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No, that'll be fine. Works equally well with the beta & stable release versions. Your path will be: ...\DCS\Missions\

Ask and ye shall receive :) The attached mission is for practising iron bomb delivery. Very much still a work in progress and certainly not up to my usual standard, but it does what you want. Not quite instant though - you'll have to take off and fly to your targets but that isn't necessarily a bad thing: you'll be cruising (85% RPM for cruise) at >750 Km/h anyway so having a few Km to carry out an effective approach is useful. Hope you get some use out of it. Drop the mission in: C:\Users\your username\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Missions Edited to add: this mission has been a WIP for months. I need to get off my backside and finish writing it properly. Job for tomorrow.

No problem :) steps 1 & 2 generally solve 95% of control issues in DCS World.

Some very common causes of problems: 1. If you have a force-feedback stick, turn off the force feedback. 2. Go in to your axis settings and make sure that only 1 physical game controller axis is mapped to each of the in-game axes, i.e. only your throttle is mapped to the in-game throttle, only the Y axis of your stick is mapped to the roll axis etc. For some reason DCS World likes to take every axis from every HID device connected to a computer and map them all to random axes. 3. Because the Su-27 is "only" modelled to the FC standard rather than the full DCS standard, the setting of your throttles when you start the engines shouldn't make much difference - they should start regardless, though you'd want to throttle back to idle fairly quickly otherwise the engines could flood. 4. I'm not trying to teach you to suck eggs, but was there actually any fuel in your Flanker? I've seen the situation before in a random mission where the bird started empty and it was necessary to rearm & refuel before start-up. Hope this helps...

That's usually when you suddenly realise there was an AIM-120 coming for you on a lofted profile: level out & BOOM :D

Concise and to the point. Nice review :thumbup:

Fun missions, thanks for taking the time to create them! I'd also recommend voice overs for various in-mission characters. If you go to the mission creation sub-forum here there's a list of community members who're generally willing to do voice acting for mission creators.

Very interesting indeed, thanks for posting that :thumbup:

Yes, that was back in the days of 1.2.26. By the time that we got the 1.5 upgrade those training videos were severely outdated. I guess the eventual plan is to have interactive training missions for the FC3 aircraft, as the Su-27 now does.

That's a generic representative graph of strain-induced failure modes in most common metals. Look up similar graphs for high-tensile alloys produced by high-temperature sintered powdered crucible metallurgy, both steel and aluminium - they're not the same as for a 'typical' metal. The proportional & elastic limits tend to be very close together, with a typical offset strain being <0.5%. Necking prior to failure tends to be minimal, the end effect being little or no warning prior to total part failure. The repetitive strain graphs also tend to feature quite a lot of hysteresis, i.e. repetitive strain near to the maximum value will substantially increase failure susceptibility at subsequently lower strain values. As a slight off-topic comment, people were complaining about the observed failure mode in the Su-27 when it got it's G-limits imposed, whereas in actuality the instant failure typically seen above ~1.4x maximum G values from the manufacturer's flight manual is entirely realistic in terms of materials science.

It's not a Pk meter, it's a range scale. If you're firing from supersonic speeds at a non-reacting large target like a tanker, transport or AWACS, firing from just under maximum range might just about be effective. Against a manoeuvring target firing at anything over Rtr is nearly pointless. Rtr is the maximum range against a manoeuvring target. Think of this as the maximum effective missile range and you'll be a lot more successful.

Really enjoying flying in my F-5! Great fun to pilot & very impressive performance. Awesome job by the BST team, thanks for all your hard work! :thumbup:

Yep, works fine now, the wrong key hint was the problem.

RAlt & Rshift. thanks everyone :)

I can't get the engines to start, what am I doing wrong? I'm trying the very first training mission. I have external air connected. Battery power is on, both generators are connected as are the fuel pumps. I tell the ground crew to apply compressed air and I see the left engine RPM climb to about 15%. I hit the left engine start button and then R-shift-home to move the left throttle to idle. RPM stays at 15% for about 30 seconds then spools down again and the engine refuses to start. What am I doing wrong??? :mad:

Good question. The closest information I could find was this cutaway diagram that's supposedly of the Su-37. No idea if it shows the radar altimeter as I don't read Russian. That being said, usual placement for a radar altimeter on a fighter appears to be a patch antenna under the nose somewhere, so it would be worth subtracting ~1m from whatever the HUD reading says during level flight to compensate for the depth of the intakes.

Well, hog roast & vodka it is then :D

The other thing that may be worth trying is to give the bombers plenty of distance between their IP and target. Try giving them 15-20 Km between the "attack" waypoint and the actual bombing target and see if that helps.

Good point. It'll be obvious when you're approaching 20 degrees AOA: it's at this point that the vibration starts to set in. It's not as obvious as the cockpit vibration in the F-15C but it's there.

This. It's still perfectly possible to fly around with max fuel and max missile war load at cruise throttle (85% RPM) at any altitude, then do an ITR turn to bring yourself down to and through STR corner speed. All without breaking any wings. A couple of other points: 1. The old max-rate barrel roll technique for defeating AIM-120's is now very dangerous because asymmetric loads produce much more effective G than single-plane loads do. When fast and heavy roll then pull, or pull then roll, not both at once. You can see this: try a single-plane pull then try the same pull whilst rolling. G will be significantly higher in the second instance. 2. Don't expect to easily achieve that ~22 degrees per second max STR with full fuel and a full missile load. The Su-27 was designed, amongst other things, to be an escort fighter and long range air superiority fighter. Obviously the designers factored in an assumed lengthy flight period prior to engaging in combat, hence the G-ratings all being calibrated for an all-up weight of 21,500 Kg. Dogfighting 10Km away from your airfield is one of the primary things the MiG-29S was designed for. 3. This goes for all Russian fighters: the flight control system was not designed to hold your hand in any way. It wasn't at all designed with care free handling in mind as you'd find on most NATO fighters. The design philosophy was always that the ACS on the Su-27 (and the same goes for the MiG-29) would allow you to do silly and fatal things, but the designers assumed that the pilot would be sufficiently well trained and sufficiently experienced to know when and how to push right out to the bleeding edge of the flight envelope whereas the care-free FBW system on a NATO fighter would not necessarily allow the pilot to do the same sort of thing, but would be safer than the Russian equivalent. The Su-27 is not an easy bird to fly well or effectively. It absolutely requires but also rewards hours and hours and hours of practice and training. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Learn to fly it safely and accurately and only then gradually take it closer to the edge. In a way it's a shame that it is such an awkward beast to master. I fly fairly regularly on the VA server and always see the same 5-10 names in the Su-27. I don't think it's a very popular bird at the moment but damn is it rewarding when it all comes together. So to the F-15C and M2000 crowd I'll say this: come over to the dark side, we have cookies!* * Cookies subject to availability and may or may not actually exist.

Might be a problem with the AI. Some bombers seem to flatly refuse to bomb point targets. I tried using a B-52 for this exact thing and it just refused to bomb the assigned target. As soon as I swapped it for a B-1 it behaved. AI woes I guess...

That's caused by the amount of cross-control between the roll & yaw channels. Personally I think it's much too strong, though admittedly I have nothing to back this up. It's more noticeable at slower speeds, e.g. during a knife fight. Theoretically you don't need to reset trim before a dogfight because the ACS disables the trim input as soon as G is detected, but yes it does help :)

In case you need it in the future, in your start bar / menu in the Eagle Dynamics\DCS World folder will be "Repair DCS World" and "Update DCS World".

If you're playing the campaign missions, most of them have various amounts of wind which will necessitate the use of the rudder on takeoff and landing.

OK thanks, I'll give it a go...