Wizz Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 Hi all, Just wanted to share my fondness of the (currently) sole single mission available in the Syria map. I've always liked missions like these - plausible rotor recovery supported by fixed wing - and so I bring a personal bias to this appreciation but wanted to share it nonetheless. I also spent part of 2015 in Iraq, and the Russians were always a bit of a mystery to us, so it's nice to explore this unknown side of a personal experience I've had. It's a wonderfully uncomplicated mission (for some DCS efforts) that forces you to focus on proper flying, procedure and coordination, and also brings in a healthy dose of immersion with the fact missions like these are true world. Below is a link to a short and fascinating documentary (*cough* propaganda) of the Russian's rotary wing efforts in Syria: Happy flying all. Wizz 3
Scofflaw Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 Flying the Mi-8 can be such a nice break sometimes. Even though both my hands and feet are busy while flying, I find it relaxing focusing solely on flying. 1 run come save me
randomTOTEN Posted November 14, 2020 Posted November 14, 2020 I just ran it. I was listening to some music in the background so from my perspective it was a nice relaxing flight out and back. I fired the gun pods for entertainment (mostly to see if I could remember to do it), and I think I heard the door gunners fire a couple times. Other than that, a pretty uneventful mission as Wizz alluded. So I read through the debriefing window and am completely surprised to see there was a total war going on behind me. Door gunners letting it rip on troops, troops letting it rip on my helo. APC's firing at me. Mi-24's firing at APC's, Tanks, AAA, absolute madness... One of them even got shot down (I could have picked them up too! :(), and then had a shootout with more troops on the ground? Also I got to interact with the "Airborne Troops" command, and was surprised how well that worked. I erroneously programmed the DISS and so had to use the kneeborad map to RTB. Mission success. I don't know if that was skill, luck, or total oblivion/ lack of SA on my part. But I took no hits and saw no action out the cockpit windows.:music_whistling: Yeah I say give it a try if you haven't yet. It's quite fun. :thumbup: 1
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