Alba57

This already happened with the Hawk module a few years ago, and I think ED said that the had changed the terms of the contract with the 3er parties to avoid the same situation twice, but not sure about that.

Problem is, right now there are similar planes to the F-5E, but with better capabilities. Why to buy an F-5E if you can buy the Mirage F1, that has better avionics and more variety in weapons, including Fox 1 missiles? Probably ED haven't sold a single F-5E in months, so they have it almost as "abandonware".

The Mirage F1 is a pretty similar aircraft, but with better capabilities A/A. And the future F1M with avionics updated to the 90's level was used mostly as an attack aircraft in Spain, with similar missions.

I know is not going to happen, but it would be great to get the F-5E at the level of the ones purchased by the US Navy from the Swiss air force, with INS and ILS. It would be 100% realistic and it would give those birds real IFR capabilities. It would be better if this module were upgraded to the F-5N level (I would even pay a few bucks for that upgrade), but that small upgrade would make this module attractive again. It's really limited right now.

I think F/A-18C is a way better module in DCS in terms of fun. Several reasons for that: 1. Can operate both from land and from the carrier. More fun. 2. More variety of weapons/missions. The F/A-18C can perform SEAD missions with HARMs and Maverick missiles, and anti-ship missions with Harpoon missiles. The F-15E can't. 3. The F-15E doesn't "out-tech" the Hornet. Both birds are from the same era (4 generation) and their technological level and avionics are pretty similar, as well as their capabilities. 4. The Hornet is intended for one pilot, the Mudhen for pilot and WSO. So, the best way to fly the Mudhen, as happens with the Tomcat, is with a friend. But not everybody has a mate with the same schedules to fly with online. It seems that the Mudhen will have a AI WSO in the future, but it steals a big amount of the enjoyment, IMO. If you are going to fly solo most of the time because you don't have a mate to fly with regularly, it's better to fly a single-seat plane, again IMO. 5. The F-15E has more fuel and a bigger payload than the F/A-18C, and for sure that's great in real life, because the Mudhen can stay more time in patrol and perform deeper attacks than the Hornet and put a bigger amount of bombs in the target (although that's not so important with guided weapons), but... it's that really important in DCS? How many people actually fly 4-6 hours missions, like in real life? In DCS, most people fly missions that doesn't last more that one hour from take-off to landing. Maybe one and a half hour. Most of us have real-life obligations and usually can't spend more time with this hobby. And I don't think a lot of people perform missions in DCS that include to stay four hours patrolling a CAP or a kill box looking for a scud launcher of waiting for a tank or a fighter to show, like in real life. So much fuel is not really needed, usually. Also, the maps are not big enough to perform really long range strikes, even if someone wants to perform a mission that includes to fly hundreds of miles and several hours until reaching the target, and several hours to RTB. If anyone is hesitating between buying the Hornet of the Mudhen, I recommend the Hornet.

Someone actually got the bird for 24$? I wasn't actually planning to buy this module now (actually, I haven't purchased it), but I saw it so cheap that I tried to buy it. After a few tries got to bring the item to the card, but the price in the card was 56$, although the price in the e-shop was 24. I think that the price never was actually wrong in the E-shop, only the advertisement of the price.

Hola a todos. Me gustaría preguntar una duda a ver si alguien me la puede solucionar: He estado haciendo pruebas con los cazas de FC3 y los misiles, y me ha pasado lo siguiente: volando con el Flanker contra un F-15C, 1vs1, he disparado un R-27ER, y a su vez el F-15C me ha disparado un Sparrow M. Mi misil derriba al F-15C, y el sparrow, en lugar de ponerse en balístico al perder el avión lanzador el blocaje, sigue persiguiéndome durante varios segundos y finalmente me derriba. Esto lo he replicado varias veces, y con otros aviones lanzadores, como el Phantom y el Tomcat. Hasta donde yo sé, el Sparrow es un misil semiactivo, y si el avión lanzador pierde el blocaje (por ejemplo, por ser derribado), el misil se pierde. ¿Se me escapa algo? ¿Hay algún modo en que un Sparrow se guie a su blanco incluso si el avión lanzador ha sido derribado? ¿Quizá hay algún modo en que se guía a las emisiones de ECM del blanco, o algo así? Soy más bien novato, así que no sé si esto es algún "bug" o es que hay algún modo de lanzamiento del Sparrow que no conozco, y permite eso. PD. Parece que el sparrow se guía hacia mi tras perderse el blocaje con el avión lanzador con mis emisiones de ECM ¿Es posible eso?

I´m not going to buy this or any other new modules until RAZBAM 100% finishes the ones already in the market. :disgust:

Please, UGRA, finish 100% your current products before starting another project. Some of us are tired of half-finished products and eternal betas in DCS World. Please, don't be as other developers (won't say names) that don't actually finish the products because they are always jumping from a project to another.

:thumbup: But that kind of things should be done by the developer of the map, even if the situation of the military objects are not the ones of real life por political reasons or something. They should provide templates for making missions easily, not just wait that eventually the community will do the work.

+1

Could be possible to create some SimCharts, both visual and instrumental, adapted to the simulator for at least the main airbases of the map? It´s not easy to find real life charts for most of those airbases, and some of the procedures in real life are not possible in DCS World... Also, it would be great a manual with some documentation about the map: a bit of story of those airbases, planes and squadrons operating from there, historical places, historical battlefields... Planes have manuals, so maps should have too. :thumbup:

+1 PLEASE. An airbase as big and important as Ramat David and only has a NDB? Please, do the base fully functional for modern jets with TACAN and ILS, even if it's exactly like real life. 99,9999% of as simmers are not going to fly never in real life to Ramat David, so who cares? Some "SimCharts" for procedures, adapted to the sim, would be great too.

If your main priority is to kill other guys in multiplayer, buy the JF-17 since it has probably the best FOX-3 missiles in DCS World.

So, you want that we have to buy another GPS for the ZA in order of being able of using the weapons with the GPS? Do you work for ED, by chance? :megalol: This is not a civilian simulator. The L-39C is not a simulation of a GA aircraft in DCS, but a military trainer and light attack aircraft. 15 years ago, when GPS wasn't so common as today, it could happen that civilian GPS, or even just car navigators where mounted in older military jets as "field modifications" or something like that. And that's what could be simulated here with this NS-430, not a GA plane. If it's a GA plane what they are simulating, they well could remove the old ex-soviet militar equipment and upgrade the L-39C with modern radios, autopilot and other civilian equipment that usually is seen in GA L-39's.