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In real life, you can rest your hand adjacent to the switch you need to flip and thus be able to do it while manoeuvring without having your arms flailing all over the place. You can do it without looking down as well. I'm still waiting for Tactile-IR or whatever to give those of us who are not in a position to replace the living room table with a home cockpit (I've tried!) the same ability. :D

ESzczesniak, do you have an ICAO reference? That's more detailed than what I can find in Annex 2 or Doc 9870 (of which the latter is recommenced best practices rather than mandatory anyway). Specifically, Annex 2 does not mention e g landing or taxi light usage or on/off runways etc. I'm not disputing that those are sound procedures - see my own post above if in doubt. However, I have not seen an ICAO document mandating them, so if there is one I'd like to fill in this gap in my knowledge. Jinro, Annex 2 essentially states that if equipped, aircraft shall carry the same lights as they would from sunset to sunrise during daytime as well. That's an ICAO "shall", or in other words mandatory unless you have an exception in writing. Cheers, Fred

Any artificial head movement tends to mess you up when flying on instruments. In real life, pull your harness tight and hit the gym if your neck has the mechanical properties of a bungee cord. :)

And I'm down to third place... :D

Can you turn off the horrible tie-fighter fly-by sounds? Preferably server-side, for MP... :) Also, can the aforementioned boost cutout limiter be disabled? Some aircraft had that feature, but none of those which flew in BoB to the best of my knowledge (although I don't have a Bf109 manual at hand, so I may be mistaken there). Now, off to buy it. Cheers! /Fred Edit: Downloading... ;)

And here I thought I had a chance of actually winning the geek world championship... I admit my defeat! :D By the way, do you have charts or tracks to prove what you are saying? ;)

Lovely video, thanks for posting!

Now, that is a very good idea! Rep inbound! I think the cursor could remain stationary in the virtual view, as long as it remained on screen. If you move your head far enough for the cursor to go off screen, it simply starts moving with your view again on the edge of the screen. BTW, Braunschweig is a lovely place. Visited last winter, just in time for the Weihnachtsmarkt. Cheers, /Fred

I knew I'd read an interesting article on one way of setting things up. Here it is: http://www.avweb.com/news/pilotlounge/PilotsLounge_135_DaveHertel_IFRFlying_201502-1.html

Egg-zactly. You are always nudging the controls. When trimmed just right, you are adjusting altitude by minute power changes or trim changes, and very slight pressure on the rudder rather than ailerons, but I have yet to be in 100% hands-off flight for any time. In A-10, it feeeeeeeeeels right. :D

Normal procedure is nav lights on as soon as you think you need them, including when parked if you are afraid of having trucks driving into your wingtips. As you are ready to start cranking the engines, beacon on. Taxi etc as you need them. Strobes left off until you are cleared onto the active runway, both to let others know you are taking the active but also as an airport full of flashing strobes makes life difficult for the ground/tower controllers. Depending on the threat level, either lights out as soon as you expect enemy contacts, as you cross the fence or as you approach a target area. If you are more concerned about collisions in the air than about being seen, you can leave it all on. Obviously formation lights should stay on as long as you are in formation at night. :) First paragraph from civvie real life, second educated guess. The key point is, use the lights you think give you the best safety margin for the mission, so there are unlikely to be any hard and fast rules - only recommendation and suggested normal procedures. Cheers, /Fred

+1 for the old sound. Oh well, can live with the new and a way will probably be found to keep the B4 version as well.

Two words: Fokker scourge. Doesn't get more effective than that.

1) Are we talking training or area of operations? 2) VFR is one of the most effective means of filling airspace, when WX is reasonable. It most certainly does not preclude procedural restrictions either, in spite of what some seem to believe. 3) While I have not flown over Afghanistan (or gotten closer to one week from airborne over Iraq before having it cancelled - long story ;)) my reading tells me (google - there's info out there) that procedural separation is employed. Different altitudes for different flights in the same area, altitude separation between inbound and outbound etc. I wouldn't expect warfare and PANS-OPS/TERPS to blend smoothly.

Doppler...

I haven't noticed anything peculiar about this aspect of the handling. I wouldn't expect prolonged hands-off S&L either, though. It's just not what aircraft do. Even if you do get the trim just right, there will always be external disturbances.

Welcome to the club. Let's hope you're one of the lucky ones, and that we will all be come B5. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=62025 Please post your experience in that thread, to keep the issue visible to the devs. Long threads seem to be attention-getters. Cheers, Fred

If the pilots have any sense and the WX allows, they'll forget all about departure procedures and file VFR. This is a CAS aircraft, it's not meant to be flown like a mean-looking airliner... :)

Good introduction, on a quick read-through. One minor point, though: In the real world, that's setting yourself up for a blown engine. Power is a function of torque and RPM. Full throttle at low RPM means bringing the torque way up, and the engines aren't dimensioned for it. You overtorque the prop shaft, overstress the pistons and con rods and bring the combustion chamber pressures up, risking detonation, piston head failure and blown gaskets. Rule of thumb is to always have the RPM forward of the throttle. Reduce throttle first and then RPM on power reduction, and push the prop forward first when increasing power. At high altitudes, when air density is reducing power output, it can be viable. The key is to use the manifold pressure gauge. On the monster engines of WWII fighters, with massive turbo/superchargers, that will be very high up though. Edit: Am buying, and joining the fray this summer. :)

Sorry to hear... and I agree with everyone you've asked so far. Let it blow over, try to ignore it for now. The positions are probably locked at the moment. Maybe swallow your pride and go back in a month or two and ask for advice on an external hard drive or whatever you figure you need anyway. Obviously, his business is important to him as well as his self-image as a guy who can set things up for his family. Let him fill that role and think you really need him and his business... another time. As you'd been reconnecting prior to this, he's obviously not a hopeless case. Being in touch with your parents is worth a lot for your own well-being I think, so it can be worth chewing a bit of humble pie, even though you are not at fault.

Most definitely does! I'm campaigning to have it implemented as a mod in the aircraft I fly in real life - would be immensely helpful at times...;)

Chuck Norris doesn't need a GAU-8 to deplete your anium! Once he's figured out what it means, he'll just do it...

Oh no! I've created a monster! :D

Other aircraft have 20 mm Vulcan cannons. The A-10 has the GAU-8. Other aircraft have puny little radars. If the A-10 had a radar, proportionality dictates it'd have a radar which could: 1) Fry bacon, small animals, T-72s and small countries from up to 7 nm away. 2) Make the planet spin the other way due to the electro-magnetic recoil. 3) Absorb all the global warming. 4) Act as a weather radar by painting the weather. Painting as in "drawing new weather", not as in "recording the current weather". 5) Make the RWR beep, as the radar beam hits the transmitting A-10 after circumnavigating the planet... or possibly the entire curved space-time continuum. 6) ... 7) ... ;)

Yes. The coordinates are given in MGRS, the Military Grid Reference System. UTM38T is a large grid zone (area on the planet), designated in the UTM system. NN is a smaller grid square within this zone. 01111 95052 are then the coordinates within the grid square NN. The coordinate group can be given with various numbers of figures depending on the precision you require, the first half being the easting (distance east of the grid square designator) and the second half the northing. Here's a short tutorial which I haven't read but which sounds promising. It's got a good title at least! Once you have this down, you'll be able to rattle off those cool-sounding November Zulu One Fower Niner Eight Tri Six coordinates, just like in the movies... ;) Cheers, Fred