Remco

It'll get easier to hover once all the hold modes have been properly implemented, don't worry.

For the most part the type of people that you try to appease with this demo idea are the same type of people that will complain regardless. It solves nothing.

Both crewmembers are pilots

The fact your poll doesn't include "Preston" is shameful. I, for one, want my AI companion to be the greatest.

Its been what, 25 years since Jane's Longbow 2? I think we can wait another month to get it right

I've tried both of those (and others) and love the Virpil collective. Meanwhile, I'm just going to say it, the Winwing one is absolutely terrible. Its just a collective grip slapped onto their throttle tech which is clearly not designed to handle the offset weight. The only advantage that Winwing has is the modularity of taking the throttle grips of and putting on the collective grip when switching between airframes, and while this idea is great in theory, and there's nothing wrong with the Winwing throttle as a throttle, it just doesn't work well at all as a collective. The friction is subpar, and with the extra leverage of the lengthened collective you'll easily break the mechanism if you pull too hard. I'm not affiliated with either (I am with another company, however, hence why I tested them all ), trying to be as unbiased as I can here.

Well yes, but I'm not SF, I'm just a humble apache driver, hence I had to make do with Windmill. Worst of all we don't even get to use the Redskin callsign anymore nowadays because it gets the Americans knickers in a bunch...

Hope you're ready to take out that 2nd mortgage... If you can convince Bugeye to sell to you in the first place. Komodo is making replica Apache controls if you really want authenticity for a reasonable price (reasonable as in affordable to a simpit builder, and compared to bugeye, before someone jumps up at me and says how expensive Komodo is). That said I've personally gone with the Vipril collective base with Constellation Alpha-L grip because its the only option out there right now that gets you a joystick on your collective grip (for cursor controller) and I have to say it feels great, probably the best solution to get as close to an apache as possible right now without getting an actual apache replica stick or making one yourself.

Wags can only put out so many videos at ones, he just put out a number of F16 videos. Don't forget AH64 isn't the only thing they're working on, I wouldn't read to much into it.

Sound like a mission maker issue. I can't imagine a scenario more fun and exciting than a dynamic battlefield with friendly and hostile combined arms, hunting for tanks while avoiding the integrated air defenses, and hurrying your ass out of there before an enemy response hunts you down. If you're sitting in a spot plinking tank without any hostile counter someone making the mission has done a lazy job. Putting a few russian tanks on the map with a waypoint on them is not a mission, its a shooting range.

Well this is why we get two of them

Oh the old days when the Apache wasn't stuffed full of avionics. Gotta love Wikipedia just casually putting that slash between the A and D and pretending they're the same aircraft. For clarity, that's A model empty weight, VERY optimistic for a D. Longbow empty weight is 13,420lb to 14,070lb depending on with or w/o FCR.

Flightsimming is an expensive hobby, make sure your friend is able to invest into it if he likes it might be beneficial. I've had bad experiences trying to get my friends into DCS by buying them a module.

Meanwhile the most patriotic callsign I've had is "Windmill"....

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