Franky__

Ohh, mate. You might have given a second thought on that Cougar you bought. There is a fancy new toy developed for this very sim called Hotas Warthog. The price is a little steep but once you had it you dont want to use anything else anymore :joystick:

Same here as Mr Fish does :) Though I have a little problem with that because every time i actually click on the second monitor (ie. scrolling down a pdf) some switches in the plane move to the opposite direction as they are switched on the hotas (TM Warthog). The only way to avoid this is to pause the game before clicking on the other monitor. AFAIK I am the only one suffering this problem. Anyway, a second monitor is really handy for all the additional stuff.

It might be a stupid suggestion, but make sure you pull the trigger hard enough. Sometimes it happened to me that I unconsciously eased the pressure on the trigger during small adjustments to stay on target. I really had to get used to how much pressure do I apply on it.

Both. If you won't retract the flaps yourself they retract above 185? knots, but if you slow below this speed, they deploy to their previous position.

Gonzo, try to OC your CPU. I've got the same like yours and the only mean to get major FPS increase for me is to tune up my CPU to around 3.6 GHz. I also have changed my old 8800 GTX to two overclocked GTX 460s in SLI but they didn't cause too much FPS increase. The game is mainly CPU dependant, but despite the 6 cores, someone with a dual CPU around 4 GHz can get better results. Sad, but true:cry:

Not to mention the fact, weapons don't fall through your plane. Accidentely I have bombed myself in the air during my first bombing practice. The first couple of MK-82s went on targets nicely, but on the third run I was in a hurry to get the pipper on the target and somehow I flew into the released bombs lol

I like the blackout effect caused by G forces when you hit the ground too hard, awsome :)

Serial #: 00529 Location: St. Helens, UK

:joystick: :pilotfly: :thumbup:

Seeding it with 100 kB/s Perfect day, no wife, no work for 2 days, new Beta, new Hog Hotas has been dispatched, arriving tomorrow, life is good :)

It was mentioned earlier there is random failure built in the sim. If it's true how come everybody complaining about only the HUD but never about any other system? Or maybe this is the only failure which works in the current build?

Best topic ever, I laughed my a$$ off :)

Good news :)

The gearbox oil temperature is pretty much the same like the OAT, so you can use it to read the OAT. In the game, it's not warming even with running engines, in reality I have no idea. So the point is you can use it to determine the outside temperature. A little correction here: I made a mistake, it is the hydraulic oil temp which always shows the outside temp . The gearbox oil temp actually rises with running engines, sorry again I didn't remember correctly :)

And how about Route mode and Descent mode? I put both to this slider to be as close as possible like in the real heli and they work perfectly. :thumbup: