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Yes, for example 5 happens becuase the auto start starts the helicopter with no yaw AP. So it can go into heading hold and auto trim you 3 is becuase the tail rotor is very high up and causes a lot of roll coupling as tail rotor pitch changes. You will need right cyclic with right pedal and left cyclic with left pedal 2. everything is fine but change “disable by setting pedals to nuetral” for microswtich logic. It doesn’t really work well in any situation. Do what Miki/Mole said, either set to MicroSwitch off and have a button/switch Hold down MicroSwitch until heading hold is desired. Or just keep yaw AP off until you want heading hold and turn off after As for dead zones, that is personal preference but be as small as possible.

It is not possible with in game Mi-24P becuase of the ASO-2V. The reason the Ukrainian examples differ is that some are not updated with new countermeasures. Some of their P models it seems are very close to what we have in DCS. However they also make and operate Mi-24PU1, an upgrade that changes many aspects of the helicopter including the counter measure system, allowing more flexibility that you see in such flare bursts PU2 is even more advanced, but only one is delivered apparently

Number 3 is not a bug or issue. What happened is the periscope/nose gear hit the ground where there isn’t a tire and is now damaged. You will see it happen if you land without gear, do a afghan take off and pitch forward too aggressive or just hit something during taxi. Perhaps graphically it could be upgraded. But if you take care of it shouldn’t happen

Are you sure? The Loadout chart posted shows that inner most pylons only carry PL-5. So if we take outboard tanks, and take PL-11/Aspide, you might be stuck with PL-5 only instead of PL-8

In D/V/VP the pilot can fire the gun, but only fixed to boresight. So obviously, it is a downgrade in firepower compared to a 30mm gun with 940 m/s speed and 2450 rpm

There is a modifier to make it so that from front aspect the detection range is smaller. But depends. As with JF-17 and Mirage 2000 third parties have coded their own implementation with more sophisticated and variable RCS models

The real Mi-24, when yaw AP is on and microswitches on pedals released, will use the hydraulic cylcinder in the pedals to move them to 100% of their authority, only after the 18% of the AP authority is used up. Feet on the pedals/switches pressed, it will be in dampening and only fight changes in rate of movement. Real Mi-24 does this, but it is not as invisible in DCS as it is in real life when we don’t have buttons on our pedals Resetting trim will also work with Yaw AP on as long as microswitches are pressed and YAW AP in dampening mode

Your yaw autopilot is in heading hold and auto trimming your axis to maintain heading. There are lots of threads on this and I have written everything you need on this in my autopilot guide https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gAQcRMO6SqMA6LyrbLr5wnMhboVJASV_/view?usp=drivesdk To fix it you need to either turn off the Yaw autopilot channel, or have your MicroSwitch on so that the yaw channel is in dampening mode rather then heading hold. You can do this by having your pedals deflected from center a certain amount like in Mi-8 (but does not work as well becuase of the tail changing the center point throughout flight, and the speed of auto trimming being much faster), or by having the “Y” keyboard button which is bound to the MicroSwitch, which are switches in the pedals that when pressed by the feet make yaw autopilot stop holding heading and trimming you and only make the yaw autopilot dampen you. The part you want to read is Section B Part 1 and 2. I also wrote a weapons guide that explains peculiarities of the weapon system and certian weapons and how to best employ them. I tried to make it avoid procedures you can find easily in chucks guide or tutorials, and focus on best employment tactics. https://forum.dcs.world/topic/294627-personal-mi-24p-autopilot-and-weapons-guides/

Yes Gyro will give you errors. I have read that part of the Mi-17 manual and while similar the units are slightly different. Mi-8/17 uses GA-6, Mi-24 uses GA-8 and along with KM-2 and PU-38 appears to be a slightly more mature system. One difference appears to be that while Mi-8/17 manuals, including DCS say to initialize in MK and switch to gyro before take off, Mi-24 manuals say to only keep it in MK unless flying at high latitude or near anomaly. To me that seems like a clear operational difference coming from the differences between the older compass system of the Mi-8/17, and the more mature GA-8 and Greben system of Mi-24 Another difference for example, the error of the system in gyro mode is +/-1 degree in gyro mode in good conditions. There is also an English translated section that mentions both gyro and MK mode can be used for normal operations, but if you follow procedure you stick with MK

Odd, I’m able to repair all the time with throttle all the way up, but fuel shut off always down

Which part of which manual? The South American and Soviet manuals I have only mention using MH/MK mode and syncing/matching when starting up and making sure it aligns with take off heading. Emergency procedures also only mention MH mode. I have a Mi-35M manual I obviously can’t share, it uses identical Greben and KM-2 system. For start up it also says to set to MH mode and slave and leave it there, but has an additional note I will quote from Section 1.11.14 in case you have it “Note: the mode DG should be used at flights in the northern and southern latitudes over the magnetic anomaly zones.” Which makes it sound to me it’s more of a backup mode when magnetic correction would only increase errors

APU often takes many minutes to fully shut down. APU and engines must be at 0% RPM. If engines on or door closed, turn ICS/radio switch on SPU-8 intercom to ICS so ground crew hears you

1. Best accuracy is always keeping it in MAG position, as that enables magnetic update. GYRO position is for flights in high latitudes or over magnetic anomalies. Gyro position will accumulate a few degrees of error every hour For example, real life manual tells you to always use MAG unless above 80 degrees latitude or large magnetic anomalies are known 2. no, you are not moving many latitudes during a single flight Petro will always set KM-2 to proper declination so your HSI will always be in true heading Sync has no effect it seems unless in Gyro mode on which case it quickly aligns it I believe

Supersonic speed is around 350 m/s. Your bullets leave the barrel at Mach 2.7. So I think it’s going to be a while before they slow down that much. The Gsh-23 has a 715 m/s speed, and in ED LUA also lasts 6 seconds before self destruct. They have 5.6 mil dispersion. By comparison Gsh-30-2K is 4 mil dispersion. It would be great if dispersion was increased based on the platform, but the SPU-22 is only one axis. So similar to Ka-50 with it’s limited mount I would think would be pretty accurate. By comparison I don’t know if the Apache incorporates some dispersion from the turret mount, but it’s LUA shows it being just as accurate as the Gsh-30-2K and the other Soviet 30mm

What ranges? Sight maxes out at 3.5 km. Bullets go 940 m/s. If they don’t slow down that’s almost 6 km travel for the 6 second lifetime of the bullet self destruct fuse. They would have to alien to an average of 583 m/s to go 3.5 Km In less then 6 seconds. But I will admit that with the high rate, sometimes I have often been able to hit stuff by firing long huge bursts 3 km away I read a source once that said the tracer should only last 2 seconds. And that Ka-50s had special ammo with slightly less explosive and a longer 6 second tracer. If the tracer was changed to 2 seconds, would be interesting for those 2 Km shots

The camera attaches to the ASP-17V, so it’s not in the DCS module

The recoil compensation works pretty well but can only move the yaw axis so fast. It’s slow speed of movement makes it not “perfect” even if it has enough total authority. I know a lot of people just intentionally stab a lot of left pedal while firing to help it. I find that firing in high rate at short bursts helps, becuase the high rate makes it correct the most, and many short bursts reduces the effect of the recoil and also gives the rudder/anti-torque time to correct. IMO, it is only reasonable to expect your hits to not be affected by recoil when fully locked with Shkval.

In the past I have heard it planned to fully flesh this feature out. But this is the first I hear of SA map having both zoom levels? I find that very surprising

It would be one of the last things they have yet to fully complete on Mi-24. Adding these features I think would be a very valuable feature for situational awareness and threat sorting. If ED can properly get down how signal frequency will shift will range. Maybe even use the same data they use for signal strength indication for SPO-15 to have it so that different radars will cause 1-6 hz beeps at different ranges and cause all 4 lights to turn on at different ranges (currrently seems to be hard coded at 5 km for most units.)

It reports hit, but not miss

The speculation has ended for long time now. PAF has never said they will add HMD to block 1/2. And is it even the same HMD as the one tested in Chengdu that Deka coded and had access to? Uboats has said they haven’t added it becuase it’s not realistic until PAF does retrofit, which has never been confirmed to be planned by PAF

Things haven’t changed. Yaw damper off forces yaw channel off, but not forcing it into stabilization/matching/dampening mode and turning off heading hold and auto trimming

The collective clutch increases the hydraulic pressure on the collective when a button in the collective is released. You pressed the white button at the collective and the clutch disengages allowing you to freely move the collective with less pressure. In game this is modeled as either the clutch not stopping you at all, or needing to press clutch to move collective (see special options). A lot of helicopters, including the Hind; also incorporate the collective clutch in the AP system. In the hind it disengages the altitude channel when clutch is released. It should re engage when clutch is re engaged

S-8OFP2 has biggest warhead and fragmentation. They are just heaviest.