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Can also confirm the DCS Mi-8 anti-ice functionality is as per the DCS Mi-8 manual as well appears to conform to the Mi-17 manual with only differences in timings. See post #7. As did Gunnars in Post #4.

V-nice work mol. Gotta ask you don't happen to have maybe 1 or 2 of these in the garage? :P:thumbup:

The F-14 is not available in release DCS version ATM. Link here

So what does this mean, eh? New popups for Win7 pay up or the end is neigh Oh and I apparently had to update Win 10 tonight and between 2 and 4.5% lower Passmark results with more CPU/GPU usage according to Task Manager. There has been yet another intel cpu vulnerability right?

Good to hear do you do any DCS VR flying?

Are you hitting 100% on any single CPU core usage? I did that test and got a solid 90FPS Rift VR. As an observation if I carefully tweak settings to keep any single CPU core usage or GPU usage below 100% with some headroom DCS is buttery smooth. (I mostly fly rotary and low to the ground.) Some map features seemingly runways* can affect FPS even from a goodly distance, for example in NTTR at the Hoover Dam I can easily get 90FPS until I bring the aircraft around to point at Las Vegas and FPS drops to 45, actually I can use this as a compass. See TM screenshot from your test track note one core hitting 80% I'd be sure if that (or any other) core hit 100% FPS would drop. Test done on 9600K(stock) with 2080Ti, 32GB 2800Mhz RAM. DCS overall CPU utilisation hit about 26% which is about average for this build.

Shaken, not stirred. :D :thumbup:

Not really the coding for that functionality would have been trivial, at least at the Boolean logic level. :) As it would also be at the hardware level with some diode gating at the expense of maybe an extra switch contact but unnecessary. The implied logic is correct for the annunciator panel as described without adding additional circuitry. I have no other information between the DCS modelled Mi-8 manual and an Mi-17 manual cica 2007. Perhaps there may be a more recent update to the annunciator panel logic in question?

From the DCS Mi-8 manual it indicates that the 4 indicators continue the 4 indicator cycle 1,2,3,4. From the DCS-M-8 manual. So according to the above the indicators continue to identify main rotor sections 1,2,3,4 with the timing of the of the tail sections alternating at 38.5 seconds on and off in other words the tail heaters 1 sections correspond with main 1,3 and tail rotor blade heater 2 sections corresponds to main 2,4 respectively. This means if you select tail rotor current you can identify which heater is energised by which lamp is lite and verify operation by observing the current. The Mi-17 seems to be much the same except for the duty cycle timings. The indicated currents for the Mi-17 appear to indicate that tail blade heater blade sections 1 are in all parallel as are blade sections 2 hence higher current per heater section for the tail. :) AlphaOneSix might be able to clarify that

This is "normal" for DCS it will attempt to assign every controller to axis and keys. Just delete the incorrect settings out. If you still have a backup of your old input cfg's you might be able to drop them back in, else they may well have be overwritten. They live C:\Users\username \saved games\DCS\config\input

You'd have to wonder. Maybe squeeze a couple of more $ out of it.

R22 plus and minus 2.9 inches of travel. ;) Robinson R22 Maint manual see 10-13 The geometry will also effect the rotational travel of the pot, so you will need to experiment with that if you want to have the travel about the same. Although torque reaction will not be the same as in real life. Oh BTW my wife commented about how your pedals a like all shiny and neat looking,.. :cry: :lol:

Here's a thought all the purest's saying you gotta wait 8 minutes will change their mind after actually having waiting 8 minutes for the um tenth time,.. Just saying. :music_whistling:

There's a good reason why I listen to Tool, man. :thumbup:

Looking at the picture my thinking and this is just an idea, would be to turn the damper around so the shaft rod end attaches the stalk piece. This also gets it out of you foot space. :) Maybe some 3 or 4mm * 40mm aluminium angle going vertical and mounted along the section where the rod end currently attaches, with height enough to put a bolt through a couple of nuts and hang the damper so it's aligned reasonably both ends and in both planes. I've kinda sketched it on paper if you want. Thinking about the leverage my pedals are about 130mm above pivot point and the damper connection point is about 65mm below but I do have the advantage of almost the full travel of the damper so I can just dial in what resistance I want. This is what I was thinking.

Yes if it's enabled in the mission you can get repaired at trap or runway.

Nice work there. :thumbup:

I meant where the the sections with the foot bars pivot, the reason I mention it is because when I put the damper on the collective the pivot point was just aluminium sleeve and the force of the the damper took it's toll so I added roller bearings, but as the sleeve bearing failed stiction became a problem. You gotta do the research right. :thumbup: :D Hopefully I'll get another couple of hours latter this year. Yeah. :D Okay yes initially they do for a bit hence the grease on the shaft, however all that is needed on start up is just do a few figure 8's just like I'm supposed to with the cyclic and viola, the cyclic is smooth and stays put when I need to do stuff with KBD or mouse. The dampers just give some resistance to movement and it really is just a slight force in the required direction. I'm looking for slightly larger ones maybe 1/10 scale and maybe better quality for my next iteration of the cyclic. That stiction should disappear really it should, although maybe using more of it's travel with good mechanical advantage could help. :thumbup: Part of the start up checklist in the R44 is to turn the hydraulics off and do that figure 8 movement with the cyclic to check for binding etc and it feels sort of clunky without hydraulic assist. Whats the cyclic like in R22? The difference between (good quality) pots and HALL effects is the amount of angular travel required you kinda have to gear up for a pot to get as much rotation as possible and gear down for the Halls only about ~20-something deg rotation. Also with the UGN3503 the output range is 0.83V to about 4.3V so I have to change the DCS inputs to slider and use dead zone and saturation to bring the input to full scale range easy to do in DCS control settings and it stays linear you can then add user curves or curvature to apply some nonlinear transfer function if needed.

What are the pivot points for the pedals at the bottom, sleeve bush or roller bearing? Having the resistance of the damper will load those pivot points and if just sleeve bush bearing may need some lube.

Well yes but it's more of a case of cleaning the shaft nothing fancy just a wipe over with a tissue to clean any accumulated dust a such off and just a small amount periodically, the petroleum jelly was what I had to hand that was not bearing grease, that black stuff spreads everywhere. The other grease I have used is so called water proof grease that you would use if you overhauled a tap (faucet??) When I say periodic it's like months AKA maybe 100's of hours I clean them including the ones in my cyclic maybe more often then I need to but. Gotta say it should get better as you go.

I see you've been busy too, nice setup you got there... :thumbup: Nah it's all part of your regular helicopter scheduled maintenance. :P But should be good for more than 20 minutes. How much travel of the steering damper are you using, I've tried to use pretty much the full travel with good mechanical advantage. I've added a little lubricant grease to the shaft both ends AKA petroleum jelly. The seals seem to bed in after some use. The steering damper on my collective has been in service for maybe 100s of hours and feels good the damper on my pedals has only been in service for maybe 20 hours and is still bedding in.

Yes R44 that's how it was done back throttle off, it's pretty immediate.

Yes I have not done power fail at hover but followed through with IP, A second or so is all. :)

Alright clearly not in the know, however there is lower mass in the rotor system so less energy. I am wondering why you question that does the rotor RPM droop? In hover you seem to rise up and down but you feel the need to use the collective a lot? For me I'm hard pressed to get rotor droop, the most that seems to happen is over torque turbine/transmission and I try to stay out of that zone. ;) Smaller rotor gives you a smaller boundary on the cushioning effect so you may need to keep the rotor attitude more neutral with less (over) correction. Talking about rotor heads I did well, some googling and check this out, especially the way they do the rotor head and how they tie in the blades. OH-6.

Yes that would have been a decent flight duration, great that your getting it sorted. If you want just post a link to a short video clip would do. If your flying in IGE maybe @ 2 mtrs it seems to help to keep it more pitch stable and also easy to keep the IAS up to 200K/Hr in the Mini-gun version. The Mini-gun version also offers great visibility. :) Yes hovering really helps, as with all helicopters. :thumbup: