This is actually the guide that I think 95% of heli pilots need to spend 99% of their time doing. Flying is easy in comparison to landing, bleeding off speed, hovering etc. Yet I bet most of us don't practice it enough because nap-of-the-earth at 200km/hr is cooler. Thank you Dslyecxi.

*Tries to land in Arma 3, the heli hits the ground a bit harder than it should* **ENTIRE HELI BLOWS UP**

Man Dslycxi could play Hole in the Wall with a littlebird

I watch a video or two of your flights and get all motivated and ready to go to war. I load ARMA, jump in a helo and proceed to get pissed off :) You make it look so easy.

I fly sideways all the time, though it's usually after my tail rotors been shot out :P

Awesome video Dslyecxi. As a real life pilot, I love messing around with the Arma 3 helos, specially the MD500 (little bird). Your tips definitely helped me improve my skills in the game. Thumbs up!

Watching these, and all your flight videos, I'm like a little kid watching a skilled magician--my jaw drops, and I shake my head, knowing that I'll never be able to do the amazing things I'm watching you do.

Dude helped me master Bleed flairs in 5 days. This dude give such detailed advice. Thats a sub and like from me!

I will never stop being amazed at those snap stop landings you do. They're mesmerising.

Just wanted to say that after watching this series and putting in several hours of practice in the editor, I am finally starting to get the hang of the hummingbird. These tutorials have been helping/inspiring me a lot and I seem to pick up a little more each time I watch them. Thank you for producing this material and sharing your talent and interests with us :)

Such an informative video, thank you! + Bonus points for the soothing voice.

For those wondering, the Littlebirds in this are from: forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?192279-MELB-Mission-Enhanced-Little-Bird

This was so well made, seems so official and awesome! GOOD JOB!

Glad I was doing most of things right, using just intuition and logic. Great video!

Awesome video. The shots here help me aspire to stop crashing helicopters and really gain some control and skill.

Awesome Flight video... back to VR training till i develop butt sores

flying truly is an art. it takes about an hour to learn and years to perfect such as any other art. what hardware are you using? and how well does it compare to mouse and KB?

I've also learnt something new, never knew about the idea of scissor flares. Seems to be a very effective method of killing speed.

absolutely great vid Dslyecxi, keep it up man !

4k, that resolution- holy hell, awesome!

This video editing is just the best shit ever. Keep up the great work friend.

Your channel is so awesome and informative. You empower your watchers with ingame and real world information. Wow! Keep this stuff up!

19:55 Bruh. Life changing advice.

on MP servers helo pilot flares always crack me up, it's either... flies at 50m altitude all the way to LZ, perfect flair, drops collective to -500m and boom or... flies at 2m altitude all the way to LZ, flair and gain 700m altitude, lower collective for 2 minutes into a perfect landing surrounded by gunfire, pilot drops us off for an ok insertion, gets locked and destroyed at 1ft upon takeoff. Also one time I played with a perfect pilot to the point where it took me 3 hours to realise this same pilot was using the same chopper for the duration without having been gunned down or even taking fire. Blowed my mind.

Fantastic video Dslyecxi

A perfect landing in a helicopter is one where the back of the skids touch the ground when your speed hits 0 after a flare that increases in angle overtime, then reducing it. Perfect angles would go from nose down from cruise to nose up to 45*, then reducing to 15-20 (and up to 25)* in touch down

i finally done it i landed a helo great tutorials keep up the great work many thanks

This was the first video I have seen from your channel, you do some good guides and also a smoothing voice :O

I'm so excited for the MELB pack. They look so promising at such an early release.

Actually best video on yt

3:27 damn! look at dat smoke! ArmA is beautiful.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this. I wish I could play it on repeat while practicing. I’ve been flying since Arma 2 and I’m still only able to do the straight in and flare landing regularly. I’ve practiced for hundreds of hours but still have problems landing lol. Strange thing is that I can fly like a hawk on steroids though.

I hope to be some day as comfortable as you seem in these videos. I do similar maneuvers, but not yet with the same degree of aggression.

Well done man, professionally delivered. Like always,

“He doesn’t fly from the right” “That’s all he had to do to make me trust his wisdom”

Excellent teaching man. I will be watching more of your videos. Thank you for the details.

You should fly on the "advanced" setting and talk to us about the catastrophic effects of settling with power, mast bumping, Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness (LTE), Low RPM, and high torque/power settings. Arma III does a really nice job incorporating these situations in the game, which simulates true/real helicopter flying characteristics.

As an ok pilot using the skills you show already i give a 👌👍 to this

Still a great video. Learned a lot from this video vs others. Best part is that this video applies to other games as well. If you can get the flares and bleeding down in arma you can do it easily in games like Squad.

Great video, once again! Can't wait for the next :) I'm greatly interested in a comparative video where you point out the differences between the traditional and the advanced flight model. I experienced them myself while playing but didn't really understood why something happened. Keep up the great work.

I only use the ”switchback turn” when deploying troops, you can go in at almost full speed, and when you have landed, youre already facing the right way to quickly accelerate. Deffinately the safest option IMO when youre close to the combat.

Awesome! Thank you so much for these tutorials. Just ordered a Track ir and can't wait to use it

You should do a collaboration with Misconduct. Hands down one of the best Helicopter pilots in Arma 3 . Personally have not seen anyone else fly like he does.

Awesome video. Thank you so much. This will be my bible as I just got into Arma3 and want to be a hot helo pilot!

This was extremely informative and very enlightening! Outstanding video Dslyecxi! (Btw, The new MELB looks amazing.)

Great video. My helo skills are currently shite, but at least I now have direction and understanding. Cheers!

Those dust clouds during low-level flight are mod or just high video settings? I don't remember seeing it in Arma myself.

very well done, I just bought a joystick and am getting into flight in both DCS and arma 3, so these videos will help alot. I also use your Track IR profile, it's very good

Excellent tutorial 👍

Awesome instructional video mate, good work

love all of your content, please continue, thank you very much

Best content i've seen yet. WD

Awesome video, totally made me feel like a helicopter n00b. What kind of controller setup do you like? Gampad? Mouse/keyboard? Joystick w/peddles?

You seem very passionate if the art of flying. I really enjoy your A+ content you've been releasing! Just wondering though if you could fly any aircraft IRL what would you choose? Keep up the great work man!

Thank you for the informative video. Very useful

You have earned my subscription Iz not easy to get i had to watch 20 of your vids

Maaaaan, your vids are awesome. I'm just learning to fly transport heli in Arma3 and your flying is a sheer miracle for me to see. Could you please be so kind to say what hardware do you use to fly (I have saitek x52) and what key bindings setup do you have? I'm really eager to know how did you achieve that level of camera lookaround while still controlling your heli, I mean from my perspective you seem to have 3 hands or so :)

You say that funnel maneuvers have very little combat employment but I find myself using it a lot in engagements with little AA capabilities. Its especially useful for pinning down or bombarding vehicles and structures when you want to spend maximum time on target. I usually find myself doing it most with immobilized vehicles or infantry.

best series ever!!

This is goof stuff. Thanks.

Fantastic video. Thanks.

3:10 "This is a landing flare" Ah if only that was a flare instead of a smoke grenade...

Is that the new MELB?!? I've never been so excited...

Epic video. Helped me a lot!

using that jsrs pack in this . love the sounds in that

Great stuff as always! Thx

Just have to say this was an amazing well put together video and you have a very peaceful instructor voice. What bindings are your stick are you using for trim control?

Dslyecxi You forgot to tell Track IR users to turn off the Z axis. Flying is much more fun with out it.

I knew it wouldn't be long before you took up MELB ;)

Thanks I needed to know how to lose speed without gaining altitude.

Good info. Thx. BTW, you sound just like the "How it's Made" Narrator

Dslyecxi, I know you don't like using the AFM instruments, but would you consider enabling them for the 'Art of Flight' videos in the future? It would give us a very insightful peek at the kinds of input you're giving to the collective and cyclic, as well as climb-and-decent rates for those of us interested in how you use those to your advantage. Thanks!

Great video!!!

I know you like to fly without them, but for tutorial videos it would be very helpful to have the gauges turned on so we can see where your speed and other things are while you're doing things. Thanks for the vids!

great video. thanks!

You're a great pilot dude. Really enjoy your helicopter videos. Do you play DCS at all?

Great video, but i would love to know when you should go in to a balance flying before landing ( meters ). Thanks!

Thanks +Dslyecxi

absolutely wonderful made video and explanations.

Speed is your friend.

Nice video

this is so hard without a head tracker but it's still possible

I can take off and fly fast but do not expect me to land on a hot LZ or anything smaller than a small field.

Gread Vid as always! Did you use the "Advanced flight model" in those examples? Thx

Exceptional work. I was wondering what you use to capture the flying. You have shots inside and outside of the same maneuver.

I've done barrier flares while being chased in KoTH and cause people to fly their Pawnees right into the object or ground. lol

Amazing video man. What server do you play on most? I'd love to fly with you sometime.

I have two problems flying. Knowing the timing to shift from higher flight state to balanced flight state. I also do it too early or too late. :) And controlling the wobbling just after flaring for landing. I hate it! :D

Much appreciated!

Beautiful...

Man, id be such a good pilot if my laptop could run arma .................... (realy like the series for some reason :))

Great video. Very informative. I was wondering, do you prefer to fly Arma helos using keyboard/mouse or joystick/throttle setup? As a flight simmer I'm a fan of joystick/throttle of course, but I've also heard some people say keyboard/mouse is easier to control, especially for a game where you may need to quickly switch from flight to infantry movement. Just wondered if there was a general consensus among Arma pilots over what's best.

Damn he can fly ...

Doing a funnel would actually be quite useful if you're piloting a gunship. It lets you keep up sustained fire on the target without having to constantly pass over back and forth. Why didn't you mention it?

Good series and well explained. You a pilot by chance?

nice!!! thanks

Do a series using the normal flight model, that would be different.

he's this good in first person. I wonder how dangerous he is in 3rd person. Jesus Christ.

I know this video is 8 years old but, how do you do a quick stop with pedals?

Bro these kills are so operator