Running takeoff in a UH-1 Huey gunship in DCS World 

I stand corrected! A friend of mine sent me this message about translational lift, and why it occurs, it's really interesting: "On translational lift, you mentioned that the main rotor started acting like a wing going into forward flight, and that is the same thing I thought must be happening to create translational lift when I started learning forward flight from hover, but it isn't actually what happens. In a hover, whether in ground effect or out of ground effect, there is always some recirculation of the air going from below the rotor back to above the rotor in a doughnut shape. It is actually a small amount of VRS! So dropping out of the sky in full VRS is actually full recirculation of air. When you move into forward flight, that doughnut of recirculating air goes away, so the main rotor gains efficiency, and that is why you start climbing unless you lower the collective."

You already had me at Mosquito sir.. now you've gone doubled down on my favorite module! And Marianas too, you little beauty. Will look forward to the premise of campaign. Great vid.

I'm pumped for your Huey campaign!

Read "Chicken Hawk". Robert Masons memoirs as a Huey Slick pilot in Vietnam. There's a passage in that book where an Instructor Pilot teaches a student to get airborne using your technique, yet doing so in a confined space. He did this whilst using anti torque pedal input techniques. I can't recall which pedal (probably right) but it allowed the aircraft to accelerate in a lazy circle. Translational lift was achieved and up they went. I believe this worked, because without any (or less) counter active left pedal more power was available to the main rotor. Lower egt. More lift. Genius. Edit. Assuming if course its effect simulated in the flight model.

Can’t wait for it!! 💪

Cool stuff man. I love the Huey and this background you gave makes it more interesting. The gunships over half a tank cannot lift itself off the ground... Unless you do what you just did there.

Nobody says no to a huey campaign. Bring it on!

Great Module UH-1.. no regrets buying it 2 years ago!

Looking forward to see your take on huey missions. ☺

Is this campaign going to be a bit more of the 'relaxed' type like we got with Fear the Bones? Or will this one be more of the 'serious stuff'? And since the campaign is set in 1968, will it also feature plenty of that Sixties vibe? (you know, CCR songs on the radio etc.) Whichever it's gonna be, I'm looking forward to it.

Thank You. Very nice video.

Nice vids, Huey is such a great helos, what will be the context of the campaign ?

Very interesting, the campaign sounds promising, whats the background for it? Vietnam using the Marianas, or something related to the Marianas itself??

How do you simulate the weaker engined gunship? Is it simply overloading them to thier max to make the engine seem much weaker?

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