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Just a wild guess, but maybe it's a NH-90?

Ah, the old "F-16 was shot down by Migs" story. I was wondering how long it was until pictures of 88-550 would be thrown up as "proof". Was not disappointed. Anyway, here's a pretty picture of it in flight.

How many variants of the Mig-21 are there? Truly miraculous that one got chosen for development in DCS.

Lots of negative nancy's in this thread. Who would of thought developing a popular iconic fighter would be a bad thing.

You mean aircraft mounted camera? "Shift + F4" gives you the aircraft cam. You can adjust it's position in the in the lua file located at "DCSWorld/Config/View/" At line 207 you can change values using the key below to get the right placement like putting a camera on the wing tip looking back at the aircraft. RearCameraPos[i] = {o[1] - move fore/aft ,o[2] - move vertical, o[3] - move lateral} RearCameraAnglesDefault[i] = {orbit, tilt} You can use the mouse to move the camera to rotate it about the centre axis of the aircraft. To get a cinematic camera just take a look in the settings menu for view keybindings and you'll find what is possible to control a free camera. To have a trailing camera that's not linked to the target plane I find it easier to just have another plane follow it and use one of it's views to record from. A panning ground shot can be done by taxing your camera plane along the path you want the panning shot to describe and use one of it's views to record from using the track reply.

RE:iWarthog Um, yeah...I paid $50 to this guy on initial release as he was asking for donations to encourage him to keep it up and to fix the bugs in it. The app was never updated again and became abandonware.

This is probably frowned upon, but if I need to descend in a hurry I quickly snap roll the helo onto it's side until the rotor disks are vertical so that it loses all lift and knifes down quickly. To arrest the descent I add 3/4 collective for a second before snap rolling the helo upright again. This imparts a fair bit of sideways movement which helps you avoid a ring vortex state when you come back horizontal to stop the very rapid decent. It's very quick and violent and takes a bit of practice to get it right without pooing yourself.

Face Off Friday is certainly a game of patience and control. I think the longest one went for about six hours before the enemies forward base was eventually overrun with heavy armour and supporting artillery.

Been getting into BMS a fair bit with a few friends in MP. It's amazing how alive the DC makes everything seem. You're just a rather small cog in a very large machine which is an impression you never get in DCS. Yes you can build a mission to imply that sort of dynamic with a lot of effort in DCS, but most of the time, pretty much in most missions, if you fly outside the area of operations there is nothing out there. In BMS, 30 seconds after starting up the sim, you are in a dynamic large-scale operation with no effort on your part, it's created for you. You fly off track and you most certainly will encounter something. There is often considerable air traffic with other flight packages, the whole theatre is heaving. DC is coming to DCS bit by bit. If ED can manage invoking that sort of impression with the environment you are in that BMS does now then it would be a massive shift in the perception in what DCS is.

I only play multiplayer. It crashes too much. Mainly with the Ka-50, but a few crashes with A-10. Tried reinstalling everything fresh thinking it may fix it, but no.

I had a trial as well tonight. No directional control working for all three radios in A-10 for us as well. All radios worked very well and frequency changes worked as expected. Had no crashes or anything, but only tested for about 20 minutes. Radio 1 = UHF Radio 2 = VHF AM Radio 3 = VHF FM Had a bit of confusion at first by wrongly assuming the radios would be numbered sequentially starting from the rear most radio going forward. :) Glad to have TARS back. Cheers.

Thanks for your work, Headspace. TARS is an excellent initiative and compliments DCS well. Can't wait to give it a go!

I often notice complaints about the behavior of the P-51. That it's too sensitive or impossible to control and that seems unrealistic. When I first flew it I thought it was an impossible monster of a thing But when you realise that it's effectively a massive propeller attached to a very powerful engine fitted to a small airframe then you come to appreciate that that would cause some very remarkable dynamics. It takes a fair bit of practice to tame all of what's going on with it.

I normally go in sideways, just easier to see things. I watched a doco on the Falklands war and noticed that the carrier borne helos would approach offset to the side to the carrier as it steamed into the wind. When they drew adjacent to their landing pad they would then come to a hover and crab in sideways and land. I guess a lot of that had to do with not wanting to fly over the deck with other helos there, but it looked like the vision would have been pretty good doing it that way.

Moonboy you have an X-52? I do too. With the latest driver version sometimes you can get random spurious key/axis bindings on buttons/hats/axis that you never programmed them to. It's quite rare and random. A couple of weeks ago it decided to cross bind the airbrake toggle from the thumb slide axis to the throttle hat for A-10c. Everytime I TMSed or DMSed the damn airbrakes would open. It would have been easy to say I just stuffed up when programming in the profile editor, but I had not done any profile editing for ages before it started happening. It might be worth looking into just to eliminate that as a cause.

I mumble threats over the comms. Seems to work fine. for me.

I don't think it can do this natively by itself. You can slave it to your targeting pod and just slew your pod around and the mav will follow without misbehaving. If you are without a pod you could try and slave it to your HUD and slew the HUD cursor around instead as it is nicely stabilized, but I haven't tried that method to see if it actually works.

Yeah? I found 7 to the best OS they have ever produced. Stable, 64 bit and a dodgy driver or application bug can't drag the whole OS down.

A bit late to reply, but that island estate is Fort Munro in Virginia. It was decommissioned recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hJcZzhEBQ Just a quick hack together of a bit of footage from a little formation flying a few days ago. We were half a world away from each other so the ping was a little long, hence the jittery behavior. But fun nonetheless. The Ka-50 pilot had mad skills.

Ok, this works for our sqn. Kill TrackIR AND the process for it in Taskmanager. Restart TrackIR and then start DCS:World. Works fine. Found that TrackIR was dragging it down fromt he crash file. I have no idea why.

The Airwolf isn't fictitious!!! It's real, but the govt did a real good job keeping it secret by intentionally allowing one to star in a TV show so people would think it was just made up. Ever heard of the "Black Helicopters"? Yeah, think about it.:matrix:

Also, are you running the profile software from the CD that came with it? Don't. Download it and the latest driver from here for Windows 7 64bit. ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/software/full/Saitek_X52_Flight_Controller_SD6_64.exe ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/software/full/Smart_Technology_7_0_2_7_64bit.exe Here for windows 7 32bit ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/software/full/Saitek_X52_Flight_Controller_SD6_32.exe ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/software/full/Smart_Technology_7_0_2_7_32bit.exe Their software changed a lot over the the last few years. From my experience their latest software is very good and very stable. I've had no trouble with it at all and I've run it on multiple machines. It's pretty easy to download the wrong ones from their site. -Download my profile http://www.sendspace.com/file/a0r2bx -Open up a new profile in the editor and check what the file path is for the default save location. -Move the profile you downloaded to there. Now when you right click on the Saitek driver icon in the task tray you will see that profile there. -You can have multiple profiles and you just click which one you want to use. -The profile name will come up on the screen on your throttle. If the screen in your throttle doesn't light up when you plug the USB in it means the driver didn't install correctly or you installed the wrong one.

Fastfed, I can give you my profile if you like. I use the same stick and my profile is debugged (Took a while). It will also make the online training go a bit smoother. http://www.sendspace.com/file/a0r2bx