Hover Tips

[jazjar]

Why all the talk about auto hover! It is good for, say, MP missions where you you just want to D-link targets to your flight and receive incoming data, but for combat situations, when you want to waste your main-tank killers, 9A4172 missile, take cover behind a hill and shoot from there. You are really close to the hill, so you can use that as a hover reference, and remember, gentle control movements, and when first getting into the hover, HOLD DOWN THE TRIM BUTTON! YES, I SAID IT PEOPLE! HOLD IT DOWN. It is a much more natural method of flying the aircraft, and is better than individual presses because you are fighting the aircraft when you do this. The "jump" that occurs when you trim is due to the fact that the AP is pulling in one direction, and you are pulling the other, so when you reset the AP, you are releasing the aircraft from the AP pressure. When you hold the burtton down, you are still flying with dampers on, but most importantly, you are not fighting the aircraft. This is the key to landing on runways, FARPS, destroyers, and making accurate rocket and gunpod passes.

[Vantskruv]

Yep, for me holding the trim-button down is the best way, otherwise it is like taming a wild-horse who wants to go to another direction. :joystick:

 

Anyway, little offtopic, as I was playing the second mission in the deployment campaign, escorting a caravan, I was scavenging ahead of the caravan, found a APC of some sort I think and killed it. Right after that the caravan was ambushed in a previous village, so I needed to turn back and defend them, at that time when approaching I had big trouble controlling the helicopter, maybe it was the heat of action, but she behaved very strangely, it turned around and I had very hard time giving rudder input, it just turned round and round. This helicopter is very hard to master when it comes to lack of time assaulting targets, when you need to align the SHVAKL, controlling the helicopter (which is like a wildhorse). I does very opposite of what I want to do. Though when just flying there is no problem, but when you have to stop fast, align the helicopter, in the heat of action while trying to home in targets, it gets very hard...

 

I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, forgot to save the replay-track.

 

Edit:

I think it maybe I'm using to much rudder extensively when trimming, which leads to strange behaviour as I'm not seeing the trimming of the rudder. Played the mission again and everything worked quite well, as I tried to release the trimmer when there is no rudder input. To much speed and trimming with rudder will make everything go bad I purpose, it is a steep learning curve (of course), but it is fun as hell! It's not just about flying, you need to really be forward-looking in missions and take many things to account, not haste to much.

Edited November 11, 2011 by Vantskruv

[jazjar]

Think of the GUI music. It calms me down ;)

[WildBillKelsoe]

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[Cowboy10uk]

Hi guys, sorry for the slow update, RL and skyrim got in the way :).

 

Well I took all your advice Noc, and I finally did it, spent 2 hrs flying around getting into a stable hover from different angles, speeds and heights, will still admit it sometimes takes a few goes, but it's getting there. Nothing a few more months of practice won't fix,

 

I can't thank everyone enough for their advice.

 

Cowboy10uk