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Rogue Trooper

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  1. The Apache FM is really sweet, very reactive to your input. Mass and airframe dynamics seem to have significant effect on the speeds you are travelling. I love the anti-torgue roll in the AH-64..... I really love it! These effects seem to be constantly changing and are always fluid. They seem to cause a larger workload on the virtual pilot. Whether it is right or wrong it feels superb. The Apache and Hind are for me the best modules DCS have ever produced. The future KA-50 BS3 with this level of modelling just makes me droool!.... predator class gunship!
  2. Sweet module for me, ED are aiming for the best chopper module ever and when I spool up those engines..... I feel it balls to bones when I fly it. I am having difficulty understanding what is occurring in some parts of the chopper community right now? Are we infested with noobs right now? for sure this is the module to attract the casual jet pilot to give choppers a try. but we nderstand that the long term jet pilot who is used to total flyby wire flight, will have difficulty adapting to a machine that just does not want to fly...yes?
  3. Nope. The diversity of designs is the best thing that DCS offers.... each module can be felt. The Apache is a delivery system, slow and ponderous is its path, well protected and well armed is its ethos..... and I love it! Do I regret buying other modules? The flight characteristics of the Hind right now is pretty sweet! stable in flight and Aggressive in weapon delivery. The Gazelle has an engagement profile that is presently, far superior to other attack choppers... until FCR or OH-58D. The KA-50 is fabulous.... simply fabulous! The others are logistics choppers that carry weapons... they are logistics choppers! I really look forward to the BO-105 and OH-58D.
  4. It would be nice if the wipers wiped the water away.
  5. As mentioned above. The Apache is no KA-50... it is not stable in space like the co-axial KA-50. The KA-50 has true yaw supremacy when it comes to pedal work. the Apache is in a lower (read much lower) league for pedal authority. I have very little flight time in the Apache due to work, but at the moment, I think the right pedal is god in the Apache (left pedal is true enlightenment in the KA-50 ). For me, and without doubt, the AH-64 and Hind are the pinnacle of all chopper simulations..... I hope the KA-50 will join them soon.
  6. The Apache tail rotor sits high on its tail fin. The tail fin is connected to the tail boom, the tail boom sits low on the helicopter's centre of gravity because it has a tail wheel. You will find no other chopper in the world (except the blackhawk) that has such a high tail rotor compared to its low tail boom configuration..... no one else does it like this. Only the Apache and Blackhawk and both have a massive tall tail fin in between the tail rotor and the tail boom. This incredibly tall fin acts as a force times distance multiplier between the top of the tail (rotor) and the base of the tail fin (coupling to tail boom and helicopter total mass). This is a rotational force acting in the roll and yaw axis. Just look at any profile of any chopper ever produced, and you will never see such a low installed tail boom with such a high tail and tail rotor. I would expect a lot of roll in this girl when changing lift.
  7. Getting your VR legs takes time and training and alot of money.
  8. look at that! it will be much better in VR, the only problem left is calibrating the real to the virtual MPDs.
  9. I will look into the discord Total Controls. Got home after a long week of travel and here they are, double boxed and well packed. The Aache MPDs are big!.....They are really BIG! In VR (pilot) it makes you realise how far you sit from them; a full arms stretch to actuate them for sure. love the VID pot centre detent. Very nice feel to the button push, they feel industrial, requiring deliberate force. Nice freedom of movement of the buttons, nothing sticks. Clean and solid and professional is all I can say so far. lovely build quality, lots of documents, lollipops are the extras.. Tomorrow I will try to go live with them but for sure Sunday is work out day. My first virtual/actual module purchase.
  10. UK Order #1185 where are you? You know I have a lot of work to do to get these bad boys integrating into my virtual cockpit and you are not helping, UK Order #1185! It gets on my nerves how these non-contributing DCS users do not communicate to help reduce anxiety for the waiting and needy! Gagging for a large pair of MPDs.
  11. I read a book about chopper test pilots once. the main question for a company is what is the test pilot describing as hard and what does he mean by easy. To what does he describe as impossible airframes to fly in his career..... and more importantly, is that chopper still hard to fly once the test pilot had 200 hours on the type? in the wonderful world of choppers what is hard and what is easy when developing choppers? I am waiting for an answer mind. you see it or feel it Raptor9?
  12. on my way to second thread. huh. you see it or feel it Raptor9? I see nothing like this.
  13. Higher speeds or any speed????? the velocity definition is vague. for sure I do not see it in lower velocities up to 130 KM/h perhaps I am just happily trimming it out without noticing!
  14. It is not twist of the tail boom M1 combat, I have not gone into that much detail yet. It is 2 very distinct forces moving in opposing directions. 1) is the tail rotor pushing or doing nothing at the high end of the tail fin connected to the tail boom.... (this depends on the pedal position). 2) is the resisting force, 9 tons of airframe inertia that is located point force in the tail end and connects at the low end of the tail fin. There is no twist in the discussion yet..... just two massive rotational forces. There is only rotation around the tail boom. There is a massive force multiplayer in the distance from the very base of the tail fin (point connect tail boom) and the tail rotor ( point connect top of tail fin). There is no discussion here. There is strong rotation around that high tail..... it is fundamental physics. IF you drop your collective to zero and do not adjust your pedals to suit, then your governor will ensure a massive rolling force through the tail rotor.
  15. But I have to admit. I am well behind the curve with the Apache and Hind, both of them I "feel" are the best modelled helicopters in DCS, but work keeps me away from testing them and pushing them to their limits. With helicopters there are fundamental truths, an adherence to the physical rules of life, a truth to mathematics and physics. And whilst I have probably 50 hours in the Apache, I feel nothing of what is discussed in forums about its stability. NOTHING. as of 07/07/22 she is very nice indeed. perhaps I am a better pilot. perhaps I have better controllers perhaps flying choppers since 2013 in DCS gave me an advantage, but to me the Apache is lovely.
  16. Ok got it. a clean dive at max speed.... correct? does the ball move in the dive? We are talking maximum speed and at the edge of the airframes max velocity of 240 Km/s.... yes?
  17. Gagging for these bad boys to be released. The apache requires a shocking amount of time heads down in the pit manipulating these MFDs, both for pilot and Co-pilot. You can feel how this bird is torn between the original concept and new age concept! Lets get going Total controls, get my skull out of the pit!
  18. It is OK for me. MAD movement on the dolly trolly rear wheel, it is 360 degrees rotation on that rear wheel when it is free to move, the rear of the airframe follows that wheel perfectly. Control is via the pedals only and it needs to be precise, for sure it is a "WHOAAAA" moment!
  19. you guys using the pedals? Are you chasing the ball? Is your ball within the centred lines in the bottom of the IHADDS? It is very important to chase the ball in the Apache, the high set tail rotor creates a massive rotational force around the low slung tail boom (attached to the main body of the airframe). Due to the massive rotational force created by the tail rotor..... the tail boom will drag the entire airframe into a roll if your trim is out of line..... you guys get this right? A pedal adjustment rolls the entire airframe, but not in the direction you think!!! If the Apache ball is left of centre in your IHADDS, you push left pedal and balance the ball centre on IHADDS...... do not think....... DO IT! Chase the F&^$ing ball! It upsets me that that ED have gone through so much trouble to create perfection but there is so much imperfection at home!
  20. To me the Apache is everything I wanted from an attack helicopter, it is more than I imagined it to be.... far far more than my limited imagination could have imagined! How it integrates information not only between the co-pilot (George) and pilot, but for the wider combat arena and supporting assets is simply fabulous! Put simply, I have a good imagination of how a good attack chopper should behave and do things, but never would I imagine the finer details that the real life designers put into this airframe over 20 or 30 years of development.. fabulous job on the AH-64D ED!!!..... just fabulous! Whilst flying the Apache, Would I like to meet a KA-50 BS2 in a dark shadowed valley?.... No... I hope not, especially if the KA-50 pilot knows the power of the pedals.... no, I would rather avoid them!
  21. The British Apaches have greater power output from their Rolls Royce Engines. Whilst the transmission is the same, the Rolls Royce engines work in a far superior manner to the standard American GE Engines fitted in American Apaches when operating in hot and high combat conditions. The difference is most notable in the Afghan war, Here the vastly superior Rolls Royce engines allowed UK apaches to fly with their FCR installed whilst American Apaches had to remove their FCR to carry the same weapon load.... if not a lower weapon load. In DCS we only have the American Apaches fitted with poor, weak, western and decadent General Electric engines and that is that. All UK Apache doctrines of operation are therefore rescinded to the inferior US of A doctrines of Apache use.... period! THIS RULE MUST BE ACCEPTED ACCROSS ALL UK SQUADRONS.
  22. Ordered. It will be really nice to reduce the head down time in the Apache.
  23. When I first flew the Apache the first thing I thought was "why does it not have a Bleep trim!" But I am with Raptor9 on the bleep trim, It is not there IRL and should not be there in DCS.
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