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As Ethereal said, it's intentional, and it's made that way so that you're allowed to fail some missions and keep playing.

Perhaps someone in the Lock On forums will answer you? This is the DCS forum.

This principle only works for radar guided missiles. Was it an IR guided missile? Also, this tactic probably doesn't work against radar guided missiles in a helicopter anyways, because the missile will always see the motion of your rotor blades, irrespective of your velocity with respect to the missile. As for tactics that do work at spoofing radar guided missiles in the Ka-50, there is only "hide", as joey45 said. Generally, if you're in a situation where a radar guided missile has been launched at you, it's probably already too late.

I don't think this is a bug per se, since civilian traffic depends on each individual's graphics settings. This is no more a "bug" than the fact that someone with higher settings will see trees in an area where someone else would see none. In other words, the civil traffic is there for your own personal enjoyment, is does not affect the mission or other players in any way.

When it asks you for a LUA file to save your key selection, DO NOT overwrite any of the LUA files that are already there; instead, create a new file and name it whatever you like. For example, you can type "myKeys1.lua" in the save dialog. The reason that your game crashed when you overwrote BlackShark.lua is because BlackShark.lua contains settings for other parts of the game, and you overwrote it with your controls settings.

Agreed. Try this before you go messing around with external views and the esc key.

They go through bone like buttah!

That's not a shkval, that's a laser designator. That's definitely a Su-25A.

This is wrong. The Kelvin scale depends just as much on environment as does the Celsius scale. In fact the scales are identical, save for a shift of ~273 degrees between a measurement in kelvin and a measurement in Celsius. (Tk = Tc + 273) Also, I'm pretty certain that it was known that water boiled and froze at different temperatures which depended upon atmospheric conditions when the Celsius scale was drafted. The fact that water doesn't always boil at 100C is not an "inconsistency", as the Celsius scale is a measure of temperature, not of the boiling point of water. Obviously the boiling of water is not solely correlated to temperature, and so any temperature scale will give different boiling points for water. Edit: Looks like my reply's a little late to the party. When did this forum get so fast paced!

If it makes you feel better, feel free not to download the mods :).

Use the scroll wheel to zoom out. There are a large number of airports.

With only 1GB on Vista, I would not expect the game to be playable. 1.4 Ghz dual core isn't helping much either. And with those specs, we can infer that the GPU will be very low end as well. Therefore, it's unfortunate, but I don't think you'll be able to run the game.

UK cockpit? Do you mean English language cockpit? If so, the download version has had this from the beginning, and the manual still referenced the Russian cockpit.

uhoh, I just attemped your first scenario (Abkhazia), but was shot down before I got to do much. From what I saw, however, it was fairly impressive, a lot going on all around you. One critique, however: ***SPOILER*** I like how a pair of MiG-25's were scrambled for air support. I was confused, however, by why it was taking them so long to reach the battle. Then I saw that they were flying all the way at 500kmh (and at about 10 degrees AoA, struggling comically to maintain altitude at such low speed). Perhaps 1000kmh-1500kmh would be more appropriate?

Also, I believe one of the stock stand alone missions is exactly that.

It's extremely important. Which is one of the reasons that, in real life, pilots often sit through hours long briefings before embarking on missions. It's also one of the reasons that pilots also carry clipboards and charts with them while flying. Usually, of course, you're not supplied with this information during the briefing, which is unrealistic. Therefore, you have to take the unrealistic step of looking it up in the ABRIS. It's not a fault of the sim or the helicopter, but of the (imho) inadequate briefings that are supplied for most missions.

Then, please oblige Viper and the rest of us by posting a track.

Actually the Ka-50 was designed as tank hunter. The difference is that it was designed as such more than two decades ago. Compared to its contemporaries back then, it would have been quite capable. As has been said already in this thread, however, it's contemporaries received 20 years of upgrades, while the Ka-50 design remained mostly stagnant for obvious reasons.

Doesn't the ADI give the same info without FD?

The answer is the same. Different (older) model Ka-50, different (older) hardware, different (older) software. The devs have repeatedly stated that the HUD we have in game is an accurate representation of the one found on the production Ka-50.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=615876&postcount=9

For whatever it's worth, I completely agree with wombat :).

Fix what? Are you saying it sometimes goes into cockpit interaction mode unintentionally?