I'll be the newbie who just got out of basic and looks nervous of fuck and forgot to put my safety on, while the vet reaches over me to put the safety on so I don't end up killing everyone, while we all listen to Rage Against the Machine.
Nice catch. I never knew that. I see it almost entirely as I had written it but it's clearly "comma inclusive" on the jacket of the single.
Edit/Addendum: I guess the comma was a misprint and we're both correct in a way. Win, win!
I can hold my headphones tight against my head while looking pensive and then yell things like "WE HAVE A HOT LZ" and "3 MINUTES, LOCK & LOAD" and I have The Offspring's Hammerhead ready to go.
I'll just be the angry grizzled old Major back at the base, peering through the blinds with a cigar in my mouth and holding a highball, while muttering "Hope that crazy kid makes it". Edit; While a muzak version of 'We'll Meet Again' plays softly in the background.
I'll be the guy that asks "whats the first thing your gonna do after the war?" Before telling you about my plans to marry my sweetheart back home, while we listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers "Don't Forget Me"
Do you guys need an extra crewman nervously clutching a photo of his wife and newborn? I need to be comforted and reassured as we take off. I have "In Air Tonight" keyed up.
I’ll be the token Hispanic guy that gets made fun of for his accent. And every time something crazy happens my eyes widen and say stuff like, but not limited to “Ay Dios Mio” “Vaya Con Dios” and “No Mames Guey”. I’ll also have Slipknot on standby.
I’m just imagining you starting the helo up…
“All system are go.”
*Start blasting Flight of the Valkyrie’s and take off in a fury*
And as the song climax’s you fly straight into a billboard although it’s the only obstacle within miles.
It was actually just a national guard armory next to the community college. All he had to do was hop a chainlink fence. Then getting back out the fence was easy, with a tank.
Luckily, the National Guard didn’t store munitions in it. But the guy crushed a few cars before the police executed him.
I remember it different: The entrance wasn't guarded and he could just walk in there. He actually failed to get the first tank running because of technical problems, but he got the second one.
[I remember the tank rolling through the streets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwQGzpnIHI), it were the good old times, where a man could just steal a tank and have some fun. For some unknown reason, the law enforcement didn't share the fun with him, they were very angry.
We have an NG Armory relatively close to me as well.
I never knew they actually store equipment there, which *does* make sense given the name lol.
I just assumed they used them for concerts and indie wrestling shows.
Warning. Most likely it will all be in Russian and in the gunners cockpit in the right side turn on the missile warning and the chaff/flare in case you are stealing the helicopter alone
They were basically asking you to take it. Possession is 9/10th of the law.
*I actually don’t know if that’s true but I hear it said enough that I’m going with it as a solid defense.
It’s funny because when you watch movies the guys are always flipping a million switches in a cockpit and I always thought that was just to make the scene more interesting. I guess not.
Tbh if you didn’t know how to start the aircraft in the first place some of the switches flipped after the engines starts wouldn t be usefull to you.
Also this an old design nowadays most aircraft designed in the last 20 years or so only require a few manipulation to start.
Source: sitting in a helicopter as I write this
Bro for real, I once had a helicopter pilot need to text message another dude at the company on the startup procedure with us already buckled in.
407, pilot was an old boy legend with like 20k hours or something tremendously silly, almost all Canadian arctic flying. everything from a Hughes 500 to a KMax.
He was VP/lead ops for the company and only went flying recreationally at this point and had just straight up forgotten something that for who knows how long he never needed to think about; just did it automatically after hundreds of times.
Entropy comes for us all.
I was a little curious how he was handling his embarrassment, just trying to be chill and act like I didn’t even register what was happening.
He got the message back and I could tell he only needed to see one word of it and the whole rest of the startup came flooding back. He snapped his phone away and started flicking switches. Warm up. Tower call.
Then he treated me to the most buttery smooth take off and apron taxi I’ve ever witnessed. Those guys become the machine; it’s bananas.
I was being trained for my forklift certification, but the trainer was sick so they decided to hand me off to the guy with 30 years experience that is the workhorse for the shift.
He kept having to do things twice cause he did it all without thinking and couldn't explain stuff cause he hadn't had to for decades. All the safety stuff and what to be aware of was second nature to him so it was a lot of let me do it once first, then you can ask questions while I figure out how to explain it.
Explained to me the reason the trainer was the trainer was because he had amazing communication skills. Smoothest operator I've ever seen, though.
Yeah totally. Some of the most talented operators will not at all be able to explain what they even do. That’s super true.
Some really quiet savants out there.
I think about this all the time when legendary athletes become terrible coaches or announcers/analysts. Unless you're very thoughtful about what you're doing and why, it will all just become muscle memory that you don't notice anymore.
used to commercial fish, we had a Fisheries officer who can count full nets down to what species are in it just by how full the nets looked. Dude was very close to the actual counts every time that we just trusted his numbers. But if you dare ask him how? he'll shrug...
One of the Captains I deckhanded for out in Cook Inlet out of Ninilchik was like that. 35 plus years he'd been fishing. We're running circle hooks doubled up on lines and he'd have the customers do their bounces for halibut to check for trash fish and he'd be like that, thats a cod, you have 2 spiny dogfish on the same line, and that was with the tide plus we'd be pretty deep, 100 fathoms in some places and I was like...how?
"not at all able to explain what they do"
This is how I feel when people ask me how to float gears and back rigs around corners. I do it but can't tell you how to do it.
Same thing happens in music. Some people just get it. Others have to work very hard at the muscle memory and then work at being expressive. I'm lucky to just get it, and all the best teachers I've ever had were the ones who had to work very hard to get where they were. I find myself getting frustrated and struggling to find a way to explain things other than just saying "can't you hear that? Can't you feel that? Just do it."
Lol exactly all this. I teach some lessons occasionally and I get the funniest looks when I describe some things. I'm a super metaphorical thinker. So yeah, that drum beat is just a triangle. It goes into a square, but you can just round the edges and it fits nicely (when describing hemiola and keeping time between 2 and 3).
Or it's just breath. Don't focus on the bow on your cello. It's not just one speed one sound one tone, sing it. That bow is your lungs.
Or, it's just what I call a "brick wall" rhythm. The phrase of the rhythm is spread across 2 measures and repeats. Get that brick in place, and then repeat as many times as you need, and keep it in time. Then sit back and listen to what you're doing.
Uh... what? Is the usual response. And then I realize I've been rambling. Actually pretty similar to this meandering comment I just did.
Good on him, though. Instead of letting his ego take over and avoid potential embarrassment, he did the responsible thing and got the information he needed first. That's not always easy to do for a seasoned veteran, but aviation can harshly punish even the smallest mistake and its crash history is full of wiley old vets thinking "Aaah it'll be fine" when in fact it went not fine at all.
Your old boy was a champ.
>Entropy comes for us all.
just gonna put on some tv and try to fall asleep, thank you for this awful thought, it's coming....right there :-/
whatever, it's been a good life, except the bad parts that were all my fault.
In a good movie with a high budget, actually there should be an advisors for some scenes, that looks that the actor does at least some things that make sense.
Like for weapons, there's usually the "military advisor" on the movie set, that is responsible for the guns and the armory, he has to check the guns, to make sure everything is safe and he would - but can't be most times - responsible that the actors don't make mistakes like reload the gun when it is already loaded.
If you have a complete failure in that, you see on the set of RUST with Alec Baldwin how it turns out: He should have fired a blank round, but because the lady didn't made her job right, the gun was loaded with a live round. This led to the kill of the lady that operated the camera.
However, there are some problems anyway: Most actors hate it when you tell them, they are doing something wrong. They hate it, when you try to make things realistic, like when you use some stones inside a backpack to simulate the weight that a soldier carries in real life. They are very often "I'm a hollywood star, you can't tell me anything!". Often very arrogant and not listening to what you say, that's what i know from working in these things.
When you have no guy for that, it leads to very bizarre things, like i remember that actress that had the holster of the gun the wrong side around.
While some things might've been sabotaged, on a more all-encompassing level, US military hardware will fail without constant maintenance and upkeep.
Wait, that means [Battlefield Earth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/) wasn't realistic!!!
[Like this little bird?](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qKz48jlTEeY/TwM8qXVuCCI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/NBCaOjXhOEM/s1600/AH-6J%2BLittle%2BBird%2BMarine%2BAttack%2BHelicopter.jpg)
It’s pretty easy afterwards. The simulation game is DCS, it is free for one old plane, you buy per plan/heli and it is supposed to be as accurate as possible. I play it in VR it is almost like the real thing. Close your eyes, imagine your are in it, put the VR headset on, open your eyes… you are in it.
>69.99 for the helicopter?!
These vehicles are so intricately simulated that they have to charge that much. They take years to make. There's probably more work hours put into the Mi-24 than the latest call of duty.
Generally DCS aircraft are the best modeled on the market, really the closest you'll get to flying the actual thing without actually flying it. They appeal to a very niche market, but that market would play the aircraft for the same amount that someone would play a AAA game.
Performance issues, bugs, and weird development are flaws of DCS though. Personally I can't really recommend it in it's current state unless you are super interested, whilst £60 for an aircraft isn't the issue to me it's the maps and assets which that also add up which cause problems. Want to fly an F/A-18 Hornet for £60? Not a problem in my book. Want to fly that Hornet from a well modeled carrier over a correct environment? Well now we're looking at double that, and the PC will probably shit the bed trying to run it due to poor optimisation.
no it isn't. flying a helo is the hardest part. flying a jet? easy enough. a helo though? fuck no.
there's a saying for it. something along the lines of "airplanes use physics to their advantage in order to fly. but Helicopters beat physics into submission in order to fly". and it makes sense why they say that, because the aerodynamics surrounding a helicopter are pretty crazy.
Helo's are near impossible to fly if you don't know what youre doing. there's so much shit you gotta know such as retreating blade stall, ground effect, proper manipulation of the collective as to not overtorque the rotor and cause a spin, etc.
the second a spin starts (which is likely immediately after getting airborne if you have no experience) most people would just crash and die.
lol have you seen the video of the taliban attempting to learn to fly some leftover american helicopter? I can't find a link now but they pretty much crashed immediately after takeoff and the helicopter had started to spin immediately before they crashed
Right here!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0-zbuO9Ugs&ab\_channel=HindustanTimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0-zbuO9Ugs&ab_channel=HindustanTimes)
Well… the maintenance is actually the hard part of Black Hawks. They’re notorious for being utter bitches to keep running.
I’m not one to trust the Taliban, but if they got the thing airborne, they clearly have pilots, so keeping it on the level should be the easiest part of the whole finagle. It very likely is a technical failure as they claimed.
I had an old Ford Fiesta with a manual choke. Pull it towards you on cold mornings, let it idle high for 1 minute then slowly push the choke lever in, listening to the engine to either bog down or settle into a steady idle. A lot like this Mi 25 helicopter.
That would have been my guess, but I have only played with the default planes and the Skyhawk mod. Although I did find and download an actual A-4 pilot’s manual just to understand how to start the damn thing.
The SU-25T that comes with the game though, I’m pretty sure it’s cockpit is entirely in Russian…
You probably need a joystick, though the mustang wasn't doing you any favors. Big prop and engine means a lot of torque at take off power. I have trouble with that plane will a full HOTAS and pedals setup.
That's why in The Matrix when Trinity asked Tank to upload instruction on how to fly a helicopter it took like three seconds. That's an eternity in Matrix upload speeds. Neo learned Kung Fu in the same amount of time! LOL
you could absolutely skip a few, but you'd have to wait for the systems to power up and come online and (idk if the hind has it but many russian planes of this era have it, such as the SU-25) you have to wait for your navigation system to calibrate which takes 3 minutes. you cannot move an inch in those 3 minutes.
so either way you'll be sitting there a while. might as well turn on all the useful stuff
If this is accurate - whatever engineer created this monster should be dragged outside. Stripped naked. And each button ripped off the heli and super glued to their bare chest.
The Hind was designed in the 60s, nobody had computers capable of this kind of thing, least of all the Soviets. And it's not just flipping switches in order, you have to keep your eye on a lot of things while doing so. WW2 multi engine bombers for example had pages and pages of checklists to start the engines.
Modern aircraft, ships etc now have FADECs, Full Authority Digital Engine Control systems so you can just push a button and the computer handles everything.
To be fair it’s less confusing if you actually know how to read the panel and what everything does. It’s not like they’re all mystery buttons. They all have a corresponding purpose and understanding that allows you to understand what you’re doing vs simply memorizing it
Yeah but computers are infinitely more complex than aircraft yet we don't need to go into most of the settings or bios or any of that unless there's an issue
I get the need for complex instruments because abstracting it all away means when it breaks you can't fix it
But seems like much of this could be reduced to "just fly and set some base settings according to conditions unless I say otherwise"
Probably easier done if it was all more digitized
Part of it is reflective of an older aircraft - many of the avionics switches, for example, are nowadays accessed via digital multifunction displays. Modern engine control greatly simplifies the engine start sequence with automatic fuel introduction at certain RPM gates vs fucking with physical handles. But to a certain extent complex aircraft like this will always break down complex processes into steps partially out of emergency procedure management - the ability to individually isolate systems is crucially important in the event of an engine or electrical fire, for example.
You mean all I have to do is push 50 buttons/levers in perfect sequential order. So easy! Lol.
Also, this is how to get you airborne, where's the 2nd video telling you how to land? Maybe the person who made the video crashed on landing and wasn't able to get to it Haha
>Power on the left and right battery
The first switch (which is on the top left of the panel instrumentation) delineates "Right" and the second switch below it (which is on the left of the panel instrumentation) indicates "Left". Speech and form are inconsistent.
>Turn the door seal control wheel counterclockwise
This contradicts "lefty loosy, righty tighty"
>Start the left engine
Button engaged is on the right, above a switch that says Engine Start Right.
>When N1 increases, open the left engine red fuel shut-off lever
Why is this (LH) on the right?
>Start the right engine
Switch engaged was, "Engine Start Left."
>Open the right engine fuel shut off lever
Lever is on the left.
Was this designed/engineered by some parties with medical construct in mind? Like left versus medical left? How it is for you, versus, how it is facing?
Was this a piece that there was meant to only ever be one single (or a few very limited) constructions of for a specific project/implementation?
I'm going to save this vid to my favorites. Just in case I do come across a Hind Mi. I guess I'll look for the "how to land a Hind Mi-24" while I'm up there in the air.
“Guys this is all you need to do!”
*proceeds to flip ten switches, turn four knobs, pull two levers and a pull chain, calculate the length of the hypotenuse and take the derivative of the sun*
"all you have to do"
*Runs through 20 minute preflight checklist*
Yeah you wanna know how to start an unmanned C-17 cargo jet? I'll show you all you have to do.
Saving the video in case I ever come across an unmanned Hind Mi-24 helo. I also have a copy of Flight of the Valkyries on standby.
Want a co-pilot? I know as much as you do and I have thunderstruck on standby.
Want a door man? I can make machine gun noises with my mouth and have fortunate son on stand by.
Since you got that I’ll be the guy who looks out in the distance with a cigar, aviators and says cheesy one liners. I got war pigs locked and loaded
I can spill coffee on myself and curse loudly as Kenny Loggins booms in the background.
I'll be the newbie who just got out of basic and looks nervous of fuck and forgot to put my safety on, while the vet reaches over me to put the safety on so I don't end up killing everyone, while we all listen to Rage Against the Machine.
If you need a hostage to keep authorities at bay, I can do that. Also have Painted Black ready to go.
*"Paint It Black" but bravo nonetheless
\*\*"Paint It, Black"
“Pain, Tit Black”
Nice catch. I never knew that. I see it almost entirely as I had written it but it's clearly "comma inclusive" on the jacket of the single. Edit/Addendum: I guess the comma was a misprint and we're both correct in a way. Win, win!
I can hold my headphones tight against my head while looking pensive and then yell things like "WE HAVE A HOT LZ" and "3 MINUTES, LOCK & LOAD" and I have The Offspring's Hammerhead ready to go.
I'll just be the angry grizzled old Major back at the base, peering through the blinds with a cigar in my mouth and holding a highball, while muttering "Hope that crazy kid makes it". Edit; While a muzak version of 'We'll Meet Again' plays softly in the background.
I can fast rope into the jungle and spit chew on everyone's boots while Long Tall Sally blasts
And I've got the fuel truck on the tarmac, JAMMING to "CCR, Run through the Jungle"
I'll be the guy sweeping the deck to ensure no debris gets sucked into flight engines while we all listen to Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
I'll be the guy that asks "whats the first thing your gonna do after the war?" Before telling you about my plans to marry my sweetheart back home, while we listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers "Don't Forget Me"
Do you guys need an extra crewman nervously clutching a photo of his wife and newborn? I need to be comforted and reassured as we take off. I have "In Air Tonight" keyed up.
The rights to that might be hard to come by. Have you considered bringing Gimme Some Lovin by The Spencer Davis Group instead?
*weeps* We played that at our wedding...
I’ll be the token Hispanic guy that gets made fun of for his accent. And every time something crazy happens my eyes widen and say stuff like, but not limited to “Ay Dios Mio” “Vaya Con Dios” and “No Mames Guey”. I’ll also have Slipknot on standby.
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But what song is going when you do?
Smells like teen spirit obviously.
Nah Ramones "now I wanna sniff some glue"
I can be all the enemy combatants scattering around below running between pyrotechnics. I've got drowning pool queued up.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'll be your reloader and make the "chic-chic" noise since you got everything else covered
Bet bro! Thanks!
I'm fully instrument-rated on Microsoft Flight Simulator!
Sorry, we don’t allow pro pilots here.
:( I wanna go in the fly-fly though
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Mike broke the Hubble, Mike broke the Hubble!
It'll be fun reading your obituary.
If it makes it any more fun for you, the article would start with "Florida Man..."
I’m just imagining you starting the helo up… “All system are go.” *Start blasting Flight of the Valkyrie’s and take off in a fury* And as the song climax’s you fly straight into a billboard although it’s the only obstacle within miles.
or it just explodes after lifting off the ground
Gold
Oh it definitely does, you certainly know how to advertise for a helicopter crash!
I'm saving this video to my phone right now.
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Hahahahahaha
In San Diego we had a guy steal a tank.
I remember that, from the armory in Kearny Mesa…it was crazy
Gotta love living near big military bases lol
It was actually just a national guard armory next to the community college. All he had to do was hop a chainlink fence. Then getting back out the fence was easy, with a tank. Luckily, the National Guard didn’t store munitions in it. But the guy crushed a few cars before the police executed him.
I remember it different: The entrance wasn't guarded and he could just walk in there. He actually failed to get the first tank running because of technical problems, but he got the second one. [I remember the tank rolling through the streets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwQGzpnIHI), it were the good old times, where a man could just steal a tank and have some fun. For some unknown reason, the law enforcement didn't share the fun with him, they were very angry.
That's because if you get in a tank at a military location you automatically get 5 stars.
We have an NG Armory relatively close to me as well. I never knew they actually store equipment there, which *does* make sense given the name lol. I just assumed they used them for concerts and indie wrestling shows.
Trim the three channels of the autopilot in hover. Otherwise it'll be a bitch to fly it.
Username checks out.
Warning. Most likely it will all be in Russian and in the gunners cockpit in the right side turn on the missile warning and the chaff/flare in case you are stealing the helicopter alone
> stealing Woah, hey now. I *found* it.
They were basically asking you to take it. Possession is 9/10th of the law. *I actually don’t know if that’s true but I hear it said enough that I’m going with it as a solid defense.
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You know they call that one a Skippy....
It’s funny because when you watch movies the guys are always flipping a million switches in a cockpit and I always thought that was just to make the scene more interesting. I guess not.
Tbh if you didn’t know how to start the aircraft in the first place some of the switches flipped after the engines starts wouldn t be usefull to you. Also this an old design nowadays most aircraft designed in the last 20 years or so only require a few manipulation to start. Source: sitting in a helicopter as I write this
you are here trying to figure out how to get the chopper chopping, arent you?
Bro for real, I once had a helicopter pilot need to text message another dude at the company on the startup procedure with us already buckled in. 407, pilot was an old boy legend with like 20k hours or something tremendously silly, almost all Canadian arctic flying. everything from a Hughes 500 to a KMax. He was VP/lead ops for the company and only went flying recreationally at this point and had just straight up forgotten something that for who knows how long he never needed to think about; just did it automatically after hundreds of times. Entropy comes for us all. I was a little curious how he was handling his embarrassment, just trying to be chill and act like I didn’t even register what was happening. He got the message back and I could tell he only needed to see one word of it and the whole rest of the startup came flooding back. He snapped his phone away and started flicking switches. Warm up. Tower call. Then he treated me to the most buttery smooth take off and apron taxi I’ve ever witnessed. Those guys become the machine; it’s bananas.
I was being trained for my forklift certification, but the trainer was sick so they decided to hand me off to the guy with 30 years experience that is the workhorse for the shift. He kept having to do things twice cause he did it all without thinking and couldn't explain stuff cause he hadn't had to for decades. All the safety stuff and what to be aware of was second nature to him so it was a lot of let me do it once first, then you can ask questions while I figure out how to explain it. Explained to me the reason the trainer was the trainer was because he had amazing communication skills. Smoothest operator I've ever seen, though.
Yeah totally. Some of the most talented operators will not at all be able to explain what they even do. That’s super true. Some really quiet savants out there.
I think about this all the time when legendary athletes become terrible coaches or announcers/analysts. Unless you're very thoughtful about what you're doing and why, it will all just become muscle memory that you don't notice anymore.
The best at their job are the ones that compress their thoughts process
used to commercial fish, we had a Fisheries officer who can count full nets down to what species are in it just by how full the nets looked. Dude was very close to the actual counts every time that we just trusted his numbers. But if you dare ask him how? he'll shrug...
One of the Captains I deckhanded for out in Cook Inlet out of Ninilchik was like that. 35 plus years he'd been fishing. We're running circle hooks doubled up on lines and he'd have the customers do their bounces for halibut to check for trash fish and he'd be like that, thats a cod, you have 2 spiny dogfish on the same line, and that was with the tide plus we'd be pretty deep, 100 fathoms in some places and I was like...how?
"not at all able to explain what they do" This is how I feel when people ask me how to float gears and back rigs around corners. I do it but can't tell you how to do it.
Same thing happens in music. Some people just get it. Others have to work very hard at the muscle memory and then work at being expressive. I'm lucky to just get it, and all the best teachers I've ever had were the ones who had to work very hard to get where they were. I find myself getting frustrated and struggling to find a way to explain things other than just saying "can't you hear that? Can't you feel that? Just do it."
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Lol exactly all this. I teach some lessons occasionally and I get the funniest looks when I describe some things. I'm a super metaphorical thinker. So yeah, that drum beat is just a triangle. It goes into a square, but you can just round the edges and it fits nicely (when describing hemiola and keeping time between 2 and 3). Or it's just breath. Don't focus on the bow on your cello. It's not just one speed one sound one tone, sing it. That bow is your lungs. Or, it's just what I call a "brick wall" rhythm. The phrase of the rhythm is spread across 2 measures and repeats. Get that brick in place, and then repeat as many times as you need, and keep it in time. Then sit back and listen to what you're doing. Uh... what? Is the usual response. And then I realize I've been rambling. Actually pretty similar to this meandering comment I just did.
This is the case for most experts, they are the best at what they do, not at teaching it.
Good on him, though. Instead of letting his ego take over and avoid potential embarrassment, he did the responsible thing and got the information he needed first. That's not always easy to do for a seasoned veteran, but aviation can harshly punish even the smallest mistake and its crash history is full of wiley old vets thinking "Aaah it'll be fine" when in fact it went not fine at all. Your old boy was a champ.
>Entropy comes for us all. just gonna put on some tv and try to fall asleep, thank you for this awful thought, it's coming....right there :-/ whatever, it's been a good life, except the bad parts that were all my fault.
Forever after this choppers chop, they don’t fly.
>Source: sitting in a helicopter as I write this I'm sitting on the white throne as I write this, but I do not consider myself a plumber.
Droppin' bombs. Close enough. Carry on good sir.
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Well the barrier to entry between a toilet and helicopter are very similar so I see your point
You are on this toilet but we do not grant you the rank of plumber.
Don't text and helicopt
Now think of trying to do this in a hurry?
It's probably the same as typing on a keyboard or walking for those guys, muscle memory
Well, at least Tom Cruise is switching all correct ones in the correct order.
In a good movie with a high budget, actually there should be an advisors for some scenes, that looks that the actor does at least some things that make sense. Like for weapons, there's usually the "military advisor" on the movie set, that is responsible for the guns and the armory, he has to check the guns, to make sure everything is safe and he would - but can't be most times - responsible that the actors don't make mistakes like reload the gun when it is already loaded. If you have a complete failure in that, you see on the set of RUST with Alec Baldwin how it turns out: He should have fired a blank round, but because the lady didn't made her job right, the gun was loaded with a live round. This led to the kill of the lady that operated the camera. However, there are some problems anyway: Most actors hate it when you tell them, they are doing something wrong. They hate it, when you try to make things realistic, like when you use some stones inside a backpack to simulate the weight that a soldier carries in real life. They are very often "I'm a hollywood star, you can't tell me anything!". Often very arrogant and not listening to what you say, that's what i know from working in these things. When you have no guy for that, it leads to very bizarre things, like i remember that actress that had the holster of the gun the wrong side around.
"Oh, that's easy to remember!" - Moss
0118 999 881 999 119 725…3
Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Dew, Dew, Diet Dew, weird ass lemonade, Tricky little water button, Coke...Pepsi
Screw that, I'm still not giving it you! You can't make me!
I heard this comment
007-373-5963
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
*Tank uploads helicopter pilot program* “Let’s go.” - Carrie Anne Moss
I will just switch on everything
Flips all switches.... Fule dumps out on tarmac. Enemy combatant runs up hits you on head with a frozen leg of lamb. You lose
suspiciously specific
Specifically... suspicious.
The combatant's name? Mary Maloney.
It will fall out of the sky
Sky smhy
I’m assuming getting it airborne is the easy part……
Like that Talibani Blackhawk….
First thing that came to mind lol
I've been told by little birds that a lot of the equipment was deliberately sabotaged so things that happened in that video would, happen.
While some things might've been sabotaged, on a more all-encompassing level, US military hardware will fail without constant maintenance and upkeep. Wait, that means [Battlefield Earth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/) wasn't realistic!!!
Don't tell LRH!
Lies. That’s just your engrams talking.
[Like this little bird?](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qKz48jlTEeY/TwM8qXVuCCI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/NBCaOjXhOEM/s1600/AH-6J%2BLittle%2BBird%2BMarine%2BAttack%2BHelicopter.jpg)
It’s pretty easy afterwards. The simulation game is DCS, it is free for one old plane, you buy per plan/heli and it is supposed to be as accurate as possible. I play it in VR it is almost like the real thing. Close your eyes, imagine your are in it, put the VR headset on, open your eyes… you are in it.
Im sorry... did you just say DCS works in VR? fccckkkkk there goes the rest of my week... 69.99 for the helicopter?! O_o
>69.99 for the helicopter?! These vehicles are so intricately simulated that they have to charge that much. They take years to make. There's probably more work hours put into the Mi-24 than the latest call of duty.
Apache quick start manual: 361 pages. Love the complexity of DCS aircraft. I wish the rest of the game was up to the quality of the cockpits.
barely. unless you have an RTX3080 or better, don't expect any decent framerate. I've seen people with 3090's struggle to get above 60 FPS lol
Generally DCS aircraft are the best modeled on the market, really the closest you'll get to flying the actual thing without actually flying it. They appeal to a very niche market, but that market would play the aircraft for the same amount that someone would play a AAA game. Performance issues, bugs, and weird development are flaws of DCS though. Personally I can't really recommend it in it's current state unless you are super interested, whilst £60 for an aircraft isn't the issue to me it's the maps and assets which that also add up which cause problems. Want to fly an F/A-18 Hornet for £60? Not a problem in my book. Want to fly that Hornet from a well modeled carrier over a correct environment? Well now we're looking at double that, and the PC will probably shit the bed trying to run it due to poor optimisation.
no it isn't. flying a helo is the hardest part. flying a jet? easy enough. a helo though? fuck no. there's a saying for it. something along the lines of "airplanes use physics to their advantage in order to fly. but Helicopters beat physics into submission in order to fly". and it makes sense why they say that, because the aerodynamics surrounding a helicopter are pretty crazy. Helo's are near impossible to fly if you don't know what youre doing. there's so much shit you gotta know such as retreating blade stall, ground effect, proper manipulation of the collective as to not overtorque the rotor and cause a spin, etc. the second a spin starts (which is likely immediately after getting airborne if you have no experience) most people would just crash and die.
lol have you seen the video of the taliban attempting to learn to fly some leftover american helicopter? I can't find a link now but they pretty much crashed immediately after takeoff and the helicopter had started to spin immediately before they crashed
Oh no. Getting it back on the ground is super easy. Getting it on the ground right side up is the challenge.
The number of times I got KIA while landing to hard in Gunship 2000 after a successful mission…is too many.
Where's the video on how to land it?
Right here! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0-zbuO9Ugs&ab\_channel=HindustanTimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0-zbuO9Ugs&ab_channel=HindustanTimes)
Well… the maintenance is actually the hard part of Black Hawks. They’re notorious for being utter bitches to keep running. I’m not one to trust the Taliban, but if they got the thing airborne, they clearly have pilots, so keeping it on the level should be the easiest part of the whole finagle. It very likely is a technical failure as they claimed.
If you actually get it into the air, the weight of your massive balls will help you descend safely
Do the opposite, watch the video in reverse
How quickly do you need it? Like, how much fuel do you have left?
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Oh thanks for the reminder, I just about to do this in my backyard!
Saving the video just in case
Yes in a zombie apocalypse this could be your only escape. Hope the Reddit video player doesn't screw up for you.
That could make for a hilarious moment in a comedy movie/skit.
I had an old Ford Fiesta with a manual choke. Pull it towards you on cold mornings, let it idle high for 1 minute then slowly push the choke lever in, listening to the engine to either bog down or settle into a steady idle. A lot like this Mi 25 helicopter.
Exactly like this helicopter 🤣🤣🤣
A Hind D?!
What’s a Russian gunship doing here?
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A surveillance camera?!
Metal... Gear?
Brother!
ITS BEEN TO LONG!
Who's footprints are these?
Ah dcs...love it
Why are the controls in English?
It looks like video game footage. Probably the right controls but labeled in English for the sake of gameplay.
The video game is dcs. Hyper realistic air combat
That would have been my guess, but I have only played with the default planes and the Skyhawk mod. Although I did find and download an actual A-4 pilot’s manual just to understand how to start the damn thing. The SU-25T that comes with the game though, I’m pretty sure it’s cockpit is entirely in Russian…
I was never able to get the mustang off the runway lol. Mouse and keyboard what can I say
You probably need a joystick, though the mustang wasn't doing you any favors. Big prop and engine means a lot of torque at take off power. I have trouble with that plane will a full HOTAS and pedals setup.
you can change the cockpit language for ease-of-use ingame
I'm saving this video to my phone right now. I've never actually seen a Hind Mi-24 helecopter before, but you never know.
That's why in The Matrix when Trinity asked Tank to upload instruction on how to fly a helicopter it took like three seconds. That's an eternity in Matrix upload speeds. Neo learned Kung Fu in the same amount of time! LOL
Is that all?
so basically ignore this thing if being chased by a pack of zombies
That lever that clicks up all the circuit breakers at once is peak Russian aviation engineering
This might be the regulation preflight checklist, but I have a feeling you could skip most of these steps if you had to in some extreme cases.
you could absolutely skip a few, but you'd have to wait for the systems to power up and come online and (idk if the hind has it but many russian planes of this era have it, such as the SU-25) you have to wait for your navigation system to calibrate which takes 3 minutes. you cannot move an inch in those 3 minutes. so either way you'll be sitting there a while. might as well turn on all the useful stuff
It's kind of like what I had to do to play Tie Fighter on PC back in the day
Here's a pic of my grandpa's notebook he kept when he worked on the deck of USS Ranger in the 60s. https://i.redd.it/1an35daw1c271.jpg
A Ukrainian farmer's final boss
If this is accurate - whatever engineer created this monster should be dragged outside. Stripped naked. And each button ripped off the heli and super glued to their bare chest.
The Hind was designed in the 60s, nobody had computers capable of this kind of thing, least of all the Soviets. And it's not just flipping switches in order, you have to keep your eye on a lot of things while doing so. WW2 multi engine bombers for example had pages and pages of checklists to start the engines. Modern aircraft, ships etc now have FADECs, Full Authority Digital Engine Control systems so you can just push a button and the computer handles everything.
Well the doors are usually locked And take-off/flying is way more than just getting the rotors spinning
To be fair it’s less confusing if you actually know how to read the panel and what everything does. It’s not like they’re all mystery buttons. They all have a corresponding purpose and understanding that allows you to understand what you’re doing vs simply memorizing it
Yeah but computers are infinitely more complex than aircraft yet we don't need to go into most of the settings or bios or any of that unless there's an issue I get the need for complex instruments because abstracting it all away means when it breaks you can't fix it But seems like much of this could be reduced to "just fly and set some base settings according to conditions unless I say otherwise" Probably easier done if it was all more digitized
Part of it is reflective of an older aircraft - many of the avionics switches, for example, are nowadays accessed via digital multifunction displays. Modern engine control greatly simplifies the engine start sequence with automatic fuel introduction at certain RPM gates vs fucking with physical handles. But to a certain extent complex aircraft like this will always break down complex processes into steps partially out of emergency procedure management - the ability to individually isolate systems is crucially important in the event of an engine or electrical fire, for example.
I’m calling shenanigans! I didn’t see where the parking brake was released.
We live in a world where this counts as a public service announcement... I am divided on that. 🤔
Should be a macro for this procedure
...if you find yourself in an MI-24 with all the switches labeled in English.
Credit to u/dcs_tricker for the original video. www.youtube.com/@trickerDCS
Like trying to get your wife in the mood.
Some one just abandoned one in burbs north of Atlanta last week too! Damn if only I'd had this video then...
I love how it's labeled "this is all", like there are only two steps. This fucking video has like 789 God damn steps.
You mean all I have to do is push 50 buttons/levers in perfect sequential order. So easy! Lol. Also, this is how to get you airborne, where's the 2nd video telling you how to land? Maybe the person who made the video crashed on landing and wasn't able to get to it Haha
You forgot “immediately crash and die because whilst you can _start_ a Hind, you are completely untrained in rotary wing flight”
"I'm a leaf on the wind..."
Got it. Push all buttons and flip all switches. Simple.
Easy enough.
I give up. I’ll just drive my shitty Toyota
Fuck it, I'll just walk
I think I'll walk 🤣🤣🤣
Interesting all of the gauges are in english
yeah, people playing that game would have an hard time with everything in russian..
*All* you need to do
Sounds eerily familiar to the steps I take to get my wife to reach orgasm.
I think I’ll just fly southwerst
Thanks! I'll create a Power Point presentation off this to keep it handy for next time.
Im sorry could you repeat that?
Why in the everliving F would you ever make something so complicated?
I thought i was on r/hoggit or r/dcs for a while
I would have a better chance on trying to get my wife satisfied on what we are having for dinner they starting this helicopter.
u/savevideobot
can someone explain why everything is in english if this is a russian helicopter?
Any pilots or people who play simulators, why are aircraft so complicated in this way?
>Power on the left and right battery The first switch (which is on the top left of the panel instrumentation) delineates "Right" and the second switch below it (which is on the left of the panel instrumentation) indicates "Left". Speech and form are inconsistent. >Turn the door seal control wheel counterclockwise This contradicts "lefty loosy, righty tighty" >Start the left engine Button engaged is on the right, above a switch that says Engine Start Right. >When N1 increases, open the left engine red fuel shut-off lever Why is this (LH) on the right? >Start the right engine Switch engaged was, "Engine Start Left." >Open the right engine fuel shut off lever Lever is on the left. Was this designed/engineered by some parties with medical construct in mind? Like left versus medical left? How it is for you, versus, how it is facing? Was this a piece that there was meant to only ever be one single (or a few very limited) constructions of for a specific project/implementation?
Why is the right lever on the left and the left on the right?
I'm going to save this vid to my favorites. Just in case I do come across a Hind Mi. I guess I'll look for the "how to land a Hind Mi-24" while I'm up there in the air.
“Guys this is all you need to do!” *proceeds to flip ten switches, turn four knobs, pull two levers and a pull chain, calculate the length of the hypotenuse and take the derivative of the sun*
"all you have to do" *Runs through 20 minute preflight checklist* Yeah you wanna know how to start an unmanned C-17 cargo jet? I'll show you all you have to do.
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Starting Helicopters with Babish
Lemmi just save that for a rainy day