Version: 20221225
A hover trainer - for all player-controllable helicopters and the Harrier. CAUTION: Mind your hairline, It'll recede!
To be able to hover in a helicopter is like being able to parallel park a car. Difficult, unimpressive, and a prerequisite for flying any helicopter.
Well, here's a small mission that helps you hone that skill with any of DCS's currently available flyable Helicopters (and the Harrier).
The mission also throws in some element of scoring to keep you on your toes. Or rather, to keep you keep your toes on your rudder. Oh, and Instructor/Trainer MP setup is tentatively supported (requires more testing) for the MP helos
It's the small things. "The enemy gate is down", "Walk before you run" - with helicopters it's "Hover before you Soar". Hovering is not only a quintessential skill, it's also decidedly difficult to learn. Which explains the abundance of training tools available for budding rotor heads... Errrr...
No more. Named after the favorite exclamation of all levitationally challenged chopper jocks-to-be, "Hover, Damn!" is a helicopter hover trainer. It won't teach you how it's done right (only time can do that), but it provides you with an environment to train up and hone your "just the effing stay there!" skill.
In this mission you choose an airframe (all current DCS flyable helicopters are supported, as well as one nearly-as-cool plane) and the use the F10 Option in Communications to request a hover exercise from Central. A second later, your helicopter - wherever it may be - is surrounded by a ring of cheap disposable objects to mark the zone. Increase cyclic, and once you hover, try to stay centered in this ring. Every second you are scored, and the score is added to your total -- until you touch down, explode, or drift out of the ring.
That's all.
Simple, right?
So when do you know you are good at hovering? The sad truth is: probably never. Good enough? When you start noticing just how much else is going on around you.
"Hover Damn" supports Instructor/Student setup (MP helicopters only). Instructors can fly the helicopter anywhere and start the mission there. Perimeter marks will be constructed on the spot (after touch down of course).
Mission Designer Notes
You can add any client-controlled helicopter anywhere on the map. The mission will automatically work with that helicopter as well.
INSTALLATION
To install, download and move "CFrags Hover damn!.miz" to
C:\Users\[your user name]\Saved Games\DCS\Missions\
or
C:\Users\[your user name]\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Missions\
TO START A THE MISSION
Start DCS, then click
- Mission (Note: NOT Training)
- My Missions tab (upper left)
- CFrags Hover Damn!
