AlphaOneSix

The video doesn't show any IR suppressors installed. Assuming you are referring to the IR jammer behind the APU. It is not modelled in DCS because there are no missiles in DCS that it would be effective against.

Well, in an ideal world, I think ED would just add keybindings for the pedal microswitches, and people can implement those physically however they see fit.

The Missile Advance button should only work if you are in manual mode *before* you WAS the missiles. If you find yourself in this situation again, you could try de-WASing the missiles, placing it in manual mode, then re-WAS missiles.

I'm pretty sure it's the AFCS system select switch. It goes OFF - 1 - BOTH - 2 - OFF and is normally in BOTH which will have both AFCS systems operating at 50% authority (gain?) each. If you put it in 1 or 2 it will activate just that system only at 75% authority. OFF turns off both systems.

Because their hand is already on the collective, which is where the CHOP button is.

Yes, it's rather pointless in DCS.

The real aircraft does not have any kind of tint to the widows, either the glass ones or the plexiglass. In AirSenpai's images, the "tint" comes from the reflection of a blue sky.

Yeah I was waiting about 30 seconds after the engine RPM reached zero before I tried another start.

That's only necessary if you've got unburned fuel in the combustion chamber, which doesn't happen when he does it the way he is describing. Unless by "overhead fuel valve" he doesn't mean the red levers above the pilot.

Works fine for me. How long after the RPM reaches 0% are you waiting before attempting a restart?

Well, the Mi-8 knows how much you move the cyclic, so anytime you move the cyclic, the attitude setting changes, too. Without hitting the trim button.

Well, fine, but it's the exact same dispenser as on the A-model.

McD didn't buy Hughes until 1984.

You mean design choice by Hughes, of course.

Several kinds. Mi-8MTV-1, Mi-17-1V, Mi-172, Mi-17V-5, Mi-171. Some with the dolphin nose, some without...some with a ramp, some with clamshells.

Color weather radar, mostly. Additionally, extra room for other avionics.

My documentation indicates that the KZSP indicated airspeed controller doesn't start working until 150km/hr IAS.

Admittedly, I am far better at how it works in real life than in-game. But I don't think you understood what I was saying. Leaving the altitude channel completely out of the equation, I'm saying that in order to move the collective, you should press the friction release button on the collective, then move the collective, then release the friction release button. I am fully aware that pressing the friction release button turns off the altitude channel. I was referring to what the AI is doing. The AI appears to be holding the friction release button down the entire time, preventing you, as the player, from engaging the altitude channel.

George is following his training, he can't help that the ED AH-64D enters VRS way too easily.

Link 16 is a brand name from the company, the military didn't come up with that name. The NATO name is MIDS-JTRS or something similarly ridiculous and un-catchy.

Link 16 is very much a trademarked term owned by L3Harris. It is not owned by any government.

My personal preference is to just leave the heading channel off unless I am specifically wanting to hold my heading. Same with altitude channel. Those two channels do not provide a SAS function like the pitch and roll channels do. This mirrors how we fly in real life, since our pilots never take their feet off the pedals. So even with the heading channel engaged, it is always interrupted and not active.

Looks like you already found your answer. But yes, the pedals have microswitches and yes, the rudder trims.

It seems like it's treating the collective friction clutch release button as a toggle. It should act like the trimmer button on the cyclic. In other words, it's only pressed when the collective is being moved, in order to remove the friction that holds it in place. Also, you should always be able to engage it on the ground.

What does the FCR have to do with the AGM-114L? (Hint: nothing)