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Tactical commentary to prop up the subject I'd love to have Mi-2 in DCS.

Here you go Sir! There is a flight from Hama to King Hussein. At start TACAN ch:21 (Incirlik) and VOR Incirlik) are perfectly clear received. The further I go south signal weakens till it's completely lost. In spite of it flag never appears. The same situation is with VOR. Here signal is stronger, but even during frequency change, when no station is being received flag doesn't appear. I'm sorry that track isn't short. If it's a problem, I'll make a new one. server-20241013-145125.trk

I'll take care about it. Problem occurs by MP missions.

I recommend the video of HIP about it. Last year we had reported WIP on 18 FF modules (19 if one includes SAAB Draken form HB). No counting here ED and Razbam modules from obvious reasons. Since a year no slightest progress report in any of them (The exception is polychop with his Kiowa). Not a single word. Correct me if I'm wrong here.

Can you please also answer to my bug report?

Did you ever tried simply to reduce canopy reflections?

Dear Aegress Thank you for your amazing work. Your model is a true masterpiece. I like it more and more every next flight. I found 2 3 problems which I can't resolve myself. Can you please help? 1. TACAN / VOR Flag - As far as I know it shall inform me, when those systems goes outside range, and their readouts are unreliable. I fly mostly on Syria and PG map, and those flags seem to work only very rarely. Most of cases I find TACAN out of range, and in spite of it, flag don't appear. With th VOR situation is the same. 2. I use second screen to work as MFD. It works well on CE, but BE seem to have strange appearance. Please see the photo: CE looks like that: (photo nr 1) and BE has some missing texture: (photo number 2) 3. There is one warning lamp in cockpit which I filed to understand: on the left front panel. In the instruction it's named "Receptacle light" (page 18 englisch instruction by Aegres). Can you please clarify a purpose of these warning lamp? I failed to observe it ever working... (photo number 3) PS. If the questions/ problem were already posted somewhere else I kindly excuse. I failed to find it. Thank you for your work With my best regards

How true. I look for high quality module , not a mod with simplified unverified FM.

Sad but true

I also do poses Rift-s I can say many nice thing about them. They're great... For Minecraft VR. And I left them there. Actually they're IMO Minecraft dedicated since every game looks like Minecraft in them.

Big problem with your feedback is, that you apparently don't understand the problem. Can you please allow yourself to watch the Video below? It was already posted by @Zakson85 @SharpeXB please be so kind and stop writing nonsense. Start from understanding the problem.

I suggest moving the topic to ED - since it's hard to expect , that Magnitude Leatherneck will develop anything soon... God I'd love to fly MiG-21 FL/PF/PFM ... or full fidelity MiG-21bis

And that concludes the show. The true problem is not how big are the dots, but why the hell they disappear. And there's even bigger question: Why nobody reports "We took it as our top priority, since the problem makes game in bigger perspective unplayable, or playable in very limited scenario options MP and SP". And just how Bignewy mentioned. Stick to the subject gents.

Read my post till the end.

Do you have some valuable Statistics, or you just guessing? If you base on personal experience then I'll base on mine saying that 100% DCS players play mostly online, since Offline is no really an alternative. I'm not sure if ... ED knows what are true numbers. Mine word against yours sir. that is one Two: In Digital Combat Simulator - (I suppose title suggest that Game has something to do with aerial warfare) - seeing a planes around you is something important. I don't think that Zakson is overreacting. Statement comes from yt video based on another yt video based on .... It's not valid source. Statement, that "90% of our users!" - is not the same as 90% of DCS players. in fact it may be some very small number.

Definitely. Both modernisations are performed in purpose to extend service of outdated planes and give them capability to fight against modern gen 4 fighters. From my professional point of view - waste of money. just like Italian modifications of F-104. useless for aerial warfare of '90-2005 but surely not suited for scenario anytime in '60-'70 -'80. Great for War thunder... and only there. AiM-9X+AiM-120 vs AiM-9L+AiM-7F/M (there's strong discussion about F-16C bl.25) T/W ratio 1,4 vs 1,05 (0,98 for early F-16C) . Difference between old F-16 and new F-16 is huge. Old one is gen4 fighter and new one is gen 4+. Fact. F-18C is much closer to F-18A, but avionics is main difference. IMO Situation Awareness of F-18C is much better than in his older brother. Facts are that F-16 modelled in DCS is not suited to any CW scenario. MiG-29 / Su-27 are much closer. I think it's main tragedy of DCS, that we have very modern F-16CM bl50 and F-18C , instead of F-18A and F-16A/B bl.15(ocm or not) or F-16C/D bl. 25 Anyway.... Stick to the MiG-21 gents.

I would rather say barely cold war. Wasn't used in any conflict until 1992. and after wikipedia: It's last huraaah!. Not the main stream plane as we see in most scenarios.

The production Su-27 (sometimes Su-27S, NATO designation 'Flanker-B') began to enter VVS operational service in 1985, although manufacturing difficulties kept it from appearing in strength until 1990. Source: "Airplanes - Military Aircraft - Su-27SÊ - Historical background". Sukhoi Company (JSC). Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015. link:https://web.archive.org/web/20150214080912/http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/military/su27sk/history/

"The devil lies between the details" F-16A - yes , it's pure CW plane. Very modern for the time F-16A bl.15ocu from 1988, would be perfect adversary for MiG-29A. F-16C bl.25 from 1984, very late CW and very needed. But armed in AiM-120 and AiM9X F-16CM in DCS ? Nope. Very far past that era. F18A - Cold war plane, Eldorado Canyon was serious combat operation. Operation Prairie Fire was key part of it. I'll never deny. But F-18C - it's first serious action was Desert Storm 1991 (according to most historians it's last year of cold war as such). Not a cold war plane Su-25 - that one is true late cold war plane. my only problem with it is, that it's main area of operations was Afghanistan. rather one sided campaign. For middle east conflicts, Vietnam war conflicts, India vs Pakistan conflicts - we need different birds. The same case is with A-10. First combat use 1991 Persian Gulf. MiG-29A - some very limited numbers of cheaper versions of that plane (with downgraded avionics and radar from MiG-23) saw combat during later stage of Iran-Iraq but Saddam bought them not sooner than 1989. Their first serious action was... Desert Storm 1991. So - however MiG-29A was king of the sky of second half of '80 it didn't saw true action during cold war, except Farnborough Air Show ;-). Using them in every possible cw scenario is pure fantasy. one may use F-15E, B-1B, B-2, Tu-160 etc. if we follow that logic... Bollocks. Su-27 - officially entered service in 1990. CCCP collapsed one year later 1991. Before that marvelous plane truly entered service, (pilots need to learn new plane, new tactic has to be developed etc. etc.) CCCP collapsed and cold war was over. It's not cold war plane, but it's rather last hurrah! of CCCP aircraft industry. So.... Do you realize that none of DCS plane you mentioned is actually cold war era combat plane?

I'm ready to pay 2x as much for proper MiG-21 FAMILY made the way how Heatblur did their F-4 Phantom II MiG-21F-13 MiG-21FL MiG-21PF/PFM MiG-21SMT MiG-21MF MiG-21R MiG-21bis both variants (face lifting. new 3d new Flight model, new damage model, exactly modelled systems). Stop neglecting fans of Cold War era aviation. To be honest... MiG-21 family vs F-4 Family .... Mi-24 /Mi-2/Mi-8 vs UH-1H/AH-1G/CH-47C, solid portion of A2G attack planes of both sides + that what's promised F-104, A-7, A-6, A-1 ... and I'll forget anything else exist in dcs... F-16? F18? MiG-29? A-10? Su-25/27/33....? “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

First : are you using 2 profiles? One as Dev and one as one of us - poor suckers who bought semi-fidelity MiG-21bis? Second: You copied and pasted almost the same post as last year, shame on you. you post the same nonsense again and again: Having realistic (is it?) startup procedure is 1% of what one may expect from Full Fidelity module. But even here are bollocks. Every MiG-21 (or any other jet pilot) will recognize it . During startup procedure EGT shows simple bollocks. thermodynamic of double shaft jet engine is characteristic. Behaviour of engine of MiG-21 isn't modelled in any way. it's War Thunder lvl. more throttle - more thrust. It's not DCS lvl of realism. PS. In these training mission Magnitude mixed 2 procedures: preflight check & startup procedure. Those are very separate things in MiG-21. 3. SAU not working properly, 4. ARU not even in slightest way working properly, 5. Radar much to efficient at low altitude, 6. Strangely modeled elevator behavior at high altitudes (over 15 000m) pulling hard with ARU in manual mode set in position "Take off" (strangely it's also the same position in "Auto" mode on these altitude) gives slight, gentle turn with about 2G. 7.If you pull 8,5 G crazy ARU may cause exceding G to over 10 and brake your... Wing tips (sic!) instead of bending your wing, but it's ok. You can fly (and land) MiG-21 without wings anyway. FM and DM is rubbish. 8.Other case is gyro sight - switch positions give different effect as expected: in pure Gyro mode only 300m range works as expected, auto ranging works different as expected (based on original flight instruction), A2G mode - shooting unguided rockets with rdr ranging and gyro gives also wind correction -> way too acurate, A2G bombing sight is a pure fantasy. It gives you precise hit point for FAB's with wind correction. 9.A ballistic table For manual bombing with various dive angles and sight deflection angles doesn't exist. 10.MiG-21 Cluster bombs are able to kill every server since I play DCS, Letherneck / Magnitude never attempted to correct these issues. Engine flames out after exceding 1300KIAS which is a total fantasy (and explanation given in DCS manual is made-up total fiction. It doesn't fit liquid mechanic, or jet engine behavior). Speed shall be limited by loosing longitudinal/directional stability and there is a proper description how it works in real MiG-21. And "the devs " are well aware about it. Modelling a proper behavior is too much effort i suppose? Engine flame out (due to over-speeding) is pure fiction (and a lie). how it shall behave I posted here: 11. RSBN!!! 12.ARK!!! Polish language is my native language so I had those opportunity to read and learn MiG-21 from it's original manual. Number of bollocks put into Magnitude made semi - fidelity module is revolting. Except flight manual I possess Original Air Dogfight Training program for polish AF , 2 parts combat deployment manual and MiG-21R combat operation manual. Even manual Magnitude made is rubbish...

W oparciu o podrecznik R.Shaw "Fighter Combat" prowadzimy w eskadrze serie zajec teoretycznych i praktycznych z zakresu zespolowej walki mysliwskiej. Cykl zajeci (i podrecznik ktory powstaje przy okazji) nosi nazwe "Nie ma mocnych". Ponizej przykladowy odcinek. "Thach Weave". --------------------------- In squadron we conduct a series of lectures and practical exercises about team aerial combat, under a common name "there are no strong ones" ("nie ma mocnych") about team aerial combat. Here's example lesson. "Thach Weave"

For me as a fan of Enigma CW server (RIP) and Blueflag / Buddyspike CW server, I see a need of light Russian made helicopter. Any given scenario of 1970-1980 is unbalanced. UH-1H vs .... what? Mi-8 is way too big, much more powerful and outclass UH-1 by far. Gazelle way too small, and having UH-1 on both sides is no option, Mi-2 would be perfect. I see a problem and possible solution. Plus Mi-2 is just as legendary as UH-1... if not more.

Problem stays even if I choose no smoothing at all, and no Anti aliasing at all. Problem doesn't seem to be graphic connected. If I host small skirmish of 6 planes for friends I see everything perfectly. Problems start after I add some more ground objects. It's not Anti aliasing or any other type of smoothing connected problem.

Contacts are invisible for me above 3-5 nm. I mean in real environment - Heatblur cold war server. Not sterile offline mode.