morsmortis

Africa, as weird as it sounds, is probably as good as any other place to see high grade Russian equipment used in anger. check out this link http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/printer_192.shtml

I'm pretty sure blade pitch has a lot to do with it. If you are going pull some crazy maneuvers it's safe to lower the collective. I've noticed the most dangerous thing you can do is go left 45 degrees and then right 45 degrees and back left again 45 degrees very quickly. This is the easiest way to cut those blades off.

I understand your logic but, it's California, and you low and near the coast . All nearby fields are surrounded by civilian buildings. People wanted to live near San Diego and the beach that bad, that they built homes around Miramar one mile under the directional path of outgoing jets/helicopters. His only other option besides landing at Miramar or ditching was landing back on the carrier and who knows how far out it was.

Yeah, if you have some type of fuel/contamination/starvation problem or if one engine suffers a failure and one of the fan blades breaks off and flies into the other engine. http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California/CA_Military_Jet_Crash_374056C.shtml Some of you guys are too used to simulators. Search for "one engine landing" with Google and see how many planes land at civil/military airports with one engine.

the question is....being the cost of a F/A-18D is around 35million Should I try to land it with one engine or ditch it in the ocean even though I have been trained that it can fly fine on one engine? :huh: When I first saw this crash I was upset. As a marine, it made me even angrier that the pilot let the plane go into the houses. After I learned the 2nd engine died and probably the FCS, I eased up and became empathetic as a pilot, because I can understand how horrible the controls probably felt to him as he flew in feet dry. A 2nd engine is not just there for extra power, it's a backup. The chances of two engines going out are EXTREMELY rare.

I hear he lost 1 engine somewhere out at sea and when he attempted to bring it in he lost the 2nd somewhere on final over a residential. Sounds like a fuel control problem coupled with Hornets shady FCS. http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/media/approach/vault/articles/2004/0681.htm The plane crashed here. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=32.860621,+-117.198326&jsv=139e&sll=32.860474,-117.197664&sspn=0.00164,0.003487&ie=UTF8&geocode=Fc1p9QEdCrID-Q The pilot landed somewhere near the football field. Ironically, this has happened before with a Marine aviator, accept he decided to ride his plane to the ground crashing the in the same football field. If you look on the map, he's about 1 mile out from the base. This is truly one of those moments every aviator fears. I feel for the families as much as I do the pilot. This day will haunt him for the rest of his life.

That damn pink Flanker......

I am wondering if anyone has seen any improvements using SLI in DCS. I have a 9800gx2 and when I disable the 2nd gpu I see no difference in XP. Is it the same in Vista?

A flyable CH-53E with Sling-load capability would be awesome.

I've seen quite a bit of CAS from Cobras and Hueys. They tend to run into attacks at low altitudes well within MANPAD range. The only times I've a Cobra hover was to fire a hellfire albeit it was very rare.

They can fit a BMP-2's cannon onto this thing, but they can't put a RWR, FLIR, or a cocktail mixer!? What the hell Kamov! btw semper fi there marine.

I don't believe it's supported. :cry:

When I was in the Corps, I flew on Helicopters waaaaaay too much. The only helicopter I really trusted was the Ch-53E because of it's backup engine. I had a friend who personally experienced an engine out in Okinawa a couple years back and they properly brought the bird in using the aux engine. Their hydraulic leaks were a nuisance though. I remember one time flying from Pendleton to Yuma we had some major leaks, and the crew chief told us to brace for a crash landing, of course we sat down fine.. ( I think he was just messing with us) I had another friend get completed douched in fluid, ruining all of his gear.... hahahah good laughs all around though.. On auto rotation, I am curious if the Russians have a breathing aparatus if they go down over water?

This damage modeling reminds me of the one in A-10:Cuba!

I remember Flanker 1.0 It was a great game that came out of nowhere. The flight model seemed superior to every other Flight Sim available at the time. The same is to be said about Ka-50. It is extremely revolutionary and from start-up you can tell it was aimed for a specific gamer. This truly is a study-sim like no other. I can only compare it to Falcon 4.0, but that isn't even a true comparison because Falcon's flight model was no where close to this. As far as helicopter flight models, I believe X-plane is probably closest even though it still feels it is leaps and bounds above it. Some points to be made about flight model. 1. Expect to crash... and crash you will. A LOT. 2. Stick and Rudder... no seriously Stick and Rudder or see #1. 3. Getting hit by a missile feels like a @$%^# slap from god usually resulting in #1. 4. DO NOT push any buttons until you know what they do or see #1. 5. The blades can and do touch especially when you try to fly it like "airwolf". I can really empathize with Ka-50 pilots after flying around a little bit. The workload for a single pilot/gunner in a combat helo is truly the suck that most of us are going to have trouble getting used to. I am used to having that gunner in previous combat helo sims. Right now I can't even think about engaging the enemy; I am too busy learning how to fly again and keep this thing in the air. I am really shocked at how much has been simulated. The learning curve is going to be steep but well worth the climb to the top. I promise, you will not be disappointed.