[Inaugural flying music]

ArmA III "Jets" soundtrack:

[GAU-8 damage]

Yes, that is not MBT's but they are still armored. Im not sure that 7,62 calliber rounds would do that in real life...i have seen military exercies, and there 7,62 rounds fired by AK-47 and PK (Pyulemot Kalashnikov) cant penetrate even MTLB and BTR's armor...

 

The point is that 7,62 calliber is has too smal and weak round to penetrate armor vehicles. 12,7 can do that, but this is very hard for 7,62 rounds.

 

7,62x39 is usually not what is meant when reffered to 7,62mm

 

7,62x51 is the Standard and that round has basically the double muzzle energy.

 

7.62mm, Armor Piercing, M993 has a armour penetration of 7mm against high hardness armor (HHA)

 

It would be possible to penetrate most parts of a BRDM with such ammunition.

[Another data point for those thinking about VR]

You're all just a step away from treatment for Holo Addiction...http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Holo-addiction.

 

I'm immune, I have only one good eye and so the sensation of 3D can't be faked for me since I dont know it in RL neither.

[Ich warte. (oder: die 80/20 Regel?)]

Ich habe DCS aufgegeben. Das hier ist einfach eine Baustelle die nie richtig fertig werden wird.

[R-77 for Sukhoi's]

Why don't we have a Su-27SM or at least a clickable Su-27S/MiG-29A,G,S cockpit? I thought this whole game started with the Flanker, yet the Su-27 only has PFM and it's the old S version.

Right. it started with a Flanker an d it still the same Flanker like in Flanker 2.0. Nothing wrong with it so far. Considering the small maps in DCS:W we will have the MiG-29S & R-77 as a counter measure against the F-15 & AIM-120 combo. Range was never an Issie with the MiG-29 when you applied a lite bit of fuel discipline. It can take off and climb very well without AB.

Since it recived TWS and the ability to attack two targets at once it got much better.

 

Once the PFM fpr the MiG-29 is out it will be much better I guess.

[Su 25T HSI Bug in A/G]

...also, successive hard manouvers can lead to the missaligning of the HSI. Also a feature, not a bug.

[What size of monitor are you using?]

A single 22" 16:9

[FPS Drops without CPU/GPU maxing out]

---------Since 1.53 version, good performance came along with at least 16GB RAM+4G VRAM.

 

Unless DCS suddently went to become a 64 Bit Application, how is it consume more than 4 GB of RAM?

If it does, that sounds more like a veritable memory leak or swap file occlusion.

If an application consumes more then 4GB of Memory it better uses 64bit to circumvent the inevitable 32bit 4GB memory adress limit.

I have the feeling ED is trying to sell us a compact family car fitted with a Truck engine as a purpose tailored sports coupe.

[Civilain Air Traffic]

Jane's F-15 and Jane's F/A-18 always had some jetliners in the missions, especially at campaign start when RoE was tight. Also the DID series startignn with TFX ovwer EF-2000 to F-22 ADF always featured civilian traffic.

 

I usually use the IL-76 and Yak-40 for that purpose.

[I just flow on my 2D Monitor again]

I don't doubt that you have problems, but your situation fortunately doesn't automatically happen at age 40 to 'most' people like you indicate it will.

 

As far as "unhealthy hardware race going on in the community", shouldn't that opinion have you using an etch-a-sketch and drawing birdies flying about, as opposed to sim flying some seriously unhealthy death dealing combat aircraft on a sinister modern PC system?

 

Your argument seems a little "fox that cut it's tail off" ... and a bit 'everyone should stop at my level of technology' hypocritical to me ...

I basically said the current MP arms race in modules and hardware does not bring any benefit to me and im very content with single player on a 2D screen.

 

In MP there is often a lack of padlock view that I like, in favor of VR or TIR solutions which I dont like and I also like exterior view but no labels etc.

 

I just noticed in the last year, if you stop MP you suddently don't need to have to newest stuff... goes well for ArmA III and DCS as well.

[I just flow on my 2D Monitor again]

I'm 65 and although I normally use reading glasses, I have no problems using the CV1 with no glasses at all.

 

2D simulation is dying fast, and is almost completely obsolete.

Although the press dubbed 2016 the year of VR, it is admittedly just a bit premature to say that, but it is the very near future of all simulation, and the difference between an old Atri game and current flight and racing sims, but now in 3D with real life tracking! :)

 

The 3rd dimension is gone RL and VR with just ONE good EYE. There are a lot of eyesight problems that make proper use of binocular glasses VR quite uncomfortable or even im possible.

 

I, for example, suffer from scars on the corneal. While I can deal with it quite good in RL it makes VR uncomfortable. I have to look asquint and blink the ye to get a 3D perception.

 

A simple TFT screen is pure relaxation for me.

[I just flow on my 2D Monitor again]

... you will appreciate 2D once your vision goes whacky around your late 40's.

 

Im physically unable to use 3D since I lost an acceptable eyesight on the right eye.

What helped was a bigger screen.

 

it was also helpfull to skip online play to stop the current quite unhealthy hardware "arms race" that is going on in the community.

[Crossing The Inguri River]

https://youtu.be/UMW40uu-moE

[At least one Century series plane (pick one)]

the F-104 because it was widespread in cold war europe well into the 80's... just like the MiG-21.

[GTX1080 who is buying it?]

I never buy new components BEFORE THE OLD ONES CEASE TO FUNCTION.

[Stuck in grass = death]

The prop planes are among the only planes in DCS that are able to land and takeoff from grass or dirt.

If you do it gently you can land and take off from the grass next to runways with the Su-27 and Su-25A. I manages to do that 3 times in a row on VA server with 20% fuel and empty pylons.

[What Is Your Main DCS World Activity?]

Tinkering with setitngs to get decent performance.

[Anfängerfrage Navigation und Verhalten im Luftraum]

Der Microsoft Flugsimulator ab FS9 hatte eine sehr gute virtuelle Flugschule. Näher dran kommt man an eine Flugausbildung wohl nicht auf dem PC.

[New Saitek X56 Stick!]

Nice. Not a pile of changes but probably a really good HOTAS.

Hall sensors instead of potentiometers make big change.

The X-55 turned out to be crappy inside quite often, so internal changes are welcome.

[IL-78 Honeybadger]

But we have sparks now!

[No NVG's]

A sidenote: the german Tornados currently deployed to turkey to fly recce over Syria could not fly at night until they got a retrofit just weeks ago. The implementation of NVG in 2015 with ne LCD displays was done in a hurry and the cockpit lighting did blind the pilots to an extend that safe flying was difficult.

 

 

So much about just using NVGs in an aircraft gives you NVG capability

[[REPORTED]Su-25 + Su-25T Bug in 1.53 Update 2]

Both models of the Su-25 have the engine running animation reversed. When you start or stop the left engine the animation is shown for the opposite side. In case of an engine failure or fire the failed one will appear as still running while the good one will show as stopped.

[3-minute Align: When does it start?]

OK, so this screenshot I took long ago wasn't really a bug?

No, that's a feature. A lot of player still underestimate the sophistication in the two Su-25. You have to keep in mind that the Su-25T and later Su-25A were the very first AFM models back then in FC1 setting the benchmak at that time.

[3-minute Align: When does it start?]

3 mins?? press right shift + L and wait for the HSI to settle then start the engines... maybe like 20 seconds.

That way the alignment last only for a short time, any hard bank or medium G-load will throw it all off and neither ADI nor HSI will work properly.

[50fps but huge lag spikes in MP 1.5.3]

I guess ED is just turning DCS into a program that only harware techies that upgrade all 6 months are able to enjoy.