congo

No problem, what is your native language.

A16, I dont know any other way to interpet this: Airspeed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the air. So there is a difference if the air surrounding me is moving ahead me or from the side or from behind. If im moving with the air my airspeed is in relative to my groundspeed lower than when i moving against the air. Sounds to me like he is saying that if he is moving with the air his airspeed is lower than if he is moving against the air. Maybe something is lost in translation. The only thing Im saying that if your airspeed is 100 knots it makes no difference if there is a headwind or tailwind your airspeed is still 100 knots whether you are flying upwind or downwind or crosswind. I guess the way to state it would have been: If i'm moving with the air my grounspeed is higher and if i'm moving against the air my ground speed is lower.

This leads me to another question. What system does Kamov use to mount the transmission and rotor to the airframe.

No vertical speed is measured by the VSI ( vertical speed indicator ) or in sailplanes a variometer. Which tells you the speed you are either going up or down. Usually in american aircraft it is read as feet per minute. In sailplanes they are usually combined with an audible warning on the positive side so it will chirp as you go up. This will help you realize when you are in up moving air. And yes there is a difference between air and ground speed on windy days or flying in the jetstream. On a zero wind day thay are pretty much the same.

Sight the ambiguity of my statements.

Aircraft do not fly by groundspeed , they fly by air passing over the wing which is airspeed. The above situation you describe is virtually impossible except for a Helicopter and then you would still have the air passing over the rotor blade because of rotation. In this situation airspeed and rotorspeed are one and the same. The flight of all aircraft (Airplanes,Helicopters,Gyrocopters is dependent upon airspeed, Ballons are dependent upon buoyancy. Airships use a little of both.

Finally some sanity on the subject of airspeed. It never ceases to amaze me the misconceptions that exist around this subject.

Thanks Alpha 16, heres where I stand at the moment. Just your basic USMC gray. I have put it in the fictional USMC slot so it is pretty easy to run. If you would like to see it pm your email and Ill send the digits.

Your airspeed indicator will never show groundspeed. It will just indicate airspeed which is the air flowing around the aircraft.

Geez Man the GoGo Grammar Police. Where are they playing. GG you still muck around over at the Steel Beasts site.

I can't answer question about registry but I don't think starforce inputs into registry I think it communicates with the executable. I did this on my system because I wanted swap file and BS on different physical drives. I have never had a problem running it either from C or E. I tend to let it rest on both drives because I play with modding so this allows me to modify one but always have the stock one in case pray tell I screw up.

Don't uninstall. Actually, just drag the eagle dynamics folder to the other drive and then change properties of shortcut to reflect that change both Target and Start in needs to be edited.

A question for any KA-50 gurus, Where are the fueling port or ports on this bird. Need reference for applying proper nomenclature in USMC skin wip.

I love pedanticism.

SJ good example also see mine above. This is one of the most widely misunderstood things I see on a lot of the aviation forums. It really starts getting confusing when you start discussing IAS,CAS and TAS and then throw in Mach values and your synapses can overheat. Nuff said.

Let me try to explain so you can understand. The aircraft once it becomes airborne is now operating in a large fluid namely air. Fluid speed ( windspeed )is a value we assign when this fluid is moving relative to a fixed point ( Me standing at a weather station). A good example is the fishbowl analogy. a fish is swimming around in his bowl of water ( substitute air for water ) at 2 knots through the water in a circle so his ground speed is almost nil. You pick up the fishbowl and start running at 15 knots for an hour( This is the windspeed). The fish is still swimming through his fluid at 2 knots no matter what direction he goes but his ground speed is 15 knots. Substitute an aircraft for the fish. Do you see yet. Yes the modern pitot static system works on ram air or dynamic pressure of the fluid into the forward facing opening but as far as the aircraft and its fluid that it is operating in it is always facing forward.

Yes your groundspeed is 125 but your airspeed is still 100 the airspeed indicator doesnt know headwinds from tailwinds it just measures your speed through the air

If you are moving with the air at 100 knots your airspeed is 100 knots, if you are moving against the air your airspeed is still 100 knots. It is your speed across the ground which is changing.

I disagree with this statement. Your airspeed will always read the same unless you slow down or speed up regardless of headwind or tailwind. Airspeed is the rate at which the aircraft is moving through the surrounding air as measured by the pitot/static system. Ground speed is speed over ground. Example is if you are flying at an indicated airspeed of 100 knots into a 25 knot headwind your ground speed is 75 knots. If you are flying with a 25 knot tailwind then your ground speed is 125 knots. If you are hovering in a 25 knot headwind your airspeed is 25 knots and if you are hovering in a 25 knot tailwind your airspeed is still 25 knots only backwards.

Moose, Nice job on the skin but I think you need to reverse the intake flashes. They would be correct if they were on the outside of the engine cowling aft of the intake. The open end of the flash should face in the direction of the opening.

Thank you! I am putting them to good use.

I started on this one a while back and just plugged it into the USMC fictional slot which is pretty easy to do with CDSS explorer. I work on it when I get the chance along with several other skins.

Thanks A16, Most of my experience is on the old Radials where they just dripped some alcohol down the leading edge of the prop to break up the ice, mostly R-985,s -1340,s some 2800 and 3350 time, though I have messed around with some J-75,s - 79,s and a couple of Jumo 004,s. Keep posting the tech data. Do you have anything on airframe? Where did you get your hands on the Technical Orders? Again thank you kindly!. Congo

Timm, Looks good, I think most of the rotor UV maps are included in DCS,s template. Just remember that the layers have multiple subsets that you can view with the drop down arrows, so if you want to turn off markings and such you can.