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Thanks guys, I will give those a look!

Thanks for the tips. I'm going to reattempt.

Nope, that's not it... I had it both on and off at different times, and the nose would point away from the aim point regardless... and it's only been really on this one mission, thought the kind of cumulative degeneration of the trim control has been a problem on other ones.

What is the pricing scheme supposed to be for additional aircraft if you have already purchased BS?

Yeah, that's totally what I'm doing initially... get everything stable, trimmed, then engage it. The other problem I was having later was that I could NOT trim it... it had a ton of yaw regardless of where I trimmed it.

So I come to a hover... engage auto hover... the helicopter will slew to the right... sometimes *violently*... it will often settle down, but not where I want it to be pointing. Is it just turning into the wind? I thought if I engaged the hover and hit the trim button, it would try to keep me pointed where I was previously pointed? I'm on the campaign mission 'Return to Teberda', and at the target location, the above happens. Also, when I try to stabilize for landing on this mission, I can't get the helicopter to stabilize at all... it's like every time I trim it's getting worse and worse, and in auto hover is doing some insane manuevers (big sweeping, banking turns). The end result of this was that I was auto hovering and auto descending to make a landing, and then things went goofy, then I lost all lift to ground effect (or whatever it's called w/ helicopters) and fell out of the sky.

It does not display above 50kph... I've had +120, for example, displayed in the TV window, and nothing on the HUD.

Okay, so... is my problem that the default startup procedure (LWIN + HOME) turns ON the FD? This seems that it may be the problem with the route following mode not working. Would turning it off fix both of my problems? And where is the switch?

You know that, while it's not on the HUD, which I agree would be preferable, it IS displayed on the tv, right? Thanks for the info on getting the nav HUD back Federf and EtheralN - one more problem down! Still wondering about why auto hover doesn't work sometimes though, if anyone knows.

Yes, I do. That brings up another question... after I activate my weapons systems, I get a different HUD that does NOT have the speed indicator in the top left... how do I get the default one back?

In missions that start with the helicopter shut down, I am never able to engage auto hover. I start everything up with LWIN + HOME. Take off... gear up, etc. I come to a hover, as I normally would, hit LALT + T... and it doesn't engage the auto hover. Obviously I need to be engaging a few extra steps, but I'm not sure what they are. I actually shut off whatever it is on accident on another mission where I started w/ the helicopter turned on, and had successfully used auto hover several times... then, and I'm not sure how, I accidentally turned off whatever it is that lets me us auto hover, and I couldn't use it anymore (no light on the panel when I engage). I was not in route following mode in any of these. Okay, related question... when I fire everything up manually, as described above, and there is a route on the ABRIS, it sets my 'waypoint' as wherever I was pointed when I last released the Trim button, and hitting 'R' doesn't take me on the route displayed on the ABRIS. I assume I am once again missing steps to do this. Thanks for any help!

Yeah, I was definitely a bit peeved at the puny fighter CAP they sent along. By the time the Mi-24s showed up, the SUs seemed to have buggered off themselves.

Okay, I completed that mission, and using your advice, I shot down one Mi-24V and my wingmen did for the other one. Quite pleased! Thanks!

Okay... HMS is my helmet mounted system... I can try this. Thanks again.

Hrm... I must still be missing something... I don't think I quite understand the targeting systems, maybe. I did the 'Battle' mission, and there were airborne targets that I tried to engage... I was in A/A mode, I would find them with the Shkval, and try to lock them with 'ENTER' when the box was over them, and it didn't do anything... Looking through this stuff, it seems that maybe there is a way to get things to be automatically targeted based on movement or something? And HMS = ?