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Not really. more like november 2021 (october actually). Salsa: Well lock the thread then. Patch is zeitgeist at the moment, I'm sure the discussion will pop up somewhere else.

Whatever comes with this patch better be relatively bug free and with important changes (ok the two things are practically impossible together). I cannot fathom the community's reaction to: "Here's the patch you've been waiting for nearly two months: fixes the second and third rivets' shadow on the right aileron of the JF-17. Enjoy!"

I still don't understand if all the modifications suggested in this thread are merged in the github repository linked in the first post or if I have to go hunt for the latest version somewhere else. Github lists the last update three months ago, is that correct?

IronMike: Hey i miei FPS sono saliti da 50 a 200! ED: perfetto, possiamo fare le mappe x4 più pesanti e mantenere lo stesso livello (di merda) di performance!

3dmigoto lets you selectively disable trees, buildings and objects (units, statics) shadows. Not what you really might have been pointing at but can be useful. And does not break IC.

Shish. And here I was in 2023.

At the end of the day if ED implements what Tim is pointing out, IT IS going to be "for more enjoy". Flying the Huey will be the same, you will just have more power to spare, you will be able to fly faster, higher and with heavier loads... Nothing else should change.

Alright I might as well try this... EDIT: I already had a deadzone of 4 and 6, and that didn't help...

giving out the planned change list is so dangerous.

It's been working on and off for me, don't really know why. I trust you have disabled cockpit global illumination? That was my gotcha....

I will be so happy when it comes out. Even if using only a fraction of its potential, the utility has been invaluable in managing DCS.

Really, you need a real life engineer for this stuff, not a pilot.

If you're still trying to, I realized today it has a CB switch in the weapons panel. One of the rightmost ones. If you don't flip that up (i.e. you're not using weapons in the Mi8) the button does nothing. Why would it be with the weapons escapes me...

This explains why I don't like the thing perfectly and comparing it with data from a test report. I do not think this can be argued with, it clearly shows how the controls should behave and how they are not behaving in the Gazelle. This said, the Gazelle is a fun little thing to fly and can be extremely rewarding as a scout. We have even used in a sort of wild weasel scenario with it zipping around a field and an Apache picking off the anti-air exposed by the gazelle flying around. She was untouched at the end and the pilot was all revved up. So, good fun in game. But calling it realistic or accurate is a bold statement, IMHO and in the opinion of this gentleman who made the video.

Sorry I just assumed it was still relevant. Basically the settings in the reflection page make AH64D TADS labels disappear. You solved this in v15.x but I can see it in v 20.0.2 openXR. Hopefully this clarifies the issue a little?

Sorry to necro this so hard, but with latest 20.0.2 I still have the no TADS handle label issue... Seems to be tied to the "lights" reflection, changing the texture value makes no diff. Scrap that, it's both. I'm running the OpenXR version if that makes a difference.

Er it just dawned on me that you might have misunderstood the phrase "I used to fly RW as a hobby" with "I used to fly RC as a hobby" perhaps? I meant real RW aircrafts.

I'll buy it in a couple of years during a sale at -30% and save re-learning procedures as they implement them better and differently two or three times. I did that error with the F16, not going to do that again.

IDK seems unlikely to me that it will conserve rotational momentum when you bring the cyclic back to center. That's just not what a helicopter does. But this debate is long dead. If you think it is fine as it is, it's ok with me. I'm not saying it's bad, all I'm saying it is just that it behaves more like you would expect an airplane to behave, rather than a helicopter. If you trim a helo, the control stays where you trimmed it, (even if you have SAS, SCAS Autopilot, autohover, what have you) it is a way of giving feedback to the pilot as to what the machine is doing. If the cyclic goes back to center, the rotor disc goes back to center (whatever that center is, could be slightly canted to counteract a translational tendency or could be perfectly orthogonal leaving the countering to the pilot) the point being, helicopters do not continue doing things when you stop telling them to, they go back at their "neutral" state. At least that's the tendency in general. I don't really want to go into this discussion any more, and yes, I agreem flying the gazelle sometimes does feel like flying an RC model. I guess it's just very light and very powerful. It would be my pleasure to have you as a CPG or a pilot and have some fun. I know the thing decently now. Ontop, Beirut is one of the very few cities that left a mark in my heart so there's that, too.

It doesn't mess with any of my mods, of which I have a quite long list. nullnull

So, Yeah. you can change them positions by editing the PrestonAI_page_common.lua file in \DCS World\Mods\aircraft\AH-64D\Cockpit\Scripts\AI just go to line 8 and you will find --for VR only! local compass_pos = {0, -0.40} local weap_control_pos = {0, 0.32} --seems okay, may be a subject to change change the values in red and you will move George's compass and weapons' wheel around (I believe they are X and Y expressed in ratio to 1 ref. the screen size, IDK just experiment, I guess?

LOL I'm not bashing any of the two. I love my Ka50, and I want to love the Gazelle. I'm just saying that they behave less helicopter-y than the rendition of the Mi8 or Huey that we have. Hell even the Apache as it is now in EA behaves more like a helicopter than the Shark or the Gazelle. The UH-60L also has some weird behavior re its response to inputs and the whole trim system... but that I can deal with in light of the fact that it is a free mod. So, if anybody wanted to have a go at starting with helos I would advise that (especially the UH-60L free or the free AH-6J helicopter EFM demo mod, which is and has always been a pretty fun little thing to fly and behaves as you would expect a helo to behave). And this is why I would not advise anybody to start with Ka50 or Gazelle. They will give false expectations of how a helicopter behaves, if one hasn't got that knowledge already from somewhere else. This said, again, I have left the Ka50 in the hangar since I grabbed the Apache, and I am feeling I should really take it out again to brush up a little on procedures etc. It's just that flying the others is being too good at the moment.

I'm pretty sure ou can move it by editing the related .lua . I'll have a look when at my PC

def do the flight trial and as first helos DO NOT get the gazelle or the Ka50, they are the less helicopter-like of the RW in DCS. Huey, Mi8, Apache, UH60 are the ones with good RW FM (in that order) IDK about the Mi24 as I do not own it. PS I used to fly RW for a hobby so while not exactly the machines we have in DCS I have some idea of how a helicopter should fly.

I'm pretty sure I didn't see this forum and i didn't post here directly. Rather the post might have been moved by an admin. So i found it. Nice!