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No. Power is set at 100% and forgotten there.

First, make sure you are at full RPM. Second, slowly increase collective until helicopter starts to wiggle and then use as much rudder as you need to keep nose pointing in desired direction. You can not just yank collective and expect to get airborne in good order. Also, for start, try to fly with no weapons and around 50% fuel. Lighter helicopter will make it easier. One thing people seem to get confused about is that to keep your nose in one direction does not mean that rudder needs to be neutral. You will always need to push more or less of power pedal(power pedal is the one that fights helicopter's tendency to rotate in opposite direction of it's own main rotor). In this case, it will be left one. All this being said, if you are just learning how to fly helicopter, you took the wrong bird. It's kinda akin to learning how to drive a car in a F1 bolid. For pure basics, you can take Huey on trial for 2 weeks. That should be enough time to get the basics down.

Would you mind to show us your trim bindings and special options for Apache?

Sorry, I am not following what you are saying.

Isn't this how center trim option works?

I used the track provided by Apache64 to create miz file. Fog either at OFF or MANUAL makes George see the target. If you have flown on their server and George did not see targets, can you post a track file from that flight?

Nope. If anything, nose down would unload rotor and decrease angle of attack of the blades. I'll admit that I haven't tested it with Apache, but only helicopter that show RBS in DCS is Mi-24. IIRC, Apache has some crazy high RBS speed.

At what speed? Are you entering RBS?

I had problems with George not seeing targets at 5 km, looking east-ish at misty dawn with previous version. Even I could barely see the objects outlines from the front seat. Last night, George had no problems finding targets at clear dark night. Both missions were MP.

Tracking has nothing to do with firing HF Kilo. You do not need a laser to fire laser guided missile.

What are these?

You are correct in that regard, but you don't need laser to fire Hellfire.

It's probably trigger guard as Gunnar stated. LRFD is inconsequental for firing Hellfires.

EDIT: first I thought it's dust protection if it's a hot start mission. Then 1 engine spool down got through to me. Make sure your condition levers are in mid position. Also make sure DCS did not do some weird crap and bind something to that.

Both OP and Floyd stated that it would lag and then stack all commands at once, so bindings should be OK.

Maybe it's the campaign that is the problem? Did you try to create simiple mission and see if you can fire rockets there?

Did you try to repair DCS?

You're correct.

You can see in photo of your bindings that your collective axis is starting from the middle. It means that dcs will see only half of your physical axis as an input. Anyway, that's not really important. What you can do is to perform a slow repair and see if that fixes things. If it does, great, you don't have to do bindings all over again, if it doesn't you can proceed with what was already suggested.

I'm quite sure he meant it as a dig at ED and this long standing issue, not the Apache itself.

I notice that your collective is not set as slider, did you check for whole travel of your collective axis? Do you have any other helicopter and does this happen with those?

FLIR wide zoom and full deflection to the right. If you do it slower, at some point it will stop happening. For some reason, it only shows up on rotation to the right.

To be fair, there was no GPS in those days.

I do actually, it would bring in the money. Afghan map is already sold so no or almost no extra revenue in releasing missing parts. ED's business model is to pump out as much new stuff as possible to keep cash flow.

No. But you can fire it yourself.