Tucano_uy

What about adding a "random" factor to simulate "critical hit" produced by fragmentation (since there is no real fragmentation simulated)?

hahah nobody said "about to crash", rather, perfectly trimmed and flying straight and level. Only mishap was a shell going trhough the pilot's temple...

It happened more than once. I get attacked by ground defences and the pilot is killed but the aircraft is still good enough to continue flying and so it does. Surprisingly, ground defences stop shooting at the helo as if they knew that I was dead!!!:megalol: I think they should keep shooting until the aircraft is down.

Yes, AA was engaged, and it looked like there were direct hits. First 2 in the middle of the fuselage and for the third I slewed the shkval to the root of the back rotor hoping to hit a more critical point (later I read in this forum that since the damage model is not so detailed, hit placement would be rather irrelevant). Unfortunately I have no track to share and analise but I have seen the same behaviour with other choppers as well, even lighter helos. Still in topic (I think), I tried to bring down an A-10 with the missiles. I set a training mission with one A-10 flying a rectangular pattern at 500 km/h and 1000 metres altitude and I placed my Ka-50 about 5 km from the pattern. After soooo much work I managed to lock the A-10 and shot my 12 missiles at it, with different aspect ratios, at varying distances and the result was always the same. Missiles leave the chopper tracking the target but after 300 or 400 metres, they just go ballistic, missing the target by far. AA mode was selected, AA/HO selected in some cases when relevant (however I think it only afects the fuse timing). It looks like that the missile was unable to follow the laser beam. Note that the shkval never lost track of the target aircraft. What's your experience engaging fixed wing aircraft and bringing them down with vikhrs?

It took me 3 direct hits with Vikhrs to shot down a Chinook. I don't have the knowledge to say this was unrealistic, but it seems unlikely. If maybe not completely destroy the aircraft in flight, structural damage and crew incapacitation from the first hit would be enough to prevent it continue flying as nothing had happened.

Thank you all for the quick answers

Hi guys!!!. I have one question that I couldn't answer reading the manual or this thread. Both DH/DT and RD/BR switches have 3 positions. Please correct me if I'm wrong. DH - Flies straight heading to steerpoint Neutral - Flies set heading when trim was released DC - Flies course as planned RD - Keeps radar height up to 300m BR - Keeps baro altitude Neutral - What does this position do? It's not mentioned in the manual or in this topic. Also, is there any way to automatically fly a programed altitude and/or speed as you would do in a fixed wing aircraft? (programmed in the mission editor or on the navigation equipment) Thanks