Co-pilot mini guns and pilot rockets at the same time.

[Gunfreak]

Having read several books about Hueys I'm Vietnam,  including gunships. It seems the co-pilot Peter pilot controlled the minigun while the pilot did rockets and they appear to do ut at the same time. This doesn't seem to work in DCS guns and rockets are mutually exclusive. If the AI  co-pilot does his minigun thing. I can't use the rockets without deactivating the AI. And hit the rocket switch. 

[Tim_Fragmagnet]

This likely depends on the pilot - weapon interface
In our huey the weapon controls explicitly ask if you wish to fire the rockets or the guns

In this specific UH-1C the rocket controls are actually split from the minigun controls however the selector still only allows for EITHER the rockets or the miniguns to be provided with a firing signal.

 

 

Is it possible there were some hueys that could fire rockets and miniguns at the same time? Absolutely, knowing the huey's history they probably went through a bunch of different weapon control interfaces. However as it stands, for ours, being unable to fire the rockets and miniguns at the same time is correct.