A good rule of thumb that was taught to me by an Mi-8 engineer is to keep the rate of descent and your airspeed so that your altitude matches your speed. So 100 meters height = 100km/h. What that means is that when you get into ETL, you're near or lower than 50 meters doing < 50km/h which will ease your transition into a hover as well as keeping the landing site fixed in the same frame of reference you draw up when making your approach.

brilliant tutorial, the entire series in fact is excellent. Just wanted to mention that the kind of approach ending in the hover close to ground that you showed was what I was doing when I first started flying the R22. My instructor let me do a couple of them, then said this would be fine, if we were to fly people into a hot LZ or something, otherwise we should avoid this sort of very fast very shallow approaches, very little room to react if anything were to go wrong. So instead we kinda want a bit steeper angle, with bleeding speed a bit earlier. I was taught to aim for the descent to end in a hover, at good ground effect altitude, but with a bit of forward speed for directional stability, meaning in this case if the pad was your touchdown target, you should be in a stable hover in ground effect a few meters before it, with some small forward momentum remaining. This avoids the hard pull on the nose at the very last moment, protecting your boom and tail rotor, and keeping visual of the pad, lessen the need to add massive amounts of collective in a very short time (I don't even think the engineers would forgive such blade AoA increase speed unless an emergency, it really stresses out the transmission), also preventing the need for very fast input of right pedal. Like you said, a lot happens really really fast, and with 10 tons of hot heavy metal you want to give yourself as much room for error as possible. Nice flying though, I learned a lot about the Hip systems watching your tutorials, great work!

Very nice! Detailed descriptions. Thank you!

Thanks for the fantastic video!

After trying to get good at landing the hip for a while using other tutorials, that approach into ground effect hover had me sweating bullets.

For two years the only helo I had was the Huey. I got very proficient with it. I could do just about anything. Land on a destroyer in 5 foot seas and 20 mph wind. No problem. Then I got the Mi8. Throw EVERYTHING you know out the window. I was like a pig on roller skates. VRS being the bane of my Hip career. But, like everything else in DCS, you can crash as much as you like. I spent a week figuring out all the details. Wish I would have seen this video. But when you learn all these things on your own, they tend to become instinct much faster that if shown how to do it. Nice video, well explained without excruciating detail. Some go WAY too in-depth when teaching. I don't give a shit who invented the R-831 mid-range VHF air radio , just show me how to use the damn thing! lol

Excellent video, thank you! Concise and helpful. :-)

Best DCS Helicopter tutorial I have seen in KZfaq.

Another very nice video. I really like the style and narration! Content wise: Maximum speed for rolling landing is 50km/h according to the manual. 80-90 is a bit high. Also, it would be great to see a landing out of pattern hight with a steady glide. Keep up the great work!

One question, always when I was flying I felt that the autopilot wanted to take me to a place rather than keep the flight stable, deactivating the "autopilot adjustment" option in special options, I think it will solve the problem, but also there is a key to ask the engineer to adjust it (a voice comes out), what are these 2 options really doing? Thanks for the material, your tutorials are currently the best there is on youtube and clearly deserve more reproductions.

Good timing, just bought the Mi-8... ;)

my favourite thing about the Mi-8 is how it applauds as you land

It is always good idea to start with theory. Show the dead man's curve, explain what orange and red zone means, e.tc..

Oil platforms .... here I come. Crashing right down :D

Will you do an update tutorial for the landing? Maybe one for a rush landing like in ecw? I got the mi-8 recently and I suck at landings but you series is being very helpful. You have the best indepth tutorials and I'd love to see your latest skills. Thanks

Hi vcTerminus I'm enjoying your tutorials and now with the Hind EA Release I'm struggling to perform a vertical landing....I'll try the way you do with the HIP to see if I improve my VL. Thanks!!

Everyone else comes in on a proper approach and then there is just me that turns when I am 10 metres past the heli-pad, goes full anti-torque pedal and aggressively bank to get rid of all of my airspeed, but still somehow doesn't crash and lands properly

would have liked to have seen more displays during the land in to hover maneuver

Just discovered your channel and I really like your teaching style. I’m looking forward to following the complete serie. I like the lighting in your videos are you using a reshade preset for this? Is it available somewhere?

Thank you for the video! Amazing tips. Have a question, where did you get that liverie? Can you share the download link ? Thanks again!

Awesome video. I'm back here for the 3rd time after entering VRS and crashing on the 3rd landing site in the first mission of the Spring Tension campaign 😤🤬 I really wish DCS had a way to save your bloody game! I have owned the Hip for years now, but am really just learning it now. I wonder though if the VRS isn't over-modeled as it doesn't seem to me that pilots IRL (from the videos I've seen) struggle this much with it?

Does the two visual displays in the upper right and left of the screen aid in landing the Mi8? In landing the Mi8 in DCS, I find it very difficult to arrest forward movement of this bird. It seems like the Mi8 wants to always be moving forward.

@5:48 - add SIGNIFICANT collective. Very important.

Hey. I would be really grateful if you would do (another) video on how to land on the Hospital in Dubai; with tips. I can land the huey just about anywhere, but on top of that narrow "tower" I just struggle.

When you landed on the pad, did you apply any trim during the landing? I find it nearly impossible to prevent this module from wanting to move forward, especially during hover attempts. Also, you say that buffeting means slowing down to fast? Do you have a video on this?

When can we count on having this one redone?

ooh man great! one question, that is still getting me you are constantly talking about the descent rate on the VVI. But what are you doing to control that?? and keeping it constant.

I notice you have your Throttle at 50% on two of the landings. Can you explain why that is?

What map is this?

Do you lower the throttle when landing? I usually run 100% throttle.

Нет... тут не соглашусь. Если ты показываешь только свой способ посадки - тогда ладно. Если учишь выполнять посадку - это абсолютно не правильно, извини...