AV-8B Harrier: Cockpit Familiarization Tour Tutorial | DCS WORLD 

Good heavens !! A dismembered hand that talks!!!

I love this style of cockpit explanations.

So, the harrier supports overclocking... shouldn't it be called the AV-8BK then? 🤔

As a ground school instructor on Boeing a/c's, this is, so far, one of the best cockpit familiarization tutorials I have found on youtube for the DCS Harrier. Thanks for that. Now I still need to learn all the military systems (and abbreviation) you went through and didn't explain in depth. But still a very nice explanation.

This is one of the coolest showcases of VR I've seen yet, so awesome!

This was a great tutorial. The VR style with actual pointing was highly informative. Brightness needs to come up a little though, its hard to see what you are pointing at sometimes.

I got a little chuckle from the DECS explanation. It throttles back your engine so you don't melt it, so now you don't have enough power to land, and you crash and die. We kind of have this in electric RC planes. The ESC will limit or cut your battery output in an attempt to save your battery from overdrain damage, but now you're falling from the sky.

SAS stands for Stability ASsist so it will probably engage reaction wheels to help hold the current heading

Would love to see some in depth instructional vids for this one. Good video.

In automation, an 'annunciator' panel would be that alarm panel as you called it. So the annunciator illuminating knob must control the brightness of you alarm labels. (not modeled apparently, I watched you turn it while staring at that panel)

Some points for you, if you don't mind my saying: The H2O dump switch vents the 500lb (max) of demineralised water that is injected into your engine with the water switch during takeoff or landing. It pours out of a hole in the main undercarriage bay and soaks anyone working in there. Heheheh..... Your description of the lights panel and its function is all wrong. The 'Form' knob adjusts the brightness of the green flat panel formation lights dotted around the aircraft. They work fine. Position lights are the red and green wingtip and white tail lights. Anti-coll are the top/bottom strobes. (anti-collision) Aux is a small white light on the nose undercarriage leg. The main approach light drowns it out in the sim. SAAHS stands for Stability Augmentation and Attitude Hold System. You're correct that DSL is Depressed SightLine. It's a standby bombing mode. The interval switches are in feet on the ACP. Intervals are not yet implemented. (And I wish they'd hurry that one up....) The VR view with the hand in the presentation was useful, if not pretty. Good vid, but know your subject. :)

The engine cutting out is a "feature" ..... Love It

Welldone... I am loving this!!!

Disembodied glove, both informative and creepy. I miss Cap's voice though: "This one doesn't work so let's move just below that, can't read that one so we don't care. And over to the right we have all these. What do these do Sherman?" "They do fuck all."

Thanks you, very detailed good info

This plane is one I really want to get at some point. It'll be a while though as I'm still sorting out other things for the game. I know you mentioned some additions to this tutorial and I for one think it would be nice to see as I imagine this isn't the easiest plane to fly. Thanks for you effort thus far.

LOL Even in VR he is talking with his hands. Seriously though, thank you for the tutorial. I just got the Harrier for the summer sale and it is quite the challenge to learn.

good Vid couple things obviously Water dump dumps the water if you need to loose weight tho it is not that helpful, and the rpm switch does not change anything in the engine but causes the tach to display either compressor speeds when set to high or bypass fan speed when set to low. other than that was pretty spot on.

Fantastic work tuuvas

I will be watching your whole series~!

Great Tutorial Thanks!

I have long wanted to know and see this cockpit, it a shame I am too old to fly this now. Thanks for the look.

I worked on the AV8A, C, B Night attack and now at the Depot level the AV8B Radar. LIDS Lift Improvement Device Traps the Boundry layer air under the Aircraft causing a greater lift cushion. It doesn't stop air going into the intake!! The Lids and Strakes are made of Composite materials and not metal as in the description. VR is nice but the explanation of some of the cockpit description example DECS not quite right. DECS are 2 separate units that control the fuel and air mixtures to the engine. they are located in the engine compartment. They are redundant so if one fails you switch to the other. They can be adjusted to keep the engine from over temping and increasing the life of the engine, but the ground crew can readjust to a higher performance such as during war time, but this will reduce the life or as we call it High time of the engine.

Awesome video ! Basically 75% of stuff in the aircraft is not functional yet in the cockpit, looking forward to a new video when there is further progress. Nice work

Great vid , have a few hours on harrier but even then this was still helpful. Would like to see something that explains using flir and pod targeting as that is confusing. Thanks.

Perfect guide!

Excellent!

The NAV COURSE control controls the course line on the map which rotates around the current waypoint.

How do you find using both the Touch hand controllers and Joystick, especially during busy 'combat' environments? I only ask as it would seem quite clunky to switch between the touch controller and a full HOTAS set up (I have a Thrustmaster X-55) when you could use a mouse in lieu of the Touch controllers. Very cool video though, thanks!

I cannot wait to get DCS up and running and get VR going and all of the aircraft

Thank you

So... do you drop the VR controllers when you fly and grab the joystick/throttle? Or do you somehow fly with the VR controllers? As someone who is REALLY wanting VR, I am confused by this.

That hand makes the video. :-D

Love the glove!!!

Thanks

Hi, I'm looking to buy a new aircraft in DCS. my options are the Harrier and the ka-50 + f-15 (same price in total). One of my friends is saying that the Harrier is bad because a lot of systems aren't implemented and it's really bugy. What is your opinion about this?

4:00 Hmm a H20 dump switch i wonder what that does. Idk maybe dumps the bloody h20 aka water

SAAHS stability augmentation attitude hold system

Can you interact with the cockpit with motion controllers now?

Funny thing is year ago i asked a real fighter pilot at an air shot to explain some buttons. He turned it some nonsense techno jargon that didn't have to do anything about the plane. Then telling me it's too complicated for me to understand.

Is that hand from VR with the controllers? I tried VR when it was first released but I didn't dream of trying the controllers because why would you. It works pretty well here though, and utterly hilarious to see for the first time.

remember that you can interact with the cockpit flodlights too... just an fyi

Water dump dumps distilled water for hover.

Mind if I add this to our Harrier playlist for new pilot reference?

Is this HTC Vive or Oculus? Wondering cause oculus has those handcontroller nowadays aswell. The resolution isnt bad at all..

How do you get the Hands to Work in VR? I can never get them to work...

Well, what could be the H2O switch for? :P Maybe for the cooling H20....

Doesnt the H2O dump switch drops the water cooling of the plane?

need a barf bag for this one, can you stop jiggling the camera around , or not use VR?

Hands!?!? DCS!?!?!? blasphemy!!!! going to be sweet to watch :3

ohh amazing, how do you do this? :D

Is the AFC implemented yet?

That's good and all but..... how do you eject? 😂😂😂

shaky camera is shaky

The hand makes me kind of uncomfortable