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Soz- in addition to the standard autopilot functions you then have the altitude mode or speed mode, which allows you to hold one while varying the other with the collective.

I set up a basic farm with no ground units, and a helo parked, but mine crashed as soon as i asked for rearm / refuel

Anyone lasing for LG-Mk82's - you having to reset the laser arm after each drop, and rehitting the Trig button on the MFD? Didnt do that before, which is correct and which is a bug? Firing Mavs via T-pod needs no reset of Laser arm or trig.

I have the old SST programming and current Logitech s/ware but cannot see where you can use a toggle button in this way? I was trying to get a button to step incrementally through keypresses 1 to 7 for the FC3 craft, but it wont do this, I assigned instead to 7 bands on a rotary axis. Some of the DCS commands have option for 'step up' / 'step down' through options for a rotary knob, and these can then easily be assigned to a toggle button up or down. You just assign the correct DCS keypresses to the toggle in the Saitek s/ware

Well I think its starting to make more sense now. Master power on buttons for trim and autopilot kept on all the time. Mag Brake switch on , trim hold on pinkie trigger (X52) works just like the Huey, which is perfect. In addition you can nudge the trim making very small corrections/adjustments with the POV Hat switch. Autopilot normal mode is stability assist, just let it do its thing. The autopilot switch on the stick then acts as an 'attitude hold' to hold a bank angle or pitch. When it is released, you can feel the Gazelle coming back upder the controls of the stability assist, righting itself to a stable position.

With the Mag Brake on, I get the 'usual' Huey-type trim response when I press the trim button I mapped to my X52. It 'sticks' the controls where I set them. Now if I use the POV Hat trim it nudges the trim position very slightly L, R, U, D but not enough to affect the flight of the aircraft. This nudging seems to happen (on the control position display) whether or not I have the master trim button on.

I get same crash to desktop asking for rearm at an airport - huey or Gazelle, doesnt need to be a farp

I struggled with this for ages, and am still struggling to grasp the logic in these control systems. There is a master autopilot on/off switch on the dashboard, this activates the SAS, then there is the autopilot button on the stick, which turns autopilot on and off as needed (but you need autopilot master switch on to do anything). How that differs to the trim and mag brake is something thats still evading me. The autopilot should self-engage at >120 kmh anyway, so what does the little autopilot sick button actually do, and how should it be used correctly? Its almost as if this whole helicopter was designed by French people ;)

Is it just me or did they change something in the Gazelle or DCS last beta update? I can no longer see the position of any of the cockpit switches. Its all just black! - edit - did an update/repair and its gone back to normal again :/

It was too funny to correct, seeing it gently sliding off into the shrubbery :D

I attacked a V1 launch ramp this morning with a Huey and it ran off into the woods. Made me laugh.

OK good advice, only mine is 35 gb at moment as i store all my extra liveries there, so really its just about the setup and config folders, which take up very little space, but as you say are absolutely vital.

do you mean the entire dcsopenbeta folder?

Grim Reapers did an interesting youtube vid about taming the joystick response to what he felt was more realistic, with a 25 curve and saturation down to 50%. Ive left mine at about 70% but Im still utterly confused about trim actuator, trimmer, magnetic brake, autopilot alt and speed hold as I dont know if these conflict with or augment eachother, and they never seem to work consistently, though trim reset before activiating autopilot seemed to help a little.

THabnks thats a very clear and informative post. So modifiers set in X52 programming will not work as modifiers in DCS settings but modified keypresses will work either way? As long as I stick to some convention of assigning the modifier butons in X52 OR DCS but never both?

I tried a few different keystrokes to disable head tracking (Im using open track) but cant get headtracking disabled?

I guess I'm currently trying modifiers in both dcs and X52 programming and getting conflicts. I have a few test profiles being built up in vjoy & jstk gremlin, its just the little thumbstick & mouse button on the X52 is a bit weird, and acts differntly depending on if the game controller properties window is open or not. Want to use the thumbstick for zoom (and slew in 1 mode) and the mouse button for a modifier.

My post was badly worded, I meant the profile clear option from the icon in the sys tray, as you clarified.

thanks - all working now :)

what installer?

I cant see clearing the sys tray will have any effect. the problem is DCS doesnt know the current reading of the mode switch when the other button is pressed, as its just sitting there quietly. It can only see the state-change when it switches from one mode to the next. You'd have to simultaneously press the button then change to desired mode to capture the two actions. The programming software will allow you to set up the mode switch as 3 different shift-states to get more button assignments.

QUick q: is it better practice to assign a modifier button in the X52 programming software or just set one up within DCS controls?

Thanks Suntsag, you are a star! Learnt so much from your mission editor tut's :)

Someone posted back up earlier - use the mouse. Is this an option for minigun aim, as headtracking aim sucks?

But didnt it work last year, or before the recent DCS update? I saw a couple of youtube videos with people demonstrating the hatstick for trimming in-flight.