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Surprised you don’t fly with yaw channel in and MicroSwitch together, MicroSwitch doesn’t do anything without yaw channel on. Mi-24P pre hover “2.3.3. Príor to hovering, it is necessary………. - make sure that the autopilot is activated over the channels Roll, Pitch and Yaw and, if necessary, set the movable indices of these channels to the neutral position” 2.1.1 “* For the training purposes, flights with switched off autopilot are allowed;” Cold War Musuem manual “2-35 VUAP-1 Autopilot System The autopilot system is designed to stabilize control of the helicopter while taxiing, during takeoff, while hovering, in flight, and during landing. Under normal operating conditions, the yaw, pitch, and roll channels are engaged before beginning to taxi and remain engaged throughout the flight and landing. ” It is different then Mi-8 becuase of the extra mode in the yaw autopilot. In Mi-8, if microswitches pressed (represented in DCS as pedal movement more then 9%) then Yaw AP does nothing. If microswitches released (in DCS as pedal within 9% of center), then Yaw channel does heading hold with auto trim. But with Mi-24, you have an additional dampening mode that turns on when microswitches are pressed, that fights change in rate of movement. That means that while it may only be good for heading hold in Mi-8, it is more useful then for just straight and level flight in Mi-24. In addition you have the complexities of being able to turn off pedal damper, but it doesn’t seem that’s modeled in game except as a temporary yaw channel turn off. In DCS, you can turn on yaw AP after turning pedal damper off and still have same functions. Just not with so greatly limited pedal movement speed. In real life I believe turning off pedal damper should disable heading hold, and force dampening mode of autopilot to replace the physical hydraulic dampener in the pedal (that is disabled by the red guarded switch, and whose function is to limit forces on tailboom.) Its likely also there to fight dutch roll, both the physical pedal hydraulic dampener and the autopilot yaw dampener. This seems to actually be modeled in DCS quite well. Turning them all off really causes some more oscillations and gyrations once you’re heavy with the controls

Yes, by ATGM 5-8 I mean inboard stations

High Priority Target and SPT, secondary priority target. You will see them in any manual/guide discussing the air to air radar

Your wings are either shot off or you have an invalid Loadout. For example carrying ATGM 5-8 with S-5 pods make said ATGM not work.

The manual states that all three autopilot modes must be on before takeoff, only exception being allowed for training. As Miki said, there are switches in the pedal that detect foot pressure. They turn off heading hold and turn yaw AP into a dampener. This can make some flying and aiming smoother. When feet are released, heading hold is engaged. If heading changes more then 9 degrees, then the heading hold will auto trim your pedals to maintain heading. This is probably what’s messing you up Alai as Miki said, you need to either A. Fly with yaw AP off however unrealistic, dampening mode is barely noticeable in cruise anyway B. Bind the MicroSwitch button, and bind it to a switch or the off postion of a button. That way you can keep it in dampening mode and turn it to heading hold mode as you wish @molevitch put together some real life Mi-8 pedals and wired them to the sim. He said that in order to release the switches you have to very deliberately lift your foot from the pedal or use only the tip of your heel on the bottom. You can read Section 5 of my autopilot guide if you want more information

In DCS LUA. I’m sure there would be someone who doesn’t catch you mean that in terms of DCS.exe

Interesting, makes me feel better about not being able to notch. And the mod to add 3/9 lines to HSD wouldn’t help either

Admiki has their pedal toe brakes so that MicroSwitch is pressed when toe brakes aren’t pressed. And released when toe brakes pushed. That’s the best that can be done with current hardware to emulate the function. Everyone has different standards and feelings on what is realistic or immersion breaking. I personally have no problem putting a microswtich binding for the pedals on my throttle when I have no other options, but I understand not everyone is the same. I just make sure that when I use heading hold I don’t let it change heading 9 degrees. It would be great to have an option that says “never automatically trim pedals.” Anyways have fun. This thread was started by one of my squadron mates who didn’t realize that heading hold trimming pedals was re introduced after being gone a while. I would recomend if you want ED to see that this is desired post in the wishlist section and get people to reply

You don’t need to re trim coming out of heading hold if the displacement mode (heading changes more then 9 degrees in heading hold mode) is never activated. Basically, if you don’t change heading much in heading hold, you don’t need to re trim unless you set micro Switch as pedal trim. i just use switch in throttle and always leave it on. Hardly ever use heading hold mode

Yes, I was somewhat tongue in cheek as PGM in DCS is modeled as perfect accuracy. I should have mentioned so. I will test it’s accuracy though

I’ve just had to bind MicroSwitch to switch or button and always keep it on. Which is nice becuase I can turn it off when I want heading hold.

Okay, so you want the changes from the MFD buttons to gain/level be smaller for each step?

No greater then 15m and 35m CEP. Pretty larger then I expected, Atleast what’s advertised in the brochure

Yes, all I can say is that I have personally read Chinese publications that list “guided submunitions” as one of those carried munitions. I do not know the extent of Deka’s sources/references here.

Doesn’t seem to be along with some other radar features. I’m sure there is a good reason. It’s not unheard of that even unused stuff sometimes ends up in manuals in real life, then ends up in the sim and it’s assumed to work. Such as things that use modular components, or planned features that were never implemented

Hat switch? Isn’t there only MFD buttons? Or did you mean bound to HOTAS? I have always found it difficult to get the right exposure

It seems to fire S-5KO right now

Yes, China has their own SFW. Names and pictures of the specific model are hard to come by. There was a Chinese SFW called TSA, but I had heard they went with a more BLU-108 design.

Apparently the engine is what causes the spin, from bulgarianmilitary.com

No, I don’t think it is the same scenario. This isn’t a scientific test where two things were subjected to the same thing.

There is a very good reason that Israel can’t use Pythons on their wingtip rails for F-16A when they first started using them, and were forced to use up their AIM-9 stock until further upgrades of the F-16A were possible. Im pretty sure even in the past Uboats has said, the PL-8/9 is just too heavy for the wing tip pylon, so it’s not an option To quote Deka devs from a post long ago, “dreams are for when you sleep.”

Yes. It has to be a bug. But doesn’t seem to interfere with normal operation too much

Whenever I fire rockets I see them show up graphically and in text as S-5KO. Which should be good for 130km Vs RHA? Maybe the rockets were changed at some point….

Yep, turning 10 degrees is enough

Yeah it would be nice. They could also make a training video for it