SgtPappy

While I mostly agree, judging people with an air of superiority and lack of empathy is the real reason why we can't have nice things. I'm willing to bet if someone dug deep enough, they'd find something you're not so secure about - which is a normal human thing. It might be better to aid a discussion with encouragement and professional explanation rather than shame. Adults are all basically big kids who need therapy and blast it out online (myself included). Our community is tiny enough. Can we at least pretend to get along?

Possibly next to the ALQ-119 which could suppress the tracking radar of the ZSU AAA, allowing the Kurnass crews to fly low more often. They could avoid SA-6 locks with less fear of being sniped by AAA. My gut feeling is these were only available in tiny numbers in the last few jets that arrived during Rivet Haste.

Do you have or fly the F-5? Ever fly it on ECW or similar and have a blast? The F-4's radar is like that but way better. Also, Sparrows which, if DCS missile failure rates were more realistic, would still fail like (wild guess) ~15% of the time anyway. I think folks would benefit from looking at the F-4 and adjusting the mindset such that they don't look at it like it's a very old version of a 4th gen fighter and more like it's a Korean War plane on steroids. We are able to change our perspective for WW2 planes as entirely separate and discrete. Korean War jets too. It's time for this era of jets to have their own category. Imagine jousting an Su-27 in an F-15 and having 2 of your AIM-7M's fail. You're now in a lot of danger because you have to assume their missile did not fail. If the same happened in the F-4 vs a MiG-21, it's frustrating, but generally you're in a lot less danger. Yes, you can do a lot less than in a Hornet but there's also generally a lot less to do vs the enemies of the era. I do agree though, as someone who can mostly only fly alone, I hope Jester will be capable of handling the new controls on his own sufficiently to make the experience in MP fun.

There is: Furthermore, the MiG-21 is performing too well at low speeds - it sustains the same turn rate at very low speeds which is why if you rate fight one clean in an F-5E, the MiG-21 will actually beat you: Hopefully these both get addressed at some point.

In regards to the F-5E, the conclusion, like usual, it isn't that simple. Instantaneous turn rate is a bit better for the F-5E, but I believe in DCS, it underperforms there due to its inability to reach the ~40 deg. AoA it should be capable of reaching. In terms of sustained rate, the slatted F-4E has the slight edge but I can see that going away with a full missile load. See real data/data calculated from real manuals here: In a clean, DACT environment with just guns, the F-4E will be superior in the 2 circle/rate fight. However... as always, there many other ways to win a fight.

For me it was a surprise. No e-mails or other notifications.

Please see the attached log. I'm getting this "Protocol Stream Error" regularly when joining some servers (particularly DDCS but sometimes even the dogfight servers). It doesn't happen every time. Could it be a page file issue? It's currently set on auto. CPU: Intel i7-8700K @ 3.70 GHz (12 CPUs) with 32.768 GB RAM GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with 27.457 GB total memory EDIT: After trying to join the DDCS server again today, I noticed that this stream error tends to happen when I scroll down the roster list. Sometimes it happens after I've joined an aircraft but it happens most consistently with the scrolling. If I try rejoining then I get the same error immediately after connecting. After these events, my fxo folder fills with files and deleting them all allows me to rejoin the server successfully. Of course the error returns when I scroll. dcs.log dcs.log-20240331-020318.zip

Gotta use that engineering degree somehow!

Received just today! Canada

If anyone's curious, this is what it would look like. Note the brick on top of the radar repeater display with the little sight camera.

I'm willing to bet you can get it printed and bound for a relatively cheap price at a shop somewhere. That's what I definitely did not do with the books I found online when I was in college

I've been cooking since Jan25, 2022

I'm in the same position right now. That's why I hope i'll really like the FFB2 on my desktop. I only hope the future will include home ownership for that man cave

Sounds convincing! It will be a consideration for the future, for sure. I looked this up as well and hope to make this a future project in a man cave or something. The FFSB stick in combination with the F-4 might just launch the next stage to this addiction. Dammit now why did you have to put that out into the universe, now I'm seriously considering it... Come to think of it, my membership to the gliding club was far more expensive than a Rhino FFB kit.

May I ask why you have many? Do they break often? Yea the deadzone thing might be tough, but I still have my VKB with which to switch back and forth. Maybe one day there will be a good FFB stick or a kit that won't break the bank.