Opening day activities

[davidrbarnette]

Anyone have a plan for the first day of flying? Mine:

- Execute the cold start procedure a few times. 

- Learn and understand the symbology on the HDU / IHADDS; do some basic practice navigating the MFDs.

- Get comfortable with day taxiing, takeoff, landing, hovering, all the basic phases of flight. 

- Depending on how that goes, maybe do some night flying as well. 

- Maybe spend 5 minutes firing off the gun & rockets if I'm feeling ambitious.

[5k0rp1on]

My plan is to make a basic mission with a small convoy to shoot, start up in a hot aircraft, probably crash more than once, learn the cold start, probably crash some more, then become decent at flying this beast

[SCPanda]

For me, it's simple: figuring out how to take off and blow stuff up. Then, land if I don't crash.

Edited March 16, 2022 by SCPanda

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

(shamless bump) test my convoy attack missions to see if they work and send out the update while I enjoy myself.

[gzj3401]

The gun and Hellfire are must try

[BeastyBaiter]

Everything needed for a simple mission. So cold start, flight, and spamming hellfires/rockets/gun. Navigation, datalink and other support systems will wait till later. I expect the flying bit not to be any different from the other choppers, so that should be fairly straight forwards. I'll probably skip the AP systems as those just complicate things early on.

[dburne]

I will likely spend all of first day learning cold start procedure.

[GoodHope]

Cold start mostly, then takeoff, taxi, and land--that is if I can resist the gun long enough 

[davidrbarnette]

9 minutes ago, dburne said:

I will likely spend all of first day learning cold start procedure.

Cold start seems like it'll be super simple; basically battery, APU, align the doppler, configure fuel flow, start engine 1, advance to idle, star engine 2, advance to idle, boresight hmd, move throttles to flight once the oil is ready. Am i missing anything?

[tempusmurphy]

probably crashing alot ... whilst nap of the earth dodging trees 

[Outlaw24]

Cold Start up procedure, roll and air taxi, and just getting use to how it feels in flight.

[Castor Troy]

After admiring it in F2 for a few hours, I guess I'll learn to start the thing.

[Archduke]

Cold start, taking off, crashing. 

[Wychmaster]

In our group, we have a small, silly challenge. Everybody start in a cold helicopter, facing the others. Challenge is to get the gun ready and shoot everybody else.

Afterwards... some basic training and see how it goes

 

[St4rgun]

1. Say a prayer to my GTX1070 with Reverb G2.

2. Start the free flight mission in Caucasus map.

3. If the framerate tanks, then close DCS and wait for Vulkan with further hopes.

[SwiftHatchet]

Like any well trained child, I will enter the aircraft, put the HMD on (VR locally), and with a slightly disturbing grin on my face, start flipping, mashing, and switching things ... until enough things are making noises and moving, to attempt flight. 

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

2 hours ago, BeastyBaiter said:

Everything needed for a simple mission. So cold start, flight, and spamming hellfires/rockets/gun. Navigation, datalink and other support systems will wait till later. I expect the flying bit not to be any different from the other choppers, so that should be fairly straight forwards. I'll probably skip the AP systems as those just complicate things early on.

Taken into consideration!

[Kampfer616]

Sip coffee while setting up controls, and learning to fly and basic systems stuff.  Enjoy the Hoggit Training Server, or other servers, that are gonna have a billion people learning, and some failing, at helicopters.  It's gonna be wild, and fun. Let's Gooooooo

[epoch]

Drinking beer and flying a virtual multi-million dollar aircraft.

[Apar]

Does RotorOps work with Apache?

[DN308]

First, improve my English enough to understand the manual;

Then, trying to understand all the specific procedures;

Try out the procedures;

Crash;

Opening Youtube and searching for the tutorial;

Improve my English more to understand the tutorial;

Figure out how to find the answer to my unnumerous questions;

Thinking I understood enough;

Trying again;

Crash again and f...k..g around again and again;

Crying in anger asking myself why I bought and wanted so hard that module;

Try again thinking why not;

Crash;

Return to step one...

Edited March 16, 2022 by DN308

[Rifter]

1 hour ago, SwiftHatchet said:

Like any well trained child, I will enter the aircraft, put the HMD on (VR locally), and with a slightly disturbing grin on my face, start flipping, mashing, and switching things ... until enough things are making noises and moving, to attempt flight. 

Hey - this was exactly my plan too. Let’s do a multiplayer session and flip and mash and switch things in both cockpits at the same time! Perhaps we should also play some heavy metal as background music and accompany our work with some headbanging while we totally screw up the chopper.

[Rudel_chw]

My first to-do thing is to configure my hotas while on a free flight, with lots of active pause use 

[MertTunç]

I guess i'll take it slow. Like in the real life, first working on some procedures then getting used to the flight dynamics of this beast because i think you have to control the chopper well first then you can exercise on weapons or attacking tactics. Also dont forget to look on ARMY's attack manuals.

[M1Combat]

Map some controls...

 

Do a barrel roll.