paulw10

I’ve heard it said from some real pilots that the acceleration and deceleration rates are noticeably slower than in the real world. Is this true, and can it be made closer? I’m keen to have an experience as close as possible to real world.

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Where did you find that pic? Marvellous. Always wondered why the nose wheel never just snapped off.

I went for the FAA FG1 as I wasn’t sure if the FGR2 was ever qualified for carrier ops. I think DCS would be better to have a carrier version of the F-4. And it’s basically and re-engined F-4J, which was used a lot by the USN on their carriers. And what about adding Enterprise and Ark Royal to the carrier pool.

F-4 gets my vote, fairly high up the list for me. Be a good match for the existing MIG-21, et.al. Variants I'd like to see are the F-4G Wild Weasel, and the Royal Navy FG1 (F-4K) (the roar of the mighty Spey).

Between angels 10 and 15. Well above AAA and most MANPADS. I’ll take the suggestions about bird strike and keep an eye out for it. What’s odd is if I look at the engine, it looks normal. No damage apparent. It might be windmilling, but I can’t tell any difference between the two engines. Just no thrust from the left engine.

Ok thanks for the suggestion. I’m not used to track files yet, so I’ll see if I can figure it out.

If it actually is a random failure, why always the left engine? I’ve never had anything else.

Just recently I’ve been getting a left engine failure both in SP and MP. I’m flying along, not in contact with enemy, and my aircraft suddenly starts banking. I glance down and my left engine dials are all zero. Low pressure fuel caption is on. I’ve got lots of fuel. Neither APU or diving re-restart does anything. I’ve also tried cross-feed on the fuel. I have to recover on one engine. I’ve had this in the last part of an Enemy Within mission, and when cruising to a capture point in MP (Tacview showing nothing for 50 miles) and nothing shooting at me. Can anyone shed any light? Am I missing something? Does the Hog have characteristics I’m not aware of? Thanks. It’s starting to get a bit frustrating. I’m fairly new to DCS so could be a noob thing. I didn’t think the Hog any monitoring issues to watch for; like the Huey UH-1 has. And I don’t have failures allowed in settings. I accept MP could override, but not SP.

I was born and grew up in Margate. It was a lovely place. The local council seemed to give up on it around the mid-90s. A real shame.

I bought the A-10C II on Steam during the Christmas 2020 sale period. The A-10C was included. The A-10A was not included.

Brill. That’s great. Thanks all

As a general rule, I’ve found it better to do all DCS purchases on Steam. You can transfer Steam modules to ED, but not the other way around. The Steam version handles auto updating and stuff, so for me it seems a better solution. And I always have the option to transfer to ED if I find it necessary.

I cheated a bit for this one. Seems you don’t have enough bombs to cover the two JTAC targets and the three main mission targets. Particularly as the other guy won’t help. So I do this one with unlimited ammo, and carpet bombed the main target area through the clouds. TAD EXP2 helped a lot to add mark points around the general area. Look a while to adjust the mark points to get both AAA. Almost ran out of fuel.

With the Warthog HOTAS Throttle and the detent enabled I remapped the throttle. I tend to jump in and out of the A-10 and F/A-18, so wanted a setup that worked for both.

That’s a YES from me too. Battlefield AT and fast recce. Sounds good to me. I’ll buy it.

Actually, I just created a mission using the ME and it let me have my Huey. It started up and I can chopper about. Brill. Just doesn’t work with instant action stuff. As I grew up in the area, it’s really nice to be able to have a wander around. Land on the beach and stuff. The map is really good.

Basically to support the need to reach a mission target waypoint at TOT, but without having to work out the individual route waypoint times. For example, route ABCDE, TOT set for D, steer point at B, target speed calculated accumulating legs pp->B, B->C and C-D. Would be nice to take turn radius in to account as well. Actually, RAF Tornado software would do this for you. Just enter a TOT for the target waypoint, and the software would back-calculate the steer route waypoint times. Each steer route leg has an assumed or set speed. Standard turn radius is assumed.

British Army Lynx AH.7 or AH.9A. Be nice to zoom around the battlefield with anti-tank missiles. Would also love to barrel roll in a helo.

I know it’s a WWII map, but please can I be able to take the Huey for a spin around the map? DCS 2.5.6 won’t let me start or create anything with the Huey with the Channel map.

Does anyone know if the A-10C can do TOT along the route? For example if the route is A-B-C-D, and I enter TOT for C (the mission target), I want to achieve the time when flying A-B-C. It seems I can only achieve direct to C, i.e. when it’s the current steer point. Do I really have the work back along the route and enter each waypoint time?

Maybe a Norwegian Sea theatre, east of the GIUK Sosus barrier. Reenact the northern scenario of Red Storm Rising. Red Banner Northern Fleet attempt to push in to the Atlantic and control the shipping lanes and threaten the Eastern Seaboard. It’s all based around the mid-80s so fits the general DCS modern era aircraft that we have. Maybe even extend the helo models and do some sub hunting. AI or multi crew P3C Orions and MR2 Nimrods.

Having flew over the area a few times, I really can't tell where Margate is. There is no pier, sun deck, clock tower or Sea Bathing hospital in evidence. These are Victorian features that are fairly easy to distiguish from the air.

It’s a very valid point. The Tornado, for example, is a very backseat driven beast. The front seater takes off, turns the TFR on, engages autopilot and wakes up an hour or so later for tea and medals. Lol. Seriously, a very two seat operation. The work levels in both seats can be fairly high I understand. Just running the EW DASS is boffin stuff. Getting the best out of it may prove tricky in the single player mode.

I just came across this problem myself, after buying the rather costly Warthog HOTAS for my rig. I reversed the detent in the throttle so I could use the detent. I jumped in my F/A-18 and found the afterburner would not kick in. I fiddled about with the mapping and all seemed ok. Then I jumped back in to my A-10C and couldn’t get more than about 85% power. The detent was restricting the full range of the throttle. So some more fiddling with the mapping. Thinking about it, the afterburner detent should probably just have been a switch rather than the high range of the throttle. Is this how a real afterburner detent works? The Warthog HOTAS has a switch for the idle detent on each throttle, so that one was thought about. For DCS, we need to be able to recognise whether a physical afterburner detent is present in the controller, and be able to adjust the 100% military power position. This is relevant to all aircraft whether they have afterburners or not, i.e. A-10C or P51D when the controller throttle afterburner detent is fitted. We DCS players tend to jump in and out of multiple planes. So don’t want to have to change the sim hardware each time. Thanks for listening. Paul