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After remembering that I myself posted in the thread I could be bothered to search, as that narrowed it down a little. Here it is: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=503375&postcount=343

Both pictures from the AH-64A and Mi-24 cockpit have been showed. Can't be bothered to search for them, but I'm very sure. It was from the front cockpit of a Mi-24P, and I'm certainly able to recognize Mi-24 cockpits by now.

Because if you announce it you reduce the possibility that it will be interpreted as a nuclear first strike :) And according to norwegian media the Russians did announce that they were going to performe a missile test. Don't want to repeat the incident in 1995 when a norwegian rocket caused panic, and made Yeltsin prepare for nuclear retaliation. From wikipedia:

AH-64D Apache Longbow pilot's cockpit AH-64D Apache Longbow co-pilot's cockpit More UK helicopters here

Then it's not an AH-1W anymore :) The AH-1Z is the only Cobra with a glass cockpit.

Actually, in classical latin C was always pronounced with a K-sound, so it did have a specific phonetic sound. It was later latin and other languages which confused the sound :p So Centauri would be pronounced "Kentauri" in classical latin, and Caesar something like "Kaisar" (which explains where the german word for emperor, "Kaizer", comes from). But apart from that bit of nitpicking you're mostly right :)

US Apaches doesn't normally carry flares. But they have an IR-jammer.

But those were also the only kills F/A-18s made in Desert Storm, and F-16s didn't make any. So one could say that all kills made by multirole fighters in desert storm were done with A/G weapons still onboard ;)

Dassault Super Etendard?

I have a hard time imagining what military would want a AH-64A simulator, when the A is mostly outdated and replaced by the AH-64D. So that doesn't look good for the AH-64A ever being made if military contracts is what decides what is made.

There's a gauge on the front panel (in the lower left part) which shows you the current blade pitch. The gauge goes from 1 to 15 degrees (I guess it's kind of an average, as depending on cyclic movement the pitch may be different for each blade). As A16 mentioned, no real helicopter does negative pitch. But they're still able to autorotate as that doesn't require negative blade pitch.

As I said, that's just Tacview guessing that the vehicle was hit, it doesn't know if the game modelled any hits.

But Tacview doesn't actually know what is damaged, it just guesses by proximity of hit. So it doesn't really tell you what was damaged.

Or maybe not fly directly over artillery attacks? :) In real life helicopters would be told to stay away from artillery fire areas while there was firing going on. We don't get any warning in DCS about stying away, but if you see them firing then doing it anyway would be prudent.

It's the model that is being being evaluated for service I think, so should be close to the production model. Presumably they don't have any pure optical sensors anymore, and with digital sensors they can just show the image on the monitors. Like the Apache also has lost the optical sight in newer models.

Here is the Ka-52 cockpit: A bit more modern than the Ka-50 :)

For combat helicopters this has another important function, besides giving flight instrumentation. It also gives data for relative wind, which allows the aiming systems for unguided weapons to adjust for it, and results in more accurate fire. You will see that most combat helicopter has some device like that, e.g. on the AH-64D it's on each side of the engines, on the AH-64A it's on top of the rotor, and on the Mi-28 to the front and left of the gunners cockpit. In this on-board video from a Mi-28's gunner's cockpit you can see it move about quite clearly when he comes in to land:

I've never seen any source which says 15 km for the standard Vikhr. The ones I've seen which mention a difference says 10 km for aircraft launched, and 8 km from helicopters. And there are newer missiles, like the Vikhr-M and Hermes which have longer range, but that would be comparing different missiles, not just launching platform. So do you have a link to a source which says aircraft launched Vikhrs have 15 km range?

This one maybe? Cool helicopter, too bad it never entered service. Indeed it is. Your turn.

Ok, which helicopter is this?

It's the Mi-24A, isn't it? With the old green-house style cockpit.

Assuming we're talking about the AH-64A (which would most likely be the variant ED made a sim of, if they make one), then pilot does have a monochrome video-screen in his cockpit which can show FLIR or DTV targeting images. The co-pilot however does have a headsdown eyepiece he can look through for targeting imaging. It also allows him to use the DVO sight which the pilot can't see on his monitor (though that is the least useful of the Apache's targeting systems). Co-pilot's cockpit, note the big eyepiece sight in the center: Pilot's cockpit. The targeting display is the small green display near the top centre (note how small it is, about the same size as the HSI, and not much bigger than the altitude gauge!): Both pilot's have flight controls, and both have a helmet sight. Though the pilot's night vision sensor is only available to one pilot at a time (since there is just one sensor), usually the pilot. AlphaOneSix can probably fill in more about the differences between the cockpits of the A-model.

Yes, retreating blade stall is a limit for single main rotor helicopters. And as beers mention, you can't just increase the rotor rpm, or the advancing blade may reach supersonic speed which causes other problems. Have a look at http://www.helis.com/howflies/maxspeed.php to learn more about what limits helicopter top speed.

It's not a "shader" it's reflection from the HUD lamp. And since it's what puts the symbols on the HUD in the first place you can't make it less bright without also making the symbols less bright.

US Army helicopter doctrine was to fly nap-of-the-earth, right in amongst the trees. They don't do it in Iraq or Afganistan, that's not what works best there. But for the European theatre it's been part of their doctrine for a long time to fly right amongst the trees. Have a look at http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/536.cfm?sd=71 which is a army training video from the 70s. There's lots of footage of helicopters flying in among the trees. And it's a great film to watch in any case, as it has some interesting information about anti-tank helicopter tactics :) But also note that for the most part they are flying slowly when doing so, not racing around at 100+ kts.