Mattressi Posted September 12, 2013 Posted September 12, 2013 I've been flying the Huey a bit now, but, as usual, I never bother with the communications side of things. I thought I might try it out, but I don't know what I should be mapping my trigger to. In the manual, the Huey's trigger is mapped to the radio ICS. In game, there's and option for "radio trigger ICS" and "radio trigger RADIO". I'm guessing I should just map the ICS one, but I'm wondering what the "radio RADIO" one does. What's the difference between radio ICS and radio...RADIO...? Thanks :)
Luzifer Posted September 12, 2013 Posted September 12, 2013 ICS is intercom, internal to the craft. RADIO is for the actual radio. You also need to select the radio to use on the intercom panel. "3" is for the AM radio to communicate with ATC, if I remember right.
Mattressi Posted September 12, 2013 Author Posted September 12, 2013 ICS is intercom, internal to the craft. RADIO is for the actual radio. You also need to select the radio to use on the intercom panel. "3" is for the AM radio to communicate with ATC, if I remember right. So in a real Huey, would the trigger be used for both ICS and regular radio, or only intercom? I'm guessing both. If so, do I only need to map one (ICS or RADIO) to the trigger and just select which one is used, using the intercom panel? Or do I need both ICS and RADIO mapped to a button?
Luzifer Posted September 12, 2013 Posted September 12, 2013 It seems to be a two stage trigger on the real Huey, so squeezing the trigger gives intercom and fully squeezing goes to radio. On the Thrustmaster Warthog it can be mapped exactly like that. That said, I don't think you really need intercom in an easily reachable location. About the only use I can think of is communicating with ground crew while the engine is running.
JackDant Posted September 12, 2013 Posted September 12, 2013 That said, I don't think you really need intercom in an easily reachable location. About the only use I can think of is communicating with ground crew while the engine is running. I'm no expert, but I know helicopters are noisy. Very noisy. I imagine talking to the door gunner or even the copilot is easier over intercom than by shouting.
Luzifer Posted September 12, 2013 Posted September 12, 2013 Well yeah, but in game you don't have to talk to them, you just switch to their position. Maybe if we get something like AI door gunners in the future we might use the intercom to give them commands, but right now, there's nothing.
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