Baltic Pirate

Flying VR home is as realistic as flying home gets. I fly for living in real life. Experience is great. With a good setup, just splendid. Beats monitor flying in realism. That is if you are after realism.

Hi Ebphoto I can fully relate to the frustration. I had an MSI laptop, well still do have an MSI GS66 Stealth with a 2070ti GPU and an i7 10875H 2.3GHz CPU. 1.2TB HDD I think. I increased RAM to 32GB, but that really did not do anything with connections. Those were solved earlier. Huge problems with introducing the Reverb G2. It was not the laptop at all, partially yes, but mostly G2 issues in connecting with the laptop. First and foremost. There was an issue with the headset itself. Warranty got me a new one. Then the issue was the 8k requirement for adapters. I had a 4k DisplayPort to USB-C. Did not work properly. You might want to check that you have compatible adapters. This works Amazon.com: USB C Female to USB Male Adapter(2 Pack),Yootech Aluminum Double-Sided USB 3.1 Gen 5Gbps Built-in IC USB A to Type C Connector,Compatible with　iPhone 13/13 Mini/13 Pro/13 Pro Max/12/11,Type-C Earphone : Electronics and so does this, Amazon.com: Cable Matters USB C to DisplayPort Adapter (USB-C to DisplayPort Adapter, USB C to DP Adapter) Supporting 8K 60Hz Black - Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 / Thunderbolt 3 Compatible with MacBook Pro, Dell XPS : Electronics

I dropped adapters. Have the display port and USB-C connected. For the laptop it was a DisplayPort to USB-C and USB-C to USB 3.1. It took a while to get the thing to work on both. On desktop, AMD, I had to get the v2 cable. That sorted the connection error out after some cursing and generally bad behavior from my part.

Emailing with Varjo yesterday, they are fully aware of the DCS issue and are working on a solution. Sorry no other info but that.

Sadly I only have the G2. It is my first experience in VR. That said, I am looking into the Aero. Spoke with them yesterday, they are working on the issues currently troubling use with DCS.

Well. It is and it is not. I would say it is just different from DCS. Like apples and oranges type of deal. I get good fps with decent VR settings on MSFS as well. There are so many variables and tinkering to do with both to get improvement. It is rewarding thou.

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Well what it is worth, I just got my new machine running some time ago. Phenomenal difference in comparison to my old one with 32GB RAM and a i7, 10875H 2.3GHz and a 2070Ti card. Here are the specs i9-11900K CPU DARK ROCK PRO 4 silent high-end Air cooler ASUS X570-P motherboard T-Force Vulcan Z DDR4 64GB 2x32GB 3200MHz Samsung 980 PRO 1TB SSD M.2 NVMe 5000/7000MBytes/sec Toshiba 1TB HDD RTX 3090 24GB Gigabyte Aorus P850W 850W 80 Plus Gold PSU be quiet! Pure Base 600 Window silent pc case I use a reverb G2. No experience with other consumer VR devices as of yet. Must have an v2 cable for AMD, otherwise G2 will refuse to cooperate. Additionally I have Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster pendular rudder and a Virpil collective base with KA50 grip. Thanks to Speed-Of-Heat 3090 guide and settings, flying is quite realistic and even with lots of aircraft in the air, missiles, ground units, I am finding that this set up works really well. Not just using this set for entertainment, I have other uses for it.

Package offered to Finland includes the following weapon types: AMRAAM, Sidewinder, SDB I and II, JDAM-family weaponry, JSM and JASSM-ER. A total of 64 aircraft are included in the deal that also includes training and maintenance systems. The Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II is Finland’s next multi-role fighter - Puolustusministeriö (defmin.fi)

Same with me. I like flying the Mil-8. Various different scenarios.

Good grief you are productive. I can hardly keep up with your manuals. They are also excellent in content. Cheers for that.

Also seems that L-39 has snow inside the cockpit. IMG_4106.MOV

No. 450 kts at 3000ft drop height, round pattern about 60m wide. Not what one would expect. More on this here

Mi-24 and Ka-50.

Is it a bug or utmost realism. With heavy rain, I noticed there are droplets inside the cockpit as well. Now this is not something unusual in an unpressurised aircraft, but I was wondering if it was intentional.

I've used G2 now for about 8 months. Works fine. My MSI laptop specs are quite a bit worse than yours, so should run just fine. I've tweaked settings for months to find the ideal balance, and right now it works really well. You can spot ground targets without too much difficulty. Infantry might be hard from a fast jet, but certainly no issue from helicopters. Yes I would absolutely recommend the G2.

Not old. You are of a good vintage like myself.

Do you have your VR settings handy by any chance? I'd like to compare a bit.

LOL. Yeah pretty much.

Sorry but no. F5 even in DCS has a full IFR panel. It has all the equipment to fly NPA and I do that with it regularly. Now it does lack ILS receiver, something many if not most of this particular -E models came with right off the production line. How do you think Norwegians, Dutch, Swiss to name a few flew it during the European winters for decades? Only on sunny days? I've got a news flash. These aircraft were used in all weather conditions. F5's regularly flew and still fly PAR approaches. PAR is a precision approach procedure even down to 100ft ceilings and 1/4 mile visibility. Granted it is not a CATIIIB autoland with 75m RVR and no DH, but it is pretty good for a manually flown aircraft with no HUD.

Any updates now a few months later?

I stand corrected. The discussion before prompted me to read the accident report on the case. It states as follows. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot’s decision to continue flight under visual flight rules into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in the pilot’s spatial disorientation and loss of control. The pilot’s poor decision to fly at an excessive airspeed for the weather conditions was inconsistent with his adverse-weather-avoidance training and reduced the time available for him to choose an alternative course of action to avoid entering instrument meteorological conditions The pilot experienced spatial disorientation while climbing the helicopter in instrument meteorological conditions, which led to his loss of helicopter control and the resulting collision with terrain. The pilot had about 8,577 hours flying experience, which included about 1,250 hours in Sikorsky S-76-series helicopters and about 75 hours of instrument flying time, at least 68.2 hours of which were accumulated while flying under simulated instrument meteorological conditions (IMC).16 In the 90 days, 30 days, and 24 hours before the accident, the pilot accumulated about 61 hours, 15 hours, and 1.5 hours flying time, respectively. Now that being said. If with his minimal instrument experience, the pilot experienced any aerodynamic anomaly, in addition to the possible physiological effects of his rather snappy pitch up, it would have contributed to the end result. This has been an ongoing discussion with very experienced S-76 pilots since the accident happened and I will be using this accident as case study for the next CRM class.

Thats because speed killed them. He did not lose SA, he lost control. Retreating blade stall at low level, is recoverable, but in IMC with poor skills and lack of currency, not so. Hitting the ground was result of the above. IMC flying is not that easy IRL as mistakes happen and some will kill you. I've got well over 13 thousand instrument hours and while I find it not challenging, I put an effort in every approach I do. Now especially flying into IMC without an IFR clearance and not being instrument current or allowed commercial ops under IMC is something one should not do.

Yes and no. It depends fully on the heat signature emitted and missile limitations. If you have a gas turbine powered FAC, certainly the exhaust is hot enough to create sufficient IR signature, but try locking into a water cooled diesel exhaust right at waterline of a slow moving naval auxiliary, not going to happen. Now Tarantul class has an upward exhaust and with two 11000hp COGAG system. That would certainly give a IR signature that would be seen by a missile seeker head. AGM-119 Penguin is an ASM and equipped with a passive IR-seeker. Alas the possibility to use say AIM-9 could work, in theory.

Some very good pointers here. Especially the one to give free trials a go. I would say you will end up having both. I bought the L-39 first. Flew it around a bit to figure out DCS intrigues. I generally waited for sales and ended up buying all modules available add some of the campaigns. Saved a few pennies with that. I have both modules and fly both regularly. As aircraft they are different than night and day. While the F18 you need to manage systems and go from one page to another and fly alone, the F14 is a lot of stick and rudders type of aircraft. In Jester you have a copilot, helper and a systems operator. You tell him what to do and he mostly does it. He calls out speeds, targets, encourages and ridicules you. I am quite impressed with that as I fly in real life more often with a crew than not. As for the Jester interface. It is like it was made for VR. Works very well with that. Do you have the head pointing selected? If you use keyboard, well it is a bit harder, still doable, but certainly not as nice.