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Excuse me. Does anyone know where the term Huey comes from? I believe that would help clear things up. I'm a little fuzzy where did the term Huey come from? Anyone?

Saying the Bell 412 is and upgrade of the 204 or the 205 is about the most absurd thing I've ever heard of. The 204 and 205 while they may "look" similar is a 2 bladed, semi-rigid rotor, single engined helicopter. As a matter of fact can you even tell a 204 from a 205 or are they all just a huey to you? The 412 is a 4 bladed rigid rotor system, twin engine helicopter. The fuselage is diffrent, the engines, and transmissions are diffrent. The aircraft proformance, handling, flight carachteristics, equiptment, capabilities, GTOW, External load. UH is a Utitility designation for a helicopter. Stop letting the militarys terminology confuse you. The Bell 412 has more in common with the British Lynx than with any of the 204/205 models. Please stop calling a 412 a huey.

The Canadian Military doesn't use CH-47 anymore. The Canadian government in its infinite wisdom sold them all.

While I suppose I can understand the appeal of having it in another paint scheme why do you want it in USMC grey? The Marines do not operate 412's that I know of. They fly 212's but not 412's? Plus what do you think BAS would say to me if I asked for them to make a Canadian Blackhawk? Or a Canadian RECCE squad? Or JTF2? .....lay off powerslide, he makes canadian addons.

The Standard Huey is a Bell 204/205. Its got a semi rigid rotor system and 1 engine. The rotor which makes a hell of a thump. Makes it rather hard to do anything quietly. So its rarely used anymore. Plus the airframes are getting older, parts are harder to find ect ect ect. The Twin Huey is a bell 212. Same rotor system as the original huey with 2 engines. Similar to a 412 but only in a few area's. The 412 is a 4 bladed rigid rotor system powered by 2 engines. The advantage of this sytem is the aircraft becomes much more agile with the rigid rotor system, it can fly faster, the blade disc becomes slightly smaller allowing the machine to operate in tighter area's. So although the 412 looks like a huey with 4 blades it isn't. This 412 is Bell trying to make a North American version of the GKN Westland Lynx. Which holds the current speed record its also one of the few helicopters on earth that can both barrel roll and loop.......although I can't imagione why you'd want to do a loop in a helicopter. As for the blackhawk overall its a good piece of kit a superior to the 412 and both Hueys in many regards. However its loud as hell and much much too big for certain tasks. As the 160 SOAR found out in Mogadishu. Conflicts today are happening on a smaller and smaller scale your seeing more guerrilla style fighting on smaller scale. As a result trying to use a conventional medium helicopter in an uncontentional way can lead to disaster. I think Griffons would have been a lot harder to hit.

I'm planning on making a movie for my clan. We have a few guys who are quite good at scripting movies in OFP however I need a way to convert it to a windows media format. Is there anyone out there who can help me out? What I'm looking for is someone whom I can send a movie or Intro in OFP format and who can capture and or convert it to Windows Media Player format. Can anyone do this? I sure as hell can't.

Thank you I'll give that a try incidently if I can't get it to work could you perform the screen capture for me and convert to windows media if I sent you the map. I will try it myself but if I can't get it to work I'd sure appreciate it if you could try.

Won't work....screen capture like Fraps only works properly in windows mode. If you play full screen it bleeds off frames and the screen capture gets choppy. I tried this alrady my MSI Ti4200 128 GF4 works perfect with FS2K2 in windows mode but won't work at all with OFP in Full Screen Mode (or at least not very good quality) and since there is no way to play OFP in a small window that idea is pooched. However if you know of this to be diffrent on your machine with your tower then could I send an OFP map to you and you could try doing the a quick screen capture to see if the frame quality stays consistant? Or perhaps I could lower some of the texture qualities in OFP for the movie sequence to save on frames? However I'm doubtful that will work I think Fraps can't handle a full screen movie format like OFP even on low detail.

Click here This is a pretty kick ass site. Good pics plus descriptions about most of the US military equiptment currently available. Maybe your looking for an idea for an addon. Maybe your looking for pictures or a description. Or your just intrested in military hareware....check it out. Thanks again to all the Addon and Mod makers you keep OFP new and fun. Cheers,

Does anyone know where I can find an Nuclear detonation...or a nuclear Explosion? I've been looking for one for a little while and all I can find is Napalm. I require it to complete a Co-Op missions.If you do know can you post me a link to it here... Please Advise Thanks, Gaz

Put down the bong. Its messing with your head. I don't remember those being there at all.

Jesus she waits 2 hours and then freaks!! LOL Ok I've noticed the following.....you findings are correct, however 2 things that might be noteworthy are. 1) If the player is in the gunner position only you won't get a radar signature at all. Which I don't particularly care for. 2) If you use guns you can get a radar lock on an aircraft in flight which can be useful to allow you to position yourself in a way that you can knock the aircraft out of the sky with a rocket shot.

My suggestion is get with a clan and they'll have 1 or 2 guys that can train you to fly but you have to be willing to put the time in. Learning to fly isn't a part time thing and it never stops so you'd better make sure your in this for the long haul. (I'm sure there are lots of guys out there that are very capable who are not in clans... however I'd say the majority of knowledge and training material is in the clans right now. Know how to fly is one thing know how to teach someone to fly is quite another.) One of the best pilot's I have seen is Tex from USMC. He's very good but I don't know how active he is anymore. I suppose I could teach you also but I'm a little sheepish about dishing out knowledge that took me a long time to aquire. Also I'm quite busy at the moment so I don't know how much hands on help I could give you. But I'm willing to try. (In case someone reads this a figures I'm some cocky asswipe. I'm a commercial helicopter pilot.....so I think that over $40,000 worth of training intitiles me to be a little cocky.) Outside of either of these I don't know offhand about any suppliments or articles that will help you. I'd do appreciate your candor about this matter. I think there are a lot of guys that claim to be a hot shot pilot and then slam into a tree with 8 grunts onboard. Its nice to see that there are people out there such as yourself who are intrested in learning and progressing to a higher level. I'd try to get a hold of Tex from USMC or myself. He's the only guy I know of online who I'd trust to teach anyone.

Hello all I've been playing OFP for a little over a year and I'd like to start making movies in Windows media format, similar to the trailors that Codemasters and BIS release for flashpoint. I'm curious I've got some software which allows me to capture an area of the screen although quite small. I can make the video's work recording FS2002 in windows mode (if you record in full screen you lose frames no way around this with this particular software). Now I assume the video's that are made such as trailors ect, are made using an mission intro for OFP. No big deal there. However I am curious as to how you capture this from the sxcreen (or if you even need to) and then convert it over to Windows Media Player. Or are you just able to De-Pbo the mission PBO file and somehow covert the intro to Windows Media Format? Any advice, comments, or suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

Thanks for all your help if anyone else has any idea's or advice in this matter I'd appreciate an input you can provide thanks again.

Thanks.....what software are you using.....I don't have a second computer available to me and I too am using large .avi files to capture however the current software I use just isn't cutting the mustard. I make the movies for FS2002 in .AVI then edit slap on an audio track and convert to Win Media Player. As Win Media player makes the file much smaller and easier to transfer or host.

Thanks Avon. Actually I was expecting a post from you....just not so soon. lol One of my helicopter instructors back in 98 was ex-Isreali Airforce. Very good pilot.

I recall a few posts here some time ago regarding certain helo/realism questions I'll attempt to give you the answers as I think there has been some misinterpritation. Also I'm a commercial Helicopter pilot in Canada, so I think I'm qualified. As far as rotors hitting trees and not damaging helo's. Chances are in real life if you clip a tree even with a Bell 206 Jetranger (Kiowa) which is a relativly small aircraft. The tree will be destroyed and the helo will suffer little damage and remain flyable (although it certainly isn't good for them and it certainly pisses the Chief pilot and Engineers not to mention the Ops manager and Owner/President off) I personally have NOT done this however I have talk to a pilot who did it with a 206 and another who did it with a 407 (slightly larger but basicly similar to a 206/Kiowa) Also in helicopters you have 4 Controls. Collective: a lever by your seat which changes the pitch of the blades collectively (all at the same time). Cyclic: a "stick" which changes the pitch of the blades cyclicly (in cycles). "it essentially tits the rotor disc in the direction you want to travel" however due to gyroscopic procession you actually have to apply the force 90 degree's before you want the resulting action to take place. So if you move the cyclic forward you notice on North American helicopters, the swashplate actuall tilts to the pilots right...not forward. Throttle: A twist grip like a motor cyle on the end of the collective with the apperance of good governers even real pilots don't have to use these that much anymore. Controls the amount of power from the engine. If power required exceeds power available, then you crash and die...not fun. Tail Rotor Pedals: The main rotor will try to torque the fuselage to the right when power is being applied to a north american machine. To compensate for this you have a tail rotor which acts the same as the main although it counter-acts torque and in IN MOST helo's provides little or no lift. The tail rotor on the Blackhawk actually provides some lift oddly enough. When you apply left pedal to counter act this torque you rob power from the engine to do so. As a result if your coming in too fast or at too high of an altitude and execute a hard flare and try to do a left pedal turn.....you going to make a big smokin hole. Engine RPM and Rotor RPM are not the same thing. Power from the engine is supplies to the rotor through a transmission. Its a good thing because if not the blade would have to spin as fast as the turbine and they'd go supersonic and we'd all die. In powered flight the RPM's remain the same, however once you roll the throttle off the Engine RPM drops right off "as it is in essense idling like poping your car into neutral while going 60 mph down highway" The Blade RPM remain up because of inertia and the blades autorotaive properties. However the blade RPM will eventually drop off. The pilot must quickly make a power off (autorotation) landing. Helo's are actually much safer to fly in then fixed wings. When you lose the engine on a helo you only need about a tennis court sized area to land safely. In a fixed wing you need a straight flat field or road. Sorry this post is so long. I'll shut up now.