Taking on the World | DCS Ka-50 | BSD Helo World
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Soloing the middle and Eastern front of Helo World.
After this I do another informal sortie with the Gazelle's (coming soon). Later in the day there was a larger scheduled session of BSD members hitting Helo World I couldn't attend, though, if I understood correctly the server might not have been reset, so I'd like to think my efforts here punched a hole for them.
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wake up babe, a new volk video dropped
Gotta love that backup ADI always shitting itself over lol
I often bother to re-align it. Just this flight I really wasn't in the mood.
@@volkvoortI personally never even uncage it.
Nothing worse than stumbling on BMP's at close range. Between the missile and the auto cannon, those things are dangerous.
If you're talking the ones on the hilltop (in the intro segment) - they were BTR-80s. Possibly BTR-82s with the filthy big gun. No less viscious than BMPs at that range, they I would've needed the AP rounds do mow them down instead of HE/HEI.
@@volkvoort I was thinking of whatever hit you in that 2nd one, but yeah. The BTR's are no fun to run into.
Tanks aren't much fun either with how easily the AI can launch the AT missiles at you.
@@aaronwhite1786 Oh yeah, thems was BMPs. Very sneaky ones, somehow completely not engaging or engaged by the tanks way ahead of me.
@@volkvoort I can't count the number of times I've popped up from behind a treeline trying to find enemy BMP's only to suddenly find myself looking at a missile nose growing bigger and bigger on the Shkval screen.
excellent 🤗🤗👌👌🍻🍻
Love it man
It’s very cool to see that even you sometimes eat a missile to the face at times XD
Quick question though: in reguards to your most recent video on making the ka50 go stupid fast, have you considered making a video on how to get to a target as fast as possible with a combat load out?
In terms of using this assymetry, no. In terms of getting there'd I'd guess it's just ensuring your ground track is perfectly lined up and you're booking it as faster as possible without the blades touching. I don't have a chart for when the blades touch with e.g. collective position vs. speed vs. say weight though - in terms of how far you can push it past the V warning.
Nice 👌🏻
Thank you! Cheers!
Love it! Well done!
Is this an open server?
Yup. The Helo World one specifically. The other Black Shark Den servers are locked behind qualifications & such.
Sweet, thanks. I thought it might be that server, thanks for confirming 🙂
I am curious, have they patched out the AI bug where they just will not fire at you if you're within IIRC 15 feet of the ground?
Depending on the vehicle/airframe, that's still the case. Whether it's a bug for all those, dunno.
Hey Volk
Nice video.
Can you make a tutorial video on your headtracking ,bcos its so smooth, pls
Thanks. Huh. Never thought they were especially smooth compared to other headtracker clips. I'll have a look-see if it's decent info to script a video or just share my settings in a community post. It'll be OpenTrack settings btw.
Hey Volk!
Would love to fly with you from time to time since I also love the BS3.
Where do you fly normally? Are you even interested in a Wingman?
Sup. I've sort-of embraced the wingman idea with joining Black Shark Den's Reaper platoon. That said, I also (atm) don't have any restrictions on who I fly with, or happens to be my wingman any specific day. If you're on the server in a Shark, and hopefully on comms, cool. The trickiness is when and where I fly ;-). Between experiments for vids, work and South Africa having unstable power system now (meaning there's power cuts that I experience and might not be aware of the schedule that far in advance - also DCS is something my inverter doesn't handle for long), it means I'm haphazard with play sessions). Currently it seems I fly more often on Helo World, a little bit of Rotorheads, a bit of the South African servers if I see there's other helos happening and finally the more official Black Shark Den missions (because I know then there's no jet dominance, there's other Shark players and they're on comms).
What I maybe should do more often if post in the community channel if I intend to hop on a certain server. Might be weekends more often, might not be notice well ahead of time.
So, how is the INU alignment these days? It's been a long time since I've set foot in Shark cockpit, last I remember it needed like 16 minutes of alignment before a mission to be reliable.
Still the case. You can fly with a short alignment but it quickly becomes inaccurate after any evasive flying
15min alignment is still required.
in the ME you can set the Ka50III to have something like a "stored" alignment then the start up is only 3-5 min and you have precise alignment.
Precise alignment (20 min) is way better. Normal (15 min) alignment requires pilot to align the compass as well - and it is a bit more complicated than just switching to magnetic and back. To align compass properly one needs to spend another 2..3 minutes (or your INU will have increased drift otherwise). On the other hand, Precise (20 min) aligmment does not require you to do something with your compass manually.
@@pack_rat Yes you are right, PREC it is theoretically 20 minutes.
but why should it take 2-3min to align the compass? This takes no more than 30 seconds to complete
@@HobelDcs you can't align compass fine enough by magnetic, it's error is more than 1 deg, way too big. So when F10 map is in "map only" mode (most hardcore scenarios) the only way to align compass correctly is by some landmark. Identify such a landmark (airstrip markings are my favorite), point your nose at it precise enough and set course manually - it usually takes minutes.
1. Always trust MWS
2. Never hover, make an attack run per missle/rocket slavo and break off.
Ugh. So agree to disagree. Trust MWS - yes. Especially if the angle isn't change. That was me getting target fixated. Though I have also had it go nuts from nearby Apache's spamming Hellfires (could have been any helo to be fair) and not calling shots. But yeah, always trust it, agreed.
Never hover - that one I strongly disagree with. Race track/running (or clover, etc) in attacks have their place, as does a hover. Running in, provided you break away early enough, can lead you with enough speed to dive faster into cover (if terrain allows) and might make stuff that shoots at you a little less likely to hit. If a race-track leads you into flying to unknown threats, or into range of a threat, then it's not great. Especially given how you see even those T-72 50 cal's tracing your trajectory - you'd need to be running in and constantly changing course a little. If it means you're focused too much on flying and can't target in time, that's also not great. Finally running in is less awesome if you have targets that are shooting at friendlies (which was the case at least twice in these sorties) or about to escape in the time that you're circling back, e.g. they're about to drive into a city-sprawl. Depends on the context.
Hovering is great if you're in a position to not get shot at - since you're not driving into range of something to shoot at you. Also gives you time in the shark to go heads down and find e.g. that elusive Sa-2 while not inadvertently advancing over closer AAA units.
So dependent on situation, need to kill the targets before they fire at you/friendly/escape line of sight as well as their ability to shoot at you.
This case, I was taking unnecessary risks with those tanks in strafing around them while attacking. The BMP situation with my second death I'm not sure was avoidable - I needed the time to scope out that Sa-2, but also just running in flying over them they would have likely shot me. The position I was I figured should be secure, since my friendly tanks where further up a head a couple of hundred metres and appeared to be supplied with ammo and ready to kill anything that venture closer. But yeah, this footage isn't the best example of practice what you preach. Both techniques have their merits and their place.
@@volkvoort Decent points, but I will never favor a hover. We can chat in discord if you like, I am actually helicopter crew and can show you some decent source info.
@@volkvoort Agreed on the MWS. It can be a huge help, but with it firing off whenever missiles are fired in your general area, it can be really hard to just dump and hit the ground every time the thing goes off.
Even just doing the offline quick mission I've got setup, a couple of Hinds operating just outside of my viewing area are still often enough to set off the MWS in the Ka-50 and Apache. It's caused more than a fair share of false positive reactions.
I think the MWS is great to say "Stop what you're doing and look outside". If you're exposed, scan the skies for incoming missiles and maybe slide behind cover for a bit. But it reacts to way too much for me to trust that I'm actually being fired on when it goes off, especially on a multiplayer server where others might be shooting over/around me.
@@aaronwhite1786 Thats why the term 'rifle' exists. And yes, a constantly going off MWS is distracting IRL as well... VERY.
@@blackhatch46 For sure! Sadly, between AI and a lot of online users, you're not going to hear a launch call.
dude teach me how to fly this chopper! :D
he's got a bunch of videos doing just that mate
Ask the guys at BSD. It's the easiest Heli to fly by far.
why dont u run grayflag? never seen u on there unless you run it ghosting
Yes, all top 5 best performers on Grayflag are all secretly ME running clone accounts!! Don't know why, or if there was even a good reason why I haven't hopped on yet. Can't remember if it was downlaoding the Herc mod that make me reluctant (if that was a grayflag condition), or maybe just whenever I click on it there aren't other helos on...
@@volkvoort that sucks man.. obv i recommend it however it truly is a sharks best friend. syria is a good map as well for shark but pg is probably the best gf map out there
@@kolavadae4592 Duly noted. Will probably hop on it sometime.
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