Rogue Trooper

Yes, my wallet is ready. If you look at the Apache cockpit it is just MFDs that pretty much run the entire show.... I would like to get these right from the get go. For me the price is ok, the Apache MFDs are quite unique so this somewhat limits sales to mostly Apache Sim Pilots. Although the Apache MFDs would certainly help if we got a KA-52!!! How high are the gates separating each button and any photos of that? I am a VR pilot only, the gates give a nice reference to where your fingers are when feeling your way to pressing buttons. Are the white lines from the centre of each button printed white or 3 dimensional and white?

Ultimately, the OP states what we want from our chopper co-pilots. It will be the same with "Burt" ..... our apache co-pilot. We want more interaction with our co-pilots.... same goes for the Gazelle, MI-8 and Huey. A kind of set coms standard for all of our pilot and co-pilot airframes.... a standard that will slowly grow in time with more complex responses to voice interaction.

It is all about the Mic! I had a nightmare using the kneeboard with my VR G2 head set mic! Now I have a pair of headphones that I bought on the Mic review alone.... kneeboard works perfectly every time.

looks like I will be taking the Viggen up tomorrow!

Yes Merry Christmas All.

For sure the Harrier is right up there as the best DCS jet.

It is good to hear that we are still alive with the OH-58D and Gazelle. It would be fantastic to get both of these light weight attack choppers into DCS proper and fully modelled! I am looking forward to a future of diverse Polychops choppers.... and hopefully an Eurocopter is in there somewhere. Merry Christmas Polychops and a happy new year!

It is available Hammer1-1, it is hard not to use such cheats, a head tracking Gatling gun system that the US of A would have spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing.... and is just available in the Huey free of charge. You have to laugh Hammer1-1! I laugh whilst tracking my skull onto targets, trigger hard pulled and walking fire across targets, my door gunners finishing off everything I missed. It is like a Hind V.... no an apache with door gunners.

I would prefer a Russian accent. Admittedly, IRL every one Russian I talk to on a technical basis are doctors or engineers, so they have the ability to learn the English language in its entirety and properly. always Enunciation is clear and concise. But even the lower educated Polish, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian accents pick up the English language perfectly and without trouble of understanding to a native English speaker.... to a non English speaker I guess this may be problematic. I love the song or rhythm in the way they speak English, a pure Russian child especially. It is almost like a brumy accent. full of song as the accent ebbs and flows. A Russian Accent in a Russian chopper is a must! But since playing with Vaicom pro and voice atttack, there is a whole new world that has only been tapped into by Heatblur and the F-14 and especially Vaicom. This must change quickly or ED will lose control of voice controlled commands and standardization, they will become the body being wagged by the tail.

VR or trackir slaving the Gatling guns to head movement ShadowNick?

The apache's data link that we will get between Apaches (and hopefully to some extent the Kiowa also) will be superb. Zones of fire can be defined quickly and efficiently and handed off to other apaches to ensure an efficient and fast large scale kill rate in the shortest time possible.. it will be superb. Bluefor identification will need slow and low time to fully evaluate the battlefield. Superb AI ground force comms via Vaicom/voiceattack would be awesome for choppers.... fast movers too I guess. .

They are all different and there is nothing I can think of to prepare you for the Apache.... simply because I do not know what to expect. If you have all modules then surely you have flown them all and have an understanding of chopper flight. The Huey is good for learning the fundamentals of choppers but has very little to compare with the Apache's weight class and its advanced rotor hub and blades. All modules will have taught you something to prepare for the Apache. driving the Hind to the runway will certainly prepare you for the Apache's wheel suspension. For me, it will be getting the tail sitting apache onto the runway, Its long tail wheel will create a long and unstable triangle between the front two wheels and that will need concentration of cyclic control when taking corners.... Once I am on the runway sitting stable and smiling like a jack a"s, I will raise the collective so the airframe goes wheels light.... and from there I will start learning . I cannot wait!

No..... no its all fair game in war. They are doing the firing.

A moderate texture upgrade would be fine for me, loosing FPS in this bird would not go down well in VR and it is too important a chopper to loose in my hanger.

100% agree with OP. It is a superb module.... but more than that, it is a very useful chopper to have hanging around. For me the MI-8 gives Redfor fantastic ability in such a superbly simple machine. The MI-8 seems to have gone down hill since the Hind, This does need to be put right. She does not even sit right on the Tarmac! She should be nose high and proud! I would love this sort of simplicity and capacity for Bluefor.... something with equal lift/troop capability and with ease of learning. I bet an old steam gauge Chinook or more modern Merlin would fit my needs nicely..... a Super Frelon would be weird.... would be interestingly weird.

Burt. Hey Burt... check for targets on our starboard bow. It Will sound great with Vaicom voice commands..... I bet it would be difficult not to say it like Ernie says it. Hey Burt.... kind of naturally leads into the mandatory pause before issuing the command. Hey Burt.... Cannons mine.

Better late than never. Happy Birthday Wags.

She is a lovely machine! Perfect in the way she rolls & dives through 360 degrees of movement! Without doubt the best chopper cockpit, crisp and clean but efficient in VR FPS. A pleasure to fly and take to war. The very module that formed the genesis of DCS world... remains perfect.

Yeah it will be excellent if the Apache D turns out to be more manoeuvrable than the Kamov due to its light weight. 5,165Kg sounds incredibly light in comparison to the Kamov. Of course we have 6 blades in the Kamov main rotor and no tail rotor bleeding energy from lift..... The Apache D has very weak engines of course, but apart from that it would be very cool if DCS BS3 and DCS AH-64 D school me proper on my wayward opinions.

But the designers accounted for this, It is all about the centre of gravity below the contra rotating 6 blades that makes the KA-50 a thing of loveliness. The power the pair of 3 contra rotating blades endows to the foot pedals is just something to behold. Foot Pedal Authority is just a thing in the KA-50... Yaw is just a seriously big axis in this machine! However, The AH-64D is massive warfare awareness weapon ......... Massive! A dog to get in to position for a firing solution when surrounded with Radar guided missile vehicles, no let me rephrase that..... Russian optical and Radar guided missile vehicles.... the very best ground to air defensive systems that can be fielded in modern warfare! I reckon the Apache has it.... I reckon the machine has got the lot to do the job.... the pilot is a different story mind!

Russian electronic kit, at this point in time, is also heavier. Russian kit does not benefit from global economics and globalisation of computer systems on an individual user basis, This massive investment in computer hardware and software applications simply propels western military electronic miniaturization in this time period. Russian electronic circuits weigh so much more and achieve so much less. In some ways, democratic financial systems offered so much more to the population and that drove their own defensive weapons to superior advancement. It is something a communist system will never be able to do....... unless it is Chinese! obvie!

Agreed..... mostly for the Kiowa, but the Apache will also not be so bad at offering such a service. Grunts in the mud can, for sure the Kiowa and Apache can with all their GPS and laser range finding thingy ma jiggs!

Seconded. Roll and pitch must be on by default, I learnt the same in the MI-8. For me yaw and altitude APs are just surplus to requirement and a rarely used unless convenient to do so! If you are learning choppers for the first time then you must use the joystick cheat positions image, you must know where your trimmed virtual cyclic is in relation to your real self centring joystick, it is critical! Perhaps start with the hover trim. Set the trim as noted in the starter guide using the joystick cheat. Concentrate on the hover..... Trim and note how it looks in the joystick cheat. From there get moving forward by slightly nudging the cyclic forward and then slightly nudge back to hover again. Small steps. You have chosen the best modelled chopper in DCS to learn Choppers, you are right in the deep end. Personally... I like that.

Sweet! Are you on the test team Remco or just waiting for our DCS Apache?

Just watching the second vid, helmet mounted sight vid again, For you it looks good? Seems to be little delay in turret movement, I guess this could be so with military Engineering.