Night flying in the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior | DCS World
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Night time is the right time to be a scout pilot.
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intel core i9-13900k, 64GM RAM, Zotac 4090 GPU
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Pedals: Virpil ACE
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"It's kind of like flying in daytime, only everything's green." -- New night ops motto
I am honestly blown away that a Dev has proven you can release a finished module within the given timeframe. ED has no excuses now.
Well in fairness, the Kiowa was delayed at least two or three years from their original target date, so I wouldn't say it's a good show of holding a release window.
But fully featured on launch, nearly 100% complete? Yeah, that's stellar.
The given timeframe elapsed 2 years ago, lmao. But yeah, glad to finally have this bird in the skies of DCS despite all the dorama going on these releases breathe new life to the game.
"Within the given time frame"
Sir, we're sorry you have to find out this way, you.... you've been in a coma for the last 4 years. The current year is 2024. The devs had initially planned to release 2020.
@@apostleofthekube3097 to be faaaiiirrr, a world stopping pandemic did happen. Would hamper progress at least a little bit. 😂
@@thetrainshop This was all being done by a team VIRTUALLY in the first place. So, the pandemic should not have had as big of an impact on the development as it did. They lost a team member and had to recreate the 3D model but the systems stuff could have still been being worked on while they waited for that. There is a reason why I started to call this thing vaporware, and kept calling it that up until yesterday when I finally bought it after waiting for 4 years.
I've got a small amount of experience with NVG's IRL, having only worn them a handful of times(on the ground, not flying), but DCS does a decent job of mimicking the IRL FOV. It's super hard to transpose the true FOV you would have IRL onto a 2D screen, but I appreciate how it's implemented in DCS for the "immersion"
Love the casual shade on the armchair pilots lol
We fight tonight! Night time is the best time.
Flew the Kiowa for the first time today. Took of without incident, flew 25 minutes and took out too taliban who were firing on an SF team, with my M4. Got lots of holes in my Kiowa. Flew low and fast back home to base. Buzzing trees, orchards, and grass. Landed slightly worse than i took off. But no major drama and superb given it was my very first landing. Love the Kiowa.
The laser pointer for the 50cal is dope...
As a former Flight Medic crewing 60’s I gotta say the NVG’s are spot on. I do appreciate that you can sort of look under the NVG’s as we often do in real life when getting snacks out of our ALSE vest on boring training flights 🤣
I'm a hawk driver but man I wish we still had this AC. So jealous you got so many years on it! Great Vid.
Dude this module blew itself out the park. You and Polychop did a great release especially with all your helpful tutorials you released. I have never had an easier launch and learning in a module.
I flew the KW yesterday, and its a joy to fly. I already love it so much. And now your telling me, it has sort of a baby IHADSS for night ops? Im sold and the Mi-24P is getting really jealous now.
As a BNVD owner, can confirm. Obviously Casmo knows what he’s talking about. But I always thought the NVG effect was rather accurate.
Great stuff. Thanks for all of your hard work on the Kiowa and numerous other modules. Know several former Kiowa pilots and they all loved flying it. I fly civilian rotorcraft EMS and I’m always amazed at what you guys did in those machines. Thanks for your service from a former AV-8B Plane Captain.
Yes, a thing that people that have never used NODs in real life don't know is that these things are not pressed against your face like you would a pair of binoculars, so you can still look around the eyepieces with your peripheral vision. I used the single tube 7A NODs for driving on the ground and let me tell you that sucks in real life to be robbed of your depth perception then try to navigate off road surfaces while avoiding obstacles. The 6Bs are dual tube and give you great depth perception but a very narrow FOV, so like Casmo says, you have to keep your head on a swivel to see and avoid obstacles, and yes, it looks quite similar to how DCS simulates it, complete with the pulsing of the bright spots as the different phosphorous tubes are stimulated by the light. Keep in mind there are newer versions of these today but I got out of the Army in 2003.
I couldn't imagine how cool it must be as a real life pilot flying in a SIM like DCS, Cool vid also :)
I've spent a lot of hours with an AN/AVS-6 strapped to my poor head. This is probably just because I'm watching this on a phone, but the FOV seems a bit narrow to me. Like they are being worn too far away from the face. But it's been years. And when you spend 80% of your waking hours wearing them, that limited fov and lack of depth perception starts feeling normal. Your brain just sort of reprograms itself to rely on monocular cues, and I'm not sure that can really be conveyed on a screen. I'm excited to try it in VR. A lot of other moduals NVGs just make the whole screen green, and then I try and peak under my vr headset to read the instruments only to discover my desk😂
Overall this looks pretty close to how those NVGs look (if you happen to sign out a really good set). It would be cool to see a bit of halo around lights, or a little chicken wire.
The tracers look dead on to me. I'm pretty excited for this.
Oh they 100% are “too far” but that’s because you are limited by screen size. They have to have some reason to see around them.
Looking fwd to flying the Kiowa. Another great tutorial Casmo
In vr the goggles work like real world dual tubes.
I Appreciate your wisdom! learned a few things new.
Wonder if I can get monitor brightness low enough to work with low gain on a PVS-14... just because it's stupid doesn't mean it's not worth trying 🤣 Holy crap that light saber aiming laser and the clip-on display thingy look awesome. Great selling points for this module but apparently went unmentioned in the run-up.
It’s been a blast to fly, multicrew is a blast. Night ops will be good fun. I know some folks don’t bother but JHOG will run night server cycles. Because.
It's not easy being green... Unless you power on the ENORMOUS LASER.
Things just got a lot more interesting. Always loved night flying. Didn't even know till now it had this sort of capability.
I think people tend to think dual nvg tubes give you a slightly wider field of view which a lot of games tend to show as 2 circles kinda like a venn diagram. Not sure how realistic that is but I could understand the confusion given how popular GPNVG-18s have gotten recently.
It’s a factor I think of screen real estate as well.
@@CasmoTV Yeah I certainly wouldn't mind the option to expand the field of view of the nvgs we have in the game already. It's too difficult for me to use with the way my computer is set up.
Thanks for these tutorials, very helpful. Enough so that even an old AF 13B/Scope-dope was able to use KW on day one (yesterday).
Really like the OH-58D thus far, actually feels worth the wait.
Thanks again Casmo , another great informative tutorial. Don’t stop what you’re doing !
Could potentially join up with the A-10CII, Harrier, and Apache in trying to convince me to do more night-time DCS...
Cockpit lighting is usually adjusted to the lowest visible level to be seen by the pilots. This does two things;
1) It makes it easier to see out of the cockpit when looking without or around the NVGs (unaided).
2) It makes it harder for the enemy when flying on dark nights. Don't give them something to aim at. Lost a few friends because of that.
I Remember seeing guys lip lights on approach.
@@CasmoTV Yep. I stopped using a lip light after I realized I was forgetting to turn it off on my first deployment to Iraq.
A mission where you have to spot stuff at night for your fighters at night because enemy launched a surprise attack on a friendly position and you can also use rockets for suppressing them a little?
More great info, Casmo. Thanks.
People don’t realize that dual tubes still only have a 40° FOV like the PVS-14
Never been so tempted to get back into DCS...
Do you think it'd be possible to co pilot this thing without having a collective/cyclic mapped?
Ofcourse. Just need some buttons to manage the sight.
TV and movies have given people a skewed perception of how NVGs work.
Great stuff,thx
Hope you will make a Multicrew tutorial soon.?!
Not really sure what a multi crew tutorial would entail but unlikely as video making time has come to an end for a while.
@@CasmoTV Fair enough ,my point was to see how synced are all weapons and functions with Pilot and Copilot in the pit in MP ...thx,grettings from Croatia
@danijelkraljev well you know dcs. That’s a crap shoot lol.
I mean binoculars when properly adjusted look like a single tube ... why wouldnt NVGs?
2:13 Because they watch movies and play video games, where every "Binocular" is represented as a lying "8" shaped cutout... and they never used them themselves? 🤫
Did you shrink the relative size of the ODA? I was running it in VR last night, and it overwhelmed my view a little. I just assumed that was "authentic."
Goggles are different in vr
Great assistance video. Is there any word on damage modeling in the works? I am getting ready to go practice some more in it. I got notified my helo took damage but saw no damage done. Other than a total explosion if hit grown hard enough.
I had holes all over me yesterday 🤷🏻♂️
@@CasmoTV I just saw it on one that crashed. I gathered I maybe did not bounce hard enough. 😔
@@CasmoTV also how do you silence the exceed torque alarm. I had to fly all the way back to base to repair but could not find how to silence that damn alarm.
@@CueDriver ack
@@CasmoTV thank you. I had a total brain fart. I remembered you flipping that switch a few times.
If that IR pointer blasts you in the eye, how bad is it?
You might not notice. However, you will definitely notice if it is followed up with a burst of .50 cal.
Heh...learn something new...did not know about the ODA and the anvis.
Is there no FLIR polarity switch?
It’s not FLIR
Why couldnt or why wasnt the ODA able to be used seperately from NVG?
What would you hook it to?
The ODA is a device that clips on the the end of one of the NVG tubes and displays through the NVG. It's like a little monocle the clips over the lens. Without the NVGs, there is no way to see it.
The CH-47F has a "day hud" system. But last I heard it was universally hated, and basically useless.
Is the PVS-14 rendered in single eye in VR?
Can’t say, no one I knows flies with a PVS-14
50cal sounds a lul...garbage
When did you fly kiowas?
@@CasmoTV at the end of the day its a game, it has terrible clipping issues and needs more sound design done
@coffinraider1 oh look, he CAN be polite. See; all you had to say was “I think the sound design could use more help” or something. But instead you led with “it’s garbage”. See… see how it easy it can be to make your point and Not look like a jerk?
Thanks again. Simply astonished how much stuff you’ve published over last two weeks to help us with the new Kiowa. Much appreciated. 🫡