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Thanks everyone! Right now I'm sitting at home with a nasty flu but I guess the world has seen much worse tragedies.. :|

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“DCS: A-10C WARTHOG” Released DUXFORD, UK, February 21, 2011 – The Fighter Collection and Eagle Dynamics now offer “DCS: A-10C Warthog” as a digital download for $59.99. Purchase "DCS: A-10C Warthog" at: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/index.php?end_pos=1322&scr=shop&lang=en "DCS: A-10C Warthog" is a PC simulation of the U.S. premier Close Air Support attack aircraft. This is the second aircraft in the DCS series, following DCS: Black Shark, and raises the bar even higher in the DCS series. Warthog brings the most realistic PC simulation of a modern fixed wing combat aircraft in regards to flight dynamics, avionics, sensors, and weapon systems. You also have the option to play Warthog in "Game" mode for a casual game experience. Fly missions in the Caucuses region of the Black Sea against and with a wide array of air, land and sea forces with new and improved intelligence. Create your own missions and campaigns with the included Mission and Campaign Editors, and fly with and against friends online using the included online game browser. Key Features: • Fly the A-10C “Warthog” in either realistic or game modes. • Fly missions in Georgia and Russia. • Interactive training missions shallow the learning curve dramatically. • Rich campaigns and single missions included. • Multiplayer cooperative and head-to-head. • Mission and Campaign editors allow user created content. • The most realistic flight dynamics ever done for a PC simulation. • Huge array of land, air and sea units to flight along and against. • Ability to command ground forces during missions with radio commands. • Fully interactive Forward Air Controller (FAC) that helps you find targets. Website: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/series/warthog System recommendation Operating system: 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, and 7 Processor: CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 or better Memory: 4GB Hard disk space: 7 GB Video: Shader 3.0 or better; 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT DirectX 9.0c or better Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible DirectX®: 9.0C About The Fighter Collection: The Fighter Collection, as well as developing software for the entertainment and serious game markets, also operates, rebuilds and maintains Europe's largest collection of airworthy WWII fighters and is based at Duxford Airfield, in the UK. For more information visit our websites: http://www.fighter-collection.com/

Поздравляю все заждавшихся! :) Английский релиз вышел! http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ru/news/

Cheers :beer: Happy birthday :) :D :thumbup: :beer:

HB! :)

HB Tito :) <beer>

REMINDER: 1.3. - Administrative actions against forum members are not subject to public discussion. If you feel an action against you was unjust or otherwise inappropriate, please use the Private Messaging (PM) system to appeal the action to other forum staff members or the forum administrator. http://forums.eagle.ru/rules.php#en And with that, I've had it. There is nothing good coming out of this thread anymore. Thread closed.

This is one of my favorite stories about student USAF pilots. It happened at Reese AFB in the early '80's to my boss near the end of a contact sortie with a somewhat new stud. I was the assistant flight commander of E Flight at the time and I hadn't flown the second go of the day. I was just hanging out in office going through grade books. What fun. The SOF (Supervisor of Flying) called the flight on the squawk box saying they needed me at the SOF desk for an IFE with one of our jets. It seemed Frank, my flight commander, had just declared a physiological emergency and was returning direct to inside downwind of the pattern. That's not something we liked to do unless it was pretty serious because it really can disrupt a busy pattern. The pattern wasn't all that full so the SOF told Frank to just do it. That's about the time I got to the desk. The SOF wanted to know about the stud and whether he'd had any known history of physical problems. He hadn't. The next thing he said was a bit strange. He said Frank wouldn't tell him the problem. He only said he needed to get on the ground quickly and that they would not need fire and rescue to meet them. He stressed that he needed to get to the chocks right now. And that's how it worked out. I was still at the desk when frank walked in without the student about fifteen minutes later. The grin told us that this was going to be a good story. The sortie had gone to the aux field for some pattern work and then up into the area to do air work. It's been a long time but I seem to remember the kid being post solo so they would have done a spin or two, slow flight, stalls, and maybe a couple unusual attitude recoveries. Anyway, Frank said the kid had gotten unusually quiet and was being a little slow to do things and respond. Those are classic "he's-about-to-puke" signs so Frank asked him if he felt OK. The kid says, "Uh, sir, I really, really need to take a dump, bad." Frank, "How bad." Kid, "Like right now sir." "Right now?" "Yes sir, I don't think I can hold it." That's when Frank took the jet and headed for the recovery gate while he called the SOF for permission to go direct to inside downwind. With that call out of the way he talked to Lubbock Approach, who controlled our MOAs, and asked for an expedited recovery. He stayed 500' above the normal pattern altitude when he got to the pattern entry point and headed direct to the perch for the 180 degree turn to final of a overhead pattern to a landing. All went quickly and they were in the chocks in no time. Frank told the kid to arm his seat as they landed, Frank shut down the left engine, and had our hero disconnect the buckles to his chute so all he had to do when they parked was to release the seat harness, pop off his helmet, and jump out. All of that worked as advertised and before the right engine is even shut down the kid is over the side and running for the maintenance line shack about 50 yards away. Well, as Frank told it, he wasn't really running so much as doing a cheeks clenched stiff legged duck scuttle. The kid got across the perimeter road and suddenly straightened up nearly stopping. His feet come apart but his cheeks stay clenched as he now does a straight backed, bow legged walk. The trail of runny brown on the sidewalk behind him said it all. Poor bastard! So close. Oh, so close. That's funny enough but then he didn't have the good sense to not go into the line shack. He may not have known he was leaving a snail trail dribbling behind him but the zebra (senior master sgt. in this case) in the line shack sure as hell did. No sooner than the door closed but here comes our hapless young LT at a dead run with a fire breathing maintenance chief hot on his tail. There's no longer any thought about the load in his flight suit because his only concern is to out run the charging zebra. I suspect the zebra was like a dog chasing a car. What was he going to do when he caught him? The guy's toxic. Beating his ass might not have been that great of an idea. Doesn't matter, our LT could run, a serious load in his skivvies not the slightest worry any more. Everyone at the SOF desk was howling by the time Frank got to that part. The Ops Officer had joined us and even he couldn't avoid tears from roaring laughter. I never did hear how it went when the poor kid went back to the line shack with a bucket and mop but he was smart enough to take a case of beer with him when he went. Ah, the care and feeding of new pups.

Some of you may already know it, for the rest: http://www.foia.cia.gov/search.asp Here you can find some interesting things, well the most interesting things are still censored :D As an example here is a document about U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird ops: http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000192682/DOC_0000192682.pdf Did you know that in 1950-1960 (U-2 became operational) UFO reports began to rise significantly? (p72 or p83 PDF) :smilewink:

I usually hate mondays but this one is special. Thank you.

If anyone has used my FPS Reference Mission from the beta forums, let me give you some updates on the contrast between beta4 and release. My FPS was topped out at 40 high 28 lowest while looking out the HUD and watching 3 flights (12 birds) of KA-50s approach my aircraft at low altitude. Here are the differences: *I now get 58 / 32 FPS *Dust from the helos now shows up and looks great *Smoke from their exhaust now shows up and looks great *The formations of KA-50s don't trip over one another.. they formed up quickly and came at me smoothly as they were supposed to in the first place. *The HDR from the runway lights looks a heck of a lot better *When I turn around and look at the sun I get no FPS drop *My canopy reflections look awesome and really immerse me *I can hear radio chatter This is all very much worth the wait and ED should be commended on taking the time to develop this product so completely and with such finesse. I hope that the people who bashed ED for taking so long for the next update spend some time to apologize in this thread. They deserve our respect and reverence as they're VERY good at what they do. They've gone above and beyond. I am literally applauding right now.. hold on.. ok there it is. Take a bow ED. Wow.. just wow. EDIT: p.s. - I'll be interested to know whether they implemented a new AI engine. The AI is very different from how it was in Beta. It is superb! Also, is that really Samuel L. Jackson narrating the training missions? I'd put that on the cover! :)

появилась полноценная канальность по целям и ракетам на больших "комплексах", распределение целей улучшили, расширили формат описания юнита, что бы создавать системы ПВО любой сложности. для стрелкового ПВО улучшили прицелы и расчет ошибок прицеливания по скоростным целям. РЭБ остался старый - сокращение дальности захвата\обстрела. вообще много всякого по мелочи поменялось со времен ГС2, всё не упомнить.

Happy Birthday AirTito

Happy birthday, and get well soon man.

Congratulations Comrade Tito! :holiday::drink::beer::cheer3nc::clown_2::juggle: :yay: :clap:

Какие гнусные, отвратительные вирпилы, так и норовят обидеть художника, да растянуть всё по торентам! Вы-ж лучше нас понимаете, что надо для коммерческого успеха на РС. А-10С вне сомнений уникален, замечателен и интересен. Для оффлайна.

закончена разработка индикации СПО Береза для ЛО2 результат: дизайн, реализация панели СПО, тестирование - Владимир Дериколенко (моделистvv) программное обеспечение - товарищ kreml сделано на основе контроллера F2 (kreml, qw3r)http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=64206 по вопросам самой панели вопросы можно обсуждать сдесь, по контроллеру в вышеуказанной теме. Новую тему лень делать, поэтому здесь: вывод индикации ПУИ [RT]51bb5d28fa7d0bd1cc299fcfc6ca9cf6[/RT] контроллер тотже, F2 Тема некоммерческая, вопросы изготовления на заказ, просьба задавать либо в личку, либо в ICQ(# в профиле) либо в теме по продажам http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=64223 Буду в данном сообщении собирать ссылки на видео по реализованным приборам Топливометр Радиовысотометр

Hi all, I am new on this forum I'm a beginner with 3d studio max :). I've made an alphajet with Emmanuel B. I would like to finish this aircraft to make the " Patrouille de France " and for the community ! But now I haven't got enough time to finish this aircraft alone because of school. So, I would like to know if a person can help me please ? Alphajet : http://img441.imageshack.us/g/33322757.png/ If you need more pictures, say me :thumbup: Bye

Hey guys, I find it really hard to spot targets in DCS: A-10C Warthog unless they are within like 2nm. I feel this is because it is of course a simulator, and cannot display as high of resolution as real life can. Would I be correct in saying that you can spot tanks further away in real life than you can in DCS? But on the other hand, in real life there is stuff like grass, brush, trees, dust, etc... So what do you guys think?

Installing :D

Now hurry for the next module please, and dont keep us guessing what it is for the next 6 months pwety pweeeeeese!!!

Awesome. It's release day, I'm about to head to bed, and in the background right now I can hear A-10s shooting their cannons over at Tarnak range (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_Farms). Nice background music. ;)

868 right now. That's quite a few.

Do it, you won't regret it.. Nate

Tomorrow morning (Greenwich +2) when I get to work I'll try to sneak a torrent seeder into one of the computers connected to the superfast university network :punk: (provided I succeed to download the files by then myself, now at 20kB/s)) So when is the first patch due? (trance music & :clap: :clap: :clap:)

I hate using torrent.. can't find a good one that you can trust these days. Deluge is good and open source if you can get it work in windows.. ugh I hate torrents. Not to mention I run an ISP and I know how easy it is to throttle p2p.

she's coming slow- but coming.. (the files)

Yeeeah... great !!! :beer: :drunk:

Happy Birthday Tikhomir! My best wishes!

У меня около 45см между центрами площадок - но у меня напольник. да и без напольника расстояние не напрягает, тем более его всегда можно уменьшить/увеличить. Параллелограмм у меня по центрам осей вращения 115х200мм, все упрощал и подгонял размеры для самых ходовых подшипников и использования обычных метизов, а также стандартных железяк (квадрат 16х16, например). ну и фото скину. Верхние - мои, самый первый вариант, но работают, и не только у меня. Затяжка винтами используется только из-за того, что не было станков с нормальными допусками (я чертить в программах учился и скинул чертежи "как есть", немного напутав в масштабах. А так как завод был крупнопанельного домостроения и таких же металлоконструкций, то я чуть не заимел педали в 4 метра шириной :) ). Могу скинуть чертежи и изготовление в фото верхних, а также чертежи или модели/сборки для компаса остальных. Если есть возмодность запрессовать - на н-цать отверстий меньше получится. Но у меня самосбор (правда, самосбор этот уже в мелкую серию вышел :) ) А я бы советовал обратить внимание на педули Baur-а - там вообще шикарно все выглядит, особенно вертолетные(они больше к DCS подойдут, чем "мессеровские" да и педалей разнообразных с чертежами, размерами и прочими материалами в нете уже навалом.

Depending on your needs, then the 2500k bundles should do, but if you want lots of memory then go for the 1366 bundles. If your only intent is browsing the internet, watching movies etc and playing games then the 2500k is perfect for you. But if you actually use your rig for hardcore shit, then maybe the i7 950 with support for 24gig of ram would be a better bet. Personally I would go for the 2500k just now as its cheaper and then upgrade in a years time when the 2500k and 2600k's daddy is released. If you are not buying yet, then keep your cash if you can til after summer and you will get the new cpu's that everyone is waiting for, the daddy to the baby 25/26k's.

Отчётливо видно как стружку потоком сдирает. Неужели даже стружка смоделирована? Глубина моделирования поражает!

МСФС - процедурный, согласен. А ДКС уже давно - комплексный (и не обзывайте его процедурным). Т.е. ФМ и моделирование систем на совсем другом уровне.

Description if you hover mouse above it: ;)

mvsgas I cant give you a rep for some reason, but nice vid! This music is just :doh:

There is not way this is real...is there? I found the photo in USAF safety website so assume they just photoshop the picture. http://www.torch.aetc.af.mil/photo/mediagallery.asp?page=9

Thanks Mugenjin, I almost made an ass of myself by preparing a long post about laser rangeing until I saw your post. To summarise Mugenjins link : It's a bug Heres a great video on laser ranging anyway: 12 mins long, but very good. BiPod.

Yes and that's fine, apart from the fact that as many people have tried to explain, that IS NOT what happens when you've move your eyes closer to (or further away from) a real holographic heads up display. What happens in reality is exactly what happens in the sim with TIR mapped as normal. For the americans out there, a hud operates in a very similar (albeit more complicated) way to a holographic rifle sight such as the EOTech, so go and find one of those if you don't have easy access to a modern fighter aircraft. Now this is not to say there is anything at all wrong with mapping the FOV to your TIR Z axis if that is what you prefer, due to poor eye sight etc. But please stop moaning that the hud isn't working properly when in fact it is.

Just leave it. If people don't know who Jim is, they can either check his account here on the forum (ooooh!), or they can check the credits in the game(s) (wow!), or they can open the manual and see the credit list (amazing!). This is not complex guys. Stop making mountains off of a sand-grain. I know this is the internets but seriously, stop going 4chan on my turf or I'll start putting force behind my words.

my guess is beta 6 went so well they are now working on rc1 lets hope so everybody keep you chins up it is pointless moaning and groaning it gets you nowhere ed wags and co have never let us down maybe a few delays sure but at the end of the day they have always come good how many other companies out there put as much detail in their sims as ed does remember this is a nieche market so cut the guys some slack i bet when the next version comes out it will offer lots more features than the change log states .......keep.............smillng.......:)

Насчет фразы "Сбрось обороты левого/правого" сказать ничего не могу, в симе я их не слышал, а вот "Высота опасная" это "Переведи в набор", переозвучь фразу, сохрани под именем PullUp.ogg.

Господа! вчера во время полетов обнаружил странную вещь! Оказывается Ф15 в режиме вертикального сканирования абсолютно бесшумен! Берёза его не слышит. ТО есть принцип работы как в Фи0- захват осуществляется головкой самонаведения ракеты! Разве так должно быть? ведь в режиме вертикального сканирования- луч радара сужается, но радар то работает? А то получается, что Ф15 уже как и этой фичей обзавелся!!!! Наших щимят, а американцев тюнингуют!:-) (Режим вертикального сканирования Режим VERTICAL SCAN [3] позволяет захватывать цели, находящиеся на вертикальной линии по направлению подъемной силы самолета. Это позволяет автоматически захватывать преследуемую цель в ближнем маневренном бою на высоких перегрузках. В этом режиме радар просматривает участок воздушного пространства шириной 7.5 градусов и угловым размером по вертикали -2+50 градусов. На ИЛС индицируются вертикальная линия и кольцо. Для захвата цели необходимо маневром самолета добиться еѐ положения близко к вертикальной линии. Следует учитывать, что зона обзора простирается выше верхнего среза ИЛС примерно на 2 высоты ИЛС.)

Actually, the Shvkal is not really the best way to go for locating targets. The problem is the Skhval FOV is so small that it is impractical to full search areas before you fly into them. It depends on what the terrain around you is like, but usually, your primary sensor is your eyeballs. You need a large monitor, and you need to be spending ALOT of time zoomed all the way in. It's actually pretty easy to visually spot targets in Black Shark out to sometimes greater than 8km. You shouldn't have a hard time spotting something inside 5km for sure. They look like dark spots. Don't go quickly through hostile areas either, go slowly enough to search out the terrain you are going to fly in. Alot of times you need a closer look at something; to search a cluttered village, to spot targets from really far away, to check if that little dot is a tree or a Shilka. That's when the shkval comes in useful in target searching. Also you have to be aware of terrain contours, which will hide areas. Every time a terrain countour becomes unhidden, then search it. No reason to get a separate monitor for the shkval, when you own like a 24" monitor and zoom all the way in, then the skhval is MUCH bigger than a mere 10 or 12 inches. Also, being young and having good eyesight helps alot too. If you have poor eyesight, then you need to buy a bigger monitor to make up for it.

I love modelling and am currently building 1:48 F18-F, F-4II and EF2000 in parallel. The wife ain't too pleased... Here's the only pics of previous planes I've finished that I can find to hand, both of them 1:48 models from Academy and Tamiya.

Maybe not as fully featured like VRS TacPak is supposed to be, but already available to play with! http://www.captainsim.com/products/w001/

Об этом скоро отпишусь. Обязательно. Терпение, и ещё раз терпение.

Discovered this one after 1 year of flying LO FC (omg) It is said that daylight TV guided weapons are useless at night, that is not true...- Did you know, that Su-25T can use TV guided weapons in total darkness? :smartass: It's achieved by combining two types of weapons one of which is free fall bombs called "candle" or SAB-100 Illumination Bomb: This 100 kg-caliber flare-bomb is used to illuminate a target area after dark. The dispensing container is released from an altitude of 1000 – 3000 m, after which illuminating flares are ejected in sequence. Each flare element is equipped with a parachute to decrease the rate of fall. The illumination time lasts 1 – 5 minutes, which is more than enough to deploy your "fire and forget" TV guided bombs or missiles. NOTE: You still need "Mercury" to get the "lock". Got one of my flight mates confused, he left the server for a brief moment to change his weapons, was a night time mission and before he rejoined I deployed a few "candles" over the parking space, he came back ready for night and found day brightness with black sky... his reaction was funny, what da ** ..? :shocking: Woohoo LO is full of surprises... :pilotfly: