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In order of decreasing frequency: Mi-24, Ka-50, Su-25A, Mi-8, Very rarely the Mozzy. Hardly ever - the F/A-18, Su-27, A-10C, Dora, Mustang, Sabre Used to fly the 18 quite a lot then got into the helicopters

Thanks for the write up LOL - I've got to tell you "Moira" had me googling for a while before I realised what it would be... " Moiré " Moiré pattern - Wikipedia & on this: Is that the same idea as foveation?

There is, so it's bad etiquette dropping it here, but the problem with the Pimax forum is that the only reasons to go there are that you are a so enamored with your Pimax that you have to write about it all the time, you're having trouble with your Pimax and want help, or you're thinking of getting one & want opinions- & none of those groups are the people I wanted to ask. It's like looking for reviews of a product online - you only get the very ends of the distribution of user experience. If you buy it and it does what you expected to the level you expected, there's nothing to motivate you to write a review. What I wanted was answers from people that have one & now just use it without issue having found the sweet spot that means it's a background device not an ongoing hobby in itself. Even putting it in the Chit Chat sub-forum means that probably only 1/1000 forum visitors will ever see it, & some of the 999 who don't will be Pimax users who could answer the question... Ironically while sub-forums make navigation easier, they also make for topic ghettos.

Hi, For any of those with experience - what graphic settings could I run a Crystal Light at with a i9-14900KF, 32.0 GB, RTX 4080 Super I currently run a 4k monitor with pretty high settings, and I'm not sure what I could expect from that headset - how much detail do I lose to gain 3D & which is worse for immersion... If I knew what I'd have to run it at I could see what that looks like in 2D (pop up etc.)

It requires GLONASS (Not the US GPS) which should have limited availability (Russia & Environs) from 82, and full availability by 1995: Then it gradually lost coverage until it was re-prioritised:

This map really could do with a periods selector to choose between those two conflicts (just the builds for the bases need to change, not the whole map. At the moment we have all the equipment in the SIM for the Soviet war, but every military feature modelled on the map is designed to fit in with the US War. I understand why you want these details sorted out, but really the more precisely it models these bases exactly as they were when the US was there, the less credible it becomes for those of us wanting to model the Soviet war. I love this map, but I'm quite disappointed at how explicitly it models the period of the US war.

It used to be that if you weren't quite trimmed right and drifted too far from the initial hover set point, that eventually all the AP channels would trip off & the auto hover would fail. Have you drifted too far between trims, or did the above fix it?

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Short of making a different set of buildings for every 5 degree change in slope, I don't know what you expect them to do though. If you look at this image of actual houses, if you reduced the actual terrain to a mesh with even 2m resolution on contours, the buildings on the actual site would have terrain clipping windows and doors in midair... I agree about the cars though - either don't put them on terrain with enough slope to make terrain clipping an issue, or have all scenery cars sit perpendicular to the local terrain, not to the horizon (& I may be showing my ignorance her, but it seems to me there are way too many cars parked in backyards for rural Afghanistan anyway - ? There's only 1 motor vehicle (of any sort) for every 18 people in Afghanistan [one for every 1.07 people here in NZ], and surely they're going to disproportionately in the cities & more affluent / industrialised parts of the country, not parked in the back yard of remote houses with no connection to paved roads?) As someone who lives amongst houses built on hills, apart from some issues with shadows, the buildings in the attached snip look pretty convincing in their perches. Another storey added to the foundations wouldn't hurt though...

I see this complaint a lot. I don’t know where you live, but this is a common thing to see in places where people live in steep valleys with difficult access and aren’t building in a pre-prepared suburb where a developer has ‘Terraformed’ the suburb to civilise it. I’ve looked online and it seems quite common on the hills of Afghanistan. I live in a steep valley and my own 2 storey home is similarly ‘1/2 buried’, with the laundry and workshop below ground level at the rear. I just went out and took the attached images of my house from the front and back, and looked across the valley at similarly “1/2 buried” houses there.

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More reading You're right, the Blindfire can guide the missile. When introduced (in 1971) Rapier was optical guidance only, with the search radar under the dome only providing cuing (the dish on the front of the launcher is just coms). The Blindfire radar was introduced in 1979 & that can guide missiles, making it an all weather system. I'll take out the radar, check it still guides, destroy the tracker, see if it still guides...

Rapier is an optically guided system that's radar simply cues an operator to a target area: "Rapier is a surface-to-air missile developed for the British Army to replace their towed Bofors 40/L70 anti-aircraft guns. The system is unusual as it uses a manual optical guidance system, sending guidance commands to the missile in flight over a radio link. This results in a high level of accuracy, therefore a large warhead is not required." The available units in DCS are the optical tracker, aquisition radar and launcher. In DCS the system is modelled as if it were a radar SAM, and will launch even if the tracker is destroyed. Modelling it as a radar system is OK, but it should stop launching if it has no available tracker. See debrief snip for timing, track attached (Sh*t flying was trying to get the Kh-25 working while discovering my control mappings were all mixed up) Guide after guidace gone 2.trk

Different generations, but pretty obvious shared lineagenull

If the intent is to showcase DCS modules, how about integrating the DCS: NS 430 in the same way as for the Mi-8 - a selectable option, but built in rather than the ungainly free-floating option currently available. All the hooks to key-binds are already made, all the nav logic exists and is external to the model, it literally is just the integration as a 3D object -& while you're re-building the whole model seems the perfect time to do it. It would vastly improve the attractiveness / utility of the module as an intro while being a credible but non-classified upgrade for regular users.