Chris CDN

Merci à tous / thanks guys. I'm still trying to mangle my way through this project, but hoping I can get a bit of a buy in from someone with more experience than I. I'll keep plugging away and let you guys know how to goes.

BLUF I'm brand new to modifying and extracting data from DCS. I'd like to learn how to pull certain data from DCS to inject into a third party application to integrate DCS with PilotEdge to so some flying with real world ATC. I have someone who can take the extracted data and push it to the third party application, but I need to do the DCS side on my own before that can happen. Essentially, I'm looking to extract the following: Aircraft type Aircraft position in L/L Aircraft speed (Ground) Aircraft heading Aircraft altitude Pitch/Yaw/Roll values Radio Frequencies (Not so much FM, but absolutely UHF and VHF) Radio Tx on/off Gear position Flap position Speedbrake position (if applicable) Position Lights on/off Strobe on/off Landing light on/off Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Hi all, I'm having issues where the infantry get into a TIC, win the firefight and kill the insurgent forces. This is part of the intent of the mission, but the troops won't continue the advance after engaging the enemy. They remain in the prone position for some reason. Any ideas?

So you can pick up downed aircrew with the Huey...

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I can't say I've ever played IL2, so I'm kinda partial to the ED version. There are thousands of 'Hitler Rants' out there, but only one that gets you weekly Friday updates! :smilewink:

Nailed it. I've been a commercial helicopter pilot since 2002. I have flown piston, turbine and twin turbine helicopters all over the world. I can absolutely promise you guys that VRS and SwP are two different things. I know the FAA doesn't academically recognize the difference (although any non-US publication does), but if you ask any helicopter pilot in the real world to explain the difference to you, they will.

You guys can derail a thread faster than anyone I've ever seen. Does anybody even read the forums before they post on them anymore?

Pour l'amour de dieu.

"Bumping" an old thread to revive an aerodynamics terminology issue that's driving me up the wall. Both the UH-1H product page and, more recently, a post from one of the testers has used the terms Vortex Ring State and Settling With Power interchangeably. This is the aerodynamic equivalent of misusing you're / your. Technically settling with power isn't actually an aerodynamic issue, so let me explain. Think of driving along a highway in your 1987 Ford Tempo. You come to a very tall, very steep hill. You want to drive up the hill at 100 mp/h, but the ol' Tempo only has enough power to move you up the hill at 87 mp/h. This is basically what settling with power is. You're still in control of the machine, but due to the limitations on the machine, you can't get enough performance out of it to arrest a rate of descent at a given airspeed, temperature, etc. Same example in a descending helicopter from 100 feet at 20 knots and a 500 ft/m descent rate and 80% power applied. In this situation, you decide to pull 100% of your available power. You still have a descent rate of 100 ft/m. You are not in VRS, but you are settling with power. Unless the wind changes, or you use forward cyclic to gain airspeed (but lose altitude), you will contact the ground with a descent rate of 100 fpm. Not ideal. In this situation, you probably wouldn't get into VRS because of how low the rate of descent is. Vortex Ring State Okay. Settling with power can absolutely lead to Vortex Ring State. Vortex Ring State occurs when three conditions are met. High rate of descent, low airspeed and powered flight. (ie. You can't get into VRS in an autorotation.) The quick and dirty version is that you're moving down too quickly and at such a low airspeed that you're descending into all that nasty air the blades have been beating up trying to keep you aloft. Here's the long version. "If the helicopter pilot chooses a flight path, airspeed and a rate of descent that coincides with the aircraft’s downwash, the helicopter could enter a condition known as the Vortex Ring state. The stall condition formed by the rate of descent flow in opposition to the induced flow, combines with the tip vortices present in all regimes of flight to produce a turbulent rotational flow on the blades and an unsteady spanwise shifting of that flow. This condition induces a very rapid rate of descent, vibrations, excessive flapping and a reduction in cyclic authority that could result in an accident." The recovery for VRS is similar to the recovery from settling with power, although some of the symptoms for two conditions are different. But Chris, you've explained this so succinctly, I don't know how anyone could confuse the two? I know Timmy. I know. Tl;dr Don't use ****ing wikipedia for science. SWP is when the power required is more than the power available. VRS is falling into unstable air.

Cold and dark start without the manual. I'll be posting that to the YouTube of course. I already have a mission made with a lot of static objects around an airfield to practice turns around the tail and all that good stuff. I'll probably put together a basic YouTube tutorial and explain some of the physics too. I know there are training missions, but I think I can bring a lot more to the table than the cookie cutter training missions.

That's exactly how I read that too.

My condolences to his friends, family and colleagues. Very sad news.

Hitler is furious.