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Also, INU can get screwed in mid flight after received damage, power outage or crazy maneuvers. Mostly it comes back to normal after some time.

Does port change every time new client connect?

What file, which is shown in log as missing, is associated with rain? (give us your personal opinion). Some posts back, I have asked you to tell us all settings you have in NVIDIA control panel. Are you going to do that?

Well, there are such things as CABs :D

One thing looks strange to me. Aren't bright things like CRT supposed to flood NVGs? Currently undimmed CRT looks very bright, which is bad only if you want to use it, but that light doesn't interfere seeing other things. Shouldn't there be some glow?

And probably there will be not much use from RWR :D. I am waiting for Apache too, but for different reason. I am hoping it will be possible to have human pilot and human weapon officer at the same time in the same Apache. If so, I will buy 2 DVDs.

This is file with updated game list: http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/06-support/game-support-files/game-support-files-20081120.zip You can download it at work and bring home. P.S.: If the link doesn't work, try http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/06-support/support-download-software-and-manuals.html . Game list update file is in section named "Game Updates".

Where is: "affirmed for usage", "is installed"? No one argues that you are not right about the carried tests, however where are result of these tests and what decisions were made based on these results? Lots of stuff can be tested, but this doesn't mean that it can make to serial production.

Why? Maybe mission was well planned. Radar isn't super X-Ray device, it can't see through obstacles. As you may noticed we are flying in mountainous region in DCS. Not much use from radar if mountain is between it and you, unless you are cruising over the peaks of mountains which is very bad idea. Every machine sucks unless it is used properly; and in case of modern warfare usage of most machines must be combined with actions of other machines: there is no Airwolf stuff.

If Mi-24 and Ka-50 were designed from the beginning with mind that they will have to fight behind enemy lines and ECM suit will be a must for them, then why base models don't have nor RWR, nor any strong ECM?

How do you imagine such military operation and what role do you assign to helicopter? I suppose Ka-50 is designed for CAS. It means that standard mission for Ka-50 is not going deep into enemy territory, not SEAD and not even ground attack, because there are other aircrafts which can do these missions better. Air space should be cleaned by fighters, long range SAM killed by SEAD aircrafts and ground attacks (like convoys and fortifications) carried by Sturmoviks. Helicopters should be sticking near their own force providing air support. The main advantage of helicopter over ground attack jet is that helicopter can loiter in the area longer and can work with targets which are hard to spot and hard to kill for fast moving jets. The main threat for helicopters are MANPADS and short range SAMs. As other said, if you have been attacked by long range radar SAM, then you are where you are not supposed to be.

So does this piper really work as good piper supposed to work? Or it just shows ... something? :D In fact such attitude lets release of bombs. I have tried dropping bombs in vertical dive after hill maneuver, however Ka-50 is not a plane and corrections were hard to make, so success rate was low (excluding low altitude attacks).

Have you tried to use this piper to drop FAB-250 or FAB-500 from let's say 800m?

The point is not to jettison stuff when you want to use it for killing. Why you do want to jettison (throw away) bombs? Use fire button as you do for other weapons to fire.

Falling 250-500kg objects can still kill, but lethal radius will be much smaller.:smilewink:

Crimean part of map was wiped out to save resources. It was done because other half of map had been reworked: more objects, bigger terrain resolution and etc.

Rotary switch? Do you mean that 2 rotaries (wheels)? They act like axis, not as buttons. In game you can assign them only to axis. If you want them to be assigned to buttons, you should program them as banded or directional axis via Saitek SST and assign key presses to them.

Aren't MD5 checksums provided at download page? If not, maybe someone can calculate and post them, so the question: is file corrupted or not?, could be answered quickly.

You should not compare helicopter to jet. They have different strength and weaknesses - I am not speaking about avionics.

The most important word. GAU-8 has 80% probability to hit inside circle with radius of 6m at 1200m range. Tracks of tank should have hard time with this big cloud of rounds.

You should be suspended for wasting ammunition and entertaining those hostile tanks. :D There is a switch in the weapon control panel, which sets how jettisoned stuff should act: explode or not. Anyway, you shouldn't try to kill something while jettisoning.

Also, don't forget that Gatling guns have much higher spread, which isn't always a good thing.

Reactive armor is good against single shots, however if something like cannon is enough to "activate" it, then few aimed burst will make large area where all reactive armor will be worn off, however I don't know if 30mm is enough to activate reactive armor. Back to game. I have tried AP rounds against T-55 and Abrams: shot about 70 rounds in close to 90 degrees dive. Although half of them directly hit turret, tanks were not killed. Maybe the armor was too thick or maybe not enough hit points were eaten.

Make sure all lights on your aircraft are turned off. Don't go to the engagement zone until Hinds show, wait at ingress point. There are some forests near ingress point, wait over them at low altitude. Tell your wingmen to attack air targets. Do that constantly. Target detection algorithm for AI is complex: AI is also effected by cockpit obscurities, background, lights and etc. Ingress point is in the valley and you know where Hinds are coming from; you have pretty small space to scan to find them. Just don't go to the camp, until Hinds are not downed.

For piper to show truth, fire control computer must know ballistic data. This data can be set in preset way in the back panel with knobs, However there are no presets for bombs, so piper will show nonsense.