DCS Ka-50 Black Shark - Walkthrough Sharking the SAMs

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00:00 Take-off before Take-off
03:30 Hold-Trim Nap of the Earth approach
05:39 ABRIS for pre-loaded threats & SAM threat areas
06:00 Helmet Recon & Slew Lock
06:17 Up Periscope! popup at speed
08:06 Radar Altitude Hold vs speed
10:35 Cobra! Sudden slow down into Hover
13:57 Vikhr time & resetting the laser, retrim hover for auto-turn, auto-turn off with HMS
18:12 Sideslip to spot things in the drift, switching off autopilot modes when you’re done, more HMS recon
20:07 Moar Vikhr targets, manual hover, little bit of laser
23:55 Datalink target saving and sharing basics
25:47 TOW missiles and escaping
30:26 Hack version of flight planning
32:00 Escape from hover is painfully slow
33:26 If Hover mode’s too low
34:41 Recalibrating Standby Attitude Indicator
37:37 Sneaky-sneaky with a Shilka
43:40 Cannon volleying
48:39 Tunguska & RTB
51:27 Not always being No.1 in your Werewolf Pack
52:14 Power & Maneuverability
55:04 Rudder vs Auto-Turn+Route mode
57:15 Pointing guns – auto-turn, heading AP channel off-on hover mode off-on
1:01:20 It’s a sign – RTB for real this time
1:03:20 Indicated vs Ground speed, Heading diamond, PVI-800 Airspeed
1:04:32 Hail Nobra! Small Vortex Ring State power recovery
1:06:57 HMS Slew-locking distances & doing it out canopy vs IT-23 screen

This is not a tutorial per se. I've received requests to show a more typical missions employing some of the techniques from the previous tutorials. This is a recording from the Low Level Hell Persian Gulf server. I've trimmed about 20 minutes of more level flight or recon, but otherwise one solo flight.

Throughout this mission I'm narrating what I'm doing and why, so if the previous tutorials didn't click yet on why one would want those techniques, hopefully this helps.
No, this is not the pinnacle of flying or situational awareness. You can do better. Also I'm resetting the laser prematurely even for ranging - depending on what I find from actually testing the laser's failure I may change this technique. Bear in mind, my flying is distracted by trying to teach stuff and narrate, so again, do better. I was also hoping to show off the applications of Helmet Slew-Locking, but often targets were either buried in clutter or the range & zoom levels weren’t conducive. But also because while I’ve used the helmet recon for ages, I only discovered Slew-Locking while experimenting for the Sniping video, so it’s not nearly as ingrained a technique into my flying yet.


Vegetate through the whole mission if you like, or use the timestamps where I happen to go through certain topics a bit more.

If I say “miles” anywhere, pretend I said kilometres instead.
Also when I said I use the keyboard for slewing hat, I meant my throttle’s slew hat has been mapped to the KU-31 slew hat under the keyboard column, rather than mapping it to the Slew hat under the Axis section. So I’m not tapping on my literal keyboard to slew, but rather just my hat emulates a keybind rather than full axis which for me is working better right now.