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After spending few hours piloting Ka-50 and few more hours watching others crash it, I can, with ease, say that ED/DCS once again raised the bar of flight simulators. Previous king of button fondling, Falcon4, finally has been beaten. To me it seems every single button was functional and clickable in the current build (although Mat said that everything has not been implemented yet); a start up procedure was a thing of beauty, a true simmers wet dream. ;) I was in awe that detail even included BIOS check (Ka-50 uses 486 CPU) and time to acquire satellites in earth’s orbit for GPS system. Helicopter simmers, rejoice! Finally you can get a proper FM for weird birds that beat air into submission. I believe new Ka-50 AFM is the best flight model in any publicly available simulator; it felt proper, smooth and fluent. AdvancedDM was also quite nice. Do not expect poor quality and horrible performance which seems standard to Microsoft now days. Flight is simulated properly in extreme and normal maneuvers and will bite new users that are not aware of aircraft’s limitations; a 300kph dive with abrupt movement will place a rotor blade into a position that will cut other blade and force aircraft into a spiraling death. People, who are skeptical about expected 9 month deadline between each aircraft should realize that creation of addon aircraft does not start after Black Shark gets released; the future aircraft are already being worked on. First expected aircraft to be released is (drum roll) A10. The images that I and 20MM have posted are approximately 5 months old and do not represent current progress. Since ED/DCS finally begun releasing information, new images and development update will resume as before. Some other things I noticed: Trees no longer disappear or go transparent. Mountains have less jugged ridges and are more circular Mission editor will have triggers Entire interface has been reworked, including joystick mapping New engine will be implemented with A10 (hopefully)

Notice image on TV screen. It will be possible to insert your own texture there.

Mat showed me few models that have not been showed publicly. Probably later-on they will be released in higher resolution. Here's a BlackHowk in its full glory. It's even rendered inside. New radar vehicle.

Notice damage done to landing gear. The damage model is more detailed than of Su-25T. When landing, a sideway movement can 'catch' gear and flip Ka-50 over. Crashes are wonderfully modeled, just as with Flaming Cliffs.

Not exactly about a Black Shark, but still... I spotted a very interesting device that might enhance flight simmers sensation of acceleration, deceleration and G-forces. It is a flak jacket looking ‘thingy’ that straps-on onto a body. It plugs into a little brick looking compressor with a small elastic hose that forces air into a jacket. Jacket has 8 release valves (4 front and 4 back) that when activated, release stream of air at max of 50 psi. It seems TN-Games are trying to market this device to first person shooters and maybe driving sims. I tried it out using some silly game and it does enhance gaming quite a lot. I believe this is a perfect thing for flight/driving simulators. This device is expected to release soon at a cost of ~ 160$. http://tngames.com/ Here's some stranger holding black compressor. :bye_2:

20MM posted his experiene @ SimHQ http://www.simhq.com/_commentary/all_037a.html

I sure did :D Right now it is near 1am here. In the morning I'll post more info. Here are two images that you guys can drool over. (Warning: as always WIP)

Inside the booth, there are three ‘displays’ for attendees. On the left side of the booth, a generic cockpit with Black Shark is set for anyone to try out. Notice cockpit has 4 CH-MFP panels which add good atmosphere. On this setup Black Shark is running Arcade settings so people do not crash every 30 seconds. Here's a quick youtube video of this display. Notice additional icons on the monitor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bKQml2Pm1E In the middle, 20MM is busy 'landing' helicopter. ;) This setup is running full beauty of AFM with two Instructors chatting about upcoming product; Wags and EvilBivol-1. Image is projected on a 5-6 foot white screen, which unfortunately makes it difficult to record video. Here is a video of Wags catching a missile. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2OyKO9CLYY And finally on the right side we have FS10 running at amazing 5 fps on a utra quad-core super-uber computer.

Hello from sunny California. I will use this thread to post my report from E for All expo; a replacement of extinct E3 show. Since I've never attended E3, this was rather pleasing new experience to me. Simmers are not the only ones with with unique hobbies. The future of flight sims; a combined booth of ED/DCS and CH-Products.

I just got backe from EforAll and after few beers I'll write up what I saw. Here are few teaser pictures. weirdos ;) The future of flight sims. -Sim

I'm off to the show. See you guys there who ever is coming today.

If you find it relaxing looking into a toilet bowl.....then yeah...

Papa-razi? Now kick, punch, it's all in your mind.... No,....I'm not ;)

I'll try but my digi-camera is rather old :)

They also have OHP Frigate and other tech which we will never see in DCS.

bumpy bump.

What ever happened to that project? IIRC it was scheduled to enter during next update, but with current reorganization did UAV jumped into never to happen world?

I'll probably make it on Thursday.

Is Stormin around there too? How would you like to go to a pub after for few drinks with a couple forum members?

I'll try to make it also. On what day is ED going to be there?

What is the cost to attend E for All Expo? Advance Registration* * Thursday/Friday pass: $45 * Saturday/Sunday pass: $65 * 4-day pass: $90 * Offers VIP early-access to show floor On-site Registration * Thursday/Friday ticket: $50 * Saturday/Sunday ticket: $75 * 4-day ticket: $110

yep, diesel subs do not need cooling pumps...

It's new. I wish blades had more natural flexing/balancing effect.

Only for paid users I assume?

which means this http://www.bocxod.ru/img/sushka_chay.jpg