Still, if you are not willing to spend a lot of money on a sim has proven itself over the years and, perhaps, make it as a less-expensive way to get into sims, it can help you achieve that. ![]() The helicopters feel heavy and you lose a lot of makes helicopters what they are. The flight dynamics are pretty bad for rotorcraft. Helicopter wise, it’s frankly weak, though. Microsoft Flight Simulator X - screenshots by Hamza Omar This brought somewhat of a new life to the sim which is one of the most inexpensive in the market and a great gateway for simmers out there. The company recompiled the code and made it available via Steam. Not as stronger as before, of course, but the user base is still pretty strong.ĭovetail Games picked it up and released FSX: SE (Steam Edition). Good old FSX is still around and kicking (and some folks still use FS2004).ĭevelopment of the sim has stopped years ago still, mostly due to the fact that people can use it as a base or a framework to build their dream sim, it’s still going strong. Microsoft Flight Simulator X - screenshot by Hamza Omar But does our final verdict change as well? Let’s see. Virtual Reality is also becoming stronger and we now have a sim that we couldn’t include before because it didn’t have a helicopter until last year.Ī lot has changed. Some sims have disappeared, others have evolved and a new one (which we will obviously not include in the list) is still in the making. Our original “best helicopter simulator” goes back to 2016. My eyes whirled independently of each other throughout, like a man possessed.I’ll admit it. I once filmed my face during a sortie with a video camera as an experiment. It was a year before mine disappeared altogether…. As the eyes adjusted over the following weeks and months the headaches took longer to set in. They started within minutes, long before take-off…. ![]() New pilots suffered terrible headaches as the left and right eye competed for dominance. The monocle left the pilot’s left eye free to look outside the cockpit, saving him the few seconds that it took to look down at the instruments and then up again…. At the flick of a button, a range of other images could also be superimposed underneath the green glow of the instrument symbology, replicating the TADS’ or PNVS’ camera images and the Longbow Radars’ targets. ![]() A dozen different instrument readings from around the cockpit were projected into it. A monocle sat permanently over our right iris. Even our eyes had to learn how to work independently of each other. Three years in total….įlying an Apache almost always meant both hands and feet doing four different things at once. If you weren’t, you’d have to add four months for ground school and learning to fly fixed wing at RAF Barkston Heath, six months learning to fly helicopters at RAF Shawbury, half a year at the School of Army Aviation learning to fly tactically, and a final sixteen-week course in Survival, Evasion and Resistance to Interrogation, courtesy of the Intelligence Corps’ most vigorous training staff. And that was if you were already a fully qualified, combat-trained army helicopter pilot. It took six months just to learn how to fly the machine, another six to know how to fight in it, and a final six to be passed combat ready. ![]() To train each Apache pilot from scratch cost £3 million (each custom-made helmet alone had a price tag of £22,915). Ever wonder what it takes to become an Apache helicopter pilot? Former British Army Air Corps pilot Ed Macy gives this description in his 2009 book Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machine.Īs the most technically advanced helicopter in the world, the Apache AH Mk1 was also the hardest to fly….
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