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[Sherry Galeazzi]

I am currently configuring Full-Controls & it works in all views but gunner view. In gunner view my joystick still controls the rudder (yaw axis) but inputs on roll and pitch axies are ignored. Mouse is set to: [relative control] under [Basic Settings]. I've tried the other settings with no luck so far.

For example: I play the Do 217 a lot, typically climbing to engage bombers (as this plane was built to do). Suddenly, some jerk in a small fighter is trying to hit the broad side of a barn (Do 217). I need to shoot at him!. Unfortunately, gunners have deadzones. Fortunately, airplanes can maneuver! With a decent arc of fire (like the Do 217's top gunner) it should be a no-brainer to maneuver so that the attacker is inside the limits of the gunner's firing arc. Unfortunately, I can't do that unless the plane responds to pitch & roll commands.

Anyone who's ever controlled gunners knows the feeling of the plane hanging out *just* outside the firing limits of your turret. A tiny nudge would easily remedy this. Let's be honest: with enough practice, you could hit a enemy on your tail with a fixed rear-firing weapon. Add the flexibility of a panning turret, and you've got a deadly deterrent against attackers.

I think the setting is in general options, not controls. Gunner autopilot or something similar to that, just have to set it to "no" or "off". There's another setting for autopilot in bomber sight mode, too.

You're right. There is an autopilot in settings which can take control of the aircraft while in gunner view. It does a fine job of getting you killed. However, that has nothing to do with maneuvering the airplane while in gunner view.

I want to FLY the plane and operate the gun turret simultaneously. As a commercial pilot, I can tell you without a doubt that CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) is one of the leading causes of major airliner crashes.

I've assigned the trim controls to the Num pad, and confirmed that changing the aircraft trim does in fact work in Gunner View (F6 by default). However, flying by changing the trim is about as effective as turning your car by leaning out the driver-side window.

This is a test flight of Do. 217 demonstrating evasive flight while firing. I've turned on smoke to demonstrate that this is *NOT* autopilot. Will obv. use in combat once I finish going through all the 100s of settings. Still haven't found the magic switch that disables joystick pitch/roll in gunner view mode, but have definitely experienced both states at this point.

At least that's what I do, have one hand on the mouse and the other on the stick. All I can say is make bloody sure the autopilot is turned off, since if it's on it will basically override you unless you move the stick a considerable amount.

I used to fly joystick, but I stopped because all I had was an attack 3. That being said I remember using the SB-2 like a Defiant. I would fly the plane with the joy and my brother would man the guns at the same time using the mouse.

April 29, 2009 Late last year reports surfaced of a modified radio controlled helicopter equipped with a .45 caliber hand gun, including a video of the RC copter doing target practice with live ammunition (see below). It seems the US Army have been thinking along the same lines, except this one carries a .338 caliber sniper rifle.

Most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like the Predator and Reaper are fixed wing aircraft which originally filled a reconnaissance role but have more recently been fitted with 500-lb bombs and Hellfire missles to tackle Hunter-Killer roles in combat zones. To limit collateral damage, especially in cities the US Army is developing a small, unmanned helicopter equipped with a powerful .338-caliber rifle and an autopilot system handles the tricky business of flying while the operator lines up the kill shot on a remote monitor.

The autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS) is based on the Vigilante 502 unmanned helicopter which is a much modified version of the commercially available Ultrasport 496 which is an ultralight class kit helicopter. Powered by a 115 hp 4 cylinder turbocharged Rotax engine the 1,100 pounds (500kg) UAV can fly at 117 knots (135 mph / 216 kph) for up to 9 hours with a ceiling of 13,000 feet (4,000 m). The Vigilante can carry up to 380 lb (172 kg) of payload which is enough for a medium caliber machine gun, a shotgun or in this case a sniper gun. The autopilot is based on a 266Mhz Pentium PC-104 industrial computer that gets it bearings using GPS, radar altimeter and magnetometer. Communication with the ground is via RF digital modems at 115kbps and has a 20 mile range.

Mounted onto this UAV is a lightweight gun turret developed by Space Dynamics Laboratory. The turret carries a .338 Lapua Magnum rifle and a situational awareness camera plus a scope with cameras attached that provides two levels of zoom. Control of the rifle is via a laptop computer with a Xbox 360 gaming controller used for aiming and firing.

The craft's creators have just won a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop their system for a real combat environment. Spear-headed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the team demonstrated GTMax's prowess last August at the US Army test site at Fort Benning, Georgia.

They will now be funded in two further projects. 'Renegade' involves testing part of the autopilot technology with a larger helicopter. In the second project, GTMax will be used as part of a larger team of unmanned vehicles to perform reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition missions.

A helicopter is more manoeuvrable than a winged aircraft and has the ability to hover, but these advantages are precisely what makes a chopper more difficult to fly on autopilot. It is much easier to lose control of the vehicle.

"These unmanned vehicles are usually flown very gingerly," says team member Eric Johnson, an aeronautical engineer at Georgia Tech. In contrast, he and his collaborators have focused on pushing GTMax to its limits.

For example, they ran tests simulating situations in which some of the helicopter's components had failed, which might happen if it was hit by enemy fire. In such a situation, the autopilot system might have to find a completely different way of operating the flight control mechanisms to keep the vehicle aloft. "It's like having to slow a car down without using the brakes," says Johnson.

The team has put GTMax through its paces in a range of tricky situations. They tested its ability to flee from an area as if suddenly experiencing a sniper attack. They took it into a low-altitude manoeuvre in a built-up area, out of contact with the Global Positioning System upon which it usually relies for navigation. And they made it hover by fixing its onboard camera on a particular window of a building.

GTMax, with its rotor diameter of just 3 metres, is perfect for surveillance and reconnaissance missions, says Johnson. The US Army is also looking at scaling up the control system for helicopters that are big enough carry humans, as well as installing it in a tiny, 2.25-kilogram vehicle. "Some things get easier as you scale the size up", says Johnson, "but some get harder."

I'm not sure how the autopilot landing functions exactly (I only became aware of it recently; never really used Arma jets before) but if it only lands the plane at the nearest airfield (my experience so far) it would be very cool from a mission-making perspective if a home base or preferred airfield could be defined for the unit. Otherwise you might get sniped over the AO only for the autopilot to land you right at the enemies doorstep. Perhaps a whitelist/blacklist for airfields per unit would both make sense. Or even more advanced, if you could define an onCrewDeath marker, so in the eventuality the dead man's switch is tripped, the craft returns to a certain marker, then performs an action (activate autopilot landing).

So, thoughts? Should a similar function exist (perhaps simplified) for UAV's (darter, new NATO autonomous heli) when their UAV connection is lost (but perhaps not on operator death)? I imagine you could simply enter autohover and slowly descend, and hope that you're in a clear area for it to be recovered.

Uav in arma 3 are really just invisible AI, technically its just a NPC which is stuck in purgatory inside the vehicle at least im pretty sure that is how this functions . the auto pilot is just the player movements being controlled by the AI while giving the player some controls such as head movement and few other basic controls. im sure you could just somehow script a invisible AI to pilot the craft if a set of conditions has been complete such as a dead pilot... however I cant really see this being worth your trouble in doing, personally if you hit a pilot i think the aircraft should crash because its a reward for shooting down an aircraft and a punishment for the pilot for not know the disadvantage of his craft such as flying a little bird up close against a section of infantry which is just asking to be killed. or flying a hind the pilot and gunner is invincible against small arms from the front while the canopy sides are weak and cant stop a pistol round point blank. one should learn the advantages and disadvantages of what the player is using and use tactics which is confined to those advantages this is what Arma is all about.

That's why I make the distinction between the new high-tech VTOL's and the old ones. Obviously a little bird shouldn't become sentient at the flick of a switch. Ideally this would just be a boolean in the vehicle config. My argument mainly has to do with logic. Autopilot Landing exists. Ability to check crew vitals already exists in our current timeline. Anyone with half a brain-stem would think to combine the two in this situation.

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