@@MattWagner You did great! Flying with a joystick that has a rudder hurts the wrist if you fly for hours straight. On the Huey i have set the coolie hat switch on the horizontal to help with the rudder raw input (a10 throttle) it helped me a lot. Sorry for my weird english. Wags, thank you very much for the dedication and professionalism and thanks for the devs for working harder to develop and deliver a product with quality specially at these rough times. I have been flying since 2007 (lock on)!
One thing I do notice is how still the front seater is, it makes the cockpit feel a little 2d - I really enjoy the immersion that Jester brings with his head and body movement. Still, can’t wait for this beauty.
So is that a self-assigned callsign now, "Grandma" ? :) Being not much of a rotorhead the last time I gave a 'sim' AH-64 a go was Microprose:Gunship on the C-64. What ED have done here has vastly exceeded even the wildest dreams of those days.Simply sublime. Thanks Matt and ED.
I still remember the days when I was playing apache 64 on a commodore 128, when loading into the mission, you had to change floppy disks, it took forever to actually fly....In a few days I will be a happy kid again, a dream come true for me, thanks to ED and a great community! Thank you all 🥰❤️💪🏻😎
ANother great video, Wags! I have to add a huge thank you to you and the team for releasing the EA Manual to us before release. It's been a great help so far, but I think I've reached the limits for understanding most of it now without being able to actually press buttons and switches to get the flow and muscle memory going. So excited for the release, and really appreciate everyone's efforts to get this amazing helicopter to where it is now.
Awesome stuff as always Wags. I grew up playing Gunship 2000, and then Jane's Longbow 2. This module will get me back in touch with my childhood, so, thankyou. I understand the amount of crunch you and the rest of the team are under. Stock up on coffee and please look after yourselves!
I can't wait to fly this wonderful machine, i used to watch these Apaches and Cobras etc fly over my house everyday when i lived in yucca valley california, about 15 mins or so down the road from the marine base in 29 palms, so i'm really looking forward to flying this awesome heli.
Thanks for all your hard work getting these videos out, wags, the module is looking fantastic and this info will be SO helpful getting into the 64 and helicopters as a whole. Here's to hoping you get a breather after all this!
Seeing the H on the pad roll under the nose took me right back to Tomahawk on my 128k Spectrum. You took your time wags. It's been a long wait. Thank you.
while im not estatic about the delay, i completely support the option (especailly after i bought battlefield 2042), cant wait for this incredible module to become avalible. amazing work to everyone behind it
Excellent tutorial Wags! Your precision with the acceleration cue relative to the tip of the velocity vector was impressive, particularly on the VMC approach. Great work!
This is so awesome Wags!! When this goes to early access, any chance getting a massive happy grinning Wags selfie + a collective photo the Apache AH-64D team? Feel this module is such a massive deal. Can't wait to hover land half as well as you did
Great idea, but I’m going to ask to take it up a notch: Can we please have a Wags bobblehead figure to stick on the instrument combing like the ones in Elite Dangerous? Hehe
@@kamraam1464 You’re right. I watched initially on my phone, and it was more obvious when I watched it later on my PC. Can even see the external tanks on the wings that the J models don’t carry but the H and E models do.
I notice as you are making all your adjustments with rudder collective and cylic on hover landing that you are decreasing airspeed and increasing collective to maintain lift. the more you decrease the more you add a little collective. as you make final you are 6 knots and 555 torque to maintain altitude avoiding VRS. My problem has always been thinking that I come in above the running and dropping my airspeed to zero and using collective only to balance the hover. you need that slow movement of 10 knots and that power to maintain that smooth decent! then as you get close to the ground start bleeding off the airspeed and gradually srop the collective to land! Good key point I can start practicing! Like I said before I dont get much flight time due to workload. But when i hop on this aircraft is such a blast to fly! Your tutorials analyzing what you are saying and what you are doing help me understand how to fly this aircraft!
0:32 H3 in western Iraq?! Does that mean that the Syria map is expanding East? Lovely landing by the way, just caught me off guard there with the location.
@@MattWagner thanks for the reminder about the book. I need to go back and reread it. That year, 1984, I read Chickenhawk, Another Roadside Attraction (Tom Robins), The Color of Magic (Pratchett), The Illuminatus Trilogy, On The Road (Kerouac) and the eponymous 1984, and emerged a changed man. It'll be interesting to revisit Chickenhawk, and see how it has stood the test of time.
@@MattWagner Not this head, I LOL'd when you referenced it. Still a great read and I thought I was the only person who knew it until my first day in flight school when I learnt it was more of a reference manual for my fellows :)
@@MattWagner which are being release in the next 2 days so RELEASE IMMINENT XD . Just kidding, Wags. The hype is just "big". Thanks for the manual and in general all the great work, especially the sfx , I freakin LOVE the sounds in DCS. CANT WAAAIITT
@@MattWagner So the potential is that all of the videos could be out by next week or early next week...with the module released shortly there after we hope. Nice flying by the way.
Could be because of the low approach... Under 50ft with a bit of forward momentum to stay out of the disturbed air prior to transition. Unlike my 200ft up attempt to hover in the Huey!
Also it's not a comfortable way to fly. Think of it like taking a corner in your car and how you get pushed towards the door. The crabbed angle coming in my look strange at first but it's just to compensate for wind.
@@TFT-bp8zk What are you talking about? Nose-to-tail trim means moving the tail right or left to line up the aircraft down the runway. It has nothing to do with raising/lowering the tail...
Very cool Wags. So now that you have shown us all the basics, is this a little hint that the AH-64D Early access release I prepurchased months ago could perhaps be released now sometime sooner, than between the “scheduled Jan 2022 date” & the final “March 31st” release date? (Look call it a Personality flaw of mine as discovered by the 1960’s marshmallow tests carried out on the toddlers), but if you were happy to push a couple of those milestones on your wish list out to a later patch I would be more than happy for you to release it tomorrow. 😊
Ha-ha “News Just in” on the results of the original marshmallow test. Further research revealed that circumstances matter: If a kid is led to mistrust the experimenter, they’ll grab the treat earlier. My want for the one “marshmallow now rather than waiting for 2 at a later date” must be due to the current worldwide “Unreliable environment”.
@@stephengilmore2741 'My dear you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly': Winston Churchill. Yes I may have been having a stroke at the time, but now that I have recovered I hope that you too have “recovered” your sense of humour.
I mean all that's going to get you is a very surly 15Y on the headset saying "hey chief.....I'm not complaining or anything but seriously can you just fucking GO so we can go back to playing spades and carrying more rockets over here for you to miss with."
Nice one Wags... giving yourself a little bit of a crosswind challenge! Very nicely done!!! Quick question on what I noticed: What are them meat hooks on the left side of the canopy for? And can they be "removed"?
I agree with regards to the flying in general. But concerning landing I am having always issues with the last 500 meters and last 20 feet. Everything looks fine and suddenly the beast turns left or right on the last 5 feet and gets out of control. Think I need to speed down my approach even more. Because I am having this issue with the Huey as well.
What centered ball true trim means vs. nose-to-tail trim when it comes to Apache? It looks like helicopter is crabbing with ball centered. Thanks for the video and your work!
Flying with the ball trimmed or ball centered (aka stepping on the ball), means you're flying aerodynamically with the least amount of drag and flying into the wind, yes while still crabbing. When you change it up to, flying nose to tail, that means two things, you're no longer aerodynamic (meaning increased drag and less efficient) and you're lined up for touch down on the runway or pad. This applies to any aircraft. The reason he was crabbing was because the wind was coming from his left side, left quartering side.
@@Chrisflyss Thanks for the answer, but does it mean in no-wind conditions ball centered means aerodynamic as well? Or it's always different due to some tail rotor or main rotor properties? Cheers
@@bazej1080 it does, but it's also related to the torque properties. Not having enough pedal input will also lead to out of trim flying. If we fly off the pedals, the bird will track our heading due to our vertical stab (and airspeed) and the nose will be out of trim "x" amount of degrees.
I'm very, very lost. When I add collective the helo goes crazy. In videos like this it raises nice and smooth. I was hoping buying a top end gaming PC and decent HOTAS would make a difference but it doesn't. I just don't get it.
Now show us how to start up this baby, then release it. It's my first real pre-order and I'm really happy I gave my money to ED. To be honest, most of my money now is going to ED and/or third party developers.
