Koriel

All known issues.. basically it's ride along only for now.

Thank you for your kind words. I've been thinking about this a lot. Been flying Sims since I got my zx spectrum. First flight lesson was in 1984 iirc. To me a flightsim should recreate the feel and ease of action, not necessarily all actual buttons, dials and other controls in minute detail. I do love it when the fm, performance, weapons and radar perform as they should though. In the DCS world I'm probably a minority, welcome to our small niche.

Thought about asking this as well. Curious too.

All in all it's very difficult to simulate something so complex as a flight model properly on a desktop pc. I have experience in 0-, 1-, 2- and 4- engined planes, recips, turboprop and jet. Been flying for just about 30 years now and stopped really counting my hours at 14k ( and that was a while back ) One of the most difficult things to model properly in a sim is the transfer of a real life feel and ease of use of systems and flightmodel to a program. Let me give a few examples.. When I program or use the FMS in my "office""my hands and fingers have it's own memory and inputs can be made instinctively and "on the fly". When I do that in a PMDG sim it takes up a a lot more of my resources, attention, and physically hands on then in real life. An A10 pilot will most likely have the same feeling when hitting all the buttons in the sim. It's soo much easier in the real plane. Same goes for something like using the gear in the Mig 21. Doing it in the plane will be a matter of fact and won't require as much attention as hitting a few keys or trying to hit the right spots with the mouse while trying to keep your TIR stready. When you talk about flight model there is again a very big discrepancy between sim and rl. Some planes have high control forces or a big difference between roll and pitch inputs. Different feel between high and low speed flight. And ofcourse the lack of physical feedback. A lot of sims model a high speed stall with one wing just dropping violently. Since there is a complete lack of feedback you ( Well me personally.. ;-) ) find yourself too quickly at the limits with a consequent departure of normal flight.. ;-). Since there are a lot of different hardware setups, settings and curves it's very difficult to recreate the right "feel" for everyone. Personally I do have the feeling that the flight-model is acting a bit strange in some parts of the flight enveloppe but since I have no experience in the -39 or any other of the DCS planes I can't really comment on that right now. Since the release of the beta there will be a few more people flying it who do have -39 experience who can hopefully make some educated comments about the flight model. On a personal note, I like where the FC3 planes are going. Proper performance of plane, systems and weapons. Using radar and other systems take the same amount of effort to use as irl. Giving an experience that is comparable to real life. By making the interface to make the systems do what you want them to do easier you counter the extra attention required to do so behind a screen with hotas and mouse. I am exaggerating now >> Just think of yourself driving a stickshift.. in the car it's done without even thinking about it. If you model it on a pc you need to hit a key for the clutch, then shift , then ease the clutch back up. When you do that with a mouse you will have all your attention on just accomplishing that task. Easing that whole input procedure with a single up and down keystroke or keybinding makes sense to me. To me the FC3 planes are like that. Like I said this is my personal take on how far complex systems should be modelled in the sim. If you want to mouseclick all over the pit to make it do what you want, go for it!

You could always start a PayPal tip jar for the guys... :-)

Don't know the -25 well, but unless it has some kind of protection unintentional great retracting could very well be possible. Some planes use a ground sensing squat switch to inhibit among other things unintentional great retraction. It could very well be accurately modeled in DCS. Question is, well it extend again? [emoji6]

No you can't.. When you buy a module you get a bonus. You can only spend the bonus on a module which is at that point selling for it's Full Price.. When you pe-purchase you get a 20% discount. When you buy it at full price you can spend you bonus up to 30% of the full price. If you really want to spend your bonus it's better to wait until it sells for the full price. If you can wait, it's even better to wait for a sale, they accur a couple of times a year with up to 70% discounts. It's a stupid system... but it's what we have to work with (or not .. as is usually the case )

Yup, my idea... park, grab a beer, relax and enjoy the scenery!

Useless system Hi All, I've been a lurker for the last year, too many things to do at home, kids, wife, work.. I have been following the news nearly daily though. Pre-purchased the 39 as soon as I got the news. I have been involved/flying with Eagle products since the Flanker DOS beta came out in '94 or '95. I have bought all versions, some even twice over the years. (Russian and English versions for the collection, or just the full BS2 so i don't have to dance every time I want to re-install it). I just looked at my personal account on the website. I have spend $546 thru this website alone over the last years. Never spend any "bonus" and I have a current balance of $30. I have really no clue at all how this will benefit me. Can't use it when a product is available for pre-purchase.. Can't use it in a sale, and when I can use it, it's only for a percentage of the full price.. The bonus system is supposed to benefit loyal customers. But loyal fans will pull out their credit card as soon as something can be bought! If supporters can't afford to buy products at pre-release prices then they'll usually wait for a sale. So any which way you're looking at it, it's useless!! I actually find it a bit insulting.. a bit of an empty present. While I am very disappointed with this bonus system, I must admit that on other fronts ED is doing right by me. I was a $80 backer for the WW2 kickstarter and ED covered most of the promises made in that campaign. I was also an early buyer for the A10, and here again ED will provide me with the vastly improved NTTR map.

http://www.combatairpatrol2.com/ Noticed a post on Mudspike about this new Flightsim. http://www.mudspike.com/combat-air-patrol-2-preview-interview/ The devblog: http://devblog.sim155.com/ In order to implement addictional features they have started a kickstarted project: And it's greenlit on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=dutch&id=353863895 The reason I'm posting this here is that they need the additional support on Steam. I'm a backer... will you be one too?

Very interesting video. Gonna get it....

Old, but amazing landing there at the end.

Dear Nicolas, Cobra, Please stop announcing news and "teasing" people like you have been doing. You can't seem to release them on time or complete. Take Wags as an example. Just release when you have something. I'm curious and impatient like most of us and to be honest, I don't like being treated this way. Especially now you're officially "evil" you need to act like it. (I support you guys in going corporate btw). So in short, when you announce something, do it on time and completely. Otherwise use your time building the Tomcat.

I would like an early adopters plan. Get early access and some "extra's" (no clue what I'd like 2b honest) for a hard core fan with a higher price tag. $60 - 80 or whatever. Release at $60 which is what the A10c went for initially. Then after a while drop the price a bit.

So true... how about a DCS Smart AI add-on?....

So they must have some kind of licensing deal in place with Grumman.. Interesting since Douglas apparently refused modelling of the A4 by VEAO.

http://www.thetimenow.com/est/eastern_standard_time

Lol, I'll wait for the announcement... I hope it's something I can justify not buying.. the DCS franchise is becoming expensive this way... Don't have the patience to wait for the sale usually and just justify the early purchase by it's introductory discount. I'm Dutch after all

You're trolling... module is not available yet.. ( Oh how I wish it was.. ;-) )

Tango, When it was reported that when switching from outside view to cockpit view the airspeed indicator would move from a max value to the correct indication, you said that you couldn't do anything about it. That might be true, but it still warrants a spot on the bug list imo. Thanks for the plane and your support.

I forgot in my first post.. Track-Ir limits are a tad too much.. ;-)

I came here to post your no 1 bug, the airspeed reset. So that one's confirmed. You have to bind the gear thru the custom settings menu.. then it works. It's a single engine jet, you shouldn't need to use rudder much except for landings and such. I ejected on the ground with the canopy open, afterward the eject sequence it shows as if the canopy was closed.. ( Very very minor bug ) I have spend 5 minutes looking the the airbrake switch/toggle in the cockpit. I can see the indication and the hydraulic pressure guage, but I just couldn't find the control itself. Stall behaviour was euhm.. very basic and easy to control. Entering a spin took some doing, but was successfull, recovery is easy too. Full crab landings looked good to me. Can't wait for the AFM. During my first flight I lost the airspeed indicator and altimeter completely. They stayed stuck at 125kts and 12.000'. I could not reproduce this one during subsequent flights, perhaps because I turned on the pitot heat (?) If that's the case shouldn't the pitot heat be on when you get a hot airplane? Please clean up the command list under settings, there is soo much that we don't need on the 101. Just scrap everything we don't need please.

Website is back up! let the search for clues commence! P-38?? Hmmm

Thank you for this link. I noticed that close to the end of the flight, after a dive and pull-up, the attitude indicator is not working properly anymore. On landing it shows a 30 degrees bank in straight flight. There appears to be a cage know, but considering this plane is fully aerobatic the attitude should be working even after heavy maneouvres?

It's been over 10 days since LN discovered that the website needed paying... and it's STILL down? Is someone dropping the ball here or what?