This channel started around Rock Band and Guitar Hero but now mostly exists for DCS content. I may still upload Rock Band (or CloneHero now) content, or Truck Sim, or other odds and ends from time to time.
Alright I've made it so far to video 9 and again can't thank you enough. I did NOT think I'd sit down and actually watch these but learning choppers has really re-sparked that aviation bug in my. These are so much more rowdy I really enjoy the challenge vs winged aeroplanes they seem like easy mode now :) I can't believe we're hours into training and haven't even touched a pylon yet. So much to learn, you sir are a wealth of knowledge.
4 years later I can't thank you enough. I thought I was going to skip over things quickly but you're a solid teacher. The rhythm you go through the cockpit with really made things click and make 152 switches and doodads into a pretty easy 8 step process.
You Don't power out of a vortex ring state... the more the power the greater the vortex. You have to side slip to destroy the vortex. The simple version
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
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 ;)
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.
Just started flying in DCS World, picked up the Mi-8 and fell in love. Your tutorial series is simply the best RU-vid has to offer. Cannot say thank you enough!
Careful! The helicopters are gateway drugs to all of the other helicopters. If you like the Mi-8, you might love the Mi-24. Fortunately, a lot of the flight tips and operations carry over between the two. The Mi-24 feels like you're strapped into a massive murder bus, and then the Ka-50 and AH-64 end up feeling like you're flying these really maneuverable computers that once you get used to, you can just throw around the sky. I still remember the first time...probably 6 years ago, that I was flying the Ka-50 and was just cruising along at high speed and saw a missile coming in from the left. I managed to dump the helicopter and dive below the hill to my left, curling around with high speed only to instantly put the Ka-50 into a nice stable hover behind the hill where I eventually popped up behind the hill and managed to find the SAM and launch a Vikhr at it to take it out. It just felt like it was connected to my brain with how easily I was able to pop it into the hover from high speed.
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 😠 😡 😤 🤬 😠 😡
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).
It's not so much that the lights in the Hip have changed as it is the DCS lighting engine has gone through at least two major updates since this video released. They have tweaked the Mi-8's lights in response but the changes are mainly engine based.
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.
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
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!
