Hijong Park’s AH-1G Cobra
Features
1. Torque effect : when collective is increased, the helicopter will turn to right because of the torque created by the main rotor. the torque decreases as the helicopter gains forward speed.
2. Translating tendency : If you push rudder to left to deal with Torque effect, the tail rotor will start to create its own lift and make the helicopter drife to right.
3. Translational Lift : the helicopter gains extra lift and speed as move. because of this, you don’t need to pitch down to extreme to fly forward like vanilla helicopters or other mods.
4. retreating blade stall : If you fly too fast, the helicopter will shake aggressively and you’ll lose control. Do not fly faster than the red line in the speed meter.
5. Vortex ring state : if you go down too quickly while there isn’t much forward speed, the helicopter will suddenly lose all lift and go down very quickly. The most dangerout state for helicopters.
6. Over torque & Engine overheat : if you increase the torque higher than the red line in torque meter, the engine temperature will start to increase. if it hits the limit, the engine will cause permanent engine failure. Keep watching the engine temperature and don’t go full collective all the time.
Flight stick and rudder controller are essential to fly this thing properly. If you don’t have them, fly in Arcade flight mode which deactivates pitching up caused by translational lift, torque, and engine overheat.
AH-1G has M28A1 subsystem turret that can mount 2 weapons, M134 Minigun or M129 Grenade launcher.
By default the turret is in gunner control mode where gunner operates the turret. If you press prone key, you can set turret mode to pilot.
In pilot mode the turret is fixed at forward and you can fire the turret with fire key.
Pressing Reload sets turret point mode to POINT or AREA mode.
In POINT mode, the turret is fixed at the desired angle.
In AREA mode, the turret slightly moves in azumith to spread the gun.
Press 1 and 2 or weapon select keys to select left, right, or both guns to fire.
It can carry 4 19 tube rocket pods with 4 different warheads or M195 20mm gatling gun(Inboard pylon only).
M151 is a general high-explosive warhead to destroy soft ground targets.
M247 is a High-explosive-anti-tank warhead with improved penetration. attacking the top of the tanks by steep diving can make rockets more effective.
M156 is a white phosphorus warhead that creates lethal white smokes.
M261 is a multi purpose sub munition warhead that spreads 9 M73 grenades.
When using pylon weapons, Press numpad 1,2 to select the inboard or outboard pylon and keypad 3 to deselect both.
Press Previous and Next sight mode to set the number of rockets to fire when holding down the button.
When M195 is mounted, Press numpad 6 to arm or disarm 20mm gatling gun.
If everything is set, Press Jump (space) or numpad 0 to fire the selected weapons.
Turn on ‘Rise of the valkyries’ or ‘Fortunate Son’ with Kick(V) key.
Press O to change the color of the helicopter to your desired color.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
