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  1. I'm glad you've got it, it's a cool ship and it's worth learning how to manage it. The better you learn the Mi-8 the better you'll learn the Mi-24!
  2. Paradox

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    I can't wait to see what you can do with it, you're an amazing pilot.
  3. It's on the panel that sits between the pilots, the SAS channels are turned on with the green button and off with the red button. The heading hold is the one on the far left. My problem with the Mi-8 is weapons employment, I haven't found a good way of engaging with rockets or guns with the fixed sight.
  4. I reckon a CBU on the deck would make them think twice. You'd never get that close of course.
  5. Too low res, too small. We need full 1080p screenshots of every button and switch with 20 minute HD videos showing detailed weapons employment, navigation and GCI manoeuvres. (I'm joking) (or am I?)
  6. Use the SAS, turn on heading and roll when you advance the throttle to max at startup. My advice is to assign the autopilot controls to your stick (I bind those controls to the hat switches on the warthog) and you'll have a much easier time flying it. whenever you move the pedals it will override the heading hold SAS channel which is good because to perform a co-ordinated turn with SAS turned on you can just hold in the pedal and turn to your new heading, use small cyclic corrections to make sure you don't lose any altitude. Losing and gaining speed is a matter of managing the collective and the pitch SAS channel, you should only need very small corrections to the cyclic forwards and backwards. Entering and exiting translational lift is tricky in the Mi-8, you need to know when you're going to exit it (rather too sharply in the sim I feel) and then apply collective to arrest your decreasing vertical speed, don't be afraid to apply quite a lot of collective at this phase especially if you're running heavy. If you're running heavier than you feel comfortable transitioning to a hover from forward flight then just do a rolling landing, the Mi-8 has wheels for this reason, it's often too heavy to land vertically especially in hot and high conditions. Soviet pilots used to land horizontally quite often in Afghanistan.
  7. Well the time has elapsed now, I'm happy that nobody was taken in by it.
  8. The GUV-8700 is an absolute beast but the way it works with the Mi-8 seems incompatible with the controls in the MiG-21 cockpit. Maybe the central pylon just has one "trigger" for all three guns in the pod.
  9. Yeah, I don't want to lose GCI, it kind of makes the MiG-21 in a modern scenario work.
  10. Yes. Thank you for resurrecting this, I was considering starting a new thread for it. I desperately want this skin: Please oh please! it's just too good looking.
  11. Well... We are all talking about the announcement aren't we? This is what I'm interested in.
  12. All that money was probably already spent before Beczl decided to leave. It's ok that he did and the project is still on track What's the problem here? You're still getting what you paid for and everyone else has the opportunity to buy it on release.
  13. Yeah fair enough, that looks amazing. Those EFTs are massive, what's the loiter time at cruise speed with a pair of those on a Mirage 2000? Anyone know?
  14. Oh ok, I'm wrong. That's good to hear.
  15. I thought Razbam said they were going to do a GR7/GR9 first and then the AV-8B afterwards?
  16. Nobody in the thread has said they've received any communication from him or anyone else saying they represent RRG. Certainly nobody who was entitled to any kickstarter rewards right away has received them either. Edit: Yeah actually they did. whoops.
  17. The USMC do operate F-5Es as "adversary trainers"
  18. WAIT A MINUTE Order the rumour mills to full operation!, dredge up the wikipedia articles!, trawl the forums!, look up family histories of all the team members!, SPECULATE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SPECULATED BEFORE!!! (It's either an F-4 or an F-5. Way too cool)
  19. Good man, we'll make a spitfire pilot out of you yet. The next step is a handlebar moustache.
  20. I think all the speculation and guessing ended up turning into a pretty accurate picture of what really happened then? :D I don't really care if Beczl took the indiegogo money and rode into the sunset with it as long as it results in my getting what I paid for and it looks like it will. No problems on that front. Thanks you for finally coming clean about what's been going on and providing an official announcement at long last Cobra, I appreciate that none of this is your fault or anyone else's on the team really but that circumstances dictate what you can and can't do.
  21. The MiG-21 is known for having a very simple startup procedure for a fighter. Assuming you're on ground power you pretty much only need to turn on the batteries and fuel crossfeed and you're ready to start the engine, everything else like radar and navigation you can do afterwards and is only a matter of a few switches. I don't remember exactly what the manual says regarding cold startup using onboard power but it's not that much more complex.
  22. I think you've used dodgy data to jump to a silly conclusion Kenneth. Wait for the announcement like the rest of us, I think we've had all the conversations that we could have had based on what little we know in the last few weeks and we're close to the proverbial finish line. Settle doon
  23. Looks like about half of those are missing the refueling probe, I guess that's removable depending on the mission is it? I always thought they were fixed.
  24. Warthog and Saitek pedals. Seriously looking into Slaw Device pedals when I have any money and a 10/15cm Warthog extension. I need to find a seat that can be set at a proper height for comfortable use of pedals + supports putting the extended stick between my legs Anyone have a recommendation for such a seat?
  25. Hippy Bathday
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