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This would be sweet to spot targets. :) Another great aircraft would be OV-1 Mohawk. For some reason I always thought that aircraft ugly in a beautiful way.

I didn't noticed the link. I saw one over the website but it is not the same. Sorry, I guess.

When the radar altitude light is one, there is a square around the light.

Hi all, The trim does not function to me... Anyone has this problem? Regards.

If you ask me if the FM is better than some FSTD I've been to, I will say yes. But still does not feel right in some conditions. It should feel more dynamic... See the above post about the pitch stopping at 0° no matter what. Maybe it's just me, my PC and hardware that makes Gazelle feel this way... I don't know. I can only comment based on my experience and what I am getting in the Gazelle. :(

Thank you but that is really hard to see where the cyclic is because the camera is non static. But let me ask you one question Jester986, when you are hovering with you 206L4, do you have your cyclic static? Let me answer... No. You will always make inputs to maintain hover, either because of atmospheric (relative wind) or PIO to maintain the position of the hover. Now, lets go back to DCS Gazelle... I lift the collective and the helicopter flies up with a little bank angle (roll-yaw coupling I assume) which I correct. I now take my hands off the cyclic and the helicopter remains stable... assuming we have a perfect still atmosphere in DCS, will assume this is what should occur... Ok... then I input a little side cyclic to a 10 degree bank angle... I let the cyclic neutral... the helicopter just maintains the 10° bank and stays there... perfectly static with a sideways constant velocity... For those that knows about helicopter's dynamics and I am sure you do Jester986, can you tell me if this is the behavior you would expect? No... because as soon as you let your cyclic in neutral... the helicopter fuselage and the aerodynamics effect on the blades (relative wind), changes. The helicopter is statically stable in hover and if no input is made, with time it will become dynamically unstable. The tendency when you neutral the cyclic, it will be to go in the opposite direction (translation). But go ahead and correct me if I am wrong. The same goes for translation from hover to forward flight... I have Gazelle in a hover and input forward cyclic to 10° nose down. I then return cyclic to neutral. The Gazelle starts to get airspeed but maintains the 10° nose down without any input... it will only require a bit of pedal input to maintain heading. It gained some altitude, then some speed and when speed was about 90 to 100 kmh started to descend again... Attitude? Remained 10°! Jester986, is that what you encountered in your ferry flight? No. Because, when you go from hover to forward flight there is a whole lot to do in the cyclic to compensate for various effects. But even if that was not modeled, at least some blowback should be present which would affect pitch (disk pitch then fuselage pitch). That does not seem to be present. Again, correct me if I am wrong. From my RL experience, specially with the B3 which have a lot of power available, when you go from hover to forward flight and beginning feeling ETL effects, you have to really adjust cyclic and anti-torque. As far as I remember, and if I remember correctly, you would put the cyclic more to the left and forward to maintain pitch attitude... which I don't see modeled in the Gazelle. Also, it is strange that when I input aft cyclic for a fraction of a second and get to neutral again, the helicopter starts to pitch up gradually and then stops at 0°, no matter speeds or attitudes. Do you guys have this effects? Am I the only one to see the Gazelle as I am describing it? I will upload the videos of the cases I am describing here, they were filmed with an iPhone but I think you will understand the behavior. Now... I can't disable FFB because I am flying with a Microsoft FFB 2... and if I turn off FFB I lose the spring tension. Thank you for you patience and I am sorry if I am the only one to experience your Gazelle this way.

I will check if has something to do with the FFB. I agree with you... but maybe I am not explain myself in the most correct way. I'll test it later today and check if it is something to do with the FFB being ON. I let you guys know.

Thanks for sharing the SOPs link, didn't know about it. SRS it was a pain to get fixed for me, but now I am able to speak...

How do you guys plan a mission? Better, does anyone have references on how a military pilot plans the flight? What points he considers, egress, IP etc? Thanks.

Status of this module? Its only in the modelling process or its already being coded?

I just have a request... Bring back the L-39 for air recon. Most of the time I get shot down with the Mustang, heck... all the time. :cry:

This was the problem... I thought that the aircraft had fuel, until I inspected more carefully and saw 0 in the engine parameters. Please disregard and delete the topic. Thank you.

Today I was on the Blue Flag server and I can't maintained the engine running. Even if I use auto procedure, the right engine fails and the auto procedure stops. Also the APU stop working as soon as the right engine is running, after a while the right engine stops. Does anyone replicate this?

Exactly that! Like being able to program our Data cartridge for the aircraft, with waypoints, frequencies, times, etc... whatever the aircraft you are flying is able to be programmed for. It would make a huge difference... One of the things that I miss the most is planning missions like I planned in Falcon 4.0. DCS is great in everything and it is a huge simulator, by far the best military flight simulation from years! But it tends to focus in the technicalities rather than the immersion of what it takes to be a military pilot... and that involves also planning the mission. Hope they get it implemented in MP. Does anyone now any 3rd party software that can be used to plan missions? Kind regards.

I have this issue also. It's probably the sun reflection in the canopy, the problem is that all the canopy goes white opaque. I'm sure it'll get fixed. Amazing module. My favourite right now.

Regarding the right side skid being the last to left the ground or the first to touch it... helicopters are very susceptible to weight and balance and other conditions, like wind, etc... For example, in AS350 B3, when I fly alone and with full tank, the last part of the skid to left the ground is always the rear of the right skid (spring) when I have full load of fuel and people, the helicopter leave the ground almost with both skids simultaneous. It depends on the situation... I can give you another example. I still remember when I was in the school flying the R-22, there was a huge difference flying with instructor and without one. One of the things I felt immediately when took off the first solo flight, was the helicopter tendency to have nose up and the rear of the skids to left the ground last, when I was with an instructor, they both got to the air almost parallel to the ground. So, we cannot give a round number on the amount of inclination a helicopter has, since it is highly susceptible to mass and balance and other effects, like side wind, etc. Cheers. PS: Generally speaking, a clockwise rotor will have a tendency to have the right skid off the ground last and first on landing, and a counter clockwise rotor the left one. But this is not always true and is determine by other factors, W&B, wind, design, etc...

Hi, First off all... I am not bitching. What I am giving is my experience of the module based on some airframes I fly and flew in real life. I don't know if my first post contradicts this one. What I know is that the Gazelle you are modelling feels wrong to me based on my real life experience with other helicopters. But be sure that the first Gazelle I find, I will ride it to have comparison of the same model. I fly in real life the AS365 N1 which is a big brother of the Gazelle and I've flown also AIII which is a older brother. AS365 have a SAS/AFCS system but I don't know how much alike it to the SAS/AFCS system of the Gazelle. What I would expect from my personal experience is that without SAS/AFCS/AP a helicopter is a helicopter. It is back to basics, unless the Gazelle is a very special helicopter different from all the helicopters I have flown. Ones heavier others smaller, all traditional helicopters feel the same, even coaxial ones, although more sluguish in some flight dynamics, but all act a bit the same. My intentions are simple: unless I feel right about the flight dynamics of your helicopter I will tell you otherwise. Sorry for the blunt honesty here. Right now, there are certain things in your FM that are not in par with my personal experience of the real world. For example, I've never flown a Ka-50 but I've flown a Ka-32 and the Black Shark is really there. What I am trying to say, is that your helicopter dynamics does not feel right. One of the things I have noticed (and I didn't extensively tested the flight model) was that the helicopter tends to remain in the same attitude when there is not input... even with SAS/AP off. I have a Microsoft FF2, I will try to see if it is the FFB and report it back. Thank you for your reply and sorry if I didn't explain myself to you. Kind regards.

Hi there, Is there any software you guys use to planning online missions, like Blue Flag? The second question, why you can't use the DCS planning map feature when in servers like Blue Flag? Thank you. Regards

Cool Zeus! Thanks for the update. :thumbup:

Happened to me to, today. But was while turning ON the RADAR. The simulation frozen and after a few seconds CTD.

Hi all, So its been quite a while since I've first posted this: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=184568 I returned to DCS (2.5.2.18736) a few days ago and started up you Gazelle. To my surprise, many of the problems I've stated about helicopters flight dynamics in my earlier post, are still present in the Gazelle version I've flown today. It seems now that you helicopter has some sort of FWB by the feel of it... helicopters like Gazelle, don't fly like what you are depicting in your module, I will state this again. Right now, and only to speak about simple things, when you start a turn with cyclic (level off) the helicopter just maintains the bank angle when you return cyclic to neutral position... :doh: Totally FBW for sure (this was without any AP or servos engaged). Same goes for pitch... which obviously its not how a helicopter is supposed to fly. So, my question is: Is FM going to be effectively revised? - I really don't care if you guys tell me that some army pilots validate it, because obviously, if they validated that, they are wrong too (whoever they are). I can talk to them if you want, just PM me. Again, I have around 10 years of RL helicopter flying, having flown a number of types (from R-22/44, to AS350 to more complex ones AS365/B222/AS355 etc) and I can assure, although every helicopter is different, none should have the dynamics Gazelle is showing off. If you want, I can review FM further more, but only the fact that I realised what I posted, I immediately just went off. Please note that you have made an incredible job with all the modelled versions of Gazelle and its systems, but the FM is a no-go for me. Hope you can revise it and make it on par with the rest of the module quality. Kind regards.

Any update on this? Where are you guys getting info on how to insert waypoints in the system? Thanks

That remind me so much of the good old days with Jane's F-15 with its awesome immersion with the CPG. Good work. Hope you accomplish it!

Have a different story about that air frame and what happened to the pilot. But you know aviation... it is indeed a pit of stories... some true, some myth. Regards.

Comparing an RC scale helicopter with a 1:1 helicopter is not fair. One thing to begging is its different mass, there is a huge difference there... Other are the materials and stiffness/resistance of those... If you try to sustain inverted flight with a helicopter (I mean, one that was not designed for sustained inverted flight, some helicopters have negative pitch, normally shipboard ones) you would probably lose your tail and rotor blades in the process. I am a bit tired of people here, in this forum, comparing RC helicopters with real helicopters. Although the fundamentals of flight are there, you can't compare the inertia and the mass, plus the different materials and dynamics... Everyone has right to express opinion and its up to people wanting to learn more and get the facts right. Cheers.