Holton181

Just to nitpick, it's 12km/h and not knots. Regarding the wind directions, I know there is some discrepancies between ME, mission briefing, ATC and possibly kneeboard. Some are correctly giving the direction FROM where the wind is coming from (ATC I think), while others give the direction TO where it is blowing (ME). Just learn who is giving what (I haven't) and you will be fine.

To add to previous comments, the AP in the Shark is a bit different than in other aircrafts I think. You basically need to manually configure a stable attitude (pitch, roll, speed and altitude) with trimmed controls before it will start to act as intended. One thing to check is if you have the rudder trim activated in settings. If you have non-centering pedals this should be off, i.e. let the pedals stay in place after trimming. (the AP and trim in the Shark has been debated and cursed upon since the very beginning of BS1)

Not yet, but looking forward to my first experience, whenever that happens.

Hope so, whenever I get the money to upgrade my hardware [emoji106]

Då är vi grannar, Gällivare här ;) Nu går vi lite OT dock [emoji14]

Tack! Var länge en stor dröm för mej inför militärtjänstgöringen, glasögonen satte däremot stopp.

Just out of curiosity (and completely OT), I have gotten the impression you have a background in one of our Swedish helicopter squadrons? Never felt the need for a civilian license?

Never occurred to you I could carry a license other than a FAA one? Mine is an EASA CPL(H). Minimum required number of hours for ordinary modular training (PPL, self practice, CPL) is 185h. But for integrated course (0h to CPL directly) it's 135h. Got mine through the later summer of 2016 and have bought some hours and done two PC since then, since I haven't got an employment yet.

This is unfortunately a rather common mistake to do. Ask a real life pilot, no matter how many or few flight hours, to try a simulation and let them judge the FM. Very easy to get the wrong impression of the FM that way. I don't know your friend and have no clue how much home-simulator time he has, but to make FM statements from him really relevant he needs quite high hour count in the sim first. Why do I say this? There are quite many factors making the sim fundamentally difrent from real life. One thing that is very pronounced and present also in professional training simulators are the lack of "seat of the pants", forces acting on your body. A very important aspect of real life helicopter flight. I believe it is even more important and causing more problems to remove for an experienced real life pilot without earlier sim time than a fresh one (I hold a CPL with 150h myself, so definitely the later). Then we have the peripheral vision. One might not think of it as that important, but for balance purposes it is very much so, like in a hover. Even in VR this is an issue due to limited FOV, even if it's better than a single screen. Then the most obvious, and already mentioned: controllers. What do you have? An ordinary joystick without pedals, a good fixed wing HOTAS with fighter throttle as collective, a reasonable dedicated helicopter setup with full-length cyclic between your legs or a professional, fully replicated setup with hydraulic actuators and feedback motors to replicate the real feeling? Without at least a dedicated helicopter setup with full-length cyclic, collective stick on your left and high resolution for all axis, it's not much use to let a real life pilot without earlier sim time comment on the FM. There are definitely high hour real life pilots that also have a great deal of sim hours from home sim setups that can give relevant feedback, but they don't grow on trees. Many real life pilots don't really get a thrill out of siting in front a screen with mediocre controllers simulating what they do all day professionaly in the real thing. Maybe if they are retired or stopped flying for other reasons. But then they are highly aware of the limitations of sims and that it is a completely different world. For whatever it's worth, I read an anecdote a while back, I think it was in the X-Plane forums. I can't find it and it is not self experienced, so it has rather low value to the discussion, but anyway. A dedicated helicopter sim pilot with several thousand hours but no real life experience described a situation that he found quite interesting. He attended an aviation exhibition of some sort and got the opportunity to try a professional training simulator of a SAR helicopter. He was tasked to approach a ship and land on its helipad. No problems, succeeded every try. The simulator had two seats, and the other one was occupied by a highly experienced real life pilot with over 10000h, but no earlier sim time what so ever. Guess what, he never succeed to land on that ship, no matter how many tries he got. For every failed attempt he got more and more frustrated, no surprise. And as I said, this was in a rated professional simulator. But then again, it's a non self experienced anecdote writen in a forum tread I can't find again...

Yes, happened to me too, both in the Viggen AND in the the Markinel's MH-6 Little Bird MOD! I tried to eject ([LCtrl-E]*3) while in the MH-6 and got that endless stream of Viggen canopies flying from my rotorhead. I could still fly despite the ejection. Really surrealistic, the MOD has nothing to do with the Viggen. I have some pictures of it at home, but not in my phone I'm using right now and the MH-6 MOD thread where I posted them seems to be removed.

First, the OP asked about the officially removed Cargo Cam, and I offered a still working solution to that in post #28. Others offered alternative solutions, but ultimately this is about the Cargo Cam (i.e. that small screen with a straight down view). Second, my zip in that post might not work due to later updates of DCS, but the edits I described above still work. Using it myself. Third, as Elphaba already have found, my MOD is also included in a more extensive and up-to-date MOD found here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3622861

Looking good! Thanks for sharing!

+1

I'm not at home to try it myself yet, and it would be very nice for everyone to see how it looks before applying the modification you so kindly shared. But if you don't want to it's okay.

Could you provide screen shots of it both from day and night with NVGs?

In the zip file he has attracted the original file he used as a base for this MOD, that he now calls clickabledata.org.lua. Compare that to the original file you have. If they are the same it's safe to apply this MOD, if not you must most likely edit the MOD:ed file to make it work. It's not enough to compare file size. I suggest you use Notepad++ (not the ordinary Notepad) with the addon package installed. Then you have a very useful and powerful tool to compare files (read the documentation to learn how to use it), and for other tasks too for that matter. I use it all the time, especially for making sure MOD:s are up to date and functional.

I take the liberty to give you my view, if I'm wrong I hope he corrects me. From what I understand from his pictures, the lysbomb in DCS release as a vertical column, while IRL it is supposed to release more like a horizontal row (the left most one in the second picture possibly released to early). That's where the 90deg comes from.

Actually, to be perfectly correct, it's everything else that's different from the Shark. The Shark is the first and original module ;-)

You do know the buttons for page change in the Shark is different than most others? Most have the [ and ]. The Shark has them too but with a modifier. I don't remember which one out of my head, but easy to check in the key assignments.

As I said, haven't tested LysB yet (and off for the holidays at the moment) so I definitely trust you regarding the 5 seconds. Strange ingenuity, it's one of the reasons I love SAAB! That and that I was growing up with a yellow SAAB 95 station wagon from -80 I believe, my first car was a SAAB 96 from -69, I now drive a SAAB 9-5 from -05 and a 9-3 from -02. And the HB Viggen of course ;-)

I would guess the flashing line is just supposed to work as an early reminder in this case. When you say 5s, do you count 4s+1s (phase 3 and 4 page 322)? I interpret the 1s as part of the 4s, i.e. when 3s pased the line gets long momentarily and then return.

I haven't tried deploying LysB, so take this with a grain of salt. When reading the section about procedure in the manual, I interpret it like it really doesn't matter when the trigger is pressed (and held), as long as it's done before the 4g pull-up. The 4g pull-up is what makes the system to release them. Does it make any noticeable difference if you pull the trigger well ahead of the 4s or 2s cue? I can't see a reason for the two different times (4s and 2s) given in the manual. In the first section "Illumination bomb HUD display" it says 4s. In the "Radar release" it says nothing to differentiate it from HUD mode above. But in "Illumination bombs checklist" it says 2s, but nothing about if HUD or radar release is used. To me it's a bit ambiguous. But as I said, I don't think it really matter as long as you press the trigger before pull-up.

Just a heads-up, you probably already know it, but the VSI is graded in m/s and not f/min, so the resolution is less than many people are used to, i.e. "3" on the m/s scale is faster than "3" on the f/min.

There's some kind of old bug (never to be fixed it seems) with the FARPs making them only work one way. If you use ATC for startup and liftoff, you will not be able to use it for azimuth and landing, but if you leave without talking to them you should be able to ask for azimuth and landing permission. This have been an issue for as long as I can remember, thinking even back in the BS1 days. Some mission makers "corrects" this by placing two FARPs together (i.e. 8 pads) with the same name and frequency. Then one can use one of them for the startup/liftoff and the other for azimuth/landing. Will be two instances in the radio menue though.

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