Free Mi-24P Campaign : The Dawn Of The Soviet-Afghan War

[dggoofy]

I’m glad you like the campaign. I mostly create missions to fill a gap—there wasn’t much out there. They’re my style, with all their strengths and flaws. I’m happy to share them, but I get it if they’re not everyone’s cup of tea. No big deal, though—you’ve always got my blessing to tweak them and make them your own!

[Raffi75]

I'm not saying it's bad. I have this thing where when the subtitles come on, my eyes dart away for a moment to see what's flashing. It's my little ADHD.   I look forward to more missions from you, I'm having fun with them.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Mission 2 after-action report:
 

Spoiler

I think I must have missed a few triggers. After WP1, I got the option to choose short/risky or long/safe - I chose long/safe since I felt responsible for the Mi-8 too (and was in a sightseeing mood) But after the "too late" (to change your mind) message, nothing happened in terms of communication until I got to valley at Bagram. I did follow the route correctly as far as I know, and stuck to the centre of the valleys as warned about in the briefing.
I also never got the trigger to change radio frequency to Bagram Tower (I couldn't hear their broadcasts so I only saw the subtitles). I also had a pitot tube failure (froze over I bet, even though my anti-ice was ON the entire flight), but I landed on 21R as instructed behind the Il-76, taxied to C10 and shut down - and ended the mission with a score of 100. So all's well that ends well, but it still feels like I missed something 

 

1 hour ago, Raffi75 said:

I have this thing where when the subtitles come on, my eyes dart away for a moment to see what's flashing

Subtitles are outside of my normal field of view: I actually have to look up and to the right to see them. But perhaps it's different for different headsets.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

On 7/9/2025 at 1:55 PM, Raffi75 said:

The only thing that bothers me is the helicopter's position marker on the map. It's in the wrong place, but that's the fault of the Mi-24 module or the Afghanistan map, not the campaign itself.

I had issues with that too, for the first time in the module. Normally I have the Greben in MAG, but I figured with all these mountains around there's probably some interference (I actually don't know if that's modelled), so I switched to GYRO but that didn't improve matters in a noticeable way.
DISS-15 is known to have problems in mountainous regions but I wasn't using that...

[Raffi75]

3 hours ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

Mission 2 after-action report:

Subtitles are outside of my normal field of view: I actually have to look up and to the right to see them. But perhaps it's different for different headsets.

I don't think you missed anything. I flew both routes. Nothing special happened. Just a regular flight to the airport.

I don't have VR.

 

3 hours ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I had issues with that too, for the first time in the module. Normally I have the Greben in MAG, but I figured with all these mountains around there's probably some interference (I actually don't know if that's modelled), so I switched to GYRO but that didn't improve matters in a noticeable way.
DISS-15 is known to have problems in mountainous regions but I wasn't using that...

During normal (real-world) flight procedures, you synchronize in MAG and then switch to GYRO. I fly in GYRO. I also check the magnetic declination setting in the copilot's cockpit.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

42 minutes ago, Raffi75 said:

During normal (real-world) flight procedures, you synchronize in MAG and then switch to GYRO.

By the book, yes. I read that in reality pilots preferred MAG.

[Raffi75]

@Raven (Elysian Angel)I just remembered. You mentioned icing. Did you have the pitot tube heater on? I'm thinking about the switches on the left side. I once forgot to turn it on before a flight. It took a while to warm up.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

7 hours ago, Raffi75 said:

Did you have the pitot tube heater on?

I did not, and because the anti-icing panel is only labelled engine anti-ice, I looked all over the cockpit trying to find a pitot heater but didn’t see it. I also looked for a rotor heater but noticed an indicator with 4 sectors which seemed to be just that, and it was operating. I had the battery heater on too… 

Time to take out the manual and look for the location of the pitot heat switch…. Oh… oh wait…

*edit*
Just found it in Chuck's Guide. Time to fly the mission again (this time I'll take the short route) and see if it works

Edited Thursday at 07:34 AM by Raven (Elysian Angel)

[Raffi75]

@Raven (Elysian Angel)The anti-icing system should be turned on when the outside temperature is +10°C. Pitot tube and clock heating as needed.

Edited Thursday at 08:37 AM by Raffi75

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

6 minutes ago, Raffi75 said:

@Raven (Elysian Angel)The anti-icing system should be turned on when the outside temperature is +10°C. Pitot tube and clock heating as needed.

I'm aware. I simply never needed it until now.

[dggoofy]

15 hours ago, Raffi75 said:

19 hours ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

Mission 2 after-action report:

Subtitles are outside of my normal field of view: I actually have to look up and to the right to see them. But perhaps it's different for different headsets.

I don't think you missed anything. I flew both routes. Nothing special happened. Just a regular flight to the airport.

 

Indeed... The mission 2 is set as you should take the shortest way. As named, the longest is... long. Nothing happens. But it should give you 100% at the end anyhow.

In the opposite, the shortest is full of dialogues

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

7 minutes ago, dggoofy said:

In the opposite, the shortest is full of dialogues

I opened the mission in the ME and I saw the triggers along the short route. I'll do that, then  

[Raffi75]

1 hour ago, dggoofy said:

 

In the opposite, the shortest is full of dialogues

Yes, the dialogue is interesting. I didn't want to reveal that to Raven.  I was only writing about random events.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

1 hour ago, Raffi75 said:

I was only writing about random events.

That's what I gathered. But I was specifically referring to radio triggers and random conversations with Petrovich: if you take the long route, you never get told to switch to the Bagram Tower frequency. I just did the mission again (3rd time), this time taking the short route and the trigger to switch to tower was there.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Mission 3 was...

Spoiler

brilliant too! Very immersive, and it felt great not having to babysit вампир-2. Them 23-mm guns are nasty though... During the flight engine #1 dropped rpm which caused overtorque on engine #2 to keep the speed up, which caused me to lose the generators momentarily until I noticed what happened to engine #1.
After landing the ground crew came over and complained about 2 bullet holes in the tail rotor. Uh-huh, I'm sure engine #1 is totally fine... nothing to see here, move along now...
Score 100 and a smile on my face. Well done!

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Raven (Elysian Angel)
Forgot spoiler

[Raffi75]

Colonel, hospital... Luckily I didn't have to report "Gruz 200".  Mission accomplished

@Raven (Elysian Angel)

Something's wrong with your post. The text in the second frame and the photo are missing.

Well, I wrote that it's great fun. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Raffi75

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

37 minutes ago, Raffi75 said:

Something's wrong with your post. The text in the second frame and the photo are missing.

Yes I wanted to get the picture behind a /spoiler too but it wouldn't let me. I fixed it as much as I could...

[Raffi75]

How did you manage to catch the racket? It looks bad. 

 

I got into the game and then it was over. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Raffi75