So is that a self-assigned callsign now, "Grandma" ? :) Being not much of a rotorhead the last time I gave a 'sim' AH-64 a go was Microprose:Gunship on the C-64. What ED have done here has vastly exceeded even the wildest dreams of those days.Simply sublime. Thanks Matt and ED.
I still remember the days when I was playing apache 64 on a commodore 128, when loading into the mission, you had to change floppy disks, it took forever to actually fly....In a few days I will be a happy kid again, a dream come true for me, thanks to ED and a great community! Thank you all 🥰❤️💪🏻😎
@@MattWagner oh ok. Good to know. And what’s in the right hand grip of the TDAC ? Is that a laser trigger?. If that so, basically you lase with your right trigger and fire with your left trigger ? Does that sounds right ?.
Will it be possible to swap flight control between front and back seat pilots during flight in multiplayer or will one need to exit the game and select a new role?
For me, if I'm making a lot of collective changes, I'll not use FTR, but if I'm steady on the collective, then I'll use FTR. Use what works best for you.
Landing either runnnig or in "hover mode" is not the best practice for landing a helicopter. Learning how to hover a helicopter properly is the correct way to land a helcopter. I thought this was about flying a helicopter..?
If you go to an Army airfield, you will see AH-64s doing multiple types of landings just as he did. Not sure what you are talking about regarding "correct" way. And he demonstrated how to hover in the previous video anyway.
@@Raptor_9 You come to a stable hover, and lower the collective. Slowly. Until touchdown. Yes, there are other types of emergency landings, but hover to touchdown is commen amonst helicopters in general. Alle helicopters.
@@holgerheinrich2992 Apache aviators, and other Army helo aviators, routinely land to a point in one continuous flight path all the way to the ground. Not as an emergency procedure, it's actually the most common method. It also helps minimize rotor wash effects on the immediate surroundings by getting on the ground and immediately lowering the collective. Not saying making an approach to an established hover prior to touchdown isn't used, just saying that it's not as common or preferred as you may think.
@@Raptor_9 I don't i need education on the handling and procedures of helicopters. Neither cicilian not military. It all ends up on: not like he shows it! He shows it for people without any helicopter abilities, and i*d like to end this here.
@@holgerheinrich2992 You originally commented on what you thought were "proper" and "correct" ways of flying a helicopter, and then you get upset when someone clarifies what he was demonstrating was in fact accurate. If you can't cope with people responding to your comments with answers that don't coincide with what you consider is the appropriate answer, I suggest you avoid posting comments.
@@MattWagner You did great! Flying with a joystick that has a rudder hurts the wrist if you fly for hours straight. On the Huey i have set the coolie hat switch on the horizontal to help with the rudder raw input (a10 throttle) it helped me a lot. Sorry for my weird english. Wags, thank you very much for the dedication and professionalism and thanks for the devs for working harder to develop and deliver a product with quality specially at these rough times. I have been flying since 2007 (lock on)!
This is so awesome Wags!! When this goes to early access, any chance getting a massive happy grinning Wags selfie + a collective photo the Apache AH-64D team? Feel this module is such a massive deal. Can't wait to hover land half as well as you did
Great idea, but I’m going to ask to take it up a notch: Can we please have a Wags bobblehead figure to stick on the instrument combing like the ones in Elite Dangerous? Hehe
ANother great video, Wags! I have to add a huge thank you to you and the team for releasing the EA Manual to us before release. It's been a great help so far, but I think I've reached the limits for understanding most of it now without being able to actually press buttons and switches to get the flow and muscle memory going. So excited for the release, and really appreciate everyone's efforts to get this amazing helicopter to where it is now.
One thing I do notice is how still the front seater is, it makes the cockpit feel a little 2d - I really enjoy the immersion that Jester brings with his head and body movement. Still, can’t wait for this beauty.
0:32 H3 in western Iraq?! Does that mean that the Syria map is expanding East? Lovely landing by the way, just caught me off guard there with the location.
Awesome stuff as always Wags. I grew up playing Gunship 2000, and then Jane's Longbow 2. This module will get me back in touch with my childhood, so, thankyou. I understand the amount of crunch you and the rest of the team are under. Stock up on coffee and please look after yourselves!
I mean all that's going to get you is a very surly 15Y on the headset saying "hey chief.....I'm not complaining or anything but seriously can you just fucking GO so we can go back to playing spades and carrying more rockets over here for you to miss with."
Also it's not a comfortable way to fly. Think of it like taking a corner in your car and how you get pushed towards the door. The crabbed angle coming in my look strange at first but it's just to compensate for wind.
@@TFT-bp8zk What are you talking about? Nose-to-tail trim means moving the tail right or left to line up the aircraft down the runway. It has nothing to do with raising/lowering the tail...
I can't wait to fly this wonderful machine, i used to watch these Apaches and Cobras etc fly over my house everyday when i lived in yucca valley california, about 15 mins or so down the road from the marine base in 29 palms, so i'm really looking forward to flying this awesome heli.
Thanks for all your hard work getting these videos out, wags, the module is looking fantastic and this info will be SO helpful getting into the 64 and helicopters as a whole. Here's to hoping you get a breather after all this!
while im not estatic about the delay, i completely support the option (especailly after i bought battlefield 2042), cant wait for this incredible module to become avalible. amazing work to everyone behind it
Excellent tutorial Wags! Your precision with the acceleration cue relative to the tip of the velocity vector was impressive, particularly on the VMC approach. Great work!
@@MattWagner thanks for the reminder about the book. I need to go back and reread it. That year, 1984, I read Chickenhawk, Another Roadside Attraction (Tom Robins), The Color of Magic (Pratchett), The Illuminatus Trilogy, On The Road (Kerouac) and the eponymous 1984, and emerged a changed man. It'll be interesting to revisit Chickenhawk, and see how it has stood the test of time.
@@MattWagner Not this head, I LOL'd when you referenced it. Still a great read and I thought I was the only person who knew it until my first day in flight school when I learnt it was more of a reference manual for my fellows :)
@@kamraam1464 You’re right. I watched initially on my phone, and it was more obvious when I watched it later on my PC. Can even see the external tanks on the wings that the J models don’t carry but the H and E models do.
I notice as you are making all your adjustments with rudder collective and cylic on hover landing that you are decreasing airspeed and increasing collective to maintain lift. the more you decrease the more you add a little collective. as you make final you are 6 knots and 555 torque to maintain altitude avoiding VRS. My problem has always been thinking that I come in above the running and dropping my airspeed to zero and using collective only to balance the hover. you need that slow movement of 10 knots and that power to maintain that smooth decent! then as you get close to the ground start bleeding off the airspeed and gradually srop the collective to land! Good key point I can start practicing! Like I said before I dont get much flight time due to workload. But when i hop on this aircraft is such a blast to fly! Your tutorials analyzing what you are saying and what you are doing help me understand how to fly this aircraft!
Seeing the H on the pad roll under the nose took me right back to Tomahawk on my 128k Spectrum. You took your time wags. It's been a long wait. Thank you.
"Coming No Later than 31 March 2022" nice, thanks for the hard work waggs and ED :)
Its here!
After now having experienced it myself, RUDDER PANIC at around 20 knots as the transition to hover kicks in, loving the module, great work guys!!
40 kts
So is that a self-assigned callsign now, "Grandma" ? :) Being not much of a rotorhead the last time I gave a 'sim' AH-64 a go was Microprose:Gunship on the C-64. What ED have done here has vastly exceeded even the wildest dreams of those days.Simply sublime. Thanks Matt and ED.
I still remember the days when I was playing apache 64 on a commodore 128, when loading into the mission, you had to change floppy disks, it took forever to actually fly....In a few days I will be a happy kid again, a dream come true for me, thanks to ED and a great community! Thank you all 🥰❤️💪🏻😎
Oh the memories! Microprose -
I had tons of hours in that game on Commodore! It was great when it didn’t lock up and crash the PC lol
Nice little flight in western Iraq. Looked like the weather was moving in on the 2nd landing tutorial.
So cool Wags, I love the assistance from the different modes of the display.
Smooth like butter. Like Wags said in a Update Report before, flying this bird feels like cheating. It seems so.
Landing? You expect me to come back in one piece? 👀
Watch me land upside-down. Natural rotor-brake ftw.
I'm still learning and my approach to hover landing was very sloppy at the end.
exactly! looking at the Ukrainian conflict to teach a chopper pilot to land seems a complete waste of time :)
@@MattWagner you call that sloppy? I think you need your coffee this morning 😜
😂😂
Ty, Wags! Looking forward to try it myself.
Great stuff Waggs! I’m really looking forward to this!
Good morning Robert Mason wherever you are!
Chicken Hawk was such great book Wags 😊
How Wags can fly this well with the anti torque pedals mapped to a stick is beyond me. Impressive shit.
I agree, but I am sure he has had lots of practice. We have the same controls, and I was thinking about trying that.
Just got my new RX 6800 GPU.. ready for the next Open Beta and the Apache...hopefully the MB-339 too!
Nicely done!
It's the final Countdown ! 😄
Nice job grandma!
I was so excited that the s-clip on the bar top right was a physics object, but sadly is just an animated swing :(
That was very relaxing. Nice flying. What map is this, please?
Free expansion to the Syria map that is coming soon.
Hello, nice video Wags.
Do we need to wait for all videos to drop until the helicopter is out in Open Beta?
Certainly not.
@@MattWagner Thanks!
Great video !. Hey Matt, does the CPG cyclic have trigger ? Or the trigger is in the TDAC only ?.
Both, but 99% of the time you'd be using the left handgrip trigger.
@@MattWagner oh ok. Good to know. And what’s in the right hand grip of the TDAC ? Is that a laser trigger?. If that so, basically you lase with your right trigger and fire with your left trigger ? Does that sounds right ?.
Correct
Nice of my PC to break down on me right before release 😭
Why is the TVV always off to the right? Can that not be trimmed out?
Based on the amount of torque and how much the tail rotor is working, there will always be an offset when in aerodynamic trim.
Oh god, those moving hanging hooks are going to drive me nuts haha.
Will it be possible to swap flight control between front and back seat pilots during flight in multiplayer or will one need to exit the game and select a new role?
multiplayer rear seat only from what I have read
Ha! Like I'm ever going to make it back!
Wags, are you already using a collective?
Virpil CM3 throttle
amazing videos wags, when will be the next one?
When its done.
Correct, when time allows.
@@MattWagner IIRC, it is gonna be the countermeasures and MWS on the next one, right ?
@@quentinbernard8618 ASE and CMWS.
I’m gonna “chicken hawk” the sh!t out of that thing every time.
Will we get the stingers that some countries fitted to their apaches or the AMASE CMWS?
They said no plans. I wish. :(
That would not be realistic for the year/block.
@@MattWagner ah okay. I didn't realize that. Which block are we getting?
@@l.a.xgunner Please take the time to read through the cited FAQ.
I wonder how different it feels to fly with or without the force trim. (how intrusive it is?)
my guess would be that it flies most similar to the Huey (compared to other DCS Heli's)
For me, if I'm making a lot of collective changes, I'll not use FTR, but if I'm steady on the collective, then I'll use FTR. Use what works best for you.
Can we get a cold start vid
Yes
@@MattWagner when tho
Just curious
TIL: Helicopters don't fly straight. 😆
Its happening…
hi
what? Western Iraq?
Landing either runnnig or in "hover mode" is not the best practice for landing a helicopter. Learning how to hover a helicopter properly is the correct way to land a helcopter. I thought this was about flying a helicopter..?
If you go to an Army airfield, you will see AH-64s doing multiple types of landings just as he did. Not sure what you are talking about regarding "correct" way. And he demonstrated how to hover in the previous video anyway.
@@Raptor_9 You come to a stable hover, and lower the collective. Slowly. Until touchdown. Yes, there are other types of emergency landings, but hover to touchdown is commen amonst helicopters in general. Alle helicopters.
@@holgerheinrich2992 Apache aviators, and other Army helo aviators, routinely land to a point in one continuous flight path all the way to the ground. Not as an emergency procedure, it's actually the most common method.
It also helps minimize rotor wash effects on the immediate surroundings by getting on the ground and immediately lowering the collective. Not saying making an approach to an established hover prior to touchdown isn't used, just saying that it's not as common or preferred as you may think.
@@Raptor_9 I don't i need education on the handling and procedures of helicopters. Neither cicilian not military. It all ends up on: not like he shows it! He shows it for people without any helicopter abilities, and i*d like to end this here.
@@holgerheinrich2992 You originally commented on what you thought were "proper" and "correct" ways of flying a helicopter, and then you get upset when someone clarifies what he was demonstrating was in fact accurate. If you can't cope with people responding to your comments with answers that don't coincide with what you consider is the appropriate answer, I suggest you avoid posting comments.
cant wait to crash in this
First
Cold start, Cold Start, COLD START, COLD START!!!!!!
Flying the Apache like a grandma 😂
Nice landing tutorial, Wags!
Thank you for brightening our days with yet another apache video!
Thanks, but under-arced the approach to hover and rushed the set down. I should have stabilized my acceleration cue inside the LOS reticle first.
@@MattWagner You did great!
Flying with a joystick that has a rudder hurts the wrist if you fly for hours straight.
On the Huey i have set the coolie hat switch on the horizontal to help with the rudder raw input (a10 throttle) it helped me a lot.
Sorry for my weird english.
Wags, thank you very much for the dedication and professionalism and thanks for the devs for working harder to develop and deliver a product with quality specially at these rough times.
I have been flying since 2007 (lock on)!
@@MattWagner super critical of one self? I can relate.
does it have a altitude warning caution?
Yes, please see: ua-cam.com/video/e_590aQTEFk/v-deo.html
@@MattWagner what about the altitude caution sound?
Yes
This is so awesome Wags!! When this goes to early access, any chance getting a massive happy grinning Wags selfie + a collective photo the Apache AH-64D team? Feel this module is such a massive deal. Can't wait to hover land half as well as you did
Great idea, but I’m going to ask to take it up a notch: Can we please have a Wags bobblehead figure to stick on the instrument combing like the ones in Elite Dangerous? Hehe
All of this. All of the above needs to happen. 😆
That is awesome idea. I think ED and all their partners should have a pic and bio of all team members. Just a thought.
@@frostycab I can already see a Wags-shaped Car Freshener hanging by those hooks in my mind.
Wags landing: "...a little roughly." HA! I am fully anticipating violent crashes into the ground multiple times as I try to land.
ANother great video, Wags! I have to add a huge thank you to you and the team for releasing the EA Manual to us before release. It's been a great help so far, but I think I've reached the limits for understanding most of it now without being able to actually press buttons and switches to get the flow and muscle memory going. So excited for the release, and really appreciate everyone's efforts to get this amazing helicopter to where it is now.
The -64 is quite a beast to learn, and I hope the combination of the guide, my videos, and the included lessons will shallow the learning curve.
One thing I do notice is how still the front seater is, it makes the cockpit feel a little 2d - I really enjoy the immersion that Jester brings with his head and body movement. Still, can’t wait for this beauty.
WIP, animations are coming
@@MattWagneryou d’best!
With a human CPG are there current animations?
@@kornykidd0 According to Casmo yes, human CPG head moves with player head
0:32
H3 in western Iraq?! Does that mean that the Syria map is expanding East?
Lovely landing by the way, just caught me off guard there with the location.
Yes
@@MattWagner Awesome !
Awesome stuff as always Wags. I grew up playing Gunship 2000, and then Jane's Longbow 2. This module will get me back in touch with my childhood, so, thankyou. I understand the amount of crunch you and the rest of the team are under. Stock up on coffee and please look after yourselves!
I know this isn't really relevant at all but are there any plans to make a physical ground crew compatible with a cold start?
I mean all that's going to get you is a very surly 15Y on the headset saying "hey chief.....I'm not complaining or anything but seriously can you just fucking GO so we can go back to playing spades and carrying more rockets over here for you to miss with."
@@Linus76 Nicely put--spot on
Also, forgive the massively newbie question, but why isn’t nose-to-tail trim used earlier on the approach?
You can use it whenever you want; or not at all. It’s up to your personal technique.
Also it's not a comfortable way to fly. Think of it like taking a corner in your car and how you get pushed towards the door. The crabbed angle coming in my look strange at first but it's just to compensate for wind.
@@TFT-bp8zk What are you talking about? Nose-to-tail trim means moving the tail right or left to line up the aircraft down the runway. It has nothing to do with raising/lowering the tail...
Landing in AH-64 is easy... aim for ground.. reduce power till you hit the ground... hopefully softly.
How on earth did you get you take off so smooth and your landing like a bird with sore feet?! I’m yawing all over the place and “RPM low”.
I'm pumped, this is my most anticipated release for 2022. Can't wait to crash and burn repeatedly! Thanks, Waggs!
Syria is getting bigger and better :) nice landing btw, I home mine will be as good as yours
Is the new FLIR system for DCS coming with the Apache release?
Eagerly awaiting mine to drop. Feels like forever ago I bought it, but I'm not complaining.
I can't wait to fly this wonderful machine, i used to watch these Apaches and Cobras etc fly over my house everyday when i lived in yucca valley california, about 15 mins or so down the road from the marine base in 29 palms, so i'm really looking forward to flying this awesome heli.
Love these. Could you show us an auto-rotation emergency landing?
I don't need to land, I never survive.
Does that Hercules at the end means something..? XD
Just the AI model lol
Thanks for all your hard work getting these videos out, wags, the module is looking fantastic and this info will be SO helpful getting into the 64 and helicopters as a whole. Here's to hoping you get a breather after all this!
while im not estatic about the delay, i completely support the option (especailly after i bought battlefield 2042), cant wait for this incredible module to become avalible. amazing work to everyone behind it
Thank you for posting this video I’ve been hovering for days now
You know, that left runway would’ve lined you up better for the roll on. 😝
"youre not dropping hot into an lz" 8:30
Meanwhile the Blackhawks at side like:
O_o you dont, but I love to
Lol. That's true
No later than march 31 😳😳😳😳
which means it can come sooner!
@@furiz1-1 exactly, but how much sooner is the real question
I would say not before the 20th cautiously estimated because still a few things are missing like the startup video and the Apache release porn👌🏻😍😇
@@tenomoto6951 very true, still need like the cold start video and George ai stuff
Excellent tutorial Wags! Your precision with the acceleration cue relative to the tip of the velocity vector was impressive, particularly on the VMC approach. Great work!
Thanks, but I am still very much a noob in it. Attention too split with other aircraft.
Landing? That sounds quite optional where we are going, gunner
Love the ending in this video. 😄
Lets see how easy it is to fly this beast with keyboard and mouse, i guess if i can fly the hind i can fly this.
What Stick Throttle and rudders do u use Wags?
Great video's, What a amazing machine this is.
Keep up the good work :D
For the -64, Virpil Constellation and CM3 throttle.
@@MattWagner will there be default keybindings set for the tm warthog hotas?
Thank you so much for all your hard work. You guys are truly incredible human beings. These videos have been the asmr we’ve all needed
Was that a reference to Robert Mason? I read Chickenhawk in my early 20s, in the mid 80s, and it forever changed my outlook on war.
Yup, it probably went over the heads of most.
@@MattWagner thanks for the reminder about the book. I need to go back and reread it. That year, 1984, I read Chickenhawk, Another Roadside Attraction (Tom Robins), The Color of Magic (Pratchett), The Illuminatus Trilogy, On The Road (Kerouac) and the eponymous 1984, and emerged a changed man. It'll be interesting to revisit Chickenhawk, and see how it has stood the test of time.
@@MattWagner Not this head, I LOL'd when you referenced it. Still a great read and I thought I was the only person who knew it until my first day in flight school when I learnt it was more of a reference manual for my fellows :)
I really appreciate how calmly you handle the helicopters. The lack of sensitivity makes me look like an imminent air disaster when approaching
Nice video! Like the row of parked C-130’s at the end. Look like J models too.
I was thinking the same :D
Those are definitely not J models, just the H. The J has a much longer fuselage.
@@kamraam1464 You’re right. I watched initially on my phone, and it was more obvious when I watched it later on my PC. Can even see the external tanks on the wings that the J models don’t carry but the H and E models do.
smoooooooth!! Nicely done Wags :)
For Cyberpunk people were hyped with weird merch, but I have to say, nothing hypes me more than ingame footage tutorials of an upcoming aircraft.
Love how it shifts left and right in DCS. That thing is very top heavy. You guys did a GREAT job!
Just bought this module for my bday today.Gonna watch all these videos Wags. New dcs player since 2022.
I notice as you are making all your adjustments with rudder collective and cylic on hover landing that you are decreasing airspeed and increasing collective to maintain lift. the more you decrease the more you add a little collective. as you make final you are 6 knots and 555 torque to maintain altitude avoiding VRS. My problem has always been thinking that I come in above the running and dropping my airspeed to zero and using collective only to balance the hover. you need that slow movement of 10 knots and that power to maintain that smooth decent! then as you get close to the ground start bleeding off the airspeed and gradually srop the collective to land! Good key point I can start practicing! Like I said before I dont get much flight time due to workload. But when i hop on this aircraft is such a blast to fly!
Your tutorials analyzing what you are saying and what you are doing help me understand how to fly this aircraft!
Wags, thanks for putting these videos out on a relatively consistent schedule. It's a nice thing to look forward to.
Man, you are the Bob Ross of flying instruction Wags. "Happy little birds" 😄
Gotta love landings.
I’ve seen technicals (pickup with machine gunner) in the previews. Is there a new asset’s pack on the way for the AH-64D?
Seeing the H on the pad roll under the nose took me right back to Tomahawk on my 128k Spectrum.
You took your time wags. It's been a long wait.
Thank you.
That's a little roughly! My a little roughly is slamming into the ground and clipping the rotors.
It goes wherever you tell the helicopter to go.
I can only follow the helicopter to where it wants to go🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh Snap they added the 3 degrees left side low at a hover
Makes the hover landing look so easy. Oofta. 👍
In real life first thing I'd do is remove this annoying hook
cant wait!
wait... western Iraq??
I think there is a tiny bit of Iraq in either the PG or Syria map
Syria is getting an expansion
am i the only one struggling to understand every other word?
Why is your plane not screaming at you about Low Engine Speed, High Rotor Speed, ...ect.
No amount of throttle position seems to be right.
You probably do not have your collective and or throttles set up correctly. Please see: ua-cam.com/video/HmjNjNDp0JA/v-deo.html
Great vid again... you're a great tutor... always fun to watch it!
The physics on that hook on that rail is pretty good
honestly it drives me nuts I want to remove it
@@csdigitaldesign Same, all I was thinking was secure that shit. LOL
@@csdigitaldesign but then where will you hang your helmet? 😂
@@csdigitaldesign I will tape off my monitor ! :D
How do we get to pilot or gunner?
1 = Pilot, 2 = CP/G
@@MattWagner with which keypad
Sweet!
Nice c-130 😉