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I prefer the mi8 to the huey. Its a bit less frustrating to handle, and has a lot more content available for it ( i do SP only, and multicrew doesn't interest me). It also has a greater variety of loadouts than the huey, and -at least to me- seems to have more systems But you're absolutely correct in the key to enjoying the gaz is getting control settings tweaked right. It would be nice if it worked well right out of the box, but toying around with settings isnt that hard )shrug(

Youre already watching casmo's videos, watch his on the gazelle and punch in the saturation numbers he used, it makes the helo much more useable . I love flying the gaz- when i feel like low level sight seeing (or if i wanna fly but dont have time to run a whole mission) im usually in the gazelle or the harrier

Im worried that all my attempts to buy this $10 upgrade will end up costing me $150 or more if they all suddenly make it thru this bottleneck, whatever it is

Im still waiting for polychop's ns430 for gazelle

welcome to helos. there was a problem with your initial question in that what constitutes fun is a very subjective thing. whichever you chose, i hope you enjoy it, but as you can see the preferences vary across the board. my suggestion to you is, if you enjoy helos, to buy the other ones during the next sale- theres only three others, so its not as huge of an investment as accumulating all the airplanes- and trying them all out. they each have their quirks and things that make them interesting, even the gazelle. they each have things they do very well, and unlike some of the aircraft, all of the helos seem unique and non-interchangeable plus, it gets you ready for the next two on the horizon: the hind and the kiowa....and hopefully an apache (please, be an -A model!) afterwards i suggest you watch casmo's and barandus' videos too. I wish Laobi would do a helo review

Beautiful! This really needs its own section in the 3rd party devs area rather than in chit chat

I figured youd like it. Ull probably like the gazelle as well, but youll have to tune your axes , then itll fly normal This mod, tho, is great fun. Small enough to try and land anywhere, handles nice without tweaking it. Wish there were some liveries for it . I dont know if the project has stalled - life outside of DCS happens- but what is here is impressive work as is

Yea, people complained the flight model was too responsive, for me that made for some low level (as in, watch out for that bus!) high speed night raids on villages in the persian gulf really fun A lot of people have complained about realism, i just thought "dont care, im having FUN with this thing" The new control values casmo gave turned down the twichiness, but its still enjoyable Enjoy the AH-6! As for the others, the mi8 has a huge amount of content, and its satisfying to fly, but its very sedate The huey is perhaps the most realistic to what i expect a helo to operate like after reading "chickenhawk" numerous times over the years, but its got quite a learning curve to it, and i didn't like the campaign that came with it. Blackshark's included campaign was really enjoyable

Theres not many choices. I really like the shark, most of my time is in the mi8 But if youre looking for something fun to fly around, im gonna give an unpopular opinion and say the gazelle It has its detractors, but once you get the controls set up right i find it to be the most fun flying. This video by casmo was a huge help: Another one ive found to be fun, but still has a lot of development ahead of it is the AH-6 mod. U can find discussion in the mods part of this forum (helo efm demo)

Dunno bout u, but i just use the iron sights & hope for the best

can we expect that in the hotfix on the 30th, or the next OB update?

and not two Ts as it is in the forum title

my approach:

my weakness(hence the title) stems from the fact that this was supposed to be a hard pass till vr, but i got it anyway. ive come to appreciate many things in dcs as a result. i want to like fs2020, and im giving it a fair shake but i have a feeling itll end up like il2- a nice experience & pretty too, but not one i go back to very often i know its in its infancy, and has plenty of room to grow. it may be nice, or an enjoyable diversion. judging from the fora, civil aviation fans dont tend to like dcs , and dcs fans often dont care for civil aviation. there are exceptions, and plenty of them...but thats the general feeling im getting

When is polychop's ns430 for gazelle coming to ED store? We spoke about it about a month ago, I'm just curious if any timeline has been established, or still testing?

Autostart simply automates a realistic procedure. My statement was for hanging unrealistic loadouts on an aircraft, like jdams on an f86 (hypothetical example) :smilewink:

at 225 posts in this thread running quite the gamut of opinions, its easy to lose track of who's said what no biggie, c'est al vie

Plenty, not not all humor is the same, what one thinks is funny, another one might not. Don't take this to mean that I find your statement bereft of humor, just that a lot of nuance doesn't communicate well in fora or other online formats, when much of our nonverbal..and many verbal ...cues don't translate well (to the effect that even the smiley could be read multiple ways)

I don't know about that. It kinda depends on what you expect of it, for me it's useful as-is, but I'm fine with just getting azimuths&distances to waypoints and need little else out of it. My only gripe is I wish I could set the system to permanently default to metric

I prefer old rule: do what you want with the module you paid for, and don't decide whether I qualify to do what I want with mine (The limitation to this is expecting the dev to implement something unrealistic, but feel free to mod your module to your hearts content)

I was pretty sure there was a mod, but because i fly this module about as often as OctoG updates it, i couldn't tell for sure

Then how will you keep your outrrrrageous accent, you silly man?

Many words in Russian are very similar to the English counterparts that theyre practically english words written in cyrillic...but not everyone wants to learn to read another language to fly in a game, it adds significantly to an already steep learning curve. Same with swedish for the viggen, french for gazelle, m2000c Heres another way of looking at it: regardless lof complexity or simplicity of the airframe, by having cockpits in the players native language (not just English) you are able to simulate the linguistic familiarity of a pilot whose cockpit is in their native language...ie it is as comprehensive, natural and effortless for me to read a Russian cockpit in English as a russian is to read a mig in russian. No matter how familiar i get with the language, it will always be different and require an additional mental translation step that a native speaker wouldn't need. Translated cockpits= symbolic simulation, original language cockpits= literal simulation. I used to be a Spanish translator many years ago, with a primary focus on tactical air..i read the original (IRL) manuals in Spanish still .but what language is my c101 cockpit? English.

That makes at least two of us. I'm curious what the break-even point is? It doesn't seem like it would take too many programmer-hours to implement (although the folks at aviodev or polychop would know for sure), how many units need to sell to make this worthwhile for ED/BST ?

Dunno, I just searched mig21 gps & mig21 gns430 . Variant seemed irrelevant, I just knew there were 21s out there that had gps without sacrificing the gun sight The first two are the easiest implemented, the way they did with the c101 and gazelle. It does a number on already limited forward visibility, but who needs to see where they're going?