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I'll give this a go as well, maybe I'll use NVG's more, thanks!

Tail rotor is connected to main rotor. When you push pedal changes tail rotor blades collectively. Increasing the tq. Left pedal in this case also can droop your main rotor when your power limited. Now I’ve never been on the ground at flat pitch and dumped a bunch of right pedal in so idk what would happen with the tq. trim ball is changing because your tilting the helicopter in roll axis by changing the thrust from the tail rotor. If your tail wheel was unlocked you’d see it tilt still but just not as excessively. Hope this answers your question @Caldera

Imagine this. You look out you see something. Acq ghs slave. Zoom in. Assuming you were trying to be a jerk with your yea obviously and what not. Way to be a jerk about something you don’t understand and him helping you out.

The tads can be controlled in 1 of 2 ways. As a sight after you sight select tads, or as a sensor via the nvs mode switch. Any other way you don’t have control over it.

ACQ = What you want to look at or slave the tads too, but it is merely a reference. Sight which is in the lower left of your HDU is what you're using to employ weapons, the solid cross on your screen for HMD and I guess tads to even though it changes. You cannot use the same thing both a sight and an acquisition. I'm guessing you're sight selection is still C-HMD when you're making the tads an acquisition source on the MPD. You probably then sight select TADs which changes your symbiology and you see your acquisition source has changed, it's changing because you've changed your sight. You don't need TADs as an acquisition source any longer when you're using the TADs as a sight. But I could also be misunderstanding what you're experiencing.

As soon as you sight select tads your acquisition source option for tads goes away because the LOS is where the tads is looking, that would be my guess what is occurring, you're in the front seat, select acq tads but your sight is HMD (your helmet), you're telling the system you want to use the tads as a sight so you sight select tads and the acq source option in the front seat now goes away and Tads is no longer an option for something to look at.

I think it's working appropriately, it changes your inputs to from when you push left on the controller the tads will slew that far that fast, with lmc on you're telling it how fast to drift

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I was flying tonight and realized what you were referencing, and all I can say is technique and technique only. It's a method. As long as it works for you.

Correct, ntt the aircraft is not in coordinated flight in relation to the winds and the torque effect, just trying to get the aircraft to fly long axis through something for landing and you can’t see your tail, so if your nose made it through your tail will likely make it through. If the ball is centered aircraft is in trim in relation to winds and torque effect which unloads the higher speed you go, in dcs it’s a bit extreme of a “crab” but life goes on.

Try turning lmc on, having someone fly you and search and scan for something to track with it on. When you turn it on ensure you have no deflection in your stick. You’re telling it how fast to slide. With a little practice it’s not too bad. If you get out of whack turn it off and try again, once you understand the concept it’s not too bad. I think most people are still trying to control it like a joystick and and leaving that push of a stick in when with that much in you’re telling it slide this direction really fast, then when you oppose it, it’s slowing it down. So just track some vehicles keep it steady on tree. And control everything from center. I turned my sensitivity down just a bit.

@FalcoGer remember the talk we had? Where you assuming how things worked without asking doesn’t necessarily workout. @Crysinator no, the accumulator will not save you in the event of an auto. It also doesn’t automatically engage. The only thing that will save you is by managing your nr appropriately in the auto. If you lose so much of your rotor that hydraulics drop you probably will never get your rotor back just due to how the air is working on the blades. There’s a point of no return and you’ve hit well below it.

glad it helped, just keep with it and keep saving nr, like I said as is it’s not the easiest thing to auto but you can auto it. just keep playing with it and have fun. @bradmick

That would be very helpful. It seems like cutting the collective completely and recover RPM while slowing down just doesn't apply for the Apache. When I cut the collective the nose drops and cyclic won't arrest it until I add collective again. However, that just drains my RPM. TerribleAuto.trk There's 2 in there. Not a great one, made a lot of mistakes, almost lost all my rotor initially, had to get it back. I noticed for me how my controls are, it's hard to go from where my power levers are bound back to my collective control in time. I learned from the huey, that you have to have some collective in for directional control in dcs

If you’d like I can share a track file so you can see my control inputs

Exactly. Because it's hard for me to understand why you would lose all control when the generator bus goes out. That would be a major oversight that at least two cold war era helicopters didn't have. It has to do with how the hydraulic pumps are driven on the accessory end of the transmission. Now I’m not saying it autos well. All I’ve ever said is it Autos but you have to keep your nr. It’s not an option. If you droop your rotor past a certain point in any helicopter it’s a death sentence, if you’re drooping them to generator cutoff then you’re right next to it, I’ve been able to get it back but I had to work at it. Try with engines at fly and just getting in good steady state. Then climb up pull the engines, and if you can’t get them to maintain on identify what you’re doing. I’d suggest doing it with some forward airspeed. If it gets outta wack reset.

I knew when the power loss would occur so I waited a second because anything else would unrealistic and by that time I had ~75% rotor RPM, no generators and no control authority. I know it's a bad comparison but the Hind/Hip will lose both generators and you still have enough control authority to get it down even if the generators stay out (usually they come back with rotor RPM). Not trying to be rude. But you're telling me that it doesn't auto like a hind or a mi8

I auto'd it, you're not lowering the collective fast enough nor managing your nr Not saying it' auto's well in game but it auto's. In dcs you do have to have a small amount of collective in to maintain directional control, but if your rotor is drooping to where you have no electrical power then you're probably doomed

If you don't keep your rotor rpm up yes. Not saying it's the easiest flight model to auto, but you can auto it. If you don't manage your rotor in any helicopter and it droops low enough you're going to crash.

If you’re high enough, for that. I’d recommend having the video page up, so vid > tads on the right side > tads on t 5 so you can see the range to target that George is lasing. Reason is auto range is based off flat earth and there’s going to be too many changes from you to the target to be accurate enough the other solution is adding a target or control measure from the tsd page where George has the tads pointing at the target. Make it your acquisition or dir to it A little more work. I use a combo of those for that very specific reason. For closer stuff I use storing and auto range

I’m having a hard time understanding what you want. if you sight select tads yes tads video should mirror onto the ihadss and tdu with sight symbology. If your sight select hmd only symbology unless you have the nvs mode switch in norm/fixed. The only way to have pnvs in the front seat is with sight select hmd and nvs mode switch fixed or norm, and nvs select switch which is on the collective. You cannot use it at the same time as the tads.

Use auto range

Nice

Just tested it. If you have eng page on the right it won't duplicate.

If you have a flight page up left it’ll go to the right, I’m unsure if engine is up right if left will get a duplicate but I’ll give it a go here soon