all that’s left to do now is wait! This is going to be a fun module and I might actually, finally learn to fly a helo
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Now I really need to get my butt in the Black Shark. Hope to see this before Thanksgiving!!!
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From today’s “Weekend News”
" DCS: AH-64D
Development Progress
Progress on DCS: AH-64D is well underway and if you have not already done so, please watch the first Introduction in the video tutorial series for a breakdown of this fearsome attack helicopter.
This week, we have prepared work in progress renders of the AH-64D pilot. The complete model is an aircrew combat uniform A2CU with Nomex flight gloves, Belleville flight boots, and Gen 3 PSGC Aircrew Warrior Survival Vest Harness. In Development Screenshots."
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So to get ready, time to hop into Combined Arms and drive around the NTTR map in a Humvee with panty hose over one eye, right?
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That’s just a Tuesday for me. 
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Also mentioned over at ED, people were asking where that factory at the beginning of the video was… and it turns out its part of another extension of the syria map 
… mooore map yay …
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Haha I was wondering the exact same thing.
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Static Objects, Structures, FARP tent. Been in the game for years.
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Know when someone has played the game for a really long time when they can rattle off objects lists from memory.
Wheels
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And just to prove what a Supa-Geek I am…I bring you the:
Army Attack/Recon Helicopter Handbook
Yeah, I’m getting into this. The Apache has a lot of mission types I wasn’t really aware of.
You can skip to about Chapter 3 (3-44, roughly) or, heck, start at page one, with an adult beverage, and make a night out of it!
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Less a super geek. More an all round star
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One of my big regrets in life was that early on in my aviation career I was a line service guy down in North Myrtle Beach airport. We had the military contract, so all manner of Chinooks, Hueys, CH-53s, and Apaches would come in for fueling. I refueled a ton of Apaches…but I never had the courage to ask one of the guys to sit in the cockpit. They totally would have let me…remember…this was 25 years ago and probably a lot less worry about ridiculous stuff. I really missed out.
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@BeachAV8R has only just recently got out of the ‘divide by zero’ issue with his ratio of ‘refueled helicopters vs rode in helicopters’. He previously held the world record lowest score. 
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I’m hip. That experience I related once about a Marine aviator, circa 1982, letting us crawl around - and even into (iirc) - ‘his’ Hornet…ah, knowing what I do now it wouldn’t have been such a deer in the headlights thing.
My time in the backseat of the Viper now. That’s was cool. I’d been playing Falcon 1/2/3/4 since inception and I knew what buttons not to push. But I was good (of course) and didn’t touch anything I wasn’t told to.
A lesson in negative training here: I got some stick time in the Viper sim (at Mt. Home AFB) and had a handful of fighter jocks razzing me because I couldn’t move the TDC cursor correctly on the [one] bandit (I got a chance at). I actually got a little peeved at myself, “Whaaa, hey! the thing is moving funny…arg!..there he goes…screw it, roll and pull hard into him…”. Was only a large 2D monitor and no TrackIR of course.
See, on my throttle back then (I don’t recall the brand, around 98’) I had the axis 90-degrees from the real thing; “Up” to me was literally Up, towards the ceiling, as I sit. But up is left in the real deal. I did manage to land it without balling it up (with a bounce or two). My wife was watching over my shoulder too and got nausea from just observing. She’s not a good VR candidate. Poor thing.
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Definitely got to sit in the cockpit of an Apache at an air show at Douglas, probably circa 1988. I just remember 7 year old me thought it was almost as cool as the F-14.
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I’ve had 2 kids, I would happily lose a testicle to sit in an actual fighter plane.
Both for a Tomcat if I’m being honest. As long as they let me press buttons and make vroom noises.
*edit
I reaaaallllly need to stop sharing these thoughts on here.
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