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[Dinga]

Nice one Flatkin .

Really quiet good to fly but wow she sure likes to shake if you give her to much throttle .I have  tried to land on a hanger or some thing with a flat roof around any aerodrome.I always end up in a pile of rubble.Any of you helo experts know how to do this?I also want to try formating on another fling wing but not sure how to set it up in QMB.Any way thanks very much for making this helicopter

cheers

Dinga

[F22-Raptor-2006]

You can't land on any il2 "objects" if you touch something, it'll explode unfortunately.

[mac tíre]

try killing the engine and glideing to the ground its great!

[FTC_Obelix]

Ok, but how to land with this aircraft?

Any tips?

[F22-Raptor-2006]

no troops, 50 fuel, 47% power will hover. So just drop the helicopter till it gets relatively close to the ground. Then powerup until it is nearly not going down anymore and wack it back down to 50% power which will slow down your decent a very small tad. Adjust between 45 and 50 to get it down. With paratroops and 50 fuel it's around 70-75% power.

[WhoDatNotSayin]

If you are really struggling with landing, you could always try flying it like an RC chopper, in external view. Cheating of course, but it may help you get a feel for it to start with. It is usually easier to land with a little forward motion too.

Don't rely on the VSI to measure descent speed - it has too much lag in its response...

[Dinga]

Well now I am really buzzing.Just landed on a Carrier and sent the Marines in to take over the Akagi 
Thanks for all your help guys

[Pursuivant]

SKS and AK fire would cut thru those birds like a knife thru warm butter.

Seconded. Helicopters are hideously vulnerable to ground fire, as the U.S. learned to its chagrin in Vietnam and the Soviets re-learned to their chagrin in Afghanistan. Even armored helicopters like the Mil-24 can be (relatively) easily brought down by ground fire from heavy machine guns. The early helicopters didn't have that much of a payload, so the amount of armor they could carry was minimal.

[Cage]

Seconded. Helicopters are hideously vulnerable to ground fire, as the U.S. learned to its chagrin in Vietnam and the Soviets re-learned to their chagrin in Afghanistan. Even armored helicopters like the Mil-24 can be (relatively) easily brought down by ground fire from heavy machine guns. The early helicopters didn't have that much of a payload, so the amount of armor they could carry was minimal.

As some one who was in that position, I can tell you that your partially correct.   There were times where my aircraft looked like Swiss cheese, but it made it home.   While another instance one round brought the aircraft down.   It all depended on where and how the rounds hit the aircraft.   As for armor, only the pilots in the Huey's had armored seats.   The flight crews had body armor, consisting of a of a hardened front and back plate.   

It was found though that the back plate did more damage then it prevented.   Since the rounds generally came at you from the front a round that came in at such an angle as to miss the front plate, it would bounce off the back plate until it hit the front plate from the inside.   So crews removed the back plate and sat on them.    The biggest difference between aircraft and helicopters is a simple one.   You can't bail out of the helicopter!   

Kind of think of Helicopters as the WWI aircraft of the modern air war! 

[Fusek]

I'm having a lot of fun flying around, but not so much with landing, haha! the throttle of my Saitek Evo gradually slides down when I put it under 60% throttle

[SAS~Sani]

Ok, but how to land with this aircraft?

Any tips?

In flight pull stick backwards a bit until your speed is 0....then try to find power setting for hover...once you are hovering at same altitude,reduce power a bit..you will have to constantly adjust power to have a controlled slow descent...once close to the ground,add power to even more slow down descent (not too much power or you will climb up) and have a gentle touch down.

[NS~mati140]

Seconded. Helicopters are hideously vulnerable to ground fire, as the U.S. learned to its chagrin in Vietnam and the Soviets re-learned to their chagrin in Afghanistan. Even armored helicopters like the Mil-24 can be (relatively) easily brought down by ground fire from heavy machine guns. The early helicopters didn't have that much of a payload, so the amount of armor they could carry was minimal.

Yup, but 1. Boom after getting 4 7.62mm bullets whereever they hit isn't good idea. 2. Instead of ending up as fireball it should get parts shot out/engine failures/engine problems/rotor failures first. 3. The fuel most of helicopters use is rarely exploding, unless you for example got hit by missile or something directly at fuel tank. The fuel tank can burn, can make engine start burning and turning off, can explode itself but it never makes whole helicopter explode. Helicopter also rarely explode into smallest pieces after hitting ground - it would be more suitable if crew/pilot die after hitting the ground strongly and helicpter, with engine dead, rotor dead, all parts possible to be shot out being out, maybe sometimes burning and with heavily damaged fusselage but it should be rather removed by game engine (disapear) then explode. There is actually nothing in helicopter than can explode with HUGE fireball and compleatly destroy the helicopter. Yes, those bullets can go through it like through butter bc it has no armor but that means that parts of it can be shot out in one hit, crew and important parts of helicopter can be dead but fusselage can't simply desintegrate. It's just crazy.