Took me a while but as promised: Here's my first flight in the Early Access Mi-24P Hind Attack Helicopter by Eagle Dynamics. Sorry, no gun action but I'm once more shedding some rotor blades :) Enjoy!
Wonderful machine and representation of it in DCS, my favorite along the Mi8. One thing to note about the AP channel system, as most helicopters with such systems and the Mi8 as well its SOP to have these on all the time but the one in the Hind differs a little from the one in the Hip, where in the Hip the yaw channel is simply recentered with the trim button along all the other channels the Hind uses something they call pedal microswitch, its sort of a very primitive autotrimmer for the yaw channel, in the real machine when the pilot pushes down on the pedals he activates pressure plates on the pedals that activate a microswitch that disengages the yaw AP channel for the duration of input, once happy with the yaw the pilot slowly releases pressure on the pedals again, disengaging the microswitch wich in turn engages the yaw channel again but now centered on this new position and the pedals also stay in this new position. This is of course hard to simulate with sim peripherals as basically no pedals for PC have such a special system built into them so there are a couple options to handle this system hidden in the special settings of the Hind, I personally like to have the microswitch automatically engaged as soon as I move the pedals and manually release the microswitch with an addional button on my stick again. This whole microswitch/pedal/yaw AP thing is the reason you felt the helicopter fighting you in turns because the AP channel is actively doing so because it is engaged tries to keep the aircraft straight and level :)
