OH-58D Kiowa Warrior

Very well done model, sound package is ok, average fde, VC is ok but few clickable spots (Just the basic and this is it).
In the end a good package for fun, not for "simulation"! :engel016:
Maybe too expensive for what is released? I don´t know at the moment. Have to fly it more .....
 
flaviossa said:
Very well done model, sound package is ok, average fde, VC is ok but few clickable spots (Just the basic and this is it).
In the end a good package for fun, not for "simulation"! :engel016:
Maybe too expensive for what is released? I don´t know at the moment. Have to fly it more .....
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Flaviossa, can you expand a bit on a few things? The average FDE, how is it average? In others words I guess what I'm asking really is, what are you basing the performance on? The clickable VC, you say only the basics, what does that cover exactly?
Thanks:salute:
 
Well, i´m not a chopper pilot but i´m comparing it with the dodosim in terms of performance. For example, the hovering is granted to easy ... The Dodosim is more complex to achieve.
The VC is beatifull but not "clickable". As for example the collective don´t move and i´m searching until now how to turn off the engines without using ctrl+shift+f1
And i just did one flight of 15 minutes with it. Maybe i have to fly it more and see what it can do. Please don´t take my words as final! Maybe other simmers can find things that i was unable to see. Here in Brazil is 01:00 in the morning ... and i am almost sleeping in the keyboard. Maybe tomorrow i can get you more answers!! :salute:
 
flaviossa said:
Well, i´m not a chopper pilot but i´m comparing it with the dodosim in terms of performance. For example, the hovering is granted to easy ... The Dodosim is more complex to achieve.
The VC is beatifull but not "clickable". As for example the collective don´t move and i´m searching until now how to turn off the engines without using ctrl+shift+f1
And i just did one flight of 15 minutes with it. Maybe i have to fly it more and see what it can do. Please don´t take my words as final! Maybe other simmers can find things that i was unable to see. Here in Brazil is 01:00 in the morning ... and i am almost sleeping in the keyboard. Maybe tomorrow i can get you more answers!! :salute:
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Fair enough. I went to the Support Forum and the product forum thinking I might find more there as far as what they expected from the VC. The only thing I could find was a short statement to the effect that "almost all of the VC is clickable". That statement begs the question though. . .of the clickable switches. . .how many are "functional"?

As for the FDE. . .man, that's a tough call because none of us (that I know of) have flown the Kiowa, so pitting it up against another Chopper that none of us have flown as a guide might require a bit more testing, lol.

I won't purchase this as much as I'd love to. . .finances will keep my card in the wallet, but overall, it "looks" fabulous. I'd be interested to hear more on the VC and FDE from others, especially if we happen to have a real world Kiowa pilot in our midst. . . .shoot, any chopper pilot would be excellent, lol.:applause:
 
flaviossa said:
Well, i´m not a chopper pilot but i´m comparing it with the dodosim in terms of performance.
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Well to be honest, my understanding is that pretty much every heli addon will come off worse when compared to the Dodosim. However not really being a rotorhead myself, I quite enjoy the simpler models. The AlphaSim Apache and Black Shark are probably my favourite heli's for FSX. So this Kiowa might suit. However I think I'll wait until more opinion's are out. And for the price to drop. To me it seems to be a little too expensive, for what it is.
 
While I am not a fan of the Kiowa I will probably get it if it is well done.

How about some shots of the VC?
 
I saw those, staged shots & none from the pilots perspective.

User screen shots are usually very different.
 
The only thing holding me back on this one is the area behind the pedals...shouldn't that be transparent instead of untextured grey?
 
I LIKE it!! Great textures, little details, animated pilots, easy on the frames, plenty of variations on the models and the sound is different (no idea what it's supposed to sound like, but I like it). The VC is good, nothing spectacular, but good textures and believable (would have liked a crew member in the VC, oh well)
The only thing I have any issue with is the rotor animation, a bit slower than expected, but I have seen worse. I believe the modeler is the same guy that does the military helis for Abacus, but obviously he has taken the detail up a few notches.

Nice to have this one for flying around Afghanistan! :ernae:

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Hello!
Here i´m again! As a friend above asked, here are more screens of it. With more details of the VC. As i said before, it´s a very good model but for fun not for simulation. I can confirm now, the vc has little options, there´s no way to start the engines besides ctr+shift+f4. Also noticed that the power off sound is strange with an abruptuos cut in it. But i must say that when i bought it i was not expecting a "simulation machine". I´m just saying it in here for you guys that it can be a little disappointing for the ultra-power-simmers-boys!!!
OBs: I didn´t know that war machines like this has "No smoking sign" (Red marked) ... Imagine if the pilot´s pants catch fire and he triggers a helfire by mistake ... :icon_lol:

But ... i like it!!!:pop4:
 
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