Thank you for sharing your insight, we have more updates coming in a future patch. we have reported the inverted actions of the LTC AFT and FWD switches. Best regards - Bignewy
One of the best aspects of DCS, is the input and participation from actual real world pilots, ground and air crew who have hands on experience with the prototype counterparts of these virtual models. I can't imagine how lackluster DCS would be, without these people and their contributions. So, thank you.
Yes! finally another 47Driver video on the Chinook. I know it's very bare bones in DCS right now, but glad to see you back at it. looking forward to more stuff with you and your IRL crew/friends in DCS
Class is now in session. I simply love how you explain everything in detail. I truly feel like I am learning a whole lot about this aircraft. Can't thank you enough kind sir. Looking forward to more sessions and missions in the future.
Great job explaining how the squat switches and the lct’s correlate. When I was in the crew wrote up acft out of rig. Every time they pulled in power to taxi it lifted the fwd gear off the ground. All that was wrong was the aft left strut was over serviced.
Although I'm in the UK, thank you for your service. You've created another great video helping us demystify the Chinook so we can fly her around and get the best from her. I'm loving your content :)
1. thank you for your service. 2. i think the way you figured out how to display the control indicator looks great for those who have asked to see it and i certainly dont mind it staying. Thanks for the vid! informative as always
That was fun to watch... The little nuances and tid-bits were very interesting. I kept waiting for you to pull off the quilt in the back to show-off what was going on. Maybe a live walkthrough of the 47 matched up with this video down the road?
Thank you for the professional explanations of all the cool new "easy mode" flying of the DCS CH-47. Bro, you totally need to become a SME for Eagle Dynamics on this bird.
@@47Driver Your control indicator solution was great, and your explanations really help us armchair pilots understand what's going on. Look like I need to unlearn some tail-rotor habits with my feet.
I had given up on this bird.. But the LCT implementation made me fly it again. It is much easier to fly when you dont have to loook at the ground all the time. Smooth sailing. I flew yesterday some routes and it was very easy to do, not needing BOB or any other mode, just trim.
Great video! I always appreciate your insight on the Chinook. No apologies. You are providing great info for free. Don’t let the social media monster get to you. The way the algorithm works, is also intended to drive creators to make more content. Do what you can, when you can, and don’t worry about it any more than that :)
Many thanks for your professional input I highly appreciate having SEMs here interacting and passing on their skills and knowledge. Thank you and fly safe.
Thanks for covering this so quickly! Really appreciate the explanation as well - understanding the chinook’s unique features is so much easier when you’ve got someone able to explain it in plain English. When you say the LCTs are extending and retracting, you mentioned it acting on the hub; is it moving the whole hub, or is it adding a bias if you will to the swashplate or something?
Was on the lookout for your videos. I bought the 47 but early release was a broken mod. But I think I will start her up today! Your video's is really the best for the 47
Not a mod this is a full fedelity module, and it wasn't broken. It's not finished for sure but it is completely flyable. I bought it day one and worked on this bird as 68D in US Army.
Worth the long time waiting- good you are back:-) Can you say some words regarding cyclick trim-functions- I see on the stick a "AFCS-TRIM" button? When you push that, will it hold the present cyc.stick postion? How do you use that? How is the wind reading on GND is generated on the PFD? Thanks!
I appreciate your content. All I'll say is (with 20 years in the RAF behind me), be careful you don't drop something sensitive into your video and get yourself in hot water 😅
I am very careful about what I say for this reason. I appreciate the comment! Certainly have to be careful, but nothing I've discussed in my videos is sensitive in nature, and I will not entertain those discussions either.
To move the indicator DCS World > Mods > aircraft > GCBase > Cockpit > Scripts - controls_indicator_page.lua line 40 base.init_pos = {0, -(1 - 1.5 * size)} play with those numbers and see what happens, I'm 88.9% confident those control the position 😋
Good to see you post again. Hope the Army isnt treating you too bad in the field lol. Just on the AFCS, is it similar to UH60 in that it has an inner loop and outer loop? Incredible systems on these helos.
I'm at around 17:28 watching your control indicator just for example, I don't know why but when I am flying at slower speeds my controls look more or less like what I would expect (stick forward and slightly to the right). But once I am getting over 100 knots or so (certainly at 146knots like you are here) I find myself having to constantly apply back pressure on the stick to keep the helicopter from nosing over. Once I slow down I can fly with the stick forward as usual. I've been wondering if that is what is expected of the chinook or, the more likely case, if I've just been missing something.
Great video and very useful, I was just wondering how you've configured your trim. As I struggling to get it working in the Chinook. Is it like the Heuy were you push the cycstick into a posistion, first, and then set the trim, by pressing a button or is it more like the F/A-18 where you set trim using a 4-way hat trimmer button?
Can you give a simplified explanation as to why the chinook likes a left crosswind almost as much as a headwind? No need to go into extreme detail, I am too stupid to understand anything beyond the simple stuff. I would have thought due to the size it would dislike any crosswinds.
I'm no expert, and hopefully 47Driver will correct me if I'm wrong. My guess would be because that is already the direction the blades are moving the air in relation to the helicopter. Think about an egg beater and how it's "blades" rotate inwards and move the eggs from front to back. Now turn that sideways and you have a chinook's rotors to some extent (obviously they are designed more to move air down than sideways but it still does that to some extent). The left crosswind flows with that naturally and a right crosswind is actively fighting that airflow. Again this is purely a somewhat educated guess and hopefully 47Driver can chime in with the facts and correct me.
It has to do with the counter rotating blades and the the effect of the fuselage on the efficiency of those blades. The forward rotor spins counterclockwise and the aft rotates clockwise. Because of this, in a left crosswind you’re getting more air over the advancing blades that are at the 12 o’ clock and 6 o’ clock. At the same time, the retreating blades are moving over the fuselage which reduces lift a small amount, and the airflow is in the center of the aircraft is also more turbulent due to the fact that you have two blades operating in close proximity to one another. Getting more airflow over the blades on the outside of the aircraft helps more than getting airflow over the blades on the inside. When heavy, you’ll even see some people takeoff with the aircraft slightly out of trim in order to take advantage of this.
