Rogue Trooper

Phew, Maws is a must. DIRCM would be nice to have also but perhaps is not possible.

KA-50 BS3 will not get the president S defensive suite? Is this true or gossip? There will be nothing after the BS3 and Hind for REDFOR, perhaps some older airframes. BS3 needs to be as good as it can get!

I find once I feel the weight of the chopper after wheels up she is stable in the hover... very stable. But off course I am constantly adjusting but this is what chopper pilots do. I find I can hold a precise hover better than the Huey or MI-8. I do not know why but I feel there is much more modelling here than the older modules. (no curves on my 10cm extended Hawg).

Marianas has joined the channel map as a no go area for me. I am a VR Sim pilot so not really a surprise, I look forward to both maps in the future. Syria map will feed me in the interim.

I agree, if a slow approach is not possible or just boring then I treat the Hind like a WWII plane and use a turn or orbit of the airfield to bleed off speed. The rising nose just aids the turn when collective is dropped and re-trimming for a slower speed.

I would be interested to hear this also. Elevator to Hell, Going down! The Hind and the MI-8, will be the only choppers I learn this.

Did you create this Vid nazradu? What is the fps like in the Gazelle? 45 fps Sol? Sol = solid it also means solar day. Sol = 45 fps solid any day, every day.

That pilot really commands the nose of that chopper, for sure he is not rudder pedal lazy. Just awesome! It has been a while since I checked the BO-105 pages but everything looks awesome. I will be buying the Apache and I will be buying the Kiowa, but this girl will have staying power for me. Titanium rotor hub! Mmmmmm finger licking good!

yeah, when you quoted me, you cut out the bit where I said some good suggestions in this Vid. C'mon Hiob, this is Digital Combat Simultaion, we all got the slant on how to choose certain soundbites to influence a conversation in a specific direction.

Huey is a good start and teaches all the basics very nicely indeed. The Mi-8 is in a league of its own but some experience is required from simpler choppers like the Huey... for utility choppers, nothing touches the MI-8 in DCS. It is currently the best modelled chopper in DCS but the crown is starting to topple off its head. The MI-24 will be the best modelled chopper in DCS. The KA-50 is simply something very special. in its weight/weapons class, it is amazingly manoeuvrable. the Gazelle is the most manoeuvrable but more so it shows how Western Europeans think optical targeting is done in the modern battlefield... and I like the way we Europeans think.

On a rolling landing ensure as you slow down you replicate the hover trim (or hold) to distribute weight across the wheels. Do not drop your collective, ease it down, those thick short blades store so much energy it can be a whole new world of pain if not managed correctly! As the others said, pull back on the cyclic to slow down.... bleed the energy out of the airframe. Do not brake until slower.

Is gotsta say it guys. I have to.... Early access and WIP! EEEEEWWWwwww i feel the pain coming my way! But some good suggestions in the Vid.

I like the Gazelles method of coming back to the pilot position after the auto pilot was holding a hover. Polychops showed 2 Cyclic, pedal and collective positions on the joystick cheat, the autopilots controller positions were white and the gamers inputs the normal Red. The Gamers inputs were centred and the auto pilots offset to hold the hover. The gamer just needed to match the Auto pilots' pedal, cyclic and collective positions and then take control with minimal disturbance. I guess in the case of the the Hind you would take control "holding" Hover and not trimmed to Hover.

I am up to date now and installed the new SSA Beta a couple of days ago. The old software seemed to work just fine for a year and a half on my new PC. It recently started to cause problems.... as every one else is seeing. With every update, does the new install/update wipe the Vibration settings for each module or is there a way to save and reload the each modules settings? I think I know the answer..... no.

Superb map/miz file. Thank you very much evanf117.

Thanks f410. Good to have the Hind Vibrating! Does the SSA software not auto update? I uninstalled V 1.13 or V 1.31 or something around those numbers. Thanks again for your hard work.

Very clean hover landing, minimal roll on the wheels.

The Hind is a really superb module. The domed glazing looks brilliant, the best I have seen in a DCS chopper. She flies at speed like I thought she would, Very solid, stable and goes where she is pointed!. Well done ED!

I never carry the grenade launchers. I have tried them, but they just seem to be a waste of a perfectly good weapons pylon.

The Apache and KA-50 will not do much better Hot and High.... but they will be a little better.

Yes I could reproduce this on the Pitch AP. I flew the MI-8 as a comparison and once trimmed to take off in hover (stick back and right of centre), the AP does indeed stay above the half way point on the pitch AP indicator. The Hind in comparison, when trimmed to hover (stick way back and right), The pitch AP always seems to go below the half way point like the video shows. It is like the AP is pulling back with you. Whether this is correct or a bug I do not know, in actual use I find nothing about it to hinder a perfect Hover in the Hind.... However it may cause problems when rushing into a flare stop. In forward flight the Hind's pitch AP behaves the same as the MI-8 pitch AP. The Roll APs are identical in behaviour. For Thrustmaster warthog users: Use the Target software to analyze your joystick zero points, if your stick naturally leans to the right or in any other direction (I.e. A centred stick is NOT ZERO) then this will be seen as a right input every time you click trim our Russian choppers. It is very important to recalibrate your joystick with the Thrustmaster recalibration tool to get a perfect 0 in the X and y axis.

I will check that on mine when I fly today.

OK, I use a spring loaded centring stick (warthog) on the Default trimming setting so what you see I have no idea about. There is no specific setting for FFB sticks? I thought default was for centring sticks.... but as you probably used it before it is probably a bug.

A lot of people seem to Trim when turning, I never do this unless I intend to hold a wide turning pattern around something. I just roll and pull slightly whilst levelling the nose on the Horizon with the Pedals (Yaw AP neutralises when I take pedal in). The Hind seems to turn and come out of the turn very cleanly for me.

Default is what I use with the 0.5 second delay to re-centre, I use it on KA-50, MI-8 and Hind. I use click and release trim but I think I will try the click and hold trim method when I am back home.... I did not like it too much when I tried it 5 or 6 years ago but I will have another try. I always thought it is also related to the throw of the stick that is simulated, The KA-50 has the largest throw from Hover to 270 KPH so you gotta be fast to get the stick back to centre before it accumulates onto the new trim position... I always thought this is why the KA-50 trim was so violent. The MI-8 is the shortest deflection from hover to full speed (2 diamond lengths on the joystick cheat?), this is why I think it is smoother on the trim as you can get back to centre quicker..... perhaps... maybe? Or is it just easier to hold the cyclic without feeling the urge to trim?