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I invited a friend over to show-off my skills. To my surprise, he was able to consistently repeat running landings at high speeds on all kinds of surfaces-- and there I was wrestling the beast into a hover or trying my best to. Are running landings too easy in the sim?

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Yes, very easy to me. But I have no idea if it is right or wrong attitude...

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Landing either tail low, or skids level, with moderate to low descend speed, and roughly aligned with your course, then you should be fine up to and sometimes above 60kts. What will get you in run-on landing is ground with uneven friction - many Robbies were lost to this.

 

With DCS: Huey run-on landings on tarmac are fine, on the grass... well, only did few in combat, so can't really tell if those are too forgiving or not.

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With DCS: Huey run-on landings on tarmac are fine.

 

Good. I don't explode when I land that way. :)

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Hahaha, I have so much laughs out of the damage modeling at crash landings with this thing. It is so rare occurrence in real life, for the helicopter to turn into a fireball at hard touchdown.

 

Here's a video of a high speed run on landing... of course its a NOTAR bird, so something must go wrong here:

 

Now play this and guess at which point such landing in DCS helicopter would erupt in a fireball:

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Well, I have to admit that when I dropped about half a meter from a fairly stable hover, the ensuing explosion seemed a bit much.

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Hahaha, I have so much laughs out of the damage modeling at crash landings with this thing. It is so rare occurrence in real life, for the helicopter to turn into a fireball at hard touchdown.

 

Here's a video of a high speed run on landing... of course its a NOTAR bird, so something must go wrong here:

 

Now play this and guess at which point such landing in DCS helicopter would erupt in a fireball:

 

 

That one vid, autorotate? Really? seems the chopper comes in way to fast and hits hard, after impact the turbine is still spinning for the A-team?

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As long as you keep some power in so that the full weight stays off of the ground, you can slide on and on. This would be possible in real life if the surface is really flat, and guess what, in DCS, it's really flat :)

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and guess what, in DCS, it's really flat :)

second to that

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Yes it seems flat. But on another hand; it's flat for skid-landing, but not for parking.

I mean I can skid-land on the ground (soil), but after center my cyclic, Huey lays back and loses tail rotor!

 

I don't understand, there're still issues about the ground.

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I don't understand, there're still issues about the ground.

 

Invisible sinkholes. ;)

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Watch this guy sliding around on his skids....

 

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Okay, is there anyone left who has not linked this video since it resurfaced about a week ago? :lol:

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Okay, is there anyone left who has not linked this video since it resurfaced about a week ago? :lol:

 

I haven't. I could start a thread for it. :P

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We could start a competition. - I've linked it twice.

 

Point is, he spends a lot of time running around on his skids, on dirt, some of it at a reasonable speed.

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In all seriousness, the skids on the Huey do seem to break/collapse rather easily anytime I land from a hover a bit unbalanced. Though it is quite possible, even likely, that I am coming down hard enough for it to be accurate.

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Point is, he spends a lot of time running around on his skids, on dirt, some of it at a reasonable speed.

 

You're right, and the video does illustrate real world skid sliding very well.

 

I apologize in case my comment appeared to be negative in nature.

 

It's just that I've seen that video linked several times in a very short time frame, I kind of couldn't resist. :smilewink:

 

In all seriousness, the skids on the Huey do seem to break/collapse rather easily anytime I land from a hover a bit unbalanced. Though it is quite possible, even likely, that I am coming down hard enough for it to be accurate.

 

I've lost my skids a few times and created a huge fireball many more times. But I don't think I've ever seen my skids break or collapse. Huh, I should practice some more and see whether that can be achieved as well. :D

 

With the new FM, my landings have improved considerably, though.

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