MemphisBelle

hey there K-51 and a happy new year, I´m very interested in your Collective and read through the Thread so far, so could you please add me to the list as well? I send you a PM Thx

Back in 2002 or 2003 I stumbled about Flanker 1.5. I installed it since I was looking for a good looking Flight Simulator. Back in the 90´s I was jealously looking to those pixled Flight Sims as I did not had a PC back in the Time, but I was very interested into Military Aviation since my Childhood. So once I installed Flanker 1.5 I have fallen in love alomost instantly. But it didn´t lasted long as I was pretty active in another Type of Simulation since 2001 already (focused on Infantry ). Even though I was more active in this Game I stumbled about a suddenly newly appeared PC Game I found in a Video library and its name was Lock on Modern Air Combat. I installed it and freaked out...my PC was too weak. I only had a white screen and the tone. So I convinced my wife that it would be a great Idea to invested into a new PC and thus a couple days later I got the Game again from the Video library. At first I didn´t really understood how all this worked. I had no Joystick and and it was actually rather depressing, so you can imagine what happened...I invested in a new Joystick and bought the Game. This was the beginning of a journey on constatnly investing into new Hardware and later on new Modules since the initial release of DCS Black Shark, which marked the actual birth of DCS. Today I can not imagine to not stumble about DCS, since YouTube is full of it, but even today new Players are always attracted and eventually start their journey of which my began so long ago.

Unbelieveable, it's finally here. To be honest, I didn't really expected it really to happen, so I'm very surprised and happy...a long journey is finally over...at least for now , there's much more to come for the rest of the Heliopter Fleet. Thanks to ED to have catched up that highly anticipated feature again and not to let us Rotorheads down.

Thanks a lot for your constant and almost every time immediate replies and information regarding this long awaited and highly anticipated feature for us Rotorheads @BIGNEWY

Any news on the Huey MC @BIGNEWY? As always, we receive no official information so we have to bother you again. Any Chance to get it in 2020 still?

OK, so we´re exiting what will happen the next couple of weeks

I don't know whether you guys noticed but since the last Patch, we aren't able to change to Co-Pilot seat anymore. @BIGNEWY is that somethings that tells us more about MC release, or is that a Bug? We haven´t had any information about this in the Patchnotes.

Oh, that sounds really interesting...

Are there any new infos about the ongoing testing @BIGNEWY ? Have you guys been able to fix further issues?

pretty much impossible let alone the missing licenses and huge amount of classified Data

moinsen Ise, wie ich ja sagte. Ich denke nicht das es dieses Jahr noch was wird, um im Kontext der aktuellen Diskussion zu bleiben. Ich warte ohnehin viel mehr auf die Huey Multi Crew. Die Hind ist mit Sicherheit ganz nett, aber richtig viel werde ich mit ihr als eingefleischter UH Pilot eh nicht ausrichten können. Unsere AH Jungs sind allerdings schon ganz heiß drauf. Leider werden wir mit der Huey Multi Crew auch nur am laufenden Band verarscht...aber ich bekomme schon wieder Blutdruck, also...

Ich denke ich habe mich da etwas falsch ausgedrückt. Das ist einer der vielen Einwürfe, die für viele Module gemacht werden, von denen in den meisten Fällen nur wenige wirklich realisiert werden. Die Marians Map z.B. wurde ebenfalls im selber Kontext "angekündigt", und wo ist sie? Ich meine eine richtige Ankündigung mit Datum. Das macht ED immer sobald ein release Termin festgelegt wurde. Sollte die Hind noch in diesem jahr in EA gehen, würden wir es bereits wissen, was (hoffentlich noch) nicht der Fall ist. Also...ich denke nicht das 2020 noch was wird. Ich hoffe natürlich sehr, dass ich mich irre.

Das würde Sinn machen @QuiGon, denn im letzten halben Jahr hat sich ED primär mit der Hornet und der A-10C II beschäftigt. Wäre nur schön wenn ein potentieller release der Hind in 2020 irgendwo erwähnt werden würde, was nicht der Fall ist. Von daher denke ich, dass wir die Hind nicht vor dem 31.03.2021 sehen werden. so sehr ich mich auf die Hind freue, hoffe ich auf einen baldigen release der Huey Multi Crew.

When can we expect some news regarding Helicopters?

Was den release von der Mi-24 angeht gehe ich auch vom Q1/21. Wobei es mal wieder schön wäre da einige Bilder, Infos und/oder Videos zu bekommen, allerdings scheint dafür kein Platz mehr in den Newslettern zu sein....ich weiß, es gibt einfach nichts nennenswert neues

@Cobra847 any updates in this regard?

Ganz ehrlich? Ich habe die Hoffnung aufgegeben. ED ist primär auf FW Jets fokussiert. Die Mi-24 ist da eher die Ausnahme der Regel. Leider finden auch wichtige Hubschraubertypen kein Interesse bei den 3rd Party Teams. Die Blackhawk z.B. wird mit aller Warscheinlichkeit nicht geheimer als die C Hornet sein und wird nicht mal in Betracht gezogen, was schon echt Schade ist. Da kommen dann Argumente wie "wir haben doch die Huey", was man absolut nicht vergleichen kann, denn wir haben auch die L-39 und dennoch die C-101, das kann also kein Grund sein. Meine Hoffnung ist, dass wenn ED mit der Hornet durch ist, dass dann auch mal die Hubschrauber endlich etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit bekommen...aber auch das bezweifele ich.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I have also been reading somewhere that Q1 2021 is aimed on...I´m only talking about some more Information in the News on Helicopter Stuff as there´s always very little Information in this regard, whether it's the further progress of Hind development since the last news on Aug 24 or the Huey Multi-Crew Development Progress which wasn´t mentioned at all since Kates announcement. We hear about every single bit of Progress on the FW Modules but very rarely on the Helicopter Modules. Anyways, I start to derail this thing...sorry Ahh, yeah I remember that I have read that somewhere too, so I understand their effort and current focus very well. The FW Community can't wait to have these birds finally fully complete in their Hands. And once these Birds are out of EA so ED can focus again on other things (AH-1 or the F-4). Again, the only thing I say is that a little more information about other Sections of their work would be nice also.

I'm wondering when we'll get some news again on actual Helicopter Stuff...all news lately were mostley filled with Hornet and Viper Stuff.

No, GR did another Interview with Simon, the global Buiseness director of ED. But they did that because of the Comment from Nick Grey of Samurai 1-1's Video what I posted above. The one from GR can be found here:

Thats not the link you ment but another interesting resource A statement of Nick Grey on some things ED is working on. here's the link to the Video where Nick Grey has commented: And this is a part of his comment

Thanks @BIGNEWY

@BIGNEWY I stumbled about an internal Discord announcement that Huey Multi Crew will be available in the next Open Beta Patch scheduled for Nov 4th. This announcement is supposed to be in some announcement somewhere on the forums.. Question: Is that true? And in case it is, can you point me please to this announcement? I can´t find it

It´s because this mod is no more functional for a couple of years already. I don't exactly know since when. But one of the major updates broke compatibility and the founder did not work anymore on it...it is considered abandoned...sorry

It´s something that gives you more immersion. I fly mostly Helicopters in DCS and flying without Pilotbody just feels not real. Thanks to Voice attack it's just one word to disable and enable the Pilotbody just like as I´d lift my Arm.