I still suck at AAR in the Hornet, but I can get it maybe once every other try. 😂 Thanks for watching!

@@schoolio64D what the hell is AAR. Anyway good video

@@shalomshalom1918 I believe it's officially called Airborne Aerial Refueling, or something like that.

Thanks! I appreciate that! And thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! I’ve probably forgotten most of the details of those tactics, although that’s what I grew up with as a young Lieutenant. But yeah, seeing all of these people operating at 1000’ AGL hurts my soul. 😂 Sometimes it’s necessary, but only sometimes.

@@schoolio64D Love watching your vids! It must have been awesome and terrifying all at the same time, when you started flying rotary wing aircraft. Thanks for protecting all of us in the free world when your were a younger guy, it is appreciated more than you know. We get to live our lives while you are away from yours back home. It's why I love seeing morale boosting things that give the troops a taste of home while serving. DFAC at Ft. Myer, VA the command base, with more generals and admirals than you can shake a stick at. Some teams looking guys eating in a cluster with their backs to the walls in a corner away from everyone else. Dour looks on their faces, like their presentation or action report results were not what they wanted to hear/receive. Request denied kind of mood, going on. One of them comes over to the group and says, "Get up off your asses! Come look what I just found! They've got a soft serve desert station over there and it's even got fuckin' sprinkles!" Watched in rapt fascination as these mountain size men scurried back and forth with their prizes, tucked in over their little taste of back home, remembering those soft summer days with family, enjoying ice cream at the neighborhood shops. Your teachings here do the same but in reverse. So many of the DCS fans dreamed of serving like you did, most knowing from childhood it would never be possible, myriad reasons kept it out of their reach. When actual flight crews like you give your attention to their hobby, some too embarrassed to admit to anyone, it brings great joy to their lives. Thank you for that.

@@schoolio64D hey sorry to hurt your soul and i've not tried to do it, but the other day i was flying around on LLH public 1 and Casmo jumped into the front, he had me climb from 200-300 agl to 950 agl to look for targets, said we would go back down later, guess we both forgot, but i had a great time although being on stream was a little bit nerv wrecking at first

@@bleeckertb that’s awesome! He’s a good dude and glad you had a good time!

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

😂 Thanks for watching!

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Glad you are enjoying them. Thanks for watching!

Thanks! Our typical training weight with an FCR was 16,500 lbs, so if you can keep it around 17K, you should be in decent shape.

@@schoolio64D I was one of those ...I can do a full fuel load and 16 Hellfires kinda guys.😎 But after a while...its twice the work load to keep the bird alive in DCS ...due to diving away from SA-10's and always breeching the 105% Torque when you try to keep the bird from doing a rapid disassemble via ground impact.😰 It was easier and a more relaxing flight with just 8. 😎 This also helped in the Concertation times for Helffire work ..as holding a spot for 8 hellfires was easier on the shoulders and knees then it was for twice the amount of time on 16 helffires. 😁

@@foxykaruptsock3213 Makes it easier on your CPG when you can pop up/down smoothly in a reasonable time too!

Planning is essential. Thanks for watching and thanks for the sub!

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I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

Practice practice practice…. Thanks for watching!

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Thank you, and thanks for watching!

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Thanks for the support!

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You’re very welcome! Thank you!

It just takes time and practice. Keep up the good work!

Keep practicing and you’ll get there! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching and thanks for the sub!

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Thanks! Use the flight path vector to help you with landing. Adjust the collective to put the FPV on the point you want to land, then keep adjusting the controls to keep the FPV there. It sounds easy, but I know it takes some practice. Thanks for watching!

Agree 100%

Thanks! Glad it was helpful!

I’ve got the Virpil collective and it is great. But there isn’t an Apache grip for it, so you have to make do with the switches you have. I’m about to get new rudder pedals so I’m looking forward to that, but you’re right, the good ones aren’t cheap.

Yeah Anywhere fully loaded is going to be rough; doing it in Syria is nearly impossible.

To take off in Syria: 1. Pull full collective 2. Push the nose forward 3. Pray

@@GTRNights haha yeah. It helps to move the power lever to maximum for a short time too, but it's always tricky

@@GTRNights 😂

As I'm sure you know, the diamond is where your controls are at that moment, while the red x is where you are trimmed to be. The unfamiliar itmes are the gray box - the area where your SAS has authority to move the controls - and the green + is where the center of the SAS range is.

I've actually added a custom curve back into my pedals because they were too sensitive. I have my stick on an extension, which makes my controls more precise but less responsive, which works great without adding a curve. However, if you don't have an extension, I might use a custom curve that is relatively flat until you get to the very edges.

I think I remember trying that a few times. Thanks for watching!

I played that many years ago and loved it. Not sure I want to go back and ruin the good memories. 😂

@@schoolio64D Fair enough, and just knowing you enjoyed the game back in the day is good enough, no need for a feature film on the game. 😆 Thanks for the response man, keep killin it. 🤙

Definitely much easier when you can feel it.

I'm glad you made it and welcome! I currently use a Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS (stick and throttle), along with the Logitech Proflight pedals and a Virpil TCS Rotor Plus collective with Hawk grip. I am waiting to receive the Virpil stick extension (it just shipped), and I plan on upgrading pedals soon.

Practice makes perfect. Thanks for watching!

@@schoolio64D Or in my case practice makes totally acceptable XD. Appreciate the content. This has been the most difficult module to learn being my first helicopter. I've got the f-14 which seems to be just as involved but I haven't really bothered to dive as deep into that beyond basic operation and air to air as I have mastered the f-16 as my first full fidelity module which IMO is the best low-medium altitude BVR platform, with the F-15c being the best high altitude platform. At least against AI and with the current state of the Phoenix where they can instantly just notch it. Can't notch an AMRAAM when you don't know it's coming until it's too late :). Until ED fixes the jank that is carrier operations I probably won't bother.

Thanks for watching! R-CTRL + Enter (two times) will bring up both control indicators.

I don’t have it and have never flown it, so that would be tough. But it may be on my list of modules to get.

It’s all good. There’s always one. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! I use a TM Warthog HOTAS stick and throttle with a Virpil rotor plus collective and Hawk head. Logitech pedals.

Thanks for watching! R-CTRL + enter brings up the regular control indicator, hit it again to bring up the second one.

@@schoolio64D how didn’t I figure that out in years of DCS ?? Thanks once again…

@@sergiolamares they just turned it on for the Apache with the first patch, and I don’t know if it’s on any other helicopters aside from the Hind.

@@schoolio64D I think it's been on the ka-52 since almost the beginning, if my memory don't play tricks on me

@@PereMorata yeah I forgot to mention that. Maybe all the Russian helicopters?

The vertical speed is what most have trouble with, so if you’re managing that correctly, everything else will come together. Thanks for watching!

@@schoolio64D You ,wags , Eagle7 have helped me immensely . I can not thank you all enough. Keep them coming please.

@@schoolio64D Exactly this. In static sims, there is no feeling of lift and drop. Vertical acceleration is the first thing you feel in a real aircraft and even the most green student corrects for comfort in that regime immediately. In sims it is very difficult to train for, without getting into expensive motion control. Highlighting how important your vertical speed is during operations, is a great, great pointer. Your calm voice and easy cadence make everything you say, feel that much more important. "Quiet everyone... Schoolio is talking. You "two morons" in the back! Shut up! It's distracting to those of us that are here to learn!" 🤣

@@debbiestimac5175 😂

Hey thanks for watching! Probably the best way to check your OGE power requirement is to test it. Until the PERF page computes correctly, there’s no other really good answer. In my video it was roughly 25% more to hover OGE, but I wouldn’t necessarily use that as a rule of thumb. In the real world, you (or a computer program) compute the PPC, and then validate that the info matches on the PERF page. Then you do an IGE power check, and if that matches, your PPC and PERF page are considered validated.

@@schoolio64D Got it thanks again. Immediately doing better transitions into hovers now you've given me a clue what's going on in a way that makes sense!

@@schoolio64D so the IGE power check you mention here is that just you applying the calculated power required , taking up a 5 ft hover and comparing the actual power required to computed?

@@boggy8557 yeah, just hovering at 5 feet and seeing what the torque is. That becomes the baseline. Then the Army tells you to recompute anytime conditions change by 1,000’ PA / 1000 lbs / 10° C.

@@schoolio64D awesome , thanks. I've been wondering about that for a while

No worries, thanks for watching! I7-10700k, RTX 3080, 64GB RAM, using TrackIR for the recording but prefer to fly in VR (Oculus Quest 2). I use a TM Warthog HOTAS (stick and throttle) with a Virpil Rotor plus collective with Hawk grip. I tried DCS several years ago and couldn’t really get in to it then. I came back last year and committed to it, flying the Hornet primarily. I bought the Huey module last summer and started flying the 60 when it was released (I’m also rated in 60s). The Apache is just the icing on the cake.

@@schoolio64D awesome!

Really good work in this and others tutorial, very effective explanation. Question: what is it the overlay on top right of your screen?

@@Danguard63 thank you! And thanks for watching! The upper right is another control indicator, apparently meant to indicate how much the helicopter automation (think: stability systems, SAS/CAS/SCAS) is working to control the aircraft. In order, H is heading/yaw, K is roll, T is pitch, and B is altitude (apparently it’s in Russian).

I don’t know about that, but thanks for watching! 😂 Below 30 knots is when you start slowing below ETL, which means more power required, which means more left pedal, and yeah, it can definitely turn into a wild ride.

Fastest I ever got in level flight with 100% torque was about 140, and that was probably with empty hellfire racks and rocket pods. It’s always going to be dependent on the load and conditions.

@@schoolio64D That makes me feel a bit better that I can't seem to get the Apache much over 120 knots in-game. I'd always read that 150-170 was "max speed", and I've even seen sources implying that the aircraft should *cruise* in the 150s, and that wasn't aligning with anything going on in-game. Go figure, websites have the wrong info. I really should have know better, I've had to correct people enough times about specs from websites being wrong about other, fixed-wing airframes before. Even if not explicitly wrong, the numbers are often taken from very edge cases of the flight envelope (IE, "sure prop plane X can climb at 9,000 feet per minute... but only at sea level, at near empty weight, and while running war emergency power that can only be used for three minutes before blowing the engine gaskets; that doesn't mean it can do so at all weights and altitudes!") Anyhow, it's good to know it's the websites that are wrong, instead of the DCS flight model (or at least that the DCS model is close)

@@bronco5334 the E model cruises faster, but I have no firsthand experience with that. I’ve been told normal cruise is around 130-140.

@@schoolio64D That would make sense with uprated engines and rotor systems; still, the numbers I was referring were (allegedly) attributed to the -D model

I second the shit out of this. Would love to see that happen.

I’ve chatted with Casmo. He’s a good dude and I really enjoy his content. He takes it to the next level. He has also done at least one video with some other real world Apache pilots, and it’s awesome to watch. I’ve been out of the Apache cockpit since 2005, so I might have a hard time keeping up with guys like them. 😂 Thanks for watching!

Yeah. It wouldve been nice if the early bundled missions had considered there would be a LOT of new players to both DCS and Helis and not done things like make one of the very first missions they see be a overloaded trip in a hot zone. Explanations like this video and your comment are huge for the likes of me trying to cram learn all this from nothing. Cheers!

@@stovic1442 which is weird because for the Mi-24 instant action missions your pretty perfectly loaded out fuel and weight wise.

I talked about it when I mentioned 4 HF and 2400 lbs of gas, but I guess I didn’t heavily emphasize it. But you’re right - it’s not going to perform well fully loaded. Thanks for watching!

Welcome to Army Aviation - where we cram as much stuff as possible onto the airframe in order to minimize any semblance of performance capability. 😂

@@schoolio64D No worries still a great vid more seasoned DCS players would notice. Yeah it's a pretty common DCS thing, to load up your aircraft with as much stuff as possible. Lots of people don't always realize that just because your below max take off weight doesn't mean your going to be able to do everything at peak performance.

I’m obviously missing the reference here…

@@schoolio64D Your voice and cadence reminds me of the Doc in the beginning of the second greatest game ever produce in human history, Fallout New Vegas. Very cool.

I like it!

@@schoolio64D Thank You. Version 2 is now available.

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Thanks for watching!

Well you can't expect that the Soviets made anything easy. 😁

@@schoolio64D No truer words have been said, thanks!🤣

Haha no.

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@@schoolio64D thanks!

I don’t know. Let me know when you find him. 😂

@@schoolio64D that was a joke 😁 thanks for the advice, I'll try it tonight, cause it's hard to keep this bird still!

I was, yes. My last flight in the Apache was several years ago.

I am wondering weather in a real aircraft you would spend so much focus on instruments to keep control or mainly rely on your backend feeling the altitude change?

@@schoolio64D do u still own the apace?

@@freemandiy I think someone put out a number associated with how much is "seat of the pants" versus how much is visual, but I don't know what that is. Regardless, seat of your pants is definitely a major portion of how you fly. When we first transitioned from A-models to Longbows, the older pilots grumbled because we only used the HDU at night with the NVS in the A's, but in the D's we were supposed to wear them all the time. The symbology certainly adds to your understanding of what the aircraft is doing, but you could absolutely fly the aircraft without it...even in DCS.

@@greatspartawall5687 the module? Yes. The helicopter - No. I stopped flying it in 2005.

…eventually 😂

It’s not that bad.