Hydraulic systems fail together?

After another mission in which battle damage caused the failure of my hydraulics systems, I did some forum diving to see if it was realistic that I could fly for twenty minutes after both main and common hydraulic pressure went to zero. (It wasn't.)

That said, though, I found this thread from 2010. In posts 10 through 15 or so, there's a discussion of a bug: both hydraulics systems fail at the same time from damage, but they fail separately if set that way in the mission editor. It occurs to me that, in my most recent period of playing DCS games (from about May until now) I haven't once seen the Ka-50's hydraulics systems fail separately after taking battle damage.

It could just be that I'm horribly unlucky, and that every time I take damage, I take damage to both hydraulics systems, but I'd like to know if the bug from 2010 and BS1 was ever fixed?

After another mission in which battle damage caused the failure of my hydraulics systems, I did some forum diving to see if it was realistic that I could fly for twenty minutes after both main and common hydraulic pressure went to zero. (It wasn't.)

 

That said, though, I found this thread from 2010. In posts 10 through 15 or so, there's a discussion of a bug: both hydraulics systems fail at the same time from damage, but they fail separately if set that way in the mission editor. It occurs to me that, in my most recent period of playing DCS games (from about May until now) I haven't once seen the Ka-50's hydraulics systems fail separately after taking battle damage.

 

It could just be that I'm horribly unlucky, and that every time I take damage, I take damage to both hydraulics systems, but I'd like to know if the bug from 2010 and BS1 was ever fixed?

Interesting question. I have also noticed that if one hydraulic goes, the other will be right behind it without taking any more damage. I always figured it was just shitty design, but why have a backup hydraulic if it's gonna pump out fluid through the damaged main anyway?

It appears I have the same problem with the Su-25T - failure of one hydraulic systems leads to the failure of the second one - and, what is even more strange, the mechanical control system fails too.

If I recall correctly, the mechanical system doesn't fail, it just doesn't give you full control authority (to simulate the increased stick forces required). Watch the RCtrl+Enter controls indicator to verify that.

I have rarely had only one system fail, but usually both of them go together. That being said, it feels awesome to flip the landing gear emergency switch and have functioning gear again =)

I have no idea why they tend to fail together so often, but I have on occasion had only one of them go.