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VR is the game changer on helis.... your situational awareness is so greatly increased.

Great stuff! Maybe you can upload a video showing your configuration controls, sensitivity and stuff. It would be great!

Nice video! Now you need to teach them how to use the trim with this heli… you guys definitely gonna need it for longer flights. The MD500E it’s need be trimmed, otherwise you’ll end up fighting those controls pretty bad, and you’ll get tired 🥵 Nice to see more channels talking and flying helicopters 🚁 keep it up! 🫡

Great stuff! Now I just need to practice these concepts more!

"I can't fly sideways or backwards while in forward flight" Yes...... you're definitely right here. Flying backwards while also flying forwards is definitely a very very difficult maneuver, only possible in heavily modified helicopters flown by highly skilled pilots :P On a serious note, cool stuff, great video and explanations

Excellent video. There are far too many MSFS helo videos posted by people who barely have a grasp of the basics. Took me a while to find this one! Great job! Also, what location are you flying at ?

Very informative. The thing I struggle most with is taxiing precisely at an air- or heliport and then to put it down where I want. I haven't yet figured out the relations between the controls completely, for example I've noticed that when I rotate left it wants to go up, when I rotate right it wants to go down. Now adding collective inputs to counter the unintended raising or lowering depending on the side I also need to compensate the collective input with the rudder and then in addition compensate the tail rotor blowing me to a side with the cyclic. These 3 adjustments/compensations at once end up in kind of a bad feedback loop for me, making it worse and worse :D Subscribed in hope for more of those videos

Great video. The hardest thing I have a problem with is getting into forward flight and then stopping above where I want to land. I know practice practice practice. I just have a hard time with it

People having the same problem in DCS also. It does take coordination to fly a helicopter though and if you have none, it will really be hard for you. I have the Thrustmaster TPR pedals with a damper and no spring, so they stay where I put them. I actually have to push on the right pedal, lol. Great video Silky. Should come fly on DCS also.

Flight sim gear is essential as well to flying (or at least with all assists off) the helis. At the very least, joystick (with throttle or separate throttle) and rudder pedals are a must.

Outstanding Video, an absolute Gem.

awesome video. it would be nice to see a video from you where explain how to setup the controls, sensitivities etc. I feel like I can't get any precision out of my collective, I do a small adjustment and it adds too little or remove too much power. How do you do it?

Here is what I think is over looked in helicopter flight in the sim is in the joy stick. Nearly all computer joysticks have a spring which is constantly pushing the cyclic (stick) back to the center. This is completely counter to how a helicopter flies. To constantly fly against the spring is very tiring. In fixed wing aircraft, you set our power, attitude and then trim (PAT) out the control forces. (Hence then spring in the joystick concept works for a fixed wing aircraft) There are 2 prirmary controls in the helicopter... 1. Cyclic, this changes the lift created in a cycle as the rotor passes through the 360 degree arc 2. Collective, this changes the lift arround the entire arc of the rotor disc... (collectively change in lift about the disc) Keep in mind, the pilot is in fact flying the rotor disc, as conditions change, then rotor disc is adjusted to correct for this. Helicotper pilots are typically positioning the cyclic into one position then making small corrections around that point. Take a stick (actual stick) and imagine it fixed to one point on the ground and you are in a chair. Keep your forearm on your thigh, now ease the stick left, right, forward or back; as you do so imagine that you are tilting the rotor disc in that direction. So realize the as you push the rotor disc off center, you create a vector pushing you in that direction, while the majority of the lift vector in pulling you off the ground. (High school physics vector diagram... one arrow up away from the rotor disc, a second arrow in the direction the rotor disc is tilted. So here is my suggestion... 1. Disable the springs on your joystick (Once you try this, you will never go back to flying with springs on a joystick in the sim) Hold you joystick at the center point as your flight loads in the sim. 2. Keep your forearm pinned to your thigh and position the joystick so you can do that, it creates a sort of reference point 3. Yes, very very small control inputs 4. Develop your scan, out on the horizon, down low, lateral, then out again (repeat) 5. High sensativity and no null zones on your controls. Lastly, if you have not invested in Track IR, then do so. It is a must if you are going to fly a helicopter in the sim. Even multi-monitor set ups will not match what track IR can do. I have about 2000 hours in helicopters and another 500 hours in fixed wing aircraft... MSFS has done a great job in simulating helicopters Fly safe and maintain Nr...

Thank you for the info and tips. With all the available helicopters for MSFS (Freeware & payware), is there one you would recommend for beginners to start practice on? Cheers!

I demonstrated tail rotor drift to one of my fixed-wing buddies in the real machine. He was like “why are you not wings level in the hover?” and I did exactly what you did in this video to show him the right drift and he was like 😟😵‍💫😂 I love being the rotary dark horse 😈

V good. I'm hoping time in DCS World will help. I start flying MSFS today.

great video Silky STOL i know about that every helicopter is dffernt re acthion impot's not all helicopter's are the same i know from my xp with them in fsx

Good video Silky! See you in the 500E soon ; )

Great set of videos. May I have permission to post a link to these videos on my Discord Channel?

Great video. You might consider actually showing the controls so we can visualise what you're talking about?

Hi, I just wanted to mention some feedback…….the sound of the helicopters engine noise was really drowning out your voice for me, mostly in the 2nd half of the video, I found it very distracting …… hope if you make any more of these videos you might be able to dampen the engine noise a tad…… thanks in advance..👍🏻

Good video. Great info. Turn down the in game volume when you are taking!! 😵‍💫

That is some beautiful flying with excellent instruction.

I know we have lots of videos out already on mapping/sentitivities but...we'd like to see what your assignments are. Good Idea?

Thank you, this a was a clean and concise 101. Extremely helpful. subbed.

Really helpful video. TY.

An issue I’m having is that the collective isn’t as gradual as it would be in a real helicopter. The difference between too much and not enough is very narrow. You have any advice on adjusting that I would be grateful. I’m using a V1 flight stick.

Nice vid! Good info!

Awesome thanks. But in my flight simulator as soon I stepped on my pedal either left or right it goes on a crazy spin I had tried all types of settings and I still can't get it to work right any advice

That demonstration you did in the begining by raising the collective without compensating with the cyclic could get very expensive really fast ;)

Mine is completely broken, when I start a flight in a helicopter it just immediately goes to 50% and does an uncommanded takeoff, and I can't do anything about it. I don't know if it's the hardware or the software.

Great vid thanks but I found it very difficult to hear what you were saying over the noise of the copter.

you need VR to fly helicopters in MSFS. there is no flying without it

Were you watching me kastnight???,, I was trying to perfect my joystick settings lasgnight.. anxiety, stress. I deketed 20 videos about mapping. I just flybon mouse defsult. Flying is easy to me. Setup is a killer, uhhhhhhg😮

Flying it is easy to me. Its the setup on the joystick that plaques me! Sigh...I seen a video somewhere on YT, said what helps too is to set the actual trim tab in the cyclic in cockpit mode, put the top to -17.5 and the bottom tab to -24.5. I have not tried it myself yet but hope it works because mine flys like a drunk flying it! SILKY, whats your throttle set at?

Do you find any helicopter easier or harder to fly, payware or otherwise? My stick setup doesn't have rudder pedals (I twist the stick to do rudder work), been struggling with keeping a helicopter stable. Maybe I need to adjust the sensitivity settings.

How are you getting your sounds for the 500e? I'm using FSRealistic but I cant replicate the rotor sounds like you have in your video.

Fantástic 👍

I was just struggling this morning. Mostly with my crazy horse MD500E. I FINALLY... settled on a default mouse as my go to helicopter mode. Make a profile for helicoptet and it will show one slider, put it at around 50%. Safe that then use joystick after choosing mouse as controller. That is the only way I can fly reasonably smooth, the bucking bronco 500e!😂😅😮

From where is this fantastic Ground Wind-Effect? Is this in this Helicopter included?

Are you having to use the mouse for throttle?

have you done a vid on controller settings?

the throttle is maxed out and it still won’t go up

seems to be a nice tutorial but background /heli sounds are too loud

wierd...this looks like a lot of work. Couldnt they make a system that counteracts this whole thing on its own and free up the pilots attention ? i guess with practise it becomes mussle memory... I assume that helis like the apachi have some kind of systems that keeps it stable automatically right? this is extremely usefull thank you!

Twist grip for lat control....gets under my skin.....grrr otherwise it seems second nature to this rotorhead

How did you disable the doors? I tried to set the weight of the doors to 0 but they were still there.

The helicopters in this game seem more realistic than the airplanes in msfs.

the main thing i dont like about helicopters in MSFS is that they feel too arcadey. i mainly use x plane for my helicopter simming when im not flying IRL because it feels the most realistic. do you also feel like the default b407 handles like dogshit in msfs or is it just me? it feels all wonky. what im trying to get at here is this: does the cowansim md500 for MSFS handle more like the cowansim md500 from xplane? or is it more like the b407 from msfs? even the hype h145 just feels weird and rather clunky. id love to move to msfs for my helicopter simming but down to the physics alone, I just cant leave X Plane

are helicopters free to download?

The Game is broken does not even let me look around or anything

Helicopters are much easier to fly with physical stick and pedals. I've tried with a keyboard and it's way much harder

What stick are you using?

i was wanting to watch the rest, but an advertisement showed up and this is where i stopped.