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Shouldn't my ADI be indicating slip then? The fact that the bead is dead-center is what confuses me the most about this.

I'm making my way through the flight manual (only 9,000 pages to go!) while taking random flights in-game to play with what I learned and just to practice. There's one thing I've come across that I'm not able to figure out, however. Oftentimes during flight, my HUD ladder lines crawl off to the left or right of the HUD, sometimes to the point that they're not even visible. Oftentimes the vector indicator will be with it, and I believe it's falsely indicating bad vector as even though it's pointing far off to the left or right of centerline, my ADI isn't showing any slip whatsoever. There's no yaw trim in play here, it just crawls away off the HUD. Also why is my standby ADI *always* completely, ridiculously wrong?

People fly DCS because it's a sim. People 'play' HAWX and Over-G fighters because they're not. Compare ArmA to Counter Strike or Mechwarrior to MechAssault...

'<Non-American fighter> in <Googled exercise name> shot down <number greater than one> <fifth generation US fighter>s! <Generic ethnocentric whinging and anti-American sentiments>!' The only thing MiGs are good for: Crashing into spectators at airshows is also a cool trick.

I would give up the Nevada map. Oh wait. I would pay $10 more. Oh wait. :/

As a 2A371 (C for what it's worth), I support this message. Although I've not touched an A-10, honestly it's amazing that F-15Es don't explode in midair or flip over off the runway, careen into the ramp, and blow up everything else. Pilots literally end missions carrying bits of the cockpit with them, and a 12-turn-8 typically ends with fifteen or more writeups, most of which aren't the 'sign it off' kind (up yours 'display too dim in night mode'). That said, if they're simulating a failure as being 'working 100% or totally inop', that's wrong. I seriously would love to see real failures simulated. For example, rather than your HUD going out, it experiences a video failure that makes all the stroke video blurry, or maybe it's scrunched on one side. An ADP failure on an F-15E can induce all kinds of crazy bullshit like Pitch Ratio warnings. Buttons get stuck, display lines blank out, and partial functionality is the norm. You might get TACAN bearing, but no range or distance. Your radio works fine, except it produces an irritating squeal every time it's keyed...

That all makes sense (re: the rotor RPM vs. collective) but that makes me wonder how in hell they figure the flight ceiling of the KA-50 is 5000 meters, when where I was at, around.... 3,200 M, it was almost impossible to gain any more altitude, and when I tried it killed itself.

If you're talking about the three autopilot pitch/roll/yaw options, yes. I'll try making a track file. It's the yellow RPM blinker (couldn't remember what it was when I made the topic, heh). The manual is completely full of notations of controlling rotor RPM and the like - yet there's no way to actually control it in-game? Or is that what 'auto' is supposed to do? Hmm... good to know I suppose. I wasn't going terribly slow and really didn't change anything. I was actually screwing around with the ABRIS at the time. I got the rotor RPM warning for a brief second and it went out on its own, I ignored it, and then suddenly I'm falling out of the sky. Heh, that's the thing, I have no idea what it corresponds to. It MIGHT be an altitude warning or something, but I'm not sure. So where does the PVI-800 get its waypoint information? I was under the impression that once I have the flight plan in ABRIS, it would talk to the PVI-800 for waypoint and fly-to indicators and such... maybe I'm taking for granted the F-15E where everything shares information with everything...

Alright, I just grabbed this sim, my first time with a helicopter sim. After spending a stubborn hour figuring out how to start the aircraft without any help at all (woo) and getting a handle on the basics... here's some questions. - The training for the control hover shows the helicopter taking off smoothly upwards. Whenever I try it, my helicopter oscillates and shakes like a wobbly old card table. - RE: The above - I think part of the problem is my joystick is too sensitive. Moving it just a hair in any direction induces rather significant control changes (especially in the throttle), so the untrimmed hover check means it's flipping all over the place. It's a Logitech Freedom 2.4 - I went in the profiler and reduced all axis sensitivity to 10%, even cut range to 65%, and it really doesn't solve the problem... - I decided to go for a cruise in the mountains. Was having some trouble getting up there until I dumped my stores and throttled up the engines. Then randomly, out of the blue, my rotors just exploded - proceed to crash and die. As a matter of fact this happens a lot. I understand at lower altitudes I was causing this by maneuvering too much, giving me that rotor beeping warning (I guess I made the rotors collide?). Why does this happen at straight and level (and somewhat slow) flight at altitude? - What is that annoying solid tone I keep hearing (you hear it when you're powering up the aircraft). There's no indications or anything to go with it. It almost sounds like a marker beacon tone, but I get it all the time. - I read the manual for the ABRIS (well at least the parts I couldn't figure out on my own) and for some damn reason it refuses to save my routes. I did what it said - I get the blue lines and the various points, I activate the route, it shows up on the normal ABRIS screen... but it doesn't work with the PVI-800 and won't save. Thanks!