Until they get it fixed we'll have to fly with co-pilots, have someone else spot the landing for you.
Irish, personally I like the decreased friction from the Chinook having wheels instead of landing skids. They make it more difficult to tip the helicopter cause of forward inertia when you're landing, but since they do glide a bit you'll have to get used to finding larger landing zones when you're flying, no rooftop insertions with the Chinook. ^^
Here are some things I've noticed.
- The weight of the rear engine on the Chinook distorts stability by making it heavier in the back, but doesn't compensate by engine power.
Which makes the helicopter tilt backwards extremely quickly when you stop compensating with your mouse/joystick. The other helicopters do similar things, forwards or backwards, but it's slight enough that you can press the squad window button to set markers or press CTRL to use free view without any damage, but on the Chinook you're either compensating or crashing, there's no room for doing anything else.
- Low cockpit visibility as stated is worsened by the problems with keeping the helicopter aligned due to the center of weight being thrown by the rear engine.
Basically, if you're not close to something tall you can use as a reference point, you usually can't tell if the helicopter is hovering or moving around.
- It's very top heavy, which makes it tilt to the sides easily, also increasing the difficulty of keeping it steady, this however you can deal with if you're a skilled pilot, but I thought I should mention it since I doubt it's intentional.
- I get black textures around the edges of the windows, sort of like the shadows are smudged onto the windows.
This may be because I'm running textures at medium, but if I run the game on high I get mini stutters which crash me when I fly helicopters. The other helicopters have clean crisp windows so it's possible to change it at least.
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