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Thanks everyone!

Tu-22M3 hard take-off- http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=OnSJ1oDF4jE

For that I use the scroll wheel on the throttle- wheel down (JOYBTN 33 in DCS) is frame size decrease, wheel up (JOYBTN 34) is for increase. Works pretty good.

If the static ports are jammed you'll lose barometric altimeter and vertical speed altimeter. They all (along with the IAS) use common static pressure system.

The parking brakes are On on startup, the control lever is on the cyclic stick. When you engage the parking brakes or operate the taxi brakes you'll see it coming in toward the stick like you are squeezing it. Note- to disengage the parking brakes (shift+W) you can just click once on the taxi brakes (W). I have the taxi brakes assigned to the second trigger of my X52 so prior take-off/taxi I just fully press the trigger and brakes are off.

Is the pitot tube still there? It happens to me that I lose it because of enemy fire and my IAS indicator dies- there is no more total air pressure data. While the static pressure data is provided and the variometer and the altimeter operate.

All you gotta do is turn on the engines' ice protection :D

It's still under investigation. Sometimes it drifts, sometimes in the same conditions it works normal. Better wait some time after powering it from it's switch before uncage it.

That's correct, only in some exceptions you would try midair start of an engine. Usualy it gets shut down for a good reason- fire, vibrations, icing etc. It's forbidden to even try start it, no to mention operate it. Don't know about Ka-50 but one of the Ka-32's I used to work on had a receptacle port for ground pneumatic power thus making possible engines start without the APU.

If a turboshaft engine has a pneumatic starting the only way to spool it up in the air is using the APU. For the TV3-117 (on the Ka-50) to initiate an airstart the gas-generator RPM should be less than 7% otherwise you gonna break the starter's driveshaft. Croos bleed is impossible because of the large airflow needed to crank the starter, if you take that air from the only operating engine which is already running at take-off power you simply gonna kill it. This is how it is with helicopters.

If you suffer engine flameout due to icing it is highly unlikely to start it either way. The ice will still be there.

Kamov are not nuts. How do you expect an airflow if 150km/h (speed you should maintain with OEI) will be able to drive a compressor with such a small diameter? If you'd have looked to the manual you would know that there is no other way to start an engine except bleed air from the APU. Cemmercial airliner are another story, forst they have high bypass ratio turbofans with huge fans and along with the much higher speed this is enough to drive the engine on autoratation to RPM enough for ignition. And what do you mean by croos bleed? Bleed from the other engine?

After realizing that I can no longer work on Kamov helicopters, because of blackmailing russian traders I decided it's time to move on. Next monday I'm starting my new job for Lufthansa Technik - Sofia as a Flight Controls Teamleader. I'll be working on single aisle airliners namely the Airbus A319/320/321 (with both CFM56-5 and V2500 engines) and Boeing 737 families. But one thing is for sure- I'm gonna miss my beloved Ka-32 a lot. Yesterday was my last day at my old work and I made a last walkaround of the three birds I spent my last 3 years on. So much memories raised up... Unique machines became victims of human stupidity.

No differential gear, the torque from the two input shafts are both transfered to the gear No.3- this is the first stage of reduction of the main gearbox and except that it sums the torque of the two input shafts into one shaft. In case of OEI the operating engine will spent power to drive the input driveshaft of the other engine up to the free-wheel unit which is not such a big waste.

With the only difference that the free-wheel drive is installed in the imtermediate gearbox for each engine the main gearbox of Ka-50 has roughly that schematic: The two input driveshafts transfer torque to a common gear which is the first stage of reduction (of the main GB).

Boooooooo! :D Perhaps I should mention that Ka-32 is "civilized" version of the Ka-27PS.

What is that? No word for the Ka-27PL submarine hunter? :D It's the most important firepower of that ship :) Man that sound brought some memories...

Very nice for winter terrain :thumbup: Good job!

The HUD is part of RANET joint indication system and is activated via the K-041 switch only. The HUD is supplied from the emergency AC bus while the IT-23 TV indicator is supplied by the main AC bus, which means that on batteries you have HUD but no Skhval screen.

If you talk about humans online- then yes ;)

12 is the reasonable number. This will include new built airframes and uncompleted Ka-50 airframes in Arsenyev. There will be no more single seaters production.

No.

You have a better idea? :D

Post a track, it's not clear what you're doing from your explanation.

AFAIK, yes.