Slippa

Ooh hello. I think it’s ready? It’s close isn’t it? I’m kidding. It does look pretty good though. Keep going

Well I didn’t hold out for long . I grabbed it last night and started binding buttons. Went through the cold start and rolled it out for a trial run. Feeling cocky I lined up and tried my luck. About halfway down the runway I might’ve over-compensated with the rudder and span it sideways for about a 1/4 of a mile before rolling backwards, still going at a fair lick. Poor Jester almost had a nervous breakdown but he’ll get used to me in time . Second time around I pulled it into the air and blasted away merrily, familiarising myself with the cockpit a bit but really just throwing it around. I don’t know what speed I was doing but I tried to frighten Jester out of his seat with a bit of inverted squirrel spotting over the forests. Lots of chatter from the back with pleas for me to behave myself then pats on the back for getting back on track, wherever that was meant to be? Things ended abruptly and quite toasty with the possibility of a little scorch mark here or there. OK, I torched it and I’m completely at fault. More again later . I have to say, initial impressions are that it’s bleedin gorgeous. I had no trouble going through the early bits with Jester, everything looks and sounds great so far and I’m chuffed to have it. Well done everyone at Heatblur, thank you, she’s Mustard. Looking forward to more of it. Though I’m not as old as some, nor as young as others, my concentration and memory levels are a bit frayed too and I can get in all kinds of trouble and regularly do. Better to try to exercise the muscle up top with these things and it’ll be a blast along the way. I’m only pleasure flying for now, trying to frighten Jester out of his seat a little but getting there. I’m waiting to see more RAF liveries for it as I know of someone that flew them operationally with the RAF for a bit. i could only find a ‘fictional RAF’ skin so far for it, I’m sure there’ll be plenty soon enough. Glad I’ve got it.

Hmmm. Promising, though I’m a skeptical bugger . I know what I’ll be flying later then and I don’t mind a bit. I’ve spent a while binding buttons and learning cold starts in jets and helis so it’ll be a break to go test flying. Hopefully . Would be chuffed if it’s better. Due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ someone in this thread succumbed to temptation last night after seeing some ‘suggestive pictures with RAF roundels on’ that may have been posted by someone else in this thread. Jester will have to wait in dispersal, I’ll have to check our Mossie out first . Hope springs eternal eh? Fingers crossed. Cheers for the pointer.

Maybe take a look at chucksguides? He’s posted comprehensive guides to a lot of modules with suggested bindings. Could help work out what to bind where, then it’s just a matter of practice to memorise. Enjoy .

You’re meant to gaze in wonder at all that while on the ground Q .

My technical knowledge being what it is I had to look that up . I could do without shelling out for another setup too so good to hear I should be ok, cheers.

I am, cheers Max. I’m also stringing along using Bootcamp on a Mac. Something about my system not being compatible with running Win11 and the fact that they’re pushing forward, seemed like I might be in a bit of a pickle soon? I don’t really know to be honest?

Well I’m kidding, I can barely fly choppers. Really looking forward to this one. I know nothing of em but it looks great, definitely one for the collection.

Or dare I say it, a livery manager? (Runs for cover ). I’m on Windows 10 too. I’ve had messages warning me my DCS days are numbered unless I upgrade. My setup won’t support Windows 11 so I’m unsure where I’ll be in a few months time.

I'm pretty happy with mine. I have the hydraulic damper too but found even on the easiest setting it's too stiff for helis so put it away for those. They're really well designed and put together, should last a while and take a good kicking. Enjoy .

Amazing ingenuity. ‘Well done’ doesn’t really do it credit. I’ve held off for now but you’ll have my money soon enough, I can feel it in my waters . It does look pretty good, amazing work.

^ Fair enough - the internet n all, no worries.

I’m just sharing my opinion. You seem to be looking for an argument with someone that I neither need, nor want, nor blah de blah . I’d use a livery manager if there was one. There isn’t yet but I’m not gonna get my knickers in a twist over it .

I saw this the day it was posted but don’t see the pic again now. Weird goings on with the pics for some reason. Reminded of the project as the Dambusters is on the telly . Any excuse. Wondered how this is going, any movement or plans for whatnot? What’s next on the list? I’m gagging to see this, I found a dam last night too with Lancaster written all over it. ED need to make it possible for both the blast and resulting floods though . Sad news from Coningsby yesterday, very sad indoors, missus quite upset when she told me. Spitfire wrecked, pilot killed, apparently engine failure on TO but early to say properly. Gutted for everyone.

Deleting stuff I don’t want, need, etc. etc isn’t a problem really for me. I wouldn’t mind a livery manager though either .

Don’t we all .

Phanomenal .

I’ve been flying this about on a training type mission (messin about) learning to control it better. It’s all been going ok until I crash the heli. DCS freezes the screen, sometimes still playing the alarm in the aircraft and I have to force-close DCS to break out of it. Had it happen more than a handful of times or I wouldn’t have mentioned it. I’d put it down to just one of those things but I’m wondering about it now. It’s fine until I crash it into something so maybe something’s reacting to that? Anyone else seeing this? Curious about the controls indicator thing I checked folders out, copied the controls indicator page into the oh-6a/cockpit/scripts folder and booted DCS. Now I don’t have a controls indicator anywhere . I’m doing magic tricks but have no idea how I’m doing the conjuring. It’s not that I really need one, just niggles me how I can bugger something so simple. Still, loving the Loach, looking forward to seeing what’s in the update.

This is what I’m on about. Instead of jumping on to the ‘next shiny idea’ they should make a proper job of what’s been started then move on from there.

Glad I tried em, it's so much better cheers.

I just tried these (after taking careful note of what I had already ). I had my pedals about the same but noticed you'd checked the slider and inverted them. I don't know if that's an oversight or if you fly very differently than I do but I left my pedals as they were (MFGs too ). Pitch, Roll and Collective I tried your settings. I use a Warthog TAS and had it set up for the loach the same as I have in the Huey. Taking off was always bit of a leap and run and I wouldn't have got an instructor to go near the airfield, let alone sign me off in one the way I was 'taking off'. The minute I started to hover after trying your curves I was sold. They're staying exactly where they are. I took off more or less properly and have much better control of it than I've had yet. Yeah, it's still a twitchy little thing and yeah, I may have just banged it into a tree doing slaloms but it's a hell of a lot better. Cheers for the combination , I still have to wonder about your pedals though .

Someone’s singing m’lawd, kum ba yah

*makes a note on the calendar.

I had a lot of trouble for a couple of days with it. I jumped in and hadn’t checked all the inputs thoroughly. Once I did it started making more sense. I can’t hold a hover and wouldn’t trust taking passengers. I’d definitely be grounded if anyone of authority saw the way I hang on to it but you can have a world of sport in it .

Since this seems to have brought a lot of people together, while we wait, let’s all have a sing-song? Who’s on guitar?