliding is the issue. So far nobody reportedly achieved this. If we don't find anyone capable doing exactly this (and then teaching us how to perform that), there is a problem.

exactly!

I also do it that way currently. Still this is not what it should be like. Theoretically it should be possible to lift it up that gently that you'd have a moment, when just one end of only one single of both skids barely touches the ground and hold that position stable. Not possible here.

I regard the thread title being justified. As I wrote in the Something wrong with flight dynamics thread:

Please confirm you can do that at 3 feet above the ground. And if so, please post your curves. I keep the pedals pretty stable. So if that is the only trick, it doesn't work for me.

when sitting on ground, apply collective. Notice the helo commencing forward slide. Reduce torque to 40% and don't touch it anymore. Pull the stick backwards to counter the forward slide. Notice how loooong that takes. Notice how the forward slide only comes to a stop right at that moment your tail boom tilts towards the ground and strikes it. How can this behavior be accurate? No, I never flew a Gazelle in RL. I did some hours on the Gazelle's successor though. The EC-120 also features 3 blades and a fenestron. Also a pretty light weight. Of course this doesn't mean both machines behave similar at all. What I am experiencing here is some behavior that simply doesn't make sense when you think about how you would construct a helicopter. Apparently the DCS Gazelle is quite nose-heavy. I can't tell if it matches the RL Gazelle. I only can say that it is not the way you would expect a helicopter to be.

- Can anybody confirm to have managed to keep a HIGE without adjusting the collective pitch by +-5% torque or more? I am unable to achieve that. In most cases the helo remains jumping up and down continously, relatively slowly though. - also regardless how I set curves (TM Warthog), it is impossible not to slide forward on the ground while increasing collective. I end up pulling the cyclic stick so far backwards that my tail boom bumps onto the floor.

Report your TM Warthog curves and saturation instantly! So that I have something to chew on...:joystick: Thanks!:thumbup:

I just don't get why the helo tumbles violently into the opposite direction after giving a cyclic stick input. You move the stick briefly forward and right while in forward level flight, upon moving it back to center the helo behaves as if you would have given an even bigger impulse aft left now and even assuming a nose-up attitude. This is not how it is supposed to be. Does anybody have found a way to take off without the Gazelle sliding forward for some meters? Not possible. The amount of aft cyclic necessary to stop this tendency actually endangers the tail boom to touch the ground. Even small pedal inputs frequently induce intense pendulum yaw movement. At the same time, and as already mentioned, applying stick to roll into turns feels as if you would fight against some invisible dragging surface, pulling you back all the time. Maybe that is the reason why I lose half of my airspeed easily in a glimpse when trying to do some agile turns. Also it feels so weird to apply just enough collective to get airborne and maintaining the collective setting then catapults the helo 10 meters and beyond upwards, just to have it fall back onto the hard ground seconds later. This is not the way it works. It is pretty realistic to have to adjust collective every few moments to keep a specific height while taxiing. But here those adjustments mostly enjoy a range between 55 and up to 70 % on the torquemeter. This range is remarkably huge, only for keeping the helo in its height. In real life, required collective for leaving the ground will at least carry you safely in or just sitting on that cushion. Not so here. When commencing taxiing, we will of course lose a bit lift vector to gain some slow speed, so a minor increase of collective is obligatory. But certainly not a constant pendulum between 55 and 70 % torque...

Something announced in a red advice box right under the title of the product you purchased... At least you found the box "BUY", although it is much smaller than the something you missed...

I was doing a test flight with the Dora around the Vegas area in a non-hostile environment. There were no AI opponents in that mission. Reviewing the track showed all (engine) indicators in nominal ranges. After doing some roll maneuvers, I flew straight level for some seconds. Suddenly - puff! Dora exploded... Track attached. Fast forward for a while, after doing a brief landing in McCarran, you will see me heading north and then right turning abeam Nellis to go downtown Vegas again. Then the roll maneuvers commence and shortly after that it goes boom, around 25 minutes into the mission. Thanks for looking into this. boom.trk

All your questions come up frequently. So you might want to check the FrequentlyAskedQuestions thread here. The very first post there explains pretty much everything.

So you think that all the models placed onto a map are loaded into memory at the same time no matter how far (even more than hundreds of miles) they are away?

Section 12-2 of the manual features the startup checklist! You may also want to try out the links provided in this thread. This was done for the "old" BlackShark but it might still work and therefore help.

Seems to be the perfect module for people using multiple displays and even for multicrew/MP fun...

which rule would be violated? We all have an option in our profile management to hand over keys to other users.

PM me, I will gift you my upgrade key;)

Nice work.:thumbup: And great moustache btw.;)

When I used to use a single-hat-stick, I used the hat for nearly everything in connection with all the modifier keys. So you only need one hand for the modifiers and are able to have your other hand on the stick all the time. Worked pretty good. Of course, some time in the future, we all get the TM HOTAS Warthog. Since I use that one, I never thought about the spent money again.

There is simply no need for another FC. All or most of these aircraft will probably be released as high-fidelity modules some time in the (distant) future. So why have development time wasted in a collection of simplified aircraft, when their work can instead generate some full scale modules? FC3 aircraft are already on a level which is very acceptable to enjoy until they will see the light of release day as high quality modules. We just have to be patient (as always).

No it doesn't have RSBN and also RSBN isn't modeled in the Nevada module.

Only radionavigational aids available in Nevada are: - VORTAC (VOR + co-located TACAN) - ILS - NDB (a single one) The only device aboard the MiG-15 being able to make use of one of these is the ARK-5 which could navigate the single NDB on that map. That's it.