Apache Pilot teaches you how to talk like a pilot; DCS Helicopters

Just a run down of some common terms and phrases used in the Army Aviation realm, to help you sound legit when you're on them multiplayer servers gettin' after it.
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[@themigmadmarine]

Next class: Talk like a WWI pilot. Quite short seeing as no one will hear you and you can say whatever you please to yourself.

[@CasmoTV]

The convos they must have had with themselves.

[@themigmadmarine]

Oh yea. Back in my glider flying days (we didn't have built in radios and I didn't own a handheld, so sort of a similar sense of solitude I expect) I found myself humming or singing to quite a lot.

[@cakebacon2194]

@@themigmadmarine *hums danger zone*

[@Zatracenec]

Until someone flying side by side sprayed You with Winchester. XD

[@bobcoughlan929]

Tally-Ho

[@Valkyrien04]

Came in expecting a few jokes, left with a few more check offs for my training board

[@flyinghuckleberry9419]

Frequent ones in the 229th virtual AHB are Beacon & Torch. Beacon meaning flight is formed on the runway and everyone has their smash off indicating ready to lift. Torch is then called by the lead indicating flight is about to pull pitch. It's our most elegant way of formation take-offs.

[@angrypandaification]

Very cool, learned some stuff. Anti-Smash I'll have to use that at work.

[@shd4618]

I'd like to think this is an emotive new pre-release technique that Polychop have formulated with ED. No more flashy cinematic vids. Just an ex helo jockey giving phraseology a few days before the new module arrives. I can dream I guess...........

[@CasmoTV]

Dream it dreamer. 😂 but if ED wants to give me a shout and let me test their hind I’m all for it!

[@LaggerYT1337]

@@CasmoTV Is "test" the euphemism for "joyride" now? :D

[@meanderingmarley3910]

Awesome video. Brought back some memories. If I may add some.... "Combat Cocked"...all preflight & before starting engine checks complete. If "scramble" was called, you jumped in, turned on the battery and cranked the bird. "No Joy"...the negative to "Contact/Visual/Tally". Usually used with ATC traffic conflict calls. "In Hot"...this was usually used for diving fire, and meant you were switches hot and rolling in on the target (followed soon after with a "Breaking Left/Right" call). "Back to the Barn"...RTB "Yankin' and Bankin'"...high speed, low level/contour flight. "Bring Scunion"...light up a target. (I may have aged myself with that one)

[@oldmanfunky4909]

"Anti-Smash" describes my wife perfectly.

[@ladon0222]

Just remember end every com with meow

[@CasmoTV]

God how did I forget time meow!?

[@Refuse2Lose33]

We did the same thing on subs during long transits across the Atlantic: "Conn, Sonar gain new broadband contact, designate Sierra 2, brg 278, meow" ...this was continued until the Officer of the Deck ripped open the curtain and thoroughly chewed our ass!

[@bohica76]

@@Refuse2Lose33 this reminds me of my time at ft hood, we changed our unit motto to BOHICA. we formed up directly across the quad from BN headquarters, and after a day or two of hearing us shout "BOHICA" several times a day (anytime the battery was called to attention) the BN CSM asked our 1SG what our motto meant. Needless to say, we were directed to select a new motto that afternoon.

[@Navoii.]

WE'RE DOWN *nyah*

[@projecttomcat]

@@bohica76 I just had to Google BOHICA. Not disappointed! 😂😂 Very apt for driving for a living.

[@PappyGunn]

Talk like helo pilot: "NO! NO! DON"T STRAP ME INTO THAT THING, NOOOOOOO!"

[@LaggerYT1337]

Great little quickie, I've learned a few new things (set/stack). :)

[@mikesolyom6884]

When I saw the title I was expecting to hear politically incorrect jokes. I guess mission oriented brevity codes work too. Thanks for sharing. Good stuff.

[@CasmoTV]

That’s the sequel.

[@Wolfhound_81]

@@CasmoTV Did I miss the sequel or isn't it out yet? :P

[@b00ce]

Torch and saddle are H-60 calls too, the typical SOP is to be wheels up 5 seconds after the torch call, so we take off simultaneously.

[@Tatsukoa808]

Slightly different for Marine Corps, but good information. Really enjoy the videos! Keep the content coming!

[@projecttomcat]

Liked within the first 10 seconds. The pirate comment tickled me quite a bit!

[@paristo]

KA-50 can and will orbit target with sensors on it, it is called "funneling" ;-). Nice thing is that you can automate it with autopilot and proper trimming for as wide you want or close you want. And you just don't have sensor on target, you have as well your cannon, rockets and missiles straight at the target area. You can fly at about 180-200 km/h while doing so IIRC. Once I while I was doing that at about 2km range I was required to jump out to the door. I came back maybe 10 minutes later and KA-50 was still performing almost perfect orbit around the target all by itself. The GPS track on KABRIS showed that deviation was very tiny as pattern it draw was large scale pendulum pattern. So truly a "hands-off" flying capability. At that point I have really trusted and spent time to learn how to utilize the AP multiple different ways.

[@CasmoTV]

Yeah with a bunch of set up and with it’s crazy rotor system I can see that. But a “traditional” orbit with a 35 deg slew is not in the cards. Interesting technique tho, I’ll have to try it out.

[@Zatracenec]

That's a coax rotor for ya. But yeah...cool stuff.

[@alexanderwallinpuska4376]

its so intresting becuse am a swedish army pilot and i love hering about this kind of words

[@phoenixsui]

Thanks, i find as a non pilot these things are the hardest to learn. Flying is and shooting is the easy part. Comms and Navigation is confusing to me ;D.

[@FlightLizard]

I remember my pilots used to refer to being strapped in vs having it strapped on. If you're strapped in, you're basically behind the aircraft, along for the ride. Having it strapped on is when it's an extension of your body, doing what you want it to do. I've known a few who had the aircraft consistently strapped on. These guys were just SH pilots.

[@remus120777]

First! Was waiting for something like this. Proper brevity is something very lacking in DCS tutorial vids.

[@Wolfhound_81]

Depends on what videos you watch.. if you expect that from casuals like the Grim Reapers, yeah.. :D

[@daveslow84]

Nearly spat out my coffee at that intro :D ARRRR

[@toejam7606]

We used bangers and mash for weapon selection awb413 bravo.

[@davet6024]

Do you army pilots use terms feet wet/dry, holding hands/kiss off, ripple/rio, or are those just naval?

[@CasmoTV]

Only Blackhawk pilots hold hands. That’s why they sit side by side. If those are joint terms we would use them if applicable but I don’t know them except the dry/wet ones.

[@davet6024]

@@CasmoTV holding hands is a notification to lead the flight has joined up, kiss off is a formation beak up, rio is a radio check in, ripple is the flight following check in, 2,3,4 etc

[@CasmoTV]

Those sound like unit specific. You will heard “saddle” for flight formed. We used to say “eagle” in the Kiowa community atleast where I was.

[@davet6024]

@@CasmoTV I think they were just naval. I was a marine CH46 guy. All that navy bleed over is so opposed to army it’s hard to keep up. I work wild fire now and still find myself abusing the old brevity terms and have to absorb the “uh, what?” Stuff over the radio.

[@CasmoTV]

Yeah could be. How’s that wild fire stuff treatin ya? Sounds exciting!

[@PeachStateATV]

I was MLRS or 13M , i wish dcs would get us artillery guys involved

[@TheColdMast]

What does it mean when Apache pilots say during combat: "Put me in constraints".

[@CasmoTV]

Constraints of the weapon selected. Meaning in a position where you can fire

[@gerardheil8303]

Never got around to asking you this but what do you think of the Ka-50 and it's sensors and abilities, as well as co-axial design compared to the Kiowa and Apache you flew? Obviously the workload is much higher, and the sensors and visibility are not nearly as good, but the basic idea of the Ka 50 and how it was designed was it was suppose to work in teams of 3 with 2 Ka-50s, and a Ka-29 doing the recon and relaying target info to the Ka-50s, who then would get pointed in the right dircetion to use their weapons. Obviously not as versitle as a 2 seat, shared work load but at least we get an attack helicopter we can pilot with just one person in a sim :) A lot of people critisize the co-axial design and the apparent danger of having the 2 rotars intersect and smash together during certain flight envelopes, but are conventional designs like the Apache and Kiowa immune from tail boom strikes?

[@CasmoTV]

I think if you don’t fly like a jerk you dont smash your rotor lol. I haven’t had that happen since I first flew it, and back then I was just stressing it to see what it could do. Modern birds have their own set of problems as well. The Kiowa operators manual stated in chapter 5 that “rapid full left pedal inputs above 90 knots could result in the tail rotor striking the tail boom”. As for the sensors I just wish it was night capable. It certainly works better with help.

[@gerardheil8303]

@@CasmoTV Yeah from what I hear you can make it sorta night capable with the right contast and brightness dialed on the shkval and the cocklit lighting set just right but you can't track with the shkval and you have to be really close to make them out. Sorta partially night capable but nothing like you would have with a FLIR system. I read and have heard that the AH-64D when fully loaded also needed to do rolling takeoffs in high and hot enviroments like Afgahnistan, but then apparently a lot of helicopters struggle in those conditions espesially loaded up.

[@CasmoTV]

That’s very true. Most times you don’t fly fully loaded anyhow.

[@gerardheil8303]

@@CasmoTV well really in most scenarios you'd run out of gas long before you fired 8 hellfires, all your rockets in the two pods and 300 rounds of 30mm even with the robbie tank. So why take it all.

[@andreaalbanelli514]

Hi Casmo, im trying to write down a SOP for heli operations with the material that i find online, is this kind of brevity used only in your squadron or is it common used in every branch of NATO helicopter squadrons? thanks for your time

[@CasmoTV]

Common

[@andreaalbanelli514]

@@CasmoTV oke, if a military heli need to take off from an airforce base what he have to do? he need to request start up and take off from the parking area? or he need to taxi out for the runway assigned by ATC? sorry for all this question

[@MarcPutniorz]

Casmo your videos are fantastic thank you for what u do. I am a British AAC Brat who spent alot of time around helicopters and pilots like your self and unfortunately failed medical due to very bad eye site so have never actually got to experience being a combat pilot. c'est la vie. I was wondering if you could help with some deeper information, I was lucky enough to be let into the old Apache sim with the 6 dimension legs with my father and other members of 664sqn AAC. When firing hellfire they would use "Missile Away" in cockpit. When they set up a scenario where we where firing for another Apache and ground units they would use "shot over" They said this keeps it in line with Artillery speak for groundies. Is the "Missile away" and the brevity term "Rifle" a difference in the way the Americans operate to the British? I find American brevity manuals that refer to "Rifle" as a general AGM so that makes sense but then the NATO brevity manual has this listed as a Maverick Missile Launch. Does America operating independently carry different brevity other then when its operating as part of a NATO Force? I cant ask the old man or the lads in 664 because they are British not American. You being a qualified American Apache pilot maybe you could shed some light on this. NP if not im just a massive nerd for Helicopters.

[@CasmoTV]

The short answer is that the Joint Fires publication states that an A/G missile launch is “rifle”. Saying “rifle away” (which some do) is redundant and I avoid it.

[@MarcPutniorz]

@@CasmoTV hey thanks applicate it mate, so it can come down to personal style and at what stage someone was trained type thing.

[@kzrlgo]

Manning is that you?

[@TheDiego1255]

Is there brevity for shooting unguided rockets like hydra

[@astrosloth6342]

so just for communication in general do you use the same radio etiquette as ground comms? just wondering because ive seen radio etiquette guides but they never clarify whether its ground or air forces talking.

[@CasmoTV]

There really is no difference.

[@astrosloth6342]

@@CasmoTV thanks for the response, this confused me for a while

[@jacobclemens7389]

5 year enlisted marine 0311/0317 looking to switch over to woft! Do you have any ideas where guard units have stationed their Apache units?

[@CasmoTV]

Google it cause I’m not sure. I know NC and SC have some.

[@PeachStateATV]

are they adding the little eyeball helicopter that flys with the apache, the eye in the sky?

[@styleofender8945]

YARRRR

[@WinchesterDelta1]

Great a new video :)

[@Sven2157]

@2:24 How in the hell is that Bell's rotor in front of the Apache's port side tire? 🤔

[@slow9573]

Were you able to wear the cool cav hats in flight?

[@CasmoTV]

Not in flight but I would keep it on the dash sometimes.

[@Zatracenec]

They would, but it was tricky to attach IHADSS to these. :)

[@slow9573]

Zatracenec should have cut the rim out and put it over the flight helmet. Instant cav helmet

[@Zatracenec]

@@slow9573 I think we need some dedicated forum on "how to" for Apache pilots. :-D

[@dietcoke759]

During rotary CAS 5-lines in the Marine Corps I would hear them say something like "left shoulder, right pull" I think in the remarks. What does that mean?

[@CasmoTV]

Probably means “attack over my left side and egress with right turns” but I’ve never heard it stated quite like what you wrote.

[@rayedwards743]

Hi. Not being a pilot or knowing much about the lighting of aircraft, I am wondering if you could explain something. In training, what are the different lighting configurations you use ? One person told me no lights or only one red means you are in stealth mode using night vision for the exercise. Is this true ? Do you ever fly with no lights is training ? My buddie said he saw a chopper just after dark with one red light hovering for over 15 minutes. Is that normal training ?

[@CasmoTV]

Lighting is regulated by the FAA unless in a military training environment but not there is no “stealth mode”. Under NVGs some lights can be turned off to avoid a hazard in flight due to the flashing.

[@mr.pickles5814]

True in flight ops in Iraq in Afghanistan at night we were on NVG the whole time so form lights were all set to IR, on the deck the collision and nav/taxi lights blink or steady, and bright or dim were all used for different readiness indicators during startup and taxi. Not sure if it's all branches but a standard in the USMC HMLA communities.

[@indyjons321]

Sky Pirate

[@CasmoTV]

Air pirates from Disney’s Tail Spin.

[@sahhull]

Com with a Murican slant. British use different com

[@CasmoTV]

They also drove on the wrong side of the road so…

[@sahhull]

@@CasmoTV I know Muricans have a history with Tea but since many words are spelled with a T. What does it take to make a Murican to pronounce one in a word? 'DooDee' - Duty 'Cridical' - Critical 'Paddern' - Pattern

[@skykaptain007]

How do we talk like a helicopter pirate?

[@CasmoTV]

Future content.

[@skykaptain007]

@@CasmoTV YARR!

[@Netbug]

The thought of speaking like this in a sim outside of a training setting feels kind of lame.