Forums » Helicopters - Air Combat » DCS: Black Shark » New Training Video

Page 1 of 2 1 2 >
Topic Options
Rate This Topic
Hop to:
#2735736 - 06/02/09 03:53 AM New Training Video
JimMack Offline
SimHQ Junior Member

Registered: 11/23/08
Posts: 35

Top Bookmark and Share
#2735742 - 06/02/09 04:05 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: JimMack]
Tbag Offline
SimHQ Member

Registered: 12/08/06
Posts: 1032
Loc: Leeds, UK
Thanks JimMack! Downloading!
_________________________
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Top Bookmark and Share
#2735756 - 06/02/09 04:39 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: Tbag]
Tbag Offline
SimHQ Member

Registered: 12/08/06
Posts: 1032
Loc: Leeds, UK
WoW! Jim, this is the best training video I've ever seen! This training video finally does the complexity of the Ka-50 justice. Very well done. Wags stated that some of the training tracks are re-recorded for the patch, will all training videos be so in-depth?

Minor criticism: The video-quality could be better @ 450MB.


Edited by Tbag (06/02/09 09:14 AM)
Edit Reason: read first, write after :)
_________________________
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Top Bookmark and Share
#2735817 - 06/02/09 06:26 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: Tbag]
miguez Offline
SimHQ Junior Member

Registered: 02/06/09
Posts: 3
Originally Posted By: Tbag
WoW! Jim, this is the best training video I've ever seen! This training video finally does the complexity of the Ka-50 justice. Very well done. Wags stated that some of the training tracks are re-recorded for the patch, will all training videos be so in-depth?


Thanks, I am flattered! For now, this is an independent product that I was thinking about doing, great to see good feedback so far!

Originally Posted By: Tbag
Minor criticism: The video-quality could be better @ 450MB.


Yep, agreed! That's because the video has been converted twice! Once, from the DVD format to a Quicktime .MOV, then from the .MOV to .WMV. Lots of losses in each of those conversions.

Top Bookmark and Share
#2735826 - 06/02/09 06:47 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: miguez]
Tbag Offline
SimHQ Member

Registered: 12/08/06
Posts: 1032
Loc: Leeds, UK
Hey miguez, welcome to SimHQ smile

Once again, very nice work. While the official training videos are good for a "quick" start, your version includes much more (useful) backround information. I would love to see such training shipping with DCS:A10.

Where do you have all that in-depth knowledge from if I may ask?
_________________________
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Top Bookmark and Share
#2735917 - 06/02/09 08:41 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: Tbag]
miguez Offline
SimHQ Junior Member

Registered: 02/06/09
Posts: 3
Originally Posted By: Tbag
Hey miguez, welcome to SimHQ smile


Thanks, I feel at home already! wink

Originally Posted By: Tbag
Once again, very nice work. While the official training videos are good for a "quick" start, your version includes much more (useful) backround information. I would love to see such training shipping with DCS:A10.


Emphasis on useful. Training is nothing if the pilot cannot use it in the cockpit. I would love to work on the A-10 also!

Originally Posted By: Tbag
Where do you have all that in-depth knowledge from if I may ask?


Of course you may! I am an instructor for a pretty big training organization that has asked to remain unnamed and removed from this. That means real-world training. I am an airplane instructor, though, so helicopters were a new challenge to learn. A lot of what I say in the video came from my experience teaching in aviation, some deep research on the Kamov, and from spending lots of time in DCS: BS to learn its particulars smile.


Edited by miguez (06/02/09 10:15 AM)

Top Bookmark and Share
#2735930 - 06/02/09 08:59 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: Tbag]
Freycinet Offline
SimHQ Senior Member

Registered: 04/15/02
Posts: 9107
Originally Posted By: Tbag

Minor criticism: The video-quality could be better @ 450MB.


"Please keep in mind that the quality of this video (both the video itself and the audio) is lower than the final product, due to compression to minimize file size. The final, DVD-quality product, would be available in both standard and high definition formats."

Top Bookmark and Share
#2735954 - 06/02/09 09:19 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: Freycinet]
Tbag Offline
SimHQ Member

Registered: 12/08/06
Posts: 1032
Loc: Leeds, UK
Originally Posted By: Freycinet

"Please keep in mind that the quality of this video (both the video itself and the audio) is lower than the final product, due to compression to minimize file size. The final, DVD-quality product, would be available in both standard and high definition formats."


Ok, ok, I edited my first post. smile

Thanks for the info miguez and keep up the good work thumbsup
_________________________
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Top Bookmark and Share
#2736202 - 06/02/09 03:47 PM Re: New Training Video [Re: Tbag]
Immermann Offline
SimHQ Member

Registered: 12/21/05
Posts: 709
Loc: Luleå/Norrbotten/Sweden
I just watched the vid, very good!
_________________________
"Nothing makes women beautiful like alcohol and closing time." - Arne Anka.

Top Bookmark and Share
#2736598 - 06/03/09 10:02 AM Re: New Training Video [Re: Immermann]
enigma6584 Offline
SimHQ Member

Registered: 12/22/02
Posts: 2756
Loc: Wisconsin, USA
I just finished it myself. Extremely well done.

Top Bookmark and Share
Page 1 of 2 1 2 >



Forum Use Agreement | Privacy Statement | SimHQ Staff
Copyright 2009, SimHQ Inc. All Rights Reserved.