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My sincere apologies - it was my mistake reading the short needle - basically at 3000 meters it sort of points to 1 on the outer scale, and I was reading the altimeter as I usually do in Cessnas and Pipers - there's only one scale there :(.

Negative on the mod, plus I did do a repair of DCS (twice for good measure) - that should've switched it back I guess, even if it was installed? Anyway, it may just have been random weirdness, I'll report back when I reinstall tonight.

In all training missions I've played so far, barometric altimeter in MiG-21bis shows altitude in thousands of feet (long needle) and 10,000s of feet (short needle), despite me setting the cockpit language to Russian and units to metric in settings (the interface language is English). All this in 1.2.16 latest stable build (not beta). I'd take a screenshot, but my SSD just died yesterday, so I'd be able to add that sometime later today (hopefully).

Timeframe maybe, but not really suitable for the map - Ju 88 late versions and Ju 188 were used more. But it's all academic discussion, Luftwaffe hardly flew any bomber sorties in Normandy. When it comes to Allied bombers - B-17 of course would be appropriate, but in my view B-25 and B-26 would be even more at home.

Just to set things straight, it has nothing to do with the MiG-21bis module, it's just that the DCS World update which - among other things - enabled the addition of MiG-21, also broke the file structure by renaming one of the folders...

Yep, same here - first take off and landing successful, all good, no problem.

I think this is a great day for DCS, LN and us, the backers and DCS users in general. This is a first released PFM+ASM supersonic in DCS, with radar, and it comes from a small team of very dedicated professionals. Many people with real MiG-21 experience will fly it, many of us who have heard stories from our friends/acquaintances/instructors will enjoy it too.

P-38 was special - twin engine, twin boom, yoke/steering wheel, 2xturbochargers, all armament in the nose (one cannon and four MGs), long range, high speed, etc. etc. I'd love to have it. However - its combat record in Europe is somewhat... how shall I put it... crappy, due to its poor dive characteristics mostly. In Normandy, however, I'd expect it to be used mostly as a fighter bomber, there's historical record for it. P-39 has nothing to do in Normandy, but it had an excellent combat record in VVS, and flew in North Africa and Southern Europe. As did A-36 for that matter. BTW - P-51 B and Cs would be great for Normandy too.

Here's one highway dispersal in the Czech Republic - it actually was used for exercises in 1980's (I've seen a video of Su-25s landing on it), but considering the state this highway is in nowadays it would make for some seriously bumpy landings. BTW, fun fact - one fighter they wouldn't like to use with this or any other asphalt-covered dispersals would be MiG-23. Due to its engine nozzle position, that thing used to burn and melt asphalt runways on take off :).

I've spent ~25 hours in An-28 simulator with a HSI similar to this one (needles were yellow and green though) and can't remember what's head or tails with certainty... but I bet if I sat back in the cockpit I'd remember immediately :). Anyway, that thing is super useful, especially when flying an NDB approach with two NDBs or VOR-DME with NDB available... and many other things. I actually loved using that HSI, and prefer it to G1000.

Mustang has training curriculum, missions and a "challenge campaign", Dora has only instant missions, but it's still beta...

Swing to port - yes, indeed...

I'm a backer and I'm not angry. I'm not too eager to beta test stuff myself, if you are interested in that you should first consider changing attitude and being more constructive, maybe offer something to the community. Then maybe someone would consider giving you a promotional copy.

My success rate went to 5:1 (at least) as soon as I turned off the takeoff assistance. The one thing I still have to work on is releasing the stick from full aft position at a precise time. What also helps is applying full power early on.

I did have some trouble taking off until I pulled take off assistance slider to zero (it was on 100% by default, didn't check it before testing...).

MiG-21bis is still in service with many countries (or has been until fairly recently). In fact, some scenarios when MiG-21bis went against (or shall we say tried to do its business and not get shot down by) F-15Cs and F-16Cs (or F-16A MLUs) carrying AMRAAM and AIM-9M happened in 1999 during the NATO bombing of Serbia. One of my friends who flew MiG-21MF also described some of the tactics that MiG-21s would be employed in, such as attacking AWACS by flying low until directly under it, zoom climbing and shooting it from below. Acceptable losses would have been one squadron of MiGs for one AWACS shot down. So - in reality - duking it out mano y mano vs. comparable opponent armed with comparable weapons in comparable numbers was not really commonplace. As for me, I'll enjoy fighting against F-5s and F-4s and merrily run away from anything that carries AMRAAMs :).

I guess this thread should go into DCS:WW2 section, because the same problem - obviously - plagues the Mustang too...

It even had British English (well English English actually)

This! Also proper arming for bombs.

You know nothing Jon Snow :)

Who told you you need wheel brakes to take off? I manage to take off without them every time. Non-linear rudder response curve helps too.

I have both, Warthog is better for everything.

Put Tors around AFs, make it extra spicy :)

Not since Il-2 Sturmovik: FB did I hear this... With one of the early versions of that flight model you could get more elevator authority with trim - i.e. if your normal elevator travel was say 25 degrees, and trim was +-5 you could get it to 30. Which was wrong in almost all cases, trim usually lets you set up your elevator (or other control surface) within the normal range of that control surface movement. However, if your plane had adjustable stabilizer (such as the one on Bf-109 - and I'd say Dora has it too) it would really work that way... approximately. You would get some amount of control input from adjustable stab, then your elevator input would be in addition to that. With the caveat that adjustable stab is driven by an electrical motor, hence slow in response. And of course, with Mustang and Dora flight model it will not help you, because in most regimes max elevator input will get you into a stall. And also in Dora that adjustable stab is very limited in movement. So much so that it complicates landing (in my experience) - with Mustang you pretty much trim the airplane on final and it stays trimmed, with Dora you have to keep pulling the elevator, adjustable stab just kind of helps, but not much...

Gyro gunsight my friend, they didn't call it "ace maker" for nothing...