How to open the maintenance panels?

[JetCat]

Greetings pilots,

on YouTube I have seen that the new awesome Black Shark 3 has endless interesting maintenance latches to open up and look into the engine and avionics bay. Unfortunately I have no idea how this is done, is there a key or a hidden switch somewhere inside the cockpit to open it up and put it into maintenance mode?

[razo+r]

No, it's only doable by keybinding. Go into the controls and bind a key to it if there is not one assigned by default. 

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, JetCat said:

is there a key or a hidden switch somewhere inside the cockpit to open it up and put it into maintenance mode?

 

You can use the keys: Left Control + w

Another way is, if the mission is of your making, add this trigger to have the hatches open at start:

I'm attaching an example mission

 

Caucasus Ka-50 cold start.miz

[JetCat]

Thank you very much! Now I have to say the Ka-50 is the most impressive helicopter I have ever seen in any simulator. If someone asked me which heli is better the Hind or the Shark I can only answer: Both of them, always buy both of them

DCS is the first flight simulator ever making helicopters awesome interesting immersive and realistic. I haven´t touch any virtual helicopter since ancient Falcon 4.0 Flight Simulator 2004 and FSX times when dinosaurs where still grazing in the garden, now I fly helis almost daily since I have started that DCS Hind and Shark trial phase.

One can only hope such an impressive update that was done with the Shark is also planned with the Hind one day to be able to open maintenance hatches and other ultra-detailed stuff. Awesome!!