scratching my head. For some reason, when I download the file, the filename is tutorial01.zip. So you mean, get rid of the .zip extension and rename it tutorial01.miz right? I think I got it now. Thanks.

light bulb over my head.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks PB! This is excellent!

also thanks to Mad dog for the pdf conversion.

gonna print this out and learn to kick some butt now!

would also like to add my thanks for this great piece of work, and the handy pdf conversion.

joe

Guys, I just noticed something strange! For days now I've been practicing hover hold maneuvers playing the Instant Action with no success. Whenever I enter a hover, the helicopter would slowly drift and eventually gain speed and will not remain in the hover.

HOWEVER, when I played the tutorial01.miz mission, I can hover and there is no drift! I'm using the exact same sequences in both the tutorial mission AND the Instant Action mission but I can hover in one of them and not the other. Could it be a bug with the Instant Action mission causing everyone to have a hard time figuring out how to hover? I mean, hovering was so easy to achieve with the tutorial01.miz mission.

Happy Hunting Everyone.

Here is my dumb question... Where is the auto hover button lol. Is it the "altitude hold" that is referred to auto hover?

Lalt-T is hover on/off. Altitude hold is a different function which is Lshift-A. Altitude hold is good to use when you are actually moving. Hover on/off works when you are stationary.

Anyway, thanks for this tutuorial Para_Bellum, thanks to you I can now take off, blow up tanks, and make cannon fodder out of the infantry, head home and land. It is an awesome tutorial. I think I may even be ready for a campaign.

Regards,

I'm no expert, but if you trim slightly pitch down in auto-hover, you will creep. What I do is look out the side window and if creeping, add a little nose up input and re-trim. The instant action scenario is interesting because it requires so much collective to maintain altitude. Not sure if that is due to having full fuel, weapons, and altitude, but the VSI definitely needs to be watched carefully. Also, pitch seems to change with weapons release, then return to stable.

thanks but there is no actual button to click to activate it? Is it available in the real KA-50 or an aid to make life simpler?

I have noticed the same thing with the instant action mission.

Try cancelling trim - Ctrl T - I think this interferes with autohover sometimes.