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Lol, yes maybe lighting is a bit problematic lately, but that's quite a stretch to say that DCS is playable only by day. Flying under NVG is perfectly fine and quite realistic.

Lol. Thanks for the correction QuiGon. Yes, I should have said F-000 to F-999. Maybe by that time we will get one or two new choppers.

Oh yeah. Great. Another fighter F-xx. How original. Mi-24 is making slow progress but at least it is making progress. Rotorheads are waiting years between RW modules releases while we are seeing all the colors of F-00 to F-99 passing by.

This gorgeous little GA aircraft is just perfect for flight interception with a cruising speed compatible with DCS rotarywings. The exercise performed at BSD included up to two Eagle II dangerously flying into a flight restricted area near Kobuleti. The choppers scrambled to intercept them. Some pilots complied, some didn't. And the latter can confirm now that a burst of the Gazelle's minigun or a few 30 mm rounds from the Ka50 are doing a lot of damage to this light bird. Better comply asap! :lol: The Ka50, flying close while sitting in this small aircraft, is looking very impressive and big!

Thanks Hansolo! Got the board, relays and fans on the way! Lol. Excited!

OK guys. I have this very stupid idea, I know, but this is bugging me now. We have those virtual fans in the Mi-8 that you can turn on and off and I was wondering if there is a way to actually turn on real fans (you know those $7 USB fans) when flipping the fan switches inside the virtual cockpit? Alternatively, you could have the same thing triggered when the cockpit is opened (any cockpit)... I suppose you need some Arduino card managing GPIO (which one?) and have the fan command actually detected by DCS-BIOS?

Can't win a war sitting at 30000 ft and flying at 350 kt. You need infantry and helicopters to capture anything on the ground. Realistically of course.

FR/ Damienntrix, je crois que ce mod ne marche plus. Tu l'as essaye recemment? /FR I think this mod is not working anymore but I can be wrong. I have read on this thread that flying NVG in an aircraft is a matter of putting on NVG and that's all. Remember you have to be able to read the intruments too and as such, lightning and avionics must be compliant too, which might not always be the case with an aircraft that was designed half a century ago. Now, reading what Damienntrix said earlier about all the Armee de Terre Gazelles having their panel retrofitted for flying NVG, it is worth inquiring further.

Since we have Mistral on the Gazelle, fixed wingers are starting to consider choppers a little bit more than a flying school bus that they can play with when they are bored. Stinger, Mistral and SA-16 Igla are all based on more or less the same design and concept. They were meant to be shot from a manpads by someone with little experience or training. So in essence, you roughly aim in the direction of the threat and when you got the continuous beep, you press the trigger. Fun fact that I learnt while visiting the plant manufacturing the SA-16 many years ago, the manpads version of the Igla doesn't even require you to confirm the launch. Just keep it aimed at the target and it launches automatically when it is acquired. So much for the safety of fire. Lol.

I can talk only for choppers because I don't fly fixed wings in DCS. Huey, Mi8 are 100% awesome with the S. Ka50 is 90% awesome with some names of towns difficult to read in the ABRIS. Gazelle is 80% awesome because the labels are still a bit too small to be readable.

Got the two versions. Barely used the first Rift (SDE makes gauges difficult to read and enemy difficult to spot, external sensors are clumsy to setup, no way to reach keyboard without taking the headset off), now my head is almost permanently stuck into the rift S.

Sling loading is a bit of an art actually in DCS, apart from just flying correctly a chopper which also requires some serious skills. Once you get the last part right, you should be able to try the first one. And in MP, it's always fun at the end of a mission to 'inadvertently' drop a pair of fuel tanks in the rotor of your friend (you need really good friends though :P )

Do you have those jitter when looking on the sides only or all the time no matter where you are looking?

There is no Rift S 128Gb or 64Gb. There is just the Rift S. It is not a standalone product.

Hopefully the Gazelles are small enough to spawn on the Tarawa without colliding. They must be smaller than the Harrier. Thanks Grimes. Will run some tests before having 25 people on the mission lol.

Hi guys Just wanted to make sure that I can spawn my choppers on the Stennis or the Tarawa when they are moving (straight line, no turn) for an MP mission without triggering some disaster? Thanks.

Forget about this one. It's not usable really for precise slewing. I had to remove it and replace it with the https://deltasimelectronics.com/ one (form fit and function) that overcome the poor accuracy of the default one. For the Ka50, you should really use the hat on your main stick.

No. Can't do that in the mission editor for sure. Your only way is to have multiple joystick profiles that you can switch at a press of a button. A lot of joysticks or apps can support that.

Which ministick? The super sensitive one on the throttle?

I love when Fixed wingers suddenly realized that the party is over with choppers. :P :)

We have seen some nice improvements on the recent modules and I was wondering if this would make it to BS3. Improved damage model: not that the current one is bad but will there be more subtle consequences in the systems failures and physical damage taken from enemy fire? Rain drops: Wipers for the Ka50 cockpit and Shkval have always been functional (meaning they move when we are flipping the relevant switch). Any change, if we get the rain drops on both canopy and shkval to have functional wipers? Wake turbulences: now fixed wingers have wake turbulences, is ED looking at generating the downflow for us choppers (it's like wake turbulences pointing downward after all). I found always a bit disturbing in DCS that hovering right above another chopper doesn't have any consequences for the latter. Thanks!

Talking about the BlackShark 3 thread, am I missing something or it disappeared? EDIT: Found it. In the whishlist now.

Helicopters are generally speaking difficult to fly. More than any fixed wings. Actually a very good FW pilot will be a terrible RW one. You think the Spit was difficult to land? You have seen nothing. The Huey is the simplest of the RW modules system wise, with an excellent flight model. Good for beginners in RW.

Once you are playing MP on DCS, you are never coming back to SP. I haven't played a single SP mission for the last 9 or maybe 10 years.

FSSB R3 is great but you have to re learn how to fly from scratch once you use it.