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Hi all, Firstly I would like to say hello. I am new here but have spent the last few days surfing the forums after my purchase of A-10c Warthog. A bit about me. I am 41, live in Australia, happily married and in a professional career. I am also an avid gamer and have been for well over 30 years. Commodore 64, cassette tapes and syntax errors anyone? I would say I am also a sim enthusiast to some degree (no not those Sims games) with a period where I was totally hooked on FSX and always had a fascination for most good flight sims. I purchased DCS: A-10c warthog from steam after reading up on it and I must say, you guys have yourselves one hell of a amazing sim here. This begs the question as the title of this post sort of implies....Are there any players of this sim that generally do not have a passion of aircraft? I mean...a real passion? Yes, I like planes. I am a male after all, however this sim is just so real and so amazing that I am wondering whether it attracts mostly military buffs and plane enthusiasts. I mean it would almost be like asking an Atheist to study the Bible. However, I find myself completely compelled to stick out this long learning curve and I am constantly encouraged to tame this wonderful beast. I am a gamer that is not a pilot, enthusiast, plane engineer or military buff. I am however a mature gamer that is one hundred percent, completely in love with this simulatiion. I hope many others are not frightened off by the initial complexity. After only two days, I see reward in my efforts to memorize start up procedures and navigation. I am fortunate to be able to play this on the highest possible settings and res, which totally engulfs me in terms of immersion and eye candy. May I finally commend all of you. I have surfed this board numerous times and have read nothing but supportive and helpful replies to fellow members. You have a wonderful, mature community here and I look foward to the time I may be able to offer some assistance and productive feedback also to our fellow Warthog pilots. Cheers and happy flying.

I took these today at the Quonset Airshow. The planes are based out of Kansas City and after talking with one pilot, I found out he's from a town about 15 minutes from me, the same age as I am, and he just got back from two tours in Afghanistan. Cool dudes. You can click on any of the pics for the full size. A-10C Cockpit (1 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (2 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (3 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (4 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (5 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (6 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (7 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (8 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (9 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (10 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (11 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (12 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (13 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (14 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (15 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (16 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (17 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (18 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr A-10C Cockpit (19 of 26).jpg by KLaFaille, on Flickr Red

Good evening, I put together a video today. Felt like taking a break from flying :-) It's an edited custom made mission w/ music. :pilotfly:

ANNOUNCEMENT: The A-10C Tutorial Collection was integrated into the Tutorial Collection Website that I´ve crated. Follow this link to learn more: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=244112 EDIT 29-06-2019: Tutorial Collection was moved to a Website (unofficial Webproject) EDIT 12-15-2011: I changed the wiki link to the new updated and merged Tutorial and Documents collection

I just joined the forums and thought I would share my setup... After reading the reviews for the A-10C Sim I'm stepping away from driving games and giving this a try. Definitely a huge learning curve from what I'm use to but I'm enjoying the challenge! Anyways here's the setup i7 920 Overclocked 5870 ATI (AMD) Eyefinity 5x1 portrait (6000x1920) 6GB Ram 2 Ipads Ist Gen running Icontrol DCS (AWESOME APP!!!) Thrustmaster A-10C HOTAS TrackIR 5 TV above is for that (not connected to the system) This seems like a great community and find myself reading threads multiple times a day attempting to get this hang of this game. Thanks for all the help so far!

This is my first post on these boards. First, a BIG thanks to the DCS community for all the answers, tutorials, and manuals that exist here. This is by far the most mature and helpful gaming community. One thing I can't find is tips on target acquisition. I believe I have the mechanics down and my TGP pointed in the right place (I even turn on labels to ensure the TGP icon on the HUD is right on the tiny red dot). However, I can never find my target. I see trees, grass, buildings, but I CANNOT find the artillery, SAM vehicle, MBT if I cam further than 2 or so miles away. Getting so close to SAM vehicles usually ends up with me practicing 1 engine landings. I switch between all 3 TGP mode, I zoom in with narrow focus, zoom out with the standard focus, it just doesn't seem to help. So, are there any tips/secrets from you vet players about finding those pesky targets with your TGP? Perhaps Lasic Eye Surgery? One other thing, what altitude should I be attacking from? I started really low below 2K feet but that invites AAA fire. 12K just feels wrong but is that the best way to go? Thanks for any help!

Enlisted with F-16 Combat Pilot on my Amiga, engaged with every major combat simulator since, besides Microsoft Flight Simulator since 1998 to FSX.

:megalol: +1 :thumbup:

Thread title doesn't live up to the thread contents. Booo! :crash: The things I imagined while the thread was loading... (the few nanoseconds it took)

Excellent, now, only the infamous toilet paper trail effect remains. :D

Thanks, A lot of the weathering and shiny spots you see that look likes grease is black paint filling in all the chips and light leaks in the panels. Remember too that many panels and components never changed from the A-10A or A-10A+ so once the NVG panel upgrades happened in the 90's they haven't been changed out since. The switches themselves are sealed from dust and water but nothing is waterproof in the truest sense of the word. The instruments are sealed units and some, like the ADI are purged and filled with nitrogen, but really unless its monsoon type rain nothing is going to be affected. . The "new" comm head below the throttle is the AN/ARC-210(V) which can do standard VHF/UHF unencrypted but can also do SATCOM, HAVE QUICK, HAVE QUICK II, and other crypto secured comms. Yeah, I fat fingered the date, fixed now thanks.

А много еще по А-10 можно было бы добавить? Ведь вроде, все сделално... :huh: А давайте какойнить самолет, (к примеру Як-52, или какой другой) соберем вместе.... вы будете нам продавть за рельные деньги комплектующие и части самолета, а мы будем их устанваливать :D но так что бы можно было помотерть прям в симуляторе.. посидеть в строящемся ЛА.. понять как он устроен. :music_whistling:

Yes, natuerlich! I have made it bigger so you can make it smaller: I have made some annotations for exactly this question from you. (Yes- exactly! -just right before I want to press the "send button" I sometimes hear the voice of Obi-Wan talking to me... and asking if I have free up my mind for the things to come... :P ) Because when the screen is bigger - so will the font... and I had the strange feeling that this will be one of the first questions... (I have optimised the size of the font for the use with a touchscreen. on a overall res of 3840x1536. You can make your own annotations by separating them by a ";" .) Here we go - Open the "command_list_box_item.res" in ...\DCS root folder\FUI\Resources\Radio with a editor : \istext{1} \fonttype{font_dejavu_lgc_sans_condensed_15} ; default {font_arial_10} ; fonts in ...\DCS A-10C\FUI\Fonts \thickborder{1} \xshift{0} \yshift{0} \drawitself{0} \activating{1} \pressing{1} \sendparent{1} \hasborder{0} \alignmentleft \elevated{1} \isswitch {1} \upclick{1} \frameinactive{1} \is3dtext{0} \is3dtextdown{0} \readonly{0}look out for this line: \fonttype{font_dejavu_lgc_sans_condensed_15} ; default {font_arial_10} ; fonts in ...\DCS A-10C\FUI\Fonts it contains already everything you need to know to do it by yourself. go to ...\DCS A-10C\FUI\Fonts and copy the font-name you want to use without the file extension into the mentioned line above. That's all. Reminder: You can only use fonts that are already in the ...\Fonts folder - so if a font with a "10" at the ending is to small ,and "15" is to big - you have to choose something in between of the given fonts in this folder. Edit: (before the question rise...) If you want to have a smaller Head-line or change the color : open the menu.res and start to look around at line 23: \begin \tag{2} \coord{512, 25, 1024, 40} ; edit here for unique spawn point \color{200, 200, 200, 50} \drawitself{0} [b] \fonttype{font_dejavu_lgc_sans_condensed_15} ; default {font_arial_13} the fonts are in ...\DCS A-10C\FUI\Fonts \fontcolor{18, 255, 0, 255} ; default white = {255, 255, 255, 255} -green = {18, 255, 0, 255} blue = {0, 0, 255, 255} yellow = {255, 255, 0, 255} red = {255, 0, 0, 255}[/b] \alignmentleft \caption{}I have also included the RGB values for white,green,blue,yellow and red in the annotations.

Great work! Is it possible to define reduced font size?

Работу пушки жалко не показали-хотелось бы балистику снарядов и следы от попаданий увидеть. Видимо следующее видео будет о мисии на танке ( надеюсь на уровень реализации-как "Т-72 балканы в огне")

There you go. ;)

nice!

есть предложение в он-лайн миссиях сделать платными: - самолеты после N-ного потерянного игроком; - заправка топливом; - загрузка вооружением; - ремонт Оплату и пополнение виртуального баланса производить посредством SMS сообщений. Предусмотреть для вирпилов и сквадов личные кабинеты.

I'm in the same boat as the OP. I'm 35, have 2 very young kids (2yrs old and 2 months old), and still clock in at least an hour or 2 every day. I've learned so much over the past month, it's finally starting to all come together.

ГС3??? Я очнулся? Хочу!:)

Да хватит уже "прорабатывать" Черноморский театр. Самим оскомину набил. :)

Depends on what you mean by "possible". In DCS A-10C? Theoretically possible i think, but a lot of work involved. (You could even do it yourself through hooking a 3rd party applicatoin to LUA to read debriefs and so on, not sure if you can successfully hook to the mission generator properly though. That said, the mission system is pretty much just plain LUA so you could in theory make your own mission editor/generator and just call missions generated by that to the simulator. Obviously though this is not a simple task.) Future products? Definitely "possible", and ED are constantly advancing the ME/Campaign side of it's products. Some day we might see something like that based on the mission generator that was included in DCS:A-10C, but that's a lot of "when" and "if" involved.

The difference is a blimp is simply an inflatable bag. Only the pressure of the gas gives it any kind of shape. A dirigible has an internal support system, a skeleton if you will. Per Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigible In modern common usage, the terms Zeppelin, dirigible and airship are used interchangeably for any type of rigid airship, with the term blimp alone used to describe non-rigid airships. Although the blimp also qualifies as a "dirigible", the term is seldom used with blimps. In modern technical usage, airship is the term used for all aircraft of this type, with Zeppelin referring only to aircraft of that manufacture, and blimp referring only to non-rigid airships.

Никого пока не кинули. Единственное, долго ждать приходится. На сухом есть ветка по этой теме.

Have you tried going to through the user path C:/users/user name/saved games/DCS warthog/screenshots

800 mi + The grid 37T vs. 38T near Senaki/Zugdidi area... The problem with the 800 mi off waypoint is most definitely the spheroid... have a look at the Map TC-1 from the DCS website: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentation/tc-1/ Careful it is huuuuge, open it will take some time! Look for the blue grid (MGRS/UTM) and around Zugdidi and Senaki there is the change from spheroid 38T to 37T the GG zone is in the 37T spheroid. Sorry I missed that when looking at the screenshot.:doh: To change that input 37T in the scratchpad and press the OSB beside the "[]38T WGS84" entry (OSB17/18?) then enter the GGxxxyyy MGRS/UTM coordinates...:thumbup:

Well, even though the DCS series is aimed at high-fidelity simulation, it's still a game. Things like small fuel capacity can be nullified by cheats such as unlimited fuel or reduced consumption, or an AI helper for air-to-air refueling so it's not such a pain for those who aren't very good at it and don't have the interest/dedication to learn it, etc. Even the lower payload isn't that much of an issue, given that most real-world sorties have pretty specific objectives and only take the required munitions for that. In a previous page someone mentioned how you need to be more 'mission-focussed' if you go from 6 Mavs to 4; and even carrying 4 is pretty rare for real-life A-10 ops (if you need more weapons delivered, you send more planes). There's always that conflict around the 'simulation' side of realistic payloads and mission objectives, and the 'game' side of wanting to blow up everything on the map in a single outing. And this seems to apply even to the more hardcore realism junkies, since you invest a fair bit of time to get the jet up and running and over the target area, and to make a single pass and head home may be completely realistic, but it can feel like a bit of a pointless exercise. That said, an airframe that doesn't have the capability to carry enough weapons to destroy a battalion single-handed in one sortie might encourage more realistic scenario design, and maybe give ED an excuse to focus more on higher-level AI to make it easier to build scenarios that remain coherent and interesting if the player egresses to re-arm and re-fuel several times in the same mission session. Or dare I say it... dynamic campaign. :D Or at least improved 'campaign persistence' - just something to make the more realistic sorties with only a small direct impact feel more 'worthwhile'.

The right system (powered by the #2 engine) charges the emergency accumulator bottles. If you still have power to your RT system that technically will release the uplock hooks. if you don't have hyd power then of course it is strictly the emergency accumulators releasing the hooks.

Oh... wanted to mention how awesome the sim is now with a centered mounted stick! I was really susprised at how much of a difference that made. :)

might i suggest you port this list directly over to the formal ED wiki... that way everyone will be able to update it and the list will not have to rely on you for future updating. http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/ Great work by the way!!!

Video tutorial at my youtube channel... http://www.youtube.com/user/Sparrozzo?feature=mhum

Question: I've already modded my menu.res per the mod section to increase the size of the menu so you can once again see the entire weapon loadouts. Does this mod do that as well, and if not, could it interfere with that mod?

Drag-Drop and clickable Comm menu 1.1 Hi all - uploading a mod to the user-files section. Here it is until it will get a moderator approval. Edit: new version 1.2 - fixed loadout sub-menu Drag/Drop and Click-able Radio Communication menu v1.2 for DCS 1.1.0.9 The ReadMe: Download

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Hello all, Posted on You tube, showing the Smerch Hunt mission, from start to finish. Had to post it in 7(!) parts, because the nice people at You Tube doesn't allow my account to upload videos with more than 15 minutes of lenght. As soon as you open the first video, a playlist will load the other videos automatically; however, if you desire, you can watch them individually. I choose this mission because it is a very complete one, in a sense that you need to be pretty familiar with most of the aircraft systems, like armaments and mainly the CDU, in order to input the coordinates given by the CAOC and JTACs. Also, you need to contact two different JTACs to coordinate the attack. Like said in the video description, it is not a tutorial or has any intent of being one. It is not to show the "right" way of doing things in this particular mission; just my way, with my mistakes. It has, however, the intent of helping out the novice player who has been facing dificulties in this particular mission or in the game in general. I hope you enjoy! P.S.: Sorry about the low video quality; still learning this craft. Special thanks: - ED, for this amazing sim; - WarriorX, for its guides on how to input coordinates on the CDU; - Dynamo, for showing at this thread ( http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=66422) how to program the CDU to compensate for wind; - Ranger79, for the cool green digital cammo. Part 01 of 07: http://www.youtube.com/user/RodBorza

Venezuelan F-16's Intercept a U-2 Spyplane. The Vipers get up to about 56,000ft before cabin de-pressurization.

Пожалуй хватит с вас беток:) Релизная версия: Ил-76МД As requested, release version: LockOnFiles Template

Ok, thanks. Just my inexperience then.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SpareTimePilot?feature=mhee#p/c/24181A658668FAC0 Then try for your self http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=68802 If and when you only get 5 number coordinates http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1217309&postcount=12

Hi guys, I have a load of hours clocked on the game but until now hadn't tried the campaing. On the first one, of the first campaign, the mission is to stop the advance of loads of tanks. my first question is, JTAC call the direction then, then, maybe 12 tanks later, tell me target not destroyed. I mean, there's close air support and there's winning the war for them..They seem to expect the latter?! Secondly, is there any idle chatter like in DCS:BS? That game had some good effects for the guys on the ground talking, and even wingman chatting (like the first mission where you fly a familiarisation) Is that present at all in A10? Cheers