This is by far my new favourite module. Even beating the mighty sabre.
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I find it to be pretty tough actually, the Chinook can take quite a beating in my experience. Itās worth taking the time to learn how the AFCS works, it makes landings much, much easier if you use the correct procedures. I am now at a point where I can land it in very confined spaces without issues and can also do fast insertions with a little more room to play with.
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How well does the game teach you these things if at all?
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Probably not sufficiently. I have most of my information from 47drivers videos and his posts on the ED forums as well as the manual that comes with the Chinook
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Ahh okay, I donāt mess with the AFCS so that could be the issue. Iāll look it up sometime then, because I really havenāt delved into the manual that much.
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Tandem Rotors without some kind of AFCS are notoriously difficult to fly, even early versions came with it. If you donāt turn it on and donāt use it correctly the Chinook will do its best to kill you.
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Gotcha, Iām a bit used to Arma 3, which doesnāt have anything complicated out of the box, so Iāll look into the AFCS sometime then. Then again Iāve broken the stock helicopters by coming down too hard, but forget about anything complicated like AFCS And the like.
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One slightly embarrassing thing happened that Iām glad nobody saw
I tried to land the rear wheels on a wall. Touched down smoothly and planted it down, nose high and held it there for, i dunno 10 seconds. Absolutely rock steady. Which for me, is unusual.
Sat there, started thinking about lifting off, made a plan to lower the nose, raise the thrust lever and try not to shift fore or aft. But straight up. Then gather some airspeed.
Tried to lower the nose, but couldnt, could lift it, but immediately started to drift back a few inches as expected. Lowered thrust a touch to put some more weight on the back end, lowered it a bit more, and a bit more, until a very confused Ace is sitting with zero power, nose high and centre stick?
So i go external and see Iāve totally missed the wall and have placed the fuselage a hair behind the front wheels and justā¦plonked the wrong end down and sat there feeling like pilot of the century. When im not even flying anymore.
Tit.
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Soooo, how is everyone getting along with the new controller changes? Iāve conceded configuring a Thrust Grip / Thrust Brake button, but now needed to add a button for the input display, something that I previously flew without, once that I was happy with a controller profile. In case you havenāt bothered yet, if you move the thrust grip without pressing the grip brake button, then later press it to set the grip position, you can have nasty results.
Per BIGNEWYās post (linked above), Iāve added the AFCS Mode Hat up and UP/DOWN buttons. But other than the mode indicator on the PFD coming on, canāt really detect what the chopper is doing.
And one last but significant change is that a Modifier I program for every HOTAS profile is now a toggle, instead of momentary.
EDIT: Daoh! I had added it as a Modifier > Switch instead of a Modifier > Modifier!
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This is one of those times where pursuit of realism causes a negative experience for the average consumer. There should be an option to turn off this switch entirely. Itās great if someone has a replica Chinook controls set in their simpit but itās a turn-off for people flying with regular consumer HOTAS. I donāt understand why they force such features on everyone without common-sense consideration.
Fortunately, you can in Options > Special > CH-47F > āAllow Thrust Grip to move freelyā or something similar.
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Non-issue for me. Just treat it like the KA-50, hold the button when you move the thrust control. As far as the controls not synching up, if you get to a steady state and then engage the ALT hold you should only ever be minorly off when you drop out of it. I really donāt see what some people are having an issue with. I donāt even have buttons on my collective and it works just fine, if you have a HOTAS its really a non-issue.
AFCS UP turns on baro-alt hold (radar-alt hold is currently in the works). Uou can cruise along at a steady state height now without having to mess with the trim.
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Would be nice if they had mentioned that in the newsletter. My pedantic English teacher side is showing, but every time I read their newsletters and announcements I go into hard-core proofreading mode and find so many glaring communication issues 
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There is also beep trim for altitude that I missed.
Longship has been cranking out the Chinook videos lately and here is a good one. Must try some of his technique.
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I flashed my Moza AB9 this morning and low and behold, using the default DCS Chinook preset, the bird now has some serious FFB present, especially during hard descents. Itās almost too much in the case of either blade slap or rotor vibration. Well, I guess thatās what happens when you get slapped by two massive blades simultaneously. 
I am very happy to have the effects, but probably going to have to adjust some of the helicopter effects, so that my kids can sleep.
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Iāve seen you guys do such great things with the Hook in the foothold campaigns.. Iāll probably trial it soon and then crack under the pressure of pure desire.
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To be honest..Iām flying it like an Arma helicopterā¦ Iām just hopping in it hot started loading stuff and flyingā¦ I donāt know how any of the systems work. The only knob I have figured out in the aircraft is that third VHF knob or whateverā¦ otherwise the sound of that static would drive me out out of my head.
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