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Yep, also, the swivel locks on AI Chinooks do not lock when they land. They just roll around... It's very un-immersive. This is most obvious when they land on a slope.

In my 10 years of operating the Chinook, I have never used electrical ground power in order to startup. It's basically nonsense in a Chinook, because a Chinook has an APU. Also, you can't use the ground power for anything else but power the electrics. You can not start the engines with just electricity, you need hydraulic pressure to start the engines.

You use the CDR whenever you intend to make 'large' control inputs. If you want to maneuver your aircraft whilst in stable flight, it is recommended to NOT use the CDR, as you will lose some of the DAFCS features if depressed. However, IRL you'd be pushing 'against the springs' if you do not press the CDR. As a technique you can press the CDR and apply a little bit more hands-on control touch and disengage the magbrake on the cyclic. You can not feel this difference on your PC, so I guess it doesn't matter what you do. To fly a normal turn, without pressing the CDR, you should not need pedals as the DAFCS should make the turn coordinated. The Chinook however does allow quite some throwing around with pedals if need be, for instance flying low level between obstacles and you need to swing the backside of the helicopter around to avoid hitting them. Or if you need to throw in the fuselage to create extra drag to stop quicker.

I don't think anyone here would know the answer to your question, that's a very hard one . You would have to get in the cockpit, get hydraulic power on it and measure. But it'd hard to measure because there's no clear centerpoint.

@MagicSlave @cw4ogden A couple things stated here are actually incorrect. @adrift_foolish1 is correct. To be very anal about it, I'd say the hover attitude is about 4 degrees nose up. It is absolutely not level. Also, after landing the SOP is to apply 1.5 inches aft cyclic. And you can use up to 3.5 inches aft cyclic to plant the aft gear into the ground. I believe the 2 inches you mention are from earlier Chinook models (C and older). Ofcourse you could try to apply more, but then you're likely to encounter droop stop pounding. Also, the LCT's do help with forward taxiing, but they're not necessary as even without LCT's the Chinook would taxi forward. This is because of how the rotor system is rigged. The forward mast is angled 9 degrees forward, the aft mast is angled 4 degrees forward. In a two wheel landing situation, or the so-called ridgeline landing, you would apply 3.5 inches cyclic aft to plant the aft gear firmly onto the ground, then use thrust only to maintain attitude. The use of LCT's in manual at this point is a technique, but is not really necessary in most circumstances. Unless you're unstable for whatever reason.

And before you fill another post with made up stuff, I'll inform you that I have tried this in a real aircraft, with real other aircraft, and it really works like I say. And I've also tried it in DCS, it works. Try it.

Engines can cool down 200-300 degrees in within about 2 seconds, no problem. It's a big difference.

I never said graphics designers should create ingame comms. So I'll just disregard your whole post.

Simple. Because it's classified. Like I said before, you don't want the enemy to know how you counter their weapons.

DCS just seriously needs ingame comms... It's outrageous they make crap like contrails, while it doesn't even have proper ingame comms.

Well, I fly with an online squadron and since the last couple of DCS and TS3 updates, it has been impossible to get all people with a working TARS. Problems everywhere.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't TARS that plugin that's instable as hell and doesn't work with all players on TS3 at once 99% of the time?

Try adding these effects: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1664338&postcount=4

So something like a throttle chop could help? Or flying into a cloud? Or maneuvering to keep your engines out of sight or as far covered as possible?

Doesn't sound like it's supposed to... Sounds more like a 80's Amiga game or something.... There's WAY too much distortion. But maybe with different settings you can get something that sounds like the real thing. I do like the short beep when you start talking. Sounds like KY-100 encryption. But then again, only the unit sending would here that beep, not the receiving side. Is there any delay when you talk?