ARMA 3 Helicopter Flight School - Noob To Pro In One Lesson 

after playing on the server with you guys for a week now i dont think you could have had a better teacher lol. playboy is a king amongst men in the server its a blast

The Blue and brown indicator is called an Attitude indicator shows the angle of the aircraft relative to the horizon

The man of all crafts ! amazing as always

Nice... loving the server, best bunch of dudes

An addendum: in Arma, the Little Bird is the one to learn really well. By the time you learn to really throw it around (not very realistic, but no sim is), you will begin to get the “feel” of flying under the rotor blade. It’s what you will end up using most when in-game. You will spend very little time looking at instruments. Once you have the “feel” it will be much easier to transition into the other helo’s. Their added mass means everything happens more slowly, and control inputs are slower and more cumbersome. The great thing about flying helo’s in Arma is that it gives you a very satisfying experience without all the complexity you would face in real life. And in-game job one is to get everyone quickly and safely to a destination. A complex flight model (except in the hands of an expert, would simply result in a lot more player casualties.

Finally you learned after so many crashes lol but otherwise amazing server and community I’ve been there a while and it’s really fun

I've owned arms 3 for years. Been through training more than once. I own prariefire & WW2 dlc. Still haven't played a real match. I'm not a stranger to millsims. My favorite game is post scriptum, I mean squad 44. I also play squad & war of rights and occasionally hell let loose but arma is a different animal. Sadly I've got some issues like my age & time. If it wasn't for those 2 issues I would have joined your guys by now. I have a soft spot for helicopters. I began training on helos in squad but I didn't finish cause of an upcoming update that changed the way helos handled. That was over a year ago & haven't made it back. Damn I wanna do this. Your videos are very helpful. You're doing good.

Really useful tutorial, particularly for me thinking about coming back to this (with Hotas) in the future. Thanks for sharing it.. Oh and as a parent the mantra here is “Practice, practice, practice.” My kids know RU-vid “perfection” is just editing out the years preceding

This was a neat little video, especially after seeing your helicopter mishaps from previous videos. I'd like to throw in my own two cents, mostly for anybody else who watches this to learn. At the beginning they talk about hardware. Let me say this up front: you only need a keyboard and mouse to fly in ARMA. Your movements might be a bit jerkier but don't feel discouraged just because you don't have a flight stick or pedals or even a head tracking device. The rest of this comment assumes you're flying with keyboard and mouse. If you have to you can tap the numpad keys or ctrl+numpad to change the default view and numpad 5/ctrl+numpad 5 to re-center it. Any controls input from the keyboard should be quick taps ideally, except for the collective which you might need to hold it during flight. Landing will still require taps however. While hovering within a certain speed moving the mouse will move the nose of the aircraft just as if you were aiming a weapon. This means it will use the antitorque rotor/yaw to turn. At higher speeds it automatically changes this to roll the helicopter, and it's pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, no need to have some kind of crazy toggle for controls between low and high speed flying. Just remember you will need to tap the A or D keys to roll while in a hover, or Q and E to yaw during those crazy high speed maneuvers. If you find yourself in a hover but you're rolled one way or the other from tapping A or D you can wiggle the mouse left and right a bit to automatically re-center it. If you're going particularly fast when you wiggle the mouse the helicopter will likely turn towards where you're going so be careful. It's been mentioned in the video a few times but I'll repeat it here because it's probably the biggest thing to take away from all of this. Every input you make not only takes a while to be felt, but might require additional inputs to counteract the change in attitude, but not too much or the 'weightiness' of it all will just make you overshoot your target. If you want to think about it in simple terms, imagine you are playing the snow level of a 3d platformer with the most horrendously offensive ice physics imaginable. You're sliding to the left so naturally you jam the controls to the right, only to find yourself overshooting and sliding quickly to the right. You need to gently input a right roll and anticipate a few seconds ahead to level off so you don't end up going too far. Now here's an example which I'm sure everyone has experienced: you are going forwards at a decent 180+ km/h and your landing zone is coming up. No problem, just pull back on the stick. Except your flare has you shooting upwards into the sky now. No problem, just lower collective and level off... only now you have no forward momentum, you've leveled off, your collective is 0, and now you've crashed into the ground. Anticipating your aircraft's reactions to your input ahead of time is vitally important. Which aircraft you learn in can also be an important factor in how you learn. The Littlebird/Pawnee/AH-9/MH-9 in my opinion is a bit too squirrely in its handling and it's incredibly easy to overdo the controls because of how little inertia it has. The Huey/Hellcat/WY-55 on the Independent side I feel is a nice small-mid sized helicopter with decent handling that won't make you do backflips if you're too rough with the controls. It even has a Helmet Mounted Display which will give you an idea of what direction you're flying even if you're at a hover without needing ground objects nearby to use as a reference. Regarding the advanced helicopter flight model from the helicopters DLC... yes it makes them behave more realistically but the traditional arcadey flight model is also what makes flying accessible to more people. It's worth learning it but learning the basic model alone can give you some vital experience and act as a stepping stone to the more difficult stuff.

Great video! I also have the X52, but I’m guessing I mapped the controls wrong somehow. As soon as I add collective, the help shoots up to 50km. Hoping to get back with you guys in the server soon.

North Eastern airfield is long enough for an A10 (just). Take off eastbound with flaps and you'll make it. Anyways, awesome video and I had the pleasure of being flown on the server by Playboy last night in a helo he wasn't comfortable with. Still made it look easy! Anyways, having a blast getting back into Arma3 with you guys and your server, and i forgot how hilarious 'squaddies' could be when sat idle waiting for transport. Thank you all :D

Blue/Orange = Attitude Indicator or Artificial horizon by some.

If you keep your nose level with the horizon, full 0 on collective while pulling cyclic full back on the j turn, you wont loose altitude.

Turn on advanced mode and off auto trim it makes it more realistic

THANK God i wont get yelled at anymore!

Love arma 3 cool lesson many tnks i play arma 3 exile in Bse-free servers and ps-46 this game is epic since arma 1,2 etc

Good teaching technique and a good teacher. Is your server open to anyone or was there a training period involved ? I've been flying helos for a few years in Arma but haven't worked up the nerve to fly them in multi-player yet.

DCS needs to get FPS ground combat. If it ever does it will take front and center role as the go to for realistic military simulation.

Arma has a more realistic mode. In game settings chose ADVANCED flight model. Much harder to fly, but has a very good physics model. What isn’t realistic is that most real helo’s have a side stick that encompasses separate throttle and collective adjustments. Arma combines both into one control which makes things easier. In Arma, both flight models provide a very good feeling of what it’s like to fly under a rotor blade.

That gauge is called an ATTITUDE INDICATOR

22:41 Attitude Indicator

31:47 airspeed indicator

Please turn on AFM is more interesting and give more realistic feelings. The minimum requirement for flying helicopters is rudders pedals and collective. There is a fun.

whats about the control setup, because i tried to setup my hotas but it didnt work (iam sure thats 100% user error xD)

MASTER, TEACH ME!!! I can't land a Little Bird for nothing!!!

Having a lot of hours in an OH-56/Bell 206, arma doesn't do a very good job in simulation. But fun to play because you can do a lot you cant in a real helo.

cyclic is pronounced sie-click, not sick-lick.

Fly's absolutely nothing like a helicopter in any way Just a free camera wrapped in a helicopter skin.