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Yes. Here Папа is capitalized because it is the first word of the sentence.
In Russian, папа is normally written with a lowercase letter, just like dad in English when it is used as a common noun. You would only capitalize it at the start of a sentence, or sometimes in very personal writing styles.
So in the middle of a sentence, you would usually write:
Мой папа почувствовал запах газа.
Почувствовал is a perfective past-tense verb. It means something like noticed / felt / sensed at a particular moment.
That fits this sentence well, because the idea is:
- he suddenly detected the smell
- then he immediately checked for a leak
If you used чувствовал, it would usually suggest an ongoing state, more like was smelling / was feeling something over a period of time.
So:
- почувствовал запах газа = he noticed the smell of gas
- чувствовал запах газа = he was smelling gas / he could smell gas