A couple newbie questions!

[Sharkster64]

No, I bought english version. Still has russian labels and pictures in russian in the manual.

[LastRifleRound]

Definitely learn autopilot first as said before. I still don't completely get it, but the FCS on that bird is so unlike anything I've flown before that it is absolutely essential you read anything on it you can.

 

Check out Evil's stickies on trim+autopilot before you do anything, as that's what really helped me. The manual barely explaines anything about it, and the tutorials never even once mention just what trim will do, though producer's note 10 is short sweet and will help you with this.

 

Auto-turn to target is an awesome feature to have enabled. There's a little trick i've found for lining up Vikhr shots on targets below your bird's nose:

 

1.) Lock target with Shkval

 

2.) Use the heading tape on the top of the shkval display to line the carat up with the line that notes aircraft centerline

 

3.) Fire when you get the "C" symbol in the shkval display.

 

The English manual does have all cockpit descriptions and pictures in Russian. You must remember the position of the switch, as it will not be labeled the same in an English pit

[nemises]

As for slowing to a halt.....you can be pretty agrresive with dumping collective and pulling up the nose...I'd say you can go from 200+ to 0 in less than 15 seconds ? .. havent tried to time or anything...there was a thread about it here tho wasn't there ?

 

Be aware of 2 things though when doing an emergency stop:

1) your rotor RPM will decay alarmingly, literally, possibly dropping out anything powered by AC when the generators stop generating due to low RPM;)

2) you better be ready to quickly add collective again as soon as you pitch forward and your sink rate increases, or youre headed for a vortex ring related ride...

[EtherealN]

The English manual does have all cockpit descriptions and pictures in Russian. You must remember the position of the switch, as it will not be labeled the same in an English pit

 

Or switch to a russian cockpit. :D

[AlphaOneSix]

The development of the flight manual was frozen well before the existence of an English cockpit. The English cockpit is a mod that we're actually lucky to even have. Of course, I'm certain if it had not been released with the game, then someone else would have made one in short order anyway.

 

I don't read Russian either, and I use the English cockpit, and I find the Russian pictures in the manual to be extremely helpful and I have absolutely no problem determining which switch/button is being referenced.

[EtherealN]

Aye,

 

and whenever one is confused - just activate the tooltips. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Or, if you -are- using the english cockpit, there are labels next to the buttons and knobs that say what they are. Combine that with tooltips and a few primers through the manuals and there shouldn't be much confusion left.

 

The key really is to combine the reading of the manual with practical exercises. Don't read the entire ABRIS section straight through and expect to know how it works next time you start the sim. Read a small bit, then test it out in-game and see if you got it right, then read on the next function and test that out, and so on and so forth.

[Sharkster64]

The development of the flight manual was frozen well before the existence of an English cockpit. The English cockpit is a mod that we're actually lucky to even have. Of course, I'm certain if it had not been released with the game, then someone else would have made one in short order anyway.

 

I don't read Russian either, and I use the English cockpit, and I find the Russian pictures in the manual to be extremely helpful and I have absolutely no problem determining which switch/button is being referenced.

What do you find easier to understand though, the producers notes or the manual. I'll bet you learned a lot more through the producers notes than the manual, just like I did. The producers notes you can watch and see how things are applied too the sim. I'm not saying that I didn't look through the manual and not find anything of help in there. I know that the majority of it is in english. I'm just saying I learned a lot more from the producers notes than the manual. The fact that the labels and pictures are in russian make you have to remember where that label is applied and what it means. I don't want to have to do that. I just want to be able to read the manual and know just by looking at a switch in the manual, what it means.

[Safari Ken]

What do you find easier to understand though, the producers notes or the manual. I'll bet you learned a lot more through the producers notes than the manual, just like I did.

 

Totally. The manual is good at telling you what things are, but the producers notes are definitely better at telling you how to use them.

[AlphaOneSix]

I'll bet you learned a lot more through the producers notes than the manual

 

I'm a bad example. ;) When I started paying, there were no producers notes and there was also no English cockpit (There were English tool tips, however). All I had was the manual.