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I don't know if ED tweaked fuel consumption, but I did this test when Hind first showed up.

Your nose will still drop a small amount since T channel is still slightly below neutral. It means AP is inputing nose up to keep your trimmed attitude. Like I said, hold trim release until you are stable at attitude you want to keep. Once stable, let go of the trim and press it again and tell me what happens?

We already covered this in another thread. Watch what your autopilot is doing and what it is doing when you press trim release. And read this again: At the begining of the flight, your stick is in the center position, same as your in-game stick. For sake of this discussion, let's say in hover your nose is 5 degs up from the horizont. Let's say that for forward flight with no AP (nose is now level with the horizont), you would need to push your stick 5 mm forward. But because of the AP fighting you, you need to push it 8 mm. So, it's 3 mm too much. You press trim release, let go of trim release and return your physical stick back because you have to, AP resets. But in-game stick is still at 8 mm forward position. That's still 3 mm too much(because AP is not fighting it) and what is causing nose down(let's say it is now 3 degs below horizont, AP is now fighting it to bring nose back to level, that AP input is what stops nose from dropping further) moment again and again. Try holding trim release instead until you are stabilised in your new position, release, return stick to center and try pressing trim again. If you AP is neutral, you will get no movement.

It becomes a muscle memory to hold trim when doing anything. Problem a lot of people have is that spring joystick is a lousy control for a helicopter. Real stick is somewhat hard to move with trim engaged (it should be called brake) and easy with trim release. So you learn quite quickly to use it.

I think this part is just written bad. It should say :" After presing and releasing trimmer button............After that, any further deflection of the joystick will be added........." Just try it, I did and that's how I know it works as I said. You are confusing center trim option in DCS and Hind AP. You are not the first one, AG and me had this same discussion with a bunch of people over time. @BIGNEWYmaybe you guys should do a bit of a cleanup of manuals?

OK, but what exactly is a bug? Link you posted links to a post that says there is a bug and it will be fixed, but what is it?

For the record, I have spoken to real life Mi-24 pilot. This is exactly how trim works in Mi-24. Lixma, issues you are having are easy to solve. As AG said, AP is fighting you when you push nose down from trimmed position. Once you press trim release that AP input is gone and your nose starts to drop. You have only nose down input now. If you take your time and observe what AP is doing, nose will stabilise at some lower position after you let go of trim release because AP is fighting it again to regain new trimmed position. If you press trim release, nose goes down again. And it goes on and on. Why is that? This is a problem of a flight simulator (not just DCS, but any simulator) in combination center spring joystick. Your joystick is the cause here. Let me explain. There is a misconception that with center trim option in DCS, stick will stop working as soon as you press trim release, until you return it to center. That's wrong. It will work until you let go of trim release. At the begining of the flight, your stick is in the center position, same as your in-game stick. Let's say that for forward flight with no AP, you would need to push your stick 5 mm forward. But because of the AP fighting you, you need to push it 8 mm. So, it's 3 mm too much. You press trim release, let go of trim release and return your physical stick back because you have to, AP resets. But in-game stick is still at 8 mm forward position. That's still 3 mm too much and what is causing nose down moment again and again. Try holding trim release instead until you are stabilised in your new position, release, return stick to center and try pressing trim again. If you AP is neutral, you will get no movement. Listen how much pilot is pressing trim release in Mi-8. They are doing the same in Mi-24. As for the link shwed posted, I would not take that Ka-50 video as a reference, since we don't know what mode it's SCAS was in. It works differently in certain modes.

If controler is dead, Windows would not register a thing. Since it can sense something is plugged, it means power is going through, but not data....ergo, bad cable. Had same thing on another device.

Probably bad cable.

I and a lot of others got burned with nice videos of Afghanistan map, only to be let down by "it's EA and WIP". This one will have to wait until enough feedback about how it really looks.

You want your AP channels to stay centered as much as possible, to give them biggest authority. Mi-8 is doing almost the same, just not the aircraft. Flight engineer is constantly tunning AP channels. For obvious reasons, Mi-24 must do it differently. AH-64 SCAS is quite similar in its behaviour. One way to work around this is to use trim hat. It will change aircraft's attitude without affecting autopilot.

I hope it will be a better release than Afghanistan.

That is the idea ED is using. And it's a fine idea. Issue here is that they removed what was working before before they implemented their new idea. And now we are stuck with this until ED fix it. Another issue is that we have no idea how long it will take. And I'm not sure ED has an idea of how long it will take.

If I ask when this will be fixed, we'll get standard "we are working on it, when we have something to share, we will". So, ED, can you work faster on it?

You can just disable data export?

Just jump into front seat and show him how it's done! Seriously though, logic is flawed, but I have a feeling that Hind development is all but dead. Chinook is taking all the manpower at the moment, and once that is somewhat finished, it will be something else to work on.

I'm just guessing here, but I think he asked whether "airspeed to DISS" is normal mode of operation. Answer is no, that switch stays down, unless your Doppler is broken.

I have tested it last night and it works both ways.

Constructive feedback is that it sucks.

Not sure if there is a difference in SP vs MP, but in SP I can start both engines at the same time

As long as you have enough rotor RPM to actually control the helicopter during autorotation, you will have MPD's on and you will have Nr indication. As for your second issue, I'm just throwing a guess here, but it seems there is an issue with ground mesh/colision model.

I'm not sure which is correct mode of operation, but it starts working once you are moving. One thing I did notice with Hind's DISS is that it does not show when it is operational and when it is in memory mode, while Hip's memory light is working as intended.

Yeah, it's fixed. Tested with Huey and Mi-8 with static objects as cargo. Altough, some objects are still bugged, for example L118 artillery. It jumps up and kills me. Tested both in MP and SP. Ammo crate, barrels and bombs cargo work fine. Also, there are some sync issues. Screenshot was taken by a friend, for me it looked normal.

Check your cockpit camera shake settings in special options for the 64

How dare you to not agree with the how OP thinks it SHOULD BE? On the other hand, he does have valid points on some other stuff.