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I really hope not. You can do that now with FARPs the way they are with a static C-130. The highly dynamic nature of a C-130 as a FARP means that you deploy to the site and set up the fuel points and roll out a very limited amount of available fuel, weapons and maintenance capabilities. Helos FARP there, they leave, you leave. Spawn points are fixed locations. So, as a gameplay and ME device, the C-130 module should not be a spawn point. This represents a capability for complex missions and campaigns that require a good deal of mission planning and communication. Helo pilots should have to find the FARP, get resources and continue the mission. C-130 pilots should be landing at unimproved sites, setting up and remaining for a limited time and getting out quickly lest the enemy find you and kill you, your plane, your crew and be a mission failure criteria.

C-130J as FARP has modern Eagle Claw/Desert One implications. We need a CH-53E! But the Chinook will do the job (although it needs a refueling probe).

LOL yeah I lived in York, PA when I worked for Textron Systems. Got my Bio degree from Penn State York. Still not as bad a yinz.

Ah ok because in S Central PA people, especially waitstaff, will throw "awhile" in sentences where a full "while you're waiting" would naturally go. It very odd to the uninitiated.

Uh wut

Cretins.

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.

ED will eventually eliminate individual maps in favor of a Google Earth-type model. The Pakistani and Indian DCS players can hate on each other in Afghanistan until then.

No lies detected.

Are you tapping the trim hold FWD? Like constantly? You should be tapping that thing at just about 1Hz. As you're pulling pitch on the collective, tap. Getting light on the mains, tap. Adding pedal to counteract the torque, tap. Off the ground in ground effect , tap. Tap. Every adjustment of the cyclic, collective, pedals should be followed by a tap of the trim. Watch Casmo's video about trimming. Autopilot/SAS does nothing until you start engaging the trim PID loops of the SAS. Also, make sure your tail wheel is unlocked for takeoff and landing. It leaves the ground last and you're a tether ball tied to the ground until it's in the air. If it's locked it basically acts like a stating wave generator reflecting control movements back into the controls. Very bad. Read Chuck's Guide: https://assets.chucksguides.com/pdf/DCS AH-64D Guide.pdf

Last thing I'll say in this topic, then I'm out: ED removed the Game Avionics Mode from the sim half a decade ago for one simple reason - no one was using it. Easy, learning to fly, fun time is not what brings people to DCS. the 99.999 percent is here to be challenged by study level sims and maximum realism, and flying combat against other humans and (eventually) competent AI. It's not about The Four Forces of Flight here. That's baby stuff. ED isn't wasting development time (money) for the one tenth of one percent that will never recoup their costs to develop and maintain that functionality, because again, that's what MSFS is for. Hardcore simmers go back and forth all the time. That's OK, too. And the cost to the consumer is NOT an argument. "Oh wahhh I have to pay for two sims" Yeah, you do. Grow up. This is flight simming. From the sims to the powerhouse rigs that are required to run a flight sim with any visual quality (which, despite what's mentioned earlier IS a concern for most of us) to the multitude of joysticks, rudders, throttles, yokes and other controls you will buy as an adherent to this hobby, cost is for 12 year olds to lament. To them I say this: 1 - Study hard, do god in school. 2 - Go to college and get a degree that earns you money, or some other lucrative path. 3 - Get a good job to support your hobbies. You will have more than one. 4 - Make enough to get a place that has a room dedicated to your flight sim rig. No one is here to support your "I can't afford it" whinging about how much stuff costs.