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Merhaba komsu, happy birthday!

I promise I'll think about it ;)

Well the cockpit shown is of Ka-32A12, the version for Switzerland. It has SOS-V1-32S system for limit signals- it automaticaly computes the maximum CAS depending on the weight of the helicopter and the ambient confitions and sets a flag on the airspeed indicator. When the needle reaches this mark the master warning light starts flashing. This is all that happens IRL.

I understand your point but this is still a very low number, regardless the nature of the defect. Except for the maintenance quality it depends also (even at higher degree) of the manufacturing. I'm not questioning how the planes have been built in Fort Worth since I have no data about that but for instance I've read that in the Turkish AF the F-16 is the most reliable plane and they are making them on their own. Also a Murted produced F-16 is second in a row wordlwide for dimension (assembly) precision. It's certainly pretty complicated subject but in any case the numbers say a lot.

Holy crap! I got to get this! Only this is something that I can't comply with. Little Kamov- little my a$$, these guys need some strong glasses.

I read also few years ago a report of the USAF about reliability- the F-15 had about 13-15 hours per defect (30-50% more than the MiG for example) while the F-16 still rates twice less. The statistics are given in general- defects that require maintenance (a period during which the plane is not serviceable).

I surely remember the night it started. I was having dinner with my brother when the movie we were watching on the TV was interrupted by CNN breaking news that NATO has started operation Allied Force against Yugoslavia. They were showing F-16's, F-15E's and F-117 taking off from Aviano AB, Italy. Sofia is not far from the border and I remember the the sound and the flash from the blasts of bombs being drop near the border- close to Nis district. Also I heard more than once sonic booms of NATO warplanes, obviously looking for cover in bulgarian airspace and of course the F-16 pilot who got lost or has been running away, after penetrating our airspace heading east he launched a AGM-88 HARM missile against SAM site near Sofia whose crew has turned it off and the missile has gone blind after loosing the signal and it flew straight into a civil house blowing off it's roof. Luckly it's warhead didn't detonate otherwise... That house was (and still is with a new roof) about 2km from where I live. I'm not gonna judge anyone here. Lets just pay respect and keep a minute of silence for those who has died during this war.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gimme, gimme, gimme!!!!!!!

So you finaly turned 18? Congrats! :D

Some interesting data I came across about polish F-16's- According to report of the Polish AF Chief Commander Gen. Blassik from 23.1.2008. Defects summary: - defects found during the recieving procedure- 281; - defects found during the line maintenance- 393; - defects found during flights- 343, including 4 that has been followed by mission abort and emergency landing; - total accumalated flight time of the fleet for 2007- 2480h; Assuming that we disregard the discrepancies found in the recieving procedure that makes 736 failures during 2480h service of the polish F-16's which gives 3h 22min per failure. That's extremely poor reliability! If we accept average time of 1h per flight that means that every sixth landing the plane returns with a failure and at every 2 flight days the ground crew founds a problem. True, according to the reliability theory the malfunctions' flow parameter has higher value in the beggining of the service then decreases and increases again at end of the service life but 3:22 hours is still a pathetic value which I fail to explain. For example the MiG-29's in Bulagrian AF are built 1988-1989, have been grounded for long periods (some up to 15 years) but the accumalated flight time per malfunction is about 3 times higher.

Are u kidding? :D Women are one of the worst enemies of flight sims. Now be honest- how many of you have had problems with your wife/girlfriend because of your flight simming hobby? :D

WIP.

No, negative blade AOA is a no-go :) Ka-50 is fast and highly maneuvarable helicopter (3-3.5 G). To achieve this it needs high rotor loading therefore the blades have shorter chord than the Ka-32 for example.

The controls are independant, having the collective at max or min doesn't affect the differential pitch control. Although collective and differential pitch use one and the same device (Collective and Differential Pitch Mechanism- CDPM) they don't interefere each other. The two rods that control the colelctive of each rotor via the upper and lower sliders are twisted with left and right threading respectively in the sleeve- with the collective you move the sleeve up-down and the two rods move together in the same direction, with the pedal you rotate the sleeve making one of the rods to 'twist' and other to 'untwist'- they move in opposite directions while the sleve itself is stationary. If the sleeve is in the max up or down position that doesn't disturb it to be rotated. The CDPM is installed on the bottom of the gearbox with the two rods coaxial inside the inner (upper rotor) shaft. This is the rotor mast assmebly of a Ka-32 helicopter, it's a bit different from the Ka-50's but the CDPM is built at the same principle. The CDPM- general view and schematic:

This is a force trim- when the button (with the thumb) is pressed you set a new tension neutral position of the cyclic stick and the pedals too, don't forget that. FFB owners will really apppreciate that but it's pretty much doable with all kind of sticks. The rest just have to build new habits- every time you press the trim button you quickly move the stick to neutral, same for pedals but I don't have them, I use the X52 twist instead. I have fire 'C' assigned for that, just where it is on the real thing. This is the button that you will use the most. During manual hovering or any kind of maneuvering you need to press it once in every 2-3 secs.

Born in Pleven, Bulgaria, from 10 years living mostly in Sofia because of studies and work. I dream about the day I'll leave the big city for good and move to our house in mountains (Apriltzi, Central Balkan).

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=28391&page=2 ;) I personaly know this photographer, really talented person.

Wow, that's a great news! Seems like Fusion's idea is becoming reality.

I'm betatesting to contribute for releasing it asap.

By recovering you accumulate all the trash in the memory and your frame rate begins to suffer causing lags to other people too. I admire the 169th for doing that in their server, didn't know the 104th have done the same. IMO it is a good move, thus even those who are lazy to exit and reenter the mission are forced to do it. It can only improve gameplay, nothing more.

It's not that long if you perform the proper maintenance. The planes have been stored in their regular arc concrete shelters (exactly like the ones we have in LO) with their engines and systems (oil, hudraulic, fuel) fully preserved. This is performed periodically (usualy every six months), depreservation-preservation and once per year engines full ground run. And now when there's a will to keep the planes in service russian specialists from the MiG company have come to make full evaluation of their airframes and components to extend their service life. They have been amazed of the good condition of the planes, some of them after spending 15 years on the ground- no corrosion, no even paint distortion. The weather in Bulgaria also helps this, we have relatively low hummidity. Also the first two planes, subject of the extension contract have been first flown by MiG test pilots, including full burner vertical take-off and climb to 10000m then leveling and acceleration to Mach 2. I read some interviews of these test-pilots- they claim that the planes they've flown have better performance (with overhauled engines) than later produced and active flying 29s. This is something I learnt in my career- there are no new and old aircraft, there are just well and poor maintained aircraft.

Ha Kusch, the last one is from the 6th Balchik airbase at the Black Sea, I served part of my military service near by. The pic is old though- the base was closed as active in 1998. BTW, there's interesting discussion going on in bulgarian aviation community now. As the 29's are being restored as airworthy (after extending their TBO to 4000 hrs and service life to 40 years) now one by one they are re-entering active service, some of them after spending 12-15 years on the ground, like the one flown yesterday after 12 yrs grounding with the classic number '29'. So this plane will be renumbered to '39' because of a MiG-21UM that shares the same number and flies at the same base. So people say- isn't it the 29 with the highest priority to pay so much attention to the 21, especially a trainer? A lot of moves of our DoD don't make any sense...

I stand corrected, I admit I ddidn't watch the video because I was so sure you refer to this video - Check 2:55, this is what I'm talking about. Groove is right, this is indeed the periscope of the instructor because he has poor front visibility while landing.

That's not a mirror, it's a light shield of the HUD. Apparently it's hould deploy automatically upon external lightening (keeping the HUD readable) but it looks like it drops by negative gravity force to me TBH. I aksed the same maybe an year ago and got this asnwer from Fisben - avionics engineer in the MiG company. Have never seen it elsewhere though..

Boooooo, faulty plane! Quick, follow the algerian example:P:P:P