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I’m not saying it’s a good thing. I’m saying that MiG-29 is chock full of inexplicable design decisions and things that don’t make sense. Apparently an RWR that didn’t work well with radar atleast a lot of the time? Same RWR only shows a notch within WVR ranges? An IRST vertical scan that only goes 16 degrees up when it could have gone 30 degrees up despite being the fastest scanning mode? Coop mode forces MPRF/pursuit mode for some reason locking IRST out from picking up any HPRF/head on mode lock? Oh, it’s fine that you don’t have enough down elevator to counter the pitch up at low altitude and heavy payload at high speed. Yeah, let’s make LEF only have two positions so you have a stark transition between up and down? Yeah, let’s use a complex bifurcated louvered intake that reduces fuel space instead of the intake grids Sukhoi was using at the same time? Yeah. Let’s make them put radar to EKV/dummy to use COOP only in IRST modes, even though the system is already fully capable of turning radar on and off in ILLUM. Yeah, let’s have the radar scan a 50 x 11 degree area when range finding instead of just the target location. Even though it already only return range when looking at target. We used InSb sensitive IRST crystals in MiG-23, lets use worse PbSe crystals for the IRST this time! You know what, let’s put some of the symbology including the entire right HUD border only on the HDD! And we won’t have it show target location within 8 km like MiG-23! It won’t show target location at all unless in gun mode! Let’s basically do nothing but digitize MiG-23 HUD why add anything new! No target speed or altitude even though the plane knows it! Yeah autopilot could fly plane under Lazur guidance for MiG-23, let’s remove it for MiG-29! Well even use smaller flares then MiG-23! Make HUD show IFF in coop when radar is leading? Nope, only in Radar mode! it is so full of “they could’ve easily made that so much better!” And “why the hell did they do that?” And “Jesus why did they make it this way?” Design decisions, that it not being to lock a target in gun mode hardly passes as a blip on my common sense radar so to speak. Im sure they were like “a smart pilot will enable coop so both sensors lock, and it will stay locked” and went about their day.

Hello, Do you know the procedure for restarting an engine after a power loss in flight? Sincerely, Michael

Me and the boys made a video tonight. It was good hunting today.

Correct. Like before 2020 it was definitely a recommended practice for those reasons if you dig a little around here in the forum.

Thanks for your reply! Yes, that mission is a part of the Gamblers campaign by Baltic Dragon, and that's the only place I can reproduce this awkward behaviour atm. That's why you can't view it, I guess (didn't know track files from DLC campaigns required activation ). And yes, I agree, it's acts as if I'm too excited with the RDR cursor. I'll try what you just told me and check the keybinds.

This has nothing to do with this topic. This isn't about having difficulty locking a target - it's about the inability to lock a target up when the gun safety is off (held or toggled). It's self-evident. If anyone can explain why it is actually a good thing for the Mig-29 pilot, during guns combat, to have to constantly flip the safety catch back & forth just to re-lock a target, I'll listen.

The link comes up as expired or wrong.

Not sure what those sources are, may be from years ago, but definitely do not run as admin. It can cause issues reading/writing files, and is frequently the cause of mass stuttering and pauses when used with Winwing MFDs. Yeah I think years ago it was spread that this was the way to run DCS as it gave higher priority / power management to the game thread and helped with performance. Don’t know if that was just bs but it isn’t needed and shouldn’t be done now.

Thank you all for your opinion. I will hope that the situation will improve and the manufacturer will fix everything. For now I will uninstall this beautiful plane..

Indeed, I like Gvad's videos but his latest one about MiG-29 smelled very off to me

I figured out one problem it was a conflicted mod. I fixed that but man without that repo available things that should be straight forward even your own documentation crash or cause all sorts of bugs when trying to implement something as trivial as speed call outs. Constant stack traces disables functionality. It shouldn't be this difficult for jester to repeat a value from a gauge or source like IAS. I do want to thank you for you help in walking me through the possible issues at least we got mods loading! That's progress.

Wooooo ... impressive! So far, i haven't been able to try it ( the cobra ), but I like how docile it is and how it manouvres ... Eh, I'm still trying ... so far nothing, even plying with the gain ... But I'll keep trying. the left right is not on the hotas though, right ? Is the little switch in the top left panel right ?

Требуется. Про это написано, что на втором этапе реализуется полуактивное самонаведение, то есть ракета сама корректирует полёт используя отражённый от цели сигнал самолётной РЛС. Не требуется именно радиокорекция, то есть самолёт больше не корректирует полёт ракеты.

Great video, glad someone put Gvad’s claims to the test!

No: the radar losing lock (too) easily is discussed here:

my setup https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-QJuG2DK43s

"At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, “Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’ll soon make you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. “Ahem!” said the Mouse with an important air, “are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please!" Now I can rest easy and carry on exploring the new module, pausing from time to time to see whether its flight model is really quite as ‘monstrously far from the original’ as some would have it.

Why is it insane?

Even as a static - has this been released somewhere?

No, it very much is this topic. Regardless of whether we are using a toggle or held....this Mig-29 does not allow you to lock a target with the gun safety OFF. That's insane.

You already can, trimming force. I keep mine at 100

It’s fixed now.

It’s now 10/2025 . This bug still exists.

I used to run it as administrator because many sources recommended it too. Later I was advised not to as it's no longer needed (and can now create issues), so I stopped - with no negative issues. It seems running DCS as admin was more of an old practice and as a common workaround to who knows what issues, and the current best practice is not to do so. (Really, it probably never should have been recommended in the first place.) Definitely give it a go. It may not fix it, but it would be good to do as a test, and also to start migrating that way anyway.

Da gibt es von Modul zu Modul große Unterschiede. Bei einigen Modulen überstrahlen die Positionslichter sehr stark und sind auch aus großer Distanz noch Sichtbar, bei anderen hingegen ist das komplette Gegenteil der Fall.