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Not only do they make a higher profit margin with less printing and distribution costs (although as previously discussed the costs of running a server can be very high anyway), DD also allows companies to get the product to market quicker because nowadays the "final" version of software isn't really final, as there are almost always planned patches before it's even released. In general this isn't a bad thing, because people always hate waiting for things and want everything right away. But for me with my capped internet (right now its maxing out at I think 64 kb/s or maybe 128 kb/s until the 14th :mad:) and busy schedule I'd be happy just to wait the extra time. But if getting the product to market quicker allows smaller companies like ED to be able to do business then I'm all for it :)

Found a bug "ZT - 65D*4, 12*4, 38*2", actually has 6*GBU-12

haha I like your logic. But I think Nevada will be released 1) later (like end of the year) and 2) as payware.

I installed the no AIM version, here's hoping I won't get bounced by any frogfoots!

Yeah sometimes the waypoint height is not set to be the same as the ground elevation. Perhaps it is done this way if the mission calls for certain altitudes to be flown. My procedure for finding the targets in this case is to manually slew the TGP's "wedding cake" symbol to the steerpoint icon on the TAD. Then use the TGP as per normal (have you tried using the BHOT/WHOT modes?) to pinpoint the targets.

The CDU is probably the hardest part of this beast! Once you know how to do a few basic things in that system, it's all downhill from there (except for maybe trying to not getting shot up by those pesky BMP-2's). Dunno about the snap views sorry, I use trackIR myself.

Hmm...A carrier-based AWACS...how interesting. It's looking more and more like an F/A-18 (probably C variant) next up every day now...

So if you just leave the altimeter on 29.92 in Hg the whole time, this will make your ccip deliveries less accurate?? Interesting...

I found that the electric power would momentarily cut out when moving from AC generators to APU gen, so always used ground power. This was in 1.1.0.8 though so probably isn't true any more.

Is it standard practice to to formation landings in RL? Because the AI loves doing them...

There are two pippers on the gun reticule now??

1) Yes. 2) Well if ED had the option to do a military contract for a certain aircraft, of course they would take that. But then again, they developed flaming cliffs which was purely an entertainment thing...so its possible the next module will just be for us. Who knows :huh:

I think there is a real gap in the market for a carpet bombing of the ex's house simulator. Maybe when DCS: B-52 comes out it should ship with a google earth plugin allowing this...

Very nice! But I was wondering, is it ever possible to get a "9" or "13" appear on the RWR?

I think what EtherealN may have meant is that the US release will be version 1.1.0.9 or something else more up to date. Gone are the days when you went to the store, got a game and it was version 1.0 everywhere.

Well done, such a crystal clear image and its only 181 kb!!!!:thumbup:

'k' is coolie hat right isn't it? Remember to make the TGP SOI you have to hold the coolie hat right for a couple of seconds (called a "long" press), if you dont hold it for long enough it will just cycle the right MFCD to the next page, i.e. the maverick page.

Sorry perhaps I just didn't RTFM carefully enough, but what page is this list on? It would be really handy but I can't find it anywhere! And yeah you would think the -97 is more fitting for an anti-armour role...

LOL! Surely theres a much simpler, software way of doing this? I used to own a cougar, can't remember exactly but is it /T perhaps? Even the much hated x52 software has a "latched" function which I have used on one of the levers at the base of the stick to create a parking brake.

Sorry EtherealN, I was more refering to the RoF style career though. From my interpretation of your post, the LUA scripts aren't just keeping track of statistics but could also use them as inputs for new missions (so you could sway the tide of war if you blow lots of stuff up)? You didn't mention whether they could play intro movies like in F4 :)

Maybe somewhere, someday. Although personally I prefer the idea of a dynamic campaign more like falcon 4.0's. Its truely dynamic and not just a set of randomly generated missions + carried over statistics. But I've only played the old ROF career mode so can't proplery comment on the new one.

Well I'm no professional aerodynamicist, just have a knowledge of fluid mechanics from being a mechanical engineer. But from my knowledge, turbulent flow can actually increase lift production at high AoA. This is due to an effect similar to that which occurs on a golf ball - in this case the dimples on the ball create turbulence even at a lower Reynolds number in order to reduce the drag. But either way the Reynolds number usually only has a small impact on the lift coefficient.

glad I made sense for once:smilewink:

Have you mapped the slew to an 8-way hat? If so then might I suggest mapping the diagonals of the hat to press both cardinal directions either side of it at once? E.g. the South-East direction simultaneuosly emulates a '.' and '/' . Then it should be pretty much the same thing as using the keyboard. I think you'd have to do that in the hotas's programming software though, if it has any. So I see your point for those using the in-game config

Correct, Mach and TAS aren't the same thing. However for a given speed of sound, they are directly proportional. The speed of sound is not constant over the entire flight envelope however, it varies with temperature and hence altitude. Cl is affected by both the Reynolds number which incorpotates TAS, and the Mach number. As I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread, Cl is only a weak function of both of these variables, alpha has a much stronger influence. Why is it affected by both variables when they are both 'speeds' you ask? Well the Reynolds number is an indicator of the amount of flow turbulence, while the mach number is about flow compressibility and how pressure can propogate (sound is just a pressure wave). While the aircraft's speed will increase both, they are still independent and produce separate effects. So Cl = f (geometry, alpha, M, Re) Regarding the reference area, the documentation that gave the Cl data really should say what it is. It doesn't matter what reference area is used, as long as it is kept consistent for a given geometry. I would guess that it would use whatever the "wing area" of a MiG-29 is officially specified to be. Hard so say seeing as we've only been given one graph, but those lift coefficients are for the full aircraft in my opinion, evidenced by the fact that is has a "with rockets" and "without rockets" curves (I dont speak russian but someone said thats what it said). I'm not saying the reference area is the whole aircraft. Just that they stuck the whole thing in the wind tunnel, not just the wing by itself. Reference area and the geometry are not related, you could make the reference area the pilot's head and it would only scale the graphs, it doesn't change the actual overall lift force.