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Mig-15 Mission 2: Helicopter crashes 3 of the 4 helicopter crashed before even landing. The lady giving me instructions got cut off in mid-sentence. One helicopter made it home and the mission completed normally.

Mig-15 Mission 4: The hydraulic failure had no effect Same for me but with Mig-15 in 1.5.7.10.175, absolutely no failure, hydraulic pump & accumulator, gears, flaps, everything worked as normal.

I’ve been flying the Su-33 quite a lot since PFM has been released in open Beta. Unfortunately, in multiplayer, where I more or less just act as a missile magnet, I hardly ever make it back to the carrier. What is even worse, it is not due to enemy fire, it’s because I just happen to pull back the stick a bit too much just like I would do on the Su-27, and… my wings would snap off. This happens especially when you’re supersonic and it is without pressing ‘z’ or ‘s’. The Su-27 never did this on me. I am pretty sure this is a bug, but can anyone tell me with some background knowledge how it should really be? My assumption would go kind of like this way: The fly-by-wire takes care of not overstressing the airframe and pilot Using the Stick Limiter Override, the fly-by-wire only protects the airframe Direct Control Switch – full control, no protection As stated, this is an assumption on my side. Would be glad to hear how this was designed in reality.

Hi Alfa, thanks for the replay and info. How does it work in real life, do pilots request QFE in Hg or hPa from the tower?

Does the Su-33 use a different type of altimeter then the Su-27? If so, it should be changed in the Su-33 documentation I suppose. What do I have to set when the Admiral Kuznetsov sends me this?

Ah, cool, tanks! This lever is even animated. I did not see it because I am not using TrackIR or VR. But still, I would have expected that every plane’s landing gear would be able to withstand the braking forces until the tires start skidding. After all what’s the use of anti-skid if it cannot take the force required until skidding. I expected it to be like on the DCS Mig-15 were ‘W’ and LShift-W is just pressing the braking lever half way or fully. I found some info in another thread from Sov13t: Quote: Originally Posted by Sov13t The SU-27 is equipped with both pedal actuated brakes (main braking) and stick mounted brake (start brakes) of course there is an emergency braking system as well. The difference is the pedal actuated brakes provide 105-120 kg/cm2 pressure and can be used for differential braking, while the start brakes provide 175-220 kg/cm2 pressure allowing to hold the aircraft still at higher engine RPMs applied uniformly across the two main wheels. The start brake engagement is not quite digital but close to it. The pilot does not have feedback/control as to how fast/intense the brakes are applied. The release is near instant. As mentioned above, the brake lever on the stick is used only when lined up for take off.

It feels like there is some glue back there, and sometimes the aircraft starts vibrating violently.

This is true for the Su-27 and Su-33. I would have expected that the maximum travel of the Wheel Break axis’ would give you the same holding power like Wheel Brake Start, but it only goes as far as the normal W-key.

There seems to be an offset on the QFE scale on the Pressure Altimeter. It is not possible to set QFE as directed by the tower. Only values above 947 can be set, but normally it is much lower. With 947 set it is far below sea level.

I was checking if there was some sound when pressing the Alarm Bell Button. Nothing much happening, some faint noise inside the cockpit and nothing from the outside. Funny enough, after pressing the key combination for the Alarm Bell Button ( LAlt + LCtrl + LShift + 8 ) the content of a non-installed mirror appeared on the co-pilot’s side. (Don't forget the breaker switch)

Hi all Don’t know if this is a bug or if it is supposed to be like that, but sling loading has become very difficult for me. I am relatively new to the Mi-8 but in 1.5.6 I was able to do Sling Loading without much trouble. That’s especially true for picking up the cargo. However, now in 1.5.7 I just can’t do it anymore. 1. The rope tears super easily. This happens during pickup and when trying to slowdown. 2. Sometimes when hovering above cargo the hook does not get hooked. No matter how long hovering above it. Going out of the zone and come back in normally solves it. Sidenote: There seems to be also a new animation where the rope gets dropped when above cargo. I certainly haven’t noticed it before 3. The rope vibrates/flickers like mad when in air Does anyone experience the same problems? Did I learn something that was too easy before or is it now to hard?

It would help if they put these changes in the change log.

See the color difference in 1.5.6 and 1.5.7. At least the glare on the dials is gone.

After updating to 1.5.7 beta, all files for the Su-33 Heavy Sky Campaign are missing. Reverting back to 1.5.6 stable brings them back again. I'm using the Steam version.

If you trigger the fire extinguishing system while the rotor is turning in air or on the ground. The fire extinguishing vapor is not affected by rotor down wash. It does get blown away by headwind, but it looks quite odd when you are hovering. There is slight forward speed in the picture. DCSW 1.5.6.5199

If you switch on the APU while the rotor is turning in air or on the ground, the APU smoke rises as if there is no disturbance in the air. At some point the animation detaches from the APU and goes with the wind, but not the down wash if on the ground. DCSW 1.5.6.5199

After reading the fantastic documentation from AlphaOneSix about the hydraulic system (https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=152670&highlight=works), I would have assumed the backup system’s charge and discharge cycles of the hydraulic accumulator are twice as fast as the main ones, since there is only one accumulator instead of two (less volume). Both systems have the same oscillation frequency in the simulation when sitting on the ground ready for take off. Obviously I have no idea if all models of the Mi-8 have two primary hydraulic accumulators. DCSW 1.5.6.5199

When the anti-icing system is switched on the rotor section heating indicator lights stay off. Only when the rotary switch for current monitoring gets set to any position except off, they come on. If it has any effect on the actual deicing I did not check. I suppose these lights should not be dependent on the rotary switch, right? DCSW 1.5.6.5199

I’ve noticed that the right engine is more affected by power loss when the anti-icing system is switched on. Does anyone know if this is supposed to be like that? To clarify, I did switch on the left engines’ anti-icing manually. From my understanding, both engines should be affected the same way. DCSW 1.5.6.5199

I got the same behavior with Russian language settings. DCSW 1.5.6.5199

Hi all I was testing the fuel system and noticed that the behavior of the saddle tank cross-feed valve does not work properly. Here is what I did: - Switch off left saddle tank pump - Switch off saddle tank cross-feed - Let the right saddle tank be drained empty - until right pump light goes off - Let the service tank be drained to about 300 liters - Switch off right saddle tank fuel pump - Switch on saddle tanks cross-feed - Switch on left saddle tank pump Now the service tank gets filled up back to 400L as expected The left and right saddle tanks more or less equalize again, as expected. From here onward things go wrong, basically the right saddle tank stays at where it was after equalizing. So eventually the left saddle tank and the service tank get drained empty and the engines quit at some point while the right tank is still half full.