If you come back to make more videos on MSFS Helicopters….might you try the Taog’s Hangar Alouette III. It’s Vintage and well done. I fly vintage planes in MSFS a lot and started recently to fly Taog’s Hangar Alouette III after watching your Helichooper 101 series.
Agreed! I'll tell you that even the multi-million dollar full-motion, perfect cockpit replica simulators we have for training in the Army are harder to fly than the real aircraft. There's just only so much you can simulate.
this has to be the best series on helicopter flying I've seen. absolutely ridiculous that this didn't pop up 4 weeks again when I start learning about helis.
Hey snak Pak, you can up the sensitivity of the stick in dcs settings. I think in axis commands and double or more the sensitivity of flight stick so it will be more responsive. Hope that helps
You can fly over the White house and the Pentagon?! 😮 I wanna do that now but the game is still downloading and I gotta go to bed. Then I have to think about this all day till I get home from work!
Dude, I love that you don't have expensive controls and you're just smoothly crushing it. This mod is great. I was an MTP from '05-'15 and the way you talk through the maneuvers takes me back to RL progression. Be safe my man.
When you served, how often did you fly? Were you once or twice a week or did you only get a couple hours a month? I ask this because I am looking at enlisting as a warrant officer and hoping to fly but wanted to know how often I can expect. Who better to ask than someone who has actively done it?
I'm still in. Almost done with my service obligation. FYI, Warrant officers don't "enlist." You will be appointed. Usually, as a junior warrant, you'll fly about once a week. This is of course unless you deploy. In that case, you'll fly much much more. Some places like Honduras will grant a lot more flight time. It all depends on where you end up. But in a Combat Aviation Brigade, probably about once a week. After a couple years, you should make your way to becoming a pilot in command. After that, you'll fly a lot more. Then soon after that, you can pick a warrant officer track like maintenance test pilot or instructor pilot. That's where you really rack up hours. I'm an instructor pilot and I fly everyday.
@@SnakPakFlight thank you, sir. And I apologize for my mistake, I didn’t know about the enlisting vs appointing aspect. I’m not just trying to build hours, btw, I only ask about the flight hours because I love flying and want to fly as much as I can. I had heard a rumor that some pilots only flew a couple hours a month. Flying is everything to me (I already have a commercial pilot license and an FAA-certified flight instructor certificate) and I was worried that if I were lucky enough to get appointed, I would be unlucky enough to not fly. I really appreciate your input.
@@murphinator5586 haha no need to apologize. Yeah man, if you're a CFI already, you have a good chance of getting in. Just know that you have a 10-year service obligation which begins AFTER you finish flight school so make sure it's something you really want to do. The flying part is really dependent on where you are stationed, but if you find yourself in a situation where you don't fly much, it won't last long.
@@SnakPakFlight thank you. I appreciate it. The commitment isn’t a big deal to me. This country has given me a lot and I’d love to give back. Even though it’s an appointing process, I still just go to a recruiter, right? And if you are an instructor, if I get accepted, maybe I’ll see you around haha
@@murphinator5586 Yes, you have to go to a recruiter and start a Warrant Officer Flight Training packet. If you read the following website very thoroughly, it will explain exactly how the process works. recruiting.army.mil/ISO/AWOR/153A/
Great information! Did you directly start flying in VR or did you transition from monitors? And if the latter is the case, did VR improve your situational awareness?
At high airspeed, neutral cyclic results in massive pitch up. I thought maybe the tail straightens the helo to level, but it goes way past that and the nose is pulled nearly straight up until it stalls. What causes that intense upward pitch at speed? That's with no trim, no auto-trim, no assists. (I thought that if I pushed full forward on the stick, the aft rotor lift would persist and push the nose down to invert underneath and the helo would somersault rotors-first into the ground, but there's some force that won't let the chopper tip past a certain degree as speed picks up, and it's not explained by the tail drag. This is different than I remember choppers in MSFS circa 2007.)
Hey, may I ask what app do you use for the map with weather radar? on the Bottom Left? Im searching for apps to do Storm chasing/hurricane hunting :) Thanks!
Just saw a video of a guy using Infuse for VR hand tracking and it was tracking each finger. Might be worth a try for these kinds of setups so you dont need the vr controller
Great video! Only you must be careful with cyclic dive for 2 bladed rotors - mast bumping risk - my friend told me that! I saw on the pictures that Bell 407 is 4 bladed, so no problem there. Nice dive!
I spent a lot of time on these Blackhawks over the years, and was always glad to be back on the ground... Sure am glad you geeks exist! Thanks for the rides 🤗
Good job. Thank you! As a simple fan of GA I'm impressed with simplicity you're doing it! Landing with a thump is my favourite, even though I'd be scared in a real life. Take care!
You need a Microsoft sidewinder 2 force feedback. Is a old flight stick, but it have force feedback engine that can simulate perfectly the force trim tool. Those sitcks with centering spring are not good to fly helicopters in simulators
@@SnakPakFlight the warthog is a great flight stick... to fly "fly by wire" aircrafts, but if you want a good joystick to simulate force trim helicopters (or even older jets like the flankers, mig 29 and Harriers), the warthog is not very good, because the centering force is a spring, even a 20+ years old joystick like the sidewinder 2 because of the force feedback can be better than the warthog to fly helos, force feedback is a game changer to fly helicopters becouse it can properly simulate the force trim. Just for the case that you don't know force feedback, is basically a electric engine in the stick that simulate the force trim effect, allowing you to trim your helicopter with realism and precision. It's just a tip tho, if you're happy with the warthog I'm happy too and thrustmaster either lol
@@Joshua-by4dc Lol, I am very familiar with force feedback. I've got over 1000 hours in a black hawk with a 4-axis trim system. I guess doing it in real life is enough for me, so when I sim, the warthog does what I need it to!
Hello . I've had msfs20 for 2 years and I would like to do the Helico but I encounter a problem with Throttle with Thrustmaster hotas Warthog, when I increase the throttle the RPM of the rotor decreases.
Not sure which helicopter you're flying, but this is a natural phenomenon if you apply too much torque. The engine can't keep up with the amount of rotor blade pitch you are demanding from the collective. If that happens, your rotor will droop because of the increased drag on the rotor system. Keep in mind that you need enough engine to support the lift you want from the rotor system. Since drag is a byproduct of lift, every engine will have a limit somewhere. Of course, it could be that you just need to reverse the axis on your collective input. When you increase collective just a little bit, does the helicopter take off? Does the rotor immediately drop? If that's the case, you may have the hotas coupled to throttle AND collective. These are two different things. Most helicopters have an automatic throttle gizmo of some sort, so you shouldn't even need to have any control inputs coupled to it to be able to do normal flying. If you want to be able to manually control the throttle, say for runups or simulated engine outs, then use a different axis.
@SnakPakFlight 'Hello and thank you for your reply. I fly on the Bell 222B cowansim, The problem was indeed a gas and collective coupling. Now it's much better.
@@SnakPakFlight yea for sure, the one I’m flying rn in P3D is actually pretty fun and has better cockpit textures and a better startup thingy (Not sure if it’s accurate to the irl thing)
Inspirational, short, funny and entertaining at the same time. 4:10 "this would super illegal in real life but whatever ill do what i want cause im a bad boy" 😂
you dont need a super pc to play dcs...maybe in vr. but the game runs great in 30 fps..its a flight sim not a twitch shooter. i would rather play max graphic at 30fps then mid at 60fps anyday. ive only ever noticed framerates if im looking around to fast. then im just trying to see frames doing that
Thank you for your teaching. Why does the 407 has 2 torque trim balls? One in the attitude instrument and the other in the instrumente iver the fuel pump button. Sorry for my inaccuracy.
