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Pinnacle landings are also a prime candidate. You get a little steep, few visual references, you slow a little and increase descent rate... pow. At least in that case you can nose over and fly down the side of the hill!

The conditions to avoid, and the warning signs are drummed into you very early in your training. If you're lucky enough to experience it for real in a controlled environment, it is scary as hell. If you're unlucky enough to experience it accidentally, I imagine it's even scarier, but the training is designed to make the recovery actions automatic.

Do you need it? No. Is BS better with a HOTAS? Yes. Is BS far better with HOTAS, pedals and TrackIR? Yes.

Bump after a few months - has anyone done this?

Any luck with this? I'm working on connecting my Simkits ASI (USB) to Black Shark.

cheers mate, I'll check it out. do you have the source code available? no offence, but I don't usually go running random .exe's. Cheers

Thanks mate - I linked a snapshot of the settings on my blog http://pitblog.radsy.com/archives/00000226.htm and otherwise the trials and tribulations of getting this working are in this thread: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=37491

I'm sure you could, but you'd need to match the vertical resolution with the main display so you didn't have problems with the multiplayer menu.

latest: Now with added TH2G flava :)

OK people - I seem to have sorted it (touch wood). Since my original post, I've done the following: - Got a new X48 motherboard - Installed Win7_64 - Installed an Asus PCIe sound card - removed the 8800 Ultra and now running off a single 9800 GTX+ - overclocked my Q6600 2.4GHz to 3.6GHz - Bought and installed a TripleHead2Go digital short story: I get solid 30FPS on instant action at 3x1280x768 plus a 1024x768 ABRIS/Shkval with most settings up high (water 0, heat blur off and all planar shadows the exceptions). I am, as you might expect, ecstatic. I'm still a little reserved as I'm yet to hook up a few devices (keyboard encoders, ASI, etc for the pit) which could conceivably (though not likely) be the cause of my FPS woes, but the fat lady is warming up in the wings. Youtube video to come soon... Thank you so much everyone for all your help, I am in your debt. If you're ever in Brisbane, pop round to fly the pit :)

+1 for the above, though I felt RTFM was a little harsh! I find that if my autohover isn't cooperating, doing the following helps: - cycle all the ap switches - ensure route mode and FD are off - clear trim - trim at a mostly stable hover - engage autohover Remember that if you have any forward speed, the autohover will pitch you up when engaged. That is expected as the hpver point is now behind you.

Startup time is 2:30 from Lwin-Home to Shkval on and switch action stopped. Give it another 30 seconds setting your countermeasures, cycling AP switches and setting lights, and you should be gold.

Touché :)

lol

Logic I always use in a helo is: Push and the cows get bigger. Pull and the cows get smaller. Works for both hands :) For a fixed-wing (using a liberal amount of creative license) pulling the throttle will eventually cause the cows to get bigger, but the other hand works the same as for rotary. That is my Relative Cow Size Effects of Controls Theory TM.

Sorry if I contributed to your thread being hijacked Rapid. I've had enough, it's just getting infantile now. See you all in another thread!

Afterburner?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Having trouble actually making a valid point?

My worklog on the collective/cyclic mod is here: http://pitblog.radsy.com/archives/00000147.htm http://pitblog.radsy.com/archives/00000148.htm http://pitblog.radsy.com/archives/00000149.htm and I'll try to keep it up to date as I do the work. At the moment I'm having too much fun flying BS and posting on the forum ;) to do much work on it. * disclaimer: the above winky was intended to highlight irony and to keep me out of hot water ;) * disclaimer 2: so was that one

Sure, I should have included a winky with my post, then I wouldn't have got into "hot water". I see a lot of people getting defensive about the way they choose to play, and lashing out at their interpretation of what I said, rather than at what I actually said. read post 15 again. If I came across all superior, then you interpreted it wrong or perhaps I could have written it more clearly. I did not mean to be that way. I simply have an opinion about what is more realistic (note: not the black and white "realistic" that posters above have tried to attribute to me, but the shades of grey "more realistic") than something else. That is an educated, experienced opinion. Like it or not, and without any intention of bringing ego or superiority into it, the vast majority of people on this forum have absolutely no experience of RL helo flight. So they are absolutely unqualified to judge what is "realistic" and what is not, because they have not experienced realism. Some people on the forum, myself included, actually do have RL helo experience. Of course the peanut gallery will chime in now and call me elitist for stating that, but it is relevant to the discussion and I make no apologies for my experience. I know that pulling for power - even when the HOTAS is set up jet style - is slightly more authentic than pushing, because I have both simulated and real live experience to compare it to. I have no agenda to push. As I have stated, I don't give a toss which people choose to do. I am simply making the point that in my experienced opinion, one is closer than the other. If people choose to interpret that as elitism, so be it. If people want to engage their brains and put their defensiveness aside, even better. If people want to map their pedals to collective and use the ministick for yaw control, I have no opinion on it one way or another. I am, as I have now said many times, simply stating what I believe in my experienced opinion to be a fact that one way is more authentic than the other. Do with that information what you will and don't put criticism, elitism or snobbery into my words when there is none. Peace out

I'm not sure about FARP lights. Do the vehicles have lights at night? If they do, you could have two vehicles parked converging their headlights on the LZ in a V shape, that is how it is sometimes done in the military. Probably not much help, but...

It's a great mission and a great test of mountain flying airmanship. To those still struggling, remember that you gain more lift when you have airspeed up over about 40-50 km/h in the translational lift range. Don't slow below that. Pull collective until the rotor RPM is just bouncing off the bottom limit, keep your airspeed over 50 (ideally 130), make sure you have your anti-ice on and you should be good. Aim for a gap in the mountains, don't just blindly follow the set course. The first time I did it I just barely scraped over the crest - in the end I had to cyclic climb using up my translational lift buffer to clear the ridge.

hope that helps

Actually I am in the process of doing so. But I suspect you weren't asking merely for information right? More to make some point that I too am compromising on authenticity? I'm not going to repeat my comments as it seems people don't actually read them, more skim them and react to their liberal interpretation of what I wrote. The world is full of amateur academics. Bring on the flames, I won't apologise for my opinion. Good grief, you people will read the most ridiculous things into the simplest of statements. What nonsense. And actually I have tried to get my HOTAS setup as close to reality as possible given the limitation of the hardware I am forced to use. So yes, as far as is possible given the X52's layout, I have. But again, you weren't really asking for information were you? So far nobody (except Glottis) has actually disagreed with my contention that pulling for power is slightly more authentic than pushing. If anybody wants to do so, I'll happily debate that. If people want to persist with the ad hominem, really I couldn't care less. I've given the OP my opinion, and the rest is just OT noise.

I've got the new mobo now, TH2G is still on order. Fingers crossed for the weekend. That will be sweet with the projectors! It would be great if we could put views up that had the cockpit turned off. I hear you on the price - I've been waiting so long for a good combat helo sim that I have no problem dropping a couple of grand on kit to run it at its best!