New (transport) helicopter view

[jbgeezer]

Really good idea.

[Alex6714]

Something like this mongol?

YouTube Video

[Kruder]

I've suggested this a few months ago,nobody replied
Its really really important to look down when you are dropping/picking up people on uneven train.Like near a cliff...

[[R-MOD]Jigsaw]

Yeah, cool good suggestion. Especially for those of us who have never bothered to learn to fly with a mouse and therefore have to switch between mouse and arrow keys if we want to see where we're going...

[Scot]

Yes, yes, YES!!

Has my 100% support, both for McLuv and Alex!! That is friggin awesome

[[R-CON]Pantera]

ACtually, i once set one of the buttons on my Joy stick to look down automatically. once pressed and held the pilot looks down and out of the window.

so this can be done, its just up to you to put it into your joystick...

i think you can do this via the options and change the view pan options...

[RedSparrow]

Originally Posted by Pantera

ACtually, i once set one of the buttons on my Joy stick to look down automatically. once pressed and held the pilot looks down and out of the window.

so this can be done, its just up to you to put it into your joystick...

i think you can do this via the options and change the view pan options...

But what about us poor sods who fly with keyboard/keyboard or keyboard/mouse..?

[Sparatan117]

Originally Posted by [R-MOD]Mongolian_dude

In IRL, choppers such as the AH-64D have an array of advanced optics and sensors, allowing the pilot and weapons officer to 'see' in most scenarios.

One big difference bewteen the capabilities of a IRL pilot and a PR pilot, is that the IRL pilot can access this array of optics, much like his weapons officer; allowing him the ability to look down, look around, zoom at distant objects/locations.



This would give pilots and gunners the real world advantage of being able to see the same world below and communicate key points of interest or targets, aswell as see where the hll one is going, espeically with the AH-64D, with its turned up nose and poor FoV.

...mongol...

The way Apaches land is when they come in, the Pilot uses the PNVS to look at his landing strip and get a good idea of what it looks like and then pulls pitch back to make the back landing wheel hit and "bunny hop" then placing the front two tires on the ground and finally lowering the collective to let the weight of the helicopter rest on the struts. Since the PNVS cannot look down and the TADS stop turning down at about a 45 degree angle to the ground they use a mental picture.

Blackhawks and chinooks well those guys just fly the dang thing by the seat of their pants. and maybe look out the window to see how to land but I know that for most helicopters we have, they all have rear wheels which they "bunny hop".

[Maverick]

lets see, you will be needing to fly with a ctrl stick at some point. Also its realistic

[Alan]

Ah, here's the thread I unwillingly duplicated. That'll teach me to seach for gramatically correct terms, anyway!

But yes, I like the idea -it really is needed purely for the sake of ease of landing. PR pilots, unlike real ones, tend to be the only guys interested in what the helicopter is doing. That and we obviously can't spare another player for a crew cheif or W/E. I'll have to comment on the video later...capped...