So, Just got a Huey.

[pocketedition]

I would have placed a track but don't know how.

So here's some notes on how it unfolded.

 

Ok, no worries. Turn on the what?

Where's that?

Mmmmmmmmmmm, ah LWin/Home

There we go, sweet as.

Mmmmm ok, what does this do?

Woops, don't do that.

Ah ha, that's working.

Maybe just a little more on the thingy thing.

Ok, calm now. Just a little more on the thingy and.....

Woops.

Woops.

Woops. Woah.

Arrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh! woah! woah!

Whew.

Ok, calm now.

WOAH!

PANIC!

Whew, well recoverd.

Calm now.

Nooooooooooooo!

Bugger, Double PANIC!

Woah!

Whew, calm now.

Calm now.

Still calm. What does this do?

Arrrggghhh I told you not to do that!

Woah! Woah! WOAH! WOOOAAAAAHHHH!

 

Ah well, tax payer is picking up the bill.

At least the crew walked (limped) away.

After the ground crew repair, I'm counting that as a landing.

 

No sweat, 1st flight in Huey.

[Aginor]

Welcome to the Huey club!

Initially you think "MAN, that thing is hard to fly", but if you get your settings adjusted and get used to it for some hours it flies great and is a lot of fun. :)

[pocketedition]

Cheers DieHard, Happy anniversary.

[_Randolph93]

You will find the Huey systems quite simple once you master the more complicated ones(e.g.mi-8, A-10C)

[pocketedition]

Initially you think "MAN, that thing is hard to fly", but if you get your settings adjusted and get used to it for some hours it flies great and is a lot of fun. :)

 

I have to adjust settings, Oh nooooo.

Only just got it so I have some way to go. I got some paddles so getting used to them also.

I remember a child's game of, rubbing your tummy/patting your head/drawing circles with your feet, at the same time.

I was giggling to myself for some time during that flight thinking of it.

[DieHard]

I fly the Huey mainly on the 1.5.5 build in MP using Buddyspike and even better on the 2.0 Nevada build with the F99th guys for supply drops using Huey and Mi-8.

 

Replied earlier, but deleted post, thought I read Ka-50 was your newbie. I'm pretty good in the Ka-50 as is Cooper.

 

99% of my flying time is using Multiplayer. I don't like the SP missions and campaigns trying to satisfy the pre-ordained objectives that have to be accomplished in a certain order before moving to the next objective.

 

I like the fluidity in real time like real combat is.

 

Re: Message #3---Thanks.

[BFBunny]

Hellicopters in this game are pretty awesome. I'm saving up to buy the gazelle next.

[pocketedition]

Soooooo still got a Huey

 

Still plugging away at this aircraft.

I feel it's still early days, although I'm crashing with a great deal more efficiency.

 

Through no fault of my own I have some time at my disposal and get to practice about an hour to hour and a half a day.

The start up, yeah I'm using the cheat start for now.

The take off, still slipping and sliding all over the airfield.

Ummmmmmm, what I have done is invert the foot paddles axle thing.

If the craft began to turn left or right it was taking me extra time to correct. My system (me, not the pc) appears to be wired a little different.

I made that change and I now see the craft begin to turn and my feet respond in what is to me a more instinctive manor. It's working for me ? Hope that makes sense.

 

The view settings in game by default are such that if you want to look "up"

you move the hat-switch forward. I switch it around the other way.

If I look up at my ceiling, my head tilts back, so I adjusted the hat-switch so that to look up, I tilt the switch......back.

 

With the foot movements I now push forward with the right foot and the aircraft turns it's nose left. It's working for me and has helped me with the spinning stuff.

Not sure whats going to happen when I fly out with a fixed wing because that's set as default and in fixed wing aircraft it's not a problem for me. ?

 

Read the manual, have watched a lot of youchube videos, read lots of forum pages. So much so, one thing stands out......Practice

So that's where I'm at. Lot's more practice.

 

If I were to summarize.... Yeah I got it nailed, apart from startup, takeoff, flying, turning, hovering, radio communications, navigation, landing.

Oh nooooooooooooo, it's got weapons and pickup hooky things. Ah well, back to it. I am enjoying this.

 

I have x55 stick and throttle, a matching set of foot things, Trackir, Voiceattack (sometimes voice attack works really really well, then it sometimes goes really really bad. More well than bad.)

(Yesterday I asked it "Track Pause".....it heard "earth extension stethoscope")

 

Pedals not paddles. And having looked it up it's Axis not axle.

[cichlidfan]

The Huey is lots of fun. It can be a PITA to fly but once you get a handle on it, it is a joy to run around in. I feel like it is a sports car, I can fly it anywhere and do idiotic things with it. I haven't shot one of it's guns in months, I just like flying it.

 

A good set of pedals definitely makes a difference.

[FragBum]

That pedal thing seems odd, normally you push the pedal to turn in that direction with the idea "kick the ball" on the turn indicator, wait till you try the Gazelle that thing still messes with me when I first jump in, and spin off the pad. :music_whistling:

 

Some people don't adjust the curves but I find that to be the best way (for me) to set up the aircraft. It also reduces the tendency to over correct and gives a more realistic feel. As you get more skilled you can dial out some of the adjustment.

 

One thing I find really helpful is listening to the Huey every nuance of sound tells you what the machine is doing, turbine, gearbox, rotors it really tells you a lot about your aircraft. :thumbup:

 

Wait till you find out some of the buildings actually throw you off when you land on them or on parts of them, spoil sports.:doh:

[FragBum]

The Huey is lots of fun. It can be a PITA to fly but once you get a handle on it, it is a joy to run around in. I feel like it is a sports car, I can fly it anywhere and do idiotic things with it. I haven't shot one of it's guns in months, I just like flying it.

 

A good set of pedals definitely makes a difference.

 

I still haven't fired a shot in the Huey I'd settle for calling the Huey a Cadillac the Gazelle is more sporty (a little too much for me at times.) But agree 100% the Huey is just pure fun. :thumbup:

[Yurgon]

Ummmmmmm, what I have done is invert the foot paddles axle thing.

If the craft began to turn left or right it was taking me extra time to correct. My system (me, not the pc) appears to be wired a little different.

I made that change and I now see the craft begin to turn and my feet respond in what is to me a more instinctive manor. It's working for me ? Hope that makes sense.

 

If it helps you, I guess it's okay.

 

But I would really try to use the pedals the "right" way (right foot forward = right hand yaw, left foot forward = left hand yaw). I know how impossible this thing feels to fly in the beginning. But very soon you will feel muscle memory kick in. It's almost as if the brain rewires itself in order to cope with this new type of control. After some time, it will adjust, and you'll have more brainpower available for some of those other things, like navigation and communication. :thumbup:

 

It usually "clicks" within about a dozen hours.

 

Of course you're not required to fly it the official way. But I find it usually helps to do things the proper way. Then when I learn a new helicopter or maybe even fly at a friend's rig or get the chance to fly at a commercial simulator, I won't have to re-learn everything.

 

(Never got into such a simulator, but a museum close by has the entry level simulator the Army used to check out potential pilots, which can be "flown" for a couple of minutes).