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Nobody's arguing you shouldn't be able to see it all with both eyes open, but I can't see anywhere where he said he closed one eye & could still see all the HUD. It should be - in VR, not necessarily in 2D

Isn't that essentially the 'Nirvana' that the WWII crowd want ? - to be able to re-fly the actual battles that were fought, and in which actual real pilots died ? If they re-create the circumstances leading up to an attack (x was bombed by y, z civilians were killed and n pilots lost by both sides), aren't they doing what you want to, but not naming names simply because the list is too long to make naming one person significant ? Why hide that we're playing a game that simulates killing people ? People really die in wars, that's why we should avoid them when unnecessary.

Still doesn't take away from the fact that the Russians have their own system, & that if they were flying F-18 / F-16 (s), that's what they'd be using. Even the legacy Su-25s have a GLONASS system bolted on. It's less realistic to give the REDFOR F-18 but deny them a GPS system than to just assume that if they had the aircraft, they'd make the GPS work off GLONASS.

Leaving aside hydraulic systems :-) If you can do something in dcs you’ve never seen done in real life, but only after learning how to do it by repeatedly crashing and re-spawning, the fact that you can do it in dcs but have never seen anyone do it in real life says nothing about the FM in dcs, only about the attitude toward death show by real and digital pilots...

The pod was good enough that the Su-25 was essentially immune to the Hawk SAM systems during the Iran - Iraq war, and the Hawk was upgraded after that war as a direct response to the pod’s effectiveness.

But no animation for movement...

He might have misspoken, but essentially he’s right. Entry for warships is governed by treaty, not a right as for international waters. Aircraft carriers are expressly banned, the Kuz gets in because it’s not officially an aircraft carrier.

About half of your vision is made up from one eye seeing something the other can’t:

You spend your entire life with your left eye seeing a different area to your right, and your brain is made to deal with it naturally - no headaches inbound. Look down at your own nose right now. Ever seen the left side of your nose with your right eye ?

“the tragedy is that MCAS itself worked just as designed” I think you’re being overly generous to the Boeing engineers. They knew that under certain circumstances, the system could produce unexpected and potentially fatal behaviour that normal responses would not counter, and rather than fix that at a software level they tried to rely on training pilots to recognise the unexpected behaviour and counter the actions of the MCAS. A Boeing internal report from before the crashes leaked to The Guardian said the MCAS system would probably contribute to the loss of at least 1 aircraft before they could rectify the system. But they rolled it out regardless. The put cashflow and expediency ahead of passenger safety - no two ways around it.. If you disagree with Wiki’s summary, you should correct it:

Parallax. In 2D you look at the HUD from a single spot in the centre, in 3D you look from 2 places at the same time, 1 to the left of the HUD looking at the right of the HUD, the other to the right of the HUD looking at the left...

You have a lot of faith in Jester to be able to say that so positively without seeing a track...

Already possible...

They could just texture where the land starts off the map as sea, like the did with the Californian coast...

It’ll be interesting to see what the turbo-lag is like...

Personally, I prefer the”A” - a bit more primitive; no HUD or monitor, so no tv guided bombs, but still laser guided missiles, and a much nicer aircraft to fly, and cockpit to sit in...

They are fantastic !!!

You think he’s hating on the USA from inside the USA ? (Surely the US ? ‘America’ is too big a region for someone to hate all of it) Maybe he just thinks there is this one aspect of the culture of the USA that could do with some improvement, but likes the people just fine ? I’m not saying I don’t love my partner when I say I don’t agree with her about her attitude to instruction manuals...

the current pilot physics are pretty clunky though - a new skeletal animation body with an actual run and crouch behind designator (into ‘cockpit’ mode) would be pretty much the job done...

Arma would be a big leap, allowing a player to occupy a ground unit would be only the first step towards that, but most of what was needed for the JTAC idea. They already have a new skeletal animation that could allow running not sea sick inducing fast walking - and either the mission designer can put a JTAC somewhere handy, or let CA users move between vehicles, choppers and foot soldiers... If some people will play ATC, someone would volunteer for JTAC

Completely agree

As I said in another thread a moment ago, when my boy was 8 he used to play age of empires & his favourite thing to do was start up the Camaro with a bazooka cheat, then drive around blowing up Romans with impunity. Some people think that's fun - never quite saw the appeal myself. As someone else said above Seems more interesting to me.

This is a broad generalisation that I recognise isn't true in all cases, but it seems from many posts on the forum that E.D. think American's have the money, and are patriotic, and they want to buy the most recent US aircraft available and reinforce its superiority - preferably by shooting fish in a barrel. Forget serving up a balanced fight, just provide a mechanism for domination. (Like my boy when he was 8 wanted the Transam with the bazooka cheat to blow up the Romans in Age of Empires) I've read posts by Chizh that make me think he thinks Western (US) audiences are 1/ not particularly interested in Russian aircraft, and that 2/ Russian aircraft aren't up to scratch anyway - so wouldn't provide the kind of experience the audience are after. If E.D. don't think they have an audience, and think that if they modelled them correctly they'd be a bit sh*t compared to Western aircraft, why would they work hard to get access to the docs & the OK to model them ? If that's the case then it's a self fulfilling prophesy - only make modern Western aircraft, then point at how much they out sell the Russian FC3 aircraft...

Having a combined arms Human FAC/JTAC (on foot, not in a Humvee or APC) with only a radio and a designator would be cool - if they could be dropped by a chopper somewhere close and make their way to a concealed position with a view... Then the folk manning the tanks, APCs and SHORAD would have to keep their eyes (scopes) open for single soldiers making their way across the countryside... This guy, plus a pair of binoculars

Pretty sure that even before the F-18 was released, that wasn't the case.