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The aircraft turns just fine. You have to bear in mind that it can easily get outside of its limits, but as long as you practice pay attention to speed, angle of attack and keep her in the envelope including user of rudder the MiG 21 is every bit as agile as her infamy would have you believe.

The aircraft designers thought the same thing. It's extremely handily placed within easy fast reach of your right thumb on the stick.

There it is! Told you I'd miss something ;)

Combat maneuvers more than tactics.

You're all very welcome, and thanks very much to Leatherneck for giving me the chance to take a look and make it. As I said in the video, hopefully not long now before everyone gets their hands on this beast.

Yup - the grin has been permanent since first jumping in. LOVE this aircraft.

For now.

Thanks for the support guys - I do appreciate it. I am not putting the video back up. I will certainly let those who want to see it have access to it, but it will remain out of sight. My reasoning here is not the heat it seemed to generate, both in terms of comments on my channel, likes and dislikes on the video itself, and of course debate in here. This is only the second video I have ever pulled, the first being because I actually got threats of physical violence (yeah I know - insane!). I pulled this one because it seemed to me that there was an extremely high chance that I had missed something and thus it was a factually incorrect video. It's kind of like putting up a video saying "Game XYZ Simply Doesn't work" only to later find out your monitor was turned off. So, I'm doing more research than I would normally do in a first impressions video right now and will release another first impressions later. I am taking Boomer's guidance on board since unlike most of the developers and many of you guys he actually deals with Real helicopters every day. I'm also watching closely the other threads and comments in this one actually qualifying why the stuff I found in my video is actually correct, at least in part. Ultimately what I'm after is ascertaining if I was simply being a noob (despite hundreds of hours in other Helicopters on X-Plane and with my own RC ones), or something else...... Again thanks for the support... (edit) and feedback

Thanks for your feedback, but no I didn't troll you guys. That video was my honest opinion after spending quite a lot of time with the product since release. In fact, I was also one of the first people to live stream it after release. Regardless as I said, it appears I must be missing something here so down it goes, and back to the drawing board go I.

You know what, I'm pulling the video down, so apologies to newcomers that click on the link in the first message since that won't go anywhere. It's looking very much like I made some pretty poor mistakes in this video and as a result give a possibly incorrect view of the current state of the beta. So with that in mind the video is going down, and I'll revisit it at a later date. Many thanks for all the feedback, and apologies for those who's blood pressure rose unduly.

Not a problem at all. In fact, I'd like to address a few misconceptions if I may. First, and perhaps most importantly, this is a First Impressions video (one in fact that I'm considering taking down as I have no desire to offend a bunch of people). If you go through my channel you'll see that First Impressions are invariably just that - a view into what your first impressions may be should you also fire a product up. I *ONLY* do first impressions videos though on products that I actually really want to spend a lot of time with and they are nearly always followed up with highly detailed in depth tutorials that, frankly, you won't find anywhere else. For example my 737 series with over a quarter of a million views now, and the rapidly growing airbus series. Second, I have flown a lot of simulated helicopters and no, not in FSX. This felt very very wrong to me on many levels, but as I said I'm not a Huey pilot so I'll take it as read that I must have just made a mistake here. To that end I will be spending a lot more time in it (and as I said in the video I personally am very excited by this product and its potential). Happy to take on board constructive feedback and more than willing to completely change my view of something if I'm wrong. Not so keen on trolls and hate mail though - I've worked very hard to keep that YouTube channel troll free and a source of good information. This particular video, it's sounding like, is not a source of good information so I'm sitting here pondering what to do about it.

Thanks, I'll check them out.

Thanks will certainly do that.

Probably right and I'll certainly be paying a lot more attention to that in any subsequent videos looking in detail at this aircraft. Thanks for the feedback.

Agreed - sloppy control, over correcting - I think I even said that right at the start after I screwed up the take off.