Hooked. I haven’t tried flying choppers since the original gunship2000 with mouse and keyboard.
With HOTAS and VR it’s a whole different thing. I think I will specialize in choppers for a while. It’s sorta revitalized my interest in flightsims again. Choppers are just so different than what I have flown for decades. It feels like a whole new hobby. Though often puzzling and frustrating. Lol.
I just got the Huey too.
Not sure I will get the Kiowa since I have the Gazelle. But with the Apache too, I can do a variety of chopper mission roles. (Just don’t have an interest in Russian stuff really.)
Each definitely need their own custom input curve. I got my Gazelle tuned much better and is much more manageable. Still need work on my fast landings.
Starting with this VA profile (
https://forum.voiceattack.com/smf/index.php?topic=1370.0) and will be adding multi-step sequences for stuff like weapons power-on/arming/configuration. Multi-step macro like “Weapons Hot Rockets” and VA would power on the weapons systems, set my preferred ripple, arm, reticle down and adjusted, etc. In VR it will be impossible to refer to cheat-sheets.
I’ve already started opening up and looking at the innards of the mission files and learning the mission editor. Wanna eventually get into making some campaigns and maybe some interesting out of the box stuff with custom coding. I’ve been looking at the Liberation source to learn how certain things are handled there.
For now I am setting up a second machine on my local network the run the dedicated server and Liberation to offload my VR game machine. Maybe eventually want to play with an on-demand cloud server.
Oh, and watching all Casmo’s vids.
