Blackjack_UK

Extract the files you need first, and either put them back into the zip after modding or save them in the livery of your choice and call them using the .lua GIMP works perfectly here, but *not* if you try to do it straight from the zip.

:thumbup: Exactly that.

You can turn down the Shkval brightness as well, which helps a lot, but NVG is very compromised at the moment. Probably always will be because the real life implementation is also compromised. NVG is really to help you fly the aircraft at night, not fight it. It doesn't work well with the aircraft weapons systems, but in that mission at least there's enough ambient light to do what you need without using them for anything except getting to the target.

That's pretty much how you land on a real ship...

Hi, The collective is like your first drawing - it just comes up from a zero position. Some helicopters (Lynx/Wildcat, for example) have the facility to push the collective down and add negative lift to stick the aircraft to the deck before it's lashed down, harpoon has engaged or it's otherwise secured. But that's immaterial here.

Wow, thanks Mike! You get the prize for the most helpful (to me) post this month :)

Hi, Exhausts and other generic (should never change) elements are in a zip file under <Your DCS Location>\Bazar\World\textures\ka-50.zip BUT I haven't yet found the .lua that calls the elements so I don't know their names - you need that to put it in your own .lua in the livery folder... If you find out, can you post it here please?

I'm not going to go into semantics here - other people can argue the minutiae of weapon systems better than I. But having done quite a lot of work in this particular area - that's real world, paid work, not keyboard warrior work - I can comment on this. <snip lots of other stuff> Bless. Your naivety is staggering. Look at the F35. Or perhaps the F16 would be a better example. It took up to about Block 5x before it actually had the capabilities being offered to export customers when they signed the paper. No? OK. Look at the sales pitch for the Apache. It took Westland doing a huge bunch of re-engineering (paid for by me and other British taxpayers) to get it mission capable in the way it was sold to be. There are loads more examples where a piece of equipment (tank, aircraft, ship, software, whatever) is sold on the basis of what it will eventually be capable of. Usually accompanied by massive other trade deals (buy this and we'll buy a billion tonnes of your cabbages), bribes (you really ought to come and see this product demo in The Cayman Islands, and of course you can bring your family and friends. On us, naturally), political sweeteners (buy this and we'll assist you with that deal you're trying to do with your neighbour) or threats (buy this or we'll assist your neighbour with that deal...and they'll buy our weapons instead, at a discounted rate). Again, I would like to see Iglas on the DCS Ka-50. I definitely want to see President. And I would be delighted with a Shkval that worked properly, even if it made life harder (because it will lock on a dead target or a rock or whatever). If it also had FLIR or even Mercury (or similar) then I'd be delighted. But the arguments in this thread are, while entertaining...actually forget that. This thread is too entertaining to suggest it's run its course.

Steady on old chap - that's a reasonable comment and there's no room for that sort of behaviour here!

The S8 is a dumb rocket with no feedback to the pilot (ie no seeker tone, lock confirmation...) Other than those rather significant points, yes you're right. But in that case why not put an R73 on instead and actually have some *real* teeth? After all, the technology is in the missile, right?

Jesus. No. Just no. A Chinook can lift a Scud. Doesn't mean it can launch it though. OK, that's a bit extreme, but: Yes, there's power to the pylon. Yes there's a hard point which *probably* has attachments that will fit the Igla (or could) Yes, there's a trigger feed from the cockpit. All good so far? BUT It needs feedback to the cockpit to provide a confirmation that the missile is ready to engage Likewise you need to get confirmation of lock before you can successfully launch You will also need some sort of target symbology, even if just to show the target is in the seeker cone. My point is that you can't, no matter how much you want to, say that because a weapon will physically fit on a pylon then it can be used operationally, because that is patently untrue. And I *want* to have Iglas in the next version. Abd some sort of FLIR or LLTV. And RWR I guess.

If you want quality reading about the Werewolf (in English) you could try "The Courier" by Simon Bradley - it's on Amazon. All about the Ka-50. It's completely fictional of course, but it definitely has RWR. And Mercury LLTV... But it's not a bad book, apparently.

Well yes...and no. You need to get a way of aiming the missile (OK, just point the nose in the right direction could work), telling the pilot that the missile has lock (requires communication back to cockpit so needs the wiring and interface to be right) and, of course, a way for the pilot to actually fire the thing, which also needs wire back. Or a long piece of strong string attached to the trigger that he can maybe pull with his teeth... It also needs a means of turning the missile seeker on. Not saying it can't be done or that it wasn't - personally I suspect that Iglas were indeed carried at some point, though probably not operationally (because Ka-50 didn't operate in an environment with hostile air assets) - just saying that it's not simply "If it can be bolted on then it will work" because, um, it won't.

Hi, As it says, really - are there any plans to make it possible (without a mod) to place a Stinger, say, on a tanker in The Gulf? Or launch a helicopter from a container ship? At the moment any attempt is thwarted by the "Place ground objects on the smooth land please" message. It's realistic to expect insurgent operated vessels to have MANPADS and would add an interesting depth as you'd never be quite sure if that civilian ship was going to have an unpleasant surprise or not. It's also realistic to operate helicopters from bulk carriers or container ships, either because they've been requisitioned as part of a task force (Atlantic Conveyor, Canberra etc) or for covert operations. It would be A Good Thing and presumably not *too* difficult to implement (though I may be wrong on that assumption). Ta.

AP can't compensate for wind, sloping ground etc IRL either. It's not a bug, chaps, it's the delights of driving something that naturally wants to turn upside down an thrash itself (and you) to pieces. Something over 7300 hours in real ones and holding a stable hover is still something that takes a lot of concentration. Add some funky wind and it gets proper challenging...

I came back here to ask about the face... Thanks pal. Just out of interest, do you know where the .lua that controls the default textures lives? So I can have a rummage? Cheers

And if I came across as hostile or demeaning then I apologise. Thanks for your thoughtful response.

Welcome to the forums, but may I suggest taking a look at issues that have already been posted (a lot of times, recently) before reinventing the wheel? It's a known problem. Look for MadDog's revised versions of the missions in the downloads section of the main site to ease your pain. Happy flying!

Because the panel gauge and HUD should read the same...

I just got mine, sixth attempt, from EBay. Yes, it's used. But it's so bloody solid you'd never notice. I fully expect my house to fall down and to drag this out of the rubble, slightly scratched but fully functional...

Hi, As discussed here https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4450575#post4450575 there appears to be a bug with the analogue radalt showing (?) barometric pressure. Cheers, Simon

Sounds like a bug to me as well - I've posted it as such and linked back to here.

You worry too much ;) Let's just wait until the new version is released. Then the documentation will tell us what has been implemented and how to use it. And if it sucks we don't buy it.

As I understand it, the only way to get JTAC is with the very good and completely unintrusive JTAC mod by TurboHog. Forgive me for asking, but you are setting your Ka50 to a NATO country, right? 'Cos the rest don't have JTAC and the menu won't work...

RIAT at RAF Fairford around 1980. Those exact signs warning of use of deadly force. The object of all this? A C5 Galaxy. Yes, really. Times do change...