Dyslexci, I'm a pilot and I have to say you make a brilliant flight instructor.

I was smiling during this whole video, I love helicopter action. They can be so majestic but also so spastic. Great video Dsly

A week ago I was practicing with the littlebird and lost my tail rotor. I remembered this video and was able to land safety. Thanks for the tips!

I remember my dad tried to explain to me how tailrotors worked when I was little, and I didn't believe him...

Damn you could swear you are actually inside the chopper. lol. Impressive flying and tutorial.many thanks.look forward to future setups and guides in flying.

Cannot believe I have stumbled on these after 10 years .... This reminds me of my Learning to fly RC Helis for 30 smack flying. it is definitely muscle memory. I have only just got Arma III and it has been pretty painful so far as I want to work with the hotas as I get sore wrists from hours and hours of COMP work during the day. I am getting there only have about 3 hours of hover training under my belt ATM..... Walk before you can crawl. Takes a lot of discipline to master precision hover and low speed movement and it is only discipline and hours and hours of practice that will get you there for sure. I have Tobii Eye Tracker 5 as there is no way I would not do this without situational awareness for heli flying especially. Thanks ... for all of your time and videos. I will watch them all. Cheers WESTY

watching this let me finally pass the arma 3 tail rotor failure section after about 20 tries! Thank you! None of the other videos give the tip about the slight turn as you come in to land!

Today I just did my first tail less rotor recover and landing at literally just 30 meters up and standing somewhat still. It was horrifying when I started spinning suddenly but then I remembered that rocking technique and tried doing it for the first time ever and succeeded and landed back at base although very poorly. I did make some mistakes later on as a pilot in the session which made me forget this achievement but writing this makes me proud and want to fly tommorow again. I still can't do quick landing and am only capable of doing bleed flares and the occasional successful speedy spiral landings.

Learned all this in real situations while playing ArmA 2. Would have been useful to see this beforehand.

10 years ago, this video was posted. You are really underrated!

You are an Arma wizard, you know everything.

You really should keep doing these instructional videos. Already knew this lesson, but enjoyed it mightily. You have the perfect teachers voice, too.

Whilst i'm rather familiar with flying on ArmA etc, It's great that you've taken the time to cut through the yellow tape that surrounds a lot of features of 'tricks' that splits off the 'veteran' ArmA player and the new guy. Thanks for doing this Dslyecxi and I look forward to more videos!

Thank you so much Dslyecxi! I've always cocked up Anti-Torque failures until now :)

I remember I used a similar technique as "rocking-out", when I was flying the Mi 24 to the AO. With the similar technique, I gained the few extra seconds for my gunner to be able to trace an enemy LAV + make a shot with an ATGM. Then a safe landing on a grass patch. This stuff really works.

This video just saved my butt in the Attack Helo scenario in Arma 3. After getting torn up by ground AA and with everything but the engine in the red, I had to head back to the supply point to get fixed up. But when I started to bleed some speed to slow down, of course I began to spin. If it wasn't for this video I probably would have given up, but instead I just rolled with the spin and though it was touch and go for a while I was able to touch down. \o/ So, thanks!

Thumbs up. I really appreciate that you included a link to your Little Bird practice mission.

Well, there are two ways to survive: do a running landing or stop mid-air and abuse ArmA2 engine to float relatively unharmed to the ground. In both cases, lower you collective with Z to retain power and apply it with Q when you are about to touch down. In a running landing you want to keep forward airspeed to enter into a glide slope, while with the second method you immediately pitch up until you "hover", level out and then apply collective when you are about to hit the ground.

Ah hahahahaha. Thanks for the help Dsyecxi. I saw this a few days before I actually lost my tail-rotor while flying a Mi-17 (Hit a tree while landing). I was able to rock it out and surprisingly, I was able to survive. So yeah, thanks for the info!

These things are brilliant, please do keep doing more.

this was fantastic, thanks! I never would have worked this out on my own.

Love these! You have helped to drastically and quickly improve my flying. Thanks!

Great video. Very interesting! Will be checking out your rotor loss training missions - definitely! :)

9.22.2 Loss of Tail Rotor Thrust at Low Airspeed / Hover. Loss of tail rotor thrust at slow speed may result in extreme yaw angles and uncontrolled rotation to the right. Immediate collective pitch reduction should be initiated to reduce the yaw and begin a controlled rate of descent. If the helicopter is high enough above the ground, initiate a power-on descent. Collective should be adjusted so that an acceptable compromise between rate of turn and rate of descent is maintained. At approximately 5 to 10 feet above touchdown, initiate a hovering autorotation by moving the ENG POWER CONT levers - OFF. 1. Collective - Reduce. 2. ENG POWER CONT levers - OFF (5 to 10 feet above touchdown).

Actually very practical info in regards to REAL flight control inputs (as I’m a Private licensed helo pilot, former) and have NO clue about ‘gaming’ controls...

I love your videos Dslyecxi :) They are very informative and you have such a dominant voice that im hooked on every word you say.

I've had issues in the past (especially in Russian helo's) of ending up in sideways flight. Definitely happy to have some pointers on getting out of that.

Holy cripes! This video is great! Such great information and great/clear explanation as to what the helicopter naturally wants to do versus how to coerce it into doing what you're trying to accomplish via a different means without trying (and failing) to force it to do something it physically can no longer do.

Love the videos you do, and this one was brilliant.

Nice! I did not know that a helicopter could behave in that way (the forwards rocking). Thankyou for that!

Perhaps a video on establishing an orbit around a combat area with a door gunner as a support aircraft? Safe flying patterns, altitude, proper angles for effective fire, etc.

Look forward to a video on landing in or near hot zones. That and how to identify them.

Seriously impressive flying. I think i've only ever once got close to a safe landing after a tail rotor failure.

Cool, very clean and objective.

Thanks a lot for the video and info. I'm a fixed wing pilot and was curious what would happen if this happened to a helicopter. Really interesting finding out there's actually a procedure to recover and that this is survivable. Really enjoyed the video. You're a great instructor. I'll be checking out the rest of the episodes of this series :-)

I still remember when these came out all these years ago, jeeez.

@Dslyecxi not sure if you know this already, but trying to rock forward while not touching throttle or holding throttle up is very hard, but if you hold the down collective key while pitching forward initially, you can save a lot of time getting your forward momentum, as well as altitude. not to mention you are a lot less likely to get into a sideways or backwards motion. just hold the collective down for however long it takes to get the drag on your tail to counter the torque.

How on earth do you get these awesome camera panning shots without the HUD or any of the other in-game clutter?

Nice work Dslyecxi, after years of playing the game theres still stuff to learn ;)

Great video, thanks for the tips!

Heli practice with my uncle, I was 9 at the time, taught me to do this. Arma 1 days, my heli was hit, tail rotor gone at 10m alt, with full passenger load, hard spin. Suffice it to say, I managed to land it back at base, everyone was like "WTF DUDE U ROX" and immediately got like several invite offers to join their clan from that stunt. My nerves were too shot to keep playing though, when I realized what I just did and what actual RL experience I used to save myself in a videogame.

Hey Dslyecxi! Love your videos and they have immensely helped me with my chopper skillz. (still looking into getting headtracking gear and maybe the pedals some day) My question is if you would happen to have a list of scripts usable in the debug console that i can use to train the stuff you have portrayed in this series. Thanks for doing what you're doing man.

A bit about Autorotation (ACE) landing might come in handy as an extension to this video, it's my preferred method for landing with tail rotor loss as shutting down the engines will reduce the main rotor's torque reducing the chance of a low-altitude death spin.

It absolutely can be recover from. Read up on loss of tail rotor, or even LTE ( Loss of tail rotor efficiency) at a hover,low or high, and even at fwd speed.. It's a maneuver we practice often in the helicopter.

Hey Dslyecxi i just seen your video today about rudder and your go pros in arma 3 and i have been hooked ever since. I have such an addicition to flying and you videos are very helpful. I subscribed and look forward to all your videos and hopefully can see you around some time.

You sound like the flight lesson guy from FA 18 Hornet 3.0 that game was legit, good video. I look forward to more.

Your videos are great and very clear, Dslyecxi. I had been watching some of your in-game shenanigans, and I only just discovered your instructional videos. Is Arma III so realistic that these same lessons can more or less be applied to actual flight?

Awesome tutorials man, coming from a heli pilot too.

These are great videos, Keep 'em coming! Wouldn't it be great if you converted your whole ArmA 2 tactical guide into videos!!!

Fantastic work.

Thanks to you, I'm a good pilot now ! Thank you !!

Do more! :D I'm really trying to get better at ArmA 2 piloting since I've joined a realism group and this video helped me out tremendously. Can you do another about auto rotation?

A video on taking out enemy ground with fixed weapons would be fun. I never seem to get enough rounds on target in the LB.

Amazing Dslyecxi :)

Dude, that's awesome.

Love this style of video

Here 11 years later this is still useful

These are really cool!

depends on the damage. if the whole section of the tail rotor is cut loose, then obviously you can't recover it. if the tail rotor just stops working for whatever reason and the tail section is intact, you can pretty much recover it up to the point of making a safe crash landing. what i mean by safe is that your landing will be quite hard, but not hard enough to injure passengers on board. the techniques differ in real life than what it shown here. anyways, good vid dslyecxi

Do more of these videos please!

Impressive Video, off to practice using the little bird mission and then to Ebay to find some pedals....

MOARR NEED SO MUCH MOREE

You should do some ACE tutorials, and update every time there's a major change in the thing you did a video for. Those would be pretty nice, since vanilla ArmA 2 already has a series of tutorials for infantry, flying, etc. Although, the flying tutorial doesn't tell you how to respond if you're hit though, so this is good too.

I have found that if I increase collective to gain altitude, this increases the spin when I remain perfectly level. Once high enough, decrease all collective the spin slows very greatly to the point where pitching the nose down allows me to slip right into forward flight

Landing with tailrotor out is very easy. Keep a stable decrease in thrust and the chopper will keep stable no matter what. For those using keys, tapping the key will give this effect. This will give you a safe and soft landing.

Love these videos, they are quite helpful in my Arma2 and DayZ gameplay, though these are things I tend to do instinctively, it's really nice to have the knowledge so you can consciously practice them when the situation arises.

I dont even have this fucking game, but yet im still watching haha!

Really helpful and really interesting, another one please slexi ;)

Great video again keep it up

Great video and excellent work as always. After playing the series for years, you can still learn something indeed. What map is the desert one by the way? Thank you.

I actually use a similar technique which allows me to fly tail-shorn helos in GTA IV reasonably well... though the "rock-out" dynamic is not fully achieved.

I find that when the heli spins like that getting high Alt. and then Pressing Y (going down again) and a little bit fowoard gets the heli in controll fast.

I'm interested in how you guys always manage to spot infantry at such long range, especially without binoculars. Could you perhaps do an instructional on spot and or reporting enemy infantry?

the main prop (big spinning blades) of a helicopter produce upward lift as well as a lesser amount of sideways torque, the ail rotor is used to cancel that out. if the tail rotor is damaged there will be nothing to cancel out the sideways torque, the resulting death spin is known as autorotation. as a pilot in arma its one of the more stressful ways to lose an aircraft

Thanks, very usefull

Dslyexci, I have watched many of your videos and was wondering if you could make one where you dodge rockets using flares and then again without flares. Thatnks man, see you in the skies.

Just finished watching BMD rally P1 and found this. :D

Same thing when a plane loses its engines. You level out and try and glide in for a landing. Unfortunately this is unlikely to work since choppers have the aerodynamics of a brick and will pick up speed too quickly during the plunge. Your best options are to bail out and pray the chopper doesn't fall on you =P

Neat video!

thanks for the help

I found much faster and more controllable to recover (having altitude) via lowering the collective, reducing torque effect, gaining speed and fw motion in glide/descend, increasing the collective again once in sufficient speed. No spins included, unless the initial altitude is to low and I have to - as mentioned in your vid - gain it first.

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great vid

Arma 2 (especially with ace mod enabled) uses key factors if not the full "Take on Helicopters" module. Which is toned down from the full throttle flight simulator "Take on Helicopters" also used in virtual pilot training games for flight schools, military, games etc.

Very good video, thanks for it, I've learned something new and valuable. Bravo-Zulu!

PLZ do more tuts like gunning and how to control certain maneuvers..

Amazing.

Love it!! Does Shacktac ever use airlifting, that might b cool to see

For anyone wanting to practice this, here's how you do it. Set a trigger, with a Presence activation (or by Radio). In the On Activation field, enter: vehicle player setHit ["HitVRotor", 1] That will knock out the tail rotor immediately. "vehicle" is the object,. If you enter that code in the Init field, you can use "this". "Player" represents who it affects,(Although using "Player" is bad practice for MP) "HitVRotor" is the part, and "1" is the amount of damage, 0 being the least.

I found it good if you have a runway you slow down to just above auto rotation when over a runway get down to 10 or so height units and cut the engines the helo is on the deck before it has time to start auto rotation

More Art of Flight! :)

Sry about that, eng is not my mother tongue, meant 360° at least :) In your "rocking out" the chopper I found the moment of backw. motion quite dangerous, which u don't get when u base the recovery on autorotation. Which i believe is not only the proper, but in arma more controllable, way to do it. Great video anyway!

when rocking back and forwards to "rock out" of the spin are you apllying forward and backward pitch or just holding the forward pitch till it does it?

Dslyecxi is either a very skilled or very lucky pilot. During his landing in this video his lands with the tail of his blackhawk first on the ground - something that usually makes the blackhawk explode. That tail is like made of TNT or something.

Good video.

Helped alot me and my friend with some other random people got I to this state and everyone was like oh sh*t and I said everything's okay I can fix it. Then I did it and everyone got out and said Cool.

Thanks

MOAR!

if you play the pmc campaign it teaches you this in the helicopter mission

I like these vids.