JetCat

Hello and a good evening, I would really appreciate two little details on the fantastic Hind helicopter. The Hind G version has a little mechanical device to take probes from the ground to check if the environment is contaminated with chemical or radioactive warfare stuff, and an airtight cabin seal (this airtight cabin seal is already modelled into the Hind plus the engine filters). It would be awesome having a Hind G version to make scientific analyses of environment and soil and at least having the soil testing device modelled onto the outerior model. The second detail is about the exhaust of the TV3-117 turbine. I have checked the exhaust of the Hind version without infrared supressor and it has no animated low pressure turbine wheel inside. It would be the last awesome superb detail seeing the Hind-version with the open big round exhaust having the turbine wheel turning inside (the oil cooler fan above the turbine inlets is already animated which looks great!). Keep on doing your great work I absolutely love this simulator, this is the attention to detail and study-level when buying a virtual plane I am used too when doing flight sims. The 441 page pilot handbook of the Hind is a masterpiece of it´s own, STUDY-LEVEL at it´s finest!!

Hi flying aces, while enjoying the Hind I have noticed a strange behaviour: Sometimes when maneuvering or even when flying straight ahead very fast and doing (light) maneuvers with high speeds, the main rotor suddenly slows down, continues to get slower and the helicopter is crashing uncontrollable into the ground. The engine setting in this case when it happens is always full turbine torque power (page up or mouse action on the pitch lever) plus collective pitch lever fully raised. Is this an engine failure caused by overstressing the turbines which cannot bring enough torque on the main rotor anymore because of too much collective and therefore flame out when doing funky flight maneuvers? Have a beautyful weekend and good flight

Hi pilots, since re-installing DCS and enjoying all the trial demos for all the modules (wow the Hind and the Harrier are absolute awesome!) I have noticed that all airplanes and helicopters have a strong urge to roll clockwise. It is necessary to counter-act with at least 50% of the left joystick axis to fly in a straight path and prevent jets and helis from constantly rolling. What can I do to stop all vehicle`s strong tendency to roll? Is it a joystick problem (if yes it has never occured before)? Have a beautyful weekend and don´t forget to enjoy all the DCS trials - and I absolutely recommend the Harrier and the Hind for people who already have the classic F`s (F-14, F-16 and F-18) and want to try something new and exciting

Wow using Sidewinders to sink ships. It can´t get any more easy and comfortable than locking on the diesel exhaust of some enemy gunship with the AIM-9

It takes 2 years to learn a type-rating of an airplane so don´t expect to be able to control the systems of a jet in one afternoon after watching one YouTube video from Grim Reapers tutorials it takes time. Get comfortable with your jet, learn to fly and learn one system after another, and always have paper and pencil next to the computer to write down details about the MDF subsystems and relatively hidden easy to forget steps like caging/uncaging seekers and things like that down.

Oh too bad........... I have installed DCS today a second time as non-Steam standalone edition to test all these awesome modules (finally test-flying the Tiger and the Viggen how exciting!). But even if my account is not new and therefore no discount Steam has sales for these modules too sometimes.

Hi, I am not yet convinced by helicopters (they were really a pain to fly in FSX!) but the Hind-D and the Apache are still very interesting. Is there some kind of demo or try-out for helicopters planned to be able to try flying for ten minutes or half an hour before buying? To feel the flight dynamics myself with my own equipment would be more helpful than watching YouTube videos seeing absolute ace-pilots with hundreds of virtual helicopter hours steering with 500€ or more expert throttle and joystick sets. (I have a rather cheap joystick.) Have a beautyful week, JetCat

Taking care of maintenance is highly interesting, and a thing that I highly appreciated. So far in civilian flight sims only this developer offered this feature back in the old Flight Simulator X days in the year 2006: Changing oil, changing the sparks, making other maintenance things like loading or changing the battery, changing a two-blade prop to a 3-bladed prop and other fine stuff. (It is really sad the A2A Accu-Sim is stuck in FS X and Prepared like 99% of all other third party developers and still has not found it´s way into Flight Simulator 20 and X-Plane because I would absolutely love to have this awesome Cessna with all the cool immersive and interesting maintenance options back!) In fighter jets maintenance would of course be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more difficult and sophisticated than doing "Cessna-stuff" in the hangar which is literally almost the same as car maintenance in a garage, but yes some repairs, diving deep into technological aspects of a jet, would be superb

Yes this is a good idea! Thunderstorms, the cabin fogging (or freezing like in Ace Combat VR) to make the defog lever of actual use and bring some de-icing features into the sim, I would appreciate some nice visual candy.

Hi pilots, I have watched some Viggen videos yesternight and think this airplane is very beautyful and stylish-looking. Yes it is old, but one have to remember that the F-16 was also developed in the seventies and the Tomcat development begun in the late sixties, so age says nothing about the beauty and extremestylish look of these jets Well what I could not see in any of the YouTube videos but what is of interest of me because all Eagle Dynamics jets have this feature, is the correct modelling and animation of the turbine exhaust. Here we have Col. Yamato, former Japanese mech-pilot, explaining the Viggens Pratt & Whittney JT8 engine: Is the huge stage III low pressure turbine wheel visible in the turbine´s exhaust animated and turning in the Viggen, or is it only a disappointing static texture when looking into the huge exhaust? I need to know this information before buying because the Heatblur Tomcat also unfortunately has no animated low-pressure turbine exhaust which is disappointing in an otherwise such ultra-hyper-detailled and beautyfully rendered jet with so much attention to detail that even the tiniest bolt and screw inside the cockpit matches with the real thing. Remember all Eagle Dynamics planes have an animated and turning jet intake fan and a turning low-pressure turbine at the exhaust, even in the F-5 and F-18 (which have very small rather hard to see into the exhaust) but I absolutely appreciate this level of attention to detail. So can any Viggen user telling me if the exhaust turbine is turning? Thanks in advance for your answers

Ah thanks for the hint! Yes it´s labelled FF and not IFF on the bordcomputer. I have never noticed that because I never use this system, friends or foes are labelled anyway I am going to fix it on the next update, but there might be the problem that the night illumination will still show FF glowing through the IFF day texture. Does anyone know how to texture night lighting effects in cockpits?

Here is an update for the Hornet Gun Metal Grey cockpit. "Better Shades of Grey" with the grey-tones better matching and no miscoloured panels standing out, plus small details like the fins of the air vent have now the same colour and the panels around the rudder pedals too. https://www.file-upload.net/download-14735956/HornetNestGunMetalGreyV2.zip.html Enjoy

Another fine landing.

This is so awesome. Wow these old Tomcats wake up old great memories of how beyond awesome mysterious and unreachable and so superior hyper-fast compared to all other planes these jets were to me as a child in the eighties, old memories about Top Gun, the Final Countdown, and my model ships of the USS Constellation and USS Nimitz Oh and of course J.A.G. and Navy CIS. Thank you so much for all your fantastic liveries! Incredible that this plane is out of service for almost 15 years now, time really flies by........

Hi ace jet pilots, I am currently repainting the F-16 cockpit in a stealthy "have Glass" inspired black and dark-grey two-tone design. I removed 99% of the way overused scratches and dirt everywhere but without giving the cockpit an unrealistic plastic-toy-like look and with enough rugged used look to keep it real. Currently I am forced to use some parts of dalva24 Indonesian TNI-AU F-16 eMLU Cockpit (which is absolutely great!) because whenever I implement my own .dds file for: Thrust lever (f16c_cpt02.dds), fly-by-wire stick (f16c_cpt03.dds), and sideway instrument panel frame and floor (f16c_cpt01.dds) this graphics bug from the first two screenshots occurs - some parts of the texture go green or white without any reasons, and I don´t know what I am doing wrong. Is there any special color depth or anything else necessary when exporting the texture file with Gimp? Well the new black/grey two-tone cockpit is almost finished, but before uploading here I would like to implement my own cockpit sidepanel frame, stick and thrust lever. Has anyone an idea what causes this graphics bug? Have a great flight

Same problem since yesternight. A fresh install on a more powerful and faster drive (from SSD to NVMe) changed nothing. === Log opened UTC 2021-10-30 03:23:57 2021-10-30 03:23:57.447 ALERT SECURITYCONTROL: Can't run Steam! 2021-10-30 03:23:57.453 INFO APP: Command line: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\bin\DCS.exe 2021-10-30 03:23:57.453 INFO APP: DCS/2.7.7.15038 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19043) 2021-10-30 03:23:57.453 INFO APP: Application revision: 195037 2021-10-30 03:23:57.453 INFO APP: Renderer revision: 22490 2021-10-30 03:23:57.454 INFO APP: Terrain revision: 22438 2021-10-30 03:23:57.454 INFO APP: Build number: 687 2021-10-30 03:23:57.454 INFO APP: CPU cores: 8, threads: 16, System RAM: 32693 MB, Pagefile: 64000 MB === Log closed. If switching DCS from Beta to stable release version and re-starting the computer and restarting Steam won´t change anything, I might need to contact technical support. edit: Switching from open Beta to stable Steam release solved the problem Well unfortunately these awesome looking clouds and weather effects from the Beta version are now gone I assume? Or is the cool new weather engine already implemented in the stable version? At least I can fly these illustrious jets again! But I will switch back to Beta version in a few days to have these volumetric clouds and rain effects and other stuff back

Hi, the trainings and missions are very interesting and I always choose a mission or a training session because I don´t know how to handle the mission editor. That´s why I would really appreciate some interesting anti-ship-missions to sink an enemy destroyer. Especially the F-16 wants some more missions because she only has four, while the Tomcat and the Hornet have so many trainings and missions. Thanks for reading and have a nice weekend

Yes adding at least animated dummy switches even for non-functional systems is very important for immersion.

Hi, I hope that a functioning cockpit livery selector in the options menu for the F-16 will be implemented into DCS. I like to choose a darker or even black cockpit design when flying stealthy night or evening reconnaissance missions, and the more classic middle-grey cockpit designs when flying during daytime. Thanks

Excellent These glove vane canards were active in the early years during the seventies and installed to generate some extra lift to prevent the nose-down pitching force at supersonic flights. And it looks so awesome and iconic and ahead of it´s time with swept-back wings and extended vanes that because for design reasons alone it is a must to implement in the best virtual Tomcat ever programmed:

If you are completely new to DCS, I recommend using YouTube to learn the basics of your new plane (cockpit, starting procedures etc.) Start the training missions in DCS and try to fly them just as shown on YouTube. You should spend some weeks enjoy learning to start up, handle and fly these jets, learn how to land. Study the cockpits to exactly know where all the electric switches, lights engine switches are and what values and data the gauges show (ignore all the ATC stuff - ATC this is not necessary I don´t use anything related to ATC in Flight Simulator 20 neither). If you know how to start fly and land your favorite jet with ease, you could read the manual just for pure interest and to get some background infos and find more detailed cockpit informations - and you can use YouTube to learn the weapon systems. Also you can start modding your planes - there are dozens of beautyful liveries available for all tastes

Are there any plans of further F-14 development with these awesome looking supersonic flight canards implemented into the A-version?

There was a little delay because lot´s of minor details were to repaint, like the heating vents. And the side panels (in 90% of all Hornets it is grey not black) the black colour tone of windshield frame, and trying to match all the shades of grey. Plus cleaning up the cockpit a little bit much more. And here is the download link, enjoy And I wish I could repaint the cockpit as 101% ULTRA-PHOTOREAL as the Tomcat`s but I am not that good unfortunately. But maybe someone enjoys my cockpit here too, I especially like the new shiny MFD screens with this shiny dark blackish green tone that looks so eighties-military-techy. https://www.file-upload.net/download-14732281/Cockpit.zip.html

Maybe I have something for you Screenshots will follow soon. Well here we go. This is my modernized and cleaned gun metal grey hornet´s nest currently under development and it is not yet finished - the windshield airframe is not yet in the same black tone as the frame of the cockpit canopy glass, and some other minor texture details will be fixed tonight. The file is not uploaded here somewhere, because I cannot do so all my textures are highest non-compressed 10 bits colour depth quality and the file size is over 1 gigabyte. A download link will follow as soon as my cockpit is ready in maybe two hours or so. By the way I would love to create such a similar F-16 Viper cockpit but unfortunately I cannot open the texture files because of some Nvidia error. (Unsupported DXGI 98 Error when trying with most updated Gimp and Photoshop CS15). Maybe someone can upload a Viper cockpit texture set or repaint kit in common DDS format editeable with Photoshop and Gimp on Ryzen/Radeon machines, otherwise I cannot do F-16 repaints. Thanks!