SgtPappy

After the F-4E, I would really like to see the F-8E Crusader. That awesome plane was the Navy's primary dogfighter until the F-4B's and F-4J's arrived in number. It also had the highest kill ratio of any fighter in Vietnam.

Thanks Belsimtek for fixing some of the Sabre bugs, I'm very happy about the new firing rate! Although I'm not sure if it's against any kind of etiquette to resurrect this thread, I feel like this thread should get some attention. The cockpit looks very different compared to the real thing, and now that the MiG-15 is now a player-useable aircraft, I'm losing more MiGs behind the compass than ever. I still can't find a single image of an F-86F where the compass is there.

No, it wasn't fixed. A workaround would be to not let the B-29's fire at all, or perhaps only one B-29 in each group fire. Great-looking event trailer btw!

If this is the case, then I would like to see it fixed as well. Is this in the F-86F manual or the E? Just wondering, as I'm going to look into it myself now that I have the F manual.

No, you can leave that line alone. Be sure to edit with notepad++. It didn't work for me if I opened and edited with regular notepad.

Awesome work as always, Bunyap! Fun and informative.

Does anyone know if there is official documentation out there that shows the F-86F cockpit panel dimensions? I know a few guys trying to build a full working cockpit to work with Oculus and DCS but are not sure if they just want to look at pictures and scale everything based on the dimensions they might know. I gave them the F-86F parts list but I don't think we could find any dimension information in there.

Yes

This is very true, but while you're fighting AI MiGs, it's a nice way to beat the frustration.

If anyone is interested, you can easily get Notepad++ for free and edit the F-86.lua lines 239-245 to have 1200 rounds per minute. This is the actual fire rate of the Sabre's guns, but the default lua uses something like 639-840 rpm. It will greatly help with downing MiGs. As others have said before, aiming for the wings of the MiG will kill it but fuselage hits do nothing. Using this mod and aiming for the wings pretty much has guaranteed me an excellent-AI MiG kill in one or two passes every time.

Why didn't I ever think of that? Thanks, Art-J! I'll try that when I get home.

I did. I then tried putting that folder in the coremods, in the Mods/Aircrafts/liveries, etc. All the other skins work but its just the Luftwaffe ones that won't show up. I think they're just not updated to the current specs.

Hey everyone, I've been having trouble installing the updated German Luftwaffe skins. I've tried putting them in the CoreMods, mods and Bazar liveries folders to no avail. They simply will not show up in the ME. Do these skins not work because of the most recent update? You can find said skins here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/846146/

Thanks, gents. I'll see if I can get it all downloaded this weekend.

Wow Silent, I need to get me that sweet FX mod. It looks like it would be easier to keep tally on MiGs.

Sundays at that time are great for me too. I'll prefer to be in the F-86, but I won't mind taking the P-51 if there are too many Sabre pilots.

Hey Invisibull, it looks like the links you posted for the Sherman and JSGME mod manager are broken, or at least I get 404's when trying to access them.

I'd like to join on Saturdays or Sundays.

Great footage!

Downloaded and interested! Oh and I also registered for TAG. I'm getting very excited!

Great site! You can count me as a frequent visitor! I hope this works out, and I'd love to be a part of it :)

If you created a squad like that, I'd join in a heartbeat. Only problem is my work schedule takes up most of my day so it would be hard for me, but I would really be interested. I hope as the MiG-15 comes into the game, both Sabre and MiG pilots will more active. And yes, I've been having the same issue with that server. I've tried joining multiple times and the error pops up as soon as I double click the server name.

Yes, it is indeed EDGE. All the trailers are shot in EDGE.

Yes, hopefully they'll look at this soon. I remember another member testing the glide ratio of the aircraft and matching that to the 14:1 mentioned in the manual. So the problem now is probably more to do with the thrust output rather than the drag model.

It gives yo an idea of just how badly equipped the US was when they went into Vietnam, initially with this very variant of the AIM-9! Or at least if I remember correctly.