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We all know how we have an autopilot in Huey. Not a real autopilot. It's just other pilot helps and takes control for a while etc...

 

In similar way, why doesn't Mi-8 has an autopilot feature? It would be nice while struggling with Garmin Navigation or weapon switches, for example...

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You have the SAS/autopilot. As long as you trim out the stick it will hold you very stable. No need for a cheaty autopilot

 

 

pretty much this, I have trimmed her out , activated SAS, went to drop kids off in pool and she was still flying on course 10 mins later

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Top tip: bind whatever you use in other aircraft as your trim hat to the pitch and roll channels of the autopilot and you'll be able to fine-tune such a perfectly straight and level flight path that other trim systems will skip right past being green with envy and land somewhere in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.

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We all know how we have an autopilot in Huey. Not a real autopilot. It's just other pilot helps and takes control for a while etc...

 

In similar way, why doesn't Mi-8 has an autopilot feature? It would be nice while struggling with Garmin Navigation or weapon switches, for example...

 

As the other guys have said I guess.

But to give an additional plausible reason why it doesn't have something similar as the Huey, if my memory serves me well (it not alway do, that bastard!) the Garmin nor the playable gunner position existed when the Mi-8 was released.

But then again, the cocpit has a great number of other switches and buttons and dialers to distract you from actually flying...

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We all know how we have an autopilot in Huey. Not a real autopilot. It's just other pilot helps and takes control for a while etc...

 

In similar way, why doesn't Mi-8 has an autopilot feature? It would be nice while struggling with Garmin Navigation or weapon switches, for example...

Garmin? :huh:

 

Why do you need a Garmin when you have a DISS-15? :noexpression:

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I don't know whether people need those autopilots, other than when occupying a side door Gunner (and hopefully in future the rear gunner) and you can't be in controls.

 

Flying a Mi-8 is easy in VR while you operate all other buttons etc. The hip doesn't go crazy so suddenly and does fly so nicely and smoothly without trimming or autopilot.

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I don't know whether people need those autopilots, other than when occupying a side door Gunner (and hopefully in future the rear gunner) and you can't be in controls.

 

Flying a Mi-8 is easy in VR while you operate all other buttons etc. The hip doesn't go crazy so suddenly and does fly so nicely and smoothly without trimming or autopilot.

 

As you said - they need them "when occupying a side door Gunner (and hopefully in future the rear gunner) and you can't be in controls".

An autopilot that could fly an indicated path & maybe jink / avoid fire / use CM would make behind the Kord a reasonable place to sit...

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Just set cyclic and type in the chat box on multi player normally get a good 30 to 60 seconds before I need to correct. ;)

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Yeah, I don't find the mi8 to be hard to control at all. If anything its a bit too docile for my taste. I didn't even know there was an autopilot in the huey, how do you turn it on? "A"?

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Never done that in the Mi-8, really, but at least with the Huey it is no trouble to use a door gun and still fly at the same time. In fact, for a long time I found it preferable to using the auto-co-pilot, since it enables the player to evade fire or adjust position. Admittedly the UH-1 allows for a lot more forward visibility from the gun ports.

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You have the SAS/autopilot. As long as you trim out the stick it will hold you very stable. No need for a cheaty autopilot

 

yep, this is all you need in MI-8. The superbly designed automation is strong and reliable and requires no cheats like the wayward freedom of choice all over the place western helicopter designs. It is as simple as that!


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I do know all those things written in those 2 pages guys.

 

I just wanted to say that just like in Huey, I may want other pilot to take control (fake-autopilot) and then I can focus on some other adjustments etc. etc.

In multiplayer game, if we see multi-crew in Mi-8, you will able to do some weapon preparation etc. I want to do that in singleplayer.

YES! I can trim her out and use SAS systems etc. I already know that...

 

What I'm trying to say was different. I mention not an Autopilot like in Ka-50.


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I do know all those things written in those 2 pages guys.

 

I just wanted to say that just like in Huey, I may want other pilot to take control (fake-autopilot) and then I can focus on some other adjustments etc. etc.

In multiplayer game, if we see multi-crew in Mi-8, you will can do some weapon preparation etc. I want to do that in singleplayer.

YES! I can trim her out and use SAS systems etc. I already know that...

 

What I'm trying to say was different. I mention not an Autopilot like in Ka-50.

 

Agree. The problem is that the Huey “Autopilot” was misnamed from the onset. It should have been named “Copilot Mode”. Indeed, if your DCS Huey copilot is dead, the Autopilot mode is disabled. I don’t feel that wanting the same feature in the Mi8 is unreasonable.

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...“Copilot Mode”...
Oh! That's the term. Thanks. :)

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