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I recently got into the Hind and tried night ops the other day. I have previuously flown the Hip for many years and recognize many system similarities between the two modules. While I have no problems setting up the Hip for night ops, I am unable to do so in the Hind because some lights in the cockpit wont go out, no matter what. However, although the doppler system seems to be almost an exact 1:1 copy, i found that in transit flight when the doppler stationary flight indicator - SFI - stops working and the warning light appears, the warning light is too bright and severly hampers the use of night vision goggles in the Hind. In the Mi-8 there is a turning dial on the back of the cockpit (behind the Pilot Navigator) to control the brightness of any 5V-lights, which can be used to set the brightness of all doppler-related systems to a desired level. However, I am so far unable to find any brightness knob for the doppler systems in the Hind. I have looked both in the pilot seat and the gunner seat without success. I could in theory disable the doppler system, but that is not my goal, since I want to use the system, but without any blinding light. All the turning knobs which control instrument panel brightness dont seem to affect the SFI. So, is there a button/ dial/ knob/ arcane ritual which disables the doppler lighting? Thank you for your time reading this. PS: Track files and/or screenshots will be provided if required.

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This. Also the AI manages to take off with a shut down helo instantly. There is no startup or any flight preparation involved. As soon as the player relinquishes control to take over a ground unit, the AI gets the chopper airborne. I wish there would be some kind of "AI parking brake".

Disclaimer: Before reading the following paragraphs please note that I'm not trying to be nitpicking, but rather establish a more robust understanding of a certain aspect of DCS and DCS as a whole. Situation: Hi, I recently tried to brush up on my navigational skills in the Mi-8 and attempted to plot precise courses. I knew about magnetic declination - the difference between a TRUE heading (referencing towards the geographic north pole) and a MAGNETIC heading (referencing towards the magnetic north pole) - and tried to apply the deviation. (As a matter of fact, the training mission for the Mi-8 regarding the DISS-15 navigation system mentions a deviation of 6° East). However I still drifted away from the course indicated by onboard systems such as the DISS-15 doppler navigation and the NS430 GPS-module. Especially if I only relied on the DISS-15, the deviation was around 0.5 to 1km per 10km flight path. I tried to minimize the course error due to crosswind, but still couldn't reliably reach my destination with only a few hundred meters navigational error, but rather offset by at least several kilometers. Research: Reading upon this topic I found out that the magnetic north pole is currently shifting several miles per year from northern Canada towards Siberia. I found particular interesting information about this topic in THIS THREAD. This in return means that the magnetic declination for any point of earth changes over the course of time. This information may already be known to some/many of you, however it came to me as a surprise, hence my questions regarding this matter. Problem/Question: I am wondering what the modeled magnetic declination in DCS would be for any map at any given time. Does DCS include changes to the deviation every year to depict actual magnetic declination? If not, how does DCS depict the magnetic declination? Is it a fixed value for each map? My own testing has shown that I get about 4-5° deviation between my HSI (magnetic heading) and the displayed heading on the F10 map and F2 status bar (probably true heading). In contrast the "real life" magnetic declination for Vaziani and Gelendzhik ranges from 6.6° to 7.26° (see also https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/calculators/magcalc.shtml#declination). Conclusion: My goal is to improve my navigational abilities and to account for magnetic declination accordingly, so that I may reach any target area with a minimal amount of discrepancy; and in order to achieve that goal I would like to hear your input and thougts on this matter. Thank you. EDIT: After much, much more research and browsing through relevant information I found this post explaining most of my questions. (However I do not know if the information is still accurate since the post is from 2014, before any map updates and before 2.5). Still, I am curious about the ongoing change of magnetic deviation each year, which needs to be taken into account if a mission would take place several years in the past or future. In other words, does DCS calculate the correct magnetic deviation based on the mission date?

Hi there, I'm having a good time with the Liberation Campaign so far. I'm currently flying on the Caucasus map as part of the red team, and got an error log while attacking Kutaisi from Soganlug. I just wanted to share the report in case you want to check it. My mission should've been a base attack, and I was logged as a Su-25T. Here is the log from the report: Anyway, thank you for your time and effort. This campaign is a real blast and i think that you are on a good path to improve it even more. Cheers

Sorry for necroing this thread, however I recently had the same urge to search for manuals about the Mi-17 and I have found two different manuals about it. Since I couldn't find another topic about this, I wanted to share my findings with the rest of the community. The first manual seems to be the official manual from the Khazan manufacturing plant from 1999, and the second manual seems to be an edited (and sadly incomplete) manual, that was released at a earlier date (around 1993). First manual: http://server.3rd-wing.net/public/Manuels%20DCS/Mi-17-1V-Flight-Manual.pdf Second manual: http://www.anythingaboutaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mil-Mi-171-Flight-Manual-Book-1.Stamped.pdf The second manual is incomplete, and I was unable to find Book 2. Here is an excerpt of what you will get in Book 1: I hope you will enjoy these documents.