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thanks for answering my question, you're not a helicopter pilot, i was curious. Regardless of your opinion far/aim disagrees with you.

In my mind I'm picturing you going page by page through the actual tm and it's just... impressive.

I'm just really impressed

Multi tasking so I apologize, yes there are more detailed things out there and we agree it’s the inner workings, of which can’t be accurately replicated without knowing the inner workings. Pending the system tho some of that stuff could potentially be in that manual which is why we said these things.

I thought y’all got them at the end of the basic flight course

Just because it was leaked doesn’t necessarily mean it’s unclass

Max tq is rotor droop

this all your opinion. not regulatory and the amount of rotor wash directly correlates to how heavy you are and surface conditions. what’s ironic about your statement is let’s say me which I can produce quite a bit of rotorwash it’s better if I move over sod 100ish feet and take off from there which will produce a slight breeze beyond 100ish feet away. When I taxi due to the reduced ground resistance of concrete I find my self dumping collective to essentially coast next (if I’m going slightly up hill or heavy I can’t, I have to keep my taxi tq set) to small aircraft. Because I’m typically forced to come in closer proximity of other aircraft so my taxi power combined with the less surface resistance is more windy to the small plane peeps and personnel than me hovering at 5 feet in grass away. rocks and fod really, travel more freely over concrete and asphalt. It’s likely different in a much larger rotor wing aircraft but I don’t fly the big boys. the type of take off and landing is all about situation, I’m cool with taking the runway, but if there’s other traffic or it’s congested and I have the power, I’m going to avoid the flow of fixed wing traffic, avoid overflight of things that could be damaged at a low level and remain clear. again this is in the subject of a game so people can honestly do whatever the hell they’d like, but all I was saying was correcting your very broad over arching assumption that rotary are supposed land on hard surface areas (which is indeed better for power) (if there is fod like rocks they’re gonna travel farther) (rotor wash effects are gonna travel farther) in my opinion and I don’t know if your faa or not but far aim helicopter traffic is to avoid the flow of traffic so if you’re doing the same procedures are you going with the flow traffic? I think icao states the same but I’m not looking it up. situation dependent at the end of the day. How heavy am I, what’s around, what are the surface conditions, what’s the hazards (both to others and myself), how much power do I have. Again I don’t care what you do, but it’s opinion. Just like mine is. And people can do what they’d like. Real life as long as you’re safe if you’re a pilot.

@CrazyGman also remember you're talking about a very niche group (who were in the specific units during the specific timeframe) of people simultaneously being in kind of a niche community here in DCS. Not saying it's not possible there's more but just keep that in mind that this isn't the whole world.

When I started down this journey of your comment I thought you were talking about real life, and I was thinking this dude is super crazy, and the wsps for the gazelle must be super amazing. Then I got to the end and I was like OOOOOO he's talking about DCS. Yeah if we can cut down wires in game I'm for it all day. Make that a wish list, bring back randomly cutting shit down

Isn’t it always summer in Australia

Curious George

I was just referencing your statement “supposed to take off from a runway” or a taxi way. I just was always taught that the benefit of the helicopter is it’s ability to avoid traffic and go where you intend. There’s nothing wrong with it, super conservative, but I wouldn’t say I agree on a day to day basis. Obviously if I were super heavy I’d want a runway or surface to do a rolling take off obviously if I had skids I’d be looking for different avenues. But I think your statement is a little broad. Idk my opinion.

Not much tarmac around farp locations

depending on who the copilot is maybe ai is more efficient

So the last part The only person that can use the MTADS as a sight to aim weapons is the front seater, the back seater can obviously observe what the front seater is doing by pulling the video up on the MPD, but he can't control it. It also doesn't go into the back seats HMD in this condition.

There’s nothing wrong with that, just the question was what the units would be in, and you have the option to use nm and km for distance along routes and etc. how you use that info in the cockpit is situation dependent.

@AlphaOneSix was accurate with his statement with imperial and metric.

I actually just sat in on crew coordination brief about this specific incident. I can't go into details about it unfortunately. Crazy world @QuiGon

You could save the money and keep the t16000m, pick up some pedals along the way. I used the t16000m for years, I despised the pedals personally but the stick and throttle were fine. I have a vkb stick and it’s nice, I’m still kinda fine tuning it, and I went with winwing for the throttle quadrant and was lucky enough to get tprs pedals which are super nice but idk if they’re worth the money for most peeps. I hope this helps you along the way.

you're good homie. Reason I say that with the WSPS, if you have a wire strike (knock on wood that I never do) you can't confirm the amount of damage done while flying. Even with a wingman he can't verify components around the rotor, so while the wire didn't immediately drag you down, you're likely gonna want to land as soon as possible. Just like you don't intentionally hit things with your car (I hope) I don't plan to intentionally flying into wires. If CMS works you don't get hit, if WSPS works you got hit I guess is a way of saying it. IDK. My opinion on the matter

I don't wanna get too deep into the weeds with it, but you're kinda combining two separate things. If you sight select TADS it'll mirror the tads with sight symbology on the TDU and the HDU. If you want to use the PNVS or the TADs as a NVS then you have a nvs mode switch will turn that function on. You can't use them in conjunction with each other. I say this with a grain of salt knowing that it's largely dependent on how they implement it into DCS.

"No, it's a artificial intelligence with the ability to destroy my enemies" "I think that's enough computer for tonight"

Got the baby to sleep and have a moment to burn on this. I found it pretty amusing at the end of the day even if I was a bit facetious. I'll admit I'm still kinda confused of what the goal of your original statement was but either way it's all fun. I would say at the end of the day if you wanted to look at it like safety features yes, it's an added feature. So to me CMS would be like antilock brakes on an icy day. If it kicks on and nothing happens I continue my day. Where as the airbags would be like a WSPS with a wire strike, I'm not planning for it, I'm hoping it works as advertised and doesn't break my nose or knock out a tooth or whatever craziness occurs and afterword's I'm done driving, and that's where WSPS sits in my opinion. But yeah I have no argument, you can call me stupid if you want I guess if you don't agree It don't matter it's just a forum. At least you didn't forget what grayscale is called. Tail rotor is vertical specifically for cutting wires

Lol Greenscale and grayscale are the words I was searching for in my head. I was thinking how do I say the tdu doesn’t have all the colors. Lol