The tutorials are all ingame, under training tab in the options
THey are fully interactive - there is instructor voice/subtitles and needed controls are highlighted for you to press.
THe way not to get overwhelmed is to think about (eg) aircraft start up in logical way - turn on electrics, fuel pumps, then fire up the little engine that will spool up the main jet engins (Auxilary Power unit- APU), then the engines themselves. Aircarft were made in an ergonomic way so all elctic controls will be on one panel, all fuel ones, on another, radios on the 3rd. Once you have this mental map in your head of how these logical bricks stack up, it will be natural and dead easy
I'd say get A-10C for the serious "god of war" fun (thermal imaging, IR pointers, night vision, laser and GPS guided bombs from great hight, low attacks with mavericks from distance or close and personal with GAU8 canon, radar and missile launch warning systems- seriously, what a nice toy A-10C is!) and the Huey for the lighthearted muck about- landing on roofs, ridiculously low flying, carrying sling loads etc
Using FLIR to spot low flying Ka-50 from 15000ft - only in DCS A-10C:
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