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Yeah, this was almost as annoying, as the little, cheap, no radar, mounted on 50 years old platform SA-9 Gaskin that blew me out of the sky last night. In other words: totally unexpected....

"Funny" fact about TM Warthog and Customs I could not resist to share this with you.. Today I was about to receive the package containing my Thrustmaster Warthog device. I must say HATS DOWN to Thrustmaster guys as they have created something so real, that the Dubai Customs officer denied releasing the box. He said I was gonna plant the thing into something and go bomb the Taliban.... Ehh, what'ya know... :joystick: Now I am trying to figure how to convince the Dubai customs that the Warthog set is actually something built to be used for games (or not?)... Other well know fact making my life miserable is that worldwide the customs officers are also known as jar-heads. Pheu, another wasted day........:doh:

Excellent job Shu! Almost like the Jeppesen! Thank you very much for this release, it will make life over the battlefield much easier. I'll be cheking it out if I find anything I'll let you know. Cheers!

O boy, o boy, o boy... Last night I wasted few hours watching clips with A-10 straffing runs in Afganistan. I was kinda sad that the tremendous gatling gun roar is not implemented in the DCS simulation (yet). After seeing the work by diveplane, I am sure that GAU-8 will be my weapon of choice after the final release. The "Hog's" roar is just out if this worlds.... Great work diveplane, you rock man!

We must pay tribute to the Tomcat with a new "Fleet Defender" sim and the only developer with capacity to create a decent one is the DCS... Not to say that the access to the F-14 would be easier than the currently operating F-18E

Apparently as I was saying above you can. My update to what I wrote here is -you can land at the FARP or airport and have you helicopter changed (after engines shutdown) in about 3 minutes. After that time you just find yourself in the Cold and Dark cockpit of a new Black Shark. In MP you don't need to press any key combination. In SP I press RCtrl+RShift+Tab Usually I change the helicopter after I come back from the second turnaround... Another thing - you might want to rearm RIGHT after you land (before the helicopter gets changed), as there is a some sort of bug I guess - once I could not rearm after the heli change...

Hm..... fish in a barrel.... Sometimes I don't know who's the fish me or the ground units.... Especially those nasty SAM's spotting you 10km away while I'm hiding at 10 meters behind the ridge

Thanks for the excellent answers! Well, the above explains why the helicopter with blown tail is still controllable at 0 or low airspeed. And higher the speed worse the control and oscillations... At 250 km/h you end up constantly fighting with the controls :joystick:

Several times I've been hit by SAM and the tail section just gets blown away. The helicopter continues to fly and I still have YAW control (a bit degraded) with the rudder pedals despite (in outside view) the missing tail plate. So my question is - is it possible to maintain control of the yaw even though the rudder section is not there - e.g. having helicopter yaw control through the blades pitch mechanism? I know it sounds unrealistic but still with coaxial rotor helis many thins are possible. If not then is it just something that needs to be fixed in the next patch?

Greets guys! Any idea if I can get the russian voices file from alternative source? I'm getting only download errors from the rapidshare :(

What I did before purchasing one of these lovely Tir4s was I assigned head movement left/right to the joystick POV switch + modifier Alt... I worked fine for me to move the field of view (you don't do that often anyway) and click the blind spot

Well guys, whether it'a feature or bug - for me doesn't matter at all anymore. No matter what I do trying to save the life of the laser, after 2 and a half loads of Vikhrs the laser just goes mad. So my simple solution to that - I fly once - 12 Vikhrs, come back - rearm - that's another 12. On my second rearming I simply change the heli (RSh+RCtrl+Tab - engines off - parking brakes) and after full startup procedure I go again and with my new laser - blast whatever is left on the field .... Simple, easy - even gives time to go to the toilet and refresh. :thumbup: Useful - yes Realistic - why not.....

Well I've tried and got replacement only once - The heli had SOME battle damage (Shkval was gone + some holes). I landed exactly where I took off from (FARP). There was a full set of utility trucks at the FARP. Shut down and ground power was set. About 3 minutes later I got the chopper ready to fly in Cold & Dark state. Maybe there is relation between these factors and the replacement but that can be confirmed only by the ED guys.

I switch the laser before entering the battle zone (at the IP). Use the target designation only before firing the Vikhr. Try to minimize the use of the target designation function. After exiting battle zone I switch the laser off to cool it before the next use. With this policy of using the laser I manage to make 2 rearming before problems with the laser rangefinder occur (Usually by that time I have fired 28-30 Vikhrs). Yesterday after the laser malfunction happened again I flew back to FARP did complete shutdown and after a few minutes (3 or so) I got a new heli fresh out of the factory and laser ready to fight. So this solves our problem in some way.:smilewink:

Some guys were giving idea of changing the helicopter (land, wait 3 minutes, get the new one) is solving the not working rangefinder problem, however if this is included in the groung crew maintenance routine would be more realistic. Maybe this should be considered in the patch??

I know.... I'm just joking.. Of course ED will not put something which is not there anyway and I would not feel that is real at the end of the day, I just wanna share that I'm a bit frustrated that the russian military are not developing that amazing craft to it's final touches so that it becomes really the best of it's kind. It's has nothing to do with ED; it's the Rus Defense ministry :music_whistling:

Oh come on... we don't have FLIR and RWR now you want to downgrade the HUD :cry:

By the way that GARMIN antenna you can see even on your own virtual KA-50.... It's there on the top of the tail boom. You can even read garmin.. But I'm still interested in the real purpose of the new "eyes" and why we don't have it?... :cry:

As I was told we should speak to the Russian army for the FLIRs :smilewink:

A realistic CB with realistic air movements and hail and lightnings and all the fun :joystick: MUAHAHA (the real Kamovs are having day off I suppose)

Well why do you need delay 7 when you have only one sequence of 4 :smilewink: I use 3-4-3 / 4-4-3 but if I don't bank hard together with that and I don't have enough airspeed to get me out of there I'm getting BOOM very close.

Then appears you don't need RWR... Hey DCS I want my MAWS! :D (and my FLIR)

And MAWS stands for..... ??? ......

Unified MOD installer 1.1 at AAA I'll check it out bud!.. Thanks a million

And by the way I would like to ask what is that "New Secret Stuff" on the nose of the real Ka-50??.. Check that out... Board "Yellow 25" has it... The new set of eyes for the shark I guess :smilewink: