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Excellent vids hope you come back soon

2 years later, ground AI has not changed...

Its sound like paradise

Great video, I went from zero to hero in a morning.

I love the campaigns and missions where your faction is set to Russian and so the loadmaster's voice is also in Russian regardless of the aircraft settings

hope to see you back soon! your videos, to this day are the very BEST on the glorious Mi-8 Hip

Hey Terminus. I really appreciate your Mi8 videos. I've watched pretty much all of them. Can you please teach us about how to deal with winds? As a fixed wing guy, I understand how to input rudder/aileron to compensate, but I'm a bit clueless on helos. I can compensate when airborne but it feels like my initial lift off inputs are always incorrect, and also when transitioning back into hover for landing.

every now and then I think it'd be interesting to fly the Harrier. then I see a video like this, and scurry back to the Cold War modules as fast as my Hip will take me ;)

Yo im downloading game mi-8 is my fav heli do i have to buy it with real money?

Great video! Wish I saw this before 🙂

Great videos. Love your Mi8 stuff. Question... why are Non-Directional Beacons called that when that's literally all they give? Been wondering that for a while.

question, Why cannot I find the correcter in axis commands?

Where have you been all my life Thank you

Do you use any control axis curve or tuning for better control?

not gonna lie school bus livery on the hip would look good

What Number Rockband Is it

Do you have any videos on how to set up your sandbox missions?

Just started flying in DCS World, picked up the Mi-8 and fell in love. Your tutorial series is simply the best KZfaq has to offer. Cannot say thank you enough!

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

Ok. I think I will keep on flying without a hover 😅

THIS MISSION IS GARBAGE. FUCK THIS MISSION. PIECE OF SHIT TRASH UNREALISTICALLY DIFFICULT PILE OF DOGSHIT. i gave up on imandra because of this one mission. Fuckibg RIDICULOUS DUDE 😠 😡 😤 🤬 😠 😡

19:50 - You forgot the advice to land in the upwind (against the wind)

Hi vsTerminus, a great series of videos. Small inaccuracy with versions explanations though. Probably you know it already, but... Mi-8 had tail rotor moved to the left starting from Mi-8MT version which was internal, not export one and participated in Afghanistan war on the Soviet side along with the older Mi-8T which had rotor on the right side. It happened along with the engine upgrade from TV2-117 to much more powerful TV3-117. So it has nothing to do with internal/export versions and more is aligned with early versions/early engine vs later versions/next generation engines. Basically Mi-8MTV2 stands for M - modernized (new TV3 engine), T - transport/cargo, V - high altitude (visotny) (with high altitude version of the engines), 2 - version 2 of MTV with additinal armor and other things compared to simple MTV (aka MTV-1). Mi-17 is an export version of Mi-8MT and Mi-17-V1 is an export version of Mi-8MTV. All of those versions are quite confusing as there is probably almost a hundred of different Mi-8 versions, but as a rule of thumb special export versions are called around Mi-17 name with different additional digits and letters. To add confusion, we also sold abroad not only export versions but internal ones as well and they have names around Mi-8 just as internal ones. Hopefully this was not super-confusing. :)

I bought a second hand G940 force feedback stick specifically to fly choppers (though it is nice for all aircraft actually). Flying them with a normal joystick is just awful. Looking in to building my own FFB joystick now to overcome some of the 940's limitations.

Has DCS lighting changed a lot since this video? My flashlight is too bright and my nav lights too dim (even on the bright settings - as in the amount of light thrown to the ground).

seek & destroy

I wonder if the entire crew being locked into the one radio at a time is actually how the real helicopter works or if that is just a glitch/artefact of the module originally only being usable by a single player. It seems like a massive design mistake to not allow the three different people in the cockpit to each monitor a different radio. It also doesn't make sense for them to each have their own radio control panel if so.

As a former Soviet Airforce Hip pilot I can confirm that the search lights do in fact phase through the cockpit floor. It's dangerous to do at night as they blind you.

Problem is that currently, there is (according to one of ED membes), NO pilot of real Mi-24 Hind in the ED team. Only technician or single Mi-8 pilot.

This has made setting up SAM sites with CTLD so much easier especially on windy days. Since there's no trim buttons to assign like the Hind, I assign the heading knob and altitude up/down to my trim hat.

My boss has a gyrocopter and the whole operation is designed autorotation. He talked me into a ride one Saturday and it was a lot of fun. The pusher engine had a coupling like brake shoes that would grab the main rotor shaft and spin it up on the ground, getting the blades spinning before the takeoff run. Then he firewalled the throttles and we took off down a field. That forward airflow got the main rotor blades cooking! It almost felt like a powered helicopter. He always turned away from the blade rotation because in autorotation turning into the blades could cause the tail to snap around violently. Or maybe it was the other way around?... But it was very fast, we were doing 100 knots IAS with 3/4 throttle. When we came in for the landing, he reached up a turned the ignition off! I thought he was suicidal and wanted to take me with him. But with no pusher engine we came in and he glided right on in like it was normal. Since that flight I have been looking to buy one myself. I just can't seem to pull the trigger...

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

The Hip has multi crew, the game and maps have moved on a bit. Please come back to DCS! Your video in the Hip helped me learn it on the trial period, so I'm buying it now in the sale! 👍 thanks for your help

Mine will never fucking get a lock....

"...after the Kiwoa module comes out." Ha, good one. Even a year ago that was already cynical.

I am still struggling to be able to consistently land helicopters without smashing into the ground, much less do combat, so I've been way too intimidated to do multiplayer. Its cool to learn about this!

Hey can I ask is the E6B flight computer usable for milmi helicopter for counting fuel consumption and other flight methods thank you.

first of all i hope you are doing fine! well structured and especially also visually wonderfully presented video with all the "listings" arrows and markers. epic stuff. i hope some day we get new helpfull videos for dcs helos :) thank you so much

Oh man! You and your channel are a real treasures of the DCS world. God bless you for being talented enough to be able to explain things nobody else can. You just told me all the needed principles and connections that is needed to successfully pilot this simulator. Thank you dear sir, I was struggling for more than a year and a half to understand this. And, yes I have read the manuals for several helicopters modules but it was too hard to get it all in one whole understanding. Thank you once again, have a great time.

Great tutorial Congratulations.

I hope this becomes an actual track in the game one day

Bro needs to play everlong

So satisfying

O hell!. THis is 2 years later I am looking this video and that akward trim sudden pitch down is still constantly happenning to me. Damn! I thought it was my joystick.

Awsome spot for me. I do hope they have hind here :/

Just a heads up for anyone doing logistics nowadays, when I last used Hoggit CTLD, it wouldn't let me load the crate by hovering over it, but I was able to load it by parking within 50 meters of it and using the menu to just load it in.

How do we match up the morse code to the expected beacon?

What would be a good example of when you should choose the longer lines? You mentioned that you'd want it for the bigger heavier loads, but why? What generally makes each line length perferable?

Is there a black cockpit for the Mi 24 of equal quality?