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Videos and highlights from my exploits as a relatively competent DCS Apache pilot (and struggling fighter pilot), wannabe simracer, occasional MSFS simmer, and a very poor Call of Duty player. Shut up, my KD is over 1.0. :D
I used to be an Apache Longbow pilot, hence the name. I also got to fly Blackhawks and several different airplanes, and currently fly the 757 and 767 for a major US legacy airline. I retired as a Colonel, so don't hold that against me. :D
Check it out, subscribe, and have some fun. Thanks for watching!
The opinions expressed here are mine and do not represent any organization or entity other than myself.
I used to be an Apache Longbow pilot, hence the name. I also got to fly Blackhawks and several different airplanes, and currently fly the 757 and 767 for a major US legacy airline. I retired as a Colonel, so don't hold that against me. :D
Check it out, subscribe, and have some fun. Thanks for watching!
The opinions expressed here are mine and do not represent any organization or entity other than myself.
VR Headset Shopping? Checking out the Pimax Crystal Light!!!
The 2024 Pimax Roadshow came to the Washington DC area, and I had the chance to go check out the new Pimax Crystal Light VR headset.
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Music Credit
Song: Retrofuturism
Album: Groove
Artist: Streambeats by Harris Heller
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Music Credit
Song: Retrofuturism
Album: Groove
Artist: Streambeats by Harris Heller
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A DCS VR Game-changer!!!
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I finally received my PointCTRL order and had the opportunity to test it out. Watch and hear my thoughts on it as I give it a quick video review and show you some gameplay while using it. I did not receive any sponsorship or endorsement from PointCTRL for this video. This is my honest, unbiased review. PointCTRL: www.pointctrl.com Music credit: Sour Candy - Streambeats by Harris Heller
DCS Apache Grayflag stream from 2023.09.06
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DCS Apache Grayflag stream from 2023.09.06
DCS Apache Pilots - Laser Spot Tracking and remote Hellfire shots!
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DCS Apache Pilots - Laser Spot Tracking and remote Hellfire shots!
Work got in the way of my APACHE flying...
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Work got in the way of my APACHE flying...
APACHE PILOT talks about SAS SATURATED
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APACHE PILOT talks about SAS SATURATED
DCS APACHE is back in the air with IMPROVEMENTS!!!
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DCS APACHE is back in the air with IMPROVEMENTS!!!
APACHE PILOT talks about OGE in DCS!!!
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APACHE PILOT talks about OGE in DCS!!!
APACHE PILOT teaches Front Seat 101 - Part 2
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APACHE PILOT teaches Front Seat 101 - Part 2
FRONT SEAT 101! What does it all do? PART 1
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FRONT SEAT 101! What does it all do? PART 1
REAL APACHE PILOT flies the traffic pattern in VR!
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REAL APACHE PILOT flies the traffic pattern in VR!
REAL APACHE PILOT shows you why you KEEP CRASHING!
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REAL APACHE PILOT shows you why you KEEP CRASHING!
REAL APACHE PILOT helps you learn how to tame this BEAST!
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REAL APACHE PILOT helps you learn how to tame this BEAST!
REAL APACHE PILOT teaches YOU how to HOVER BETTER in DCS!
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REAL APACHE PILOT teaches YOU how to HOVER BETTER in DCS!
REAL APACHE PILOT embarrasses himself on DCS!
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REAL APACHE PILOT embarrasses himself on DCS!
REAL APACHE PILOT flies the DCS AH-64D!!!
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REAL APACHE PILOT flies the DCS AH-64D!!!
Thanks!
Best teaching for hover I've found! My curves were too steep and yes it helps a lot to remove the helmet visor. My first hover was just so good! Thank's a lot👍
I m following this because I fly with keyboard
How did you turn on the control indicators? Both top right and left that is?
43:00 Letting a Cat out😁👍.
Another intreasting lesson on how to tame a AH-64👍
Thank you for that tutorials. I learning Apache in DCS and without your videos I will get nowhere. 👍
I posted a comment on a Kiowa driver's page, too. Can't tell you how thankful we were to have support from above while in Baghdad (2003 and 2005). On Route Tampa in 2003, we used to hook 'six shooter' elements for fire support, normally we'd find you guys monitoring the sheriffs net. Thanks. We did help recover one of your crews that went down on Tampa, and once they got the KBR chowhall built at BIAP, we would ad hoc pow wow with you guys. Saved our asses more than once.
Very helpful thanks. The part where you make control inputs momentary and revert quickly is the most revelatory piece of info.
how much did you pay your face tracking ?
For a bit i thought i was breaking the SAS stuff when turning
my main problem is coming into a hover after forward flight. i always keep the throttle moving, i just seems to no do it fast enough even though im not going super fast. but im learning. only been flying the apache about 2 weeks, and i dove right into it. so im learning on the fly, figuratively and literally.
Keep practicing! You’ll get it. Just remember to reduce power and apply at cyclic. Then as the helicopter slows down, as soon as you notice any sort of descent rate beginning, add power aggressively to arrest the descent. Eventually it will become second nature. Good luck!
One thing people fail to realize is how heavy these headsets that we put on our faces actually are! I think the real weight of the Crystal Light (as weighed by VooDooDE who actually weighs the units with his own scale) is about 925 grams. Now that sounds heavy... unless you are using a Meta Quest 3 with a head strap that holds a battery pack (Bobo VR being the most popular and the one I own) which I weighed and it came in at basically the same weight (I couldn't get it to sit completely on my tiny scale so I had to balance it lightly or let go and try to get a reading before it fell over!). I have also heard that the balance on the Crystal Light actually makes it MORE comfortable than the Quest 3 - I'll see in a month or so when I receive mine! PS - I couldn't find how much the G2 ACTUALLY weighs since I am sure that 550 is an underestimate - I would be curious if someone could actually weigh one though!
They definitely have weight, and it does take getting used to. However, for comparison, an HGU-56 helmet with NVGs and counterweights is generally around 2 kg. The old Apache IHADSS helmet weighed up to 2.5 kg depending on size.
Can confirm the crystal light is shockingly comfortable! Probably the most comfortable headset I have owned other than the index.
Thank for your support! Glad you enjoy the event 😁
Gaz lives!
Fantastic, thanks for sharing your experience. Really curious about this new Crystal Light!
I'll pass pimax is a scam corporation with barely functioning hardware and software.
Is that your personal experience with them? Tell me more - I’d like to make an informed decision when I buy.
We had a blast, thanks for coming and thank you for sharing your experience at our shop. Stop by anytime lets you get hooked on to some racing :)
Crystal light does not have eye tracking which is required for foved rendering. No GPU is able to handle native res of this HS so you will get ghosting or weird artifacts from reprojection below native FPS.
Pretty sure I'll be able to play a lot of games at native with my 4090
@@Jogngood though not DCS
Eye tracking is not required for foveated rendering. It's only required for Dynamic foveated rendering. I've used both FFR and DFR. The DFR is better, but if you have to, you get used to FFR quick and have the same or near same performance gains.
@@emvill4520 not comparable at all. FFR is useless on Crystal as it doesn't have a small sweet spot as G2 to justify the blur beside the center. It's simply like playing on low res.
@@radoslawbiernackieh, the quest 3 has better edge to edge than the crystal. There is still a blurry section in the crystal you could use FFR for.
Great Job. Of everybody sharing knowledge and taking time to create such videos. As a pilot I would suggest you make a part 2 showing how to deal with heavy loads, like running takeoffs, decent slowdowns reaching hovering spots, maybe dropping external fuel tanks on long distance flights, hovering into the wind if possible. Great job 💪🏼
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Don't ask questions, defend. lol
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I guess we're switching to wild weasel Wednesday!!!
How do you click? I am confused. The buttons are on the back of the module
Never mind.. Your thumbs...
Hey man, i have a beginner level question When flying irl how do you operate the instruments? Ive thought about this in DCS, I dont have trim settings and hover and things like it down yet so taking my had off the stick at any point will just send the bird spiraling. The only natural thing feels like doing everything with the left hand but since id have to use my non-dominant hand for the mouse it becomes pretty awkward. Id imagine that in a stable hover you can do it but is it more of an "never take your hand of the controls" kinda thing? cheers
IRL you use your left hand. You put enough friction on the collective so that it doesn’t move and you reach up with your left hand. The whole mouse thing is why I really love PointCTRL. I can just use my left hand and leave my right hand on the cyclic, and I don’t have to try to use the mouse with my left or take my hand off of the cyclic.
@@schoolio64D ok, thanks man! Its not often you get the chance to ask an actual pilot
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it's time for ED to give ATAS for this chopper.. @least under japanese livery 🔴
Sounds good if you don't have hand/fingure tracking on your headset already though it seems clunky and un elgant.
What headset has hand tracking with that level of fidelity?
@@schoolio64D Quest 3 for sure but also just works and you don't need stuff on you headset and fingures.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough It does? I've seen numerous people, even here in the comments, say that it's janky at best.
Hey, great video. I ordered mine in November last year so I guess I have to wait a while. How difficult is the setup and can you use PointCTRL in Microsoft Flight Sim as well? Again great video.
Setup is easy. Miles has some videos that show you how to mount it. He recommends going with the default calibration to start, but I found that I needed to do my own calibration based on my setup. I don’t know about MSFS.
Just watched your video “why you keep crashing your Apache!” It gave me a real perspective on how challenging their flying conditions were in Afghanistan. We had two that supported us on the majority of our jobs, they just slowly hovered around our battle ground. They were so switched on that we didn’t even need to communicate with them, whatever we fired upon with our small arms or javelins, they immediately honed in on the area and just obliterated the target with their ordnance. Such legends, but I didn’t even know or appreciate it at the time.
If I got a grid of a Shilka (or anything not moving lets say) in a middle of nowhere with no JTAC or any support. Can I hide behind something using that Grid to make waypoint T01 and set ACQ to T01 using Hellfire L. Can I shot it without targeting it using the TADS or even seeing it? I think I get close to doing it but there is a step I'm missing somewhere. Is it a "LINK" function that is missing still on early release?
I’m going to say no, simply because that target info isn’t getting passed to the missile. There are the ways to pass target info to the missile - laser target handover, ownship FCR, or FCR data from another FCR aircraft.
Hey Schoolio, Great informative video and demo. The 6 Aux buttons can be mapped just like any other controller in the DCS controls page. You will see a column for PointCTRL. Most guys use them for things like NVGs, Salute, visor, escape, label, etc. Reference using F10 menu when the right FCU is active (not timed out) and you are using the the mouse. You can just look up slightly so the FCU is not in the FOV of the sensor, or cover the sensor with your other hand for a few seconds until the FCU times out. I use the FCUs to point and select items on the F10 menu. Just look straight ahead when interacting with it. If you look up and to right at it, you will end like a cat chasing it's tail and will have to raise your FCU way up and to the right to select items. I also set my message font size to 1.5. You can also use the FCU closer to your headset when interacting with the F10 menu so you don't have to raise it so high. Again, great video, and thanks for explaining things much better then I can. Miles
Thanks Miles! I appreciate the clarification and I love using PointCTRL!
or better yet, how about ED just add in decent hand tracking? SHouldnt have to wear 20KG of equipment to fly jets in a video game
That would be ideal. Until then…
11:33 DCS added the possibility to map communication controls to your hotas without taking up extra buttons. So that would solve your issue I guess?
How would one do that? Please share for the group. Thanks.
@@schoolio64D On the Controls page, select "Command Menu" from the same drop down box where you select aircraft.
Only a DCS fan would characterize two solid years as "a little bit of a wait" LOL
Two weeks, two years, same thing, right? 😂
how is different from leap motion?¿
From what I understand, Leap motion does not work well at all, and PointCTRL emulates your mouse very well, but to be honest, I don't know much about Leap Motion.
Hey @school64D, really enjoyed your vid (as I do all of your content). Just thought I'd point out that the top buttons (the ones that sit on the headset) are actually auxiliary buttons as opposed to the controllers. Those are the little suckers known as FCU's (Finger Control Units) that you put on each index finger. The FCU's give you the mouse functions, whereas the aux buttons on the headset aren't required as such but if you order them, they give you 6 extra mappable buttons you can assign to things like 'salute', 'NVG's on/off/adjust and, well anything you like really, as they are just seen as other mappable devices.
I didn’t know that. Thanks!
I've watched the developer's videos on this. It seems great. How was the setup and price?..
Setup was super easy…nearly plug and play. Mine was ~$230 USD.
Mine is on the mail truck for delivery, can't wait! I ordered May 2022 as well.
Personally I just use the vr hand xontrollers and put them in my lap.
If that works for you, great! It’s all about enjoying what we do, right?
@@schoolio64D true.
does that still work with physical HOTAS? it's not janky at all?
Yeah it works I got hotas and pedals. Even when your dogfighting the don't fall out of your lap. Proived they got some friction with your pants
"Hey, Wags here to get you started on the (insert airframe here) tutorial...." Anyone else? Good video man, smooth voice too.
You’re not the first to say that 😂
@@schoolio64D didn't think I was haha keep doing what you enjoy man, DCS has always been amazing. So many upcoming modules I can't choose which I'm waiting for the most, the chinook, typhoon, tornado... that's if we don't all get conscripted to fight an actual war LOL.
Wait is this really wags??
@@xxnositxxI wish I had the early access to all of the new modules! But no….
Using VR (vive pro 2 & aero) with the headtracked mouse pointer - then you only need to assign buttons for left / rightclick on stick / throttle in the dcs keybindings general layer (even scrollwheel can be mapped) and you never need to touch the mouse again.
If that works for you, great. I tried that and it didn’t work for me because 1) I didn’t have enough buttons, and 2) unless I bound those on my stick (not enough buttons), they were useless because I switch between my collective for helos and the HOTAS throttle for planes. I’d have to move my hands to the throttle when I’m flying a helicopter, which didn’t work. I have the Apache collective, where every switch has a purpose - it was hard enough trying to find a hat to use for George!
"Brand new...?"
Brand new for me. 😝
Neat stuff. I wonder if it would work in flat screen even. How do you scroll knobs? Click hold and drag ? Also I have great luck with the free voice attack, since I only use it for the F keys. But I highly suggest adding a second word to the command , I use “ radio f #”. To avoid accidentally changing view mid flight. So I still have to button key the comms menu then voice select the menu. Makes “ return pre contacts “ soo much easier 😂
It probably would, but you’d have to mount it to your headset, and it’s another wire, so it might not be desirable. For knobs, you click and drag just like you would with the mouse.
@@schoolio64D I have wired headset with TrackIR wire run with it to, wouldn’t be bad. I just wonder how it tracks. Interesting idea.
TrackBall takes care of what this does and more
How do you have it mounted? Do you use your left hand? I couldn’t find a trackball solution that worked for me. Glad it works for you.
@@schoolio64D I have a sim rig. The trackball rests on a profile next to the stick.
I have both. The trackball is great for menus and such but for interacting with buttons and switches I find the PC's far more intuitive and basically easier to 'just click stuff that I'm looking at'. I also have some physical button boxes and MFD's/UFC's and prefer interacting with them in some cases but the combination of all 3 is hard to beat.
Pretty cool.
How do you click, though?
You use your thumb to roll across to your forefinger buttons on the finger unit.
@@PhantomMark oh nice! Thanks
So is this a TrackIR for your fingers, that mounts on your VR headset?
That’s a good way to think about it. A TrackIR for your fingers that acts as your mouse.
Just in case it was not mentioned, order takes more than a year to be fulfilled. Native hand tracking was the way to go
Yes it does. How’s that native hand tracking progressing? 😉
@@schoolio64D May I introduce HTCC?
@@griffincheng what is that?
@@griffincheng Hand Therapy Certification Commission?