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.

Sadly I don't think there is a way to fix by hand the other mayor bug, the artifacts in the cockpit of the ZA.

Hahaha, this is "wish list" and we are trying to convince those guys to make the "C" model after the A/PAN. If you are so into trainers, why are you trying to sabotage it? :lol::lol::lol: :doh: You should be saying to the guys of IndiaFoxEcho "Yes, yes, you make it, please" :thumbup: Anyway, seriously, the announcement of a fighter-bomber is the "train of hype" at full speed for 99% of simmers, but another trainer is just "meh, it's OK" for most of the people. Since there are already 2 of them, they should try to give something different. Modern avionics could be one, a campaign of training as realistic as possible made by an actual pilot (I think there are two of them into this project) with the plane could be another... Are there people that will buy everything? Yes, of course. But not everybody has the money to buy every single module, and not everybody has the time to learn the plane's systems and fly it. Most of us already have several modules collecting dust into our virtual hangars.

Well, It's true that the F/A-18, the F-16 and the JF-17 are pretty similar, but it's true that most of the people find more "sexy" those kind of planes than the C-101 and the MB-339. I think most of the people would like to find time to learn and fly several fighter-bombers, but would not several trainers, I´m afraid. My case: I like a lot the free MB-339. I think it´s a brilliant free mod. And I'm sure that you are going to do a great job with it as a payware. But I already own the C-101 and the L-39. Well, the L-39 is a ex-soviet plane, different avionics, weapons and systems... but the C-101 is almost the same plane from a simmer's point of view (not talking about real life, obviously). I don't think I´m going to buy the MB-339 if doesn't gives me something different, like modern avionics, for example.

There are videos of GA L-39 with a commercial GPS fixed to the plexiglass of the canopy with a sucker. They could have put it anywhere. They could have put it in the right panel, as it's in LOTUS's L-39 for FXS, for example. I think what makes sense is not stripping away the weapons capability of a plane IN A MILITARY SIM for a GPS. We should not have to choose between a GPS and the use of weapons in a sim like DCS World.

Te lo agradezco mucho. Llevaba algún tiempo detrás de estos documentos y no había forma. Por supuesto cualquier otro documento que puedas compartir (sin que se enfade nadie de ningún escuadrón virtual, se entiende), será muy bienvenido.

He visto en internet que la gente del Escuadrón 111 tradujo hace tiempo tanto el manual del M-2000C como la guía de Chuck, pero todos los enlaces de descarga que he encontrado están muertos. ¿Por casualidad alguien tiene por ahí esas traducciones, y querría compartirlas? Incluso si el manual está un poco desactualizado, sería interesante. Gracias de antemano :thumbup:

Mig-25 would not work in DCS World. It´s a long range, high speed interceptor, so it needs way much bigger maps and a way much better ground control to make its mission. Also the mission with a Mig-25 it's only one: take off, go as fast and as high as possible, follow Ground Control orders to intercept B-52 or B-1, lock them with your radar, launch missiles, and run away before the enemy escort fighters get you... Most people prefer multirole planes because, at the end of the day, this is a game, and multirole is more interesting than just always the same mission. It´s like the F-111 or the Mirage IV: cool planes, but would not work in DCS World.

Could be possible to move the NS-430 in the cockpit of the L-39C in order of being able to use it with the gunsight, like the C-101? I don't know why you have to choose between the GPS and the gunsight. It seems to me an error of design of the module from the beginning. And I don't think is a matter of "realism" since this GPS is not a standard equipment for the L-39 and you can put it where you want, even taped somewhere in the cockpit like added in the field by the pilot himself or something.

I don't know. But I suppose that, if Boeing sells the license for a plane, the buyer has is in exclusive, and maybe they don't want to sell it to a new and small 3er company. Maybe they want to wait for a better offer, sell it to a bigger developer like ED itself, or something like that. Or maybe it's just that a huge company like Boeing doesn´t care about getting a few bucks by selling licenses for videogames.

+1 :thumbup: There are already two trainer jets pretty similar to this one in DCS World. A jet trainer with glass cockpit and HUD would add something new to this sim. A reason to buy this plane even if you already have the C-101 and/or the L-39.