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Yes I noticed when I was already dropping and then maxed the collective it just accelerated the fall. Now I have learned to watch the altimeter, if it goes down quick, followed by the helicopter starting to shake I just nose dive a bit. But how do you safely descend from hover? To my surprise I was able to pull off sliding landings much easier than trying to land from a hover. By sliding landing I mean flying in fast and low then dropping the collective to almost nothing, nose up and dead stop slightly above the ground. And is it normal that a huey is almost uncontrollablly difficult to handle when trying to hover? Or is that something all helicopters have? Or, is my joystick and its settings to blame, or simply my inexperience? I can barely keep it straight and hovering (Using a T.flight thrustmaster, with the joysick axis softened at the center with a value of 40 each). I am also surprised that helicopters seem to be far easier to handle during high speed flying, while during slow flight or hovering the whole universe is out to make your bird crash

Thanks, so does the VRS basically cancel the airflow that is pushed downwards (which the rotors generate) because the helicopter is descending to fast, leaving the heli with no lift?

New pilot here. When attempting to descend, the following happens: After flying forward I slowly go into hovering, then start lowering collective to about 60% and the heli starts descending a bit at first, but then accelerates and it just falls out of the sky. What is causing that and I how to avoid it?

ok thanks, how often does one need to flip switches during actual flight? If it is only so click intensive during startup perhaps its not so annoying then.

Thanks, I was not able to find the file nate mentions, however I found this: \DCSWorld\Mods\aircrafts\Uh-1H\Cockpit\Scripts\clickabledata.lua Going to assume the command in somewhere in here, but named differently. cursor_mode = { CUMODE_CLICKABLE = 0, CUMODE_CLICKABLE_AND_CAMERA = 1, CUMODE_CAMERA = 2, }; clickable_mode_initial_status = cursor_mode.CUMODE_CLICKABLE Is this the option? EDIT: I set the cursor_mode to CUMODE_CLICKABLE_AND_CAMERA but it has 2 problems: 1. The mouse cursor is not centered with what I look at 2. The option disappears after clicking ALT C and then I am stuck with only the 2 default options

How to look around in the cockpit AND be able to press a switch without having to press ALT C first? (I am not using track IR)

Hi, I am new to the hardcore end of helicopter flight sims and I am some difficulties with basic controls involving freelook in the helicopter: (My setup is a HOTAS stick and mouse for freelook) 1. How to set the mouse Y to inverted when looking around in the cockpit? 2. Using ALT+C to enable clicking things in the cockpit I noticed you can not freelook with the mouse and simply click the switch you look at but instead it is required to press ALT+C everytime to click something. Is there a way around it? Feels rather cumbersome having to reach for ALT+C every time just to click on a switch I am already looking at.