DCS AV-8B Harrier VTOL Tutorial 

Great tutorial. The developers should pay you to have this included in the actual game.

Your voice is able to calm down any emergency situation, nice tutorial man!

Hi there @RedKite. I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for not just this video but the entire collection of your work. I have not watched every single video but the number I have are all of the same, clear, practical instruction. The production value of the video is good which only enhances being able to grasp what is being said. I do not know if others have mentioned this, I imagine they have, but I sought out your videos when trying to follow the DCS training for the Harrier. I do not wish to mean but the DCS videos lack a certain something. I think that something is too much emphasis on a 'military' style (as if you are a pilot supposedly being taught) as opposed to a 'human being' style which your videos give. Whatever the differences, I am very grateful to you. Like everyone that flies, or in my case, crashes, a lot, in DCS, they have spent a significant sum of money. For the training to not hit the mark is not great, to say the least. With your videos guidance, whilst I will never be Douglas Bader (perhaps I could have been chosen a better example there 😳) I can at least enjoy the aircraft and slowly but slowly see improvement over time. Thank you for your work. I truly hope that you are recognised, not just within the community, but in a tangible way that can help you to keep making, and of course updating, such great content. All the best to you and yours. Have a great weekend, Dave

This was the best Harrier tutorial I’ve seen yet!

well done thanks for all of your hard work on these and Merry Christmas and best in new year

thank you for these easy to follow tutorials, being ADD i find them easy to understand and follow. again thank you

Outstanding tutorial, specialy on such a complex aircraft to operate

very well done! very clear, concise and easy to follow. Thank you!!

Oooh, you included the mission file this time Great work, as always!

Great stuff again. Thanks for all your hard work.

I’m thinking of picking this up during the sale to hold me over till the Apache comes out in January the water management was something I was worried would be too complicated but this looks like a lot of fun

Well done great control I am impressed. Not as exciting as a dogfight maybe but well worth a watch I think in order to see this manouvre executed. Thumbs up!

Thanks for the mission file ... very toughtful :)

Thanks for the tutorials and links.....they're a great help.

I and so greatful for your videos, thank you so much.

Wow awesome tutorial! Thank you sir!

Thanks for tis info. Neatly and with mastery explained.

Awsome kneeboard dude cheers

Excellent as always. Just picked up the AV8B. After a couple of flights and actually making it kinda work but with some ugly touchdowns and I now know a much better idea what I need to watch for. Thanks

thanks for this will be great to see a tutorial of the TGP using

Great tutorial, thank you!

Incredible tutorial. Thaks so much!

Using the rcs will also increase temperature in the hover, as the decs will increase fuel flow into the engine to maintain performance with the loss of RPM caused by the tapping of air from the turbine (iirc) to feed the rcs. Can become dangerous with heavy weight and water flowing already.

very informative, keep it up!

Thanks! Nice tutorial!

Make it look so easy!

Nice job. Great teacher.

Just the job, thanks.

Terrific series of videos. Many thanks.

Nice Tutorial Thank You

Put the nose wheel into CAST in order to prevent tipping from sideslip.

Great vid RedKite! Finally a tutorial that is concise and meaningful. I do have a question for the DCS community regarding this aircraft however. I use a Winwing throttle quadrant and split the throttle levers, one for power, the other for nozzle angle. I noticed that when I transition from 82 degrees to 83 degrees there is quite a lot of movement with the lever before it registers the next number. Is this normal for this module? Thank you in advance!

This is in both the tutorial and in the manual but I have not found were to actually change this setting "Set Stabilator Trim to Takeoff Trim (2 deg nose down). Is there a button, a scroll menu, something I've missed for sure...

my plane takes off fine but about 70 feet it starts to pitch up. Everyone is saying 82 is the magic nozzle position and thats where I have it. flaps in TO and H2O is on. my weight is good. and as she starts to nose up I put in slight nose down pitch but she doesnt accept it. just ends up going backwards and crashes. what am I doing wrong?

I have flipped about 40 times trying this.. But when I watched this video it was like butter

So the flaps are used in cruise position to take off? What's de difference between auto and cruise? VSTOL is used only to land then? Your explanations are some of the best I've seen around. Thx.

In your training mission file. I can't get the JTAC to respond, must I need to be using "simple radio" options? In Harrier cockpit its set at 127.500 I see JTAC is set at 133 in mission editor

Very nice! What map are you flying on, and what air base?...thanks

Great Video, thanks. Can I ask what controllers you use?

Hi, I can't afford a HOTAS system and wonder, if this jet can be configured to be used via my keyboard in the same way that I fly and use for the MIG, F15C, SU25, A10 ?

What's the deal with the AOA HUD indicator? It was showing 75 degrees of angle on touchdown. Is it a bug or a feature?

Butter! :)

Hi Pal, need your help... I´m thinking about grabbin the Normandy / WWII-Asset bundle. But i had to read some guys saying the map isn´t woth the money and the performance is really bad. As you´re doing this Harrier-tutorials on Normandy, you should be able to say whether the map does work well or not (from your POV).

I have a question: Do you need trim during hovering or is it pure stick?

How did you get that paint

How to get all those HUD information. Bought the module today but there is no video explaining how to get those details

how do you bring the arm panel for weight check prior to take off??? is it a mod???is it on other planes too????

Hi, how to find the table of weight and balance to reduce the fuel? reduce weight to VSTOL ? I can t find it. Where is it? Thanks

Ok; Found the button and now have the Mission. Button was hidden. Will this work on 2.5? Uninstalled 1.5.8.

how do you get that awesome looking livery!?

Love the skin. Are you on a UK map? How's that done?

wich joystick do you use ? :)

I see that you fly above the engine limits for much more time. Don't you experience loose of power if you keep jpt above 645 and rpm above 1000 for more than 15 seconds? It happened for me many times and repair didn't fix it.

My vstol hud mode is missing several things, as well no attitude indicator ,pitch ladder, witches hat is missing the little I c I cross slip indicator while in vstol mode . I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. someone, anyone Help. Please! your assistance would be most appreciated. Reply

Where did you get the skin from?

Left Alt ???? how did you open the wieghts menu

Hey! Love the video but that livery you linked in the description isn't available any more. Is there any way you could get another link to it please? Thanks very much for the tutorial regardless!

can you do a tutorial for conventional takeoffs?

I keep drifting to one side, no wind in mission. I keep her straight & steady but it slips like I'm on a skateboard....

I don't get it, how do you take off without using any H2O?

Vwey good.

HOW do I get the Mission?? No button to access it.

Top left speed ist Calibrated Airspeed tho, not IAS

the harrier is sucking away that fuel so quickly, tried a multiplayer match yesterday and had to rtb pretty damn quickly because I was running out of fuel and another funny thing I noticed: until now I used the sliding marker for AoA as an indicator on how much trust to put out to hover properly. Like when it's above the zero-line add thrust, when it's below lower the thrust... that works too ^-^

What's he water for?

The problem is if it has those markings on it and around all, it is not an AV8B

why does it carry water

2 0 7 5 5 L B S

Left alt that’s all I can understand?? I did not quite hear after left alt

way too much math for me, im out

you took a 2 minute tutorial and stretched it into 16 minutes...