Focha

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It is really unbalanced right now with the F-14 arrival. No one is playing in the non F-14 side... or at least, there is less players...

OMG :thumbup: Ehehe. Nothing more to say. Best module ever. :pilotfly:

Thank you.

I'm with you on that... They always forget FFB people.

Can you guys please enable FFB in the next update? It is a simple thing but it is never present in early releases. Thank you.

How can I join the fun?

I think I crashed the server today... I was unpacking a SAM as as soon as the unpacking begun, the server crashed. Don't know where to report, so I reported here. I was flying a Huey, in blue side, near Sukhumi. Let me know if you need more information.

Me.

What version of DCS is Blue Flag running? Is it beta? Can't find it in the list of servers and I have DCS up to date.

Didn’t know about that. Too bad, it would add to the experience.

Is it possible to add dynamic weather?

Hi there, I was wondering if there is some information out there about how to plan for a mission. Explaining the IPs, etc... and how do you set them. Any material that you guys know of? Thank you in advance. Kind regards.

I went there and it is not so much about the Gazelle but about the flight dynamics/principles of flight general. Not even close to the content that it was discussed here.

Any news about Ground Radar?

I was 0. :) I am now 32! Best movie ever. And it was the main reason why I've become a pilot in RL.

It would be good to have a list of what is still to be implemented.

Hi all, Is it possible to know what is already concluded and what is yet to come? For example, is the FLIR and TGP image final? Is it suppose to look like that? What is still left to do in the Harrier? A comprehensive list would be good to have. Thank you. Kind regards.

I have this also.

Please ask maintenance to polish it! :) In real life when you have a really scratchy canopy, in dusk and at dawn, it's really bad! Sometimes I have to get my lateral references to know where I'm going.

Just to add some experience I had... We once add a failure in the tail gyroscope in our 365. Not much happened. We just had the AFCS compensating wrongly the servos and we end up having oscillations. I don't know the gyroscopes that Gazelle has. That is a fact. What I know it that the gyroscopes are there to help AFCS/SAS know the displacements, then the AFCS/SAS makes corrections to the servos connected to control rods. Can you explain the SAS system and its gyroscopes? Or at least, do you have any references to learn more about it? Thank you. Also, can you point me out to the quotes explaining why the Gazelle does not have effects that I expect in every helicopter I type rated? Thank you very much. To reply to those who say that if you didn't fly you can't compare... then why the developers compared a Bell 206 cyclic displacement to argue for the Gazelle? There are simply some factual errors here that I don't understand. It's like there are different criteria here. Again, obviously you can compare helicopters. They may not have the same performance, the same feeling in the controls... but I am yet to experience different experience like in the Gazelle modelled here. Maybe when Bell 525 with its FBW comes out, then I should expect something different. I've flown the R-22 which is a helicopter with direct mechanic linkage to the rotor and for example a more complex machine like the AS365 and although they are different I feel the same feedback from rotor, and 365 is free of feedback, since it is hydraulic connected to rotors servos. I am not saying what is wrong. I'm saying that your Gazelle flies so different that for me it is like a different class of aircraft instead of helicopter. I would really like to fly a military Gazelle, but that is really far from happening and the civil one I can fly, it's not the same, right? So not comparable by some standards. I have to agree with a fellow pilot that wrote here... it's all about expectations... and I cannot expect more, I guess, from a desktop helicopter sim. And also, RL pilots perspective of a desktop sim is utterly subjective. But again, if I saw effects modelled in our modules in this simulator, than I would expect Gazelle to have those too. Dissemetry of lift, roll-yaw couple (even if light one), blowback... etc. Thank you.

Sure helicopters are comparable. Why wouldn't you compare? Wouldn't you compare a Cessna 172 with a Piper something? They have handling qualities that have to be the same, and obviously they fly differently. But they can be compared. Often in RL you compare aircraft you fly. You even compare different models of the same helicopter... because they handle differently, but again, the essence is the same. So, to question your certainties, yes, you can compare.

Ok... After I read all the posts replies since my last reply... I regret to say that I give up. It is incredible how a simply complex topic as this one turn out to all the directions except those that matters. I, myself, as a helicopter pilot in real life know that every helicopter flies differently. Yet, every helicopter has the same principles of flight. If Gazelle was a complex modern enough helicopter to use FBW system, I would stand down and don't comment some of the tests I've made and that reported earlier in this topic. But Gazelle is not a modern helicopter. I believe to some extend the SAS system helps the workload of the pilot. As with the AS365 N1 I fly, that has AFCS with SAS, it make is more stable, but does not take out aerodynamic and forces effects that are common to all helicopter (at least conventional ones, meaning, one main rotor and one tail rotor/fenestron). So I give up. The reply from the Devs is that they have a team of real helicopter pilots that give feedback and said the FM is ok. The next argument is that the Gazelle is a different helicopter. And the last argument is that it is an attack to this module. Yet, I didn't find any reply commenting the fundamental works of its hydraulic or servo electric mechanics linked with how the SAS works and how it feels more like an FBW system than an mechanical/magnetic link to the controls. How do the developers justify that the cyclic position is returned to neutral (joystick neutral) and yet the helicopter maintains the attitude, with or without SAS engaged? I am still waiting to see a reply from the developers explaining the critical tests I've made with Gazelle module and the comments I've posted earlier. So, I give up. I am tired of trying to show that unless the Gazelle is a very complex machine, there are a number of things that for me, as a RL helicopter pilots, does not make sense. I came here and asked, why is it that the Gazelle behaves like this, since it is completely different from what I would expect from a helicopter simulation. The analogy is, that the Gazelle right now, seems more like Apache from Longbow 2, then from what I would expect from a 2018 simulation, since others have broken barriers in this kind of home simulation. So, I apologize for starting up this topic again, it seems that people here don't like to be confronted with one with some knowledge as to offer. Plus, and this is just personal opinion... Developer seemed like a kid replying why someone is in the beta team, in a public open discussion that as nothing to do with that. Please, stick to the topic. But better, close it. From what I understand it just doesn't worth it. I hope you consider my opinion regarding FFB joystick and the behavior that we are getting and again I stand my ground in saying that the Gazelle is a very special helicopter (if it is indeed how it is flying in DCS) because I've never experienced a helicopter like it... and I already flown a few in RL. Kind regards and again sorry for expressing my view on your product. But I am also tired and feel that the review I have made it didn't serve for any purpose, and I lost a few minutes of my life doing that free review of your FM.

Very nice. Thank you for sharing.

You know... that is not true. Come on... you know it. :megalol: