Lulac

:megalol: (nooob :D)

absolutely NOT!!! I bought every module from DCS and every edition of FC...I'm so disappointed in FC that I very, very rarely fly FC aircraft...

...in last two days I try something different for change...as AI Fw190 become inferior to me I change it with AI Bf-109 skill level excelent...and for two days I'm trying to shoot down that AI pilot (think that Hartman himself is in the cockpit!?) but no luck...only 2-3 victory for me in very suspicious fight (using F5 view)...

from visiting on one of MANPAD teams I could say that something what we called "human factor" is the big precondition to success! people just can't be still and wait...and no one wants to read manuals!!!

absolutely! couple times I watched with my own eyes MANPAD launched at the air target and you watched and think how missile will do the job but then pufff...start to fly in different direction of target... and, regarding on usage of MANPADS, We () use them for self protection of one particular area for instance. The basic unit was squad divided in teams of two man and two missiles per team. Teams were despairs in area forming fire positions (in manual for using the MANPADS it says that best results/destruction of air target is to fire 10 yes TEN missiles on one target!)... another problem was battle readiness of teams! you cant be 24/7 in state "ready to fire"...many nice chances were lost because the teams weren't ready to fire...I remember the formation of 3 F-14 in low pass, fly over our heads...what a beautiful sight that was...it would be a shame to take down one of them but c'e la guerre...or the flight of 4 F/A-18 US Navy...engaged by quad MANPAD and when you think we got one - Pufff...missiles missed!!! . . . . from that day I start to believe in AAA!

@Echo 38 exactly, and my knowledge of this theme is a little beat more then the ordinary simmer...for 17 f***ing years spent in the @#$%$ army and I learn a little beat of RL!!! ...duty bogeymen!!! :furious:

when I start this thread I meant of using P-51 in our, virtual world, in MP...think that RL is something way different! In MP, all you can see, now, is low level flying, chasing and fighting like flies without heads, usually up to 10 people maximum, friday at DSC Israel 20 people maximum!!! Take for instance IL-2 Cliffs of Dover, with new patch, every night ATAG server full with 100 (yes hundred pilots-all slots occupied, hope one day we will see this in DCS too :)!!!). at this moment, think there is no better place for testing all your theoretical knowledge shown here (all you wise guy...:music_whistling:) about flying and combat with piston aviation in MP... ...at the end, like the Iron Maiden song said:be quick or be dead!

Hey, my TrackIR is also broken, the holder for IR camera is broke and I made a holder of tubes from McDonald's (tube for milkshake!) ...also TrackClip pro is wrapped in duct tape!!! Like many say here to much money for cheep plastic....:furious: but on the other hand, very useful gadget...I don't believe that I could "fly" without it...

every My rule is subject to change and it depend of tactical situation...yet to be confirmed in MP combat... and about "energy fighter", in the gross division of the ways of fight, during the WWII Americans and Germans - energy, England and Japan - turn fighter...I read that while ago in some literature and it stuck in my memory...

Dicta Lule: :) -Mustang is energy fighter! -always boom&zoom, -speed is life, -aim good...deflection...convergence!!! -be in position that you decide when to attack (be higher than your opponent), .... i'm currently working on this tips,we'll see how it turn out ... :pilotfly: edit: -never loose visual contact with your opponent!

Ohh yes, famos History Chanel and the epic P-51 turn (from about 39.00 min.)...heh, I knew that this turn will showed up soon or later...after this episode of Dogfights, all the stuff that I watched in that serial I took with the reserve...:book: ...and I also think that it would be nice that AI adversary in dogfight fly a little beat like "turn fighter"...not just up and down... @Echo 38, "real fighter pilots always boom & zoom, dogfighting is for arcade kids - is rubbish", here is a good cause for "war of opinions" in which I don't want to participated because on this theme is already enough said...:)

naah...I give up on this "scientific" approach on this theme...our so call flying and dogfighting in MP and real combat like in WWII are totally different things...so for me, my "tactics" in MP will be just jump in the flying circus and Feuer frei!!!

I'm very familiar with issue with convergence...maybe I wasn't so precise but my dilemma is how to use Mustang in dogfight, like energy or turn fighter?! ...that's the question now!

Taking part in MP dogfights, one question impose: shell I use Mustang as "energy fighter" and use boom&zoom tactics or shell I use it like "turn fighter"? In literature Mustang should be "energy fighter" and its 6 machine guns should make real mess with even short burst on enemy fighter. So far I have not seen a single shoot down of enemy aircraft in such of manner. To shoot down enemy, usually, we are entering in dogfight like "turn fighter" and spent at least 50% of our ammo! Doing so we lose our best advantage (speed) and become easy pray for the rest of enemy planes... ...the "devastation" of 6 .50 call, like I mention above, also make me wondering about accurate modeling of Mustang fire power!? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Boelcke Oswald Boelcke would be proud on me! :D Lule

hmm...interesting! using the fixed gunsight instead of gyro in dogfight!? I must try that...for the whole time in P-51 I always use the gyro for dogfight...I hope that hours and hours spend in Il-2 sturmovik will paid of with my "deadly" deflection!!! :D Salut

defiantly we need flying axes plane!!!...I lost my eyes staring and trying to figure out the markings on distant Mustang which side he is...to many nice shoots were missed because of that...in all, it was good, hope to next event,S! Lule

Yap, during the combat with Fw-190 I also noticed that You may put the bunch of holes in fuselage,wings or canopy...make the Dora smoky and fuel liking, chop of part of the tail but the plain continuing not just to fly and climbing in stratosphere it even continuing fighting... I think that in every AI plane there is pilot like Gunther Rall...Adolf Galand...Nowotny... Also think that flight model of damaged Dora is little beat exaggerated(!?) And in the end, I would like to fly just like AI, think that I would be the Ace, the Marshal of piston aviation in DCS World!!! ;) Lule:pilotfly:

ty...old IL-2 Sturmovik school! :smilewink:

Mi-8 vs UH-1H with UPK-23-250 gun pod...;)

damn I missed the event...:cry: ...but how to achieve flying with the all modules in DCS in the same time!? currently I'm in Mi-8 mania but I'm looking foreword for the next piston-aviation event! :pilotfly:

Nooo...like @Mr. Pizza said fans (turned ON) in Mi-8 is MUST HAVE gadget!!! ...Mi-8 cockpit without fans is just like...:thumbdown:!??

same error also, but after restart the game everything run ok...

naaah...new patch, new bugs...that why is FC3 still grounded at my place! ...hail to the 6 dof...for some pits :thumbup:

Thx @FreeFall, that's what I want to hear. cheers

You probably didn't try to fly with A-10C...Tactical Awareness Display (TAD)...some fancy modern equipment... :book: