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The top chart is very symmetrical weapon loading, for S-24 compatibility for example, go from S-24 vertically/horizontally (to it choice) until it intersects with the weapon you desire to load it with. For example where S-24 and GUV intersect, it says in orange “Only GUV.” You can notice that, GUV pods only work with other GUV pods. They are not compatible with anything else on the 5 main pylons. The outer wingtip pylons that are only for ATGM are compatible with anything, loadout restrictions only apply to pylons 1-4 that are hanging under the wing. UB-32 and bombs have similar restrictions, becuase UB pods use a bomb rack. This is why S-8 pods have less restrictions. S-13 doesn’t work with anything You can branch out from pre set loadout to a certain degree, but you will need to be aware of these restrictions These charts are from the English quick start guide, and there is an English translation of the Russian guide on user files that has some more information also

Sure of course. Honored to have someone with your experience here. Hopefully giving the trigger conditions for the most common ones above helps. Usually those “check electrical panel (rotor rpm below 88%)” and the “lower gear (IAS below 70 kmh and below set limit radar altitude)” When you first turn it on the sound you hear is usually the hydraulic low pressure alarm. And Atleast with the fire alarms, you have a panel telling you exactly what’s on fire atleast. Sometimes I like to turn my tank 1/2 pumps on/off at shutdown just to hear the audio warning for it or jiggle the controls to hear low hydraulic pressure alarm I’m sure there will be a English option eventually Sometimes I also put the Russian translation into google and hear the TTS of it, so I can more easily recognize the alarm when it comes on

We you can piece together the important/common ones, the ones for oil pressure/metal chips/vibration never happens usually If rotor rpm is at 88% or below: “attention to electrical system panel” If below 70 kmh IAS, under set limit altitude of radar altitude, and gear is up: “lower gear” warning plays If below 240 L in tanks 1/2: “low fuel (toplivo) remaining” If tank 1/2 pumps are turned off/fail: “service tank pump failure” If test button is pressed: “audio warning system operational” If fire” fire aboard helicopter number (bort), attention to annunciator,” then you get warning for specific component that is on fire also Hydraulic system below certain pressure, can be triggered by moving controls after shutdown: “main/aux hydraulic system failure” Here is a possibly incomplete list: FIRE ABOARD HELICOPTER No... ATTENTION TO ANNUNCIATORS (БОРТ N.... ПОЖАР. ВНИМАНИЕ НА ТАБЛО); DANGEROUS VIBRATION OF LEFT ENGINE (ОПАСНАЯ ВИБРАЦИЯ ЛЕВОГО ДВИГАТЕЛЯ); DANGEROUS VIBRATION OF RIGHT ENGINE (ОПАСНАЯ ВИБРАЦИЯ ПРАВОГО ДВИГАТЕЛЯ); MAIN HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FAILED (ОТКАЗАЛА ОСНОВНАЯ ГИДРОСИСТЕМА) AUXILIARY HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FAILURE (ОТКАЗАЛА ДУБЛИРУЮЩАЯ ГИДРОСИСТЕМА); EMERGENCY FUEL RESERVE (АВАРИЙНЫЙ ОСТАТОК ТОПЛИВА); LOW OIL PRESSURE IN GEARBOX (МАЛО ДАВЛЕНИЕ МАСЛА В РЕДУКТОРЕ); SERVICE TANK PUMP FAILURE. CHECK FUEL RESERVE (ОТКАЗАЛ НАСОС РАСХОДНОГО БАКА. ПРОВЕРЬ ОСТАТОК ТОПЛИВА); AUXILIARY SYSTEM OPERATES (ДУБЛИРУЮЩАЯ ГИДРОСИСТЕМА РАБОТАЕТ); LEFT ENGINE FIRE (ПОЖАР В ОТСЕКЕ ЛЕВОГО ДВИГАТЕЛЯ); RIGHT ENGINE FIRE (ПОЖАР В ОТСЕКЕ ПРАВОГО ДВИГАТЕЛЯ); FIRE IN MAIN GEARBOX COMPARTMENT (ПОЖАР В ОТСЕКЕ ГЛАВНОГО РЕДУКТОРА): FIRE IN COMPARTMENT OF APU AND TANK No.3. (ПОЖАР В ОТСЕКЕ АИ-9В, БАКА Ne 3); LOW OIL PRESS. LEFT ENGINE (ДАВЛЕНИЕ МАСЛА МАЛО. ЛЕВЫЙ ДВИГАТЕЛЬ ); LOW OIL PRESS. RIGHT ENGINE (ДАВЛЕНИЕ МАСЛА МАЛО. ПРАВЫЙ ДВИГАТЕЛЬ); CHIPS IN LEFT ENGINE OIL (СТРУЖКА В МАСЛЕ ЛЕВОГО ДВИГАТЕЛЯ); CHIPS IN RIGHT ENGINE OIL (СТРУЖКА В МАСЛЕ ПРАВОГО ДВИГАТЕЛЯ): CHIPS IN TRANSM OIL (СТРУЖКА В МАСЛЕ ТРАНСМИССИИ); ATTENTION TO ELECTRIC SYSTEMS PANEL (ВНИМАНИЕ НА ПУЛЬТ ЭЛЕКТРОСИСТЕМ): REPORTING SYSTEM IS OK (РЕЧЕВОЙ ИНФОРМАТОР ИСПРАВЕН).

We have a few threads for it already https://forum.dcs.world/topic/335694-29-peterovich-ai-cannot-correctly-identify-the-target/#comment-5313474 https://forum.dcs.world/topic/335780-mi-24-petrovich-ai-spotting-and-aiming-problems/#comment-5313450

Why wouldn’t the East Germans use it? I don’t have a list of every Ri-65 audio warning in Russian. But I have the full list in English/Spanish

I’m sure it will be tuned and that the developers appreciate the feedback

I suspected as much. I usually keep the Petro reticle on a lot, it’s annoying to need to turn to avoid AAA after a ATGM hits but then realize you’re short down is by closing the periscope

Are you on server that has it activated? Many deactivate it in favor of SRS

You are using short right to select a target?

I think the delay for ID is great, I don’t think it should stop Petro from ID anymore than it used to. I just think it needs some tweaking, like adding a curve to it. Maybe in areas with some clutter/trees/dead units the ID only takes slightly longer than usual, but then in like cities/forests we get the full 10 seconds or so to scan everything. Im pretty sure they are using the ground radar API to identify the number of cluttter

I request a mod to merge this thread with this one If we want developers to tweak it and make it more realities AND fun, let’s put all our feedback in one place @BIGNEWY

Updated AP guide with control laws/gear ratios of autopilot at the end. This way you exactly know what autopilot will do and when in precise amounts. I got these from translating the avionics maintenance manual, the AP performance in attitude hold/dampening/compensation can be adjusted by maintenance, but usually kept near these values with a 20% margin of error or so.

Yeah, it’s very weak. Sometimes I’ll just look at my left knee and move my stick in the direction the roll channel is pointing when in route mode to help it, or increase bank from the set 15 degree limit in route mode. According to manual it’s expected to have a course deviation of up to 5 degrees with it, or Atleast it says it’s working “properly” if within that error. It would be amazing to ask a real pilot how well it worked in reality. I would assume that doppler would be causing it to snake around a bit as gusts and imperfections in doppler reception happen That being said, its deflection for every degree from selected course is surprisingly low. I just did a test, on a course of 000, I have to set a course to +/-7 degrees from my current course to have the roll channel deflect 100% in route mode. Perhaps that’s why it says in the manual to expect a possible +/-5 degree deviation, becuase within +/-6-7 degrees of set course, route mode causes the roll channel to to stop giving full deflection and come closer to neutral.

Yes, that a believable scenario. I’m sure there are flap designs out there that don’t behave like this, but if it’s a simple barn door flap I’m pretty sure this applies pretty universally

Hey I watched the track and flew myself. Not sure what you were seeing. When you flew heading 006, the roll channel was giving left output trying to get you back to heading 000. You also had 2 degrees of left drift at the time so the deflection was small. After trimming and returning to 000, the roll channel Now went close to 0, as when the roll channel is neutral is when route mode is telling you “on desired heading per route mode.” I think you were overpowering it when you were at 006. After the trim press the stick was slightly deflected more towards the left than before pressing trim. In such a case; the manual recommends using the trim hat until roll channel is center. I have pictures but they are too big too send, but you can see it by seeing the roll channel deflection after pressing route and how the stick position changes after trim I think that’s caused by the autopilot only using proportional/integrative functions and not derivative. If it had derivative, it would know to give more deflection if it wasn’t on the selected heading. But with just proportional and/or integrative functions, it only knows to give output proportional to distance from selected heading/attitude (proportional), and to fight changes in angular rate over time (integrative)

Flaps actually decrease max AOA of the wing before stall. They just increase lift dramatically before that earlier stall. Many modules model this in DCS so expect so in MiG-29 If your slip ball moves to the side, push rudder in direction of the slip ball

Only switch on lower left of sight is needed in up position, that turns on CCIP and seeing where operator looks. The top one/one above it isn’t needed though, it’s for moving targets and isn’t modeled You also don’t need to keep the target in the HUD. The periscope can guide missiles 15 degrees up, 20 degrees down, and 60 degrees to each side. To warn you when turning after launch a warning light “LIMIT MANUEVER” turns on at 55 degrees from missile location to tell you you have 5 degrees of azimuth left But with how fast the missile is and low flight time, you can’t really use the full +/-60 degree range unless you are very slow and turning at max 20-25 degrees bank

I have no issue avoiding IR SAMs. Sometimes all the flares in the world won’t help you but you can do pretty well with your 192 flares. Radar/SACLOS stuff is where you are usually out ranged and need to be more careful. Avenger/Strela/Stinger/Igla is a perfect opponent for it.

I find that surprising. My hit rate is closer to 90-95%. But I rarely turn with more then 5-10 degrees of bank while I have a missile out, and this is mostly on flat ground

Had a front seater mess with my fuel gauge with DCS BIOS bindings, should work

I think this could also help people realize it’s possible to break the Raduga

You press “down short” to tell AI to close the sight. Then “up short” again to open it, which takes a 10 second time to spin up gyros again If gyros are broken, you can fix it by turning off ATGM missile system for 3.5 minutes, and then turning it back on and waiting 3.5 minutes, for a total of 7 minutes

Well, Petro AI display should be beige when powered up. As other poster said you might need to warm up weapons if you haven’t, or if you have it takes 3.5 minutes. If in free fire, it should be green

Have you done the tutorial or read chucks guide/manual? Petro will guide a missile fine, but in order to fire that missile (get launch authority) you have to center the target on by our boresight to within 1 degree. You will hear a tone when this happens. As soon as the missile is fired you can turn to +/-60 degrees as long as bank isn’t larger than 24-30 degrees…. This is long but seeing it in action might help CPG guided missile, just can’t fire until you point nose at target, becuase the missile has to fire in the same direction the periscope/radar director is looking so it doesn’t have to make a big maneuver and is easily seen by the periscope/radar for guidance Think of it as an early heat seeker thar can be caged. It is fire and forget, but you have to point your nose at the target first……

It should be most similar to the Mirage 2000 site. I also think the 2.5 degree down angle helps make the experience painful as not only can you not pull much G, but anytime you roll towards a target the gun points the opposite direction……