trev5150

People who like to work hard and look bad doing it.

Haven't flown 2.0 yet, but... just turn SAS off and you'll be living the life. A program manager I worked with who was a UH-60 Maintenance Test pilot once told me "The Black Hawk is the helicopter for helicopter pilots who suck at flying helicopters - until something breaks". If SAS is screwed up or there's something wrong in the mixing box, you're gonna work haaaaarrrdddddd.

I've never been a fan of cockpit reflections. I don't think the sim handles it well. If it were a real reflection, you'd be able to focus through and past it as one naturally does in real life. Drive your car during the day or night and while you're driving around tell me if you ever saw a reflection of interior lighting and was unable to see past it at the objects outside of the vehicle. If that were the case none of us would be able to drive at night because the lighting would blot out our ability to see outside the car. And yet, that's what happens in DCS. It was so bad in the older models like the MiG-15 that they finally got rid of them or put a switch in settings to turn them off.

Which is why I said "for everyone's general fund of knowledge", the intent being to give anyone not familiar with with topic an understanding of the significance of the manual and how an aviator's life revolves around it starting from Day 1 of training.

For everyone's general fund of knowledge: When flying the actual aircraft is your profession, that book is your life and you learn it cover to cover, because the information in it could save your life. Aircrews in well run units are quizzed on the information weekly on paper, along with system limits and boldface emergency procedures (written out, verbatim, from memory) annually as part of the APART process and with no-notice and post-mishap flight evaluations. I know this because I spent a major portion of my adult life as a civilian flight instructor and test pilot for the US Army. I trained soldiers to these standards and helped write that annoyingly complex book for the MQ-1C. The Dash 10 is necessarily complex because it is the single standard by which thousands of people will operate these aircraft across dozens of units over decades. The Book is The Book for a reason.

Waiting on Pimax to get me my new headset to get back on DCS , but this is the first thing I'm going when I get there.

I did know that. I also know that most reviews are on the extreme sides of the opinion spectrum from love to hate, and we'll be lucky to find one that's by an actual C-130J pilot. So far no one has identified themselves on this forum as far as I know. On Day 1 hopefully we get a Casmo, Lex Talionis, Mooch, C.W. LeMoine or 47Driver level bubba to show up and give us the straight dope on the Herc FM, systems review in early access, and so on. Everyone else is a YouTube Twitch streamer looking for clicks so they can get a Virpil sponsorship as far as I'm concerned. Still, once the module drops, you're paying full price and the time until it goes on sale or a free fly weekend is long into the foggy distance. My point above is that in the flight sim world, I don't think it pays to be a cheapskate unless you have infinite patience. This is just not a penny pinching pastime. You gotta take the L on the Hawk to support the dev or the developer dies. I'm Team Support ED and Team Support 3rd Party Developers Who Read and Honor the Contract They Signed and Not Try To Shake Down the Lead Developer/Publisher In Public Only To Go Down In Flames. I'm not team wait-and-see. The flight sim industry depends on the Greater Fool, and not just one or two of us. It takes all of us.

C-130 Study Guides and Gouge

Ralfi isn't airline crowd, though. That's Tricker (pretty sure I know which airpline he flies for) and Casmo (former KW and Apache guy, now flies charter 737 I believe) and other cool kids like BluGames. I think Ralfi is still in school studying engineering. Low confidence in the veracity of that. I think he tried to go military a few years ago but something went awry. crappyity vision perhaps?

The reason ralfidude and some others have it is they have had the alpha for a while to make tutorials and stuff but was under embargo until pre-sale kicked off. He just had the most complete thing at that point and was able to get out there first. Otherwise there'd be no way he and his crew bro would be that proficient on the FMS and flying the airplane as they are. They've clearly had it for a while to get to that skill level.

Buddy if you think that this is "wasting 56$" on a "gamble" for a DCS module, then you are not ready for this tier of flight simming. You're not even a flight slimmer until you "gamble" $400 on a ffb joystick base that only has two youtube reviews. Either take the 30% off now or wait two years (maybe more) to see the same price during a sale.

Never seen it don't care about your pictures dev should make pilot models not wearing helmets (chooseable in ME or F10) /thread

Never seen it/not gonna go back and forth with you on it. There should be F10 option to remove so you can do your British thing.

Helmets mess up their hair. I'm a civ (former Air Wing Marine) employee of a company currently working at Davis Monthan with a C-130 unit. USAF Herk bubbas don't wear helmets. Marine Corps Herk pilots don't either. Not even the Blue Angels Fat Albert guys and they are slamming that airplane around every demo. Please get rid of the helmets on the pilot models. You made a beautiful airplane but I just watched Ralfidude's video and it's the first thing I saw because it's the most unrealistic possible. Give them medium reg haircuts (with product) and David Clark headsets. Make it realistic.