Marsvinet

Which M113 version are you basing that weight on? Because there a stupid amount of versions of it. I have seen weights from just over 20000lbs up to ~35000lbs depending on version, country and upgrades. Also, that chart for the CH-47D is quite misleading in the context, note that it is for 95degf/35degc at 4000ft, which are less than optimal conditions. No doubt that a heavy weight like an APC will cut range for a tactical lift, but no need to use the worst possible case. Also, transport on truck is not a tactical way to move a vehicle but for transport far behind frontlines, a Chinook lift would probably fall into the tactical movement around the frontline.

A stripped down M113 is well within the limits of a CH-47F and D, but earlier version I am not so sure about. A and B version very quite weak compared to the later versions so I would really doubt that it actually happened in Vietnam. But for DCS purposes, it should be possible.

Ominous! In a good way.

Got a bug report for the same issue here: It's not Chinook specific, happens in Mi-8 as well. The picking up-bug from before is solved, now it is about how stable it is in flight. It should be stable in flight up to 120kts.

Now that the L118 can finally be picked up without slamming into the helicopter, the next problem shows itself. When carrying at speeds below 40kts, it merely bounces around and starts swinging without any manouvering. Above 40kts, it gains enough energy to risk slamming into the carrying helicopter. Above 60kts, even a gentle manouver is almost guaranteed to cause the gun to swing into the fuselage. The gun is tested to be stable at 120kts when in a single point sling, according to US TM 4-48.10 "Multiservice Helicopter Sling Load: Single-Point Load Rigging Procedures". Attached is a track showing how it behaves in steady (except the gun swinging wildly enough to make it not steady) forward flight at increasing speeds. ArtilleryKarate.trk

My vote is for at least one camo and one bare metal livery for the countries that are represented on DCS terrains, where applicable of course.

Difficult in the opposite direction of before, very nice and no brain involved during trim-heavy flight, say manouvering for landing. But I keep forgetting it doesn't trim when I'm in cruise, have had some cases where I end up sideways before remembering to use the pedals. But the muscle memory will get there soon, hopefully the wobbly AFCS can be solved soon and she'll be a delight to fly around in.

I think it is called CD REL, or something close to it. Should be listed under the same category as the 4-way trim you found.

I think we're getting an Essex. I really hope so, I've been looking forward to slamming into the back of the boat.

You have to cycle it over to reset and back the middle position or arm to be able to pick up more cargo.

I can't say I've experienced the pitch up the way you describe it, but what I've seen feels connected. For me the AFCS appears to overcorrect any small movements in the pitch axis, so if you make a small correction aft, the nose shoots up way further than the stick movement should warrant, but after about a second, it has dropped back down to where the correction should have ended up. I notice it most in a hover, where I constantly jerk the stick back and forth to quickly get rid of the AFCS overcorrection, I can easily see how it could cause some big effects at higher speeds. I know this has to be incorrect, because when the 1970's analogue Mi-8 autopilot does a better job at stabilizing than the 2000's digital beast of the DAFCS, it can't be correct. But I guess we'll just have to wait, WIP and all.

The top left knob toggles between night and day mode, but then you can adjust further with the bottom left rocker switch. That way you can change it to match what you want. I've used this setup a little bit for NVG landings, brightness switch in red:

I know most of the later versions had an autopilot, H-21B and C, but the earliest A version? Don't think it did. It does have those stabilizing surfaces on the rear pylon, but I doubt they were enough.

All Thuds were set up to use both systems and as far as I know, it is the only aircraft that was built that way.

On the CDU, press FD on top, in there you can set HDG on the left side.

Holy hell, that is stunning. Really looking forward to these beatuies, keep up the good work you two!

You need to enable mirrors in the settings, under gameplay I think. This turns them on by default for all modules, but also makes them show up on the Mi-8

Just tested again and it is gone. Guess the last patch solved it.

Look for a keybind simply named "Trim" or something to that effect. The CD Release does not work yet, the simplified "Trim" works. It's what I'm using and it works perfectly.

This happens even without using dynamic spawn. It also breaks SRS, which is a bit of a pain. I will upload a track when I get home.

You might be suprised, but a solid chunk of RuAFs Su-25 are still not updated to SM/SM3 standards. You can easily see this in the propaganda videos they upload. So the "basic 80s" version is still in active service and most probably protected by the Russian MoD. I would love a full fidelity Frog, but I know it is a hairy situation.

I managed to haul 6000lbs of cargo up to a 16000ft peak and I estimate that I had ~75% fuel left at that altitude. The last ~3000ft up to the peak was at a snails pace, with the engines pegged at 99.2% RPM, with torque at ~65% if I remember correctly. Any more collective and I started dropping like a brick due to the drooping. 9000ft sounds like you are doing something wrong or expecting too much out of the airframe.

The L118 gun is bugged as a sling load, has been since it was added. Nothing wrong with the Chinook in this case.

Nothing has been said about the paint kit yet. I hope it arrives soon, as I really want to get started on my SwAF collection.

As soon as the paint kit is out, I'll make an entire series of Swedish HKP 4 liveries for the Hook