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Can this maneuver be done without a complete main rotor overhaul afterwards? Or is the Hind build to withstand such forces?

I am still doing a few changes here and there for our beloved Apache to enhance details all over the cockpit. Upload will be in the next days. It is still not factory-clean, but very well kempt already...

So I am doing it wrong almost all the time? I am too clumsy and not experience enough flying sim helicopters to hold it stable while hoovering, especially on windy days, and therefore I almost always land with attitude hold mode + manual pitch control only with minus 400 feet per minute setting. (Or a roll-out landing with at least 30-40 knots forward speed like it was a Cessna.)

Hm it´s a helicopter. Helicopters usually don´t use autopilot. In reality it´s much more easy to fly, you sit in there and feel it with your body if it wants to spins a little bit, or if it starts to drift off, and you counter-act it´s movement by pure instinct with small smooth movements on stick and rudder. A simulator is always much much more difficult to fly than the real thing, because you just see it´s movements on a flat 2D screen without any depth, and this is way more difficult than feeling it and see your surroundings in relation to the cockpit around you in 3D, and constantly make micro-counter-movements on the stick and rudder with ease out of pure instinct and flying experience.

Not yet, I always forget to upload it. I was so preoccupied learning the Apache for weeks...

It takes a good amount of stick or rudder movement to override the hoover mode. It would be awesome to have tiny precise inputs possible while hoover mode is active for very precise aiming and landing.

I think I now know where the problem is! The rotor disk animation is inverted, it does the angling up of the rear rotorblades only when pulling fully backward on the stick. But in reality it is vice versa, the rear rotorblades shoult be angled upward when the stick is pulled forward. I have watched a few Apache starts on YouTube, and this also how the shape of the rotorblade disk looks like when taxiing the Apache forward on the ground. The angled upward rotor blades give the forward thrust airstream vector while the almost on horizon level forward rotor blades keep the uplift. It would be awesome to invert the animation to make it true-to-life again. Stick forward makes the rear rotor blade go up.

Range auto setting does not work as good as lasing a target. And the distance should be lower than 2km for precision.

Hi, I am glad you like my mod and sure I can do that. I have already planned it, but this will be an individual new upload and new mod with an "even more clean cockpit overhaul" because I like a little bit of wear and tear and two different cockpit options to choose from. Hopefully I don´t get too preoccupied with that new awesome Huey and Chinook release for a few days before coming back to the Apache. I wish ED brings a full new glorious next-level Huey too some day.

Only ED if you want perfect and photorealistic state of the art simulation technology

This forum never fails to impress me! I have never seen such aircraft technology enthusiasm that even rotor blade bending and warping is discussed. Now I begin to understand why DCS is the best helicopter sim you guy notice literally everything every small detail that is wrong and how instead these machines should behave. A true rotorhead enthusiasm forum

Many scenes in VR look kinda grainy (especially when using the Meta Quest 1.) I think this is a limitation of the VR internal headset resolution.

The same primer can be seen in Boeing and Airbus cockpits too. Zink-chromate, very interesting, thank you very much for this info

There kinda seem to be a bit of low interest in visual eye-candy, while in the other sims even discussions about "wrong" cloud formations in different hot or cold areas or a slightly off looking artificial horizon texture has a thread of ten pages three days later. For example the topic "Heatblur F-14 Tomcat rain is running sideways over the HUD" .... eternal silence for months since the posting was made some day in 2023. I was the only one answering a few weeks ago about having reported this bug to HeatBlur. Because if I don´t do that I doubt anyone else would care enough. Please don´t have the attitude "Hm a 89€ module has a nasty highly intrusive obvious visual glitch right in your face all over the front windshield, whatever, I best look somewhere else....." Such precious awesome simulated airplanes should look perfect IMO. Luckily the Apache does, and a few minutes ago I was admiring how awesome the Apache´s hydraulics and rotor system and tail rotor is animated. I have never noticed the rotor disk angle not changing it´s angle in-flight because I fly always cockpit view only, so thank you very much for mentioning this important realism-enhancing detail. Yes indeed it would be so cool making that perfect helicopter simulator even more perfect by bringing on more rotor animations like from your screenshots and early videos too. Such a perfect sim like the Apache deserves perfection. +1 because sure a little bit of animated rotor tilt on my favorite helicopter while the engine is running would be awesome for immersion, screenshots and videos edit: I was curious and needed to test that. Because nerd-talk about aircraft always makes me more than curious! Here we see that the rotorblades are perfectly animated while they are rotating, clearly visible is the changing angle of attack with the rear blades becoming more broad while the front blades stay fully flat when moving the joystick full forward and sideways on the ground. Both screenshots are from the same angle. This is a superb animation and outside of DCS I have never before seen such fine and realistic animations. But it is also true that the rear blades should move a bit upwards while pressing full stick forward, I have compared this to real Apaches and it looks like this:

DCS ist ein Schweizer Projekt. Also das mit dem EU-Recht hmmmm.... wird wahrscheinlich nichts. Aber besser als Refundierung wäre, wenn die F-15 (einer der spannendsten Hightech-Jets mit perfekten Systemen) doch noch alles zum Guten wendet, und Razbam plötzlich beschliesst den Jet wieder voll zu patchen und weiter zu entwickeln. Alles Andere wäre Schändung ganz grosser Kunst.

This doesn´t look like a visual glitch but a very high quality modeled double door in the engine nacelle. Probably a small door to have the Yokai, the Fox-spirit and the Kodamas a sneak-peek into the awesome engines after an exciting Aokigahara flight.

This can happen when the variomater indicator crawls down to more than -500 feet per minute when the Apache goes below 10 knots of air speed. The variometer begins to go down very fast the slower the Apache gets because oncoming air enhances the uplift, and slowing down rapidly takes away this uplift. In this case it´s the vortex ring state, and it falls vertically down with the cockpit frame shaking. In this case you must pull the stick forward to gain forward momentum, at 15 to 25 knots you will go out of the VRS. Coordinating the loss of uplift while slowing it down without getting into vortex ring state is rather difficult. The second quirk it sometimes does is suddenly pulling the nose up very radically (20° or even 30° of pitch) while slowing down, combined with falling out of the sky while slowly flying backwards. I think there is some rear rotor disk stall simulated, but I don´t know enough about helicopters (yet) to confirm that, or to know how to provoke rotor stalls. Yes having it fall out of the sky like a brick is possible, which makes flying it even more exciting

I think this value on the HUD is the torque the turbine axles are actually delivering to the main rotor mast, and not an indicator of how strong the collective stick is pulled up. (But not sure...) I could not even take off with the Hind in 40° last time in Nevada wow 50°C, absolute death sentence here would be a failing air conditioning. Is it even possible to breath at 50°C?

This is not an Apache bug, but a few objects on the scenery don´t have a simulated hitbox or damage model.

This is really a TRUE enthusiast, writing a 700 or 800 page long manual. Impressive!! I am sure he will update his Magnum Opus some day; in the meantime it is necessary to watch some YouTube tutorials and write a few own notes when new cockpit system functions and radar functions are added

The Apache is still very hard to fly and so I appreciate flying smoothness too.

This makes interesting flight maneuvers possible, like landing only with part of the helicopter and rear wheels only on a house roof and let a few guys climb out. Fascinating! Easy to fly (computer stabilization, fly-by-wire) is often nice when doing some more relaxed flying.

This is so epic with how much attention to technical detail the discussions are driven forward to bring these modules to absolute perfection. I use flight simulators since Falcon 4.0 from I don´t know 1998 or so, but I have never seen so much attention to detail and pure awesomeness like in the DCS-modules and this forum This attention to detail is all flight simulation is about! Always keep this spirit up and never let you drag down by paid trolls who have started to flood all simulator forums in 2021 to mock and openly ridicule everyone as "weaponized Boomer autism" and other terms who really loves realism, aviation and aircraft technology, realistic cockpit systems, realistic electrics voltage and ampere simulation, and other AWESOME aircraft physics realism and cool plane nerd tech stuff. To win some strange crusade trying to transform the flight simulation genre into a as shallow arcade multiplattform PEGI12 game and to ridicule everyone who has serious interest in planes and plane tech. I have learned more about helicopter physics in one month thanks to DCS and the Apache and of course the Hind too than my whole previous 20+ years of flight simulation! AWESOME!!