Robert1983NL

Well... That just isn't true. It's more dangerous to have both pilots on the controls. It's total bullshit really.

One very important thing to fix: -Settling with power is overmodeled in the Huey. It's WAY too easy to get in a Vortex Ring State.

If you're making these 'combat turns', make 'm right hand turns. Not only because you're in the righthand seat and you'll have a better view that way, also -and more importantly- because it costs less power.

Interested, you have a PM.

This is how it's generally done during peacetime ops, and I speak out of my experience as a Dutch Chinook pilot: Navigation/Position lights on, steady, bright Anti-Collision on If at night, you might want to turn on your search/landing light while taxiing or during startup/shutdown, just to warn other players. Only at night, and only when in formation you use the formation lights (the green bars). I often see people flying around solo during daytime with formation lights on. That's just silly.

And I do think that in most cases you DO have SOME part in picking a spot for when the 2nd engine fails. Yes, a dual engine failure is unlikely, but certainly not impossible. And if it DOES happen, it probably won't happen at EXACTLY the same time the first engine quits. First one engine will flameout, and x seconds/minutes the other one. So after that first engine failure, you immediatly start looking outside to pick a spot where to go if the 2nd engine gets a failure. I've been there. Had a single engine failure, on the edge of single engine capability, on short final in a confined area, at night, with a broken microphone (stopped working 1 min before flameout). Murphy's law I guess. Anyway, did the fly-away out of the confined area, climbed to at least 1000' AGL, maintained 80 knots (to be in the perfect situation for a dual engine failure) and RTB'ed, looking for suitable landing spots all along the way.

You have a hard time understanding what I'm saying... The minimum rate of descent airspeed in the -10 is 80 knots. It's 105 knots for max range. 70 Knots just isn't correct, or it's outdated, I dunno. All I know is I have an up to date -10 for the ICH-47D/F. I don't think there's much difference for autorotational capability with the American or Australian Chinooks. So yeah, 70 knots is sub-optimal. And AGAIN you don't seem to understand the difference between an autorotational landing, and a crash. Ofcourse you don't know when or where you get a dual engine failure. But if you DO, you have to look for a spot where you can make a short roll on landing. If you can't find such a spot, you're going to crash. It's that simple.

Yeah so you use the ADF to tune to NDB stations. You'll get an arrow on your HSI point towards the beacon. You can also tune VOR freqs for VOR stations. Works almost the same, but now you can use your course deviation bar on your HSI to for instance track in- or outbound a VOR station. That's it in a nutshell, for the Huey. I haven't really looked at it yet, but maybe the Huey can also do some FM Homing. That's not IFR though, more radio navigation.

Then you should find a spot where you can roll out a little bit, duhhhh, because zero zero means crash crash anyway for a Chinook I didn't see anything demonstrated, and I'm just saying -again-, there's a difference between an autorotational landing an a crash.

Lame. And it still doesn't make sense lol. It's contradictory. IF stands for instrument flying. You can't be flying on your instruments when you're looking outside to navigate on roads.

I know, but like I said, we were talking about autorotational landings, not controlled crashes.

The Hind is just a big underpowered fatty. Big deal :) Chinook all the way!

Yeah ofcourse, but that's VFR, not IFR. The joke doesn't make any sense lol.

I know exactly what you mean with zero zero. But I just don't agree. It's not something I would do in real life, if need be. I would still land with forward speed. Coming down with 70kts (too slow) and flaring at 150' (too high) is everything but ideal. I would want to come down with 80kts and flare at 100', bleed off airspeed to about 40kts at 10' and then just roll it against the ground and brake. We are still talking about autorotational landings here, not controlled crashes.

Why with helo pilots? I don't get it. Helicopters can fly IFR fine.

Guys guys guys... This is totally UNacceptable. There is no Chinook in the voting list... COME ON!!! I voted other, and ofcourse I'd love to see the Chinook kicking every other helicopter's ass.

Thanks guys! Suchacz was right, FFB was on. I already tried looking for that option at first, didn't look hard enough. Found it, turned it off, trimming works again! :-D

I've read through that thread and clicked the link. I don't think I need to download any troubleshooting programs. I think the problem has to do with software. I can see the force trim button being pressed on the cyclic, I see the trim hat switch on the stick moving. But there's no output to the aircraft. This is since I've connected my G27 racing wheel set at the same time, since I use the pedals. The racing wheel has FFB, maybe that's got something to do with it?

I do autorotations in the simulator regularly, zero zero won't work without crashing. Your NR droops way too quickly. Are you familiar with the safe autorotational approach corridor of a Chinook? And ofcourse, everything is possible if you accept seriously damaging the aircraft and injuring yourself and your crew as an end state. But I don't think that's what we do, right? :)

Hey guys! Since I bought the Huey module I really had to find a way to control yaw. Normally I would just twist my X52 stick for rudder. In the Huey, try doing that all the time, you'll kill your wrist :) So I googled a little bit and found out I can use my racing set pedals, G27 as a rudder/yaw. I have this set up correctly and it works pretty good! BUT! Normally I'd switch between my X52 and G27 on the USB port. Now I have both control systems connected at the same time. And now it seems the trimming doesn't work anymore. First I thought it was maybe some sort of bug with the Huey, but today I flew the A10C again, and in the A10C the trimming doesn't work anymore either. I DO physically see the trim switch on the cyclic/stick moving, but there's no output to the aircraft. I think this has something to do with my two controllers connected at the same time, since that's when this problem started. Can anyone help me (and probably other people) solve this?

Ok, I have around 12 hours on the Huey. I know what you're saying but a zero zero auto rotation just doesn't feel natural to me. Maybe it's because I fly Chinook (750 something hours) and with the Chinook you NEED NEED forward speed, most of the time there is suitable terrain to land and roll on, but I guess the Chinook can take more of a beating with it's gear than skids on a Huey.

i disagree with you Weta, the Huey really is very easy and intuitive to fly. You don't really need any stabilization systems for it, it's very stable by itself. What you miss on your PC is proper controls, peripheral vision, and the seat of the pants feeling. That's why it's harder to fly in DCS than it would be irl.

It's not like you need 100 meters or something. I'm talking about sliding like around 20 meters. You fly helicopters irl? I really wouldn't always aim for zero zero landings. It's so much safer to have some forward speed.

My force trim used to work fine... UNTIL I started using my G27 racing pedals as yaw pedals. Now the force trim doesn't work anymore... Though I DO see the button getting pressed on the cyclic. Weird huh? Does anyone know what the problem is?

You're supposed to land an autorotation with forward speed. You pulled it off to land without any forward speed, but that's just REALLY dangerous and something no one would want to try in real life.