Category Tutorials

Basic Slick Formations

This article will cover the most common formations used in huey transport (slick) flights:

It will also cover more general formation topics:

Trail

Trail formation is simply recognized as a single-file line, like a row of ducks. Trail formation is most effectively utilized in the following ways:

^ Trail
  • During quick turns
    • If the formation has someone flanked out to the left or right of the flight leader, they have to adjust their speed to maintain their position in the formation through the turn.
    • In trail formation, all helicopters should be operating with the same turn radius, and should therefore not have to adjust their co...
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SRS (Simple Radio) Installation, Configuration, & Usage

Introduction

Simple Radio Standalone is an open-source software that allows us to use our aircraft radios to talk to each other in DCS. Unlike Discord and Teamspeak, you can tune your radios to different channels, and switch back and forth from one radio to the other to transmit. This is a huge benefit for immersion, learning about the different aircraft radio comm systems, and organized communication, among different flights and inter-flight collaboration.

If you want to read the full, official SRS documentation, you can find it here.

This tutorial will cover 3 main topics:


Installation

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