She still got it...I hope it never gets taken away...

[Rudel_chw]

On 12/21/2021 at 7:26 AM, Fleur79 said:

Is there an english cockpit for version 2.7 already?

 

I like to use the Black cockpit, by @Devrim ... it works fine on DCS 2.7

 

 

[thrustvector]

ep, love he old girl, and yes it prob is my fav too, only thing i would really like to get fixed after all these years is the light reflections in the pit, the little green trim lights are unreadable sometimes................most of the time

[Beirut]

Just got it on sale yesterday. What a great module! Been going chopper crazy in DCS for a while and put off the Mi-8, but after watching a really good documentary on it the other night, my interest peaked and I had to get it. 

 

Funny how some modules just grab you even if they weren't some daydream from your childhood, like the F-104. But the Mi-8 got me right away, it just feels right, and maybe because of that after a day or so I can fly the thing fairly well, even (almost) hover. And half my landings are not actually horrible. The FM just makes sense to me. Would love to see 6 pods of S-13s, but it is what it is.

 

I have all the choppers except the Gazelle, and no question I'd keep the Mi-8 and the Ka-50 if I could only have two. 

[Boosterdog]

5 minutes ago, Beirut said:

Just got it on sale yesterday. What a great module! Been going chopper crazy in DCS for a while and put off the Mi-8, but after watching a really good documentary on it the other night, my interest peaked and I had to get it. 

 

Funny how some modules just grab you even if they weren't some daydream from your childhood, like the F-104. But the Mi-8 got me right away, it just feels right, and maybe because of that after a day or so I can fly the thing fairly well, even (almost) hover. And half my landings are not actually horrible. The FM just makes sense to me. Would love to see 6 pods of S-13s, but it is what it is.

 

I have all the choppers except the Gazelle, and no question I'd keep the Mi-8 and the Ka-50 if I could only have two. 

Step into the light my friend   THIS is why I still play DCS despite everything else!

[Beirut]

34 minutes ago, Boosterdog said:

Step into the light my friend   THIS is why I still play DCS despite everything else!

 

It certainly is a great module. Another favourite in a list of favourites.

 

I do  my DCS. 

[Zeagle]

I was not a helicopter guy. But the Mi-8 converted me. It is pretty much my favorite helicopter after the Mi-24. 

[Nevyn]

I don't think there is a module as satisfying as the Hip, it's the feng shui of DCS.

[Hiob]

On 5/16/2022 at 1:59 AM, Beirut said:

Just got it on sale yesterday. What a great module! Been going chopper crazy in DCS for a while and put off the Mi-8, but after watching a really good documentary on it the other night, my interest peaked and I had to get it. 

 

Funny how some modules just grab you even if they weren't some daydream from your childhood, like the F-104. But the Mi-8 got me right away, it just feels right, and maybe because of that after a day or so I can fly the thing fairly well, even (almost) hover. And half my landings are not actually horrible. The FM just makes sense to me. Would love to see 6 pods of S-13s, but it is what it is.

 

I have all the choppers except the Gazelle, and no question I'd keep the Mi-8 and the Ka-50 if I could only have two. 

The Hip still has THE best flight model imho. Including all fixed wing and the Apache. I don't care if it is true to live. It just feels the best!

[Beirut]

51 minutes ago, Hiob said:

The Hip still has THE best flight model imho. Including all fixed wing and the Apache. I don't care if it is true to live. It just feels the best!

 

Yep, it's great fun to fly. Would love to see it get a graphics update, but it's still a ton of fun.

 

Be cool to have the special forces variant.

 

[AeriaGloria]

On 5/19/2022 at 1:46 PM, Beirut said:

 

Yep, it's great fun to fly. Would love to see it get a graphics update, but it's still a ton of fun.

 

Be cool to have the special forces variant.

 

I was just mentioning. How for a Mi-8 II, they could add the weather/outline/terrain radar to help make it worth it. In terrain mode it should be able to spot ground targets. And has a pretty good range 

[AeriaGloria]

It can go from 8-50 km, */-15 degree elevation. Beam is 6 degrees wide and 10 degrees tall. 
 

You can even select a point of interest in terrain mode

[IcedVenom]

Now all it needs is multicrew, but badly

[Ian Boys UK]

On 6/2/2022 at 4:45 PM, IcedVenom said:

Now all it needs is multicrew, but badly

What for??? Works perfectly as it is

 

[scoobie]

Yeah, the Big Lady is awesome! It keeps puzzling me why people don't run in throngs to the shop to buy the module. I mean... sure, she looks like an old style milk truck, doesn't look hot or badass, as one of you mentioned above, she isn't an attack helo or a proper gunship, either, BUT... Mi-8 IS a top-notch module in DCS and it does matter a lot. RL aircraft is one thing, but the quality and "completeness" of simulation is another thing. She's on par with the Hawg (Charlie) in my book. There's so much depth to the module, the FM feels so good, so detailed, but also all the systems on board, starting from anti-ice and similar serious systems, but even every damned volt- or ammeter seems to work, a switch you didn't even know was there works, too. She's so amazing.
You wanna HiFi - that's what's called HiFi.

For a few hundred hours of flying Huey and Mi-8 in turns I was on the fence - do I like Huey more, or Mi-8? I finally decided, it's Mi-8 I prefer. I think I know why - Mi-8 is not only an awesome module, but also a very, very competent aircraft IRL. Lots of power, lots of radios (you'll need some to home on), she is TrulyTrimmable^TM, she can cruise without you getting tired (as in Huey), you can medevac, you can swing load like a pro, you can also shoot and it's a lot of fun... provided the bad guys don't shoot back too much at you (which is a serious caveat, I know). 120 rockets? Or if you prefer realistic payload - 80 of them? That's a lot. Those machingun pods are fun like hell - you even get two flavours of bullets. Very soft targets, scattered around - spray red tracers (7.62 mm), you've got a million of them. Something slightly more endurable - aim with green tracers (12.7 mm). You need a serious punch - good, replace gunpods with cannonpods (23 mm), not too many rounds, but if you hit, they just kill. The only thing I haven't learnt to deal with (yet) is 30 mm grenades. Maybe some other time I'll get down to it.
Even those "basic level" autopilots are really good, SAS that is. For instance, you can "kinda-autohover" in Mi-8. Use pitch and roll SAS - those dials on the center pedestal. Bring her to a manual hover, force trim and then see if she shows a tendency to drift away - use those dials to fine tune the hover. A few fine touches and she'll stay where you want for quite a long time. I have these dials bound to momentary toggle switches (like: minus-neutral-plus) on my button box - one for pitch, one for roll. Works a charm. Oh, you may add HDG hold to the mix. Normally you don't need this as she force trims so nicely (for sling loading etc. use your eye-hand combo, it's best), but when I get lost in a mission and need to consult the map or briefing, I hover OGE and study the papers, no problem.
You can also trim her beautifully for cruise, 3 options: force trim (it works!), pitch/roll SAS (that works too), or "proper" autopilots HDG+ALT hold.

So, anyway... if you like FLYING the meat and potatoes of a chopper (not a spaceship with a battalion of autopilots under the floor), for me the Mi-8 is still the best one in DCS. I mean FLYING, not missiles, double INU, fancy weapon systems or anything like that - just flying.

I just wish she didn't get "knocked" every now and then as nobody from ED comes back to fix her. First the flood lights stopped flooding anything. Then she got that piano varnish at the back of the cockpit. I wouldn't mind varnish on its own, but it displays those spooky ZX Spectrum graphics reflections, jumping once a second. Recently she's got the fake hum, but I hear this is being dealt with (great!). Don't break our milk truck, ED, please!