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(This is true and happened last week) When you walk into a helicopter museum and spend 2 hours showing the staff what all the panels on their newly aquired Mil-8 are for, and shout "OMG this thing has 2 signal flare dispensors" I think i may have said "The rudder on this thing is a bit heavy" Guilty :S

Generally my landing are gental and a brilliantly relaxing experience. I float down to the ground with all of the grace of a falling leaf. Then i re-pack my parachute. :D

If you reset the trim on the ground - it will take the heading your on and use it as a desired heading - then when you turn - it will try to turn you back. Thus you end up fighting the autopilot. This is why we are taught "trim in - manouver - trim out" When you release the trim the heading your on is updated and the AP will follow that instead. Basically - if you dont trim - your making like difficult for yourself. Please dont misunderstand me - Im not knocking this mod at all. In fact i also did it. But now that i know more about the aircraft and its systems it has more of a detrimental affect than anything else.

Ahh good old Bob - He can be relied on to sell anything.

FD mode is all well and true - so long as you dont mind never being able to hover properly, because as you well know FD prevents autohover from working. As well as all of the other helpful autopilot controls. I think the only way to combat this problem would be to trim once at takeoff and then never trim again, but you would need to frequently tap the HDG channel or the FD-AP in order to reset the current heading. It can be fifficult handling the BS in an autohover without trimming as the aircraft will constantly want to turn to the last indentified heading. I do have this mod as well. My cyclic is weight balanced so it is in fact a PITA for the shark. I now have a detent in the center point so i can feel it as a center the cyclic - otherwise i would be all over the place. This kind of mod only really works for commercial aircraft, and most of the MIL helo's.

remember though, to handle the aircraft properly you must still trim. Trimming tells the onboard Autopilot which heading to keep you on. I myself have this mod (mostlu for the bell 206 tbh) But i still have to trim up the BS ion order to not fly sideways everywhere i go.

I suddenly have te battle scene from Avatar in my head.

ROFL - ill bet a Taradacdyl could kick an Apaches ass!

ingame sounds are fine for me

Sorry - what i meant was noise-isolating or full ear headphones which do lesson the noise by a huge amount. Probably i would say by approx 50% In my own experiance. Lets not forget that the usual headgear worn by a pilot flying a KA-50 would have been 2 layers thick, and did have full ear noise deadning headphones built in. Its known as a flight compartment in most fighting aircraft the world over. Usually it has better ballistic survivability than the rest of the aircaft. In the case of the Apache, the flightcompartment is made from different materials and can withstand a point blank 30mm round. The rest of the aircraft is designed to allow a round to pass right through the airframe without causing too much damage.

Remeber people - the sounds are heard by a Microphone mounted in the cockpit. YOU (the pilot) will hear the sound through a helmet and a set of noise cancelling hardphones. Loud is NOT realistic! The trim clunk is VERY loud in the cockpit because a mechanical servo actuates that reverberates around the cockpit, the pilot can feel this through the cyclic.

Your welcome Toady. Your welcome. :)

Well - tomorrow, i may have some news on the TM Warthog! :)

hmmm i wonder if something similar could happen with the new HOTAS Warthog! I seriously think you could see a double release - Warthog and its HOTAS. Wouldnt that be something?

dont forget the Thrustmaster Warthog is coming this year around May.

well done - a very simple and effective idea.

this is the reason i have rfactor!

To be honest - i dont care about the scenario - i just want to get the shark up and blow away some compounds! Give us the landscape - and missions will follow. There are insurgents that need my attention!

in short - same thing (re-branded) Think Compaq and HP.

Idd slug, it was common to have the blue pit in most russian aircraft in the late 80s. If you look closly this was the same display used in the pilots seat in the early MI-24. Ive seen several civillian helicopters including the KA-26 and an MI-8 transporter with the same colour pit.

Brilliant, just brilliant!

thank yooo!

yeah, but you cant watch over and over - lol

Met my wife online - we have our own computers, i cant use hers incase i "mess up her configs". She play's DoD, CS:Source, ArmA Joint Opps, and is a guildmaster in WoW. I said - i wanna build a pit in the lounge - she said, fine but i get a 22" widescreen! PS - she kicks my ass in everything except flight sims. lol

Ill second that - i love watching tracks.