Rogue Trooper

Yes I totally agree. The pilot figure is critical and needs to be added. I cannot fly the KA-50 without the pilot body as it looks weird having this empty cockpit with no one in it. Instead of the rifle in the pit, I would go for a Tokarev pistol under his left arm (shoulder sling and wobbling with weight) or across his chest.... well worn grip to metal.... pirate or buccaneer style. Seriously, it would look damned cool and suit our beloved attack chopper that was almost true IRL!!!!

I do not know why, but for some reason I like these glitches on older Russian kit, seems correct some how. But I could be wrong. It is the Standby Attitude Indicator (SAI) that drives me insane. There is no way such a standby instrument is so bad!!

DCS. No need to do anything in Virpil tools, lock and load that is it. Have you been adjusting the virpil profile?

I have not seen a tutorial but then again I have never looked for one. Basically, Virpil have done the work around for you. if you have the Chop, Jettison and Stow profile loaded then you are ready. (Edited: below is in DCS) Once In "adjust controllers" go to the apache collective section, find both chop cover and chop button, they are together. Start with the chop button first so that you can see how it works. From the chop button title, track in a straight line across all the columns to the Virpil Apache collective column and then double click the box so that it opens the button assignment box. Now press and HOLD the Virpil chop button, (I do not remember the actual button numbers but lets say Button 27 and 28). On pressing the Virpil chop button you will see button 27 in the assigned button box... keep holding the Virpil chop button and within a short time button 27 will turn to Button 28, now release the virpil Chop button and click ok to close the button assignment box. Then go to the Chop cover, track across to the Virpil Apache collective column and double click the box so that it opens the button assignment box. now you need to capture button 27 so you need to be quick. Press and release the Virpil Chop button quickly so that you only see Button 27 and then click ok. Test it by pressing and holding the virpil chop button and you should see the button presses go from flipping the Chop cover open to pressing the Chop button. A quick press of the virpil chop button will close the chop cover again. It is the same for Jettison. It is also somewhat similar for the searchlight/landing light, except here the double click is for searchlight off and stow (searchlight toggle pulled and held back). A quick flick back of the toggle will switch the light off but not stow the light.

Why don't you use the 2nd Virpil apache grip profile "Jettison, Chop, Stow"? With this profile, when the chop, jettison or Stow button is pressed and held it outputs 2 separate button presses one after the other: The first button goes on then off quickly and you set this to flip the in game cover, it is then followed by the second button press which stays pressed until you release the joystick button, this one is for pressing the in game chop or jettison button. if you want to close the cover afterwards you simply press the button again quickly so that it only outputs the first quick button press. Works like a charm in all my choppers with covered buttons.

Make sure each USB connection port is live constantly, never allow windows to control your USB ports power. Go through each one.

I moved to MT at release and never looked back, fantastic performance increase for me. Goodbye single thread. Looking forward to the CH-47 Pilots! On my DCS only computer there is only full power set, no sleep modes, no low power modes..... just full power and no complications.

As others have mentioned the buttons/hats are a bit wobbly but always perform well as 4 and 2 way hats, I find the hats are perfectly aligned for thumb use and I never need to think about pushing them in the intended direction. Press buttons on every hat mostly work well and reliably, here the wobble in all the hats gives me the feeling that the hat may not push directly down... but mostly they do. The exceptions are the pushdown buttons on the small china hats (sight select and FCR mode) and I never use these added pushbuttons as they are not reliable or need Ninja like skills to push perfectly down. Also the B/S - Polarity switch is a bit more wobbly to push directly down... but I use it. I notice in a lot of old initial Virpil releases, they sometimes had dodgy hats but slowly and quietly improved them over time... hopefully they will do the same with the apache grip. I fly all helicopters and with the apache grip I always have the basics set up on the flight grip (search light, RPM adjust, Jettisons, hook release etc...) and the mission grip deals with everything else. The flight grip is chunky to hold, overtime I have started to like its feel allot and tend to pleasure/transit fly using mostly the flight grip. I fly in VR with enclosed headphones so I do not hear the creaking noise of the plastic grip. I find the entire assembly does not wobble more than my virpil H-60, the wobble comes from the counterbalance kit but the length of the Apache's grips exaggerate the wobble more than the H-60 does.

Ok stranger and stranger. I went back into my mission (Syria), started up the Apache and yes the windshield wipers are clearing the water off the glass. I popped into the front seat and switched George's wipers on and his wipers were clearing the water. I took off and tried different headings in hover to see if that was a possible cause, switching off and back on the wipers but still my wipers were wiping the windows! I flew around and then came to a hover and still my wipers were wiping rain off the windows! I landed and saved the track. As soon as I watched the track I noticed that the rain on the glass was Ed's early oversized big water droplet rain and not the new beautiful fine rain droplets. Once the windscreen wipers got going they were not wiping rain off the windows, it was as if the wipers were not even touching the glass. No matter how many times I reloaded the track, it was with big water droplets and no rain wiping. I did not take control of the aircraft whilst in the track. I reloaded the live mission again and got beautiful fine rain droplets on the glass and my wipers were wiping the rain off of the windows! I also tried a hot start Apache in the same mission and it was the same, beautiful fine rain droplets on the glass and my wipers wiping the rain off. Do you guys see these big old rain droplets? If I look at the photo in the OP, they do look like big raindrops on the roof's glazing.

Funny.... They were working for me yesterday in the Apache, they cleared rain from the wiped region. usually I do not fly in rain as the FPS was always atrocious, but I thought I would give it a go after the last few updates and the FPS was fantastic. (VR user)

It is certainly good enough for me, again a VR user so I am sure It is the reason that I do not notice the graphics. But flight wise... superb module! I would say a must for any one that wants to learn DCS choppers for the first time.

The MI-2 would be a superb addition to DCS, steam Gauge so quick to learn and loads of toggle switches... fantastic! Not sure if a Super Puma should come first, but I would not be crying if it were an MI-2 first.

Thanks for the answers Brickle. When accelerating, the Chinook seems to require a slow continuous pull back on the cyclic starting around 80 knots until the stick is almost neutral or just in negative inches at around 120 Knots. I guess when we do have DASH on our DCS Chinook, DASH will automatically pull the stick back so that the pilot does not need to do it... is this correct or am I wrong? Great videos by the way.

As mentioned above do you have the Radar mounted? At start up, Did you enable the radar in the FCR's Utility page (pinned is shut down), once boot up is started, it starts an automatic bit mode test (a few minutes). Ensure you select FCR as the sight and then select GTM or RMAP. Then select a single burst or continues burst of the radar. There is only one DCS now and it does not matter what your folder is called.... they are all the same.

Is the rear rotor more powerful than the front rotor in forward flight? In a hover, Pushing the yaw pedals left drops the front rotor to the left side which pulls the cockpit left, at the same time the rear rotor drops to the right which pulls the rear of the Cab to the right, this causes the aircraft to rotate around its true centre. In forward flight is the rear rotor more dominant when pushing the pedals? I seem to have a slight feeling that at speed, I am pulling her arse around... which is nice if so. Are the pedals spring loaded in real life? The virtual pedals seem to automatically off set like the MI-8, it pushes the virtual pedals out of sync with my real life non centring pedals. is this observation correct? Also, flipping the rear wheels into castor mode (unlocked) seems to be a very good way to taxi with pedals, why is this discouraged... does it place additional strain on the centre/front of the airframe? if there is additional stress on the airframe then the nose in the air seems to be the best way to taxi.

I find the FPS not too bad in DLAA/DLSS, The Cab (Hook) is about on par with the KA-50 III & Kiowa... perhaps a tiny touch better in both multiplayer and single player. All 3 are not great in free flight over large cities. All 3 are no where near the complex Apache's superb FPS performance. I keep my Nvidia drivers up to date as DLAA and DLSS are Nvidia.

It is normal if you roll/tilt your head as IHADDS imagery does not compensate for this tilting of the head (this is also the same for the night vision overlay). Only up/down or turning your head left/right is compensated for... I believe.

I bet it was nice pulling it out of the box. I am still waiting for mine. like you I am just letting him get on with it and it will come when it comes. What are the buttons, switches and cursor like (stiff, loose, smooth)? Are the grips nice in the hand? Are the grips firm, can they handle being gripped whilst the rest of the arm is limp? 1 button on the bottom/mid front side of each grip is not used in the sim... are these buttons active on the Komodo? I would like to use them as the 2 types of VR zoom.

Probably the same, press both left and right brakes and then set the parking brake... but I am guessing.

oops... I better prepare to download!

30 degrees worked best for me and still has very high resolution. I mounted my collective low so when the collective is fully down, the flight grip falls into the hand comfortably with a straight down arm, the mission grip requires a drop of the shoulder and slight lean left to fully grip with the hand. At max collective, the Mission "grip" is level with the top of my thigh. Normal flight operation has the mission grip around the bottom/centre of the thigh.

I think VRS is fine in DCS. A Vibrating Jetseat uses DCS Data to create vibrations in your sim seat which tells you what is happening to the airframe without the need to look at instruments. I find it hard to fall into VRS or settling with power, I would need to do something real stoopid to get into VRS.... However DCS is a game where one's life is not under threat and therefore I do quite often do stoopid things. Very much looking forward to the Cab (Hook), it's fantastic abilities as airlift is all I want but i am looking forward to trying to fly it without AFCS.

Nice! RMAP will be a handy thing to have.

A bit late, but went for a flight on the SA map yesterday and stayed there all day. An excellent update, Mountains look great when flying over them in a plane, but also the ground work looks nice and complex down low in my Gazelle even though there are not many plants and shrubs. The destroyed buildings/houses/structures on the Falklands Islands look great when hovering in close, with a lot of variation in size and types of debris. Runs really well too (although I have not taken my Gazelle to larger cities yet). Well done Razbam.

Please add the option so that I can disable a radio frequency channel whilst flying between obstacles or out of line of sight for low powered, Very high frequency coms. Please Please add the toggle function on/off for the apache coms panel for VHF, UHF, FM1, FM2 and HF so that I can quickly disable a channel when I fly out of line of site/range of low powered high frequency channels…. Man they create noise in voice chat. And/OR (but “and” would be great) Please set the volume controls of the apache radio channels VHF, UHF, FM1, FM2 and HF volume knobs so that a quick turn of an encoder will shut them up dead. At the moment it takes 6 or 7 full turns of an encoder to go from max to min (it drives me nuts in multiplayer). In comparison the Video controller (SYM BRT, IHADDS (Brightness and contrast), and FLIR (Level and Gain) are perfectly set up for each click of the encoder. I recommend a cut and paste of “rate of turn” from the video panel to the radio’s VHF, UHF, FM1, FM2 and HF volume. Also the master volume and VOX sens needs a cut “n” paste from the video thingy. You see…. Its all cut “n” paste after all! Fantastic Apache module by the way. It is the best chopper module in DCS right now by a country mile!.... FABULOUS!