UH-60L Black Hawk Mod ("Official" Thread)

[Blackwood]

vor 14 Stunden schrieb MAXsenna:

@Blackwood Apologies! But this is a you problem. Like others have written, READ the manual. I had no issues with the first release of this module back in the days. Because I read the manual, before I tried to start it up. I always do cold starts. Also check for possible axis conflicts. 

I take it you're not native to English, (neither am I), and that's the reason you come off as a little entitled and demanding. No harm, lots of stuff gets lost in translation.  

Cheers! 

Thanks. Yes, I barely understand English. Except for a few words and sentences. Perhaps I expressed myself a bit unclearly. Sorry. Still, constantly reading "It works for me" or "Read the manual" instead of providing real solutions doesn't help anyone. To get back to the topic: If I'm flying the helicopter freely on a map, hovering the mouse over each switch, etc., and see that you can move those two black levers with the mouse, I assume you can use them in a cold boot. This isn't the case. So, my post was justified.

[H60MTI]

I'd try what you're talking about in game but my game doesn't even load right now so maybe someone can verify this for me...I'm assuming you need to right click on each of the PCL's once NG is on the rise to "click" the PCL into idle. I wouldn't try using the scroll wheel due to the fact you might go past idle. Try that and see what happens.

[Ithronwise]

Here is a short video that shows all the steps you need to do to cold start the engines:

 

[SolvableAlmond]

On 9/21/2025 at 1:34 PM, Kinkkujuustovoileipä said:

Read the sentence again

"Each provides roughly 50% of the control authority exercised by the system".

Ahhh… I get what you meant now. Yes, I should’ve read that more carefully. Also, I found the “Night After Christmas” poem in the FM file. Freakin’ hilarious. 

[PoliticalPuffin]

On 9/27/2025 at 1:36 PM, H60MTI said:

Googling the -10 for the bird

Hi there

I am a very old, ex Royal Navy matelot, so be gentle please. I've clearly already had enough  to last a lifetime  I agree with the post saying start by looking for the manual, watch vids etc. What I do not know is what does 'Googling the -10 for the bird'. It is the '-10' that I do not understand from that phrase. Any help would be much appreciated.

PS Please do not tell me to start with the manual for the internet...I'll probably past away by the time I get past the letter A

Cheers all,

Dave 

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, PoliticalPuffin said:

It is the '-10' that I do not understand from that phrase.

 

The manual of the real helo has the Army code TM 1-1520-237-10 ... shortened to "-10" by many users. In my opinion it is unnecesarily complex, you can perfectly learn this bird with just its 67-page DCS guide (DCS UH-60L Mod v2 Guide.pdf which is in the \Doc folder of the helo)

Edited Monday at 03:32 PM by Rudel_chw
added page count

[trev5150]

8 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

The manual of the real helo has the Army code TM 1-1520-237-10 ... shortened to "-10" by many users. In my opinion it is unnecesarily complex, you can perfectly learn this bird with just its 67-page DCS guide (DCS UH-60L Mod v2 Guide.pdf which is in the \Doc folder of the helo)

For everyone's general fund of knowledge: When flying the actual aircraft is your profession, that book is your life and you learn it cover to cover, because the information in it could save your life. 

Aircrews in well run units are quizzed on the information weekly on paper, along with system limits and boldface emergency procedures (written out, verbatim, from memory) annually as part of the APART process and with no-notice and post-mishap flight evaluations. 

I know this because I spent a major portion of my adult life as a civilian flight instructor and test pilot for the US Army. I trained soldiers to these standards and helped write that annoyingly complex book for the MQ-1C. The Dash 10 is necessarily complex because it is the single standard by which thousands of people will operate these aircraft across dozens of units over decades. The Book is The Book for a reason. 

[Rudel_chw]

23 minutes ago, trev5150 said:

When flying the actual aircraft is your profession, that book is your life and you learn it cover to cover,

 

agree ... but my prior suggestion is regarding a Simulation using a User Mod ... the DCS Guide is enough in that context.

[Bedouin]

16 hours ago, PoliticalPuffin said:

Hi there

I am a very old, ex Royal Navy matelot, so be gentle please. I've clearly already had enough  to last a lifetime  I agree with the post saying start by looking for the manual, watch vids etc. What I do not know is what does 'Googling the -10 for the bird'. It is the '-10' that I do not understand from that phrase. Any help would be much appreciated.

PS Please do not tell me to start with the manual for the internet...I'll probably past away by the time I get past the letter A

Cheers all,

Dave 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/uh60l-mod-2-0-138859868

Try start here

[Freakmeister51]

1 hour ago, Bedouin said:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/uh60l-mod-2-0-138859868

Try start here

The -10 or dash 10 is the official pilots manual for individual aircraft types. Each aircraft has a series of topics to segregate systems for the aircraft. The Dash 10 is the user manual, if you like.

[TheBiggerBass]

vor 8 Stunden schrieb trev5150:

I trained soldiers to these standards and helped write that annoyingly complex book for the MQ-1C

I even didn't know this manual was existing and just downloaded it for reference use.

Thanks!

[trev5150]

On 9/29/2025 at 4:54 PM, Rudel_chw said:

 

agree ... but my prior suggestion is regarding a Simulation using a User Mod ... the DCS Guide is enough in that context.

Which is why I said "for everyone's general fund of knowledge", the intent being to give anyone not familiar with with topic an understanding of the significance of the manual and how an aviator's life revolves around it starting from Day 1 of training. 

[Kev2go]

To offer some feedback the blackhawk canopy glass causes reflections at night. It makes it more difficult on the eyes to fly with Night vision goggles compared to other modules. I don't know if that can be adjusted but i hope it can. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Kev2go

[trev5150]

55 minutes ago, Kev2go said:

To offer some feedback the blackhawk canopy glass causes reflections at night. It makes it more difficult on the eyes to fly with Night vision goggles compared to other modules. I don't know if that can be adjusted but i hope it can. 

I've never been a fan of cockpit reflections. I don't think the sim handles it well. If it were a real reflection, you'd be able to focus through and past it as one naturally does in real life. Drive your car during the day or night and while you're driving around tell me if you ever saw a reflection of interior lighting and was unable to see past it at the objects outside of the vehicle. If that were the case none of us would be able to drive at night because the lighting would blot out our ability to see outside the car. And yet, that's what happens in DCS. It was so bad in the older models like the MiG-15 that they finally got rid of them or put a switch in settings to turn them off. 

[MAXsenna]

1 hour ago, trev5150 said:

I've never been a fan of cockpit reflections. I don't think the sim handles it well. If it were a real reflection, you'd be able to focus through and past it as one naturally does in real life.

I agree with this. I don't like the reflections myself for the same reason.

1 hour ago, trev5150 said:

Drive your car during the day or night and while you're driving around tell me if you ever saw a reflection of interior lighting and was unable to see past it at the objects outside of the vehicle.

Highly disagree with this. Not often during the day, while depending on the position of the sun and how the light hits you, (from behind in general), in the spring/fall where I live. It can definitely be so intense that the reflections makes it "impossible" to see through the windscreen until your eyes adjust. Not sure if this can relate to a fighter though. 

During night? Every time the kids turned on the interior lights. Luckily newer cars have have downlight spots which prevents this.

Of course this shouldn't happen in our modules. No kids allowed!