Haha I’ll shoot for that next time thanks!

That really made me lol because it’s so true haha Thank you!

@@ryu1940 I'm getting better at dealing with it. The worst part is having to reset your stabilization system which the flight engineer would normally do but for the pilot requires looking down. I've mapped the yaw and pitch/roll stabilizer buttons so I can be quick about it now. (Oooh, think I just came up with another use for Voice Attack! As another crew person would do that, I don't mind commanding it with my voice. There's no way I'll ever use VA to command stuff the pilot would do with his own hands though as that's unrealistic.)

@@AdmiralQuality I believe there is a special option for the Mi-8 that helps. I forgot specifically which option it is but it makes the flight engineer more automatically proactive about keeping it on. It seems to work. It’s not 100% perfect so I do what you did also and map it.

@@ryu1940 Really? I'm pretty familiar with its Special Menu and don't remember anything like that. Where!?! :o

@@AdmiralQuality I think it’s called autopilot adjustment. The third option box in the special menu for it. Described in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bb6EdcJ-vtLYhok.html

From underneath no less lol

Thank you! Yeah I feel the same. Hopefully the new transport mechanics coming for the helicopters will encourage more to fly it when it gets reintroduced. I’ll definitely make a video on it when that happens to hopefully get people pumped to try it out!

It's hard to take up something you've flown for years when you have a brand new Hind begging for attention

Thanks man! Yeah I love the helicopter gameplay on the server too! I’m so glad they added troop insertions and csar stuff it really changed the dynamic for the whole rotary wing side of the game.

Were getting a full fidelity Chinook in 2023 my dude

Thanks man! For a while I was flying the Hornet and Tomcat but recently it’s been strictly helicopters so I’m glad it looks like I’m flying smooth.

Thanks man! I’m glad you’re enjoying them!

Thank you!

@@ryu1940 no problem 😊

Thank you! I love it too! I was just flying it earlier today after a very long hiatus. It was very nice.

Thank you I appreciate that !

Thank you!

Helicopters in DCS on servers like this one are definitely worthy of some love!

Thank you! I appreciate the comment! Hope to see ya out there sometime!

Thank you!

Thank you! I'm glad to hear you enjoy it!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you !

Thank you!

Thank you very much and I totally agree! I hope the Hind gets to the same excellent level as the Hip!

It’s a great all around helicopter. There’s certainly some compromises in some areas but overall I have to say I love it’s speed and power. It really shines on this server!

For Enigma's server, is there any advantage to taking out the Hip over the Hind?

@@SmokinKipper the major one is now with the new troop mechanic, you can land once And kill 6 enemy units all at the same time ( after 3 min ). With a Hind that may take a couple of passes to achieve the same amount of kills and the Hind is valued higher in the attrition score so if you get shot down it hurts your side more in the Hind over the Hip.

@@ryu1940 I thought the troops limit was standardised for all helos. Maybe they refined the mechanic some more.

@@SmokinKipper yes it’s been changed. Hinds cannot drop troops (a while ago they were allowed to drop one squad but it was too overpowered). Hips and Hueys can drop two squads each which is how it was before but instead of killing two units each with a squad, the kills were upped to three units per squad. The caveat is now you must drop troops within 3km of an enemy ground encampment. The ground troops you land will then only kill things in that nearby camp. Before this was completely random. With the old way, you could have landed troops anywhere in the enemy sector and you would get 4 random kills across the frontline sector. Now it’s very targeted and takes deliberate landing zones to clear out enemies using the troop drops.

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Yea I film first person perspectives live and after the mission is complete I will go and pull the track file and record off of it to get the different angles. It’s pretty time consuming given that in DCS we get no rewind features for replay so it’s good to hear when people enjoy the content!

@@ryu1940 Thanks for clarifying. Yeah it's very time consuming without a rewind button, been uploading some my self and want to do something like this so had to ask some good advice 🙂 Thanks for sharing your process, now I know my idea is on the right track 🙂 Keep em coming, like I said, I really enjoyed it!

Yeah that really is useful in the Huey. I think I’ll probably spend some time offline to try some aggressive decelerating and see what I can get away with. I’m sure I’ll be crashing a lot.

@@ryu1940 I also do spiral landings a lot in the Hip when I see I'm going to overshoot. Also a great technique for autorotations when you're going to overshoot your landing zone.

@@AdmiralQuality yeah sometimes I find myself doing that at the farp if I misjudge the deceleration. It’s a good safe way to slow and descend but I’ve been leery about doing that over the front in enemy territory because if you’re starting that with any sort of altitude, someone is likely to spot you.

I think they could be scripted some how. I think some of the Mi-8 campaigns have scripted failures in some of the missions. I think you’re right about a governor override like the Huey. I think I briefly saw something about that in the manual.

@@ryu1940 There's a section in the ME for failures, I just need to go through it and see if the governor is in there. Then I need to map and get used to learning the throttle advance/retard switches in both choppers. (I did a bit of it in the Huey way, way back but haven't practiced in a long time. It would have been something else to have been a Bell 47 pilot with no governor to help you!)

Thank you!

@@ryu1940 Grand Mercy for subscrib 👍👍👍👍👍

Hmm that is strange. If you want to remove pylons you need to go to the arming panel in game and then right click on a hard point and I believe it says remove pylon. You’ll see X marks all over the hard points and you’ll also lose your gunsight in the cockpit if the pylons are removed correctly. Good luck!

@@ryu1940 Will test this, thank you.

I do not. If I want to trim hold I’ll will hold the cyclic in a certain spot then hit the force trim button. The way I have it set up in the special options means I have to bring my cyclic and anti torque positions to center before the helicopter will respond to anymore inputs. Before I come in for landing I will release the force trim and hand fly it unassisted by trim all the way to touchdown.

I was wondering, I know in most helicopters you'll hold the trimmer when manipulating the cyclic so you're not working against the AFCS, SCAS, and more of those "behind the scenes" stuff@@ryu1940

@@clutchtucker ah yeah I’m not sure how it is in real life but in DCS many helicopters have trimmer settings you can tailor to how you want to use because of the varying hardware set ups users have. For instance many of us have centering springs on our joysticks which do not operate the way a cyclic would. In that case I find it preferable to have the trim hold position til my stick is back to center before accepting any other inputs.

Yeah, I have springs for my joystick too. I've rocked the instant trimmer for quite some time until now when I changed it to the centering one@@ryu1940

There should be a folder within the tracks folder called mp tracks or something to that effect.

You load troops at your FARP where you spawn in at. You then need to find ground targets on the enemy side and land within 1.5km of them with the new rules.

You have to change the mission options by loading the track file in the mission editor and then re-save it as a track file then when you open it in the replay viewer you’ll have the external view.

@@ryu1940 if I do it this way, does the replay captures the entire server campaign? Or just your own replay? What I mean is... It doesnt capture the whole 4 hour replay campaign right?

@@ErnestIsGaming it will record and stop only for the duration of your session. So if you log in and do two sorties then log off it’ll have one track file which will include both flights. If you log in at the start of the server and log off when it resets after 4 hours it’ll have all four hours of the track. It’s tied to you logging in or logging off is all.

@@ryu1940 thanks for your time man

@@ErnestIsGaming No problem man !

Change the .trk to a .miz by renaming it and then open it in the mission editor. Change the mission options to allow external views and then save. Make it into a .trk again and open the replay. Should have external views.

@@ryu1940 clever! Thanks

How do you save the track file though after a mp mission it doesn't give you the option to save a track.

@@chadvader974 It’s always saved automatically. I don’t remember the path but it’s wherever your single player track files are saved. Inside that folder there is a folder that is called multiplayer or something to that effect and all your multiplayer tracks are saved in there.

Iirc you click the hard point location on the weapons set up and then an x will appear over it. Have the ground crew apply the changes and it’ll show up as removed.

@@ryu1940 Thank you.

@@RooT9663 no problem! I hope that worked. It’s been a while since I’ve flown in it so my memory may be foggy.