Honest989

Your problem was different to mine, but myself and one other ran into a similar problem on the mission - ekran would report battery on accum or something similar. The reason behind it was the rotor speed was insufficient to generate AC/DC current, and we lost power and then crashed. this may also be an issue for you! :D

Follow up - it appears that the play back in menu for music is slightly slow - anyway to correct this? (if the ogg file is played outside of black shark it is the correct speed)

You misunderstand me - Ekran does have an extensive list of code meanings in the manual, but there are certain examples that just don't help. "Helicopter on Battery Bus" being one of them. The reason I had to ask here is because I couldn't figure out what was going on. The dip in electrical whine led me to believe that there was a battery issue going on with the helicopter (I recognised it from a bad alternator on my car lol) but I didn't realise you could correct the issue

...ah. You learn something new every day. Maybe we should start a sticky with Ekran warning descriptions so we know what's happening and how to try and avert disaster :smartass:

Never thought of that actually. I haven't checked but there's a good chance it's on imperial

What the heck does that mean? Obviously it's something bad because 30 seconds later I lost power and had to perform a botched Autorotation (broke my landing gear) but if it's of any help, I was in High altitude conditions with anti icing and icing prevention on

Ok, here's another track. Either it's having the auto hover on that does this or a combo of using the Data link etc. If someone could give me a hand here it would really help. (Never mind that I get shot down by a tank in the end :D ) You can tell when I'm having issues because I start flicking the master arm, resetting everything and aside from that, the HMS should have changed at the point I'm targetting. demo2.trk

erm. No, but thank you anyway

How would I go about changing the menu music in BS? I tried replacing Main.ogg but this was to no avail

I was just playing one of the missions, and messing about with Data Link in sending targets to my AI wingmen and sending them off to vectors etc while in auto hover. Now, I tried locking up targets of my own in auto hover, had master arm on, laser tracking and missiles selected but wasn't getting 'c' to fire beyond ranges of 6k which is not right for Vikhr AGTM. This range also wouldn't allow me to fire at 4. Now I tried numerous times resetting the firing system and turning it back on, but always ended up with the same result even if the target was locked up with 'TA'. (I.e, I aligned the two circles but the crosshairs just wouldn't change). Ekran was showing 'perfrom nav fix' but this has never given me this issue before.. what's going on here?

Well I'm back again. Bugger. First off, I'm truly stumped by auto-pilot and desired track desired heading. Starting with auto-hover... what gives here. Sometimes I'll push the button and it works perfectly. 6/10 I'll push the button, the lights come on but the helicopter then rolls over and crashes. Auto-route - No real Idea how to get the chopper to follow the way points. Is it fully automatic bar the collective or do I need to control the speed too? Other thing - Sometimes in combat I'll be using the Shvkal and it auto tracks fine and i can narrow fov. After a couple of uses though, and say I switch to cannon in between and then back to missiles, it refuses to auto track and it just stays static and the gate size when zoomed in is massive. I've tried to use 'button ground targets' but to no avail. I usually give up at that point and start getting in close with the cannon. and then dying.

It makes control of the beastie a wee bit easier, but I find it annoying when you want to spin on the spot or move around a bit. Thing is though, I'm not sure if it's 'realistic' to use it as extensively as I do

going to need a better gfx card than the one I have now :(

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I created an account with one name, died and created another with the same. Unfortunately, after I quit the game, it now refuses to load, saying 'me_logbook.lua attempt to index players nil value' Can anyone help me out? Perhaps send me your players.lua file and we'll see what happens EDIT: Ok, sorted it, needed a new players.lua file to correct it. Works now

For the purposes of this, we'll use the bog standard Helmet mounted sight procedure (because I'm still practicing with this rather than vector to target etc). You might also find it useful to download the user mission 'road block' - I'm still using this to practice my duck shoot. 1)Obviously, fly to and locate your targets 2)Press Alt-W for master arm 'On' 3)Press 'H' for the sight 4)For Vikhr missiles, press Y 5)Press 'O' for the TV and slew the target box to position. Once you find a target, press the target lock key, Typically 'enter' on keyboards 6)Manoeuver into firing range, and make sure you have the two green circles in the hud aligned. 7)Once you get into range, the yellow circle will eventually become a crosshair, at which point you HOLD the fire button for a second. 8)Press 'F6' to watch 45kg of laser guided missile slam into the target. Ok, this works for me most of the time. As I haven't mastered Abris just yet I'm not using anything more sophisticated. The problem is there are a couple of times where: 1)I never seem to be able to fire, despite having a Shvkal lock - I keep closing the distance until I'm on top and nothing happens to allow me to fire. 2) Green boxes appear on the hud reticle which makes it tough for me to slew the Shvkal 3) I crash and burn a lot. Also, a quick question to Track IR people, does HMT work a lot faster if you have this little gadget?

Here's my reply as it took me a while to get right as well. For the purposes of this, we'll use the bog standard Helmet mounted sight procedure (because I'm still practicing with this rather than vector to target etc). You might also find it useful to download the user mission 'road block' - I'm still using this to practice my duck shoot. 1)Obviously, fly to and locate your targets 2)Press Alt-W for master arm 'On' 3)Press 'H' for the sight 4)For Vikhr missiles, press Y 5)Press 'O' for the TV and slew the target box to position. Once you find a target, press the target lock key, Typically 'enter' on keyboards 6)Manoeuver into firing range, and make sure you have the two green circles in the hud aligned. 7)Once you get into range, and the two green circles are together, the yellow circle will eventually become a crosshair, at which point you HOLD the fire button for a second. 8)Press 'F6' to watch 45kg of laser guided missile slam into the target. HTH :thumbup: Now I have my own problems here, so to avoid confusion I'll start a new thread and quote this.

I remember some time back that they were talking about additional addons for the mod - the AH-64 was the one I remember most. Possibly the A-10 with new and improved flight physics and money back guarantee for pilots who crashed* These ideas still kicking about or have I entered the wrong seach strings? *May be a lie.

Thanks guys, this helps. (Sorry my Russian isn't up to scratch :) ) This does now pose a problem - First off, I'm terrible with manuals, especially very big PDF ones because I don't read em. I see there's a command for throttle left and right there, presumably for the different rotors. Is there a benefit to having those mapped on the joystick rather than the one big throttle one I have? And someone explain to me the difference between the collective and the throttle if they could.. Thankyou :)

I'm using a cyborg evo. I'm trying to assign the thrust function to the throttle lever on it, but when I try and do it in the sim, I'm given this huge list of joy buttons.. which one is correct for the throttle control I guess I'm asking? Thrust when not in 'game' mode is automatically assigned to num - or +. It's a bit of a rubbish feature unless i'm missing something.

whoops :doh::music_whistling:

Check FAQ. There's a key one in there under the heading of 'this helicopter is crazy, how do you control it'. Might help you out

HTHMD? (Sorry) tried doing an FAQ search for the above on the manual but obviously missed it

Something similar to Flaming cliff's paperback ringbound manual - I ask because the pdf manual is fine but it's massive (and printing is a pain), and I like reading it in bed :)

maybe they chopped it off on the runway ;)