REVISED Engine Start | DCS OH-58D Kiowa Warrior

A second look at the engine start with some revised information.
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Hardware:
intel core i9-13900k, 64GM RAM, Zotac 4090 GPU
Joystick: VKB Gunfighter III with 20cm extension
Pedals: Virpil ACE
Throttle: Virpil Mongoose 3

[@AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH-y5f]

Lasing targets in low cloud cover for jets is truly an experience. This heli really shines in multiplayer with other people.

[@angrygandalf]

Cosmo will probably frown at me now but I pop the AUD circuit breaker until I’ve got the AC gen in. Stops all dings, bings and whoops. Probably not a good idea but it shows the pure genius of the module that it’s even modelled.

[@shagrat47]

THANK YOU!!! That's what I was looking for all day. A way to mute or dim the hellish loud hoots and bells! ❤

[@CasmoTV]

That’s interesting lol

[@poochies0316]

Great idea !!

[@Xopher30]

Former 58D crew chief here (1/4 Cav) - awesome to see this acft in DCS 👍👍

[@llama1910]

Big thanks for your time and effort you put into making these videos for us. I am having a blast with the Kiowa and wouldn't be as far as I am already, without your Combat Ready series and the first stream you made. THANK YOU🍻

[@Doug_Narby]

Same

[@richardhockey8442]

'ack, ack, ack' sounds like 'Mars Attacks'

[@cthu1hu42o]

AcK

[@CaptainFAL]

You know how I know you're an Army aviator. Your use of the word "technique". Such an army aviation ism. Not wrong; just my personal technique. Lol. Takes me back.

[@trevorbodnar5495]

Hearing some of the "technique only" stuff is very interesting, such as delaying turning on the SCAS until just before takeoff.

[@JD-xh3ex]

just bought the module today..... your videos are priceless. Thanks for doing them!!

[@onkazorkspishwank2882]

Spend hours reading the manual and going through various online documentation and videos but still can't figure out what's in the thermos....

[@CasmoTV]

It’s a fleshlight

[@shd4618]

​@@CasmoTV What colour smoke does it produce?

[@TarkaChops]

​@@CasmoTV is that to keep Trickr entertained on the transit in 😂

[@phil73805]

Another fantastic video, thanks Casmo!

[@harryballer4239]

Loving the vids casmo. Could you do a video on the L2MUMS next. Such a unique system to the Kiowa in DCS.

[@CasmoTV]

Still figuring it out and idk if it’ll happen before I leave for work.

[@bulletstop100]

It was awesome. Watch this and jumped in and I can fly from cold and dark!

[@ericproper7794]

The reason the MMS won't work on the inverter is it requires 3 phase ac and inverter only puts out single phase ac. *former 15J

[@dudehuh5491]

thanks for at least givin us a chance ha awesome thanks Cas

[@rockys3654]

As a 58 crew chief that wanted to know how everything worked this is a solid start up😂

[@Doug_Narby]

I had trouble with this because pit/program was set up in a way that opened the throttle as soon as I got in.

[@andrewwickes1091]

That creepy APR voice...God, I hated that. It'd bleed over from the pilots to the crewdogs in the 60. Give me chills.

[@FlightLizard]

I had a friend in maintenance I'd work with who was REALLY good at mimicking the voice. I snuck him around to plug into my ICS when we were doing some testing on the APR-39. We had another guy shooting it with the radar test kit. My buddy popped up with the APR-39 voice, going through the motions and my pilots were none the wiser UNTIL he said: "Missile, four o' clock. We're fucked." I've never seen such hilariously confused faces on my pilots as I did that day.

[@heyviper1238]

​@@FlightLizard this is amazing lol! No matter what the army does to a person at least there's always these things you can remember fondly.

[@LEAD-DISPENSER]

i wish id known about that ack switch earlier then i did lol

[@Mud420th]

Is the MPD Bit something that is normally done or skipped? Thanks for your video's, Casmo. They have been a great help so far!

[@CasmoTV]

Done but… DCS 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Red-Magic]

2:55 When you leave the car doors open

[@hexpulatwork]

Is there already a "Bug report" for the skids not "Sticking" to the ground?

[@solidsnakekillsu3783]

hey with the fuel quantity when will the engines shut down on the readout only asking cause i had them shutoff with it still reading 38 on the readout. thanks for all the great videos casmo

[@heyviper1238]

Sometimes when you have no or a weak fuel pump then sloshing in the tank can prevent fuel flow long enough to starve the engine. At least generally speaking not sure if that's the problem in the Kiowa, I've noticed the same thing in the hornet and assumed it was just that. The viper has strong ass pumps and a high pressure fuel tank and it doesn't suffer from this problem so the context would back me up here. E: completely failed to answer your question lol, sorry. If what I said above is the case then there is no set number and the flameout will be based on how smoothly you fly, turbulence, and aircraft vibrations, among other things.

[@MDFire150]

Just curious if that male computer voice in the cockpit is the same voice in the real world??

[@NumbersLetters_]

Regarding force trim, idk if this will help anyone else, but apparently I had force feedback (FFB) enabled in the special options menu which was causing me to be unable to trim the cyclic. Pedals would trim just fine but cyclic was no-go. And no, I do not have a FFB stick irl. To my knowledge I never enabled this setting.

[@CasmoTV]

I believe that became a DCS default.

[@kolavadae4592]

huh? in the kiowa special options there is no FFB option. only options are cyclic trim type and pedal trim type and nothing mentions ffb is what im seeing the correct one?

[@NumbersLetters_]

@@kolavadae4592 My apologies, I double checked the pathing and its under Options > Misc. Its not a Kiowa special option just general DCS option. Once I unchecked "Force Feedback" the trim worked properly.

[@kolavadae4592]

@@NumbersLetters_ ty brother was searching for a minute

[@Mouth606]

Can you tell me how to get rid of the caution when I’m flying and over torque the engine, it’s it the acknowledge button?

[@daniell1869]

is this actually recorded in 4k resolution? the gauges still look kind of blurry

[@Maceoneone]

What’s the most common weapon setup you guys carried? Did you ever carry an apkws pod on each side?

[@CasmoTV]

It was never deployed on the KW

[@jonasfogelberg9300]

Did the RWR ”Voice” really sound like this? I thought there was something wrong with my audio settings. What did you call it? Obviously not “Bitchin’ Betty”, “Robotic Rolf” maybe?

[@CasmoTV]

Yes that’s exactly what it sounded like

[@nobstompah4850]

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[@poochies0316]

All locks broken sounds like power rocks stolen to me

[@milkman556]

Great stuff! Maybe pull that lock out if the dude truly is a bone head

[@dronepilot918]

Any videos of the F-4?

[@CasmoTV]

Are you asking me if there are videos of the F-4 on my channel?

[@chronichurdle1802]

I like how you have 700k worth of APKWS lol

[@CasmoTV]

Not my money 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@nateweter4012]

I just wanted to add; For those new and stuggling with flight stability/sensitivity. Go into your axis controls and add curves to your cyclic roll/pitch. I find that 25 is about perfect. Prior to doing this, I found the aircraft was so unwieldy that basic flight was tedious and combat maneuvers and were damn near impossible. So, if you’re really struggling with basic stability , don’t get discouraged. Go into controls, search axis commands, find cyclic roll and pitch and you can axis tune these. I’ve had to do this for most of DCS’s helo’s while getting used to them.

[@davthacker]

You can do it this way and I have but the problem with the curves is it makes the outer area of the axis even more sensitive. I really like reducing the Y saturation instead. It gives your axis a smoother input and there is no force being multiplied later in the axis. The downside is it reduces the usable axis, say you set it to 70 then you only have 70 percent of the axis available. With the kiowa I don't think this is really a problem though because you'll never really need full deflection, if you do though then use force trim. Say you want to push nose down but further than the 70 percent you have available, just force trim then recenter the joystick and you can now push all the way down. If you find the kiowa to be too sensitive, lower the y saturation on the x and y axis to say 60. As you get more comfortable start raising it up.

[@nateweter4012]

@@davthacker I am definitely going to give this a shot, thank you for the info and clear instructions!

[@marcustiggs5361]

these are really helpful casmo. thank you!

[@gloucesterdavid]

I miss working the flight line, launching 58s for missions.

[@CajunFoots]

This helo is really growing on me. It's starting to be fun. The takeoff in this thing is a pain though. Thanks for the videos, they really help.

[@zooknut]

Yay I’m under 100 viewers 😂

[@dudehuh5491]

no MIDS ?

[@ImpendingJoker]

What axis did you map your throttle to? I did the same thing but it doesn't seem to work at all. I used the same axis that I use in the Huey and it works fine there.

[@CasmoTV]

Flap lever on my mongoose

[@ImpendingJoker]

@@CasmoTV Thanks a lot. I got it sorted out. It seems my binding didn't bind. So I redid it, and now all is working well. I love this thing and have been flying it all night just for the sheer fun of flying around in it. APKWS in both pods is my current goto, would be easier with a copilot but, Standard FFARs and the .50 are fun as well. Haven't tried the stingers and the Hellfires just seems to be a lot of weight for not a lot of return for trading out all that fuel to carry them.

[@cipher8048]

Good stuff man. Casmo have you tried the Kiowa in VR ? I want to know your opinion on it, does it make you feel like you really flying it again?

[@Tom-qf3mq]

I’ve flown the Kiowa in VR (Quest pro) and it’s absolutely stunning. The viewing angles are amazing due to the open cockpit and sheer amount of glass rather than steel/kevlar.

[@davthacker]

​@@Tom-qf3mq Yup the kiowa is awesome in my quest 3 once I got some settings dialed in. Being able to look directly down to the ground through the door opening is so cool!