L4key

I sometimes use the reset button in flight as I get into a never ending battle where I can't get control properly, wildly overtrimming one way then the other - normally after a hard evasive manouver where I've forgotten to hold the trim down. It's never sheared my rotors (yet!) but you do have to anticipate a wild pitch up normally. After resetting I can get back in stable flight asap. Trim reset is also useful when you don't re-centre and the controls freeze. I do it only very occasionally now but having the trim reset mapped on the joystick next to the trim helps. Great tip btw Kurtz about landing. Never thought of that but it's so obvious now you mention it! :doh:

But then if your looking behind you, ie at your engines - how do you see your monitor to look at them?? ED could just say it was a feature but you'd never know!! :megalol: I don't have TiR BTW... :cry:

Ahhh! I wondered why my wingie would never attack a manpad I had lased! I thought he was just being a pussy. (Well, more than I was being a wimp by asking him to do it - stripes and all that!) :thumbup:

You live near a base with F-16's on it... All sounds a bit 'Iron Eagle' to me! L4key's jealous! ;)

Ed Rasimus, pilot in F105 & f4's in Vietnam: 'When Thunder Rolled' & 'Palace Cobra' Best WW2 book for me is 'Duel of Eagles' by Pete Townsend. Old now and has a lot of history but the definitive story of the Battle of Britain. Reading a really good cold war book about the overflights of the USSR in the 50's & 60's - It's called 'By any means Necessary'. Already mentioned but 'Chickenhawk' the best chopper book ever by some distance I reckon. Yes better than Apache. If you can look em'up do so, I certainly will look at some of the others on here. Good idea!

Got to have more patience fella... otherwise it's HAWX for you! You'll get it, just practise. It's such an acheivement when you acomplish even the most basic of steps. Trust me, give it some serious effort for one week and I promise I'll eat Joey's hat if you still feel the same.

Well F me! :doh:

...Issues of hitting their counter rotating twin rotor they don't have? Arf! Probably not! Really, Itkovian, that was worse than one of my questions! :lol:

In my experience anything too 'jerky' with the collective high. Try yanking the stick fully back and right at 250 kmh! Does it for me every time. :joystick: <-- what he's doing!

It's after gobbledegook! :huh:

About 20m from the ground in a vortex! :doh::lol: You can do what you like then it ain't gonna make much difference... Seriously though I have always wondered why the aircraft lets you over-power by so much!

Do a poll! I'm lazy I'm afraid. I am learning the manual way though, reckon it wold feel quite rewarding.

Huckle +1 - thats the link I meant! If it wasn't for that tutorial I'd probably still be flying round in circles doing nothing but attracting fire. Triangle - ok, I have confidence now! She's marrying me in a month so I don't think she'll leave me. Which TIR should I buy?

Me too on the TIR thing, looks amazing (I'm worried my girlfriend will laugh at me all rigged up though!).

Maybe you should read my post? Unless you're being sarcastic but the absence of smiley didn't suggest so, and in which case ignore me! What I was saying is that sometimes the plain English explanation is great! I can read and am relatively intelligent (:cry:) but the manual for certain things just sounds like gobbledegook. I appreciate that may come across as a bit thick, or maybe I am impatient but I've learn't a hell of a lot from posters on here, both ED team and members about how to fly the thing. I just don't want to put off noobs like me, who are worried about asking a question. Like everything there should be a balance - you should take the time to learn it yourself to a point but a bit of advice from a poster is sacred sometimes. I think that anyone who has read this forum and actually bothers posting having bought the sim knows what they are in for and that it won't be easy, which filters the HAWX people out. I just wouldn't go too far the other way and be too exclusive to people who at the end of the day are just the general public. So thats why 'RTM' responses are not always helpful. (IMHO!) :smilewink:

I think he should start by using win-home... I don't think I'd have ever had the inclination to start this sim if there was not this short cut. I am currently learning the sequence now and am nearly there but thank god I didn't have to start it up manually every time when I was learning the rest of the sim. When I started I just wanted to get in the air and shooting stuff! (not with rockets though :() IMHO of course, but I think WarM sounds like I was!

Try it! And have patience. If you read the entire Rookie thread after going through a few of the training tutorials (pausing it and writing some notes for when it's your turn) you'll be flying in no time. As for fighting theres a great training mission to download and written step by step guide that goes with it. It's called something like 'flying & fighting beginners guide' - I can't find it but I'm sure someone will post it. You don't have to be a genius to do it and get a lot out of it. I have no real clue about the ABRIS or datalink but still manage to be successful in missions with what I know and standard wingman radio orders. I don't think I've ever hit anything metal with a rocket either! I'll learn all the other stuff eventually obviously, but don't think you have to know absolutely all of it to have a great deal of fun! :thumbup:

Just explained more than I ever worked out about the ABRIS and PVI, thanks Rhino and good question Sobe. People can say RTFM if they want and believe me I'm a good reader and do, but sometimes it's nice to have plain English for the lay person!

Arf - I do that! It takes me another five minutes to get it from spinning one way or the other. Embarrassing! ctrl-enter screen would help - cheers!

When you have steadied the bird, just before you hit alt-t, try trimming in a stable atitude, as you would if you were trying to hover 'hands off' without ap help. Then the chopper should pitch back slightly to reduce speed down to zero, but not as much as your suggesting. Try trimming, if not that post a track.

They do weekly tours I'm told. I'm going there before I die definitely. How cool must it be to live in one of those houses opposite on the North side, imagine waking up to that view! Is there a Russian equivalent, or'd they just sell all their old shit to Libya/Iraq/Iran/India/Pakistan/anyone else who had a few quid?

Vaiar - Did you try getting to under 7kms? at 6.9 I bet you can fire, check range pips on the reticle as well for a clue of whether you're in range. I know the range should be 8kms for a Vik but I'm sure the same thing happened to me last night. Also try hitting the switch directly below the master arm, it puts your weapons to manual, so you have authority to fire even when out of range (useful for MANPADS and cannon at +4kms!). Can still get hits from distance that way.

And the only 'trimming' involved would be a bikini line! Woo hoo!

I'm not sure how seriously you want us to take that suggestion but heck, to contribute further to this bizarre thread: Would it not be better to have a plasma cannon just incase aliens turn up? :smilewink:

And I have a quick (lazy) question too - if the selector switch is down is that HE or AP? Thx!