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[Praetorx]

I just picked this game up in the steam sale (I've played warthog) and have a couple questions.

 

1. Are there actual training missions? Instead of just videos

 

2. Are throttle and collective incremental? Seeing as they are set to buttons and the game won't accept my throttle stick as a button

[Nate--IRL--]

Just Videos.

 

Be careful not to confuse Throttle and Collective. Throttle should be set to Automatic and left alone. The Collective should be mapped to the Throttle on your stick. To do this make sure you are in the "Axis commands" section of the controls settings. See pg 19 of dcs-bs_gui_manual_eng.pdf in the Doc folder of Black Shark.

 

Nate

[Praetorx]

How do I set the throttle to automatic?

[Nate--IRL--]

How do I set the throttle to automatic?

 

Hit Pgup twice - see Pg 2-4 of the Flight Manual (dcs-bs_flight_manual_eng.pdf)

 

Nate

[joey45]

Page UP key twice..

 

sniped.

[BigfootMSR]

First off, welcome to the game.

 

I would highly recommend upgrading to black shark 2 though. It is unfortunately not released on steam. But, you can find it on sale here at the eagle dynamics web page.

 

The new release has upgraded a lot of the textures and other things in the game which makes it look amazing.

 

I have created several black shark 2 missions that are non video, in cockpit training exercises for the black shark.

 

-Happy flying!

[Itkovian]

The confusion here is that while fixed-wing aircraft will use a throttle directly, which control the fuel flow to the engine(s), helicopters have a THIRD control "stick", called the Collective.

 

The Collective controls the collective pitch of the rotor blades, and so directly affects the lift you derive from the main rotor. The throttle is actually sort of "secondary" to the Collective, when it comes to getting lift.

 

I'm not sure how it works for other helicopters, but for the KA-50 the throttles have only 3 or 4 settings, and so are just bound to button presses, not axes. Those settings are something like "minimum", "auto" and "maximum" power.

 

In normal flight, you want to keep the throttles at "auto", which basically means the throttle will be automatically adjusted to maintain optimal rotor RPM based on your current collective pitch, speed, and altitude (I imagine, I'm no expert in the mystical workings of the engine governors).

 

So when you are flying, all you need to do is set the Throttles to "auto", and you just focus on the collective to get more or less "power" (which is to say lift from the rotors, which directly translates into speed).

 

Just remember to not pull the collected too much, as it is possible to UNDER RPM your rotors (you'll get an alarm when that happens). Basically what happens is if you pull the collective to much, your rotor blades take such a bit "bite" out of the air that they're actually slowed down by drag. The rotor slows down, and suddenly your generators don't deliver enough electricity and your avionics will shut down. :)

 

Finally, another hint: if you're going fast and you pull a crazy maneuver, bottom out your collective. It will reduce the strain on the rotors and prevent rotor cone intersection. You'll know what that means when it happens to you. :)

 

Itkovian