Gasman6

Grim Reapers's content is hit-or-miss with me. I enjoy the content that explores scenarios, and testing the limits of the DCS engine, but the tutorials I can not stand to watch. At least for the A-10 tutorials, while he does convey the most pertinent information, something about Cap's flippant attitude toward unfamiliar systems is grating. His delivery is much too excitable, like an announcer at the Kentucky Derby. On the other side of the spectrum, ralfidude's A-10 tutorials proved much more tolerable to my senses. I'm sure the man with the voice behind the Grim Reapers is a fine fellow, and I would probably enjoy his company, so long as he isn't trying to teach me anything!

Nice catch! I had run into this once before, and thought I must be going insane or pushing the wrong buttons.

In a word: No. I've bought only two modules so far: The Christen Eagle II for familiarizing myself with the DCS flight and atmospheric modeling, and the A-10C II which is the only airship I am presently interested in flying. I may eventually migrate to rotary wing one day, the Apache is an attractive next step. It is more likely my next plane will be a warbird, like the P-51D.

Hello, I found two similar apps for Android, one for $1.99 and the other for $9.99. I had a couple bucks in Google Play credit, so I opted for the $1.99 app (since it was technically free). I installed OpenTrack, followed the instructions in the app, and it seems to work quite well. However, I can not properly test it within the game environment yet, and tweak the settings, until I have a way to mount my phone over my monitor. I'm going to purchase a gooseneck-style clamping mount and affix it to either my desk or the spine of my monitor stand and give it a go. I used to have a TrackIR 5, but it sadly did not survive one of the many moves I've had to make over the past few years. Thank you for the suggestion. I'm excited to give this a go.

Greetings, If your airplane controls feel too jerky, they are working as intended. You are supposed to use small, smooth corrections to make the airplane do what you want it to do. Using small, smooth corrections also limits pilot induced oscillations. Think of a car on the freeway that isn't going straight within its lane, perpetually ping-ponging between the lane markers. Overcorrection is especially easy to do in a simulator where you do not have the tangible feedback of G-forces, the winds acting on the airframe, or the buffeting of the wings in high-G maneuvers. Trim is also to be used lightly. Put the aircraft in the attitude you want, and gently add in trim until you do not have to make any corrective actions. It may help to hold backpressure on the stick and, as you trim it out, release the backpressure until the airplane is holding the desired attitude effortlessly. It is also advisable to be aware of your power settings while you are doing this. If you are maintaining a constant power setting, you only have to trim once. If you move the throttle, without touching the stick, the airplane's pitch will increase or decrease correlative to throttle input, and you will have to trim it out again to compensate. A useful mnemonic for grasping this concept of cross control is "pitch for speed, power for altitude."

Good day, I would suspect the draw distance issue is probably related to your settings. If I'm stretching the limits of my modest machine's meager abilities, I will see units spawned in 30 - 40 miles before the scenery has even begun to populate the surrounding trees and structures.

Hello, I am not certain this is possible without VAICOM PRO, which I understand may run the risk of failing multiplayer server integrity checks if that is a concern of yours. It seems disabling subtitles in the menu options does not actually disable every subtitle or subtext.

Greetings, As far as I know, Steam and standalone do not interact. As you have deduced, they are installed along different paths entirely, so you presently have two discrete installations of DCS on your hard drive. Additionally, you have what looks like the public branch Steam release, and for your standalone install you have opted for the Open Beta branch. I would uninstall the Steam version entirely, and migrate your module licenses to standalone. Please review the Support FAQ, which has an entire section devoted to Steam and explains how to transfer licenses from Steam to standalone here: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/steam/

Perhaps there were ground threats in the mission profile. More likely he was doing this to intentionally demonstrate the Hog's vulnerability to predation.

There is always a bias toward survivable damage when it comes to analyzing these things. It's also not a terrible idea to set aside your own pride and self-assurance in your skills, and look at the situation from outside of yourself. Emergency and non-standard operation procedures aren't something people flying for fun typically drill, and the many back-up and safety redundancy systems are probably overlooked by most casual fliers. Moreover, contrary to the propaganda as some have already pointed out, the A-10 is not invulnerable; and there is an obvious self-interest when actual Air Force pilots give you that impression.

Even with the HUD brightness set to maximum (note: it is not fully bright by default, maybe 75% or 85%), it shouldn't be very readable if you're gazing into the Sun. If you must fly toward the Sun when it is low angle like this, and you can not make out your HUD, the steam gauges are there when you need them.