Ted Turanski

Hello from Lake City, Michigan, USA. Very interesting to read all of your comments on this page. I see that Overdose1 above has done the training exercises with the SU25T. Good to hear about that. I have not tried the SU25T yet. Basically I've been trying to learn the TF-51D. Have about 35 hours on the TF-51D so far, and am getting the hang of it. At first I always overshot the entire runway trying to land because I didn't know the difference between the RPM and the throttle. So this has been a great learning experience for me. I like being able to control all of the switches, knobs, and levers in the cockpit. Makes it seem more real for me. I got the Mission Editor figured out enough to plan flights from one airport to another, and am even making good landings on a fairly regular basis. My age is 74. My wife and I got our covid shots a few weeks ago. Have not been away from home over night for over a year, so we're looking forward to getting out a little bit if the virus continues to control itself. To all of you on this page - stay healthy, and will be looking for you on the forum down the road.

Thank you to all of you who responded to my question. I am completely new to this forum, -my question above was my first post. I enjoy DCS and its TF-51D very much, and I think that the people of this forum are going to be a great part of the DCS experience for me. Nice to meet you: Rudel_chw, Exorcet, rforce, imacken, MAXsenna, and Repth. With your help I was able to look around at the scenery after pausing the TF-51D. Part of my problem was that my keyboard did not have a pause key. When I looked at setup key assignments the pause function had been assigned to the pause key that I did not have. I added the CapLocks key to the pause function. Now I am able to pause the TF-51D with my CapLocks key and look around at the scenery. Putting all of you comments together I was able to deduce that DCS might have a PAUSE function all of its own. Thank you for your help, and I will be looking for you on the forum. -Ted Turanski, Lake City, Michigan, USA

I'm relatively new to DCS. Have about 30 hours on the TF-51D. I think that the scenery is beautiful, but I don't have much time to look at the scenery while I'm flying. In the new Microsoft Flight Simulator you can pause the action, go to an outside view, and then look around all you want. The only PAUSE for DCS that I know is to hit ESC - but then I have not been able to look around at the scenery while it is paused like that. Does anyone know of a way to look at the scenery in DCS without having to fly the plane at the same time?