VampireNZ

I haven't fired ATGM from front seat, but as I understand it there are a few issues with Petro as pilot at this stage, same as with the whole trimmer system etc. But firing the ATGM from hover is not ideal in any case as you need to nose-down quite a long way to place target in middle of reticle to allow Petro to actually fire missile, but the tracking is fine after that. So I prefer to fire a couple at speed approaching target (and so heli is angled towards target) and then turn away to reposition.

You're not in a stable stationary hover, and it looks like you haven't trimmed out all cyclic deflection with the trimmer button. Check the doppler gauge next to airspeed indicator - you are moving fwd when you engage HOVER and as such the AP tries to stop this forward movement. You can see on AP controls indicator the longitudinal 'T' pitch channel is at max down and runs out of authority trying to arrest the fwd movement (hence the 'bobbing'). Coming to a perfectly stationary hover at that altitude is pretty tricky but you need to at least have absolutely no white showing on the doppler gauge, and even then you can still have some movement (it really needs to show finer movements). Coming to a perfect hover fully trimmed hands-off is also pretty tricky at the moment due to the 'overrun' trim issue when you hit the trimmer button. It is almost better to use the trim hat to try and trim out all the stick forces.

Not at PC but from memory try 'Taxi Light'

Agreed, no big deal in a fixed wing - kinda big deal in a helicopter lol.

Was on Cyprus...and not a small lake

Info from RL Hind manual... At hovering, make sure that the main rotor RPM are at not less than 93%, directional control forces are adequate, the pedals are not against the stop, and the helicopter maintains a selected flight mode. If the helicopter does not reach a selected hovering altitude, or main rotor RPM are less than 93%, perform landing, decrease helicopter weight and repeat test hovering. The forces occurring on the control stick shall be removed by frequent momentary pressings of the force-release button.

It would just be nice to have sim topology that matched the maps - was trying to use a lake for a visual reference for positioning off the map and didn't see it when I expected to, so spent 10 minutes surveying the local area to try and find where I was....only to find the lake on the map didn't exist in the sim.

Don't forget your “115v” and “36v” transformer switches on same panel as Gen switches.

Really looking fwd to when this 'additional bump' bug gets removed from the trim system, as it is probably the most annoying thing about flying the chopper at the moment. I try to avoid any trimming as much as possible now and just fly with stick displaced, or use the trim hat to remove large displacements. It also makes coming to a stop and engaging hover hold pretty tedious as you need a pretty much hands-off stable hover, so you hold a good hover with stick displaced then tap trimmer button and centralise stick, and it bumps past your stable hover to move off in the other direction! So for now just stuck an 'INOP' sticker on trimmer button lol - doesn't ruin the party too much thou and still very flyable and much fun.

Although I have never had an issue with the fan in Hip/Hind - I don't see anything wrong with the option to remove.

https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2018/11/lte-the-cliff-edge/

Personally I am running the Beta to get the feedback for the new Hind as it is tweaked and updated, otherwise Stable is fine.

Same deal here - just installed the new Beta version and hit the Repair DCS output file or whatever it's called button and was all good.

Just some info I found... In the hovering mode, spontaneous deactivation of the AFCS, caused by a short-term transition of the Doppler meter to the Memory mode is possible in case gf AFCS self-deactivation in the mode of steady hovering, it is allowed to activate it again. Spontaneous deactivation of the AFCS, as a rule, occurs when hovering over water surface and over a helipad with concrete or metal paving.

Well...basically the same except for some cage over the front of the doppler panel hiding most the information (And no I don't want to entirely remove seat, cyclic, collective etc just to remove one cage lol)

5.44. Vortex Ring. 5.44.1 Manifestation: - spontaneous intensive increase of the vertical rate of descent; - helicopter shaking and darting from side to side; - unstable readings of speed indicator and rate-of-climb indicator. 5.44.2. Pilot's Actions: - by deflecting the control stick away from oneself, create a pitch angle of minus 5.....10 deg to accelerate forward speed and increase the main rotor collective pitch to reduce altitude loss; do not allow main rotor RPM dropping below permissible value; - after reaching a forward speed of 50...60 km/h, set the helicopter to horizontal flight followed by further speed increase' Note. The helicopter entering the vortex ring is possible during a power-on descent and forward speed under 50 km/h and a vertical rate greater than 5 m/s. In those cases the conditions of the main rotor airflow change, resulting in possible spontaneous intensive increase of the vertical rate of descent, shaking and darting of the helicopter from side to side, and impaired controllability. The "vortex ring" mode is the most dangerous during descent at low altitudes, because for recovery from this mode, an altitude of 20 to 200 m is required.

Just checked and strangely using the rotary encoder I bound it to it will only adjust +/- 20 degrees from the heading you set with your mouse, and won't go below 000 deg at the very start of flight (need to adjust < 000 with mouse).

'No Bug' Feel free to watch my track showing collective moving to full up, pedals fell left and cyclic full fwd and left at aircraft hotstart (with all HOTAS controls centered/collective down), obviously resulting in aircraft total destruction....and tell me that is 'no bug' LMAO. OMG love it. Must be a 'Bug' then to hotstart in the Mi-8 Hip and have all controls matching your HOTAS controls and thus not immediately flipping and exploding. Hang on while I post a bug in the Hip section

Nice one, cheers.

Thanks so much for this! Just one point - not having any luck with the 'Autopilot Route Azimuth' Up/Down binds.

Yea it is real easy to overload the Hind, 4 ATGM and 4 rocket pods and you can only take 30% fuel! Tried taking off with full weapons and fuel....even 100 knots down the runway and no lift off lol.

Sry not sure then - working fine over here. Can only think you were too heavy/hot or windy maybe?

Rgr thanks

Yep been mentioned - As I suggested this either needs to be hot-fixed or pinned so ppl know what is going on.

Make sure the send airspeed to doppler switch is not up on the LH sidewall bank of switches - is currently bugged and causes this behaviour.