DCS: UH-1H Huey: Paradise Lost Campaign Preview!

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Great video, as usual, Red! Thank so much for posting it. Good flying too, especially hovering above those rocks. BTW that musical bit at 'Mission complete' was actually me playing my guitar so I'd be surprised if YT would have complained, but you never know :D

[@spigot993]

Nice one Greg, I love the Huey and this is a GO for me.

[@jetfrostgaming]

Gosh man, you guys make the best campaigns

[@ReflectedSimulations]

@@jetfrostgaming thanks, much appreciated :)

[@stephengilmore2741]

One day... perhaps the window wipers will actually do something. Anything.

[@Knubinator]

Truck sim has had it for years.

[@youraveragejoe9298]

Of course, wouldn’t be a 60’s story with hueys without a touch of fortunate son!

[@RedKiteRender]

imgur.com/t/war/7JeoHKL

[@Joejoe-vd2do]

2 way switch and both are on position.

[@falanglao01]

​@@RedKiteRenderLooks like a DCS-mod. If someone could create a mod with a speaker for the Huey, this would be so awesome. Kinda like Battlefield Vietnam, where you could play all these CCR songs & Ride of the Valkyries of course. ❤❤

[@fangsout305]

Man, a Vietnam era campaign for the Huey and multiple different types of missions, (Psy ops , VIP transport and SAR), sign me up. Also it’s cool that it’s made by a prodigy of a campaign designer, Reflected

[@bradADMaxe]

I second fangs out comments. This looks great. When can we get our flight suits sweaty ?

[@utley]

A few huey pointers: cruise speed is 90kts, and keep your torque PSI at around 30-35 psi. You dont want to be using your collective a whole lot during missions. If you look at your gas producer, you will see you are close to red lining...you keep it up, you burn your engine out.

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks for the tips! As you probably can tell i’m not a regular Huey flier. Had to figure out the radios on the fly. Most of my heli flying is from the ka-50 so i’m inclined to fly it a similar way out of habit.

[@utley]

@@RedKiteRender Yep. Ive got more than 1800 hours in this heli, and not messing with the collective makes it that much easier to fly hands off. Normally your co pilot will be fiddling with the radios, so unless you're flying in MP, you would fly with easy radios on; only exception would the the homing radios.

[@spigot993]

Really nice, love the Huey and Greg is doing some great work. That's a lot of fuel you're carrying there RK!

[@carloolivier1940]

Thanks for the preview! Definitely considering this campaign!

[@patrickdrives]

"We're still receiving sporadic fire".... "Okay, let's blow up the whole village" ... That works, I guess.

[@nickgrey4136]

Super video, many thanks indeed. Kind regards Nick

[@lankypilot778]

Unfortunately only flicked through so not to spoil it on playthrough, but by far one of my most eagerly awaited campaigns!!

[@sedlo]

Looking great!

[@henryoshea4951]

The noise at 21:38 is the beacon on an ejection seat transmitting

[@RedKiteRender]

Yep, figured it was shortly after.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

An F-4 Phantom ELT, no less ;)

[@AbsoluteBeginner2010]

Hopefully DCS will have more helicopters in the future, like a Black Hawk. Can't wait for the AH-64D...

[@RealDarko]

Thanks for the video, really looking forward to this campaign!

[@veteran35th]

OK, thought you were a good fixed wing pilot, but you must have spent hours perfecting that smooth Huey flying! Bravo.

[@thunderace4588]

Thank you for making this video.

[@UMa5ta]

It would be a good campaign. But setting up the radio equipment kills the whole gameplay. The co-pilot can configure the radio equipment. Preset AN/ARC - 51B frequencies can be used. You can use the AN/ARC frequency sequence-131 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 MHz.

[@RedKiteRender]

The DCS Autopilot does 'okay' most of the time, i hope they overhual it sometime like the Ka-50 / A-10c

[@cowboy10uk]

Now if it’s playable as a coop, so long as you both own the campaign. Then that would be stunning and solve the radio issue.

[@fh4635]

I will definetely buy this campaign when it becomes available but would prefer the missions being devided into shorter ones. I understand the immersion and realism aspects but I have only so much free undisturbed time and devotion to repeat 90 minutes long missions if I fail to e.g. hover at the end of it. I know, I know, "get good"... :-).

[@ReflectedSimulations]

This is the longest mission of the campaign. Others are more like 45 min-1h. You can also use time acceleration.

[@armaaviator8060]

I'm afraid that you just created a monster my friend. That was my village and I really miss my dog Harry killed in that bombing atrocity. Just for that I'm going to have to fly over your village and avenge Harry with the Harrier. Maybe today maybe in ten years but I'm coming. Best wishes.

[@a47mlb]

Boy, that ship landing would have had the deck crew scrambling. Have never seen a sliding helo deck landing. I think I’m impressed?? ;)

[@hakulus3037]

Cannot wait for this one!

[@bradADMaxe]

How does one make the F-10 radio communications during flight. It’s only available while I’m weight on skids. Thanks again for such a great campaign. Only finished two missions and it is great.

[@RedKiteRender]

You need to push the specific radio key not the general radio button which is for use to talk with the ground crew or with easy radio enabled.

[@mikeedevilla9730]

Wait they’re speaking Tagalog pero it’s in Guam? 6:30?

[@weswheel4834]

Helicopters are psy ops. Flying them does my head in anyway ;) 09:00 "Don't feel so good about that one" - Glad it wasn't just me :) Thanks for the video, think I'll need to practice a bit in the Huey.

[@sloppydog4831]

'Good morning Viet-Guam!!!'

[@cenkcdemir]

Is there a ETA for this campaign? BTW huey is very old now. It needs a massive texture overhaul

[@ReflectedSimulations]

No ETA, hoping within the next few months, but that's not up to me. Yes, I'd love a Huey overhaul too, but that's not up to me either, I'm just a mission designer haha :)

[@alexsp7086]

They should make a Vietnam assets pack.

[@ka-50withsaams36]

Is that Casmo I hear?

[@RedKiteRender]

The credits: (sadly not attributed to specific characters) VOICE ACTING: Apache600, Epolta, Casmo, Wolfpack345, Ultra, Rob Evans, Steven Williamson, Michael Youngblood, Home Fries, and the DCS Philippines community

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Yeah, Casmo is 'Mac'. He'll be your Aircraft Commander in the first few missions before you become one too.

[@King2Stone]

ED should remaster the Huey, as they've done with the A-10 and are currently doing with the Black-Shark for the second time.

[@RedKiteRender]

Would love it, I'm sure people over at ed are eyeing it, just they're rather busy with the Apache, KA-50 3.0 and Hind at the moment.

[@cowboy10uk]

Ok, I’m impressed. Pity it sounds like it switches to guns halfway through though. Desperate for a proper full slick campaign. Always find flying slicks to be a lot more interesting than just blasting things. That aside, I’ll certainly be purchasing the campaign, will just likely stop at the guns part.

[@TiramisuCorleone]

Sorry if I missed something, but does the aircraft actually get heavier when you load troops?

[@RedKiteRender]

You can increase the weight of the aircraft's internal payload via triggers in the mission editor. Damn shame there's no visual representation of it.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

You bet it does :)

[@TiramisuCorleone]

@@ReflectedSimulations Thanks, I appreciate that kind of details.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

@@TiramisuCorleone while playing the campaign, I'm sure there will be moments when you won't :) Like hovering out of a tight LZ, heavily loaded with troops, under AK fire...

[@Eagle01ph]

Nice... the psywar message is in Tagalog... I'll enjoy this

[@willmorrell488]

Not on the same scale as the psyop's we're living through but its pretty interesting as a mission and not something I'd associate with DCS.

[@therealCG62]

Oof, you were pulling the guts out of that huey for most of the flight. Be warned that DCS does model overstress failures if you run the huey at too high of a power setting for too long. In my experience you kinda just have to accept that you're going to be cruising in the 80 knot range most of the time, especially when you're fat with fuel. The campaign looks cool, but I would hope that any future down bird events in it have a bit more of a response. What I've read on aircrew recoveries in Vietnam paints a picture of a much larger, multi-aircraft response- even if you've got a helo in the area able to pick the guys up quick, you'd still expect a gun (or even better, a gun and a scout) to come up, maybe some fixed wings with a FAC to direct them, and sending the other helo home is like... nah man, you want that guy up there flying racetracks telling you what he sees and taking over the radio work (i.e. talking to home base to let them know what's going on, coordinating those supporting aircraft that should be on the way so they're all setting up and deconflicted, maybe even getting an aerorifle platoon in the air in case there's a need for troops on the ground to clear an LZ or to help extract a wounded man who can't walk out on his own, all that), and even if he isn't doing all that that's a second helo that can come fish your ass out if you end up going in while you're trying to pick up your downed pilots. Shame we don't have an earlier model cobra in the game to complement the huey, be real nice even as an AI asset.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

There will be some coordinated efforts too, sometimes you'll even be in the gunship. This one was not one of those, Rota is supposed to be far from the enemy - or apparently not far enough :)

[@quadg5296]

The preferred support of callsign jollygreen CSAR birds was a flight of 4 callsign Sandy A-1 skyraiders. Many downed pilots were saved by sandy before being picked up by jollygreen. The Sandy had a slow airspeed and a long loiter time, so they could help with the search as well as provide lethal ground attack from their 20mm cannon and 15 pylons. They became really skilled at working with the jollygreens. and would often control the rescue in the FAC role. its a shame we cannot have jollygreen and sandy working together. they would call in any other aircraft in the area as support. gunships and slicks.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

@@quadg5296 I would also love to see A-1s in DCS. Thanks for the info!

[@RedKiteRender]

Yeah, i wasn't taking great care of my whirlybird, mostly out of inexperience, used the Huey a good bit over the years but never commited to learning it in much detail!

[@therealCG62]

@@RedKiteRender The huey is a great aircraft to learn, getting good on it pays massive dividends on every other helo IMO. Unfortunately it's also one of those early DCS aircraft that could really use with a big update- IIRC it doesn't conform to the current right click = up/right switch logic that all the newer stuff does.

[@CocoDave37]

Turn the wipers off Redkite! AND set that altimeter, it was off by 500ft :)

[@RedKiteRender]

I did spot the baro altimeter, i corrected it by eye during the island transit if i remember correctly. I'm guessing the Wipers have an airspeed limit?

[@kenba96]

if this is the american way no wonder they keep loosing the locals

[@ezekielcruzada108]

6:19 lol it's a Filipino language 😂

[@coreyballard8359]

Not great for local relations at all..

[@bobtank6318]

"What do you mean bombing civilian houses will make them more likely to shoot us?" - random US commander in Vietnam, 1968

[@SnowTiger45]

I swear DCS is just getting worse. All that work to try to get rain to look real on the windshield but zero effort to make the wiper blades look like do anything. I just don't know that I'll ever bother with DCS again. It has been 2 years now and little has changed for the better IMO.

[@RedKiteRender]

In The Huey it’s excusable as it’s very old now, due an overhaul/ remaster. I don’t like that the Hind launched without wipers interacting with rain, apache probably will too. Which is a damn shame, hope it doesn’t end up like the Flir overhaul we’re still waiting for that was due with the Atflir on the hornet, least it’s being teased with the Apache!

[@utley]

just bitching about the minor stuff

[@RedKiteRender]

It is minor, but at the same time it’s an obvious omission that negatively effects immersion, we’ve had rain drops for a good long time now.