[Airmobile Event #2 - Night Stalkers: Fall of Hercules]

It also helps if you don't approach from a high altitude. It's a little easier to not descend too quickly that way. You also have to go very slow and easy since the Mi-8 engines take a while to spool up to full power after decelerating.

 

To avoid VRS I'd recommend not letting the VVI drop much below 2 m/s. If it hits 5 m/s and you don't have about 50 km/h airspeed you're going to have a bad day.

 

practicing...

[Airmobile Event #2 - Night Stalkers: Fall of Hercules]

On the bright side, nobody is going to get any crap from me if it takes them 10 minutes to land on the ship.

[Airmobile Event #2 - Night Stalkers: Fall of Hercules]

Wow, I have a lot more practice to do. Keep hitting VRS in the Mi-8 in the dark. My brain is focusing on the ship, when I should probably be focusing on the VVI and watching the ship out of the corner of my vision.

[Airmobile Event #2 - Night Stalkers: Fall of Hercules]

success on first try (failure on the 2nd)

 

inability to see the water with nvg makes it really hard

 

can we use lights while loading troops from the ship?

[Airmobile Event #2 - Night Stalkers: Fall of Hercules]

I'll fly an Mi-8 slick, but I'm a peter pilot. Will try to convince sniporbob to lead the element. =P

[Airmobile Air Assault Event: UH1+Mi-8+Ka-50]

How does this weekend sound for another Airmobile event? :pilotfly:

 

ooooooooo

 

i'm definitely in if it's saturday! if sunday i'll catch the next one

[DCS Warthog HOTAS Profiles by Polaris & Schnix]

Thanks, love the profiles. Any forecast on an Mi-8 profile?

[Weapons suggestions and ideas]

In real life, they load a max of 2 mavericks (bottom and outer) on the TER because the inboard maverick's engine ignition scorches the tires on the main gear.

[The easiest way to set up my warthog hotas]

Almost fine.

 

1. map trim to the hat on the stick, they're not setup that way by default

2. I like to have zoom bound to the throttle friction slider (grey lever)

3. for rudder trim, create a new modifier "Lever" which binds to the paddle covering the stick pinky button. Then use that as the modifier for left/right rudder trim (and reset) on the same trim hat.