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I have never flown helicopter in real life, but currently I am doing my PPL(A) licence and I have just finished so-called "task A", where you actually learn how to fly an airplane. I think flying real heli vs sim could be compared to what I had in my experience. Since I am long time computer simmer I knew lots of stuff and could handle lots of virtual airplanes before really flying an airplane. This helped me and still helps me a lot in my real life flying. However, the important thing you just can't learn, when flying on computer, is being to able "to sense yourself in space". For instance- during landing you need to learn, by using perspective seeing, how to approach runway, when to flare, when to touchdown. You need to learn to "feel the airplane". There are also some pretty suprising stuff in real world like strong and frequent turbulences over the ground which you constantly need to correct and you can feel on the yoke and with all your body. So if I had only simming experience and started to flying- maybe I wouldn't kill myself but I would definitely crash my plane.

Hello, Having 150 mph at runway threshold is maybe good to learn at begining, but you will waste lots of runway. Traffic pattern for Mustang says you have to have 120 mph at threshold, and if you are trained in slow flight, with some care you can do 90 mph without stalling (50% fuel, no external payload, steering with rudder, small banks). But in perfect landing you will have this 90 mph just after runway threshold, just before touchdown. Recently I am trying to master the shortest landings as possible to be able to land on carrier everytime :) As far as I remember, I was able to train recovering from flat spins by moving stick up and down fast to get into "normal" spin, and then recover with standard procedure.

Hi Skendzie, IMHO as long as you don't try to run third party and make F35 module :smilewink:, this forum is pretty nice and helpful place :music_whistling:

Some time ago I didn't own any of ED games or modules and I was struggling with myself should I buy it. After disappointing Cliffs of Dover I was very careful with spending out my money. Then, I have found BS2 on sale for around 10 euro and I thought that I can try it. And now I own almost every ED module, all BST modules which I got at full price (except P51 and BS2). So you see now, that this ED marketing strategy is very clever :).

Hi! For some time I had the same problem that you have. I've mastered basic aviation skills very quickly (I have long simming experience) and then, at some time, P51 started to seem to me "dull". But then I have started to learn flying in real life (of course not on P51 :) ). I got back to Mustang and started to investigate and learn more. Trying to understand all engine management and differences to my real life C152 and how all this stuff works. How spins, flat spins, landings on short runaways, emergency flame out landings e.t.c. behaves. And IMHO this is the best feature of P51. But Europe 44 will definitely bring it to next level :pilotfly:. I don't know why it doesn't work for you, but it definitely works for me in my Saitek X45.

Maaan, you are just unlucky because you missed discount. And that is why you feel bad. There are so many games that I spend 50$ or MORE and played them not more then few hours, because they were crap. Just with Huey module I've spent maybe ~50 hours of playing, which is GREAT. And I don't include those numerous hours spent on learning and discovering, which is, as we all simmers know, pure joy too. I don't care if it is now for 50$, 10$ or free - I paid BST dev team money the deserve. Cheers :)

Nice! It's good to be wrong :smilewink: Thanks guys for info.

Just curious: Is "icing" implemented in DCS? I have read someday somewhere here that it is not.

Yesterday I've flown maybe one or two hours, and noticed the ground effect is lighter than in Huey (that is only my own humble impression) and at beginning I had problems with landing on obstacles and carrier, flying is much different, but I belive that this is accurate, because I'm not a MI8 pilot and I know that few real MI8 pilots worked with this release and put lots of energy to make it real. I love it and can't wait to go back home and fly again! :pilotfly:

Hi! I think ADF is not working yet. I've read it here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=112659

Ha ha this is SO TRUE :D At first I was mad, that I will have only 2 hours of playing before needing to go sleep and get up to work :D Glad my GF is in internship in Portugal and comes back in October :D

Hi, I couldn't find any thread like this in the forum, so I'm starting new one. I really LOVE DCS P51, but since there is FW109D9 upcoming I wonder if I want to spend 50$ on it or is it better to wait for some discount and buy it eventually. So it depends how much would be FW109 different from P51. I did some quick research and found this comparison: http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/bf-109-vs-spitfire-vs-fw-190-vs-p-51-a-13369.html which seems to show that performance of FW109 and P51 is very close. Do you know if there would be some major differences that would be fun to learn and master such as different engine management, avionics, new systems, much different flight model etc. that are worth to spend extra bucks on it? (to be clear: 50$ and 15$ makes big difference to me) Thanks for your thoughts! :pilotfly:

Hi everyone :), I've found this amazing video of training in first flight simulator ever built: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Trainer

This movie is great fun, you need to watch this :) Now I want to see it once again!

I would be interested joining Squadron too, if you're still looking for members :pilotfly:

AFAIK dumb bombs are designed for low altitude runs and to be released in pairs or in more quantities. You can't expect great accuracy. And you need some practice to do it right. On YouTube there are some video tutorials for how to use them quite effectively - it is useful to watch it. And here is how to enter wind corrections to CDU: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=66422

I am pretty sure that you should try to set curves somewhere between 20 and 25 and check if it helps. (It helped me A LOT) Are you sure you are only "few feet above ground" when going into hover? I mean that if you are above "ground effect" (AFAIR it is more than 20 feet or so) and try to go into hover and land it is extremely difficult (some real life helicopter pilot also stated this somewhere in this forum). What helped me with landings was that I stopped looking at my variometer at some point to try to keep descend rate -500 ft/min and I started trying to land just looking external. Becouse keeping constant descend was very difficult to me at the beginning.

What is your altitude when you start? Are you keeping it out of dead man's curve in Height-Velocity Diagram ? From manual it seems that it is between 50ft to 600ft for Huey.

Hi! I am rotor noob too, but I've found a short and very useful introduction to Huey at digitalcombatsimulation.com . You have some information about controlling throttle there: when it is at max, it will be auto controlled to keep stable RPM. Furthermore, great to watch are some videos, where you can learn the basics of helicopter flight. I was surprised how many things more I need to learn (even when I am quite experienced airplane simmer and now during PPL(A) course in real life ). UPDATE: I've found this in the pdf manual: "Rotating the pilot or copilot twist grip-type throttle to the full open position allows the overspeed governor to maintain a constant rpm. Rotating the throttle toward the closed position will cause the rpm to be manually selected instead of automatically selected by the overspeed governor."

I am doing the same - I don't mind paying more since the quality of product I get back is just incredible. I wouldn't mind if they would take my money and burn it or do whatever they would like - they deserve it !

This is amazing for me too :). I can just join Virtual Aerobatics and have so much fun just flying around. I have never ever had this much fun with any of sims or aircrafts.

I think this is simple "muscle memory" :). I had the same when learning Huey. For first few weeks I was learning and learning and learning, reading a lot how to land without ending in a fireball and suddenly after few days off, I was able to land without major problems even on carrier, or roof top :). This is amazing how your brain adapts.

Hi, I have flown few hours in Huey, so I would also be interested in learning together and flying with you. How can I find you on skype/teamspeak?

I totally agree. I have rudder pedals since few months and I can't imagine trying to control Huey without it. I know it is possible though. BTW: Is x52 having twist-stick only as rudder? I have old x45 which has separate rudder on throttle- that would be more easy to handle instead of having rudder peddals.

Hi, during multiplayer mission shortly after take off I've lost one engine. I wonder if I am doing something wrong which can result in such failure. What I am doing exactly is this: auto cold start (win + home), taxi to runway, full brakes on, apply full power and wait for RPM to raise and then take off and start climbing. During climb I switch master arm on, gun arm, TGP, maverick EO. Between 7-10 k ft my engine flame out. If it would happened once I could think this was some random failure, but this happened to me twice the same day. Am I doing something wrong?