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This is what I assumed when I saw first mentioning of this. Still encounter where SPO-15 worked with radar on head on is here. Not to mention that SPO-15 saved him a life when GCI officer gave no warning of attack. From: 00:20:11 to 21:06 Keep in mind we are talking about badly maintained 29s, where they used spare parts were taken from other airplanes.

Yes, it's past time to award points for shooting down drones, missiles, etc. It is being done in RL. I figured you'd want proof....

The specs for the Dream Air look spot on. I’m still seeing far too many complaints about the Pimax solution to blow £1k at on a maybe. I’m going to wait to see some balanced reviews before making a decision, ie not some sponsored video by an influencer

I mean, I will try this, but the thing is down is still TWS for ZPS/MPRF/Dogon/Pursuit mode

It would be nice if the nations of the MiG-29 and Su-25 also were JTAC comptabile...

Did you turn compensation switch on? I know it’s supposedly unavailable but just wondering

Will it auto-highlight a new contact after the first one is taken out, even with the switch in the down position? It is something to test… For now I’m still building muscle memory on actually flying the plane and some basic emergency procedures such as 1-engine operations. I prefer to focus on aviate-navigate-communicate for the first week(s) or so after getting a new module. I’m in no rush to start blowing stuff up

The point wasn't that the US doesn't or can't use GCI, it's that US planes were designed to be able to operate autonomously WRT target aquisition in the first instance, and could be supported by GCI if available, whereas Soviet aircraft were designed to not work autonomously, but instead be the sharp end of an integrated system starting with EWR systems. it comes back to the force projection / home defense doctrinal approach mentioned above. If the purpose of an aircraft is to fly deep behind enemy lines to attack the enemy at its heart, then the aircraft has to be able to find and prioritise targets itself - if it's in a position where it can be supported by other assets (AWAC / GCI), then of course you do that. Why would you not? (& as you said, if you're tasked with a mission by a central command, that's what you do, not head off at your own whim) Flying deep into enemy territory was never the intended mission of the MiG-29. Think about how short its legs are. It really is just there to quickly get missiles to where the GCI intends them to be - which is why there are better radar scan rasters available to GCI operators on the '29's radar than to the pilot themselves...

I'd love to see a map of the US Pacific Northwest (WA, OR & Idaho) with Victoria + Vancouver, BC added. Great training ranges out there - not to mention bases for the Apache, Chinook, Eagle, Hornet, and Warthog to play out of.

I think it’s just unfinished so far. A lot more will come, like COOP mode

Yeah, I always thought it was a three position switch. So no idea how to turn TWS completely off.

Hi gizmo, It mostly depends on what you use your PC for, and the sound outputs you have. For DCS only, your mobo integrated output is probably enough for DCS. If you watch vids/movies or listen to HR music you might want to go for either dedicated soundcard or USB dac, whatever is more convenient for you (no need to spend more than 150 for either option, exceot if you want to setup an Hi-Fi system ) Again it all depends of what you do with your new PC My soundcard is a Creative BlasterX AE-5 Plus, outputting to active speakers and it works great

It has been requested before, and the need has been acknowledged by ED. Funny thing is, that on my end the MiG-29’s cockpit is a mix of metric and imperial: HSI says miles but is using kilometres, fuel gauge says NM but is using KM, airspeed indicator is in KPH, true airspeed indicator is in knots, radar altimeter is in feet This truly shows how poorly thought out the system is, and highlights the need for special options. Or they simply could have left the system as is was, then it would have worked perfectly, instead of trying to make an ‘80s Soviet aircraft display imperial units…

Looks like this will be amazing! Thanks to an RAF mate, years ago I flew the C130J full motion simulator, which is supposed to be so faithful to the real thing that the OCU course was mostly done in the simulator. As Growling Sidewinder says, take-off is tricky until you get used to it due to the strong yaw forces from the powerful prop torque. If you have only flown jets in DCS then may not be expecting this. I flew relatively powerful prop aircraft when I worked as a bush pilot so I was expecting to need a lot of rudder in the C130J, but the amount needed did surprise me. Growling Sidewinder was also using aileron to help correct, which isn’t ideal, hence dipping a wing on take-off. I also found my old ATC logbook recently; I logged about 20 hours of flying in C130Ks as a 14 to 16 year old cadet, mostly on the flight deck standing behind the captain’s seat or sitting on the rest bunk at the back. One trip was a low-level cross country through the mountains of Scotland; we were third in a line-astern formation of 10 Hercs; absolutely unforgettable. I also remember on one trip being in the freight hold whilst dropping supplies out the back, low-level at RAF Hullavington. It was those experiences, plus flying in Chipmunks and Kirby Cadet gliders, which got me set on an aviation career. So for all sorts of reasons this module is a must-have for me!

I will also add that there is some suggestion that the Serbian MiGs were not pure 9.12s but hybrids with some aspects of the 9.13 in them. This means that we are also missing information on what these fighters had for systems and what might be different from ours. But as I stated, this is not enough info to report a bug, sorry.

Did you try the target unlock button? In any case, I’d not treat the system as TWS/RWS, but simply as a soft auto-target feature to ease pilot workload - so you don’t have to operate the TCS (which is on the stick) and fly the aircraft manually at the same time.

I'm SO excited for all the new Chinese air assets. I think after that comes out we'll have all the mettle to make modern neer peer Apache missions!

After placing the switch down the Square Acq box is there indicating TWF still in force. Seems to me there should perhaps be a third centre position of the switch TWF OFF. TWF switch Up according to the video tuts is FHS optimized for head on targets and RHS for Tail on targets.

Post A-10 and KA-50 the study level stimulation in DSC had been degraded. You can see it in both F-16 and F-18 modules where failures are extremely basic or not done at all. I think either Wags or NineLine / BN once mentioned that a very small portion of their customers would benefit from those. So it's not worth their time developing.

Deleting the MissionEditor folder solved the issue. Thank you.

I don’t remember it being covered in Wags’ video, but I’d imagine simply flipping the switch back down again will allow you to resume manual target selection instead of letting the WCS take care of that. How did you determine that? By the target box still being around the initial radar contact, or by not being able to move the target box (TDC) around manually?

yes OK TWF v TWS (transliteration) but the question remains how to get back to RWS or deselect TWF ?

Voi vi volete fare male a tutti i costi, vero? In quale lingua del mondo potreste capire che non vedremo mai alla luce un Topone volatile su dcs?

It’s track-while-fly (TWF), not track-while-scan (TWS). It’s basically just the equivalent of an L&S target, or a track file that the WCS generates based on which contact it seems most urgent (based on closure speed and angle-off, I bet).