DeltaFox Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 ...Wow! what a nice helicopter to fly, and what a beautiful sim, i find it much easier than the KA-50. Toying with it for about 15 minutes had me buzzing around with almost no sweat, take-offs and landings are another story tho :music_whistling: Going to dive into the manual now, as im used to only fixed wing.
aeliusg Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 Pro-tip for take-offs and landings: look straight ahead, don't pay too much attention to your instruments. You'll adjust.
Fishbreath Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 +1 with a caveat: I found it helpful to pay attention to the attitude indicator a little bit my first few times hovering/landing. It helped me fix in my mind what nose-level looked like out the front windows, which fixed some problems with overcorrection I was having. Black Shark, Harrier, and Hornet pilot Many Words - Serial Fiction | Ka-50 Employment Guide | Ka-50 Avionics Cheat Sheet | Multiplayer Shooting Range Mission
DeltaFox Posted September 17, 2014 Author Posted September 17, 2014 Pro-tip for take-offs and landings: look straight ahead, don't pay too much attention to your instruments. You'll adjust. Thanks for the tip, i find myself chasing the needles too much sometimes.
Fivebyfive Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 (edited) Got it too from the steam sale. I wasn't convinced I'd like it but I'm having tons of fun.The FM is fantastic and it does feel easier than the KA50 as long as you're conservative with it. The one major thing about the Huey is of course the counter rotation when you take off. I find that you need to be very decisive with the rudder and have it move forward as quickly and as smoothly as possible to avoid messing with the rudder in a hover too much. The black shark is a ballerina compared. You can pull some amazing maneuvers and float like a butterfly but one mistake and it will punish you in 10 different ways at once. The Huey feels like it's out to get you from the very beginning so you start with the right mindset in order to not crash :) Edited September 17, 2014 by Fivebyfive
Trase Posted September 18, 2014 Posted September 18, 2014 Got it yesterday, too, and been having a ton of fun. Especially the small details like animated machine gun belt and cetral panel shake. About your ka-50 comment, though. It's objectively easier to fly because of it's dual rotor construction and the fancy autopilot augmentations (don't even need to hold the stick unless you're immediately doing a maneuver). But it tries to kill if you if don't know how to use them correctly. Here's a little article that made me love it again: http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_429a.html I'm sorry if you already know that, but if I can help at least one more person with that tricky Kamov system, I'm happy.
The_Pharoah Posted September 18, 2014 Posted September 18, 2014 Have a read of Vietnam huey pilot autobiographies (there's a few) and you'll get a good idea of the training they did in learning to fly esp the autorotation, ground effect, etc. AMD AM4 Ryzen7 3700X 3.6ghz/MSI AM4 ATX MAG X570 Tomahawk DDR4/32GB DDR4 G.Skill 3600mhz/1TB 970 Evo SSD/ASUS RTX2070 8gb Super
Fivebyfive Posted September 18, 2014 Posted September 18, 2014 Got it yesterday, too, and been having a ton of fun. Especially the small details like animated machine gun belt and cetral panel shake. About your ka-50 comment, though. It's objectively easier to fly because of it's dual rotor construction and the fancy autopilot augmentations (don't even need to hold the stick unless you're immediately doing a maneuver). But it tries to kill if you if don't know how to use them correctly. Here's a little article that made me love it again: http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_429a.html I'm sorry if you already know that, but if I can help at least one more person with that tricky Kamov system, I'm happy. Thanks for the link, it's very helpful. I've only dabbled with the KA50 so my knowledge goes from "yay I pulled a reversal, this isn't so bad" to "oh my god I just fell out of the sky by going straight". It's not so much that it's hard to fly, rather sometimes things feel a little counter intuitive. You pull maneuvers that feel fatal easily and then a simple one kills you.
PeregrinesFury Posted December 8, 2014 Posted December 8, 2014 Thanks for the link, it's very helpful. I've only dabbled with the KA50 so my knowledge goes from "yay I pulled a reversal, this isn't so bad" to "oh my god I just fell out of the sky by going straight". It's not so much that it's hard to fly, rather sometimes things feel a little counter intuitive. You pull maneuvers that feel fatal easily and then a simple one kills you. My biggest problem was simply the instrumentation in combat. I didn't have enough buttons on my hotus and not enough money for a full setup!
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