External Laod View??

[AG-51_Razor]

Is there a key command for a vertical view of the load below the helicopter? Specifically, I am asking if there is a key command for a view of the ground directly below the helicopter so that I can see where the cargo is below me in order to get stabilized in a hover above it so I can pick it up.

[Looney]

Well, there is no cargo camera if that's what you're looking for.

 

What is available though, is a cargo indicator. Check the key bindings and you should assign a key to it, if not done already.

When requesting and selecting a cargo, when you're near the cargo, press this key combo and in the top right of the screen a "radar" display will show up in green with a red dot depicting your cargo. On the right side, there is vertical position indicator showing the alloweable height band.

 

[AG-51_Razor]

Awesome Looney! Thank you. Yes, I was asking about a cargo camera but this should do just fine. :thumbup:

[bkthunder]

This isn't useful at all when you want to unload the cargo on a precise spot, which is the fun part.... I wish there was an actual cargo cam like on the Uh-1.

Yes, I know that IRL the pilot doesn't see the cargo, but unfortunately in DCS we don't have the luxury of an actual human to give us precise indications, and even with multi-crew (if it will come on the mi-8) I would still want to be able to do it alone or in single palyer.

[AG-51_Razor]

I couldn't agree more bkthunder! :thumbup:

 

IRL, most utility helicopters are equipped with a bubble window that the pilot can lean out into and look straight down to the load and ground below in order to perform very precise sling load operations. That is what I was hoping for, a view straight down from the left pilot's window.

[Martillo1]

Haha, precise cargo unload is the thing that gives me more headaches these days. Small zones less than 100 m in the bottom of a bowl valley with aleatory winds and no smoke markers :joystick: :juggle:

[Flagrum]

This isn't useful at all when you want to unload the cargo on a precise spot, which is the fun part.... I wish there was an actual cargo cam like on the Uh-1.

Yes, I know that IRL the pilot doesn't see the cargo, but unfortunately in DCS we don't have the luxury of an actual human to give us precise indications, and even with multi-crew (if it will come on the mi-8) I would still want to be able to do it alone or in single palyer.

But we have an artificial human that does that in the Mi-8 - iirc AlexanderT's mentioned that feature in his Hip-news thread. Or is that feature not implemented, yet?

[C6_Hellfrog]

trying to mod for that Vertical Cam , I started from HU1H files.

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/Devices_specs/Cargo_cam.lua

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/CARGO_CAM/CARGO_CAM_init.lua

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/CARGO_CAM/CARGO_CAM_base_page.lua,

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/device_init.lua

in that last one you have lines

369

creators[devices.CARGO_CAM] = {"Mi8::avCargo_Camera",

LockOn_Options.script_path.."Devices_specs/Cargo_Cam.lua",

{}, -- inUH1 you have {{"RADAR_ALTIMETER",devices.RADAR_ALTIMETER}},

""

}

and

430

creators[devices.EXTERNAL_CARGO_SPEECH] = {

"Mi8::avExternalCargoSpeech_Mi8",

"",

{{"HeadWrapper",devices.HEAD_WRAPPER}}

}

 

I can have a window on screen, can move it location,as on the Hu1H, but it stays black without anything inside it.

seems strange, should work...

 

anyone else trying on that ?

Edited June 5, 2016 by C6_Hellfrog

[AG-51_Razor]

I would hope that Belsimtek would just do that for the Mi-8 as they did it for the UH-1H. I can't think of a single reason for doing it for one and not the other :doh:

[Looney]

trying to mod for that Vertical Cam , I started from HU1H files.

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/Devices_specs/Cargo_cam.lua

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/CARGO_CAM/CARGO_CAM_init.lua

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/CARGO_CAM/CARGO_CAM_base_page.lua,

 

Mods/aircraft/UH1 or Mi8.../cockpit/scripts/device_init.lua

in that last one you have lines

369

creators[devices.CARGO_CAM] = {"Mi8::avCargo_Camera",

LockOn_Options.script_path.."Devices_specs/Cargo_Cam.lua",

{}, -- inUH1 you have {{"RADAR_ALTIMETER",devices.RADAR_ALTIMETER}},

""

}

and

430

creators[devices.EXTERNAL_CARGO_SPEECH] = {

"Mi8::avExternalCargoSpeech_Mi8",

"",

{{"HeadWrapper",devices.HEAD_WRAPPER}}

}

 

I can have a window on screen, can move it location,as on the Hu1H, but it stays black without anything inside it.

seems strange, should work...

 

anyone else trying on that ?

 

You might want to post this in the Mods section of the forums, perhaps other people can help?

 

 

On a side note, using the CTLD script will allow you to drop smoke markers, different colours even. I use them in our traning missions to get wind direction prior to drop-off.