Correction for the graphic at 6:04 which was fixed in my YT short here: ru-vid.comtX0AknMT4aY "Which will generate AIRFLOW (not 'thrust') from the tail rotor" Thrust is the direction of travel (right), while the airflow is going the opposite direction (left)
Glad to see you try out the Hind, it's an awesome helicopter to fly! Don't tell the Apache boys, but I think it might be my favorite helicopter in DCS. ;)
Lol tell me about it! Honestly, the trim hat alone really makes it an absolute joy to fly over the Apache for me. That is.. until you try to slow to a hover then suddenly enter VRS 😑
@Tuuvas You eventually get used to the VRS point, and the appropriate amount of collective you need to adjust consistantly, but it's definitely a lot more collective use then with the Apache. She also weighs more completely naked with no fuel, then the Apache does with full weapons and gas.
The hind is deceptively simple. A lot of the systems are similar to other soviet era planes as well. I found it much easier to learn than say the A10cII
Yeah once I got the start-up down, everything else was incredibly simple. It's very much a cold war era aircraft that happens to also be a helicopter. Plus the automatic ranging with most weapons makes it very easy to execute attacks with.
Welcome to the first training mission on the Mi-24P Hind helicopter. Today we will learn basic procedures to start and take-off this bird. Mi-24 is a two-seat helicopter operated by a pilot and a co-pilot gunner, also known as a weapon operator. Use keyboard keys [1] and [2] to switch between seats (cockpits). In this lesson we will act as a pilot and occupy the up-most cockpit situated behind the operator's one. So, we begin. First, switch on all the circuit breakers on the right and left back walls. Use the support metal frames to move them up all at once or use keyboard keys [RCtrl+RShift+1] and [RCtrl+RShift+2]
Love the Hind. I own the AH-64, Ka-50 and Mi-8 as well, and the hind I still find my favorite. Pretty impressive control with the gamepad there. Nice vid.
I'm enjoying all of the helicopters at the moment, and I've been spending a ton of time in the AH-64, since I just couldn't get into the thing at release, since I just wasn't comfortable flying it. I was spoiled by the Ka-50 trim. But the Hind has always been the most fun to fly. Carving along roads and rivers just feels so right in the thing. You really feel like you're cruising along in a massive murder bus.
the Mi24 is probably one of the aircraft that is most fun for me to fly. Nice fast helo with an assortment of great weapons that are plenty capable, its just new enough to have some cool guided stuff (albeit, 'manual') and old enough to require some actual fucking pilot shit instead of MFD management. Enigma's is the perfect environment for it, though I haven't flown for about 6 months or so due to a move from coast to coast. Can't wait to get up and running again. I hope the performance from proper multi-core support//"Multi-thread" brings some improvements for me to VR. Previously I was fairly capped at around 60fps on enigma's with a 12700k + 6900xt and a HP Reverb. Offline I didn't have those issues though.
TBH "Prophecy of Ragnarok" could get me hyped for just about anything. Except for the in-game tutorial missions >.> "What we know from our time in the Apache.." *OH NO* 😂
Hi Tuuvas! Nice to see that you have updated your page with controls for the Mi-24, I need to get back on this bird! When updating to the new multi threading beta, I nigh on had a heart attack when I loaded in an F18 and all my controls weren't working on the gamepad! I thought that I had lost the whole lot of configurations. On reloading they were all back again. I think that if I had to repeat the process of configuration for all of my aircraft I would have thrown in the towel on DCS lol!
Haha yeah I noticed I even had to re configure my Steam controller configurator settings as my gamepad stopped controlling the mouse. Overall though multithreading has been a fantastic update for DCS
3:30 and 5:50 i had a good laugh! but interesting if the eye tracking is true where you look so not at all where i look for myself always or very often when i play hind.
The eye tracking isn't super precise, but will at least show you the general area I'm looking. For instance, the blob will float above the VSI when I'm looking right at the needle to keep track of vertical speed
Fantastic stuff, glad to see the fan in action too. 😉 As a change of pace, might I suggest the DH Mosquito next? It's like the British WW2 Hind, but with Merlin engines.
Lol yup yup, made sure to turn it on this time, although I did forget to focus on this basic requirement. Great suggestion! I'll consider it for a next TIL
It was probably around 15 to 20 hours total of just gameplay, guide reading, and tutorial watching. Then at least another 20 just for video editing probably
Actually, upon reviewing the original video, my first pvp kill was a sneaky fox 2 about 4 minutes before this gun kill: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yQkEdTrYSns.html
you missed the part where you load up on full weapons for the first time and then find out you cant take off at that weight, because the rotor moves too fast for the antitorque to match, that took me like an hour to figure out. but damn i do like the hind a lot
Now that you mention it, you've just put into words what I couldn't quite describe during the learning process. Whenever I tried coming to a very quick hover/stop, I would need so much collective that the pedals stopped having enough authority to combat the torque. Then I just end up spinning like a top while I wait for the VSI to gradually rise and allow me to lower the collective for more RPM
Any way to decrease the sensitivity of the collective response to button presses? I've seen some lua edits people do to get less change per press of a trim button.
hey, that was realy fun to watch. The Crocodile aka Hind is one of my Favorite aircraft in DCS besides the well underrated JF-17. if you are looking for something interesting and under the Radar, you should give the JF-17 a try :D keep up the Entertaining.
I'll be honest - I was in the exact same boat. I've had this thing since it first came out, but I could never get passed the startup. Once I did tho... oh man, she's a beeeeeast!
If you're flying low enough to be hit by a manpad, the best you can do is get even lower to have trees/terrain/buildings masking you from their potential threat. Otherwise, keep both yours and Petrovich's head on a swivel and start flaring when you see smoke. Or if you suspect manpad activity in a particular area, pre-flare until you think you're safe.
@@Tuuvas good advice.. thanks :) I find with the hind though I have to fly it like a plane and its hard to get it to hover or to hide behind stuff like you say. If I try to transition to a hover it just starts to get uncontrollable but it flies nice over 100kph
@@catfunt5583 It's because I want to get as many people into DCS as I can. I've got a couple controller setup tutorials, and on top of that I create gameplay content to show how viable it is. Plus it's so much easier to just pick up DCS and play now instead of having to go through a whole process to set things up.
There is a special place in hell for people that play DCS with a controller. The only place an xbox controller is acceptable is if your in the front seat of the Apache. The DCS gods have spoken! ;) ( Just kidding...kind of.....not really)
