would you be interested in giving heli lessons?
It just takes time behind the stick.. Really once you know how to fly you have an idea of the limitations of the vehicle.. Now you can start trying to bend those limits.
Also I'm still recalibrating my controller for arma since I lost my calibration..oops.. If my thrust isn't set right, I won't even be able to autorotate..
Just put a chopper in the map editor and go to town.
Try learning how to stop fast for quick insertions and pick ups.
pulling back full and cycling up to max speed as a brake for example, is a fun one to try..
If you break to the side while you're doing that, you can turn it sideways in relation to the ground. At that point you can cycle up, to use that upthrust as a stopping mechanism.
Follow through the rotation until you come full circle and it's basically like stopping on a dime.
It's a very short stop anyway, would destroy a real chopper in a heartbeat if you tried it likely..lol..
It helps to have some altitude, dive into it, then pull back and to the side.
Also, don't get cocky.. Cocky pilots kill their passengers.. I only ever do that in extremely hostile situations.. It's tricky.
Autorotation is cycling the engine down max when you loose power from being shot for example.. You need forward momentum though or a lot of altitude. When you cycle the engine to the appropriate rpm you'll hear it in the sound of the blades, like a synchronized sound. Then you know you hit the sweet spot.. Once you get close to the ground you cycle up full power and you will gain speed and altitude, just long enough to not smash your chopper into the ground.
Very common chopper maneuver. I hope I explained it right. It's been a bit. I would hop back into single player and fly it for hours and hours, until I considered myself safe to ace pilot again.
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I'm pretty sure the chopper flight mechanics from ARMA2 are fairly close. The game is a combat simulator, after all.
PS:
lol no the physics are not at all realistic, nor is the control of any of the vehicles in arma..
if they were, that maneuver I mentioned would not be possible..
I'm no chopper pilot, I'm a game pilot..lol..
But a real chopper pilot knows all about the tricks for sure^^.
Ask him to explain autorotation to you..
