Kurtz

Ive read that Couger thread as well, regarding the dolphin diving of the heli after trim input. Regards the X52 series, has anybody tried creating and advanced macro to delay trim release?

After checking out the 9 pages of KA50 keyboard commands I thought a Keychart might come in handy. This is un-official keychart ive created displays many of the more critical keystrokes. Its intended to be a quick referance to help with joystick profiling or inflight command options. If you think ive missed anything critical, please post and i can edit content, or anybody else with some paint skills is quite welcome to do the same with this chart. I didnt add any custom config items as i thought it would probably just confuse people more. When i do get to fly this beast i will probably consider remapping the NUMPAD to offload some Autopilot functions, as most of my views are taken over by TrackIR. In the rar file there is three pictures. One is a full page layout for those people that have access to an A3 page printer or similar, and the other two are a split layout which you can print anywhere and stick together. Link- http://files.filefront.com/KA50keychartrar/;12394660;/fileinfo.html Anyway check it out. I hope you like. ps- Ive excluded a lot of stuff to avoid clutter.

The vertical speed indicator is your best friend when flying heli sims

Turn the light filtering setting all the way up as well. It will minimise ambient light interferance as much as possible.

It will run straight away with very little effort. Just install the software and drivers. Then make sure there is no bright light or reflective surfaces such as glass covered pictures, mirrors, sunlight behind you, that may cause it to freeze. Other than that if you find the rotation inflight is to fast, there is some curves you can edit to settle things down and offer a full FOV with realistic head movement.

I think TrackIR is a must have for flight sim fans. It takes a little getting used to, but theres no going back once youve experianced TrackIR. When your flying low around a target area with flak everywhere, and your banking hard dumping flares to avoid an incoming misile, your eyes are still firmly fixed on your enemy throughout the turn, with a 30mm chain gun slaved to your LOS :) TrackIR rocks :D (Comments relate to EECH1/EECH2) Im not sure on the full impact of TrackIR in DCS:BS, but i suspect navigating a fully clickable KA50 pit while flying under fire would be somewhat difficult without TrackIR or Freetrack.

There is 2.5gb of free english training video's availlable in the DL section that i suspect will get you in the air pretty quick.

Heli with after burners, nice :)

Another mod example would be Mare Nostrum mod for Red Orchestra which recently moved over to STEAM. From an Admin point of view the dedi server updating can be automated. The client end updating is automatated and seemless. I add custom content on a weekly basis to the server, which i also add to a redirect server which offers clients high speed ingame compressed content downloading. STEAM would have offered a day one worldwide cash injection to the BS devs, minimised piracy(lets face it, people only check the torrent sites after being denied access to a product). The advertising potential through the STEAM community is massive. Games can be played offline. I can install/play any game in my STEAM list in any location i can login. Games can be backed up to HD. There is no downside to STEAM that ive seen. The fact that ED chose a massively unpopular CP that was no doubt going to recieve a community backlash, as well as prompt every hacker in town jumping at the chance to bitch slap starforce, is beyond me. Everybody knew that DCS Blachshark was going to be a supermodel title, then ED went and put that bit piple on her nose ;) I love heli sims so i'll still buy it, regardless of SF, but i think this whole situation was forcast and easily avoidable. ps- dont get me wrong ED, I still love you for building Blackshark :) but the CP issue though is a little silly.