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AlphaOneSix

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  1. 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.

  2. 1 hour ago, Coeptus said:

    Does anyone by chance know what this knob does? Also, whilst I'm at it, how many pages and what exact pages are within the CH-47F's CDU? Thanks!

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    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.

  3. 3 hours ago, admiki said:

     

    Isn't correct procedure to crank first, to expel any unburnt fuel?

    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.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Sobakopes said:

    Which ones did you maintain? The glassy or the radar ones?

    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.

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  5. 1 hour ago, DeMonteur said:

     

    That not how it suppose to work. Collective friction clutch release button disengates the altitude hold of the autopilot and only way to reengage it is to press the altitude channel button on control box. 

    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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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