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  1. Just started flying the Huey again and during a night flight I notice the search light was odd. I landed and checked it out from an external view and the fuctions are reversed. The search light functions are acting on the landing light and the landing light fuctions are acting on the search light. This may be because the two lights have been mis-labeled in the past. The original manual I have didn't show the lights labeled in the model views. Chuck's 2017 and 2021 guides show the search light at the front of the fuselage labeled as the landing light, and the landing light in the middle of the fuselage bottom as the search light. The bottom light has the search light features like panning right and left. A review of the TM diagram will show that the search light is the light at the front of the fuselage and the landing light is on the bottom. Logically, the pilot would want the search light in front scanning where he is headed, and the crew chief uses the landing light to illuminate the area below the helicopter so that he can give the pilot guidance away from tree stumps, big rocks, and trucks, etc. Also, the extend and retract buttons should stop movement when button is released as that is the method for setting the forward/downward angle of the light. And Chuck might have been aware of this but marked the image to correspond to the way the sim handles these functions.
  2. I'm late to this conversation, but I agree with markturner1960. It appears that you have the cyclic set as button presses and not on an axis. If your anti-torque pedals are also set as button presses that may be your problem. Select the Axis category and calibrate your controls on an axis and not button presses. I would imagine that those button presses are a single press and not continuous.
  3. Search Grey Dashboard Option. The thread tells you how to change the grey for black and vice versa (one is for the civil version the other for military versions). How did you get olive drab?
  4. Something inexpensive and easy to install: If you can live with a little play in the swiveling you could put a cable tie around the base of that horizontal adjustment arm on the right of the photo, and one around the leg. Then connect them with a snap link (carabiner). If that's still too much play trying adding another on the other side if the adjustment arm on that side has a horizontal portion to loop it over. Add another cable tie if you need more height. If that seat isn't used in its full down position, you can lower the seat to give you slack in the cable ties and let you unhook the snap link. I had the caster roll back problem but couldn't replace my casters as they are slightly larger than the more common ones. I tried carpet but it still pushed back when applying the toe brakes. Taking the casters off didn't work on mine as the center shaft extended below the bottom of the legs. I would have been worried about tearing up the floor as well as the difficulty sliding it back to get out. I tried a wood frame temporarily connected to my desk legs with U-clamps, with a cross member that I would drop the two front casters over. That worked but it was a bitch to roll it back to get out. I had to lift my butt off the seat and pick up the front end and push it over the wood cross member. I finally ended up with a cockpit frame with a seat and only use my office chair at my desk. I run the monitor on my cockpit and the monitor on my office desk from the same computer. I use a wireless keyboard and mouse for both linked to the same dongle.
  5. Did you update the firmware first? That note on the end of the joystick info "Version not Supported" indicates the firmware is not current. Start with that and see if the red turns to yellow.
  6. I got a lot from this video: At 0:14 as he approaches the road he is flaring fairly high and further back from the landing spot. He holds that flare until almost touchdown. After years of RL and Sim flying of fixed wing I learned to flare close to the runway to avoid a flare too high and dropping in, or worse stalling and spinning in. I started trying this approach of setting up the flare earlier and holding it and it improved my landings. It also let me concentrate on the other two controls. But, your mileage may vary.
  7. I second the MFG Crosswinds. Solid construction, great design, and many options for adjustments through cams and springs.
  8. Since this happened after an update, did you check to see if two keys got assigned to Idle Stop Release? Half the time I have a control problem I find that two keys have gotten assigned the same function.
  9. Sorry, didn't mean to insult your intelligence. I was pointing that information out to the two responses you received about the manual.
  10. It's in the manual, page 9. Axis-2-Button.
  11. Drendel, Huey says first was "delivered" to the US Army in September 1967, and production ran through July 1982. Bishop, Bell UH-1 Huey "Slicks" 1962-75 says the civilian model 205A was first flown in 1963. and, UH-1H Huey in action says the "H" program was started on April 4, 1966. Couldn't find an exact start of production date.
  12. In DCS World you have to delete any communication keyboard commands that are assigned to the controller button you plan to use for PTT. Example: if you have Comm (\) assigned to the trigger button on your joystick, and you want to use that button for your PTT, you have to make sure nothing is assigned in DCS. Then assign the PTT to your joystick button in Voice Attack (not Vaicom) from the Options menu under the Configuration tab.
  13. On the throttle base and you can see four steel bearings with set screws. Loosen the set screws, move the throttle to where you want it and tighten the screw back up. You can have two detents per throttle. This thread is specific to the problems of wear on the detent plate. You need to post these questions in a new post or find one already inquiring about the detents (there are some already).
  14. Open the Profile Edit page and look under Configuration. Does it show Open Configuration Window and the keystrokes to activate that, or has something been disabled or deleted?
  15. You can change the livery (skin) file to the grey panel. Here's a thread describing how to change the lua in the skin's livery file: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=192940&highlight=escaner
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