Bremspropeller Posted November 8, 2023 Posted November 8, 2023 I'd go with the Gazelle. It comes with several versions/ allows you a much broader mission-spectrum than the Huey. Both are simple to learn and straightforward to fly. The Gazelle will challenge you a bit more due to it's twitchier handling. The Mi-8 is nice in terms of handling and getting to know how to handle some mass and inertia, but it's too much the opposite direction to the Apache for just spending flight-time. Same with the Hind. The Ka-50 is a different beast altogether with little value towards your goal in mind. All helicopters are cool and good in their own niche and there still is very little overlap in their capabilities or in what you can do with them and how they'd fly. Go online and fly in the Search and Rescue server. It offers lots of challenges that will make you a good enough stick-and-rudder helo-guy to progress onwards from. So ein Feuerball, JUNGE!
Volator Posted November 8, 2023 Posted November 8, 2023 Huey primarily, or Mi-8 second. Both have been training helicopters in the West and the East, and they are the best in DCS. Gazelle is totally not suited for properly learning to fly helicopters in DCS imho. 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven
pii Posted November 8, 2023 Posted November 8, 2023 (edited) On 10/27/2023 at 7:36 AM, The_Chugster said: The MI-8 cockpit looks way more complex than the Huey/Gazelle, doesnt that make it harder to learn? Just a little FYI I never learned a single thing in the Huey cockpit but I can fly it around and hover/land with no problem by sight alone. I should probably break out that manual someday so I can learn to shoot stuff. Edited November 8, 2023 by pii
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