sn00ze

All the answers here have been appropriate for me, but maybe in a future update or fix a different skin for that H model might work better, The Cav may be insulted with a slick painted with war paint. As far as landing for a rescue it was forbidden for a gunship to do that. There were a few incidents where a gunship did jettison it's pods and make a rescue, I guess it always remains with an aircraft commanders decision, even a 4 star general cannot give an order that would jeopardize a crew or aircraft for anything outside the basic mission, A/C is the last word in what happens and don't happen. Radios were more important than armament and it was the first thing you grabbed or destroyed if you were down, the guns were second. I think all the final work in DCS is very nice and believable, I have the Black Shark but in the very near future I will come back and start getting a few more things. I think my tally for destroyed Ka50's with my takeoff skilz is about 50......I should give serious consideration to staying in the back seat of that UH1H

I'm missing something here regarding this new release. If the new release was meant to fly in the 60's or RVN war theater I should tell you we did not use D's or H's as gunships, they weren't rigged or designed to be used as gunships. The only known used variant was an Australian version that did rig their aircraft to use gunship weapons. Originally the D and H did not have hard points to mount pylons for weapons, the center of gravity was so bad it would be very dangerous to even fly, they don't auto rotate well with all the weight behind center, the only safe configuration for the Australian versions had special hard points added so that the rocket pods could be mounted far forward, so far that the end of the tubes were almost even with the pilots doors. I haven't seen the theater this new release is intended to fly in, but as a former gunner on a UH1A,B and C it seems very odd to see an H in that role. The Army experimented with the Chinook being utilized as a heavy gunship, in a role that it could protect it's own, 5 were in combat 5 were lost! I just can't see that big bulky UH1H as a gunship, it's too big and is not a bottom feeder like the A B and C. The C was the larger used in my time but it was low to the ground and made you still feel like it was a smaller A or B. Very nice simulator regardless of the decisions made to hi light an H.:thumbup:

Hi, how do I re download Black Shark after a hard drive failure. I initially purchased it from DCS and received a download link notification. Who do I contact ?? sn00ze :pilotfly: