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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"....

The forums are a special place

True, but just to be clear we're talking fractions of a second here. 1111 pulses 20 times a second and in the higher range of PRF codes that's about halved, which is still a full guidance pulse every ~0.1 seconds. That said, we are still recommended to use the lower end of codes where possible just in case (which is why the default in DCS being 1688 amuses me). I'm assuming this isn't modeled in DCS at all though.

Negative, IR/FLIR fused sensor is an Echo only feature. Not so much an inherent delay, it responds practically instant to the point you don't notice a delay at all. It's just that the speed the turret can physically slew at is limited, so it may not keep up with very fast head movement. And in his video Wags is using trackir, which obviously gives you much snappier head movement than in the real world, so its easier to notice.

Let's not prevent ourselves from making fun campaigns because in real world 2021 civilian disposition in the regions we have available in game don't line up perfectly with whatever fictional war scenario we are trying to create. There's discussion to be had on levels of realism but this is taking it waaaay to far.

Laser defense as in laser jamming systems like Shtora, aka the T-90 evil eyes. That said I highly doubt that much detail will be modeled in DCS apart from the availability of codes in the 2111-5888 range, and we might be derailing this thread a bit

Pulsed Repetition Frequency (PRF) codes are the codes you are commonly used to between 1111 and 1788. Pulsed Interval Modulation (PIM) codes are 2111 and up. I'm not going to get to into the weeds on how exactly PIM works for obvious reasons but suffice to say it's a modulated laser code format designed to overcome certain laser defense systems. Both the weapon needs to be set to a PIM code and the designating unit needs to be capable of lasing PIM codes for it to work (which both K and up model Hellfire, and the Apache's TADS can do)

I for one have had my fill of COIN in the Apache, and will be looking to live the T-72 popping Fulda gap dream I've trained for but never got to do.

I'd be happy to help but I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, you're going to have to be more specific, which buttons are you trying to map? Also I have a sneaking suspicion this thread ought to be moved to the controllers and profiles subsection.

Considering its early access, it'll surely come out before that

True, but that'll be quite a bit easier to do in DCS without a heavy helmet on your head and the movement exaggeration of headtracking.

Hahaha d/w I'm just messing with ya brother. I always appreciate a good sassy gif though