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The Corsair is a lot of airplane, but it's actually DAMN good in a turning fight. Excellent rate of roll, very effective rudder, and good flaps.

I've got a LONG history with the Corsair going back to Aces High over twenty years. IMO the Corsair is best when you use the vertical during maneuvers. Don't turn flat. Use high and low Yo-Yos to manage your E state. Also, going vertical will let you cut some of your horizontal turn distance off, allowing you to cut inside an opponent that has, ostensibly, a tighter turn radius. If you can't get lead without scrubbing your E, or if you're not going to get nose on target, try a barrel roll attack: Before he breaks past you pull up and barrel roll AWAY from him, and continue the roll until you can put your lift vector in front of him. Use that big barn door attached to the tail to help swing your nose around and drop back in behind him. Beware that you may lose visual for a moment during the initial break and need to pick him up quickly once you've rolled inverted. Be liberal with the application of that rudder. The Corsair has a VERY good one, and often you can get guns on for a snapshot by kicking the rudder to haul the nose over when your opponent thinks he's managed to slip out of reach. If you need to, remember those flaps. Those first two notches will automatically blow up when their speed is exceeded, and drop back down again as your airspeed decreases, basically making them automatic combat flaps. You might lose a little acceleration, but this will really help your turns. Remember that the Corsair's rate of roll IMPROVES with airspeed. Other than the 190s, the Corsair should out-roll any of the other Warbirds at high speeds. Take advantage of that. And when all else fails, point that big nose at the deck and run like hell.

Unfortunately, unless you agree to come to asc headquarters for a laser scan, i wont be able to show your body in vr.

Same here. If flying CAS with a lot of turning and twisting, GPK introduces too much gyro drift.

That's not so hard that you’d have to call yourself a man for it

L-39ZA can carry R-60s and R-13s, the PK-3 gunpods (which are absolutely fantastic for soft target work), and it comes with a bruiser of a gun in the Gsh-23L in its underslung pod.

Access the F7 AWACS menu as soon as you get instructed by Magic (not Wizard, sorry) - you should get a picture of all the bandits accross the mountains. Stick to your waypoints as far as practicable in order for the triggers to activate correctly (so after engaging the Flankers return back to waypoint 2 and orbit until you get instructed to deal with the Fulcrums. Once you've wacked the Fulcrums you ought to be cleared to RTB- meanwhile Dodge 5 will engage the Fencers on the other side of the AO). ESC and message history.

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Any attack profile demanding a steep angle is their intention, really. It sounds like you're conducting your runs too slow.

Land softer. I see this happen all the time in multiplayer sessions with the planes that come in too hard, too fast, and/or not at the right attitude. The tail hook does get damaged easily and parts fly. I’ve had a few bolters myself where I left my tail hook on deck I’m not sure yet if the parts that fly around originate from the aircraft or the carrier deck, but either way, it’s from a less-than-optimal landing.

The MiG-25BM SEAD/Bombing instant action mission has a mini-tutorial on the bombing procedure in the description. If you are using the RB instead of the BM, you can open the mission in the Mission Editor (the file is located in the Missions\QuickStart subfolder of the main mod folder) and remove the SAM site in order focus on the bombing. Also inside the main mod folder there is a Tracks_Tacview subfolder that has a track file of the mission, though due to the nature of track files, the bombing might not be as accurate as in the originally flown mission (especially depending on the DCS version), but the procedure is the same. The crucial aspect to a planning and flying an RB or BM bombing mission is navigation - setting the waypoints and altitude in a way, so that you can reach the appropriate altitude (around 19-21 km is optimal), the appropriate speed (around mach 2.2-2.4 is optimal), and appropriate direction at the appropriate distance from the target waypoint (around 100-120 km is optimal), so that when the autopilot is activated it has enough time to stabilize before reaching the bomb release point (the exact range depends on speed and altitude, but for the optimal altitude and speed it's around 40 km from the target). Hope this helps!

It would be really cool for the MC-130J to have the ability to carry fuel bladders and then land on on a road or austere location where you can establish a FARP to refuel helicopters. Or to land to execute personnel recovery.

I thought they were for dive bombing

Counter-point: Redditors.

Don't think 120 has been cleared for the Super yet. It's still an option on my light in this latest version.

Will look into it. Thanks.

I have a Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo along with my HOTAS so I'm set!

A kind soul was kind enough to look into the problem. The following two files should be overwritten in the skin folder. Have a nice day. description.lua HB_F14_LOD1_3in1.dds

A kind soul was kind enough to look into the problem. The following two files should be overwritten in the skin folder. Have a nice day. description.lua HB_F14_LOD1_3in1.dds

I saw one on eBay yesterday when I was price checking the G2. I think it was $75 USD. Most of the used G2's were $150. Shipping to Australia though might be a problem to as shipping costs are high. Maybe look on the used market in Australia. I think I have V2 R2, or something like that. I don't recall exactly. Found it, ships to Aus too https://ebay.us/m/WZwY8m

LoL. I can see why everyone posts at Hoggit instead of here.

What a pissy bunch. I think I painted ED in a very favorable light. I bet you didn't actually watch them. Its' possible I got something wrong. I wasn't there at the time and was trying to piece it together. I reached out to you you and asked if you'd like to sanity check my script but you didn't respond so I assumed you were too busy. There is nothing about PTO in the video, I was just expressing an opinion. The rest of your bable has nothing to do with the videos. I never said ED had the resources to do a full blown WWII sim. The whole point of the video is that ED picked up the pieces from a mess and tried to clean it up the best they could You might try looking at the video you are pontificating on. Do any of you guys put your brain in gear before engaging your mouth?

Not off topic, which it did, and I removed a day's worth of messages talking about VEAO theories and gas purchases. Please stick to the topic, everyone.

Yes well i can definitely understand why third party developers might have money issues... But ED isn't exactly scrounging for capital.

Well, that was... something... Honestly, aside from what I assume was AI-written and voiced text, it gets many things wrong or makes reaching assumptions, perhaps based on research from ChatGPT? I am not going for a point-for-point rebuttal as this is old, old news, and I have enough going on without reliving past speedbumps in the winding highway that is DCS. SD is correct, we have been thinking about PTO for a loooooong time, Marianas as a free map with a WWII version was planned ages ago, so no, do not drag us into anyone elses story, the world is not that big and conflicts happened in many locations that games will overlap, we do not try and stop anyone from making their own vision of any particular theater. The P-51D was what was supposed to become a Flying Legends collection in DCS, modelling some of the most epic warbirds of that and other eras. RRG came along and wanted to create an all-encompassing ETO theatre, when they saw that much of their Kickstarter went towards the first aircraft, which started the death spiral. That first WWII fighter will make or break a 3rd Party, I think, in many cases, they are more difficult to model correctly (at least when it comes to flight modelling). We never had the manpower to do a full-blown WWII sim. We picked up the pieces the best we could, and we have what we have now. With the F4U coming and the Hellcat being a favourite of the boss, a dip into the PTO theatre just made sense. If we do a Zero... oh my, while other games could do many different Zeros, our version, if we can, would be... epic. Anyways... Let sleeping dogs lie, I will leave this video here and open, but not sure I care to see anymore here I know how it ends.