Lord_Pyro

Great News :)

Training held in poor weather. Heavy rain, clouds down to 500m, beginning of the night. Takeoff together. Flying together. Soon our human A10C was beeing spiked by 3 enemy F15's (also humancontrolled). We intercepted and managed to shoot them down. Ok, one AIM120 went well in our favor, picking an eagle instead of our flanker :D The first time we RTB'd, about 4 Tons of fuel left. Carrier was not well visible and he was not moving, thus shortening the landingstrip. But everything wen't fine and we started to take new Weapons first and then ordered new Gas. As i had about 6 Tons, the A10 complained again about some Eagles. Immediate Takeoff, Heroes rushing to the rescue! This time we faced only 2 of them. One behaved smart and kept himself outside our missileenvelope as soon an we fired. But so he couldn't fire back, it was fine that way. My lead pushed to the other one, both firing missiles at about the same time. And both did the same mistake. They miscalculated their movements, ending up in the clouds, way too fast. And soon the lost their sense of orientation, broke out of the clouds, but faced the earth. With 500m height, eyes more on the RWR/TEWS than the horizontalindicator or Hud.... Booom! 2 Manouverkills :( With only 1,2 Tons fuel left, i decided to take the slow route home. I still had to stretch it for an 20min flight. At the Returnpoint i hat to dive carefully through the louds, ending up in some dark environment. Fearing groundcontact i realy had problems pitching my nose down, thus repeatedly entering the clouds again, diving out of them, scaring about the altimeter shrinking to impactpoint, raising the nose again... Not the greatest fun i tell you :D But i managed to get on final and at 1,7km the carrier slowly started to come in sight. Landing went well but not smoothly, checked in at the first wire, a little less thrust and i would have bitten the dust...or better deck. At that time about 400 or 500kg fuel were left (4-5%) so i could have missed 1 or 2 approaches and after that, no burner would have been possible. But it didn't come to this, so it was ok. Who says FC3 is boring? ;)

Back in the good old days, as i still was a little girl, we chased the yak40 as a VIP plane. Times were a lot harder... We literally had nothing at disposal and yet were assigned to save the world. Sometimes twice a day... Kids these days don't know about this... We had absolutely nothing back then... But the yak40! .... Oh yes, the yak 40 was flying... In these days. You could look out of the window and there were houndreds of yak 40. But we had nothing.. Not even a charriot... All those yaks.... But it was a better time. A simpler time...

Yeah, i'm Sheriff Pyro Mc'Cool, Lord of the Firemountains. I supervise every AAM Launch in DCS and regarding of the situation they were launched in, i decide if they hit or not. So be nice to me and i may grow the will to let your missiles hit the mark even under ridiculous bad conditions ;) No seriously, was the "what the hell" offensive in your eyes? It may be that it might be inapropriate to post this but i don't know for shure. There are countries out there with strict political correctnessrules, so if it offended you, tell me. In my eyes it was nothing special though...

Russian missiles are crap? What the hell are you doing with them? Yesterday i had an all human 2 vs 3, su 33 vs f15 and later we encountered the same eagles again but only as 2 vs 2. We dodged their 120s and a combination of 27er/r brought the eagles down. It is not so much the missilebehaviour it is more how you deploy them. The Amraam is quite a precise killer but certainly not unbeatable. Both times i made it back to my beloved carrier. The second time i lost my lead though, but it was a manouverkill due some nasty weathersettings.

But what is more Important? To start an engine or to turn it off, what also Fuelcutoff can do? This is about starting the engine correctly (but only if you manage to twist your view a bit IF you have the hardware for this/ map a workaround) or start it incorrectly but at least you can start it. The thing is, they did not move the switch because they just wanted to, or they thought it would be cool to change the pit a bit. There was an intention behind this. And instead of complaining about this or shouting "i won't buy it, till it's fixed!" one should honor how they thought 3 steps ahead. The easiest way to solve this would btw be a left/rightclick switch. Or mousewheel. You can optically let 2 seperate click/scrollactions move the same switch but perform different actions. So maybe leftclicking will use it as starter and right click turns it off. But instead of thinking about solutions like these some of the members here like to just complain and let the rest of the world take care of the problem :)

Still one week <.<

And i would also welcome the operation of detailed IFF in a10 and huey but some things may never come (although the mig21 may change this)

The point was that some ppl here wanted belsimtek to change the starterswitch in order to perform the startup exactly like the checklists suggests it. So i startet to question the need for the huey to get started by a checklist because there are so few steps, you can't possible miss one. But at the topic, i dont think it is wise to question the decision belsimtek took, as they decided to move the starterswitch to an otherwise mostly unused switch. I mean they faced a real problem, taking into account that many ppl without trackir would have a hard time locating that switch, then they came up with an aesthetic solution and yet some start complaining about this? Thats quite some arrogant behaviour if you ask me. "**** your decision, **** everyone without Tir, I want the lever at exactly that location where it is in rl, otherwise i'm not buying this product, so **** it too!" So don't step over my little bullshitting about checklists above, that was just to skip some time at work. In my oppinion the Starterlocation shouldn't be changed because it has been done that way for the sake of majority. (and btw, just mapp that thing to your stick, for warthogusers the apu starter fits perfectly)

Have i ever said that the german luftwaffe doesn't use checklists nowadays? I was referring to ww2 and for the planes at that time there was no need to.

Bullshit, germans NEVER forget things. If they miss a point then only because in their eyes it was not mandatory. Even if it would be such trivial things like switching master arm on or switching from APU gen to normal gens :O I guess what you really wanted to say is, that even Austrians make failures (which is right) :)

I am not against checklists in general, i agree that in some planes like a hornet you certainly need them. But the huey doesn't need much steps to run ok. And even in the hornet you would probably develope an own systems of performing things, without missing stuff. In the A10 it took me about 5 to 10 startups, same goes for f16. Huey was only one, Mustang 2. Problem with all this checklistbehaviour i have is that it transmittes the feeling to me that ppl don't know what they are doing or don't understand the reasons/ technical backgrounds for it. But maybe it's just my countrys heritage xD Our pilots were a bit surprised/schocked as they started training with the usaf. Literally everything they should do was supported by checklists. Before these days every pilot received a personal instruction about the plane he was flying, covering detailed information for the startup. Then there might have been some aiding signs in the pit but if training was over it was expected that the pilot could start the plane without any further guidance. But one mustn't forget about the roots of the checklists. It was to strap even some farmerboys with not much education in the cockpit and thus raising the amount of planes beeing in the air at the same time in ww2. Overwhelming the enemy by sheer numbers. Logically you cant use only graduated personnell if you have to put many pilots in the air. Btw germany started a similiar programme with their He162 which was so simple that even HJ children or or Volkssturmgramps were supposed to fly them. Every important limitation was written in the cockpit and a superior speed was thought to neglect the need of proper training. Shoot at them, then outrun them and get home :)

Westernstyle of Flighteducation.... I do certainly understand the use of checklists but we are talking about the huey here. You really wan't to tell me you are using a checklist for the startup? Next to the Mustang it is the quickest in DCS, you see it once and are done. So what are you looking at on your lists? The time it takes to look down probably doubles the overall startuptime. Immersion is one thing but i cant imagine that real pilots would start the huey by a checklist. There are so few switches and systems, thes know what thwy are for and have started them houndreds of times, like you probably do... Naahh i'm not buying this.

I didn't really expect a fix but it was a nice ending to my post, i just had no other idea what to write down there and without it, the text would have had an sudden end, looking unfinished. And such things have to be avoided at all costs :D

Luckily we only have to skip somehow the next few month till september 3rd. Then rome 2tw will come and the time until the next dcs modules will get shortened a lot :)

If i use the Su27 Pit for the Su33 the fuelgauge sticks at around half fuel and is not increasing or decreasing. Therefore if you wan't to monitor your fuelstate you have to open the loadoutmenue. Edit: After far mor testing i notid that only the left gauge works for the half scale. From 6 to 3 you can see the fuellevel but everything above or less is not seeable. Any idea how to fix it?

Great news, looking forward for the boardsection in 3rd part area :)

Landing on Taxiways still works fine.

Yesterdays training. A couple of A10 and a Su25T taking of of Anapa. The Su25 would provide SEAD cover as the A10 prepare for their bloody work. Wtf is there really an old Fw190D9 landing? O.o Sead, Sead, Sead :) The mission was a bit chaotic though. I ended up close on the deck, fighting some sams with my guns, as they tried to bring down my A10 wingi far away. Their launches made it easy for me to spot them so it was quite amusing.

Who needs Jesus if one can have Infanterymen walking on the water? Military: 1 Jesus: 0

Exactly 12.

New weaponmodells are well appreciated, as they will make screenshots or close formationflying more beautifull :)

You really have to take care of your planes thats why it is very hard to manage ground and airbattles simultaneously. Therefore that should be splitted up between you and a mate. But planes can be devastating if they work up to their full potential. For example the nighthawks gbu. Ich adjust the attackpoint until the very last moment before release to gibe the right lead at moving targets. And if the bomb hits good, it kills everything around its impactpoint. Also great for dealing with sams if there are not ridiculos much of them concentrated at one spot.

Some screenshots i did during beta. (1-2 days prior official release) This game provides fun and many interesting planes with cool abilities.

Have you tried to land on the taxiway?