To be or not to be a gunner

[harf4ng]

Hi,

 

I have tried to put both a M60 on one door and a M134 minigun on the other, and dunno why, I'm able to fire with the M60, but I'm unable to fire with the M134 minigun.

 

Did I miss something?

 

Moreover, I wonder, there is no way to ask the AI to fly the helicopter so we can concentrate on the gunnery?

 

I really hope belsimtek will make this chopper multiplayer, this would be a great one for that purpose, with a pilot, a copilot (what is the goal of a copilot btw? When I'm copilot, I can pilot as the pilot, so I wonder why I should be a copilot...

 

Thanks

[yunan4]

For the door miniguns you need to flick the master arm switch in the center pedestal to at least the safe position (I think, otherwise just arm it). This is because the miniguns require power to fire, and with the master arm in the off position it doesn't get any power to turn the barrels.

 

The Huey has an "autopilot" which acts as a way to let the other pilot take over control.

Edited February 8, 2016 by yunan4
answered his second question

[harf4ng]

But the autopilot really flies a route? With the AI being... AI? I mean, not just like autopilots that fly in a straight line, maintaining just heading and altitude?

 

For instance, can it take off?

[Flagrum]

But the autopilot really flies a route? With the AI being... AI? I mean, not just like autopilots that fly in a straight line, maintaining just heading and altitude?

 

For instance, can it take off?

According to the manual ... chapter 6.5 "Game autopilot" ... nope.

 

...\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\Uh-1H\Doc

 

[harf4ng]

Oy. So in fact hard to imagine being the gunner. Better let the AI do the gunnery except if we want to stay in a hover while shooting :)

Ouch... 188 pages the manual... ^^

Edited February 8, 2016 by harf4ng

[Flagrum]

Ouch... 188 pages the manual... ^^

Get used to it! :o) The Huey manual is one of the shorter ones (while still pretty much being on par with the others, depth-wise - the Huey just IS a quite simple airframe). For comparisation: A-10C manual has 670+ pages, the Black Shark manual 530+ pages.

[harf4ng]

Hey then we should concentrate on a single one. :) not enough time in life to master several :)

[Zag]

hey that's what you say now, but soon you will feel the hunger to consume knowledge!

 

I used to feel that way when i discovered Falcon 4.0 AF for the first time back in 2008. I got a X-52 for Fs2004 but wanted to shoot stuff too. the 700+ pages of the manual seemed like an impossible hurdle, it even was in english (not my main or second language). My best decision was to put it in realistic difficulty and learn to fly and fight the jet that way no matter how many times i crashed, got shot down or just thought hey this thing is posessed (those of you who tried to fly the Ka-50 as their first helicopter sim ever will understand :) ).

 

Between the different manuals, books and articles on simming forums like simHQ, i must have read tens of thousands of pages.

 

Just make sure you master the basics of flight, because most of them are applicable to other similar airframes. the transition will become easier as you get experience, its just a matter of learning to operate the systems of said aircraft.

 

For example, the HOTAS logic i learned from F4.0 made it much easier (and quicker) to learn to fight with the A-10C. the same is true from the UH-1 to Mi-8 and so on.

 

Again, be sure to MASTER the basics, it will be helpful. also, don't skip the whole flight mecanics chapter in the manual. understanding the physics behind the machine will help you fly better. (you only have to do it once, its almost the same content in all the other manuals)

[harf4ng]

Sure. And it will help me in real life too. At home I have a real plane flight manual as I'm a student pilot on ultralight planes :)

 

Though this is hard to find the time to do all this... Working 35 hours a week, real life flight lessons, other games (like star citizen), and my wife and three children :)