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When Petrovich identifies a target, you can disengage from his target of choice with the “short down” toggle. However, when Petrovich identifies multiple targets, the “short down” toggle allows you to select the next target down in the list, this results in not being able to disengage from his target selection. This is really a pain in the **** when his list just contains infantry. In the scenario of the Petrovich target list, how do you disengage from that selection?

For all you budding campaign builders. How about designing a campaign based similar on the Grenada invasion by the US in 1983. It would make for an awesome amphibious assault campaign involving different shipborne aircraft types assortment of missions. You could proceed through the campaign as a Harrier pilot, or F18, including the helicopters. Just a thought.

On a multiplayer server today and took some damage to the rear of the helicopter. Killed the rear gunner and the oil temp for the tail rotor was at 20c and the tail rotor chip light was on. Flew back to base with no problems and had the groundcrew undertake a repair. Upon take off, I immediately began to spin to the left. Upon looking outside, my tail rotor wasn't doing its tail rotor spinny thingy, I court martialed the groundcrew........

Yours sounds like retreating blade stall. Check it out on the forums.

Next time you are doing the hover under the same conditions (hot & heavy), have a look and see what the main rotor rpm is doing. If it drops, you can lose tail rotor authority.

Am I slow at noticing this or is it new?

As per the title. Am I just slow at noticing this ?

Running take off is used by many helicopters, why strain the engines when pulling max weight when you can role down a runway and game lift. Also, we see it often in Afghanistan as there is the added issue of elevation above sea level and heat. In Vietnam you would often see the Huey C model gunships sliding down the runway to trans into translational lift. Sure you can reduce your fuel level, as you see in many DCS users, but why, when you can face and practice the added challenge of taking off heavy. I’ve made a few mission with the Huey. One taking off at sea level with a crew of four, 2000Ib of internal cargo and a full fuel tank. This involved running take offs, a prolong flight through the mountains in high humidity and heat and land at an elevated mountain top outpost. the other is a medieval, full of fuel, hot humid and some elevation, requiring to hover down into a drop hole in the middle of the forest and load up three injured. Hovering back out requires minimum movement of the cyclic and delicate adjustments of the collective to keep the rotor rpm on the border of green\yellow, and you are being shot at by small arms lol. getting to know the characteristics of each aircraft is fun.

As the title states, they appear to be missing in the gunners position. How does the co-pilot in RL fly the helicopter without torque controls?

I have experienced trim being applied to my anti torque pedal input even though this option is not selected in the options menu. I have had to reset trim to gain full use of the pedals.

Upon landing and decreasing the throttle on the collective and having the engines in idle, I have noticed the engine temperature gauge drops too quickly and engine, rotor transmission oil pressure drops to zero.

Sorry, misread your comment.

In reference to your photograph, there is a possibility that those rocket pods are empty. On a side note, the 100% load out and max weight that you see in the arming screen, is this taking into account the current weather settings and geographical location in the game or is that a separate issue you face once you try and take off lol.

As you can see in the picture the dials show 30 rather than 80, a graphical error.

It’s been taken down, but it contained the Hind and Cyprus map.

Russian equipment throughout the Cold War was of poor quality and lacked the technology when compared to NATO. This USSR doctrine of mass production resulted surplus material and the prolonged use of that outdated material for a considerable period of time, post collapse of the East German border and the USSR. It’s only been in the last 20-years or so that Russia has invested heavily in upgrading its military capability and technology to be on parr with Western nations. The limitations of the-optical sighting system of the gazelle and Lynx helicopters during the Cold War era was of concern and was often discussed in the crew rooms. Concerns being, the ability to acquire targets through a simple optical device in a combat environment of an approaching USSR armoured division. The one thing the USSR was fairly good at was their mass of air defence systems and the Lynx had to try and get with reasonable proximity to optically identify and engage these defences prior to engaging the armour. This feat was challenging as it involved the aircraft being within detectable and engagement range of the air defence system such as the ZSU 24-4. During my time in a British Army aviation unit during the Cold War, I had the good fortune of being able to visit a large aircraft hangar in Germany, that allegedly “didn’t exist” at that time, and had hands on opportunity to climb into multiple USSR aircraft types, air defence systems and armoured vehicles. The visit reinforced our knowledge at that time that USSR technology and aircraft design and weapon delivery systems was decades behind and NATO’s only true concern was the shear number of USSR MBT (1000’s) that faced us in Europe. I don’t know if you fly, but if you do, take a pair of x10 or x12 binoculars with you, place a dot in the centre and try to maintain that dot on a vehicle that’s 3 km away during forward flight. And maintain it there for 45-60 seconds, this will take into account target acquisition, identification and missile flight time.

I wouldn’t compare a targeting pod to some ones eye ball and what is basically a pair of binoculars integrated to a missile system from 40- years ago. There will be a miss rate based on a moving helicopter, they weren’t very stable platforms back then and a MBT trying to break the world land speed record across uneven terrain.

I think we need to remember that the co-pilot/gunner is using an optical device with x10 magnification(what is the magnification?). The target acquisition is solely reliant on the MK1 eyeball. Moving targets will be easier to see due to dust, reflection and the very fact the eye has a remarkable ability at detecting a moving object. When things become stationary, it becomes extremely difficult to see targets, especially if it’s parked in the shadows, tree line, weather etc. I think Petrocitch’s ability should take this into consideration. What I would like to see is the ability to observe an area of possible armour locality and observe that for a period of time. For those of you that have no experience being around armoured vehicles (in real life lol), especially MBT’s of that era, is when they first start up, there is a plume of blue/grey smoke plumes that floats up, giving away their location. This is something we would do on excessive in Germany in the 80’s and 90’s, observe potential enemy positions and spot the dozen or so rising smoke plumes coming out of the forest. Then call in a simulated air/artillery strike.

I had a similar situation but in the Mi8. I lost an engine to ground fire and flew on one engine. I noticed the functioning engine was operating at high temperature, the power indicator ( the two yellow needles for each engine) was extremely high and rotor rpm was 110% in forward level flight. I tried to roll back the throttle to reduce rotor rpm and engine temp, but it didn’t respond. Coming in on short final at 40 kmph and at 50m, the engine quit, resulting in a very hard but survivable landing.

I just want it released and I’ll work through everything else myself lol

Maybe this footage has been shown before. About three minutes in, is shows Mi8 simulator with the external view of the a/c but with cockpit instrument viewing panel. It is interesting to watch, however the narrator is speaking Russian. Maybe one of our Russian DCS pilots can give a quick translation.

The detail in the fire extinguisher and cyclic is phenomenal

In the latest Hind video, was that the Cyprus map on display?

That was my understanding to, I had plenty of fuel to get back hence the cross feed. But twice now, I’ve had an engine flame out when a tank has become empty. Could it be a bug? I’m not at my pc to test it right now.