Refuel, rearm, repair: How hard is that? (Maybe it should be harder. “Okay, Hoss, those engines are going to need to come out.” 10 minute penalty. 10 minutes in cyber time is about equal to an hour or two in real time. Staff Sergeants need love too.
My grandmother was the chief electrical engineer responsible for designing the seeker head of the Hellfire missile. She used to give me 30mm casings from Apache test fires that she had collected while working on the project. The project was classified as black grade, a level above top secret, due to the cutting-edge technology employed in the missile, which was unknown to the rest of the world at the time. At one point, she could even tell you the exact times the Russian satellites flew over, which was when they scheduled field testing for the missile to avoid Russian detection of the testing.
Hey @GrowlingSidewinder , helo driver here and wanted to weigh in. Looks like you didn't actually lose Engine 1! Check out your engine page for Engine 1: TQ is high, TGT is high, Np is high, Ng is at 0. This system uses an Ng sensor and governor to help meter fuel, looks like a round may have messed up your Ng sensor and now the engine controllers are giving it all the gas trying to drive up Ng. I would imagine ENGINE 1 OUT is tied to the Ng sensor too, which is why that's one of your warnings. Good idea coming in for a rolling landing! Less power required which is important for most engine issues. If you ever do have this super specific issue again you might consider bringing Engine 1's throttle back to a mid position. This would stop the overspeed on Engine 1 and allow Engine 2 to pick up some of the load again.
Great video, I love flying the Apache. One thing I noticed is that you were not actually using auto ranging for the video. At the beginning you had it on as indicated by the A##.# next to the P-HMD marking at the bottom of the IHADS. When you WAS or de-WAS a weapon it actually set it back to manual ranging, "M1.5" by default. Every time you WAS or De-WAS you have to re-enable auto ranging with the keypad. Keep up the great videos!
@@GrowlingSidewinder To help remember to reengage auto ranging- each time you have to think about adjusting your aim it's worth thinking about why the system isn't helping you like it's supposed to, then, as the first step in troubleshooting that question, check to see what mode it's in.
Additionally, HMD shots aren’t as accurate as a TADS shot would be. OBTW, look at his TQ…….his transmission would be toast from the TQ he’s pulling. I love his videos, now I question some of the jet videos I watch.
You should consider the number of bulletholes in your AH-64 as a success criteria for this mission. Even when you fly safely back to base, not sure whether this mission would be considered a success. Nice video!!
A little video idea from me: could you do a kind of air show in DCS. With camera perspectives as if you as an audience were really looking. It would also be interesting to know what the different aircraft sound like from the ground. would be very special to see 😁
Thanks for all the amazing content! You're definitely one of the hardest working creators on TH-cam. Would love to see a ground attack video featuring the Su-25. I've only ever seen you do odd dogfights with it, but never in its intended role. Would be interesting to see how it compares to other ground attack planes in your hands.
I´m totally down the rabbit hole of VTOL VR, been learning the 26 and 45, watching this make me think the AH-94 is next. I been holding off on it because I never flew attack helicopters. Thanks for all the awesome content GS 💖💛💚
Well actually hovering makes you an easy target for tanks and ATGMs and BMPs with ATGMs it also uses a lot more power to hover and more fuel. Although there is a time and a place to hover I didn’t really see on here, maybe when I was lobbing hellfires but even then I don’t think I could spare the fuel.
@@GrowlingSidewinderbut maybe it's good to slide sideways. You set a smaller target, still has speed and you can use your weapons. Especially against the Mi-8 i think. However, I don’t know if my thoughts stand up to fact-checking.
Used to play the very first AH-64D Apache sim by Janes called Lonbgow. It had an intense instructor training before doing the missions. It was a lot of fun with several way points that had Sams and other threats to take out before going to the next one.
@@bahe57 "If I went out and fought an F/A-18 on day one I’d get destroyed," said Flatley. "But if you do what the jet is really good at, you can do things those other jets wouldn’t dream of." This is a quote from Marine Corps Maj. Dan Flatley. Personally I disagree with you. I once had a conversation with a pilot about the F-35A's maneuverability. He said that it flys like or better than a Hornet.
The Apache's armor is on the ventral part of the aircraft, the titanium tub, and the wing panels on the sides. The engines don't have armor protection.
On the upgrade: Intel/AMD gives, and Microsoft takes away. Some nice flying, even after losing an engine. Man, you got shot up on this mission. Glad you made it back.
Love you videos GrowlingSidewinder! I will check out the mission - I have not flown the Apache in a while...so I think I will stay waaaay back and fire Hellfires....
Yeah, the update was a mod buster for sure. I've gotten some to work but it requires some frustrating, sometimes tedious workarounds. I've also suffered from FPS drops too. Seemed to have done more damage than good unfortunately.
So, you ditch the flares for safety - but you keep the 240 pounds of high explosive (yeah, i know it's an "insensitive" warhead... but it's still a dozen 20 pound cans of boom hanging off your bird) And 300 plus pounds of solid rocket motor propellant. 😂
I'm sure they have the tech for a "frequency/seeker agile" version of the Hellfire. One that can be programmed to be used like a normal radar guided version, or set to "home on emissions" to take out a SAM radar system. Just an idea. 😂😂
Against other helicopters, try laser ranging then slaveing the gun to that. The difference in distance and closure rate won’t change enough to make it ineffective. But should help you get quicker kills
I had bad lags since the last update. I started using 'process lasso' to make sure dcs is high priority and select which cores I want it running on. I start process lasso. Then I start dcs and wait for the main menu. I then shut down dcs, and open it again. No stutters at all. Z790 13900K, 64 gn 6800 ram. Rtx 4070ti. HPreverb g2.
The canon is fun but FFAR are far more effective. Why are the Technical vehicles blowing up the way they are ? Are they loaded with Explosives too ? It seems like a pretty violent explosion even if the round hits the gas tank and what's the chance of doing that Every Time ?
I found that DCS engine has always hated infantry all the way back to the A-10 LOMAC days. It's core engine is over 20 years old. I don't see much difference in the editor with DCS.
Great video! If I may make a suggestion, when you are coming in for a rolling landing, keep your forward airspeed over 60 KIAS and your descent rate at the halfway mark. the faster you descend, the more likely that you enter a vortex-ring state and slam it down like you did.
Hey, GS, were you carrying a full Hellfire payload on this run? because with that much infantry and small-arms targets, it seems like a good situation for at least one 2.75" rocket pod.
Day 1 wondering why, you say pickle when you drop a bomb. Rifle when you shoot a missile. Splash 1,2 etc etc.. yet when shooting a machine gun from a helicopter you don't say GET SOME!
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Small arms fire and GS hit that truck and we saw small arm flying !
Nice video my guy keep them coming enemies should have artillery like the other video
8:38 omg the leg
This mission really called for Hydra rockets.
Why do you say this?
@@RyanC232 cause they would work really well against the splits of infantry
If flachette rockets were a thing they'd be very effective on this mision @RyanC232
Was thinking the same thing . In the beginning I was like with that dispersion hydras would be perfect
No such thing as too much
Other than losing an engine, all those overspeed warnings are gonna make your crew chief super happy!
Refuel, rearm, repair: How hard is that? (Maybe it should be harder. “Okay, Hoss, those engines are going to need to come out.” 10 minute penalty. 10 minutes in cyber time is about equal to an hour or two in real time.
Staff Sergeants need love too.
My grandmother was the chief electrical engineer responsible for designing the seeker head of the Hellfire missile. She used to give me 30mm casings from Apache test fires that she had collected while working on the project. The project was classified as black grade, a level above top secret, due to the cutting-edge technology employed in the missile, which was unknown to the rest of the world at the time. At one point, she could even tell you the exact times the Russian satellites flew over, which was when they scheduled field testing for the missile to avoid Russian detection of the testing.
There is no "above top secret." Maybe you're thinking of "black budget" but that's not above TS it's just not publicly available funding information.
Hey @GrowlingSidewinder , helo driver here and wanted to weigh in. Looks like you didn't actually lose Engine 1! Check out your engine page for Engine 1: TQ is high, TGT is high, Np is high, Ng is at 0. This system uses an Ng sensor and governor to help meter fuel, looks like a round may have messed up your Ng sensor and now the engine controllers are giving it all the gas trying to drive up Ng. I would imagine ENGINE 1 OUT is tied to the Ng sensor too, which is why that's one of your warnings.
Good idea coming in for a rolling landing! Less power required which is important for most engine issues. If you ever do have this super specific issue again you might consider bringing Engine 1's throttle back to a mid position. This would stop the overspeed on Engine 1 and allow Engine 2 to pick up some of the load again.
I love that you didn't jettison the hellfires. "Nah these shits expensive"
That one engine had a nice big hole in it.
I didn't realize that dropping flares before a rough landing was a thing.
Nice video.
Ah finally some 30mm ASMR, something for real connoisseures of the finer, more sophisticated things in life.
Ah, a fellow man of military culture I see have a like my good sir.
I kind of miss the version of the AH-1 with the chin mounted 40mm grenade launcher. 😂😂
I hate the tapping asmr videos, but the 30mm really is a relaxing sound.
As we speak, a former Su-57 Felon pilot sits in a Siberian gulag, forever shamed that he was shot down in a gun kill by an American AH-64 Apache.
Or a Hellfire kill...I believe that he hit one with a hellfire in his AH-64 vs Su-57 video
That's true...one Hellfire.
@@lord_kerman gun and missile kill
Air to Moving Ground.
2.75" flechett rockets for the dispersed troops.
As a treat.
Dude. You were flying a block of swiss cheese.
"Everything's gonna be fine" as GS snaps off the tail on landing. 😂
Eh, they grow back
Great video, I love flying the Apache. One thing I noticed is that you were not actually using auto ranging for the video. At the beginning you had it on as indicated by the A##.# next to the P-HMD marking at the bottom of the IHADS. When you WAS or de-WAS a weapon it actually set it back to manual ranging, "M1.5" by default. Every time you WAS or De-WAS you have to re-enable auto ranging with the keypad. Keep up the great videos!
Ahhhh I forgot to reset it ya, good catch.
Very annoying to have to do that but ya gotta remember
@@GrowlingSidewinder To help remember to reengage auto ranging- each time you have to think about adjusting your aim it's worth thinking about why the system isn't helping you like it's supposed to, then, as the first step in troubleshooting that question, check to see what mode it's in.
Additionally, HMD shots aren’t as accurate as a TADS shot would be. OBTW, look at his TQ…….his transmission would be toast from the TQ he’s pulling. I love his videos, now I question some of the jet videos I watch.
7:26 When I was a kid this is the kind of fight I expected from a combat helicopter... fighting another helicopter😂😂 and not tanks.
Funny thing is helicopter vs helicopter fights has happened.
You should consider the number of bulletholes in your AH-64 as a success criteria for this mission. Even when you fly safely back to base, not sure whether this mission would be considered a success. Nice video!!
A little video idea from me: could you do a kind of air show in DCS.
With camera perspectives as if you as an audience were really looking.
It would also be interesting to know what the different aircraft sound like from the ground.
would be very special to see 😁
Thanks for all the amazing content! You're definitely one of the hardest working creators on TH-cam.
Would love to see a ground attack video featuring the Su-25. I've only ever seen you do odd dogfights with it, but never in its intended role. Would be interesting to see how it compares to other ground attack planes in your hands.
I´m totally down the rabbit hole of VTOL VR, been learning the 26 and 45, watching this make me think the AH-94 is next. I been holding off on it because I never flew attack helicopters. Thanks for all the awesome content GS 💖💛💚
You fly a helicopter like an A-10 you don’t have to always make passes, you can hover sometimes.
Well actually hovering makes you an easy target for tanks and ATGMs and BMPs with ATGMs it also uses a lot more power to hover and more fuel. Although there is a time and a place to hover I didn’t really see on here, maybe when I was lobbing hellfires but even then I don’t think I could spare the fuel.
@@GrowlingSidewinderbut maybe it's good to slide sideways. You set a smaller target, still has speed and you can use your weapons.
Especially against the Mi-8 i think.
However, I don’t know if my thoughts stand up to fact-checking.
Used to play the very first AH-64D Apache sim by Janes called Lonbgow. It had an intense instructor training before doing the missions. It was a lot of fun with several way points that had Sams and other threats to take out before going to the next one.
Can confirm the sound and spray of 30mm is insanely accurate to reality.
F/A-18E/F vs F-35C (Fox-2 fight) would be epic to see! Navy vs Navy : Old vs New
Day 90
F18 would probably win
@@bahe57 "If I went out and fought an F/A-18 on day one I’d get destroyed," said Flatley. "But if you do what the jet is really good at, you can do things those other jets wouldn’t dream of." This is a quote from Marine Corps Maj. Dan Flatley.
Personally I disagree with you. I once had a conversation with a pilot about the F-35A's maneuverability. He said that it flys like or better than a Hornet.
The cannon following where you’re facing is such wicked technology. Our tax dollars hard at work!
Just as long as the government doesn't become tyrannical like the one in China.
I love the cinimatic replays, they are why I keep comming back to this channel.
Thirty mike ASMR is quite satisfying.
The Apache's armor is on the ventral part of the aircraft, the titanium tub, and the wing panels on the sides. The engines don't have armor protection.
Growling Sidewinder remains the most successful Toyota Hilux salesman in the Middle East!
Half the fun of watching these videos is getting to play absolute random combat encounter bingo with Sidewinder.
So sick. Apache 30mm appears in my dreams
Love that beautiful AH-64 Apache with the swiss cheese camo.
On the upgrade: Intel/AMD gives, and Microsoft takes away. Some nice flying, even after losing an engine. Man, you got shot up on this mission. Glad you made it back.
Anyone else saying GET SOME YEAH GET SOME when he’s firing the gun or is this just me.
Love you videos GrowlingSidewinder! I will check out the mission - I have not flown the Apache in a while...so I think I will stay waaaay back and fire Hellfires....
As an American taxpayer, I thank you for bringing that Longbow radar home 🫡
This is one of my favorite videos now💯
15:21 - "Made it back in one piece..."
*Engine one has entered the chat....*
Your crew chief is gonna be hot but releaved that she bought you guy's home!
Toyota ought to sponsor your channel. You are giving them some serious business with replacement “technicals.”
First time ive ever heard the Dshka called a Doucheka but still works
Thanks for the mission download. I also have fps drops with the AH64 & CH47
Piloting and doing the fire control and pulling the trigger is way overloaded function man
“Engine one out rotor rpm fine”
"Engine one out.
Rotor RPM high."*
That 1st technical kill was brutal 💀
Yeah I’ve got FPS drops with the Apache too, that’s why I haven’t been bothered flying it.
Man I felt that engine loss. Some very unwelcome memories from Janes Longbow II rushed to the surface.
Apache content is the best💪🏼
Great landing
Yeah, the update was a mod buster for sure. I've gotten some to work but it requires some frustrating, sometimes tedious workarounds. I've also suffered from FPS drops too. Seemed to have done more damage than good unfortunately.
looks like a fun mission, downloaded.
Apache vs Frogfoot!
So, you ditch the flares for safety - but you keep the 240 pounds of high explosive (yeah, i know it's an "insensitive" warhead... but it's still a dozen 20 pound cans of boom hanging off your bird)
And 300 plus pounds of solid rocket motor propellant. 😂
"Jettison all flares" 😮
I'm sure they have the tech for a "frequency/seeker agile" version of the Hellfire. One that can be programmed to be used like a normal radar guided version, or set to "home on emissions" to take out a SAM radar system. Just an idea. 😂😂
Against other helicopters, try laser ranging then slaveing the gun to that. The difference in distance and closure rate won’t change enough to make it ineffective. But should help you get quicker kills
PLEASE recreate the US Militaries tests of rotary vs fixed wing air to air combat!
When are you going to have a shirt with the Apache saying “Cruising down the street in my 64”
You're waaaaay better than you were at flying choppers than you were when you had the other Moron as your door gunner shooting at pirates! 😂❤
Your crew chief and Armament guys are going to be very pissed at you.
I had bad lags since the last update. I started using 'process lasso' to make sure dcs is high priority and select which cores I want it running on. I start process lasso. Then I start dcs and wait for the main menu. I then shut down dcs, and open it again. No stutters at all. Z790 13900K, 64 gn 6800 ram. Rtx 4070ti. HPreverb g2.
Still waiting for GS to drop his version of the BF3 F-18 mission “Going Hunting”
You've asked quite a bit for that scenario... Think it will happen ?
@@firebald2915 ask the same question to the guy wanting the KF-21 vs F-22 dogfight.
This makes me miss Apache: Air Assault...
The real angry bird!
Great video as always! Thank you for the entertaining content. Quick question, whats that little "S" hook for on the top left of your cockpit?
Made me think of trying to shoot the Tree Line
Assault breaker. Is that an actual mission profile name? Because it's totally awesome.
Sometimes you have to balance a couple hundred grand worth of Hellfire missiles to save a $50 million aircraft.
I think a lot of machine gun training would be helpful!
There's different variants of the dshk but it's a 14.5×something. Things huge. I'm sure they got one in Cal. 50 as well.
I believe it's 14.5x114mm. It's slightly larger than a .50 BMG which is 12.7x108mm.
Could you do a dogfight between the Panavia Tornado and the Mirage 2000
Could we possibly get some zombie swarm type missions for Halloween?
Ooh that would be SO fun!
Would be great to do something similar but during the Cold War in contested skies. Day 6
Honestly DCS hasn’t run the same for me since 2.9 either
Ka-52 vid when
after Mi-28
Yee haw!
Glad I’m not the only one. A10 is barely playable with the FPS drop
nice videos
The canon is fun but FFAR are far more effective.
Why are the Technical vehicles blowing up the way they are ? Are they loaded with Explosives too ? It seems like a pretty violent explosion even if the round hits the gas tank and what's the chance of doing that Every Time ?
Day 45 of asking for a modern Falklands scenario: Typhoons and Lightnings vs. Falcons.
Have you done a video in the cobra?
I think you wore out that barrel lol 😅😅😅
yes fps drops are happening a lot in the apache
having all ATGM is overkill better equip some rocket pod.
I found that DCS engine has always hated infantry all the way back to the A-10 LOMAC days. It's core engine is over 20 years old. I don't see much difference in the editor with DCS.
Some aspects are in major need of an upgrade.
Like a bos
Lots of rounds
This was the reduced range / 1300 30mm round load out, I'm guessing ?
Even the F18 seems to be hit for performance. It looks like the update is messed up
6:48 wouldn't you have an A next to the field of view box instead of an M1.5 in that case?
Can you make another ka 50 blackshark III video ?
Great video! If I may make a suggestion, when you are coming in for a rolling landing, keep your forward airspeed over 60 KIAS and your descent rate at the halfway mark. the faster you descend, the more likely that you enter a vortex-ring state and slam it down like you did.
appreciate you, I'll try to remember this for the next time I total an airframe and have to limp home.
Hey, GS, were you carrying a full Hellfire payload on this run? because with that much infantry and small-arms targets, it seems like a good situation for at least one 2.75" rocket pod.
Helicopteh Helicophter
I'm not sure if they have both the F18 Hornet and Super Hornet. Have you ever done a Hornet vs Super Hornet?
Only thing that might help the fps drops is by parking then unparking 1 of ur CPU cores for some reason lol
weirdly I get better performence on a low end PC when my graphics are higher. At least in the huey I do
AH 1Z VIPER
50 years of AH-64 in 2025
What do you use for your collective?
I like the sound of the gun but I don't care for the lack of damage it causes, it's frustrating lol
Day 1 wondering why, you say pickle when you drop a bomb. Rifle when you shoot a missile. Splash 1,2 etc etc.. yet when shooting a machine gun from a helicopter you don't say GET SOME!