Kula66

Agreed - I seem to move my head as I try and move my mouse!

As you can see, my helicopter skillls are very beginner, however, I only crashed once the helicopter disappeared! No idea what time into the track that was. I doubt I'm out of system resources - my system is a fairly new install, very little rubbish and I take performance optimisation seriously (having managed 2000+ servers in the past). No other indications of resource problems. From my read the graphics glitched, view of helicopter disappeared. If it happens again I'll try and get a time ... what other info would be useful to you?

Ok, on the way ...

I am surpised by how much fun the KA is to fly - I do not like helicopters anywhere near as much as fast jets, but BS is a great sim and mastering all the systems is going to take months of practice. A real challenge!

Ok, I have a track that died ... where do I send it?

I'm fairly sure it was above the lower mark, but thanks for suggestion, I'll check the 'high blade AOA' next time.

Hmmm ... I don't record tracks as a matter of course.

Thanks all, I'll try out some ideas tonight!

Thanks Stalintc - back to basics. I'm a little confused with the relationship between the director, AP channels and AP. Normally I'd fly the the 3 channels on (to smooth out my control inputs), AP off and the director on, but when I want the AP to help, route flying or hover I first turn the director off?

Could be ... I was in a mountain pass after 20mins flying time ... I'll track down the warning light! Thanks. Acedy, What counts as high speed 290kph or 200+?

So, to use auto-hover sound the director be engaged or not? Auto-hover never seems to work for me ... the thing just drifts off, usually backwards BTW The producers notes are a great help - any chance of a few more on basic flight?

What situations should be avoided to not suffer this? I've ready another thread on the subject but this is more about the balde physics. A few times I'm been 'flying' without doing anything too dramatic (flying up a valley) and suddenly the blades seem to have come apart (no baad guys around). From the cockpit guages I can't see anything too bad - no over-speed, blade RPM ok etc. Any ideas? I'm obviously missing soemthing fundamental!

If you fly and can see your shadow, when the shadow of the KA passes over a building it grows in size by too large an amount - doubling or trippling in size.

This has happened a few times ... flying along, doing nothing special when the cockpit/helicopter disappears. Still hear sound, still flying (I know because I crash soon after), I can see the mouse cursor can hit esc and q to quit and the menu loads .... Running on an HP 8710w laptop with a Quadro 8800 like video card, 4GB RAM.

For me, it was certainly on the website ...

A note on the AP/Trimming would be very helpful! The manual is rather brief on the subject only saying what the buttons do and given some of us don't understand Russian, the trainnig sessions are a mystery! The button to the right of the 4 AP channels (the flight director) - what is the difference between the flight director and the AP? Why is it that you can be flying along fairly happily and suddenly the KA seems to go wild, gyrating all over the place? Often going inverted or pointing straight down and usually crashing. This is usually associated with re-trimming. Any ideas? EDIT: Ok, forget this last bit, my Cougar has always had a faulty S4 button, which maps to trim and was firing off random trim commands all the time!!!!

When you purhcased BS you were given an activation code ...

For the next manual, please don't use yellow boxes with little yellow numbers on a white background - very difficult to read!

Cheers Lester, I'll give that a go.

All, I weakened and bought the Russian version of BS. I get the error message 'This application has failed to start because pthreadGC2.dll was not found'. The app then goes on to load ok ... anyone any ideas? A search showed that there are 2 threads in the Russian forum relating to it but, not speaking Russian I'm no further forward Thanks, James

These have been around a while ... http://users.skynet.be/bs999158/LomacDownload.htm

I'm sure the Russians/Indians have war reserved modes and features just like us ... it would be stupid to go play the USA backyard with all that intel gathering around and user all you toys just to look big. I'm sure the Indians are far too smart for that ... like the French ;)

I think it is worth remembing that the SUs were not operating their electronics in full - only 'Test mode' whatever that means. Apparently, there were a load of other lectures that got pulled concerning the J-11 and J-10. I think the bottom line was a good pilot in an F-15 can kill a rookie in a Su-30 most of the time, but put good pilots in both and the USAF needs the F-22. Oh and modern jammers are very effective, allowing even planes like the Mig-21 with mods to get close and lethal!

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