Yuri Janssen

I have gotten my new HOTAS setup today, a Thrustmaster T Flight stick X, wich is not too expensive, no confusing loads of buttons, twisty stick (awesome) and a seperate throttle lever. Have to say, this sim is only fun if you have a good stick, and the twisting takes some getting used to but works great when you have got the hang of it. Thanks for the help everyone, it's cool to see a community like this, should be proud of yourselves hehe.

Your right, if you can choose between getting shot down because youre too busy with the chopper instead of just doing it the safe way and focusing on combat, i think the choice is simple. Im getting the hang of this sim more and more, and getting better with the shkval too!, gotta love helmet mounted sight + trackir ;) Thanks for the help everyone, this forum is great.

Mmm darn, might have to look in something else then. thanks for the tips atleast, i will start looking for a Twist-joystick and see if i can compeltely work out the autopilot Many thanks ;)

I am going to sell my Yoke soon enough and did a bid on a secondhand Saitek X45 HOTAS set, wich is a twisting stick but not FFB, looks really nice and perfect for these kind of sims. What autopilot buttons do you guys engage whenever you takeoff? my checklist says Bank hold/ Pitch Hold / HDG hold whenever flying, but im not sure if i should keep these on at all times?

i think thats where part of my problem is, my joystick is not a twist joystick so i have to controll the rudder by buttons or by the keyboard, wich is full rudder or no rudder at all (or tapping the button, but that is quite annoying). so can i somehow trim the rudder by small increments? so it is more precise?

mm it just keeps spinning round and round, even when wind seems to be calm not really turning to a selected heading of some sort (i think at least), can i trim the rudder seperatly? i thought it went all in one with the cyclic trimming.

Allright, i still seem to have problems with hovering, sometimes i come in too fast and it dives to the ground again when i quickly release the stick (No FFB stick :( ) or doesnt hover properly, the other problem i was having is whenever i get in a good hover the rudder wants to turn all the time (usually to the right), i have no rudder pedals and no sideways turning on my stick. whenever i trim to the location i want to look at in autohover it sitll seems to do the exact same thing. Anyone has this problem? or should i just buy a different stick with FFB and a turning axis on it for the rudder (pedals are too expensive) Is FFB really needed in this sim to make trimming possible like it should? im not sure

Thanks for the tips, just the eyes and shkval then, should be fun aswell. just tried going over a mountain but somehow my rotor blade broke, over revved it on the last bit over :(, flying in mountains at altitudes of 4000 or so gets harder with the KA-50.

Mm, turning the labels on would help greatly, but doens't that beat the idea of extreme realism?. so what you do without labels is know where the enemy could be hiding and just go in slow and carefully?. i thought maybe the KA-50 Had some sort of super duper target finder haha. Thanks for the help anyways though, i will see if i can practice finding targets without labels.

Hello, first of all im new on this forum but have owned DCS black shark quite a while now (but haven't really gotten around to seriously learning this sim yet, so i have been doing that the last few weeks) Theres just one thing that keeps me confused, i can fly the helicopter quite reasonably now and am practicing for combat. i can use the shkval and know how to target stuff and send a missle their way. no problem at all. The problem that i keep having is, how do you know where something is located? i was flying somewhere and suddenly i got shot down by a missile, i watched the LWS most of the time, untill a missile was fired the lights went on. is there some kind of information thing in the cockpit itself that gives me a heads up that i am in range of an enemy target?, i just can't find the targets or know where they are (hidden on map). i'm quite confused how people do this. PS: i have watched the training videos but find it hard to memorize everything that has been said, so i might have been missing something obvious If anyone gets my question (might be a bit hard to understand what im trying to say), any help is greatly appreciated. Loving the sim so far, there's no sim as cool as this one :D Greetings, Yuri