Hi FranKO.
It was fun flying with you tonight. Hope you enjoyed it despite all the exercises I asked you:
So we jumped into two cold Ka-50 and you were able to start it up. Great. Starting up a cold and dark aircraft is the best way to learn how it works. All our missions are starting with cold and dark helicopters anyway.
Then we taxied to runway 07 and line up. Good taxiing and good line up following my instructions. I think you didn't completely understood the beacon/torch procedure but that's ok. You'll have time to study that in our procedures later. Working on the radio communications though is important. But again, not necessary at the beginning.
We took off at the same time and flew heading 060 at 150km/h and 200 meters altitude. The moment I turned heading 240 you lost me and went the wrong direction. So we joined up at the airport again.
We took off with you in lead and you were able to maintain the heading/speed/altitude on a straight flight. Good. You struggled a bit when turning, mostly on maintaining altitude. Also, you have to use your collective to climb or descend if you want to maintain the same airspeed all the time, and try not to fly the KA50 like it is an airplane. Also, be more gentle on the collective because you were shooting up in the sky like a rocker sometimes. Try to train to fly at a constant speed/altitude/heading until you are comfortable with maintaining those with the Ka50.
The pattern went ok. You lined up runway 07 final and landed at the very end of the runway. As a general rule, always land with as much HEADWIND as you can (TAILWIND is bad for helicopters, not too much for the ka50 but very bad for all the others DCS choppers).
Then we went for some basic manoeuvering like landing in a circle. You managed to land inside the circle but you need to work on your hovering and landings. Once you got your hovering rights, landing should be easy for you. There is no magic in learning hovering, you need to practice again and again.
We went to the Tarawa then and landed there. You managed to land there well. No issue.
Language wise, we managed it alright so it was not as bad as you thought. I think it should be alright. If you are happy with all this and want to keep progressing with us, let me know here and I will set you up as trainee so you can start to fly trainings with us, access the library for you to learn our procedures and start your progression.
BaDCrC.
