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Fantastic campaign! Thanks very much I marathoned through as far as the toss-bombing mission, which I skipped after five or six attempts... a technique like that, I need an airstart / infinite ammo scenario to practice with, and tbh I'm not likely to do it "in real life" (on ECW) so happy to let that particular skill slide... Something I did not expect was to be setting up HOTAS binds to adjust the TACAN projected waypoint position - but it's very handy to have an in-cockpit view of your distance and direction from a calculated point. I'll be using TACANs a lot more as a result of this campaign! Something which tripped me up on the first mission (only) - it wasn't obvious that you press Space to hide the popup of the mission briefing. Perhaps this could be included on the popup if they're ever revised? Not worth fixing by itself but just if they're changed for any other reason. Thanks again - this is excellent quality! PS - actually I'm also confused by how to make the targets fire back - the radio menu has "ROE Red" and "ROE Green" but which one lets them fire back? Is it Green=Go or Green=Safe? edit: ROE Red means they'll shoot back

Yup, the pilot uniform is part of the livery. The livery can be modified to use a different pilot uniform texture, or the pilot uniform texture can be modified to have a different flag or no flag. However I don't know if either can be done to the built-in liveries without breaking IC. I just switch to a different livery in the Mission Planner or in the Rearm menu. Arstotzkan, or my own London Transport bus livery!

I'd also appreciate a civilian/demilitarised variant, not just for roleplaying/immersion, but because the pilot-navigator's view would be improved

There's a fun way to use the DISS-15 as an area navigation tool. Set COURSE ANGLE to the magnetic heading of the vertical axis of the local MGRS grid. Set LATERAL DEVIATION to your east-position and DISTANCE to your north-position. So if your position is JJ2460, you'd set 024km Right and 060km Forward and turn on the DISS-15. As you fly around your east-west(ish) movement affects Lateral Deviation and north-south(ish) affects Distance. If it's now showing 033 Right and 084 Forward, you're in JJ38, JJ3384 to be precise. If it's 133 Right you've flown out the east side of JJ and are in the next 100km square, KJ. If it's 184 Forward you've gone north into JK. (you need to reference yourself to a 100km square you're not going to go south or west of for this to work.) I made a video last year demonstrating this but I'd like to redo it using slides and video-editing for clarity, rather than doing it in one take... is there a possibility the textures will be patched within, say, months? If so I'll wait for the update before doing this!

If I fly the Hip singleplayer, or multiplayer with no-one taking a multicrew slot, and put myself in the pilot-navigator's seat, am I still using the pilot-commander/left SPU-7?

if I were Benevolent Dictator of Eagle Dynamics, every covered button be required to have binds for: button cover open temporarily button cover open indefinitely button cover close button cover toggle button press button open cover and press (and 99% of players would only use the last one) Could be an advisory note that "lift cover and" binds should always use a modifier key e.g. Ctrl+J to lift cover and jettison.

Conceptually, work done by people such as yourself (or... at this point... just yourself?) ought to be respected. Making a 3D terrain for DCS, and cartographicating up good charts for that terrain, are separable and ought to be separated.

Happy birthday to this thread...! Thanks both

Please could you add Fast Slew non-axis inputs for the Vivienne / periscope? e.g. Slew Up Fast, Slew Left Fast. Also thanks very much for all the work! I loved the Gazelle before the FM update and I love it even more with the new FM and the new L loadout options!

Oh, this is fascinating - I thought the windscreen wipers were deactivated due to a change in the rain effects. Thanks!

In a glider, the trim is often a lever or a sliding handle, and the stick forces are light. So you can hold the stick lightly and, at any moment, instinctively apply trim to make the remaining stick forces go away instantly - subjectively I think it's easier than holding down a hat switch or turning a trim wheel. So you can retrim when you exit the turn with no effort anyway. Unless you're flying the SzD-51Junior where the trim is only adjustable between sprung detents, theoretically giving a 5- or 10-knot graduation in airspeed between each, but inevitably always being slightly too nose-down or slightly too nose-up... or so I'm told. I've never had the privilege of flying one of those

oh yeah, that's an example of the realism in DCS World over the last 10, 20 years: plan a flight from the western edge of Tblisi (41° 40' N, 44° 40' E) to Mozdok (43° 45' N, 44° 40 E). note the true bearing between the two. then note the difference in longitude if you care about realism at all, you should stop playing DCS until it simulates the WGS84 spheroid

To play this game realistically, it will uninstall itself and delete your customer account the first time your pilot dies. And you don't get to choose what missions to do, you can only do what you're instructed to do. And you probably won't get to fly for more than a few hours every month. And you'd better only ever operate the Mi-8 with a flight control setup that matches the physical dimensions of the real thing, with all the control curves set to linear and 100% saturation

surely the troops can provide the security

Any hope of it becoming a setting e.g. Always Russian, Always English, Coalition-dependent? Or - alternatively - subtitles? Alternatively alternatively - if I could find the folder with all the .ogg files I could just listen to them until I've memorised enough Russian to understand

Is there a way to coax the Flight Engineer to describe the movements of the sling cargo to me in English rather than Russian?

that "two weeks" meme is, like, over a thousand weeks old at this point. I remember it being attributed to Oleg Maddox on the 1C forums back in the day.

Superb work! I was wondering, can you advise what font you used? I'd like to use the same on my own home cockpit components which presently exist only in my head. edit: Flappie identified it. "IMA ISO GPS No Frame"

Thank you Mr Sky - the visibility in mission 3 is much more restrictive so I don't feel I'm getting the wrong experience now edit: I am wondering if this is the remains of what should've been a manouevering aircraft here?

I was wondering what typeface is used in the English cockpit textures? It looks distinctively similar to the Cyrillic typefaces. I'm getting way ahead of myself, but I'd like to use it in Warsaw Pact home cockpit components if it's available.

Are you definitely launching signal flares (from upper left panel), not countermeasure flares?

Just wondering if something's wrong here - mission 2, the first Salon mission, the visibility is perfect and you can see the oil platform as soon as you take off. Watching vsTerminus's video the visibility was a few kilometers? This is the open beta with multithreading.

I've just completed the first mission and it was great! For the second mission - I'm wondering if I'm missing some livery packs? I don't have a Syrian livery for the L-39ZA, there's some MiG-23s which are apparently in "Syrian Air Force" livery but they are grey with red stars edit: just needed the "Syrian Air Force Pack" and all looks good now!

Hi folks, I've not seen this written up in any manuals or tutorials for the Mi-8 specifically, so I thought I'd show how to navigate on the MGRS grid (or, any grid actually) with the Mi-8 Doppler system. The video is what you get when you hit "Start Recording" in OBS and upload a single unedited take. So here's the essential steps: Set COURSE ANGLE to the magnetic bearing of MGRS Grid North for your area. (Use F10 ruler and measure up the side of an MGRS square). For Tshinvali it's 345°M. Set LATERAL DEVIATION KM and DISTANCE KM to the easting and northing of a landmark you'll overfly after takeoff. E.g. Tshinvali stadium is at MM1676, so I set EAST 016, FORWARD 076 Turn on the Doppler system as you overfly that landmark Your EAST and FORWARD positions are now your MGRS coordinates and will keep updated as you fly Use the Left/Right/Fwd/Aft buttons to correct your position as needed when you have an opportunity The reason to use a landmark as your starting point rather than your takeoff point: you get no groundspeed below 50 km/hr, and I'm pretty sure it takes a few minutes for the doppler radar to warm up, so if you're starting up as fast as you can (and why wouldn't you) you're going to be off by several hundred metres. Your Doppler radar will lose lock if your bank angle exceeds about 15°, pitch angle exceeds about ±10°, drift angle exceeds 45°, or groundspeed drops below 50 km/hr. It's not the end of the world - it will continue to feed the nav computer with the last groundspeed and drift angle it had (or 0 km/hr if anything under 50 km/hr - I'm not certain on that one), and this will make your position less accurate. The English cockpit for the Mi-8 currently has labels on the DISS-15 Doppler nav computer which don't agree with the Russian cockpit or the translations in the manual but I think this is getting looked at: LATERAL DEVIATION KM is labelled DRIFT ANGLE KM DISTANCE KM is labelled FLIGHT PATH KM COURSE ANGLE is labelled MAP ANGLE Disclaimer: so far I've only tested this as far as the distance between Tshinvali and the clearing 40km away where people with rifles make holes in my hydraulic system.

+1 for this. I've just got the L-39 yesterday and it is tremendously fun. But I'd be delighted if the baked-in reflections were replaced. They give a distressingly accurate simulation of flying with a fogged-up canopy in a glider in certain conditions.