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It might help if ED did a better job of explaining things rather than leave it to random people on YouTube channels and the forums. Look at the heading hold (supposedly a thing though I never got it to work). The thread was linked earlier in this thread. People say its there and works. At no point in any of the videos released by ED does it go into this and how to achieve. It also seems that no content maker even knows about.

I'm not seeing any effect of this supposed heading hold. Tried as stated here and the aircraft did its customary whirling dervish thing. What exactly are you guys doing?

Radical perspective: Looking at this thread, the confusion with force trim, ATT hold, hover hold etc, I think maybe release should have been delayed maybe another month. I base my perspective on the fact that a simulation of an aircraft designed as a stand-off platform to deliver precision guided ordnance doesn't have said features (whatever it does to have a hover hold and stable heading hold) to prevent an inordinate amount of effort to do something "simple" as hovering.

They don't tell you where your controls are, just what the aircraft is doing. They aren't necessarily the same since in-game control location is different from where my controls actually are.

ALT hold isn't implemented yet. That's coming later in early access.

Might not help you, but obviously it helps other people. I've used it often in Hind and Black Shark with no issues. It's almost like people have different hardware setups... They probably do. Doesn't mean they don't find a trim reset useful. Just because it messes with your flight doesn't mean others have that problem.

No one is misunderstanding a button press. Many people here have flown other DCS helicopter modules. And a simple reset trim button (like EVERY OTHER helo module has) would do wonders. The main solutions seem to be fly with the option that makes you hold the cyclic constantly, thus tiring your arm (god help you if you have legitimate shoulder/arm/wrist/hand health problems) and fly with the option that makes you hold the pedals, thus tiring your legs out (god help you if you have legitimate lower body issues).

There is some debate as to whether or not ATT hold is working as intended. Other than that, doesn't appear that the Apache has hold channel like the Hind or Black Shark has.

That will probably be easy once altitude hold is implemented.

SCAS is on by default.

Doesn't make sense considering older birds and other modern attack and utility birds have automated channels to assist. That's like saying no tow-seat fixed wing needs autopilot because there is a guy in the back. Doesn't work like that.

Two decades in Army Aviation myself, heard plenty of Apache guys make disparaging remarks about it for all sorts of things. I remember one Apache guy that seemed surprised the warning systems on the Black Hawk identify the threat targeting you. When I inquired as to why, he stated the Apache just had a generic symbol that popped up. This was back in 2009 so I can only assume that has been upgraded. It can't be "very intuitive with minimal pilot management" if the pilot has to put in alot of effort just to get the thing to fly in a straight line when landing or taking off. Especially when compared to far older aircraft that have AFCS. This. But that isn't a DCS problem. They just simulate the airframe and don't add things it never had (rightly so). People just expect a modern attack helicopter to be modern. Again, not a DCS problem. More of a quirk in US military procurement and design decisions.

Given the lack of ALT hold and an ATT hold that does its own thing, it doesn't. At least not yet. That's not the point, but that's going into design decisions by Hughes/Boeing. Speaking as a US Army Black Hawk mechanic, I'm starting to have a better understanding as to why I've heard so many former Apache pilots and mechanics constantly clown the thing.

Not an unreasonable assumption, given aircraft far older (like the Hind) have such a feature. People were expecting a modern attack helicopter to be...well, modern.

Seems many people are having that issue, regardless of setup. Thrustmaster, Virpil, no extension, 20cm extension, doesn't seem to matter.

I can't answer that question, unfortunately. Sorry.

I'm flabergasted by that. Even the UH-60 has an AFCS. Odd that the most modern attack helicopter in the world can't do something like nulling yaw inputs for a relatively simple hover that a very old aircraft like the Hind can.

Glad it's not just me, lol.

From what I understand, hover hold is coming later in early access.

We need a livery from when they painted their birds grey. EDIT: My mistake, that was a South Carolina unit that did that. We still need that livery, though.

Unfortunately, that just worsens my issue with trying to control the thing. Seriously, all in all I'm finding the Hind to be tons more stable in all aspect of flight than the Apache.

Your views aren't the end all be all. Some of us have gotten far with GR tutorials. Stop gatekeeping.

Before starting motor. Are you talking about APU or engines?

A rose is a rose by any other name...

Tried the laser maverick on the A-10C II. Bug appears to still be there. Got time to make the Mosquito (that nobody asked for) but can’t dedicate a couple people to the airframe that put your company on the map...