Speaker A
Today, we're going to be going over my flying settings. Now, the biggest question people have been asking me is, do I use keyboard and mouse or HOTAS?
Experienced Arma pilot shares his HOTAS flying settings, assists, and tips with beta gameplay footage for better helicopter control.
Key Takeaways
- HOTAS setup provides better helicopter control but requires fine-tuning of sensitivities and assists.
- Enabling mouse movement on keyboard and mouse can improve helicopter handling.
- Flight assists like turn coordination and stability assist are essential for stable flight without pedals.
- Auto hover assist helps maintain stable hovering when collective input is released.
- Personal preference plays a significant role in control inversion and button assignments.
What the video covers
- The pilot discusses his preference for HOTAS over keyboard and mouse despite growing up using keyboard and mouse.
- Instructions on enabling mouse movement for helicopter control when using keyboard and mouse.
- Detailed explanation of HOTAS sensitivity settings for roll, pitch, and yaw set at 75 for better control.
- Advice on inverting yaw controls based on personal preference and joystick behavior.
- Overview of customizable HOTAS button assignments and user preferences.
- Discussion on flight assists like turn coordination and stability assist to improve helicopter stability.
- Explanation of auto hover assist and its benefits for smoother hovering near the ground.
- Acknowledgment of flight model bugs in certain helicopters without assists during beta testing.
- The pilot shares gratitude for social media support and previews upcoming gameplay and tips.
- Includes actual beta gameplay footage demonstrating the discussed settings in action.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Control Preferences
- 00:35Choosing HOTAS for Helicopter Flying
- 00:55Enabling Mouse Movement on Keyboard and Mouse
- 01:23HOTAS Sensitivity Settings Explained
- 01:49Customizing HOTAS Button Assignments
- 03:00Flight Assists Overview and Usage
- 03:39Turn Coordination and Stability Assist Benefits
- 04:00Auto Hover Assist and Its Advantages
- 05:03Closing Remarks and Social Media Thanks
- 06:50Beta Gameplay Footage and Commentary
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
Speaker A
And I grew up on keyboard and mouse. I think I'm more comfortable with keyboard and mouse, but I do have a HOTAS setup that I wanted to try to practice and learn on as this game comes out. So,
Speaker A
that is what I'm using. That's what I'm going to stick with for the foreseeable future. I'm going to be using HOTAS.
Speaker A
Before we get into that though, a lot of people ask me, "How do I enable mouse movement on keyboard and mouse?" When you want to do that, you go to controls, settings, rotary vehicle mouse control enabled.
Speaker A
Make sure that's enabled. You'll be able to control your heli with a mouse. You know, get some finer movements. You can still use W and D for the more, uh, you know, drastic turns and stuff like that, but, uh, mouse movement is definitely a
Speaker A
must, at least for me. So, we're going to go in the HOTAS settings. And, um, main things to point out, we have all of our roll, pitch, and yaw sensitivities on 75. I actually had these on 2.0, uh,
Speaker A
prior, and you can, you can fly fine with them. They're just more sensitive. So, it doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, the higher number you're going to be whipping it around faster. What it means is your stick is more sensitive.
Speaker A
So, if you have it all the way up, you know, you push your stick a little bit to the left, to the right, whatever, and it will, it will turn more. So, like you could still do the drastic maneuvers if
Speaker A
you pull the stick all the way. Um, but 75, a little bit lower than one, I think, is the default. And it gives you just a little bit more control in those fighter movements. Um, with the rest of
Speaker A
the settings, uh, you know, it's kind of, you know, preference. So, you just click on it and you do the action on your HOTAS. So, like, for example, I'm going to push the stick to the left. It will automatically assign it and you go
Speaker A
through and you do all of those. I do have invert yaw on because, uh, when I, when I set up the yaw left and right and I, and I was flying, I noticed that, you know, when I twist the joystick
Speaker A
left, it actually went to the right. So, I just inverted that. You can either invert it or just go here and bind it to the opposite direction. Whatever, whatever you prefer. Um, invert collective is off. Self-centering collective is off. Um,
Speaker A
same things down here. And then honestly the rest of these actions are, are all preference. So, you know, you just go through one at a time.
Speaker A
Click on it. Click the button. Assign it. Go through all these. Yeah, you don't have to assign some of them if you don't want to. Um, that's all preference.
Speaker A
And then the other thing everybody's been asking for, most important thing, the assists. Now, I want to preface this by saying I was flying without assists for a while. I was flying without assists. The Little Bird feels great,
Speaker A
but in the training range, the LZ Lakota, the Blackhawk, felt terrible. The flight model was bugged. It was yawning to the right without any inputs.
Speaker A
It was bobbing around. So, I enabled turn coordination and stability assist, um, to dampen those bobbles, stop me from wobbling, keep me like for I also don't have pedals, by the way. I don't have pedals, so I can't manually use the
Speaker A
pedals aside from twisting the joystick. So, for me personally, I felt more stable with turn coordination on. Um, I believe Arma Pilot has those enabled as well.
Speaker A
Um, so he's got those two. And then there's another channel that I, that I watch a lot. His name is YT Smoke. S M O K E E. He's got auto hover assist. Now, at first, I didn't like this 'cause I, you
Speaker A
know, I didn't want to be automatically leveling out all the time. However, I've noticed that, like, as you fly with it, what it really does is like when you get closer to the ground, it kind of levels you out. And so, the more
Speaker A
I use it, I think the, the more comfortable I am with it. And, and as you read here in the description, it helps, uh, settle into a hover when the collective is released. So, as long as you're not releasing the collective,
Speaker A
like if you have a HOTAS and you have your collective up, then you won't be automatically hovered out. It's only, you know, when you're leveled without collective input. And I'm going to go ahead and play some actual game gameplay
Speaker A
footage with these settings right after this. That, I mean, that's the end of the settings. Um, I just want to thank you all again so much for all the support you've given me on my social medias. I made my social media accounts like five
Speaker A
days ago and you guys have been blowing that up. I have like 700 followers and I, I expected like maybe 20 guys. So, I just want to thank you all so much. I love you all. I appreciate you and I hope that I can
Speaker A
bring you some amazing footage and gameplay and funny moments and tips and, um, yeah, so stay tuned.
Speaker A
[music] Heat. Heat. What you doing? Uh, I think I'm kill. Oh, red team killed him.
Speaker A
Blue has hell of people just groaning and sniping. I could use the heal as well.
Speaker A
It's locked. Oh yeah, it doesn't matter. God damn. Yeah. Oh, I hit one a little bit.
Speaker A
As where'd he go? I might shoot from inside the cockpit. You can't, bro. I've been locked on missiles from inside the hit me.
Speaker A
Enemy in sight. Yeah, I just saw. Yo, I saw the missile fly. I got my Elmer F so I can't do it now.
Speaker A
Josh got a bandage in the red valley. Close. Someone got him. He's dead. He's like really strong on top of us.
Speaker A
Time supplies. I've been trying to move by. Oh. Uh, full helicopter coming right at our pod.
Speaker A
Landing. Landing. Landing. Another helicopter. Oh, it's Mar. What's up, Mar? Bro landed on one of those grades.
Speaker A
All right, that one's 25% off, boys. It's on sale. Oh. Oh, what a, what a gentleman.
Speaker A
You just killed that pilot. I don't. How do you, how do you tip your pilot or your beard?
Topics:Arma 3HOTAS settingshelicopter controlsflight assistsbeta gameplayflight simulationkeyboard and mouseArma pilot tipshelicopter flyinggaming setup
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