Learning to fly choppers (in DCS Huey)

[guitarxe]

I have not been able to find this information anywhere, so I came up with this on my own. I read the DCS manual, Chuck's guides, watched the DCS in-game tutorials, and dozens of youtube videos. Only the video by Scaley AV touched briefly on things like nose/tail turns and the like.

Since I am very new to helos and I don't know what I don't know, can someone please help look this over and help me fill in any missing gaps? The purposes is to be able to practice each piece individually to refine precise control of the machine, which in turn will help in all aspects of flying.

Pickup and stable hover

• Tight spaces
• Rotor turns
• nose turns around objects
• tail turns (following a circular arc for reference)

Following lines

• Straight flight
• At an angle
• sideways
• Switching sides

Level Flight

• Change speed, maintain alt
• Change direction, maintain alt

Climb/Descend

• Maintain airspeed
• Maintain climb/descend rate

Transition high speed to hover

• Maintain alt/hdg

High hover to high speed

• Mantaint alt/hdg

High hover

• Rotor turns
• nose/tail turns
• maintain stable alt

[Mr_sukebe]

That's a great starting point. 

Other elements worth practicing:

• Autorotation landing without power
• Sling loading
• Landing onto small pads
• Combat landing (i.e. ingress at high speed, then scrubbing that speed off followed by a fast landing)
• Landing in tricky windy conditions
• Landing on a moving pad (e.g. helicopter pad on a ship)
• Combining the ship landing with nasty wind conditions
• Flight in poor visibility
• Landing from high altitude by a fast descent into an LZ
• Recovery from deliberately induced vortex ring state

The Huey was my first DCS module, and I loved learning how to fly it.

[guitarxe]

2 hours ago, Mr_sukebe said:

That's a great starting point. 

Other elements worth practicing:

• Autorotation landing without power
• Sling loading
• Landing onto small pads
• Combat landing (i.e. ingress at high speed, then scrubbing that speed off followed by a fast landing)
• Landing in tricky windy conditions
• Landing on a moving pad (e.g. helicopter pad on a ship)
• Combining the ship landing with nasty wind conditions
• Flight in poor visibility
• Landing from high altitude by a fast descent into an LZ
• Recovery from deliberately induced vortex ring state

The Huey was my first DCS module, and I loved learning how to fly it.

These are excellent pointers, thank you!