DmitriKozlowsky

Cold Start procedure not working for me. So I have been cheating by using autoSTart just to get basic handling of UH-60L. Now I am moving on to proper cold start by hand. Checklist not quite working for me. I am using 1.2 checklist on kneepad. Gen No.1 ON Gen No.2 ON Air Source APU Console lighting switch Set as desired Battery ON APU Generator ON APU Control Switch ON (Was difficult to locate) At this point nothing happens. There is no APU whine. APU advisories. Check. ?????? What am I looking for? Cockpit is dark. AHRS Alignment Check ?????? Cockpit and center console are dark. What am I looking for? Tail Wheel Lock OFF GPS Mode ????? Cockpit and center console are dark. What am I looking for? Stabiiator control ON FPS ?????? Cockpit and center console are dark. What am I looking for? Trim ON ?????????????? Cockpit and center console are dark. SAS 2 ???????????? center console are dark. SAS 1 same as SAS 2. Dark BOOST ON Is that Fuel Pump APU Boost switch ? Stabilator Down. Problem. It does not stay down. Probably related to dark cockpit, Fuel Selectors DIR. The two large white ball selectors Engine 2 Starter Press for on1 second. NOTHING HAPPENS. Everything is dark and quiet. At this point I stop manual start up, as it is not working me, per 1.2 Checklist After three attempts with same negative results. I'd like to get an opinion as to what is going on.

Has anyone made Marine VH-60 WhiteHawk Presidential/VIP VHX squadron livery.

I find slope landing in UH-60 most difficult of DCS: Helicopters I have. I got KA-50 2.0, Gazelle, UH-1H. Trial on Hind ended, and I am waiting for Apache to be more developed. UH-60L , in my hands at least, is prone to uncommanded and arrest resistant dynamic roll. Sadly, like other DCS: helicopters, a rotor blade strike with ground or object does not result in catastrophic destruction of rotor hub and severe damage to helicopter. Only the rotor and the hub are damaged. Unrealistic behavior of damage model. Also in DCS wind simulation is simple on nonexistent on terrain pinnacles, and around large structures.

Got it done finally! First successful slope landing in confined area, with stable hold. Can't say I can recreate it every time safely. But its a step. Trk shows landing near hotel on slope in Guam. Confined urban area, slope landing. VFR. UH60L_confinedArea_slope_landing_takeOffr.trk

I was reading account of rescue of Cpt. Scott Grady, USAF in 1995. His F-16 ate an SA-6 over Bosnia or Serbia, and he ejected. Anyhow the rescue ship, a Marine MH-53E, piloted by a Marine Colonel. At LZ, after two escorting AH-1W established a perimeter, pilot brought the huge helicopter to hover from fwd flight by standing the MH-53 on its tail then bringing it to zero speed hover prior to touching down. I was trying to see how that maneuver would work in UH-60L. Keep in mind that RW MH-60 has uprated engines and less restrictive control laws for its FCS over UH-60L/M.

So pulling a Cobra in UH-60L is death. At 60 knots fwd speed, zero collective while pulling cyclic back to stand the helicopter on its tail. Then a quick cyclic push fwd, to tip the nose fwd. About 1/2 half way between vertical and nose horizontal, apply collective. Either it works, or Blackhawk enter severe VRS, or nose up is not arrested and helicopter nose goes to 160 AOA, nearly flipping UH-60 on its back. It then stops responding to controls, and impacts the ground in that weird attitude. What can I say, I trying to 'Hollywood' fly the Blackhawk.

Well I found a point of difficulty for me in UH-60L. Slope landing and holding steady on slope for at least 30 seconds. Have a hard time doing it. Meaning I have yet to do it. Where landing on slope then holding helicopter steady on one front gear and tail wheel, with opposite side gear hanging in air. What happens to me is that I get into dynamic roll, usually into the slope side rotor, but sometime in outer slope side. It begins to dynamically roll, pivoting on gear. and opposite cyclic does not arrest dynamic roll. Also at times, dynamic roll is initiated by pedal input . Where centering the pedals and opposite cyclic does not arrest dynamic roll.

Helicoptering is all hands and feet flying. It took me months to learn to fly KA-50 including a coordinated turn. My first rotary sim. Two months to become profficient with UH-1H. UH-1H in DCS with 70% fuel, 2 X M134 miniguns and rocket pods, CANNOT hover. not enough power. To T/O I have to drag skids along ground until I reach some ETL, then after airborne. Do no slow down until fuel is burned off and M134 ammunition expended. Three weeks to learn to fly Gazelle , including hovering, ship landing, and autorot. For UH-60L, in ten minutes I was hovering. Way too easy. MI-24 I was suffering VRS and unarrested settling issues after third week. The Hind would just decide that it wants to land, regardless. I still have hovering issues in Hind. With 70% fuel , 4 Shturn missiles, and 2 X 32 rocket pods, I have a hard time hovering. Hind struggles with power. But with UH-60L . With 100% fuel and 4 tanks, thats a heavy helo. Yet it hovers IGE with 75% throttle.

This MOD is awfully easy to hover, and easy to avoid VRS, and settling with power. Even with 100% fuel and 4 tanks. Is the real UH-60L really that refined and powerful? Or is the mod maybe sacrifing realistic behavior. Otherwise its really cool mod. Hard to beleive that it is open source and free.

MI-28N Havoc is likely more compatible with NATO / 'Western' attack helicopter tactics of hiding the platform behind tree line, terrain mask, anything to prevent LOS. Becouse of its mast mounted sensor. MI-28N is most analogue of AH-64D, with Apache having more sophisticated sensors.MI-28N is heavier then AH-64D, due to crew cabin being more heavily protected, and Havoc gun system being heavier. Both use 30mm , but not compatible ammunition. Hind has no analogue in West, with maybe possible exception of special forces support MH-60 DAP Blackhawk. But those exist in small numbers assigned to US Army 160th SOAR (The Nightstalkers) . Hind using rocket salvoes in high speed strafe is more like USAF and USN A-1 Skyraider , in application adopted for very short or vertical landing ability of Hind. Given how vulnerable Hind's powerplant (engine , transmission, main rotor) to MANPADS, as shown in Soviet Afgan, and RuAF Ukr , campaigns, may not be the best way. Given RuAF losses of KA-52 fleet, may not be best use of KA-52 either.

Soldiers fight as they train. This is what Russian KA-52 crews train to, and that is what they doing. Using KA-52 as IL-2. Fly very low, and engage close-in with gun and rockets. Perhaps they do use stand off for guided weapons, footage of which Russian MOD would censor. Its also more compatible with propaganda war of showing heroism under fire , of RUssian helicopter crews fighting up close and personal.

Judging by KA-52 utilization. Extensive use in daylight combat with cannon and rocket attack strafe with ranges of few hundred meters against medium (BTR and BMP) targets, from low treetop altitude at high speed. Opposed to NATO tactics which prescribe standoff ranges or terrain mask when engaging targets. Attack cell of three , with probing attack by brave single ship to draw fire. Volunerable to MANPADS. High losses. ineffective MANPADS countermeasures. Probably becouse of combined IR/UV imaging. Losses to Stinger (US), Polish Piorun (higher effectiveness then FIM-92), and IGLA-2 family. But survivable to the crew. Two airframes on ground, heavily damaged, but ejection system not used by crew. Cabin relatively intact, including glass cockpit elements. Likely volunerable to AAA but appears that majority of losses is due to MANPADS. Not seen , at least by me, in footage, as team with MI-24/35 family. Which I find surprising. I thought that KA-52 would be used as scout and target finder for Hinds. Actual combat livery is gray green Russian Army style, not dark grey RuAF.

So going through start up tutorial there are two funny items in how turotial was designed, and a bad joke on take off. On start up, it turns out that I am unable to tell if the mask hoses are properly plug-ind, because up or down, open or closed, I cannot tell the difference. As highlight remains on either way. Same thing for oxygen rotary to the left. The bad joke, is that according to A1A , take off is hands off the pitch. The aircraft will lift itself off at 180 knots. Well that does not happen in training mission, the aircraft rolls on runway until tires blow. Of course it takes off fine, if stick is pulled back between 160 and 180 knots. But the manual is misinformed.

Well the smoke trail is a double edged sword. Assuming a WVR daylight, offensive pilot can see if his heater is tracking target. Aiding in a snap decision to break off and search for threats and targets, or to continue the fight. I think its an intentional design feature.

Yes, I was refering to SD-10 I was going off R-13M in MIG-21bis module. Looks and performs like AIM-9P. I thought that in DCS it is an AIM-9P with slightly altered textures. But PK is same depending on range and aspect, in DCS. SO I am thinking that from DCS POV, PL-5 is effectively AIM-9M. If I think that target is within 9M envelope, I figure it is in PL-5EII envelope.

For purposes of DCS. So PL-5 is just AIM-9M with white textures. Right? PL-10 is either AIM-7MF or AIM-120B?

What is MagicII DDM? How is it different from Magic2 missile. Also I do not like the new scheme for loading chaff and flares. Why are these loads so small?

Well, don't keep to yourself. Tell us what its like. How is it?

Varied terrain would be a blast. Do a Mach Loop 100 times, and it gets boring. Man needs variety.

C-RAM would be worthwhile addition to DCS. As C-RAM is just a Phalanx CIWS mounted on truck flat bed. M163 Vulcan vehicle is long retired. IMHO Vulcan , C-RAM, and its Dutch 30MM GAU-8 based brother Goalkeeper are timeless weapons. I regret their retirement. I think that the only timeless weapon that outlasted Vulcan in ground applications is M2 BMG .50 caliber heavy MG. That weapon will never be retired. We used to that in 100 years US Army OrbitBorne (future airborne) and US Marines will be dropping on planets in this Solar system, from all sorts currently sci-fi'ish dropships, pods, STO aerospacecraft , will have railguns, lasers, and they will still bring Ma Deuce with them. Ghost Of John Browning.

When I was graduating and getting commissioned, I requested Armor, Military Intelligence, and Infantry as my top three branch desires. My eyesight disqualified me from Army Aviation branch. Not a single male cadet in my class requested Air Defense Artillery. ADA was seen by us, who qualified for combat branches, as less desirable then Combat 5 (Infantry, Armor, Field Artillery, Army Corps Of Engineers, and Aviation branches). ADA was classed as Combat Support branch along with Military Police. Both branches allowed female officers and enlisted to serve in direct combat billets, shooters, which Combat 5 did not. This was 1993. Air Defense was not seen as sufficiently high tech and exciting. They had Patriot, Avenger, and Guard units retiring Hawk. Wow! Egg on our faces. Now Air Defense is a prestige branch that is very selective, and they have highest tech in U.S. Army. Now Air Defense has THAAD, PAC3, modernized Avenger, light infantry MANPADS. Also Signal Corps became MIT of Army. All the Army braniacs are getting branched or MOS'ed into Signal Corps, as it picked up counter-Cyber, and Offensive Cyberoperations missions. Signal guys also operate Army's battlefield drones.

According to all knowing never wrong Internets, its an active program with systems replacing Patriot as NATO Corps level air defense. Uses two missiles. Iris-T interceptor and PAC3 MSE for long range and theater ABM (like Iskander) capability.

AFAIK , and I may be wrong, in DCS its all computed down to PK. Those new systems, S350, S400, MEADS, PAC-3 MSE, Sky Ceptre, NAASMS (which we got) have very high PK. ASRAAM, and IRIS-T, Python-5, AIm-9X Block2, Evolved SeaSparrow(naval Iris-T) are more or less have no escape zones . But I would ask DCS to make PK less then 90%. So there no more SEAD dance, from Hollywood. You have to use standoff weapons, pods, terrain masking approach, decoy drones are in now. SEAD now is more of sanitation work, then suppression, those enemy SAM's have to die, or your aircrews will. Not just accuracy their warheads are superefficient. Just analyzing that unfortunate MI-24 crew that got hit by Polish provided MANPADS, a tiny shoulder launched missile, and it destroyed armor around powerplants and trans, perforated and ignited fuel, separated hub from tran, and fire balled entire MI-24 even before it hit the ground. These Polish MANPDS have minimum range of 100 meters, to be usable against drones. THe missile is armed out of the tube. 100 meters is what we trained with rifles in BCT, and in my case, artillery officer qualification course.

BAE Sky Ceptre SAM from UK, German/US MEADS, US PAC-3 MSE Patriot. Polish MANPADS, HMMWV USHORTRAD SAM (Polish MANPADS) podded.

?????? What u talkin about? Its fine. Its a 7G airframe. Use Aleron limiter sparringly. Every aircraft has G and gross weight limit. Put bombs on F-5 wings, now its a 5.5 G limit. Two Sidewinders on tips, now its a 6.5G limit. External fuel tanks limit to 5 G when full. 6G when empty or they may detach and damage wing.