Machalot
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What is 2 way GPS?
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need track replay CCRP STEERING INFORMATION
Machalot replied to MeRLiNttu's topic in Bugs and Problems
There is a known bug when you enter a steerpoint, it will initially point in the wrong direction. The workaround is to cycle to a different steerpoint and back again. Maybe that will work for you? -
Ok, I see what you mean. That's definitely possible. I'll look closely at the control overlay next time it happens.
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We might be combining two issues. First is the intermittent oscillation in thrust. My throttle has no physical detents. It was set slightly above the Viggen's idle detent, my input did not change when this was happening, and it did not appear to be jumping back and forth across the idle detent. This seems like an instability or limit cycle in the engine control software model. I'll keep a close eye on this next time it occurs to make sure I'm not wrong about my throttle position. The second is the fat deadzone between ground idle and flight idle that creates a big jump in thrust with no linear region. This makes it hard to maintain a good taxi speed, forcing the pilot to frequently move the throttle into flight idle to gain speed, and then back to ground idle to keep from over speeding, ad infinitum.
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If the real radar uses analog signal processing, it could potentially handle much more data and produce a sharper image than a digitally sampled implementation like the DCS Viggen.
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Many Viggen drivers get a big performance hit (reduced framerate and laggy controls) when the radar is set to 60 km. Not 30 or 120, just 60. It's weird.
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Many other aircraft have keybindable throttle detents. I think a good implementation would use a button, which when held would allow pushing through the detents. If the button is not pressed, the throttle would be able to cross a detent.
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I find it annoying because there is no comfortable taxi thrust, it's either too much or too little.
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That makes sense. Maybe this should be a separate bug report?
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missing info Can't get datalink on after a cold start
Machalot replied to 大垃圾's topic in DCS: F-16C Viper
They recently changed it so you never get 6. Both modes stop at 10. -
Same here, works just like normal for me.
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I agree, although even the BK90 can be frustrating. I flew a SEAD mission on a multiplayer server to go destroy an SA-2 site, specifically the radar. I planned a long, circuitous preplanned route with the waypoints points placed for convenient nav fixes. I flew 15 minutes on the deck and used visual fixes to keep my nav state accurate enough to place BK90s on target. I was able to ingress undetected and launch both of my BK90s (MJ1+2) from a safe distance. They flew exactly over the target, exploded, and destroyed all the missiles and support vehicles, except the radar which was dead center in the explosion zone. Mission unsuccessful.
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Did the real jets have the same issue with taxi thrust?
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There's no flight idle detent in the real jet? Why did they add one? I find it really annoying because ground idle is too low to taxi, but flight idle is too fast, so I'm constantly jumping across that detent
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Can you expand on this? Why is this the case?
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There are some "scenery" ships on some multiplayer servers that don't show up in radar. Not sure if that applies here
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Thanks for the detailed description. Which parts of this are different from what DCS models right now?
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I suffered wing damage, but managed to RTB. I shut down and repaired, then rearmed. The RB24 mounted on the previously damaged (but now repaired) wing pylon immediately falls off the pylon and through the ground, right after the ground crew says "rearming complete". I can't attach a track for this because it happened in the middle of a long multiplayer session, and there's no way to reliably create wing damage to reproduce the issue. But this has happened more than once, so I'm pretty sure I have the cause identified. @IronMike
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Are you flying over the sea? There are no contours to show.
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I agree Mach is a smaller effect in general, but there is a drag divergence Mach number where that might change. There's also the matter of reducing alpha for a given G load because CL goes up with Mach. The result is that CD goes down at approximately power 2 versus alpha. Is this comparable to the TAS effect? Hard to say without data. I also didn't mean to say it's either/or for matching TAS or Mach; rather, we should match both.
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Strange, it seemed to work for me yesterday. I'll pay close attention next time.
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Ha, I'm clearly failing at articulating my question. The aerodynamic coefficients are explicitly dependent on Mach number. So at constant TAS, but with different speed of sound, the Mach will be different, and the resulting CL and CD curves vs alpha will be different. So STR will be different as well. My gut tells me this matters, but I haven't checked the math to confirm how sensitive. (Mach also affects thrust...) What I'm getting at is that it might be preferable to match atmospheric conditions as well.
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If you're talking to me, then I think you have misunderstood either my question or his answer. At the same airspeed the aircraft can have different Mach numbers because the ambient speed of sound is different. That starts to matter at some point between when the flow becomes compressible and when it becomes transonic.
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I meant, if you match TAS the Mach will be different, and how much does that difference matter?
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How important is the error is Mach then?
