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Again, that's the theory, but in practice, I observed a noticeable increase in VR performance after going from 2x16GB to 4x16GB. Nothing else changed. How do you explain that? It's not placebo effect, either, we're talking a measurable increase. By conventional wisdom, a four module configuration should be performing worse. In DCS specifically, it seems that increasing RAM to 64GB does, in fact, boost FPS. I doubt going to 128GB would do much, but I haven't tested that. My theory is, there are some optimizations involved that look at the total amount of RAM available.

Depends on what you mean by many, the number of instructors is relatively small compared to pilots in general, so I'd imagine the competition there would be fierce. It'd still be the desk or the airlines for most. Plus, you have to keep in mind that as an IP, you'll actually have to fly and train people, as opposed to practicing your butthole-crawling skills at Pentagon, which often seem to determine whether you get to pin on a star than anything related to your actual job... So I guess it depends on one's career priorities.

I wonder if he had mistaken the HMD for the HUD, and thought it was some gamey UI.

In the US at least, it's actually more of a matter of how the promotion system works for officers. Promotions come after serving for a specified amount of time, and being passed over at any point is a career killer, particularly past captain, where the number of officers is fixed. So in practice, you either get promoted, or you retire to make room for someone who does rate a promotion. The end result is, you get your skill and experience, and then you get promoted out of the cockpit. Test pilots can be much older because they're not constrained by this. Endurance and health vary highly with age, some people can hold their own well past retirement. Bill Anders was 90 when he crashed in his T-34 a year ago. Something tells me that if you put him in a Voodoo at that age, he'd more than hold his own.

It appears that what matters to most of the community is SP content, so you can't accuse them of poor focus. Perhaps the logistics features will make it to MP, but it might be hard to bring DC itself over, since it has to handle the flow of time, particularly if we're looking at a realistic downtime between sorties.

Not necessarily, lowering latency will affect FPS. It's not the first thing people think of when looking at RAM, but it probably should be. Also, I did notice an average FPS boost after a RAM upgrade to 64GB, despite only a modest improvement in latency. Capacity does matter. I doubt expanding it further would help much, but it seems that below 64GB, DCS has to make some tradeoffs that pull FPS down.

We need that oldtimey wooden ladder. It'd be correct for the state of our SPO-15.

Our maps are late war, the area looked quite different during Battle of Britain. I'd rather have them focus on the Pacific.

Probably, as this was quite an advanced radar, not to mention fairly large for a fighter. Tomcat's big nose allowed a hefty antenna and power to match. However, both jammers and radars are classified precisely so that such questions would be difficult to answer precisely.

Generally, stated ranges are based on flyout range, not on what's practical. Heaters will usually be limited by their seeker. While ET might have a better range against a rear aspect target in full AB (in fact, it's really well suited to this scenario, which is otherwise difficult), its main advantage in other situations is mostly that it's got a lot of energy to spare.

The AWG-71 supposedly blows it out of the water, including a special mode that can combine two Tomcats' radars into one massive radar dish, but it's still classified.

Yeah, I wrote the wrong word. You need to wait for him to be there to get taxi permission. You can do startup before he gets there if you're too impatient too wait, but he won't clear you to taxi unless he's at the plane.

When cold starting, you salute twice. First you report ready for engine startup, get a thumbs up, then you report ready to taxi once that's done. Also, you need to make sure the brownshirt is there to get taxi permission. Sometimes, he'll be over at some other aircraft and you need to wait for him to walk over. He'll only react to the salute once he's at your plane.

He's mentioned somewhere on his Discord that he'd like to do that, but it'll be a significant rebuild. It's an old campaign, after all.

I had my Winwing gear take such drops without problems (due to a design flaw in DIY desk mounts). If they ever make Tomcat handles, that would likely work. I imagine that will hold for any company that makes the mechanism out of metal. Throttletek stuff looks like some of the experiments I've made with DIY 3D printed hardware.