bradmick

I know the guy that that particular bit of nastiness happened to. He's one of the IP's down here actually. One of the few to survive just such an attack. Brad

Heheh, if only, right? Definately can't release the manuals. A really old version of the ATM is available on FAS.org. Beyond that I can't do to much there. The AH-64A would be awesome none the less. It'd actually probably be easier for folks to fly, on account of the gauges make life easier. The Pages are....phew, not bad, but you can get lost quick fast an in a hurry :) Anyway, the ATM actually goes through the tasks that all Apache pilots are responsible for, to include filling out a performance planning card. The only thing is, you need the -10 with all its charts in order to fill it out. So, that might be a little more complicated for the devs to implement. Forgot about the charts, only stare at them every day for an hour ;) You a Rucker native Sundowner? Or been through Rucker? Or just know about it from research? Brad

Howdy, just a quick question. The FAQ says that the AH-64A Apache is planned, but all the screen shots (even the one on the page talking about the AI aircraft flight model) are of the AH-64D Longbow. I'm interested because this is actually the Helicopter i'm currently learning to fly, and would love to see a high fidelity sim (outside of the LCT of course) of the D. The AH-64A is pretty well near being phased out of the military and been relegated to the National Guard and Reserves. It'd be interesting as well to hear what Blocks are planned, be it I or II (lots of differences between the two). Anyway, i'm seriously stoked about Black Shark and all the awesome-ness that it entails. It's also going to be nice to fly a helicopter that you don't have to worry about not having anti-torque pedals (counter-rotating blades are awesome that way). Oh, I guess I can ask this here too. The performance bits that were talked about in the Simulation info page made me wonder, will there be a bit in the manual perhaps on performance planning for the specific airframes? I ask because for me, this is a daily thing. Based on atmospheric conditions, (max temp and max pa) I calculate my power ranges for the day. That'd be pretty awesome actually, to be able to sit down, do a Performance Planning Card and be able to validate it with the aircraft in game. Admittedly that may be a little TO much for even the most hard core of sim pilot, but would prove invaluable. To know that on this day I can pull this much torque based on the engines current mechanical status so that if I get into a bind I know I can go up to that for however long the limitations of the engine specify...awesome. Also, it'd be pretty neat to be able to validate the weight of my aircraft before I flew the mission. Meaning, if I predict i'm going to hover at 'x' torque, then my aircrafts weight has been validated against my Performance Card. Wow, that probably is all kinds of greek actually. This is done to a certain extent in the civilian world as well (so i'm told) but perfomance planning is the bread and butter of military (army) aviation. Brad