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The Tag game with Frazer. Watch speed ;)

Correct. I also suggest speed about 30-50km/h for rolling landing. I like that very much! If you can land on runway, do rolling. In other cases do it from hover ;)

Hello pilots! Here's the result of my effort to give you some other kind of mission than the battle one. If you like to just fly around and practise your Ka-50 skills, this could be good choice for you. You can enjoy freeflight or try to beat your friends in races in this mission. Flying races can significantly improve your skills and you can even have a lot of fun! ;) I hope you enjoy it! THIS IS MULTIPLAYER MISSION Mission info: ============================= AIRTOM's RedBull AirRace v1.0 ============================= Welcome to AirTom's mission. There are 2 types of races and freeflight in this mission. 1. FREEFLIGHT (group 1) 2. REDBULL AIR RACE (group 2) 3. SLALOM (group 3) NOTE: as a start instruction you can e.g. throw flares or use TeamSpeak. 1. FREEFLIGHT ============ - just fly around and enjoy your Ka-50 - up to 8 players 2. REDBULL AIR RACE ================= - fly with your oponents through gates and try to win ;) - up to 8 players - start is from 0 (zero) speed - you can also fly the route backward - watch ABRIS for route gate 1: START (0 speed) gate 2: pass gate 3: pass, right turn (270°), pass gate 4: pass gate 5: pass gate 6: pass, left turn (270°), pass gate 7: pass gate 8: pass gate 9: pass, 360° right turn, pass again gate 10: FINISH 3. SLALOM ========= - fly slalom with your oponent as fast as possible - up to 4 players (2 at the same time) - start is from 0 (zero) speed - watch ABRIS for route - there are 2 ways of flying slalom: a) fly only one way b) fly one way, make 180° turn and fly backward Ka-50 start options: - engines running - 50% fuel - no weapons - no gun AIRTOMs RedBull AirRace v1.0.miz

Not correct. Correct only if you have UAC turned on (important!). UAC = user access control, available on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Some screenshots from formation flight of me (AirTom), SKUNK, Arturo[PL] and tatar (behind).

Very good to hear that! ;)

I see. It probably would be possible to model it in game, right? But as the Ka-50 is fighter helicopter, would allowing unrealistic behavior to it make sense? Frazer, keep showing us amazing maneuvers with what you got ;)

What do u mean by inverting collective (if it's not invert axis in options) ?

I couldn't find a word in your thread about making some low level investigations of your computer. Only some sentences how good you are. Not interested in helping you mate anymore...

Are you sure the problem is really with Saitek drivers? There is long jurney from your joy to cpu. Joy -> USB (USB driver) -> South Bridge (chipset driver) -> North Bridge (chipset driver) -> CPU (-> RAM). As you claim being Pro in computers, you probably know that. There are many factors, and all possible drivers on your computer could leade into crashing (even there is BSOD and saiC0762.dll message). Overclocking can make system unstable, playing with Memory voltage, etc. etc. There could be nothing wrong with drivers, but with your hardware... PC crash probably caused disk data inconsistency -> registry hive problem. Don't blame Saitek for making this disaster to you at first moment. Better check all PC components first (RAM test, checkdisk, CPU test,...) I have Vista 64bit and Saitek X52 and don't have problems at all. SST is version 6.6.6.9 and driver dunno, I'm not at home at the moment, but it's that one coming with the SST version.

Finally saw this "raw" video (only track before). AMAZING! ;) My most favorite part starts at about 6:00.

Well, indenting code, defining arrays, making logical blocks in lua... It is a "little lesson", but to those guys who are not coders. They probably don't know, what are braces used for. My post wasn't dedicated to you, I used only the piece of your post as example how to not do the coding (I know the forum engine itself formatted text in this bad way, but do non-programmers know that?). Let's make it clear, I hope my post will be usefull for non-programmers.

I'm pretty sure, you will not be able to do all my advanced commands via simple key press ;) Some qualifiers were not working as key press. I used advanced commands for all qualifiers just in case, as I didn't have any problem. And JD doesn't have X52 Pro, but non-Pro version. Or you do JD?

I looked at my profile and all keyboard shortcuts using any qualifier are working. But as I said, they are set via "Advanced Command". So do it also this way - "New Advanced Command" in context menu (not New Key Press!). SST version: 6.6.6.9 (64bit) OS: Windows Vista 64bit (also used both 32bit version and worked fine) I attach my profile. Take a look at it. BlackShark.zip

Later, this evening, I'll take a look at my SST X52 config again and will try to reproduce your RSHIFT problem. I can post here my X52 profile for you to try it on your pc. Also check, if on your system is not running another software binding global keyboard shorcuts. Could be graphic card software, Fraps, etc.

Forum should not be the manual. Should be addition to it, but not full substitution.

Yes, there is a mod for it: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=44922

Always best practise in programming is to use tabulators (or spaces) at the beginning of lines (indent) when you open logical block. Here in this case, "{" and "}" are used for defining arrays. When you open array by "{" automatically increase indent on everything what follows and when you close this block by "}", decrease indent again. This will help you avoid missing braces and errors during game startup. I guess, notepad++ does automatic indenting once you indent one line with tabulator. Example: My_array = { ["first_array_index"] = { variable1 = "some_value", variable2 = "some_other_value" }, ["second_array_index"] = { width = 100, height = 50 } } I hope this little lesson of programming will help you in future ;)

Well, it wouldn't be problem to imagine algorithm like: CURRENT_TEMP = MISSION_ASSIGNED_TEMP - (ALTITUDE * TEMP_COEFFICIENT) But as AlphaSixOne said, outside temperature is modelled, so we are waiting for next patch.. ;)

This is weird. I have X52 and don't have problem with any keyboard shortcut at all. Some of shortcuts you must set via advanced command and not just simple keypress. That's the problem with all SST versions as far as I know (also discussed somewhere in the forum). But can be solved the way I just described.

I see. I had also problems with multimonitor setup, e.g. with multiplayer screen, where some buttons were missing on second monitor because it has smaller resolution (especially width) than the main one. I solved it as follows (vertical layout): Top monitor: 22" 1680x1050 Bottom monitor: 17" 1280x1024 (bottom one) but resolution set to 1680x1050 ! (requires some tweaking with monitor driver) So as you see, the screen is shrinked on second monitor. But that is not a problem as you use it only for Black Shark. I have Shkval + Abris on it, at top part of monitor. Shkval uses like 2/3 (1120px) of width and Abris 1/3 (560px) of monitor width. The width is 1680 pixels in this case (not 1280!). Height of Shkval and Abris is 580 pixels. The point of this configuration is, that you don't loose any pixels of entire rendered screen. Yeah, the image on second monitor is little bit shrinked, but I can live with that in favour of being able to click JOIN button on multiplayer screen ;) So my config is: (options.lua) Screen width: 1680 Screen height: 1630 Aspect ratio: 1,0306748 (monitor_setup.lua) Center x: 0 Center y: 0 Center width: 1680 Center height: 1050 Shkval x: 0 Shkval y: 1050 Shkval width: 1120 Shkval height: 580 Abris x: 1120 Abris y: 1050 Abris width: 560 Abris height: 580 It might look like Abris will be displayed as square, but it actually won't as the screen is shrinked on second monitor. I hope this will help you. You can also try using horizontal monitor layout, with second monitor rotated 90 degrees clockwise (or CC) because your resolution height (1200px) is very close to your second monitor width (1280px) as it would be in result height of screen. You can also try using the trick with tweaking monitor driver and set the height to 1200px but I'm not sure if this can be done. You will probably loose 80px of screen. Yeah and I almost forgot. You don't need Phantomfix with 1.0.1 BS version anymore.

Looks like you have UAC on. First thing I always do when install Windows, I turn this feature off. This will save you a lot of time with identifying problems...

Well, you got anti-ice warning in game, but it's probably activated by altitude rather than temperature. Shame, ED guys didn't implement temperature sensor :/

I have to agree with Zembla, you are doing completely different movement with your throttle (horizontal) than you would do with collective in real heli. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have any problem with switching to real collective control in both situations - pull or push on throttle stick. So I also agree with Frazer - your choice, your preference, what better suites you... ;)

I don't understand :) What trigger was not activated? What had we to do for activating it? We killed everything....