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yup, the x45 has a rocker rudder on it, its not twistable, for twistable you need to go up to the x52.

I have heard the EXACT same thing where the nose wheel gear collapsed and the gear sound looped constantly.

No, it wont auto lock onto targets, basically all it does it move the shkval left and right for you at the speed setting you choose, if you notice anything then you have to manually stop the shkval moving and then manually select the target. I dont use the auto scan much myself, but its there if you want to use it.

For the slowing down the shkval slew, I think he means the auto scan speed which is adjustable via the rotating knob on the right hand panel, not sure if he means slowing it down by editing one of the files ???? But it only works when the shkval is auto scanning, i.e pushing O twice.

Actually, its common for aircraft in real life to have their AP bullets bounce back towards them if they fire at certain angles/AoA when attacking ground targets. So the AP bouncing off objects in the game would be very realistic.

AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA a Plane and a lady shave, I wonder if he threw in some sand paper aswell :p

Well, I wouldnt trust a pair to save my future kids from being born with 5 eyes and 8 arms and legs, thats one thing for sure :)

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/05/undies_that_protect_family_jewels.html :lol:

if it doesnt goto plan then i will know something is up, but I am writing down all of what you said in your last post about what the datalink commands actually make the wingman do, so once i write them down I can then check them ingame to see if they are doing what they are sposed to do correctly. If they dont, then I will comeback and tell you what went wrong and post the mission also for you to try, if it all goes the way it should, then you will get hugs and kisses instead, well, you will get the hugs part ;)

Cool, thanks for explaining it to me slug ;) I shall go and try that same mission again and see if he does the same thing with this new info I have from yourself. Maybe it was my mistake, maybe it wasnt, it was nearly 48 hours ago and I cant quite recall, all I can remember is having the target locked up us a DL target on my helo, then sent to my wingman but he never attacked the correct one, but that could be because I was expecting the wingman to attack that SPECIFIC target, but with what you are saying, that isnt what he is supposed to do anyway with regards to the radio commands. So I shall go test and see what comes of it and report back, hopefully all goes well. Cheers slug ;)

If thats the case and I have to select armour, then what is the reason for engage/datalinked target/ target - targets/target type or target types ? because Armour isnt in any of the data link radio commands. If I have to select armour, then it makes the "datalink target" radio message null invoid, because I am assuming this, but when I add a target to the abris map via the datalink, it must know my co-ordinates and also the coordinates of the laser target, when I send those to my wingman, it should then tell him precisely where that target is and either tell him its a vehicle or a sam/aaa or other, now as I said before I am assuming this. So if I am correct in my assumptions, then why do I have to tell him its armour instead of asking him to go after the specified data link target, afterall, the way I am doing it is the way it says to in the manual and it wasnt like the targets were next to each other, their was about 1k distance between them. If I send him a target to go after, then he has the co-ordinates to kill that target unless it moves, but these targets were all stationary, well thats the way I see it anyway. Basically, if I send a target to my wingman and then ask him via the datalink commands to attack it, which is the correct procedure, then he should of attacked that target, but he didnt, not in that mission. Dont get me wrong, the wingman does do it and does follow orders, but just in this particular flight he didnt. I will put it down to a corrupt flight, but I will remake the mission from the ground up and try again with the same parameters and see if he targets them without turning a good 60 degrees to fire at another target thats atleast 1km away. EDIT: Now I come to think of it, when I selected Target type in the datalink commands, wasnt their supposed to be a list of target types that would popup for me to select ? I seem to recall that from before the patch ??? if thats the case, then I dont have it now, when selecting target type/types the radio message screen then dissappears. Can some one tell me if when selecting the datalink radio messages, if they select TARGET TYPE or TARGET TYPES, is their a another menu that popups with the different types of targets ? if their is, that would maybe explain why he wasnt attacking the proper targets ? If its missing from my game then it means I will have to do a reinstall :( not looking forward to that.

CRT Tv's and Monitors give off very light background radiation, whether it is detectable and can affect the health of humans is debatable, but all CRT tv's and monitors release radiation to some degree or another, newer sets are much more safer, read, release less amounts of the stuff than sets from the 50s upto the 70s, but they still release different types of radiation to some degree or another.

Genius answer :D I like the radiation warning stickers on the huge crt's :p

shift+b is to make sure the brakes are locked in place, similar to a handbrake in a car. Also their is a bar that goes up and down to simulate brake pressure. As for your previous problem which I think you have figured out, to test you could of always centered your trim so that the ctrl+enter graphic will re-centre the controls, you can do that inflight if need be but be prepared to fight the helicopter if you do it whilst going fast or even going slow, when i say slow i mean more than 20kph, as the nose of the helo will usually rise quickly and a possible bank to the right, but resetting the trim will reset that graphic for you and let you see exactly what you controls are doing, also as previously stated, the graphic controls position wont show the proper position for non forcefeedback joysticks, so it isnt really a calibration feature. If you had a forcefeedback joystick, what the graphic shows your controls to be positioned at, thats where they would be in real life.

Ok, that explains the manpads, and I did wonder if me having them set as a SAM target in the datalink instead of OTHER would have any effect, but now it seems that it wouldnt of mattered, as they need to fire before the wingaman will shoot at them. But, what about the other VEHICLE targets that he got wrong ? I tasked him to go after a T55, he accepts and then attacks a Gaz66, I then task him to go attack the other T55, he accepts again and then attacks the single bmp2. Not once did he attack the target that he should of targetted :( This is the steps I took. First I locked the T55, I got range info and everything, I then selected 2 on the datalink panel and then I selected the VEHICLE button and then I pushed send/memory. All lights then went out, which means that the datalink process worked, before I pushed send, both my wingman and the T55 target were flashing on the abris, so it was a good send. I then asked the wingman to engage/datalink target/target which was the T55, he agreed but never took out the T55s, he took out everything but them. I tried selecting Target type aswell, but it still had no bearing on what the Wingman would attack :(

Lua maybe ?

Ok, we have all seen threads about how bad the A.I wingman is, I thought I would add mine. Last night I went on a pretty decent sized flight and had a few different target areas all with the correct parameters setup. Anyway, me and my, I hesitate to call him my wingman but thats his official designation so thats the name that he will be called for the sake maturity on the forums, normally I call him other things, but only when I am shouting at him :) We get to the target area, we pause and slide into a hover and then I start handing off datalink targets to him. Their was 3 T55s, 1 bmp2, 1 igla manpad 1 igla comm dude and 1 decrepit truck, its the gaz66 if I recall ? anyway I gave the WM the sam dudes as datalink targets. I handed them off to him, it went perfect as all the lights went out, and before I sent it to him, both his icon and the target icon were flashing on the abris screen. So I then ask him to engage datalink target and then select Target, now he was setup to attack the sam manpad which was marked as a sam icon on the abris, maybe it should of be "other" but I marked the sam dude with a sam icon, the WM received my orders to attack him and just him yet he shoots a T55 instead ? I cleared the datalink of all targets and then I killed the air threat myself so that I could play about with the wingman instead of him getting shot down. I then made new targets, I select Vehicle and lased a T55 and I hand it off to my WM and he gets it no problem and then I ask him to attack, he says yes sir and then he goes off to attack, yet he attacks the Gaz66. And this went on til none of the above targets were left, he went after them and killed them, but they were not the assigned datalink targets that he was ordered to attack. So how come he does that ? I mean he received the DL targets ok, he gets my order to attack that specific target ok, he confirms, yet he goes and kills something else entirely, I do not understand, I dont fly online much now because normally the pub servers are full of idiots, thus flying with a wingman is the only way I get of flying within a team but its pointless having a wingman in the missions when he just wont follow orders. I know ED have made a magic sim here, but the wingman A.I does need to be reigned in and tightened up a touch because atm he just doesnt follow orders correctly all the time.

DAF and landie would go down a treat and so would a snatch version of the landies and a wmik landie, also some of them new jackals :)

I would love for the RAF or Royal Navy Mountain Rescue Seakings to be released, ok its NEVER going to happen, but those big yellow birds fly over my house very often and everytime I see them go by I am in awe.

Its just you, the runway on the american carrier looks much bigger.

Chances are, the intellimouse explorer software is interfering with your ability to use the mouse correctly ingame, I have the same type of mouse, but i dont use it anymore and I found at times the software conflicted with certain apps and I had to make a setting for the game/application in the intellimouse software, either that or uninstall the intellimouse software altogether.

X52 here and yes it does, its a common problem with the slider in the x52's

It isnt my fantasy aircraft, it actually EXISTS as you well know, albeit not in russian service, I dont think ? I was merely pointing out that from a playability perspective that the night version would of been better since atm we are basically limited to flying within a 12 hour and less time window depending on the time of the year, i.e during daylight hours. If we had access to the samshite version then it would open up an entirely new arena to which to fly and fight in. I know ED stick to in-service aircraft to model, but as pointed out previously, I merely mentioned, as in my opinion and we are all allowed one, that the night capable version of the KA50 would of been the better choice to broaden the scope of the sim, after all its the same helo but with a couple of different features that let it see and fight in the dark.

Instead of a KA52, I think ED should of gave us the KA50 with the samshite night targetting device's so that we can use the helo at night properly. I know, I want to much, but I have always thought that we got the wrong version of helo, it would of been much better for the scope of playability had we got the night capable KA50 instead. Just my thoughts thats all.

2wire hgv2700 works fine here