Gunfreak

That's true, forget it was planned for this year.

I get crashes if I use vr controllers to grab the M4. And the cyclics in the cockpit goes crazy.

I'm curious what comes after the Chinnock and Afghanistan. Don't get me wrong even if no new modules come this year. It's still a very good year. Only possible candidates I know of that might be close enough for release this year is the F4U Corsair (but i doubt it) and the La-7, possibly the C130?

My first and not very authoritative impression of the Kiwoa. Usually my first attempt in a new module is only a few minutes. But both the F4 and Kiowa were so nice to fly they ended up longer. Having watched Camso's vidoes I know what I needed to bind. With a crapload of peripherals. I set up my stick close to the real thing. Used my F18 throttle to bind the copilot stuff. While my collective buttons mostly deal with the AI pilot. Take off went smooth, even if I didn't get the hover. Flying it is so smooth. Using my force feedback stick and force trim. Once in forward flight I could trim it to be stable enough for me to check the F10 maps even at 50 feet. I got into trouble when engaging the enemy. Partly because I had forgotten which button I'd bound for AI hover and Partly because I had problems getting the M4 to work. I blew up a neighbourhood with rockets trying to take out a parked truck so had to use the .50 cal. Then i flew low and fast home. Enjoying every minute of it.

I have the Winwing force sensing stick for the F16. But I'm curious if I can use the brunner software to proper effects on the warbirds. As it is now I can dive down in the P51 at 50mph and there's very little resistance in pulling back the stick. In that other ww2 sim. If I do the same 500mph dive. I have to work quite a bit to pull the stick back.

Can't speak for random youtuber. But Casmo is the real deal both Kiwoa and Apache. And he's been wounded in action. I've not seen anyone doubt his credentials.

If you have super tight profile on the F16. How do you just stop it from going into(defense mode) that turns of all almost all forces. The Brunner has like 30 seconds of maximum force before it goes almost limp. I thought there had to be a basic support for FFB to do anything. That's why people had been waiting years for the Gazelle to get force feedback support. If the brunner software is that powerful. I might have to give it another try.

Ohh-H 58 this is fun

Blackhawk is a mod and as far as I know it does not have any support for FFB

Yeah, also in DCS the force feedback effects are module to module dependent, so F4(once you've set it up right, the Viggen and F14 has very good FFB effects) while the Warbirds have very limited effects, yes they are there, but they are weak and not very impressive(that other WW2 sim has far better FFB effects in their planes) But yeah I can't really fly Rotors with out force feedback effects any more, so the blackhawk mod is a no go for me.

Brunner is a very compromised product, it can not give as much force as VPForce. And the defualt brunner sofware only works with DCS, MSFS and a few others, but a a year and a half ago, they released a program that lets you change the driver to direcX, which means it works on everything that uses direcX, which is most, so now it works on all flight sims, like Il2 and Cliffs over Dover etc. And if you mostly fly rotor stuff, then the actual force isn't important, since you only need enough for the force trim effect.

Works really well with the brunner FFB base too. Much better than on the gazelle.

It's not just the MI8, according to real helo pilots (civilian and military) they all say all the DCS helicopters go into VRS to easily.

But i didn't use the slider. I tested all gun pod ammo counts from 100 to 500. And the weight slider didn't change even 1%

I would like bicolours in Warbirds too. Especially used in the Pacific

As someone with zero real life experience in a helicopter. I've always felt if real helicopters VRSed as much as DCS helicopters did. There would be far more fatal helicopter crashes then there are. Kinda same with warbirds engines if they really were that delicate. Far more allied pilots would have ended up in German POW camps because their engines would break after a 5 minute dogfight. If you fly a DCS warbird like ww2 pilots did(basically full throttle until the fight is over, based on first hand descriptions) then you'll break your engines.

Cosmo said that they often didn't take the full 500 rounds on the . 50 cal because of weight and fuel concerns. But trying the different amount of ammo on the .50 does not change the weight of the helicopter even 1%.

Too close for guns, using smaller gun.

I have no interest in using my VR controllers for anything except firing the M4, but when I start Kiowa with controllers active, the cycling flies all over the place unless I grab it with my controller. If I move to co pilot east and grab the M4, the game crashes if I hit any of the buttons on the controllers. Since it crashed I don't have a track It's specifically the grab button on the left controllers that make it crash

Remember when your parents said TV was bad for you? Turns out if you're a bridge, they were right.

Same during ww2 and also as late as Gulf War. Dan Hampton in the book Viper Pilot motions something about airwaves being flooded at times.

Anyone listened to the coms from the Gulf of Sidra thing. The plot in one of the F14s doesn't sound very professional. He sounds panicked. He also select wrong weapons etc.

Walleye II didn't work for me before the patch. I could drop one, but the second wouldn't drop(even with store jettison) and even after restarting the mission. Now even the first bomb didn't drop.

We got an update of decent size last patch. And in the next we can expect winter textures. (Just some 3 weeks away)