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You're unaware of translating tendency it sounds like. The aircraft will always push you right naturally because the anti-torque rotor is blowing air to the left. The main rotor is moving air mostly down but also in a counterclockwise swirl due to its circular motion, whereas the anti-torque is always blowing air to the left; since both are not entirely opposite forces they don't completely cancel out. The rotors are on different planes after all. Only the torque of the main rotor gets canceled out (when properly trimmed), the translation and lift are separate forces that are not canceled out.

Probably for loitering efficiency due to the torque of the propeller I imagine. I believe it's slightly more efficient to orbit in the natural direction the propeller rolls and yaws the aircraft. But if the prop spins counterclockwise I'd think it'd be more efficient to bank right. Otherwise it's probably just operator or developer choice to try to stick to a particular direction for predictability.

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Hmm ok somehow overlooked that post, apologies. So no resolution yet, oh well.

Hey guys, I encountered an issue in one of my sorties, but just one sortie thus far, where two symmetrical pylons of dual GBU-16s would not drop any of their bombs. I held the pickle button as the drop cue fell, and the vertical drop line flashed as if the bomb dropped while I was still holding the pickle button. I also saw the time to impact on the HUD counting down afterwards, but the bombs did not leave the pylons. I made multiple attempts with no success. I distinctly remember each thing I double checked to verify that my airplane and munitions were in the correct configuration, and I also double checked to see if I had forgotten something with my wingman who was dropping the same bombs successfully. These are what I checked: Master arm to ON. In A/G master mode. FLIR switch set to ON. TGP done timing out. LTD/R switch set to ARM. LST NFLR switch set to ON. Bomb mode set to AUTO. Bomb MFUZ set to OFF. Bomb EFUZ set to INST. Both racks of bombs' laser codes were set to the same as the LTD/R. The armament showed RDY at the top of the STORES page and was boxed. The armament was not crossed out on the HUD. Target was designated via TGP using TDC depress prior to flying towards the target. I was sufficiently aligned and flying level at the time of drop. I was flying at my loiter altitude and speed, I believe about 22k feet and mach 0.6. I was not lasing at the time of drop, as I was going to lase ~15 seconds from impact, but I tested the laser between attempts and it turned on fine. The mission has random system failures enabled, so I thought at the time it might have been the first significant random system failure I'd encountered thus far, but I found it odd that both pylons refused to drop their bombs. If it was a system failure, I'm curious as to what system failed that would have caused both pylons to be inoperable. Did the ground crew not properly prepare the bombs? Was the bombing computer itself faulty? Later on I believe I dropped some GPS-guided bombs without issue in the same aircraft without requesting a repair. I did not do any hard G-force maneuvers that might have damaged the bombs or pylons to my recollection. I was encountering a few other desync issues in the same mission file but during multiple sessions, so it might have been a DCS bug. Harpoons seemed notably desynced even though we both seemed to be patched to the version that fixed the network trajectory; as the host, I'd see my friend's harpoon hit but they said they saw it miss and the battle assessment reflected that it did miss. As host I also saw both of the drogues pre-deployed on the KC-130 tanker even though my friend did not, and the drogues never moved on my screen and I'd clip through them when attempting to connect without contacting the tanker. After calling the tanker for contact my friend said he saw them deploy and then I could connect, though I had to rely on him to let me know when they were actually deployed for multiple sorties. Anyone else encounter such weird issues on the latest version? Seems since the anti-ship missiles were added DCS has been quite a bit buggier, but maybe my mission somehow got screwed up as well. Sorry for packing so many questions into my post. Thanks in advance!

Yep, that is how the ADV operates in the real F-18. There are quite a few youtube videos that reflect this, and another discussion topic somewhere else on the forums that confirms it as well. Here's an example video: It's a little hard to see, but you should see that anything on the LDDI's HUD that passes through the ADV line is obscured. The LDDI will always have the bottom line reserved on the DDI, blanking out anything behind it even if there's barely any text on that ADV line. If the LDDI is not functional that same line will move to the MPCD, and if the MPCD is not functional the line moves to the RDDI.

I too have had many difficulties with the carrier ATC, though perhaps in a different way than you. I believe the carrier ATC to be quite simply very buggy at the moment. A friend and I were flying and practicing carrier landings, and out of more than 12 landings we only successfully got the ATC to approve a landing once and I believe it was the very first landing. All subsequent attempts would get to the point of the ATC confirming visual, but never finally approving the landing. I did not verify if this buggy behavior is caused by any particular action, such as perhaps landing or taking off after landing, but I suppose it could be that the ATC never realized we took off again so it thinks the deck is not clear for another landing. I never had any issues with the carrier's ATC completely ignoring my initial inbound request though, and requesting nav assistance also never had an issue. Silly question, but are you not close enough perhaps? Not that I've tested, but I don't think the radios in DCS have unlimited range. Have you ever had an airfield reply to your radio calls in the F/A-18C when manually punching it in? I assume you contacted an ATC for takeoff with no problem? Perhaps try from the deck of the carrier and see if the radio works while on the deck.

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