Helichoppers 101 - Instructor Pilot Flies in MSFS - Lesson 1: The Basics 

Great video I was a 50 year Aircraft Mechanic and commercial pilot started in army aviation1964. Keep it up thanks

this has to be the best series on helicopter flying I've seen. absolutely ridiculous that this didn't pop up 4 weeks again when I start learning about helis.

you should do a series researching of all the flight controls out there. it'll incentivize the manufacturers to send you ones for review.

As a kid i always wanted to be a military pilot when i got older, i did 3y of AFJROTC, SLS at WPAFB and planned on making it my career to be denied at 18 for astmha. Needless to say watching you talk about your passion of helicopters makes me super happy to hear how well they trained you and how much enjoyment you get in your job in the army 😀 i live vicariously through you as i begin my journey into the world of civil aviation instead. Love the vids keep em coming 😁

It's very nice to see more folks making content for helicopters. Thanks for doing this!

Subscribed for this series! I have about 36 hours of fixed wing time in real life but my passion is helicopters. Unfortunately my wallet doesn’t allow me to pursue helicopters in real life just yet so I’m building a sim rig for DCS/MSFS2020 to start learning helicopters as much as I can at home before pursuing real life training. I will be watching and learning from this series!!! Thanks for making these videos!!

Best series in a long time! please make more of this! so good

Spent 10 years as 11B .. caught many rides on the Blackhawk and CH47 .. it was the best feeling seeing you guys coming to pick us up .. we always knew no matter how far out we were we could count on dedicated skilled pilots like yourself to risk their lives to help others .. what you pilots do isn’t unnoticed and never goes unappreciated.. thank you for your service..

I will definitely be watching this series cuz I have no clue about helicopters Thanks for the videos

this series is SOOO good man.. I need more fr

Great video, I love practicing the pedal turns and sliding right.

Love these videos. Learned so much that I didn’t know about helis. I definitely wanna see more

I've been flight simming since 1995 .First flight Boeing 747 MSFS 95 .Those were the day when I knew nothing but, I had a 21 inch screen that weighed about 40lbs and a video card made by ATI: Markham Ont, Canada. So anything with wings I can wrangle some better than others. Helachopters not so much...till today and subsequently in the next upcoming episodes. Great delivery! Of course I subbed~~~~

Thank you this is the best tutorial I’ve seen so far on helicopters in the sim.

I commented on your flight controls, but it wasn’t criticism! I was impressed with what you can do with entry level controls vs the rest of us blaming the controls for our lack of skill :)

Thanks for the extra camera. Cool video!

Very clearly and well explained!

Man, I cannot believe how good this is! Thank you! ✌🏻

Seriously Good video & great explanation! Thanks man!

This was great thank you!

Dude thank you so much! So easy to digest and understand! Wanting to be a pilot, I hope my trainers are like you! Great work

This is one of the best explanation of heli basics. thank you for posting these videos. I've piloted many helis, but never from the inside. lol... RC helis only. Subscribed, thank you

Snak, love the videos man. Keep up the great work.

Great video. Lovely shoes. VERY interesting explanation of the concepts.

I'm getting my CFI/CFII rotor in the next year and I think I'm going to use this whole video as a script.... excellent description of everything and very basic. good job!

Great and informative video! I just ordered a separate throttle quadrant so I could try out some of these new helicopters! Looking forward to building my sim skills!

First off Thank You for your service and Happy late Veterans Day. Ever since I was big enough to be Snoopy chasing the Red Baron on our doghouse and weird enough to be Flash Gordon with my Dad's Dodge Ram hood ornament turned backwards, I've wanted to fly. About 23 years ago that was supposed to happen when I signed the dotted line as a 67T, recruiter convinced me I could have my pilot train me and cross over to Warrant. I didn't trust him so twenty years later I retired in the AF and currently fix medical equipment in good ole Music City. After a tour in Iraq, where I worked close enough to feel the down draft as med choppers came in to land, I started having vertigo issues so guess it will always be just a dream. In any case, keep up the free training, my budget can't pay the $15k or more for the real deal!

Glad I found you channel, first time flying helos. Great training!!!!😀👍🇺🇸

Super helpful vid. I’ve loved Army aviation from my first NOE ride in a UH-1. Hoping to get a good Chinook to fly in the simulator at some point. All the best to you!

Loving these videos. Longtime sim pilot and helicopter lover. While in the army, was lucky enough to have a ride in a UH-1 and the pilots were "discussing" who was faster at the exercise you demonstrated at 20:45 🤣

Very good tutorials. Thanks a lot.

Such a great primer on helicopters - thanks for sharing your experience and talent (subscribed)

Fantastic episode. I'm also glad you used the correct scientific term for the instruments and controls - which is "dials and gizmos".

W00t thanks for another great video!

PPL A/H from Munich, Germany here, I just found your channel and subscribed immediately after I saw your DCS Blackhawk landing video! In my opinion the MSFS models still don't simulate the physics (aerodynamics) as good as DCS does, but let's see what the future will hold! You seem to be a cool and chill guy who can explain very well and effectively and hope to see more videos in the future! Also, @Virpil or @WinWing please sponsor this man and give him the peripherals he deserves! :D

For those wondering the aircraft commander is always on the right so they can maintain control of the cyclic at all times with their right hand. This allows them to have their left hand free, at certain times, to operate any buttons switches they may need (and the collective of course).

17:00 only seeing this video after I suffered and learned the hard way in MSFS... but the whole small movements thing when hovering is so important. Once I figured that out, something clicked and I could hover easily. You just kinda go with the flow, make tiny corrections, and if you make a bigger correction, make sure to compensate a tiny bit after. Also seeing you explain things with the fluid dynamic simulation on was really helpful. Great video.

Fantastic video. Thanks for helping out us flight Sim enthusiasts. When learning to fly fixed wing in the Sim everything is about power, attitude and trim. The confusing part about helis is the relationship between collective, throttle and governor.......perhaps you could give a basic overview of that. I subscribed and look forward to more vids....

That cyclic is perfect!

Thank You for doing this, lesson 1 i knew already, but you did a great job teaching. i need to get a VR setup, it will help me in my flight school, when weather is stopping training:-(

Excelente

In New Zealand and Australia socks and slides is a normal thing so you go bro👌🏽

I have both the TM Warthog HOTAS in a full on sim pit as well as the Logitech 3D stick you're using and to be honest I use the Logitech more. It's just more fun since it's less serious. I love the full on experience, but a more expensive setup does not always equate to a better experience. Equally I have a racing setup with top-hung pedals, gear shifter, etc for my rig and at this point I just use an Xbox controller most of the time. I guess getting older, having more household responsibilities, and becoming a dad have all added up over the years to me not wanting to fiddle as much any more. Everything I've added to increase realism has simultaneously made it less light-hearted. I added the super realistic pedal setup and now I have to drive with my shoes on. I added the cockpit and now I have to crawl into it as opposed to just sit back and relax. I added a much nicer shifter and the shift force has gone up which fatigues my arms more. I'm now working harder so I'm hot so I added a fan and that's a whole thing. And in the end it's still not near as cool as just going for a drive. My point is, you keep adding realism and then you realize you're just playing a video game. If you want real, go out and do it. If you want to relax to a cool experience, make sure it's easy to just start playing (which is the goal, right?).

Great video! Nice use of the computational fluid dynamics display to show the tail rotor thrust and other changes in airflow. That's an extremely helpful tool for demonstration eh? It's amazing how many things in this video could warrant their own "deep dive" video too. One suggestion? If you put timestamps in the description youtube will generate chapters in the seek bar. Makes it easy for people to know what's in the video and find what they are looking for quickly. Cheers!

Nice lesson. I was happy to not have a lesson in gyroscopic procession included. Thanks!

Watching the guys around you was hilarious

Fantastic video thanks for the lessons how to fly a helicopter in msfs 2020

You will get'em...

Hueys were horizontal stabilizers and vertical tail fin

Very nice.... Question. How did you bind your cyclic/collective and rotor pedal controllers in MSFS? Can you do a video on that? Your controllers seem dead on...

it is possible to connect that saitek throttle without the yoke?

best video teaching .. watch the full video! amazing bro.. can you also send the link for the controllers and pedals? Thank ytou brother!

Hi Snak, you can adjust the sensitivity of those controls in options, the default sensitivity profile is not at all responsive until you give larger movements on your controls which you can change in the settings(it's a curve). Also my friend had that logitech control and it's so hard to move, I hate it and I have thrustmaster Airbus yoke which is pretty good for Aeroplanes but there are several good ones on the market if you're looking to get one in the future. I recently got my CPL and have very little idea on helicopters but thanks to your videos I'm starting to learn a bit more of them from the expert! Have a good day, cheers!

Just found your channel from the Blackhawk landing video, dropped by to suggest inverting your _Aviation Simulations_ playlist, so that previous videos show up first and newer ones later, this is especially necessary for series like this one, where it makes no sense to watch Ep.2 of the basics before Ep.1. You might also consider splitting off the Helichopper 101 series into a separate playlist.

22:07 - The X-plane have this feature since its first release - 25 years agol

From a seasoned flight-simmer (I can't fly in real life because I have type-1 diabetes) helicopters have always seemed way more difficult to fly. I reckon instructors must have balls of steel to hand over the controls to someone for the first time. Awesome video, man. Look forward to seeing more.

What peddels do you have

thank you very much for this video, so helpful and informative, I kept spinning and spinning at take off without the assistance, now it's much smoother so is the flight. I still haven't got the landing though, I always come in too hot...

Where do you map the collective

would be interested to see your joystick set up and sensitivity for flying the Bell 407

Did you really say "attitude indicator" at 6:38? Great video, thanks so much! Since in this life I probably won't be able to fulfil my dream and learn how to fly a Blackhawk helicopter, this is gonna be the next closest thing and I'm REALLY looking forward to your classes! Thank god Christmas is getting close, so Santa is gonna have to bring around A LOT of fancy tech ^^

When I fly online, the aircraft around me unfortunately are not depicted correctly. When there is a helicopter passing me by I can only see a single engine Piper, or when I come along an F/A 18 all I see is some twin jet engine airliner. The models almost always wouldn't match the tags. Is there anybody knowing what I can do to remedy this issue? And just to make it clear. Yes, I have most of the aircrafttypes in my Inventory.

Do you have assistance turned on all the time or just for that part of the video where you mentioned it?

I think you will like Virpil controls. Hopefully they send you some to try one day.

The new static-rotor variation yep

any controller settings to use? or just default? I'm happy with my X52 set with the H-145. dig the sox.

Awesome Tutorial! I noticed your connection dropped. I get that a lot. But when mine drops, the NIC gets turned off, too, and I end up without internet connection, until I reboot. Any idea for a work around? Oh, I'm using an Aurora R14 by Alienware, unfortunately. LOL Thanks.

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Does the helicopter fly in msfs like it would in real life to you? Sometimes I have trouble with rudder, I’ll be in full left and it doesn’t want to yaw around at all. What’s your thoughts?

My favorite part is he's not using 40k in sim gear.

My favorite has always been the 47. It's the most helicoptery helicopter. No doors, full view. It's like sitting on a bench in the sky. You can FEEL yourself hanging from the rotor. Chop chop chop. Just fucking awesome. The new stuff is just too smooth, too enclosed for me. (and too frickin loud with a turbine right behind your head). I always wanted to try an old biplane too. Haven't run across any. My same joystick...works just fine.

How are you able to use Bose a20 for gaming?

It would be nice to show us all how you set up the Sensitivities options in the Control Options section. Thanks.

Where is the torque and tot gauge? They are just important as to power avaliable!

would have been interessting to see, how you set up your controls (axis sensitivity, expo,...)

Have you tested the h135 and h145 help from hype?

Could you please let us know your controller profiles and/or setups you are using. Maybe some screenshots or a quick video. That would help a lot to follow your lessons and not fail because of wrong bindings. Kind regards out of Germany

R u in pnw?

Your profile picture looks like a 1956 cessna 172. Is that correct

Is it me or does the ball always seem out of balance in forward flight requiring constant left pedal.

This guy is my spirit animal. What drum set you got in the background?

I always wondered about the rotor-as-a-fan analogy: Why is it wrong? To push the helicopter up, it has to push air down with equal force. The blade geometry is vastly different and the physics that lead to air being pushed down are thereby completely different as well, but a rotor, and an aircraft wing as well actually, has to push enough air down so that the force equals the force required to push itself up.

That heliport looks like Cairns full of week 1 primary students in TH-67's going all over the place

Does the magnetic brake work in MSFS?

Just a quick question chum, I know that your military flight simulators are extremely expensive but every time I watch a pilot using a military sim the details as in scenery etc looks basic, I understand that military simulator have hydraulic platforms and msfs does not but apart from that which would you say is better for visual simulation? Many thanks, I'm an ex British Paratrooper from Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 and have had the pleasure of flying in the back of a Black Hawk a few times. I used to have a good friend that flew Pumas for the RAF and I'd get up in the jump seat a good bit which was super cool but nothing like your job!! Respect brother!! 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

I'm trying to transition to rotorcraft from a fixed wing using flight simulator 2020 in VR... how realistic would you say the flight model is (Cabri G2 specifically)? i'm trying to get checklists down and maneuvers in the sim first before paying to learn in the air firsthand. Thanks!

11:38 I so wish that DCS World would allow player to see all the simulation factors like X-plane and now MSFS allows. Because that visualization effect gives the player not just understanding of the current state, but as well more trust to the engine doing things properly and even debug the problem. Like there are means for developers to see the radar beam scanning and IR missiles seeker lock-on methods etc. And somewhat these physics parameters, but it is not given for player to be seen. How much easier it would be to debug errors or mistakes by seeing example sensors LOS and FOV? You would immediately see user errors or programming errors when radar beam would be in wrong place or it would be painting the target but not detecting anything...

I'm assuming throttle isn't a word used in a helicopter that would be called collective, Is that correct?. In other words, collective is throttle? Awesome video by the way.

Very useful - thanks - but why the ‘cheap bar music’?

You're over 1k subs! Let's hear how you got your name! I'm assuming you're the guy who always has a goodie bag wherever he goes 😂 that's me at work too. I ride a motorcycle at work and my coworkers make fun of me because I fill the personal bag with snacks. It's the way to go

lol, i got the same joystick and pedals.

better watch out man, gonna get yourself on wikifeet

You know what I really liked? Not doing this vid with the latest, greatest, most expensive stick / collective. Keeping it real for (probably) most of us. I hate to be a grinch, but suppliers, please do not send high-end products for 'review'!

I predict your channel will have >100k subs in no time, especially once you get better gear and start wearing more fun flipflops. Make it your thing :-D JK, thanks for great content!

What about the persons that only have a keyboard and a mouse? Where are instructions for us?

Obviously my ineffective piloting is due to my incorrect choice of socks. Noted.

Funny how at 14:30 the gauges just sit still not caring you've just moved out of ground effect :D - Asobo launched the helis so porked that they pretty much feel the same for a GTA pilot coming from Play Station or whatever. I hope after they make their quote of newly attracted players with this: "See? it's not that hard?" BS they will actually patch the helis so they resemble the real things.

You have just shown us how you could even use a garbage joystick to fly a helicopter properly. lol

Turn off the static helicopters, it's a pain looking at them

When “looking at the camera” please look at the camera not the screen……