Mi-24P autopilot and weapons guides, + Aerodynamics

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16 hours ago, jojojung said:

Yes, that was also my understanding.
Thanks for explaining that in detail!
Then the most realistic option would either be to select the microswitches off by pressing on a button and only when your pilot would remove the feet from the paddles you deactivate microswitches, or to have a very narrow paddle movement input to deactivate the microswiches, because the system may register the light inputs when you have your own feet on the paddles, right? But then you will have to set a deadzone to get rid of the little paddle stutter inputs in center position for spring paddles. 
What would you select if you have FFB paddles which stay in position, like in the real Hind?
Happy new year and thanks again!

It is not practical in my opinion to have it like the “disable Microswitch by moving pedals from center” option, which presses microswitch only when pedals are moved 9% from center. And even if you made this deadzone say 1-2%, because when turning you often need the pedals close to center. Especially in left turns and the faster you go where flying straight might actually need left or right pedal depending on speed. 
 

People that fly with this  setting often find the Yaw autopilot fighting them as they do a coordinated turn, making flying imprecise. They then use more pedal to turn then needed, leading to excess drag and lower performance. 
 

IMO however your setup, it should be selected to stay microswitch on before you takeoff, and only disabled when you deliberately want it so at certain stages of flight you want it to fly straight, such as quickly taking yours hands off the controls or eyes off the surrounding area. 

I currently have the “Yaw Pedal auto move” off right now with my pedals that have a foot pressure microswitch installed, because I do not want SDV-5000OA unknowingly trimming the aircraft the few times I used heading hold 

If I had FFB pedals that stayed in position, but had no foot pressure sensing microswitch, I would still need some other switch or button to switch modes if I wanted to fly like reality where Yaw heading hold is off 99% of the time and Stabilization mode is doing almost all my Yaw channel assist. 

However that would be the one case I would use “Yaw pedal auto move on” is with FFB pedals microswitch or not. Because then you could FEEL the SDV-5000OA trim the pedals, they would move and stay where you leave them so if trimmed you can just move them back. Center would always be center no matter how much they had been trimmed and you would always have full authority (since trimming works in game by reducing authority of the side that isn’t trimmed) 
 

But since FFB pedals are almost never used and not really made in scale, the whole working of “Yaw pedal auto move/SDV-5000OA auto trimming when heading hold runs out of authority” becomes a nuisance and something that hurts more then helps

If everyone had FFB pedals, and with a microswitch, then people would probably have no problem understanding the use of the yaw autopilot because it would work completely intuitively, seamlessly, and perfectly.
 

  Since we don’t have that hardware, we have to struggle with needing to do things like have no pedal auto move because it hurts more then helps without the intended interface, or choose manual microswitch work because the default disable by moving from center mode is sub-optimal and something better yet automatic can’t be created since pedals aren’t made with microswitches

On Ka-50 the PPR option that disables heading hold when pedals are moved from center actually makes sense because your pedals stay centered at all phases of flight, and don’t get trimmed. Not so on an aircraft who’s speed to pedal relationship looks like this