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    Trimming the Ka-50

    in DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark

    Posted · Edited by Kula66

    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!!!!

    Error while loading BS

    in DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark

    Posted

    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

    Red Flag Su-30 MKI Lectures Video

    in Military and Aviation

    Posted · Edited by Kula66

    Kula

     

    I don't buy that as an explanation: you don't travel half way around the world and then embarrass yourself in front of a host nation you have worked hard to convince that they should let you attend.

     

    My belief is that if they had had the capability, they would have used it.

     

    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 ;)

    Red Flag Su-30 MKI Lectures Video

    in Military and Aviation

    Posted

    The real issue that this guy was hinting at was the inability of the Su-30 to autonomously generate an EID on the contact, either through Mode 4 IFF or technical/software based means.

     

    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!

    F-15E

    in DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark

    Posted

    Weta,

    With respect, it is you who have missed the point - in this field, there will always be guessing, randomness and approximation! Tons of stuff is classified (and somestuff will always be) and the power of our systems IS finite (you can't model it all).

     

    Even the pilot of a KA-50 has no idea what will happen in certain circumstances so how can ED model it gaurenteed 100% accurate? eg. The damage effects of an AMRAAM on the a/c? Lots of randomness and guesswork ...

     

    And as long as it 'feels' right and has no obvious gaffs that's good enough for this armchair ace!

    F-15E

    in DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark

    Posted

    Yes, but hopefully those guesses will be better. We already know kinematics will be superior, which is a quarter of the battle.

     

    I'm sure they will be GGT, plus all the experience ED gained from what happened in LO ...

    F-15E

    in DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark

    Posted

    You're talking about Lockon aren't you? To my knowledge those missiles haven't been modeled to DCS level yet...

     

    We've been promised A2A combat at some point in the future 1, 2, 3 years ... I don't think the info is going to be declassified anytime soon!

     

    So there will be guess work in DCS ... but provided it's believable to the majority of us (who will never get into a fighter let alone fly one) - then fine. Just don't go believing everything in DCS will by 100% true ...

    F-15E

    in DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark

    Posted

    Lets be honest, there is already a ton of guess work - eg. AMRAAM/R-77 performance, radar modes/performance for all a/c, SAMs etc ... educated guess work sure, but a ton. I'm sure they could do a believable F-15E if they wanted to ... Janes did years ago.

     

    Lets just hope ED get missiles/seekers/ECM a little more believably than they did in LO ... then I'll be getting my wallet out :)

    Patch 1.13 Requested Features/Fixes List (*Merged)

    in Lock On: Flaming Cliffs 1 & 2

    Posted

    are tuned in an eventual patch

     

    Pilot, I think you are being a little optimistic!

     

    The last patch was released when? Ages ago. Development has switched to DCS ... it's never going to happen! We are not going to get a patch that fixes missiles/seekers/chaff/flares/ECM ... ED are not going to make money on it!

     

    We'll just have to wait for DCS to get around to doing 2 fighters and hope they do A2A missiles right this time!

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