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 :)

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: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:

Yes, my bad, it is ink of course. But I was so excited when I wrote here I didn't take care about my words. BTW I have no problem at all with the way new books smell, I like it because it means new discoveries are awaiting for me. :thumbup:

I get my manual from TFC 1 minute ago :) I love its paint smell :)

Finally I have founded the post what I was looking for: This is from EvilBivol-1, Community Manager: "FYI, the pitot tube heating is actually implemented and modeled in Black Shark, as is INS warming."

Hi again:) I'd like to suggest to extend your checklist with pitot tube heat and pitot ram air heat functions. Any idea if their work are modelled?

Well, I checked it just to be sure and I was able to lock targets with only K041 on. I really don't want to messing with you I'm just inteded to have a perfect CL and your one is the best ATM :)

I have a little correction: you don't have to turn on Targeting Navigation System, the K041 is enough to be on. The manual states TNS is used by for ground checks only. Although I have no idea if it serves as a backup system in the case of mailfunction of the K041.:unsure: Anyway, nice checklist, I use this since its earliest version, good work:thumbup:

I am in trouble to do position fixing by SHKVAL. I do every steps by the manual but the nav fix message from the ekran doesn't disappear. When I do the fly-over method, this message just goes off, it works fine. And I don't get any "Correction" message on the HUD, just a number starts to count down but when it comes to 0 nothing happens. Has anybody any idea what should be the problem?

I also have runtime error. The first time it occured when I changed the original soundtracks in the sounds/samples/radiomayak directory. I had to try several times how many tracks can I use regarding their format, size, length without crashing the game. Finally I was able to run the game with 16 own tracks (that's the maximum, at least for me). But unfortunately I discovered this works only about 1 hour after mission start and then I got the same runtime error. Does anyone know what is the solution for this? ( I know, replace the original tracks :) ,but I really want to use my own ones ) So I would appreciate any handy idea. Thanks in advance.

You can bet on it :thumbup:

Happy New Year Ladies/Gentlemen!:drunk: