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Nick, Thanks for putting that up -- indeed, it's straight as an arrow. Somewhere in the back of my non-geometric mind, I wanted the 2 and 3 turn indicators to line up, thinking there was some beautifully perfect math behind the "box" method -- looks like I committed the worst sin of the scientific method by trying to force my theory on reality instead of the other way around :) Apologies for the waste of everyone's time!

I had to get back into the cockpit to see what had been nagging at me about the needle -- I've been practicing "box" approaches -- and then I remembered -- it was the fact that when the needle lines up perfectly on the 3rd turn indicator, it doesn't line up with the 2nd turn on the other side -- but perhaps it's not supposed to? I guess my whole gripe is based on the assumption that the "2" turn indicators are supposed to be perpendicular to their "3" turn indicators counterparts. The whole reason I questioned it -- I kept coming up short on my turn to final (e.g., left hand turn to final, runway was always a fair amount off my nose to the right). I was nailing the speed and bank requirements on the button, but still kept coming up short.

This may be a better way to put it: I challenge anyone to draw a straight line from the tail of the needle to it's head, showing exactly 180 degrees. Feel free to take your own screenshot -- just no Photoshopping! I admit that as currently implemented, the head points where its supposed to, and so does the tail (e.g., 075 for head and 255 for tail) -- my issue is that it is not a straight line between the two headings on the compass rose. You can even take the RSBN needle out of the equation -- I think it's a problem with the rose itself.

Ok, should have explained better -- the tail of the needle is offset. That is to say, the tail of the needle should be where it is in the "Fixed" image. I drew a straight dotted line to indicate where the tail should be, since the needle itself is not a solid line. The "Fixed" view, is a result of my efforts in Photoshop, erasing where the tail is in the "Current" image, and creating a new tail in the "fixed" image. As to the tilted perspective -- it was originally flat -- I put that effect on the image as I thought it better communicated the point. It looks just as bad in the original (flat) image. However, it just occurred to me that it could be the "pointy end", to borrow a phrase from Aria Stark, that is offset. At any rate, either the tail or the head of the needle is offset.

This might be a bit nit-picky :music_whistling:, but when practicing the "box" approach around an aerodrome, I've been really trying to nail it perfectly. In the process, I've noticed on the NPP, that the RSBN needle seems a tad bent -- see screenshot below -- shouldn't it rather resemble the "fixed" version?

Great work!

Having been inspired by your RSNB Navigation tutorial, I created a kind of supplemental video which focuses on using the lessons learned from your video, utilizing the first single-player mission that comes with the module -- it presents the pilot with a variety of navigation scenarios, and IMHO, is an excellent mission to practice navigation.

Strongharm, I'm not exactly an audiophile -- but appreciate quality gear. I'm confused though, as to what's unique about the headset -- how is it difference than any other over-the-ear headset (e.g., i have a pair of Corsair HS1's)? They certainly chose a great model name for the headset!

Couldn't find that this had been submitted or not -- if a genuine "bug report" is required, please let me know and I'll provide. This is from the first single mission for the MiG21BiS.

Nice timing on the update!!! (my birthday, hehe) :D

Thanks for the head's up!

Having learned from past experience that the developers are usually right, and that I've just misunderstood something -- I'm hesitant to post this, but alas, I can't make heads or tails of it. In the ARC Training mission -- you set up to use ARC navigation by selecting ARC on the LV panel and then selecting channel 3 on the RV panel. Channel three is supposed to be for Krymsk, which is the airbase from which you start. I think the idea is that you make some distance away from Krymsk once in flight, then use the ARC needle to head back towards Krymsk -- you're supposed to attempt to "fly-over" the ARC signal source so that you can see the needle spin 180deg when you fly over it. The problem is, though I'm clearing picking up the signal a bit after take-off (I see the needle move off the default 45 deg to the right position, and hear the morris code), the needle is NOT pointing to Krymsk. I thought perhaps I had the wrong needle -- but neither of them seemed to point back to Krymsk. Following the needle that moved off the 45deg position took me out to sea :(. Could someone enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any replies -- and if required, I can make a video demonstration of the problem I'm having -- BBQ

I don't think the AMD gear is your bottleneck -- if I were you, I'd upgrade my GPU and then possibly add more RAM. I too run an FX-8350 - and am hard-pressed to get FPS < 30, all settings maxed-out. I use an H80i water cooler from Corsair, which allowed OC'ing to around 4.8 -- but recently researched and purchased this, which hands-down, blows away the competition. Having booted into Windows with all eight cores at 5GHz, I was stunned to see my CPU temperature idling at 18 DegC :D My Setup: FX-8350 (with IndigoExtreme thermal solution, and H80i Corsair cooler) 32 Gb Corsair Dominator Platinum @1866 120 Gb Corsair Neutron SSD, dedicated to DCS NVIDIA GTX 580 video card ASUS M5A99FX PRO rev2.0 motherboard

Once approved, the mission file will be available here. I noticed an "All Planes Module" mission file after a fresh installation -- it was a multi-player mission with nearly all the flyables as clients, all flying out of the same aerodrome. I edited the mission so that instead, it's a single-player mission, with all aircraft controlled by AI. The effect is that they all start taxing and take-off one at a time. Needless to say, it's quite a resource intensive mission file! I thought it would be a nice benchmarking mission to test various settings to optimize your machine's performance. Have fun! BBQ

Thanks for the head's up -- fixed. Let me know if you have any trouble --

Updated first post -- fixed the mission 3 problem -- re-download at your leisure ;) BTW -- as soon as 2.0 is released (EDGE), I'll start thoroughly testing all 20 missions again, to ensure compatibility!

What did the Yogi say to the Hot Dog vendor in Central Park? OH -- sorry -- I see now you're looking for a quality YOKE :megalol:

I'm not getting a response, having sent the email yesterday. Did everyone who sent an email get a quick response?

This should be a Sticky - thanks for the manual and the videos!

Ditto

I'm not really sure, unfortunately.

Yikes that is a lot of dough.

I wondered when this might be coming -- hopefully our beloved Team isn't involved, taking away precious resources from our hobby! Not sure if this is "news" but the article is from this month --

I recently purchased the new Kindle e-reader, and perusing the available titles, came across this gem. There is a "Further Reading" page that I thought I'd share -- I haven't yet read any of the listed resources, but having read all the other pages of the book - I trust it's a good list of references.