Army Simulators

[Bob]

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Since I have a shipping date for my VR Visor I thought I'd try to find
some pictures of the Kiowa Warrior simulator at Ft Rucker AL. I did
find a small picture. The VR Visor says (and some reviews confirm it)
that it's like looking at a 105 inch screen at 13 feet. That was just
what the Ft Rucker OH-58D simulator looked like. There was an exercise
going on but there was an open cockpit and I decided to fly the aircraft
for a while. It wasn't like the real thing, it took some practice to
control the sim and there was that black space on my left and right
sides. After getting used to it I could hover (kinda) and from a tree
line I saw in the distance a formation of Hind D's about 2 klicks away.
I wasn't a part of the exercise but I had 3 Stinger Missiles hanging
off the hard points. Before I could really think about it I raised the
nose, got the pipper on the lead and pulled the trigger. Knowing I
would not hit any of them with my terrible hovering I swung the sights
across the formation and as the sights crossed a Hind I pulled the
trigger. 3 missiles and 3 hits. I watched 3 Hinds explode and crash.
Unfortunately there were 4 Hinds. I had only 3 missiles. Trying to
hide behind the treeline didn't work. I ended up in a smoking crater.

I thought some may enjoy this:
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Here are some pictures of the sim I flew back then and is still in use.
At:
http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/pdf/rants.pdf
http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/pdf/wing_training.pdf


http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs41&d=05325&f=rucker-sim.jpg

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I then did some searching and found some other simulators. Their price
is on each picture. The even had a Eurocopter.

At: http://realsims.digibuildit.net/
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs41&d=05325&f=sims.jpg

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boB,
SAG 70

U.S. Army Aviation (retired)
Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK)

 

[Guest]

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Let us know how the VR Visor works out...

"boB" <akita_77REMOVECAPS@yahoo.Xcom> wrote in message
news:ibUKe.160816$X76.12662@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>
> Since I have a shipping date for my VR Visor I thought I'd try to find
> some pictures of the Kiowa Warrior simulator at Ft Rucker AL. I did find
> a small picture. The VR Visor says (and some reviews confirm it) that
> it's like looking at a 105 inch screen at 13 feet. That was just what the
> Ft Rucker OH-58D simulator looked like. There was an exercise going on
> but there was an open cockpit and I decided to fly the aircraft for a
> while. It wasn't like the real thing, it took some practice to control
> the sim and there was that black space on my left and right sides. After
> getting used to it I could hover (kinda) and from a tree line I saw in the
> distance a formation of Hind D's about 2 klicks away. I wasn't a part of
> the exercise but I had 3 Stinger Missiles hanging off the hard points.
> Before I could really think about it I raised the nose, got the pipper on
> the lead and pulled the trigger. Knowing I would not hit any of them with
> my terrible hovering I swung the sights across the formation and as the
> sights crossed a Hind I pulled the trigger. 3 missiles and 3 hits. I
> watched 3 Hinds explode and crash. Unfortunately there were 4 Hinds. I
> had only 3 missiles. Trying to hide behind the treeline didn't work. I
> ended up in a smoking crater.
>
> I thought some may enjoy this:
> ==============================================================================
> Here are some pictures of the sim I flew back then and is still in use.
> At:
> http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/pdf/rants.pdf
> http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/pdf/wing_training.pdf
>
>
> http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs41&d=05325&f=rucker-sim.jpg
>
> ===============================================================================
>
> I then did some searching and found some other simulators. Their price is
> on each picture. The even had a Eurocopter.
>
> At: http://realsims.digibuildit.net/
> http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs41&d=05325&f=sims.jpg
>
> ===============================================================================
> --
>
> boB,
> SAG 70
>
> U.S. Army Aviation (retired)
> Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK)

 

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John Ward wrote:

> "But I saw something else...the Merlin! A British helo....but
> buddy....what a fantastic looking bird!"
>
> Are there any 'Sim versions?


Hiya JW!

I haven't found any for FS9 just yet, but I'm sure there's at least
one out there. Somewhere.
Flightsim has one for FS2002, which I flew with FS2002 a couple of
years
ago, but newer is always better.
Well....most of the time.


Marcel