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Feet, knots and nautical miles (out of which only feet are an imperial unit; the two other are maritime) are the international standard used in aviation. It's got nothing to do with the US, Liberia or Burma trying to force anyone to learn or use their system. It's the same thing as when we (everyone) use inches for tire diameters or screen sizes, despite never having used imperial units of measure. You can ofcourse use the ETRTO dimensions when shopping for new rims/tires, or refer to your new TV as a 1,4m, but don't expect anyone else to do so.

Not exactly. You're off by more than 25 degrees.

They're probably waiting for planning permission from the local council.

49.88° is 49.88°, not 49° 88'. The same goes for 7.95°.

Those are decimal degrees, not degrees, minutes and seconds.

Of course those F15s kept their original units of measure. With a very few exceptions like the former USSR, everyone uses feet, knots and nautical miles in aviation.

I'm seeing the same thing with the F1-EE in Syria. It starts at 26000ft and continues to above 31000ft (I didn't cheak any further). All instruments displaying heading (HUD, magnetic compass, spherical indicator and navigation indicator) jump between the actual heading and 0°/North. After cruising on autopilot (alt hold) at 28000ft for a while, DCS crashes. The mission file and dxdiag.txt/dcs.log (redacted to remove PII) are attached. dcs.log DxDiag.txt SYR-MF1EE.miz

I'd use kdenlive (free/open source) or something like the free edition of DaVinci Resolve instead.

They would have to pass under the Øresund bridge, which has 57m of clearence. That might be an issue (I have no idea how tall the superstructure of a modern carrier is).

I have flown choppers in DCS for hundreds of hours without ffb, and while it would certainly be nice to have, it is by no means necessary. It's not like racing games (iracing, assetto corsa etc) where ffb wheels are absolutely essential.

Nine years later, I finally got around to updating the skin pack with roughmet textures: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2100844/ Feel free to report any bugs here.

No, the "without springs and FFB" option (which is labelled "none" in the gazelle options) is definitely not the right trim for a regular stick with centering springs. Of the four options available in the Gazelle, it's the only one that's not usable at all, since it does nothing to the trim in the game. It's meant to activate force trim in the physical stick, for devices that have such fancy features.

Some tips: Input: When learning the basics of hovering, you'll never need the full travel of the stick, so reducing the Y saturation on both the pitch and roll axis and/or adding a curve helps a lot (especially in twitchy birds like the Gazelle). Then you can just dial the settings back when you feel like you are starting to master the basics. Trim: First of all, configure your trimmer. The Gazelle has a trim hat on the cyclic in addition to the traditional magnetic brake that most helicopters have, so you can use both. Generally, I use the magnetic brake when doing stuff like transitioning from hover to forwards flight (or vice versa), and the hat for fine tuning (either in a hover of in ff). I have a non-ffb stick (Orion2 ViperAce Ex) and use the "Instant" cyclic trim type in the special options. This is the same as the "Default" mode mentioned in vsTerminus' excellent Mi8 video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt8-BkGShTw) Regarding the helicopters themselves, perhaps the most important thing to know is that no helicopter in DCS is trimmed for a hover when the stick is centered. In the Gazelle I generally trim to the rear and left, so that the top and right points of the diamond touch the vertical and horizontal lines in the control indicator. I don't like pedal trim, but the red line at the bottom shows a good pedal input for a IGE hover with no yaw:

The FAA Helicopter flying handbook is worth checking out. Not all of it is that relevant for sim flight, but there's a lot of good info there. And it's free! https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/helicopter_flying_handbook

50m seems abough right according to my flying tape measure: