I know, right? It's impossible to do tanking without a lot of dirty-talk.

I find very little evidence of ground effect at all, particularly in how it should tend to keep you level by the low side of the rotor disk being pushed up more than the high side. But yes, it does like to dynamic rollover. Like any helicopter, once the skids/wheels start to interact with the ground just dump the collective completely and let it get firmly on the ground ASAP. Being light on your skids is dangerous.

It's up to version 1.2 now. It's not in the Changelog, but he added Trim-Reset like I requested when he banned me from his Discord. LOL! (And also added a fake "Force Trim" function that the real one doesn't have. I'm just happy to have the Trim Reset as it's needed by the way DCS is forced to fudge force trim to make it work on non-FFB sticks. Without it you can get yourself painted into a corner, trim-wise.) Click the "Releases" link on the right hand margin: github.com/tobi-be/DCS-OH-6A

@@tobib2969 Am I wrong? Nope! You do sloppy work!

@@tobib2969 Again, am I wrong? No go articulate the rotor system or something useful.

@@tobib2969 You're the rude one, hypocrite. And go learn to speak English while you're at it.

@@tobib2969 All that proves is you're an insecure a-hole who can't take constructive criticism. (Even though it turned out you DID do EXACTLY what I asked for. You just hid it from the Changelog, no doubt out of your shame. Almost like I know what I'm talking about, huh?)

Yep. The manual is particularly bad for the back seat. They just assume we all want to play video games with Jester. Who they've managed to make even stupider and more annoying than he was in the Tomcat! This is what they get for Open Sourcing it. (I don't know why they didn't just hire Chuck of Chuck's Guides to make a super-manual for it.)

I'm appalled (but not surprised) that that bug is still in the sim after all these years. Yeah, just happened to end up near him then found forming on him far easier than I'm used to in the more modern DCS aircraft so thought we'd give it a try. We also didn't know how to change our radio to back seat control (just learned that a few hours ago), so that's why we weren't able to raise him. In the next video I do it with another guy in the back seat and easy radio turned on, but then forget the air refuel switch needs to be recycled after it comes out, and as the DCS tankers don't yet know how to deal with that contingency as none of the other planes have had that issue until now, we end up with the tanker putting the boom through our cockpit. I do have a regular KC-135 in this mission as well. Again, just happened to be near this guy so we thought we'd give it a go and I started recording video as it looked interesting.

Always! I've currently got two guys I've been flying it with but the more the merrier! I'm admiralquality on Discord. Send me a message and introduce yourself.

@@admiralqualityspretendingtofly Request sent. Will be coming from RayGun505#6713 Looking forward to flying with you guys.

@@admiralqualityspretendingtofly Friend request sent buddy.

I am in NorCal best to chat on Discord and plan the flight from there plus we currently use Discord for comms as well.

@@tonyascaso6254 Nice. Where at? I’m up in Redding.

Faster than lightning!

I wouldn't buy a loaded squirt gun from Sven if my arse was on fire. If they ever put it on Free Trial I'll review it then. (I might just run another trial of the Gazelle here in the coming weeks and remind everyone what a piece of crap THAT is! Even after a COMPLETE flight-model re-do!) By the way, have you seen THIS? It's the Gazelle 3.0! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLJzoMmCqdqnqKs.html

Ah, thanks!

You're trying refuel with wrong tanker . That's a MPRS .

@@Brunopnascimento87 Is that bug still in the sim? I assumed they would have fixed it long ago! In this video I had just pulled up to this tanker because it happened to be there, then we started trying to raise it on the radio but we clearly didn't know enough about how to operate them yet. In the next video I turn on Easy Radio and we (with a different guy flying WSO) are able to contact the tanker, which is the regular KC-135. (I put one of each in this mission.) We still only manage to get a few seconds worth of fuel before it pops out, then we can't get it back in because I forgot that the refuel switch needs to be recycled in this old jet. (And the tankers don't really seem to have logic to sensibly deal with that issue, no doubt because it's new to DCS.) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdZyfttip8_SiYk.html

@admiralqualityspretendingtofly I think so. I always put two tankers on my missions,just to prevent that. Remember to switch your radio to manual instead preset (default selection at cold start). Probably, this is why you're not receiving any answers of tanker.

@@Brunopnascimento87 Probably. And my WSO was trying to work the radio but am I correct that I needed to switch something to give him control of it? Also, are there maybe different keying functions for different radios? We might not have been using the right one, if so.

LOL! I was watching a Grim Reapers stream the other day and they definitely needed brake lights on their F-16s!

prolly low on blinker fluid

I'd say they really need to fix that but it seems they keep making it worse instead of better. The new "DOT NEUTRAL" label mode helps a bit, but I feel like it shouldn't be necessary and it's annoying to use as there's no feedback as to which mode you've cycled to with LShift+F10, you can only determine it if you're staring at a dot when you change it.

One thing I should note, I'm currently on a 1280x1024 display, that I've upped to 1920x1536 in the Windows desktop. This way my videos and streams still show as 1080 HD - you guys actually see the image sharper than I do! (I'll get a new HD display soon, saving my pennies.) But that shouldn't affect much, essentially I'm just adding additional anti-aliasing to my image. Just like the old SSAA feature that's now been removed did. (And I'm running 2x MSAA as my DCS anti-aliasing setting. I don't care for the artifacts in any of the new modes, at least the ones that will actually run on my 1080 card, some of the other new ones like DLSS are greyed out for me. But having seen the effect on others' videos, I don't think I'm missing anything.)

@@admiralqualityspretendingtofly I'm doing Full HD at the moment as well. As for f-word scaling, it drags since like 2.5 series (so quite a time). Same is with plenty of ground objects lately (not scenery). Like they intended to implement some "masking" (fog of war). For me it causes the units to disappear underneath me as well (when overflying at low alt). Possibly falling under ground scenery layers.

@@madyogi6164 Yeah, that sounds like DLSS or one of the other new scaling options. Try MSAA 4x (and if that's too slow, 2x) you should get a much better looking picture, at the cost of a few FPS. Also, in the NVidia Control Panel, look for "Antialiasing - Transparency" and turn that up. It cleans up the edges of transparent textures, like trees and fences are made out of, greatly improving the quality of MSAA, and causes no frame rate hit that I notice at all on my 1080 card. ("Fog of war" is of course just a metaphor for low/unreliable information and situational awareness, not actual fog, but I know what you mean. :)

@@admiralqualityspretendingtofly Will sure try these.

"I have a narrow urethra." - Hank Hill I really like it too. This is about as advanced as I want jets to be. The Tomcat is right at the cusp... But as soon as we're flying a computer (in ANOTHER computer) I start to lose interest. And of course I don't like fly-by-wire as it's taking all the fun away for itself and I'm merely advising the plane about where I wish it would go, if it cares to let me. ;)

@admiralqualityspretendingtofly I hear ya, It's just smart enough..lol... the Vietnam era of aircraft are where it's at! The A6 is gonna be awesome when it shows up finally.

Yep. Interfacing with your face is how dogs would use computers. And the NWS is *so* much better than in the F-5, where it comes on far too strongly. I hope it's accurate to the aircraft, but the built-in "curve" of the nose wheel steering is perfect in the F-4. I'm slowly getting over my fear of using it at higher speeds. Seems to work better than the brakes when major corrections are needed but your airspeed is still too low for the rudder to be authoritative yet.

I think electricity might be it exactly. It sounds like 400 Hz, which I believe the AC inverter in a lot of aircraft runs at. (I have yet to do any deep learning about this aircraft but will.)

Might be! Though they say you're supposed to look at the plane, not the boom, and you won't see much of the plane from that seat. But I'll definitely give it a go! (He doesn't have the refuel switch though so when it pops out you'll have to switch to front to reset it.)

Interesting!

@@VonHoffnung Have you had a chance to fly it multiplayer yet, Von? The controls COMBINE! There's no need to request control, no dialog pops up! (But you can disable your controls to ensure you don't interfere with the other guy.) ALL multi-crew aircraft should work this way!

@@admiralqualityspretendingtofly intriguing! That'd take some getting used to. I agree it should mirror controls for both...that's cool. And no, I have only flown it solo so far.

@@VonHoffnung Actually it doesn't, it "just works"! (Though I did find myself asking my partner a few times if he just bumped the stick.) The sticks and pedals average out, so if he puts in full right aileron, and you full left, you get nothing. And the throttles seem to work by whoever makes a (significant) movement last, gets the control. (It's not *any* movement as I have noise in my throttle that would constantly steal control from the GIB and that never happened. Again it just worked as it should, transparently!)

Never even noticed it! But yes, will try that next time. (Just resetting the refuel switch does it, right? What's the refueling button on your stick do?)

Bind that button

@@alxalx99 It already was! Just was too busy flying to remember that this jet weirdly needs a reset if you disconnect.

I do recall now one of the KZfaqrs saying the refuel switch had to be recycled (which seems insane but maybe in a jet this old it's plausible) so I'll try to remember that next time. Keeping in formation was using about 105% of my brain power. LOL!

Yes, you've gotta reset it.

@@VonHoffnung Hey Von! Yep. I actually now recall hearing that in one of the training YT videos I watched, but it totally slipped my mind in the helmet fire of trying to stay in formation. LOL! I haven't had a chance to try it again but expect it'll go better next time. (And ED need to add context to the tanker AI to make it better deal with this case. What would happen in real-life if a Phantom driver didn't reset the switch?)

Thanks. And yeah, I know, have the seat height mapped but I hardly ever use it, it's usually just easier to crouch or sit up in my seat. I had the lights in view, I just can't see their contrast well during the daytime.

I did? I have no idea what I'm doing, particularly in the back seat! LOL! I find the Heatblur manual to be so poorly written and incomplete that it's offensive, and I haven't forced myself through the NATOPS yet (though those real-life manuals are extremely WELL written and organized). I also kind of shun KZfaq as a way to learn things in DCS. It's tedious pausing videos, switching back into the sim, trying to search for the section you want to see, etc. But it looks like YT tutorials might be my only hope. What did this video help you with? Curious!

Agreed! Your video was the first I could find with two humans operating in a full flight from takeoff to landing so anything and everything you guys did was helpful. In particular (this is hard to admit) I couldn't even figure out why none of my hotas commands were working in the back seat. Then you brought up the separate EWO control assignment list, doh! I never thought to look for it. And your struggle to find a way to work the radar saved some searching also. Crew banter was a good bonus feature, thanks for posting.

@@jamesfenton3751 Nice! Thanks for saying so.

Hey Kermit! Yep, that was it! I only remembered a KZfaqr mentioning that after I had posted these videos and were discussing them in the discussion forum I run. Good to know it's not a bug! (Though the tanker behavior needs to be tweaked to respond to this scenario a bit more intelligently. That's on ED's side of things though.)

Just rudder! Hasn't happened since, I wasn't expecting so much rudder authority at such a low speed so I think I just overcontrolled it. Also I should have been using NWS up to 80 knots and wasn't, so I was ruddering pretty hard to try to correct it. This was literally/honestly my very first attempt, I wanted to document what the new module experience is like.

@@AdmiralQuality The rudder is massive and key at low speed! Just not take off speed :D In a BFM situation, high AoA, the rudder is key!

@@NyteStalker89 Yeah I'm big into warbirds and the Tomcat and no stranger to actually using the rudder. (I see I'm accidentally replying as one of my alts. Oh well, obviously I'm me. ;) )

@@AdmiralQuality haha! I'm a tomcat and P-47 main and love this jet! I got lucky in my first few hours by not hitting ice skates!

@@NyteStalker89 Yep. It has a lively, reactive flight model with lots of adverse and emergent behaviors. Feels like a real thing, and that's all I ask of a sim (and I rarely get it, though all the ED FMs are decent enough, but HB are the only partner developer who deserve to be making aircraft in this same "ecosystem").

Well, yeah, inherently! LOL! Literally my second flight. (Third, actually, but the first flight wasn't a flight. ;)

v1.1 was a big improvement, but it still has some major issues (and a very obtuse developer who doesn't seem to understand how choppers in DCS work and why they all have imaginary Trim-Reset functions). I'll make another video about it soon.

It's not a game, IT'S A SIMULATOR! (That's the unofficial DCS motto, if you didn't know. ;) ) But, yes, I hope if it was real I'd have done a better job, both of delivery to where I wanted to put it as well as GTFO-ing! LOL! (It may be an intentional feature that it's impossible to survive dropping one, not sure.)

DCS maps aren't necessarily "today". Our aircraft typically aren't the latest/greatest models as there's still a lot classified about them, so they can't get the detail needed to model them accurately. If we don't want to use the airfield, we don't need to. Thanks for the tip though, I'll keep that in mind if I ever try to make a "today" scenario. (The Mission date for this one actually was the same day I made it. But obviously not a serious effort, I'm just screwing around and experimenting.)

Yeah but I missed and just got some farms. Next time! Thanks for helping make this one of my most popular videos ever. See you soon, I trust!

Is it in response to the latest conflict?

@@bjensen1737Not much of a "response" if it is! Our video games vs. their rape, mutilation and desecration. Seems a bit lopsided.

@@admiralqualityspretendingtofly well, great. You're essentially portraying your desire for the collective nuclear punishment of 2.2 million people for the actions of 1.1% of their population being the Hamas organization. I would argue, heavily, that the Palestinian people as a whole would rather not be nuked and just be able to actually live their lives free of imprisonment and Israeli imperialist expansion.

@@bjensen1737 You deny them the agency of being responsible for their own (ostensibly elected) government. We call this "the soft bigotry of low expectations". You hold them to a lower standard than civilized peoples. Probably because they are brown. (Yet, many Israelis are the exact same brown but you'd happily genocide them!) And 53% of them support Hamas. apnews.com/article/hamas-middle-east-science-32095d8e1323fc1cad819c34da08fd87 Also, THESE are the "innocent" ones...twitter.com/LawrenceOkoroPG/status/1712465176543601013 And, if it's a "prison", as you claim, why doesn't Egypt open the door and let them out? (Because their fellow Arabs know EXACTLY what monsters they are, is why.) Why don't they make a boat and sail away? Prisons don't have beaches. But I'm just playing a frickin' video game, man. If that somehow hurts Palestinians... BONUS!

"Don't try this in real life", is the second DCS motto, after, "It's not a game, it's a SIMULATOR!" ;)

Awesome! I'll be flying on the Allied side too, but for the moment it's the German planes that are getting me off and, as yhey're usually the less populated side, I tend to pick them.

Thanks Greg! Yes, SRS. Sounds pretty great, doesn't it? (ED have been slowly but not so surely building the same voice capability into DCS but SRS is still the superior solution, particularly for the radio effects. (If you need any help setting it up or testing it look me up on Discord "admiralquality" or email aq@ that name dot com. It's not very hard but the interface is poorly designed and labeled so I can talk you past the gotchas.) And yes, it's so nice to not have to be hitting the silly, unrealistic radio menu to *read* where the enemy is and instead, actually use the aircraft radios as they're meant to work. (They've got it set up in there so we spawn with the channel everyone's on already selected, that helps a lot too. If you expect players to tune or even select the correct channel preset button you'll likely not reach half of them.) 3 more in this series, check 'em out as well if you have time - there's one where the GCI directs me RIGHT onto a bandit's tail by saying "Split S, NOW!" Just amazing work from sgee! I wasn't in a super-serious mindset during any of this, just having fun and getting to know the server. I don't take getting shot down too badly, I know I'm providing some other player with joy. I do always try to live though, for the realisms! :)

He didn't evade lol, he was deemed no longer a threat. He had them both on his ass before he collided with the 17

@@coyoteduster8919 I certainly felt like I was trying to evade but yes, they did let me off easy. I paid their favor back with my target fixation, LOL! (You won't believe me but I mostly try to get in close like that so there'll be stuff that plays well on video and makes good thumbnails. If I'm not shooting a video and narrating I play a *bit* more seriously, but I still don't care if I get shot down, I'm happy to have made some other player happy.)

Yes, some have the bulged bubble but I've also seen them with conventional shaped canopies. And I didn't know about the taller tail but I see them now. Not all TF-51 conversions had them though. aerodynamicmedia.com/tf-51d-d-funn-for-sale/

No it is not, and yes, the new flight model in progress (that's now been advanced to the Stable version!) is awful. You can disable it by editing the first line of \Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\Uh-1H\FM\FMOptions.lua and changing "true" to "false". (Get Notepad++ to do the lua editing. Regular Windows Notepad can break lua scripts if they use extended characters.)

No, then I'll have *less* visibility because things will be smaller on my screen. (Also there'll be unrealistic barrel-distortion. The classic fisheye effect of a wide angle lens.) The default feels roughly correct for the viewing angle of my display in front of my face. And remember, I'm controlling the TrackIR so I see where I want to see (at least I do when the TrackIR isn't glitching - IL-2 really implements it poorly, DCS does way better with it). Wide angle looks fake, I never go wide though I will zoom in to help see things. To me that's like squinting in real-life.

Nothing major that I could see but this was literally my first hour in it. Stay tuned for more over the next few days! One thing I will say is you're not missing a whole lot if you've already got the Syria map (other than possibly missing out to join a game hosted on the Sinai map -- that's the biggest reason to own all the DCS maps). Unlike Syria, this is low on famous landmarks (with the pyramids being an obvious exception) and high on repetition and it shows, but of course none of that has much impact on playing war. What *does* have an impact though is the fact that this map is literally about one quarter solid city so your frame rates may be impacted as mine are a bit here. (Cairo and Alexandria but Tel Aviv and Gaza are big swathes of city too.) So if you don't get good frame rates it might not make the best place to play. (Or if the setting is actually over the Sinai Peninsula then you'll probably be fine as it's a relatively sparse and barren stretch of desert.) Nothing about it would make me warn anyone off yet. (I'd say that for all DCS maps, even Razbam's Falklands map. Again, I hate to miss out on a multiplayer session for want of a map.)

Thanks! I try to narrate when I know I'm recording a video for you guys but sometimes it's nice to just fly and flap my wings instead of my mouth parts. ;)

@@admiralqualityspretendingtofly Yeah I’m sure it’s be great with commentary too but just watching without needing to digest what someone is saying works perfect for this type of content, keep up the great work 👌

@@rome7702 Wilco! Thanks!

Struck by the rotor i think

LOL! Yeah, they added droplet clearing to the Hind recently (though still with no streak or runoff effects) so we'll probably get it in the Huey in a decade or two, after we've been extorted into re-buying it 2 or 3 more times.

Razbam did this map. (Though ED vet their partner developers so I'm fine with blaming ED as well.) Still a work in progress, so they say, so maybe our Digital Trainset Simulator will improve some. Plenty of examples of this kind of thing on railroad tracks in other maps too though. The best flight simulator is the worst ground vehicle simulator.