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DCS BS is the first game I play that never hung up, crashed or had any major bug in it. That patch is just a little tweek, it's not fixing a bad product...

Strela SAM in action. http://www.apacheclips.com/media/7230/NEW_Chechnia_SAM_action/

Is that keychart complete? I think not. It's still very usefull. But would it be consevable to have a key chart with every shortcuts on it? Or would it be too crowded?

As far as I know, it's not possible.

Thanks to this video trainning, I can now start the Ka-50 from cold state. Before, I could randomly do it, now I actually know what I'm doing and why! I'm looking forward to more free cours... if there will be any.

I thought the collective break handle ON the collective was only a safety mesure for when your hand is not on the collective and to lock it in place when you are leaving the helicopter. In the sim, I never use it.

By trottle you mean collective? Because the trottle is something else in an helicopter.

Maybe he ment the FOV of the laser tracker in it's rear. Meaning the missil can only do straight lines fromt origin to target.

You can do it without locking target individually, using the Shval. Just range the first and fire away. If targets are at similar ranges. If not, you can compensate by shooting higher or lower. I took columns of veh. like that in one or two long bursts. It's fun.

ALT T I rarely use it, I'm not 100% sure.

I heard from an apache weapon technitian that the current hellfire missil deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan lack a fragmentation belt and that it is curently being added. They are basically an EFP (Explosive Formed Penetrator), with some varient that are more in the line of a fuel air explosive. That's why there are many videos of soft skinned veh. being hit direcly by an hellfire and seeing people running out. (To be taken out by 30mm or dying from lung bleeding later...) So, it's safe to say that the Hellfires, unless ED added the newer blast belt, are low on the fragmentation side.

Untill I get trackir, I rarely use the HMS. My joystick hat that control it is too sluggish and it only lead to frustration and lost time on my attack run. I currently only use it to spot target when in hover or very slow flight.

One time, the graphics where not the same as in Single player, the other time I had very bad fps. And finaly, the last time I tried, I could not start the chopper and eventually where not able to move out of the lobby... I have zero troubles with single player. MP is something else. I should give it more time to troubleshoot and find exacly what's wrong. And something I hate, the lack of verbal comunication in public server... I'm used to flying on a falcon4AF server with obligatory teamspeak channels for every flights. I think a combat sim can't be flown without comm.

I think that a game, supported by a comunity, is more valuable than the price you pay for. I'm glad that there are people with the skills and the will to improve this game beyond the original product. The games I play the most are the one that have a comunity based support and ameliorations. It's not odd, it's the recepy of a good game with unlimited playability. You won't find this on Xbox or any other console either.

Depending on the expected threats, I will fly as close to the ground as possible. But I do enjoy going high to lunch missils at Rmax. I tend to be a cautious pilot. Exploring new erea methodically and slow. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. When I'm confident enough that there is no threats, I can get cocket and fly agressively close to my target. My Ka-50 now become a wasp and I buz the target furisouly, hitting them with closes and precises shots. Like the default mission. I know it so well, I kill everything in one pass. 1 missils for the SA9 team (shooting the car) 1 missil for the AAA emplacement, cannon for the BTRs and fuel truck, then 2 batchs of rockets for the catushia lunchers and cannon for the rest. Top time is 40 seconds.

Good stuff. Everytime I try online, I don't know why, things don't works and I hate it.

Last week, I found an observatory on top of a mountain, on the Georgian side of the border, near Russia, close the the sea. I was wondering if there was other points of interest on the map, such as special buildings or anything else. Anyone spotted something special worth mentionning?

Is the anti dust or anti ice systems on when not needed, as in Cheat auto startup? That could possibly overheat the engine, mixed with abuse of the collective, resulting in what you experienced.

I'd say it's all about cost. The whole russian army seam to be based on cost and reliability, compared to US based on quality and speciality. I did have some missed shots witht the Vikhr due to the spiraling effect, but it was only because I did not have a good aproach on my target I guess.

I too feel the rockets are under powered. I understand they won't destroy armored vehiculs. But I need close to direct hit to kill infantry in the open. It look like they are simple flechettes rockets with no shrapnels.

Good stuff. I bite myself buying pro photography gear instead of pro video stuff. I chose photos because video was too expensive to start with. Now I want to do both.

Blame it on the new generation super short attention span and impulsive behaviour.

Hum.. not as clever, but I intentionnally missed a couple calls on the phone, because I did not want to hit "pause" and mess up my perfect mission.

Look a little like COD4... Not that bad. They showed the twin seater ka... forgot it's name... Can't wait to play that game. Now back to BS.

Trying to correct a turn using left ruder and pulling right on the stick with high collective will mess the blades. Work in the other direction too. Best way to turn, is to coordinate both rudder and stick and add a little power (collective) to turn. That way, you don't fight the AP and the aircraft turn without blowing appart.