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Sooooooooo I'm flying the MiG-29 since its release ( but I'm still learning it ), and so far I've found out a lot of interesting things ( that I would like to discuss, because that's how I learn, by trial and by discussing things ). But it's amazing! If you deploy the brake chute and then take off again ( or if you deploy it while in the air ), you'll see the cover closed if above 200 km/h , but if you drop below 200km/h it pops open ... only to close again when you pass 200 km/h. The inboard /outboard switch is super strange ... Or, better, it requires careful consideration of what you load and where. I was trying with 2 R-27, 2 R-73 and 2 R-60, mounted with the R-60 on the outboard most pylons. Till you haven't fired the R-27, the 2 R-73 aren't usable. The inboard / outboard switch switches between R-27 and R-60. BUT, if you launch both R-27, then it switches between R-73 and R-60. I guess it's correct , as it kinda follow the air to ground logic, but it expands to the outer pylons too. But it's weird and you need to know about it while loading the aircraft. Super fun and characteristic. The radar is ... well ... challenging. It needs like 3 to 4 seconds to lock anything. I press the lock button and the little rectangle becomes a bigger square, and finally it locks and the full symbology appears. However, it seems that there are A LOT of fake contacts ... like, I've created a training mission, with a single aircraft in front of me, to test, and I clearly saw multiple contacts, vanishing after 3 or 4 seconds ( often after I've tried to lock them ). Is this normal ? I mean, I know , that radar is for sure not the system we have on the Viper / Hornet , that gives a full picture and a nice interference free scope ... but it seems to be a little exaggerated like this, or am I wrong ? I still haven't tried to change radar pulse, repetition and so on, so it might also be that ... but ghost contacts when there's a single aircraft not even that low ( we were both at about 4000 meters ) might seems to be a little too much. I don't know though, maybe it's correct like this. What are you experiencing ? What am I doing wrong ? The IR sensor is not seeing anything ... like ever ... AAARGH. But again, I might be the one not knowing the limitations of the IRST, so at the moment I'm not commenting on that too much, but, are you seeing the same ? I'm still studying the various modes, and I'm also followings Wags and Grim Reaper's videos, so I'm probably missing somehting. The navigation system ... well, I'm still studying that thing ... so for now nothign to say, besides that it's quite complicated. The landing gear can be retracted while on the ground... and it ends as you would expect ... badly. The landings itself seems to be too ... well, easy ( for me at least, I'm not that great with landings usually ), but hey, not arguing about that. Did you had the same impression? The SPO-15 ... this thing screams all the time. Constantly. I've resorted to lower the volume to 0, as it's useless. I saw that it senses my wingman's radar and starts screaming. The issue is that it sense the wingmans radar while the wingman is in it's correct's position at 4 o clock ... So, either my AI wingman starts to move more at 3 o clock , or he needs to keep his radar off! AAARGH. Did you had the same issue ? Also, if the SPO-15 senses anything and the switch is on "ground protection" , that things will starts pumping out chaff and flares ... but if your wingman is in the correct formation position and his radar is on, then SPO-15 will panick and starts dropping chaff and flares. AAARGH!! ( Nice touch: the Chaff / Flare counter only says 60 / 40 / 20 / barber pole ... so again, it's always a guesswork ... nice ) Radar left and right movement ... HOW!?!?! I mean, how do I move it left and right ? That said ... This plane is really fun!

HEVC , Pico 4 , Wifi 1200 mbps , Virtual desktop "The problem is that even before launching, when you click on the desktop shortcut, you can already notice that the game isn’t running properly. When moving the cursor in external views, there are obvious performance issues. If it doesn’t work smoothly on a regular screen, in VR those stutters become extremely annoying."

How? The only option that the DCS website gives me is Google Authenticator. It doesn't show me anything else.

BetAB are terrible now, before they hit their mark, and with 2 you could always destroy the weapon bunker, now even with 6 plenty of miss and not fuzing ones, please revert back to the old ones that were perfect

Drop your DCS log file here.

Some auth data is stored in Saved Games.

BATC will probably not use an LLM, but simply sth. like STT->NLU->Clever Scripting->TTS This is also a very realistic expectation for DCS i think. It could have a small performance impact, but should not be noticeable on modern PCs. Arcade players could always ignore the ATC as they do now assumingly. Wags said that ED would be exploring the possibility of using TTS. Can't remember if he said anything about STT/NLU though... Of course it would also be possible to provide an API to have STT/NLU externally. Similar to what we have now with external STT software. An integrated system would simply be more convenient and robust. All the needed models are open-source and can be used commercially even. The only economical "road-block" - with current hardware - would be the LLM component. That is why i propose to have that as an optional thing via API hook. Early adopters could just use a cloud-based LLM if they want. Eventually every PC will be able to run those LLMs locally for free...

As far as I know, per combat employment manual, all slant ranging is done by either laser or radar altimeter elevation method ( like Mi-24)

You put a link to it from a file sharing service like Google Drive or Microsoft Onedrive. Cheers!

A few posts up really. Enigma has become critical of DCS and just fine and totally understandable, while it doesn't make him omniscient of how ED works ans their plans. Cheers!

Something more than the FOV got changed. You may need to delete your snapview.lua and start over. -Ryan

BS! Probably be true for you though. I remember flying the EF2K and others over Kali in ≈96/97. Lots of fun it was.

According to PC the Kiowa will never be on trial nor sales due to the licensing agreement. Pretty sure it will change down the line at some point though.

I don’t notice that BATC has any significant hardware requirements. The main obstacle I think DCS would face is simply not having enough users to fund such an add-on. And again these are actually subscriptions not just a buy once product. As cool as BATC is and it’s very cool, I wonder how many gamers in DCS who just blast off down the taxiways are willing to write down and read back taxi instructions

Ahhh… I get what you meant now. Yes, I should’ve read that more carefully. Also, I found the “Night After Christmas” poem in the FM file. Freakin’ hilarious.

But ....based on the limited documentation out there I believe IRL you cannot actually set a target elevation preflight into the INS/WCS. Though the DTC allows it and the DTC capability is being used to neatly simulate data entry by the ground crew on the ground , IRL there just isn't provision for any altitude entry into the system. Happy to be corrected here. I guess if there is documentation that shows that Baro ranging can be used then that would settle the issue ... just haven't seen that in the Docs I can source. So to me the only ranging options are Laser or Radalt. Though I guess changing the QNH to a dodgy value (aka target area QFE) might work ?? assuming baro ranging is even used

I like the new George interface. I think it provides a very quick and efficient way to instruct George. I particularly like the Scan TADS LoS* (Long S), which makes it possible to rescan for targets without having to point the same location (as is the case with Petrovich (mi24) which is a minor annoyance).

I tried to upload the track file but its 259,202kb in size..... How can I get it to you when I can't upload it?

Is it possible to fly a F14 in this campaign as a multiplayer pilot and RIO? Do both players need to own the campaign for multiplayer to work?

Works great, thanks! Reason is that real planes in ground parking postion have much better damage effects than structures. When releasing a 2000 pound bomb near structure planes you get only some cluster damages (i.e. holes in the fuselage) - seems very unrealistic for me. Real planes are exlpoding in a more realistic way!

AIM-9 issues continue... I'm not sure of this is related but in the last month, at least 6 AIM-9s on the F-4 have veered off sharply, usually to the right: Is anyone able to look at these bugs?

It is my belief that there is no Baro ranging in the Mig29A. All you have is laser and radalt. Going through the available ( limited) documentation IRL there is no way to input target elevation ( preflight) into the INS/WCS so the system has no knowledge of target altitude. (Happy to be corrected here). The displayed solution is first bomb of the stick not the centre. So to centre the stick you need to pickle short... easy in CCIP ... dont know how you would achieve that in a CCRP release.

умничай по спокойней ЕД сейчас сделало так что включив РЛС на излучение запирается СПО с ППС пока не переключишь переключатель в квази-режим, и тогда СПО отпирается и не реагирует ни как на включение РЛС скажем для замера дальности ! Считаю что Л006Л запирается согласно алгоритма запирания/отпирания приемника самой Н019 на момент импульса, естественно должна быть разовая команда ,так как это быстрее всего "есть" или "нет" характеристики сигнала не знаю 100 кГц или 500 кГц при 0.1 В или 400 В ... ЗЫ делать не рабочей СПО со все полусферы ППС (а это 180 градусов) на все время работы своей БРЛС ,то есть на весь воздушный бой это полная глупость ! ! !

A software-only workaround is possible using vjoy+joystick gremlin. Vjoy can be used to create a new virtual device that will show up in DCS. Joystick gremlin can do a lot of stuff, including remapping your ejection handle pull to "3 pushes of button 1 on the virtual device". Then in DCS map "virtual device button 1" to the ejection control

This is the one startup element which requires me to use the mouse, which is very annoying. Everything else is bound in my cockpit.