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Don't stand behind it, it may sting.

Heli? :P The autogyro C-47 from hell, built under license in the Soviet Union.

I use the throttle and brake from a Microsoft Sidewinder precision pro wheel, and they work fine in both lomac and FSX, if you can live without toe brakes, well, steering wheel 'rudders' are the way to go :p

I had this issue as well, if you have Firefox go to Tools -> Options, then the Privacy tab, then 'Show cookies' In the search field (below all the cookies) type: digitalcombatsimulator, and delete ALL the cookies that show up. After that go to the forum and log in with 'Remember me', after that there will be no problems with staying logged in.

You get to have bombs and missiles first ;) Do they have TVC engines, or is this the budget model without it(think -MKV)?

They did introduce an electronic limiter after the first prototype crashes to prevent blade clash, it's not a hard limiting system, with enough force it can be overcome. I'm sure the guys working on the sim have more elaborate info.

Aye you willing to talk about it, my young padawan?:rotflmao:

Don't forget the armoring, while not as advanced as on the Mi-28 (ceramic composite), it still offers 23mm protection to the cockpit, and 12.7mm Soviet to the side glazing. As is the extraction system, no matter what excuse you use, the pilot is the most expensive part of any helicopter, crash attenuation alone sometimes won't do (battle damage).

Not to mention that there is hardly any info on the Russian aircraft nuclear bombs (even the names are classified), as is with all the chemical and biological bombs and warheads. Unless you want to see someone from ED die in dubious circumstances :s

I have the original somewhere, not that its quality is that good, but still better than that flash crap.

High alt meshes? To be frank, I couldn't care more or less on how nice the terrain is, as long as the flight dynamics and damage moddeling are good. All that eye candy takes away cpu cycles from the core, the 'flight' portion of flight sim.

Those things aren't supposed to have them in the 1st place, hence my question, what HUD?

Team Apache? I leked that one as well, but I can't remember if it was arcade or just not that deeply simulated.

What HUD? :P

Should I mention the 30 m/s sustained (for 1.5 min) climb rate of a Ka-50 with armament in Chechniya? This thing is AGILE, and as long as you don't do anything to let those blades clash you can outmaneuver all other choppers, except for the RC variety maybe. That HUD footage is rare, as it's the one before the software update, which raised the fps of that thing.

I also remember a video, made in Israel, and all that was coming down were the main rotors. All the grim facts aside, the Ka-50 is very agile and its crew cabin is well armored, so flight characteristics-wise the Ka-50 will be missed when the Apache mod is done.

Kuju Rail Simulator, no longer under the opressive thumb of Microsoft, vive la revoloution!

Guess I'll be making some mod for it then, some mod involving certain paraphernalia instead of machine guns. Maybe even a total conversion mod, and call it Highs in the Skies.

Thanks, so it really is just some hillbilly armor bolted onto seats, oh well, that's why they practice attack runs by going form high to low, to spend as little time possible to sustain small arms fire.

Well, I was talking about the Strela-2 warhead, the rest is fragmentation, but still, 37g is like that small Belgian hand grenade, not that much, especially if you compare it to those 250kg bombs hung under the Ka-50 and Mi-24, ouch.

Does anybody know the ballistic rating for the Ah-64's side panels? I'd say no higher than US class 1A? If it's classified or twitchy, then don't bother giving hints, I just can't believe the canopy of an F16 gives more protection than glazing of an attack helicopter. Really scary that 37 grammes of explosives (1/3 of an expensive cell phone) can entirely shatter the glazing of such an acclaimed chopper. Surely the transparencies were designed to mitigate blast waves in some way. I know ballistics and high velocity shockwave balistics are two different things, but surely the designers could have anticipated that at least a small callibre HE round could have hit the helicopter dusring combat. No chutes, only seat armoring, man, I have to envey those people that fly those things in combat zones more, respect. Interestingly, most helicopter crews during the Soviet Afghanistan war wore, and used parachutes. I don't know how well the Apache handles asymmetry of the main and tail rotor, but the Mi-8 and Mi-24 can tear itself apart due to the rapidly increasing resonance caused by missing rotor parts. Oh, does the Apache have some kind of suspended ordnance blast protection (ok, it does not carry bombs like the mi-24 and -8 )? I remember reading of several occasions of mujahadeen getting a lucky shot into suspended FAB-250 bombs with the dshk and other large calliber machine guns...

Wikipedia, man, after 6 years I still hate that crap, only difference is, 6 years ago only nerds (I admit) knew about it, and even then the info was unrealible at best. Nowdays it's infested by know it alls who don't have accurate facts. Not to mention everytime you try googling ('googling' became an official word in Dutch a few years ago) for something interesting you either get 100s of pages with all the same info CTRL+C/CTRL+V-ed all over the place, or some lomac-inspired "factz". Sad thing is that certain Russian forum have become the main means for information gathering, and not websites. Same unreliability applies to globaldefense and in a lesser way to fas.org.

They're just getting high on the fumes. Hmmmmmm, those engines make a great pipe....

...and Mi-24, the round green thingie

Yup, the flight model is all what counts for me, all the graphics are nice and shit, flippable switches and knobs flying the Ka-50, errm, knobs in the ka-50 are all fine, but in the end, the flight model counts, and no damn FSX can come close. Maybe X-plane with more componenets and a good digital fly by wire simulation (lol, simulating a virtual system), but that is for FO to prove.