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Now that you mention that, I do vaguely remember reading that, many years ago.

According to that interview with pilotmi8 we are getting Shturm first then Ataka later. without going into which versions. we will also get the R-60 (AA-8) later, So a full AA missile instead of a MANPAD (strela/igla) for a2a. They are also reworking the R-60 so the IR seeker can lock and engage ground targets. As apparently that was a thing on Russian service helicopters. We will have to wait for the official pre order for the actual version numbers.

Does anyone know what ammo we will get in 30x165? Just HE-T? Or some of the more exotic ammo like APBC-T, APDS and APFSDS-T In a combat mix? Can the gunsight handle a combat mix? I say combat mix, because the gun does not have a dual feed system. like the 2a42.

I think you are confused. I'm not agreeing with the sentiment of the OP. My first post clearly states I'm Happy with the mi-24 P.

I don't want an apache. I have right eye dominance. which means I will need to drive around with a pair of women's panties on my head like Nicholas Cage.

I was disappointed at first that we were not getting one with a turret. But I have since got over that disappointment. The GSh-30-2K has a rate of fire 300-2600 RPM and muzzle velocity of 940m/s compared to the Gau-8 3900 RPM and 1010m/s so its almost an A10 in a helicopter. the barrels in the GSh-30-2K are 2.4m long compared to the GSh-30-2 in the su-25 which are 1.5m why the K has extra muzzle velocity. And I have been firing the hueys front mini guns fixed for years because the co pilot never fires at the target I want him too. So I reckon I can have a lot of fun with the extra dakka available to the mi-24P. And I wont be annoyed by the target selection of the AI.

you have 2 passwords. one for your ED ACCOUNT and another Account for the forum. make sure you use the right one in the right place. you need your ED logon for the game, not the forum logon. you can reset your ED password at the ED homepage, before you go into the forum. also check the username you are using. top right of the homepage.

Jolly_pilot on youtube. Not instructional but some great footage of a search and rescue pilot flying pavehawks.

I think we all expect too much from Automatic stuff from the 1980's I think we should be impressed it works at all. shkval first flew on the su-25t prototypes in 1983. the ka-50 in 1985. yes it's clunky solid state instead of modern micro electronics. it even has a good old cathode ray tube screen. and the software its using is primitive. its the age of the zx spectrum and BBC computer. for home computing in the UK. and rotary dial land line analogue telephones.. the fact a human can see something on the screen and the dumb machine cannot. sounds about right for the time. state of the art back then, but useless now. where some see bugs, others see as actual limits of the old technology. we need an expert to say who is right. you can be pretty sure the whole thing has been modernised for modern production ka-52. you just have to look at cockpit photos. they are 30 years newer.

The mi-24 is a stable gun platform. The wings, the position of the pods/cannon compared to the centre of gravity and its asymmetrical shape all mean its trimmed to have the nose pointing straight when you are going at attack speed. And when you fire the nose will not lift off target. As long as you fly at the correct speed. With the ball centred (in trim) then the mi-24 will shoot very accurately. With little muzzle climb. The mi-8 in comparison is pretty poorly trimmed for attack. When you fire the weapons it causes the nose to move a lot. Because the pods are off the centre of gravity. especially if you fire the cannon pods. When you fly the mi-8 the nose will often not be straight, even though you have the ball centred so the aircraft is flying in trim, but you will still have the tail and nose off to one side. So to aim and fire you need to be out of trim (to bring the sight on target). Which also makes the guns wander all over the sky under recoil. The mi-24 fixes both these issues to give a very stable and straight shooting platform. But it only works at the correct speed. As a transport the mi 8 is trimmed differently so it is better as a transport. Nice in the hover and easier to land. And can handle different loads/weights and speeds The mi-24 is far more focused. For shooting straight and handling recoil. Which makes it worse in some regimes of flight. Like the hover. When you are far outside the speed the entire airframe is trimmed for. So as long as you fly the mi-24 as its designed to fly, you will enjoy its accuracy. The mi-24 has shorter blades than the mi-8 but they are wider in chord and the Rotor RPM is increased. To give a higher top speed. Speed is life and other peoples death in an mi-24 none of this hovering behind trees of the attack helicopter generation.

spring tension goes well with the borders campaign. they are like two tours in the same area. the locations of the bases change but you know the area by then. the moved bases also feels like time passing, between tours.

it actually started with the beta that introduced the f-16 so before multicrew. if ED want to go back and check.

The first time I used multicrew I had the main rotor separate 2 times where normally it would not. I was on a server in a different country and had a high ping, 160ish. so I assume it was that.

bla bla bla FOV bla bla bla... if it feels to fast then your FOV is too narrow. which is a complaint with all VR headsets. if you use time instead of perception your speed is correct. if they added a time deceleration function. this could fix your incorrect perception visually. but then it would screw up your perception of sound.

If we are sticking with a medium lift helicopter then I would like to see the westland lynx. Empty weight, uh-1 5215lb, lynx 7225lb, uh-60 12511lb, mi-8 15653lb. Power. uh-1 1400SHP. lynx 2724shp, uh-60 3780shp, Mi-8 3900shp Top speed uh-1 117knts mi-8 130knts uh-60 159knts lynx 175knts The lynx is fast and nimble for a medium lift helicopter. It can do full loops. Plus a lot of Europe have operated them or still do. UK, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Germany and France. It can also carry 8 x TOW or 2x 20mm cannon. If you squint at it, it does look like a Huey with a big nose. The black hawk is a lot bigger than both the Huey and lynx. The lynx is actually slightly shorter than the Huey. It's the Huey but with everything turned up to 11. It is the Huey upgrade you are looking for

The UH-1N isn't actually an upgrade performance wise. The twin engines offer navy/marine pilots who cannot safely autorotate to ground, a way back to a ship, if an engine fails. And for the same reason it was used for special forces flights and recon deep in enemy territory, in Vietnam. But as the engines were flat rated to max 1290 shp you actually get more SHP from the T53 in the 1H (max 1400 shp) With the twin pack weighing 60lbs more. And it has a lower service ceiling and greater fuel use. Why the 1N never replaced all the other Huey in service. So it would be a lot of work with nearly no benefit. a symmetrical cockpit. Less cockpit vibration from the electronic stability assist that replaced the mechanical fly bar on the rotor head.

I'm another warthog guy with the spring removed. You can also sit with the warthog between your legs, and sit on the base. so you don't need to mount it to your chair. I also use crosswind pedals with the return spring unhooked. As helicopters use a lot of muscle memory. The trick is to settle on controls quickly and then not change anything. Because your muscle memory needs to reset with changes. Constantly tweaking your controls and curves is one of the worst things you can do.

This mission didn't go as planned. as the troops seemed to stop their attack and the mission froze. I did kill the last three insurgents by ramming them with my unarmed Huey to see if I could get the mission to continue, but it didn't work. I thought I had dragged the insurgents out of line of sight of the troops, being a distraction As to ramming, you learn something new every time you fly the Huey three kills in an unarmed chopper... As to the mission it began okay. I don't think pilots would swear over a live radio where top brass are listening. But they may use rougher language, over the intercom, to each other. As I was taking lots of fire on the approach to the LZ I took off quickly so didn't even know I could sit there and wait. which may have progressed the mission. I dumped the troops and ran. I would say that the two green smokes could maybe do with earlier triggers. as you are high above them coming over the mountains. but I did also guess that those were the landing zones. based on the beacons. Also its just the rough footage of the whole flight.

Hammer1-1 is hot starting her. If you watch the engine temp below the gas producer then he goes much hotter than I do on a similar start. He is above 625c but I cannot tell if he is above 675. If he is then he is there for too long (10 seconds when max is 5) So he is using more throttle. The real start position is actually below the idle release position, in the page up and page down region of the throttle. But even starting at the idle release position I don't get this hot. And she does not go till 40% And she will get nowhere near 625c So the difference is the amount of throttle used. In external view you may see flames coming out the engine on a hot start. The manual says avoid hot starts. check your throttle is going to zero.

The last time I released the starter too early at 38-9% she started to spin down. And I had to jump back on the starter. The manual says 40% or 40 seconds to prevent overheating. edit: Just tested on the acrobatics server with normal day conditions and she spins down at anything below 40%.

Using the diagram above from some1. The starter is the backup electrical generator/starter connected to the compressor turbine shaft. Instead of generating electricity as the shaft spins, you use electricity to turn the generator into an electric motor that turns the compressors and starts gas generation (Air flow and compression). Fuel is added and burned. 15% gas pressure is when the power turbine starts to spin (main rotor starts to turn) and you need to hold the starter till 40% for the process to be self sustaining (it will increase to 100% on its own). After the engine is started you set the starter to standby generator and it becomes a backup electrical generator again. The main generator is attached to the transmission gearbox and generates from there. (the power turbine shaft) In the huey the power turbine shaft comes out of the front of the engine and not the back. So the transmission is at the cool end of the engine. But the turbine shaft passes through the compressor shaft and is not directly connected to it. (a shaft within a shaft) Why the engine is to the rear of the rotor. with the exhaust to the rear. The mi-8 has the power turbine shafts coming out the rear and the engines are mounted in front of the rotor. With the exhausts to either side of the rotor and transmission. The free wheeling clutch only operates when the main rotor is turning and the power turbine shaft has stopped. so it only disengages in emergencies and engine shutdown. during start up and normal operation it is always engaged.

there is also a lot of muscle memory involved. like riding a bike. you will eventually click and just start getting it. there are no shortcuts to learning it. you are better off not changing curves and joystick etc. and just repeating it until it clicks with your muscles. unfortunately unlike a bike there are no stabilisers/training wheels. so you just have to keep falling off until eventually you don't. but when you do get it, it is well worth it. the frustration turns to joy. start with simple things where you can see progress to help fight the frustration. try landing it anywhere on the runway. then try to close down to landing on a certain spot on the runway. like the numbers. mix it up with hover practise. and hover taxi. repeat that 300 times and you will feel like a pro. yes pedals are essential. because you need to balance all three controls together. even after a 1000 hours you will still be learning stuff. why the huey is so rewarding. nobody can fly a helicopter at first. it takes lots of repetition

Just flick the battery switch, the overhead dome light is on by default in night missions in the huey. So map a button for the battery.

We have a reputation again? thought that was never coming back. I actually quite like the dark scheme

Keep an eye on the exhaust gas temp gauge (EGT) and the torque meter gauge above it. labelled exhaust and torque in the cockpit. they are below the dual tachometer that shows engine and rotor RPM they both have red lines that you really don't want to cross. its probably the EGT you are exceeding to cook the engine, when you pull collective the rotors will bite more air and produce more drag. which will slow the RPM. the auto throttle will burn more fuel to maintain RPM. if you raise the collective at the right speed there will be no change in RPM. but as power is a function of torque and RPM. you have a torque gauge which represents how much engine power you are using. (RPM stays the same so torque will increase) the consequence of this is more fuel burned and more heat generated in the exhaust. the machinery has both an upper torque limit and a heat limit. before it all goes bang. in the DCS huey you usually hit the EGT limit before you hit the torque limit. but if you pull the collective far enough you will hit both. especially if you are heavy. if you pull the collective too fast you can also add in RPM drooping. when you hear the RPM slow down. this is known as over pitching. the engine cannot respond fast enough to the extra demand for power. basically its all about how far and how fast you move the collective. you use the torque and egt for how far and your ears and RPM gauge for how fast ,you will hear it slow down and then the low speed rotor alarm. but its why the RPM, torque and EGT gauges are in the same vertical row. (there is also the gauge for the gas producer which measures air flow through the engine but that is not needed for this.)