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maybe you just don't have access to the statics it's intended for. (edit - like those animated deck crew to go with the carrier that have been in development for a very long time...)

LOL - yeah, I have one of the kitsets the RNZAF had made to celebrate the purchase that made it to the stores, then were re-called...

Maybe on before... FLIR images of F-22 at Farnborough: 58N6Plr17GU

My boy always liked the mod that gave you a Camaro with a rocket launcher to use against medieval ballistae & trebuchet. Different people respond to a challenge different ways.

64th Aggressor Squadron F-16 as Su-57

More like "half-life-ware" (product half-life upgrade ware ? :-). You have an announced half life for the cockpit's appearance, but the fact that it didn't arrive before that date doesn't mean it won't turn up, but also doesn't mean that it's any more likely tomorrow than the day after it was announced. On average, half of half-life-ware will appear at or before the initially announced date, 3/4 of it will be out by twice the expected wait, and in the end it will all turn up...

Yes, that was why I said "... it is being worked on (& maybe in testing ?) "

I'd rather see an AI Lun - which might make for some interesting missions - flying below radar detection at 7m, launching a salvo of 6 Moskit missiles...

Ekranoplan !!!

It was in a newsletter a while ago that it is being worked on (& maybe in testing ?)

Took about 3 minutes. Mi-8 cabin temperature gauge is argument 63 temp appears to be 100 * argument value outside of -30 to 30, so -60 is -0.6 -30 is -0.3 0 is 0 20 is 0.2 maybe the centre is a bit non-linear I just used it to trigger an "it's cold" message when it was 10 degrees and "it's not cold" at 30

I haven't tried it for a gauge, but the door in the Ka-50 is a cockpit animation like the gauges, and I once set a trigger to have a fuel truck drive off 5 seconds after the door shut, so the value of those arguments is available for triggers. Try going to the model viewer, opening the Mi-8 cockpit and trying the arguments until you find the temp gauge (or there's a list in a .lua, but I can't remember which one). Run through the range of the argument until you get the temp you want, then set a trigger for "cockpit argument in range"

& I disagree 100% These threads pop up from time to time... It seems to me a few people could try thinking beyond their own personal position, and about the lives other people live. I'm using this quote because it's right here, but the same points have been made many times by many people, so when I say 'You' I mean people holding this position generally, not JumpinK exclusively... How about this: Entertainment & relaxation. Some people don't want to pretend that they're fighter pilots, they just want to experience what it would be like to control an aircraft in flight. Over the years I've read posts from a member on these forums that's been posting for more than a decade, and at least until recently they'd never flown online (& the reality is that as loud as the MP community is, they are a small portion of the actual player-base & are vastly outnumbered by SP players) or used the SIM for combat. they just flew FC3 aircraft in free flight (& I get the impression often air start) - yet they get enough enjoyment from that to stay with DCS for the long haul. Now by your reasoning, they, and those SP players like them should either abandon DCS completely, or stick to the Yak & leave anything with complicated systems (So any jet fighter) to those with the time to learn them. Yes ? PFM + SSM = an insult to 'hard core simmers' ? That's fine if you're single & childless, but if your free time after working 60 hours a week and looking after the kids is snatching an hour a week if you're lucky ? There's no way you're going to have time to master and stay current on the systems & skills needed to 'fly' the hornet module effectively - & you're saying that person isn't showing enough commitment for them to be worthy of flying DCS ? DCS: Working class single parents need not apply :) ? Nor should well coordinated people with dyslexia ? Or people with physical disabilities who despite being quite capable of learning and mastering all the systems & engine management of the P-51 in flight and combat, will never be able to take off and land a tail-dragger without rudder assist on or top up the F/A-18C from a tanker ? & honestly - if there really is no other reason for people using assist beyond just not being motivated enough to spend a couple of days/weeks/months getting proficient with the systems before they blow sh*t up, what I really don't understand is - if they're doing it in single player, or an MP server that you're not invited to, how is it any skin off your nose at all? You have no way of actually knowing it's even happening, it just offends you that it's happening in your imagination. Your argument essentially boils down to "I want to be able to say I'm part of a small group that have been able to devote the time to mastering these systems, and if some people can use the systems in easy mode, people might think I do too & not recognise the effort I've put in. DCS will become a game for the masses !" If it were to become a game of the masses - with scalable difficulty all the way from full simulation to casual gaming, the most probable outcome - which doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me - is that E.D. will stay in business & develop new modules & maps, and attract new developers. & that's a problem because ???

I have them and don't use a curve...

Real World Pilot not too far from your post:

.....and this image showing it in game

I remember I used to have trouble with that, but haven't for a long time... I think there's something happens if you exceed the authority of the AP by too much or for too long... e.g. If you enable auto hover, then fly away having forgotten you did, at some point the AP will disengage and turn off all the AP channels. Are you flying without trimming ? Eventually that might do it too.

I think maybe they should get the integration to work effectively and reasonably realistically, and then think about adding GUI for CA Players. First things first....

North Cape, Tromsø to Murmansk ? (NATO + ) Norway, Sweden, Finland & Russia

No, the aim was never to "replac(e) time consuming and tedious tasks with shortcuts". The aim was simulating the presence of a crewmember who's responsibility it is to know where the aircraft is - a navigator. In the Huey, and in the Mi-8 (the aircraft they were introduced for), the pilot shouldn't be burying their head in a map trying to dead reckon their position, and nor should it be them setting the course and distance into the Mi-8 nav system. If you were flying 2 up in the Mi-8 or Huey and using the kneeboard marker - yes, maybe you'd be using a cheat. If you're flying solo in MP and trying to both navigate and fly - you're placing an unrealistic workload on the pilot of the aircraft, and are further from simulating the actual experience of a multi-crew aircraft than if you just used the kneeboard as a proxy for asking the co-pilot or navigator to tell you where you are, and where you're supposed to be going...

Got some specific examples of incorrect aircraft performance & incorrect gauge readings ? (Excepting the Huey - which has known, discussed issues & is being corrected).

:-) You have a more generous view of corporate morals than I see evidence of them deserving... From their point of view it's not a BS reason if it increases return to shareholder - that's what 'defence' companies exist to do... Supplying equipment with which to defend the country is a means to an end, not the end in itself. Thanks to some Republican lawmaker I can't remember the name of, company directors have for some years had a legal obligation to maximise returns to shareholders. Social goods like better defence for the country or a safer flight for a pilot are not reasonable goals for a company to strive for beyond the point where achieving them generates additional revenue :-) If refusing to acknowledge fault and labelling a software glitch a feature saves some millions in actual remediation costs, and possibly saves some billions in lost future earnings by avoiding reputational damage from publicity, that's the proper course for a board & their managers to take to the very outer limits of what the law will allow - even if it leaves service men and women vulnerable. The bottom line is not BS to a defence contractor.

You’re taking it too seriously and fooling yourself into thinking you’re doing something more serious than you’re really doing, when you tell yourself that an aid to assist single players fly an aircraft designed to be flown by a crew of 2 or 3 is a ‘cheat’.

You’re taking it too seriously and fooling yourself into thinking you’re doing something more serious than you’re really doing, when you tell yourself that an aid to assist single players fly an aircraft designed to be flown by a crew of 2 or 3 is a ‘cheat’. Edit: I do agree though, that if some folk want to disable this option in MP for single seat aircraft, or go hardcore “ ‘leet “ and ban it for choppers and multi-seat aircraft too, that should be an option...