Helicopters: tips, controls, personal preferences
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:56 am
Here's hoping there isn't such a thread already; I did a search, but I don't know how good the forums' search function is.
How many of you are fans of the Arma helicopter gameplay? I'm not a particularly good pilot, but I enjoy flying around and am hoping to improve with practice. Yesterday I spent about an hour watching dslyexci's Art of Flying videos, which gave me a couple of ideas (and made me wonder, briefly, whether it's worth getting rudder pedals - at which point I realised that a) I'm not really into flight simulators otherwise and b) I have a history of getting very interested in something only to drop it a month later).
So far I've been flying with an Xbox360 gamepad, but since I'm crap at targetting and pretty bad at landing without the auto-hover cheat option I thought I'd give dslyexci's setup (KB+M, although I wouldn't have the rudder pedals) a go. After all, the guy pretty much seems a flying wizard with those controls.
What are your preferences when it comes to controlling helicopters? What are your favourite missions and your favourite environments? Are there any helicopter-heavy user missions you can recommend, either because they make for good practice or they're great fun?
P.S.: I'm thinking of downloading CAA1 so I can also fly around Sahrani. Any other downloadable environments people can recommend for piloting practice?
How many of you are fans of the Arma helicopter gameplay? I'm not a particularly good pilot, but I enjoy flying around and am hoping to improve with practice. Yesterday I spent about an hour watching dslyexci's Art of Flying videos, which gave me a couple of ideas (and made me wonder, briefly, whether it's worth getting rudder pedals - at which point I realised that a) I'm not really into flight simulators otherwise and b) I have a history of getting very interested in something only to drop it a month later).
So far I've been flying with an Xbox360 gamepad, but since I'm crap at targetting and pretty bad at landing without the auto-hover cheat option I thought I'd give dslyexci's setup (KB+M, although I wouldn't have the rudder pedals) a go. After all, the guy pretty much seems a flying wizard with those controls.
What are your preferences when it comes to controlling helicopters? What are your favourite missions and your favourite environments? Are there any helicopter-heavy user missions you can recommend, either because they make for good practice or they're great fun?
P.S.: I'm thinking of downloading CAA1 so I can also fly around Sahrani. Any other downloadable environments people can recommend for piloting practice?