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+1. Vietnam MedEvac was awesome in terms of flight modeling comparing to most other helo sims I've played, apart from DCS:BS off course :)

DCS:BS kicks some serious butts, and I'm not surprised at all. Fantastic job ED!

The problem will be solved if a) ED adds 8 instead of 4 ways the SHKVAL can be moved or b) override the standard 8-way hatswitch to only be a 4-way hatswitch.

It sounds like you havent set engine power to AUTO (by hitting PageUp twice) during start-up after your both engines have reached 70%. Never tried flying with external tanks, so can't help you on that sorry.

I will NEVER go back to MSFS choppers unless they do some serious adjustments to their flight models :)

There are some very good tutorials for the data link in the training section in-game.

+1, it would make my life out in the combat fields easier as well ;)

Vikhrs are stored on the OUTER hardpoints, so your argument doesn't make any sense. :) That sounds more correct ;)

When you're in a vortex ring state, lower collective and tilt nose forward to gain speed.

Speaking of hardpoints and vikhr.. What's the reason why you can't have missiles on the inner hardpoints? It would be too easy? :P Just think of having 24 vikhrs on your chopper :D (If I'm EXTREMELY lucky I can hit 2 ground targets with 40 SA-8 ) EDIT : No complaints about the SA-8 though, it's just me who suck at firing them

Lets take a look at third party developers for MSFSX for instance. You'll find some serious good products from Carenado, PMDG and RealAir for instance. If I can get the same quality add ons in DCS I will gladly pay for it.

Or a Vietnam addon with fully modeled UH-1 ! But I have to agree, this sim is the best thing happened to the flight sim community in a very, very, very long time! Keep up the excellent work ED, we love you! :)

I was on a campaign mission last night, went back to the FARP to rearm, switched radio to ground crew and asked for ANTI-tank rearming, and the answer from the ground crew was "What are you doing?". But I got my weapons onboard and they followed with the standard "Rearming complete".

Collision detection is not graphics hardware dependent, but CPU dependent. You need a CPU to compute whether you have hit an object or not. Believe me, you will not be able to get close to any smooth FPS if DCS should compute collision detection on trees even if you have a cutting edge computer.

I am not interested at all exploiting it, I was just interested to see Lionprides answer.

Why not? I know that I would pay for a Northern Europe theater/scenery or flyable aircrafts if it's in the same quality as the Ka-50

Is the DCS engine open source, in terms of allowing third party developers to create new theatres/geographical regions? If yes, is it likely to believe that we may see add-ons on i.e. simmarket.com?

sorry? tell me HOW can you exploit this please.

Well, then you could probably load up Lomac, which is far more realistic when it comes to air-to-air than SimCopter comes to realistic SAR. This is just a silly argument. Just think of the new dimension it would add to DCS if you can be a combat chopper pilot doing troop insertions, rescue operations, recognizance missions, etc. I believe many people in this forum enjoys AVIATION as much as blowing up things. And CSAR missions needs much more piloting skills in terms of FLYING than standard CAS missions.

What about us who doesnt want any attacker/fighter at all, but wants CSAR choppers?

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=36078 http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=36123 http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=31603

get your chopper into hover manually by using the trimmer. Then initiate auto hover. This requires some skill, and the only way to get it is by practicing

Well, after I upgraded the drivers for my Saitek, the program feature mode have disappeared, so I now only can assign commands in-game. I really liked this systray app where you could load different profiles, etc.

From what I've understand reading previous posts, the real SHKVAL is operated by a little joysick with axes. The harder the pilot pushes the stick, the faster it slews

indeed, search function is my friend, however I didn't find any useful information in that thread since it was too focused on trackir, which I don't find useful to use as targetting things. Anyways, I do know now at least that this is an issue that (hopefully) ED are aware of.