Huey wish list

[CptTangerine]

Definite +1 on the 3D troops on board.

[slowmover]

I want to suggest some things:

1.Removable pilot copilot doors

2.Adjustable Window (pilot-copilot)

3.Removable cabin doors

4.Ns430 working on Vr and implemented on the cockpit

5. External hoist

 

Can some inform us if there are going to anything of that we asking to be working or we waste time here on this post?

[CptTangerine]

1 - 4, don't really care.

 

 

5. YES PLEASE! We really need some SAR choppers.

[Bananabrai]

1. APKWS! Had to mention it after a comment in the Hornet + GBU-54 debate

at least for the small 7x tubes...

 

2. hoist, awesome but hard to make, a whole new sim environment

3. RWR, deselect-able in the ME (like weapon pylons)

[Eight Ball]

Can some inform us if there are going to anything of that we asking to be working or we waste time here on this post?

 

It's not a waste of time but there's a trick.

The features we request are eventually implemented...in the Mi-8.

 

I'm not exactly sure where should we post our requested features for the huey but if the last 7 years (!) are anything to go by it's certainly not in this thread.

[Guile]

Thank you so much for the Invisible FARP! working great and it reflects how a landing platform is not needed, just a couple of trucks for ammo, fuel and comms. Quick set up.

[Tanuki44]

It would be nice if we actually got the correct M60 reflex sight for the pilot......

 

 

 

See Post

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/english/digital-combat-simulator/dcs-uh-1h-huey/7139897-reticle-pattern-m60

[Volator]

Thank you so much for the Invisible FARP! working great and it reflects how a landing platform is not needed, just a couple of trucks for ammo, fuel and comms. Quick set up.

 

Invisible FARP? You got my attention...

 

 

[Volator]

1. APKWS! Had to mention it after a comment in the Hornet + GBU-54 debate

at least for the small 7x tubes...

 

2. hoist, awesome but hard to make, a whole new sim environment

3. RWR, deselect-able in the ME (like weapon pylons)

 

2 + 3 would be great (a hoist should be de-selectable via ME as well though)

 

Wouldn't APKWS require a laser designator? I'd say this is pretty far fetched for a UH-1H if you think of an on-board device.

[Bananabrai]

 

2 + 3 would be great (a hoist should be de-selectable via ME as well though)

 

Wouldn't APKWS require a laser designator? I'd say this is pretty far fetched for a UH-1H if you think of an on-board device.

 

No on-board device! Of course only the original rockets with the retrofitted guiding section.

The rest needs to be sorted out with JTAC or another platform lasing.

[Northstar98]

Wasn't the UH-1H out of service by the time APKWS came around?

[Guile]

 

Invisible FARP? You got my attention...

 

 

yeah, it allows you to place the static item "invisible FARP" in ME, that way the only actual equipment you see in the mission is the fuel, ammo and commo vehicles, no landing platform. This is the typical setup as a field FARP.

[Alligator]

UH-1Y anyone? Dual engines, 4 rotors and glass cockpit. That thing is badass!

[ebabil]

 My huey wishlist now just proper visual glass on windows. Keep low your hopes. No body's reading here

[shagrat]

On 11/16/2020 at 8:19 AM, Pilot Ike said:

 

2 + 3 would be great (a hoist should be de-selectable via ME as well though)

 

Wouldn't APKWS require a laser designator? I'd say this is pretty far fetched for a UH-1H if you think of an on-board device.

Not at all. Usually they are intended mostly to be lased by a JTAC, or aerial platform that can stay "on target" without flying into the enemies weapon envelope, while lasing. DCS Singleplayer often promotes a "lone wolf" playstyle, instead of a more realistic integrated battlefield.

APKWS for the UH-1H would be cool. Especially with the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior on the horizon and the A-10C II, F/A-18C and F-16C with their TGPs getting popular...

Edited December 5, 2020 by shagrat

[Volator]

I don't know. APKWS on the Huey would make it even more Frankenstein than it already is.

 

The Huey simply isn't meant to be a platform for a virtual 21st century battlefield. We don't need APKWS on the Huey in DCS - what we really need in DCS is an Apache and a Blackhawk (and APKWS for the F-16, F/A-18, AV-8B, A-10C,...) to perform the tasks that some want to enable the Huey for . Otherwise we could also demand APKWS and LGBs and AIM-9X for the F-86.

 

But I understand this is a wishlist thread, everybody can wish whatever he desires. I'm just offering a second thought on this, don't hate me for that

[Alligator]

On 12/5/2020 at 8:29 AM, Pilot Ike said:

I don't know. APKWS on the Huey would make it even more Frankenstein than it already is.

 

The Huey simply isn't meant to be a platform for a virtual 21st century battlefield. We don't need APKWS on the Huey in DCS - what we really need in DCS is an Apache and a Blackhawk (and APKWS for the F-16, F/A-18, AV-8B, A-10C,...) to perform the tasks that some want to enable the Huey for . Otherwise we could also demand APKWS and LGBs and AIM-9X for the F-86.

 

But I understand this is a wishlist thread, everybody can wish whatever he desires. I'm just offering a second thought on this, don't hate me for that

 

I wonder why nobody is talking about the UH-1Y or the Blackhawk too. The Y huey could carry APKWS rockets

Edited December 6, 2020 by Alligator
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[Gunnar81]

I mean I'd love to see the Y more than anything, I just think with it being a newer whirly ED wouldn't get the proper documentation to build it right. I think an N model would be the best we could hope for, or the Blackhawk like you say.

[Volator]

Are there other operators for the UH-1Y than the USMC? 

 

I'd say that's too narrow for simulation purposes. UH-60 is operated by many nations and branches, that would probably be more interesting for most users. But if any developer decided to go for the -Y instead, sure, why not. It would go well with the RB Harrier and the Tarawa. It would just be a very limites scenario simulation-wise. 

[hannibal]

of my 4 main wishlist items for the Huey Door gunner 

 

1) multicrew multiplayer slots

2) de-couple the player view from the doorgun (so that the player can look independently of the doorgun and not have "gun face" with the doorgun stuck to my face when playing the doorgunner position)

3) analog axis assignments for doorgunner actions (gun up/down, left/right) mappable to joysticks (not only for mouse)

4) proper VR support as the doorgunner role (supporting the above items)

 

I SEE THAT THE NEW PATCH DCS 2.5.6.59398 Open Beta has made my wishlist item #1 a reality....

Thank you ED.. and @PilotMi8 for the reply..

 

Hoping the other items will be reality down the road..

GIVE US DCS DOORGUNNER SIMULATOR!

Edited December 18, 2020 by hannibal

[Cowboy10uk]

On 12/18/2020 at 6:01 PM, hannibal said:

of my 4 main wishlist items for the Huey Door gunner 

 

1) multicrew multiplayer slots

2) de-couple the player view from the doorgun (so that the player can look independently of the doorgun and not have "gun face" with the doorgun stuck to my face when playing the doorgunner position)

3) analog axis assignments for doorgunner actions (gun up/down, left/right) mappable to joysticks (not only for mouse)

4) proper VR support as the doorgunner role (supporting the above items)

 

I SEE THAT THE NEW PATCH DCS 2.5.6.59398 Open Beta has made my wishlist item #1 a reality....

Thank you ED.. and @PilotMi8 for the reply..

 

Hoping the other items will be reality down the road..

GIVE US DCS DOORGUNNER SIMULATOR!

 

Just come here to post these very requests.   I hope they pick up on them.    VR in Multicrew is amazing but the gunner controls leave a lot to be desired.    Let us look around independently from the gun in VR, so we can assist our pilots with sling loads, confined landings etc.

[Swift.]

Signal Distribution Panel for Copilot.

Now that Multicrew is a thing, the lack of a second signal distribution panel has become an obvious issue. The real helicopters have one for each pilot so that they can each choose which radio their PTT trigger works on and which radios they are listening to. 

[Rover]

6 hours ago, Swiftwin9s said:

Signal Distribution Panel for Copilot.

Now that Multicrew is a thing, the lack of a second signal distribution panel has become an obvious issue. The real helicopters have one for each pilot so that they can each choose which radio their PTT trigger works on and which radios they are listening to. 

+1 to that. New features brings new "lack of features". 

The copilot "view zoom" level also could need some adjusting, or ad a "binocular".

 

[bacongrabber]

Infra-red position nights for night ops. The controls are there for it but they have never worked. 

[Grievo]

1.) +1 on removable doors. Both cockpit and sliding. Pics of the DoS Hueys in the Middle East and Afghanistan show a lot of doors off work. Might jazz it up enough to make some nice DoS missions and campaigns in the Syria map.

 

2.) Two weapons pylon options, front and back. So I can fly a slick without all the bushranger sighting equipment set up in the front.

 

3.) Ground units such as stretcher parties, infantry carrying wounded. Would make a big difference for Mission editor scenarios.

 

4.) Infantry able to go prone. Again for ME.

 

5.) Disembarking infantry appearing outside the aircraft fanned out and preferably prone, rather than stacked up in a queue like they just got off the bus.

 

6.) And for the hail mary, a Hoist and visible troops/medics/cargo/winchops in the back, depending on the loadout, and shifting weight to go along with it.

 

I'd also like to see, if not a HH-60G Pave hawk/MH-60G Blackhawk/UH-60 Blackhawk module, now we know apache is on the way, then a combined B212/412 Huey module. This will cover UH-1Ns, as well as a bit of a cover for 212 or 412 variants used by many militaries the world over, including the Canadians who give them funny names just to be clever.