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Umm ... "features to play around with" is exactly why I buy a simulation. You?

"KC-135 now has bubble wrap."

I swear, when they do announce which jet it is, I'm going to collect all the "It can't possibly be the F-xx because ..." posts that were proven incorrect and just list 'em all for lambasting.

Yep, brace yourself for another 15 pages of why people think it should be Airplane X.

It was confirmed that it was a fixed-wing aircraft, and now it's narrowed down to fighter.

That thing under the flaps indicator is the TEMS button, it's in the C as well.

Well, it's more complicated than that SUBS. For example, OF does have the best overall avionics, but FF has a much more realistic HARM system.

EDIT: Duplicate

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the risk of exhaust ingestion while in a hover isn't about FOD (dirty vs clean burning), but more about the fact that the engine is ingesting something other than oxygen. The double-base propellant used in the S-8 and S-13 rockets produces a gaseous byproduct that displaces air that could be used to maintain fuel combustion in the Ka-50's jet engine. But I'm just guessing here -- I could be wrong!

That is true, but it's not describing what heat IS, it's describing what heat DOES. Heat does flow between two objects of two different temperatures, this is true, and indeed it is the only form of energy that behaves in that way, but it doesn't explain fundamentally what heat is.

Someone needs to retake physics! Heat is thermodynamic energy. On a molecular level, it's the collective Brownian (random) motion of particles. All these particles bumping into each other, moving randomly, is heat. It doesn't generate heat, it IS heat. Compare this to kinetic energy, when all the particles are moving the same direction (as in the case of a moving car). As quotes Wikipedia, "Thermal energy is the collective mean kinetic energy of the random movements of atoms and molecules in matter." Infrared radiation is electromagnetic radiation whose frequency is just below that of visible light. The infrared radiation that we detect is a lot like the visible light that we see: Most of it comes from the Sun, bounces off the objects we see, then enters our eye. Some of it, however, is generated by the objects we see via some physical process (e.g., a light bulb or a glowing-hot stove). Where heat and IR are related is the conversion of thermal energy into electromagnetic energy. These energetic molecules, bouncing off each other randomly, consist of charged particles. As these charged particles bump back and forth they convert some of their thermal energy to electromagnetic energy. Basically, these objects slowly cool down by radiating their heat in the form of infrared light. The frequency of the emitted radiation depends on the temperature of the object. At room temperature, the frequency is in the infrared range. As the object heats up, this frequency shifts upward, eventually into the visible-light range. This is why your stove starts to glow red as it heats up. It's actually always been glowing, even at room temperature; it was just glowing in a wavelength you couldn't see. So, in conclusion, IR is not heat. *SOME* IR is caused by thermal energy being converted into electromagnetic energy, but that is not the ONLY source of IR radiation.

Still broken. This may come as a huge shocker but I can't seem to get anyone at MadCatz/Saitek to even respond to my emails, much less help me fix it. I think I'm stuck. I'd say "f@$% it" and buy a HOTAS Warthog but I used to own a Cougar and it had its share of problems too. I think that Saitek and Thrustmaster both produce excellent sticks but have terrible customer support.

I fly a Citabria.

How come so many people are calling it the CACD?? Guys ... it's CADC. Central Air Data Computer.

Control Panel > Programs and Features > check the version next to "DCS A-10C"

You can also just hit Numpad Enter to instantly return to normal zoom.

Bumping this in case it got missed.

Going to fathom a guess here ... He was playing the first mission of Devil's Cross. The mission has you checking in with JTAC after crossing a ridge line, and NOT engaging in any air-to-air, but there are a pair of Hinds strafing friendly ground troops that appear as easy pickins for the easily-distracted pilot. Anyway, in that mission the cloud base is about 4,000, making top-down attacks unfeasible. I suppose the correct answer in this case is "skip it." EDIT: Or "fox two."

The airspeed display only shows your airspeed. Values below 50 knots are reported as 50. The "R" speed below is the required speed to get to your next waypoint on time.

Anyone here following the Falcon 4 Facebook page? There's been a lot of new BMS screenshots lately, and they're also posting an item from the F-16 ramp start checklist once every hour. People are guessing that BMS will be released when the last item of the start checklist is complete. Anyone have any thoughts/info/ideas?

Try turning off T&L shaders.

VOR/TACAN is still a primary means of navigation for many instrument approaches, but that's about it. People mostly use GPS to get around and find things nowadays.

I recommend using instead the Downloads section of the DCS web page.

It is an error. The switch makes no sense if the two positions are "INU" and "UPDATE". This switch controls how nav fixes work. In the "I-251V" position, the position locked in the Shkval is taken to be the corrected position of the fixpoint. In the "FLYOVER" position, the position underneath the helicopter is taken to be the corrected position of the fixpoint. The words "INU" and "UPDATE", as switch positions, make no sense. Both positions are for INU updates; the difference is which sensor is being used to update the INU fixpoint.

Your answers to the first two are in the FAQ; I recommend reading it before asking a question on the forums.