heh, nah, the regular unguided Hydras. Just since the last patch they can now fly due North/sideways/South. Because

Everything twice? Wow. I see the indoctrination has worked ;-) . You're right that I don't have any radio tutorials, other than touching on them in the data link tut maybe. I haven't revisted everything shark from the beginning - at least originally I only made a video if I felt that thing wasn't covered, or covered in enough depth before. Might do one later but it's not on the cards right now, unless I guess ED fixed it so radio works with SRS broadcasts in multiplayer and you could get a bearing on who's talking. One you switch with red rotaries, it has a standby mode for a "Guard" frequency receive only. The other you change mission pre-set channels and hold the white Tune button until the green light goes out. Or I guess release Tune early for some intermediate frequency. Then there's the ADF/Homing stuff which I think Pickinthatbanjo might have a video on.

I've had plans for ages on making new, updating videos replacing this one - both a slower pacing (not as extreme time-saving edits) and some new info, but just haven't gotten around to it yet. Will see if I can update CC's on this, but might not be that soon. Some of my later videos 3rd/4th-ish I changed the editing.

@@volkvoort thank you sir. I just purchased the KA 50 and your trim explanation really help a lot. I was struggling to keep it stable when I fly. I will be looking forward to your next videos.

step 4: profit?

Saw a post I think on the ED forums with them saying that's how it's supposed to work (with the springloaded caps snapping shut afterward).

The specific one is part of the Black Shark Den squadron's skins, so, no one I can share outside the squadron ;-)

Does Petro ID stuff at night as well as he does during the daytime?

@@volkvoort Nope, they appear as yellow, but turn red if they start firing. But normally its not an issue if you know you are in bad guy territory.

@@MrScar88 So at least an early heads-up from him then, beyond what you'd see with NVGs?

Well, maybe an increase in collective, with an accompanying pedal input to remain facing forwards would be the fastest to get out of the column of air, or rather have those columns no longer be exactly on the tips

Well, they do exist in real life, just replace them hiding in low-poly ground texture with vegetation I guess.

@@volkvoort Indestructible trees, broken frag modelling and non existent splash damage say hello

Only one dcs lol

Yep, there's definitely some things left over from 2008 still visible too :P

To be fair, they have made several graphical improvements since 2008. DCS World is an on-going project and constantly worked-on. The Ka-50, the helo he flies in this video, for instance, has been remastered twice. IDK what engine is used for DCS though.

The Black Shark module evolved into DCS World, which then incorporated the standalone A-10C module, Flaming Cliffs and grew from there. It's ED's own proprietary engine. I'm not running an exactly powerful rig, so the graphics haven't been bumped up to higher standards.

Yeah it literally is from 2008

tbo, I don't fully recall. I remember it's one of the South African hosted ones, but don't recall which one or the mission. Obviously a foothold/pretense-type thing.

Thanks for putting me on that track

100%. I usually like to do that as well, night mode and dim it right down along with the ABRIS and a few other lights when doing a mission. The footage here I often had it spawn in almost-ready and then just flipped the switches I needed to for launch, rather than fix everything for a full mission.

Thanks. FLIR camera existed but only on like 1-2 prototypes (including the glass cockpit version), but not the production model. Well, deemed-working FLIR cameras at least. There were various low-light versions tested.

@@volkvoort Well. Since the Iglas are more fictional than factual in the ka-50 "blackshark". Why not have a "more less factual FLIR"...

@@sigzauer touche

Thanks

Yeah. typically brightness up, contrast down on Shkval might see something. Cities with nasties hiding in them like Igladudes...even if it wasn't night-time....ugh

Might be your date is too early for satellite nav (think cut off was 1992).

@@volkvoort Close. It was because the coalition I'd assigned in the mission editor didn't include Russia!

@@inf3243 Good spot - I forgot there was some requirement for I think specifically USA or Russia to be on your coalition side.

IIRC older versions might have been.

Great. It does.

@@shadowfax9861 I'm assuming you meant the alt-left-click in the F10. Good to know it works for VR. Very awesome feature.

Default is the "O" key. Suggest binding it to your HOTAS if you have spare binds - it's used often.

There's a couple of Campaign missions in Caucasus that has you flying at some extreme altitudes - so, could be dust if you were hugging the slopes, but could also be Icing Failures. I couldn't get immediate results or theories on the parameters and burnt out slightly doing the dust tests, but essentially, if the outside temp is 1 degree or less (look on the thermometer on your canopy straight up), then switch on engine de-icing for both engines + rotor de-icing + both pitot de-icing switches. They're all at the top there with the dust switces.

a slight more than a 'tiny tad', but yeah ;-)