While we wait for chucks guides

[sublime]

Anyone who speaks Russian or is really familiar with the equipment could help here.

I have the English pit and trying to use chucks mi8 guide for the hind isn't working really well.  Can anyone help with for example radio controls - what does setting the radio to 'comp' do etc.

If anyone wants to help a huge help would be describing what the different settings for the radios and nav equipment would do. (Amongst other things lol)

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by sublime

[sublime]

Hmm comp is for radio compass eh? Lol

Would still really like any knowledge available to be shared.. whether it seems obvious or not it may not be to many people.

I'd really like to know how to navigate using the ark. 

Also front bttm right the Doppler control panel..  I presume you only enter that info if you want to calculate drift from say a long flight leg?

During start up when it says correction set to right what is it reffing?

 

[S. Low]

All I know is that I hated radios in the mi8 and it’s looking like I’m going to hate radios in the hind lol.

 

You might want to try Grim Reapers YouTube channel for mi8 Doppler tutorial.

[lmp]

The radios are very similar to the ones used on the Mi-8.

 

1 hour ago, sublime said:

Can anyone help with for example radio controls - what does setting the radio to 'comp' do etc.

 

This is something we've seen in I believe all the Russian/Soviet aircraft in DCS. The OFF/ANT/COMP/LOOP switch selects the operating mode of the ARK-15 ADF. Comp stands for compass and is the normal operating mode. ANT and LOOP enable the sense or loop antenna only and are used for testing the set or tuning to a beacon frequency (you might get a clearer signal if only the sense antenna is receiving). Besides this switch, the ARK-15 panel contains frequency inputs for the two channels, a channel selector, a VOICE/CW switch (CW would enable the BFO, leave this in VOICE in DCS), a LOOP button for testing the loop antenna in the LOOP operating mode and a control button. This last one is new and I believe it allows for switching who has control of the ADF set (the pilot-commander or pilot-operator) - but I haven't tested it.

 

The ARK-15 drives the "1" needle on the HSI.

 

To listen to the ARK-15, move the rotary selector on the intercom panel (below the ARK-15 panel) to the ARK-15M position.

 

In addition to that, we also have the very same R-863 radio that we had on the Mi-8, though there is no manual frequency input - only preprogrammed channels available. This is your main radio for talking with your wingmen and ATC. Controls for it are between the ARK-15 and landing gear panels. Big red knob for picking channels, AM/FM switch, and three switches above the channel selector for enabling squelch, enabling guard frequency monitoring (if this set has this feature, the one in the Mi-8 didn't) and I forgot what the third one is. Probably a switch to listen to the ADF simultaneously - didn't work in the Mi-8, probably won't in the Hind.

 

There's the R-828 set, which we already had in the previous two Russian/Soviet helicopters. Panel for it is all the way back on the left side. It's used for talking to ground units primarily, FM only, VHF. You can look it up either in the Ka-50 or the Mi-8 manuals. The tooltips I believe use it's codename ("Eucalyptus") rather than the R-828 designation.

 

There's the YaDRO set, panel to the left of the ARK-15 panel, controls identical to the ones in the Mi-8 - look it up in the manual. This is your long range, HF set.

 

There is the ARK-U2 set, which is another radio direction finder that can be driven by either the R-828 set or the R-852 emergency radio. It's panel is below the R-828, it needs to be enabled and then the radio source needs to be chosen with the three position switch. I don't know if the middle position does anything.

 

The R-852 radio is a VHF/AM set with four preset channels:

1 - 114.116 MHz
2 - 114.333 MHz
3 - 114.583 MHz
4 - 121.5 MHz

The controls for it are way down, below the intercom panel. There's a channel selector and a volume knob.

 

1 hour ago, sublime said:

I have the English pit and trying to use chucks mi8 guide for the hind isn't working really well. 

 

I encourage you to read not just Chuck's guides, but the Mi-8 manual. That's where I got most of the information above. The only thing I had to look up was the R-852 frequency list, because the Mi-8 has a slightly different set. Chuck's guides, as great as they are, only give you a very surface level knowledge of the module and if that's all you depend on, you'll never know your aircraft well.

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by lmp

[YeaImRota]

This playlist by vsTerminus is the best collection of videos I’ve found on the Mi-8 systems. He has a couple videos on the ARK and Doppler navigation systems that are shared with the Hind. 
 

 

[sublime]

10 hours ago, lmp said:

The radios are very similar to the ones used on the Mi-8.

 

 

This is something we've seen in I believe all the Russian/Soviet aircraft in DCS. The OFF/ANT/COMP/LOOP switch selects the operating mode of the ARK-15 ADF. Comp stands for compass and is the normal operating mode. ANT and LOOP enable the sense or loop antenna only and are used for testing the set or tuning to a beacon frequency (you might get a clearer signal if only the sense antenna is receiving). Besides this switch, the ARK-15 panel contains frequency inputs for the two channels, a channel selector, a VOICE/CW switch (CW would enable the BFO, leave this in VOICE in DCS), a LOOP button for testing the loop antenna in the LOOP operating mode and a control button. This last one is new and I believe it allows for switching who has control of the ADF set (the pilot-commander or pilot-operator) - but I haven't tested it.

 

The ARK-15 drives the "1" needle on the HSI.

 

To listen to the ARK-15, move the rotary selector on the intercom panel (below the ARK-15 panel) to the ARK-15M position.

 

In addition to that, we also have the very same R-863 radio that we had on the Mi-8, though there is no manual frequency input - only preprogrammed channels available. This is your main radio for talking with your wingmen and ATC. Controls for it are between the ARK-15 and landing gear panels. Big red knob for picking channels, AM/FM switch, and three switches above the channel selector for enabling squelch, enabling guard frequency monitoring (if this set has this feature, the one in the Mi-8 didn't) and I forgot what the third one is. Probably a switch to listen to the ADF simultaneously - didn't work in the Mi-8, probably won't in the Hind.

 

There's the R-828 set, which we already had in the previous two Russian/Soviet helicopters. Panel for it is all the way back on the left side. It's used for talking to ground units primarily, FM only, VHF. You can look it up either in the Ka-50 or the Mi-8 manuals. The tooltips I believe use it's codename ("Eucalyptus") rather than the R-828 designation.

 

There's the YaDRO set, panel to the left of the ARK-15 panel, controls identical to the ones in the Mi-8 - look it up in the manual. This is your long range, HF set.

 

There is the ARK-U2 set, which is another radio direction finder that can be driven by either the R-828 set or the R-852 emergency radio. It's panel is below the R-828, it needs to be enabled and then the radio source needs to be chosen with the three position switch. I don't know if the middle position does anything.

 

The R-852 radio is a VHF/AM set with four preset channels:

1 - 114.116 MHz
2 - 114.333 MHz
3 - 114.583 MHz
4 - 121.5 MHz

The controls for it are way down, below the intercom panel. There's a channel selector and a volume knob.

 

 

I encourage you to read not just Chuck's guides, but the Mi-8 manual. That's where I got most of the information above. The only thing I had to look up was the R-852 frequency list, because the Mi-8 has a slightly different set. Chuck's guides, as great as they are, only give you a very surface level knowledge of the module and if that's all you depend on, you'll never know your aircraft well.

 

 

Hopefully we will get a full English mi24 manual

Edited June 21, 2021 by sublime