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In real life how do Apache pilots roll or Immelman the helicopter?

I am unable to do it in sim without catastrophic results. My helo is empty with 20% fuel.

I see Red Bull BO 105 do it. However it has special rigid rotor hub.

I see RAF Lynx do it.

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You'd better wait until we have the final flight model (rotor model) before attempting such shenanigans.

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Ignoring the obvious "ok but y tho," you can do loops and rolls with the 64 in the game, you just need careful manipulation of the controls. It's also advisable to kill the SAS while doing it as well.

An immelmann turn is hard for me to pull off without dumping all my speed and it seems rather silly to do so when more than enough authority exists for a bog standard climbing turns with a bit of bank and yaw.

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9 hours ago, DmitriKozlowsky said:

How is this done again?

Practice.

You should have a lot of speed and altitude when working it, so even if you stall the generators, you can probably autorotate to restart them.

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the biggest thing i found with maneuvers like this is to avoid lots of collective.  You only want enough to keep it controllable or it will work against you and slow you down instead of allowing you to climb like that.  In the Ka-50 if you have too much collective then the rotors hit.  The Apache doesn't have that problem but it still needs very low collective when able.  Its all about using your momentum and timing.

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