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that would be sooo cool!!!! including to start missions in the briefing room and WASD to your airplane and shaking hands with the chiefs

can anyone explain what the "default light" does when setting the pinky switch forward? manual doesn't say anything more about it?

you should ask tyger if he did some voice acting. his verbal instruction in his youtube videos are superb, although he clearly sounds british (not thats it's a bad thing)

hand written? you know there are pretty good and correct checklists in the manual to print out? I just added some changes/personalpreferences or remarks to it, but basicly they're good to go

yep thats what i do at every ramp start since doing the mav training mission (in which they also reduce slew speed to 2). i also set EQ on immediately. any reason you shouldn't do that and bother with the waypoint or time auto-ON settings? i don't think it needs a lot of practice. Mav's are the easiest weapon to deploy by far. Unless they go dumb (break lock) which never happened in DCS W so far to me. They're the most expensive, too. ($100,000+ apiece) which doesnt matter in the game either

umm i just wanted to review the hilarious discussion from last night and see the hoff pics and the what has been seen pic and i see they were deleted?!? thats stupid EDIT: ahh just saw they moved it in another thread. thanks!!!

yeah nice, that's what it's all about! That's the biggest strength of the game modelling real-life procedures as faithful as possible. The feeling of accomplishment is unparalleled. I had a similar experience last night practising night missions. Put a long column of trucks and APC moving along a road between two of those cities i can't pronounce and started from batumi with 2 65D, 6 CBU87 and LUU-2's and went searching. I tried out the difference using the TGP wide zoomed out and the 65D's wide as FLIR (as they did in the gulf war, calling it looking through straws). What a huge difference! Although I had minor trouble with situational awareness (TAD is something those gulf war pilots would have loved too) searching for targets at night is a pain in the ass, even if you roughly know where they are. I was constantly pausing and unpausing TIR, zooming madly and treating the boat switch like a pinball. In the end i thought BHOT was better (clear weather) and sticked with it. Then I remembered someone saying to try the Air-Air mode of the TGP. Unfortunately it marks a lot of things with crosses so that wasn't very useful. After about 15 mins I was getting unpatient and thought I'd done something wrong in the mission editor or it was beta bug that these tanks werent there. I turned 180 and flew back to my IP, starting to follow the road all over. This time I was popping the LUU-2s near the road and it took me only another minute following the road at 180 knots to see the column clearly moving along the road at my 12. I broke and turned 180 to get some distance for my CCIP CR run. Set the CBU87 profile to RPL single 6 with a 100ft distance. didnt mess with the height or spin settings, as I don't really know good values. So I lined up behind and started my run from 5k ft going down 5 deg at 200 knots so i could just see the pipper. Probably CCRP would have been more appropriate but it sometimes gives me an aborted message and i didnt want to mess up this run. so i hit the pickle over the last vehicle in line and leveled at 2k ft, the CBU came off nicely and I broke right at mil power going 20 deg up. turned my head to watch the spectacular fireworks. Wow that was nice. A lot of fires burning. Hit pause, popped another beer, started dancing around, thought don't "hassle the mic" and made my way back to batumi. set up my ILS to 110.15 (this time it finally worked as i figured i had always forgotten to right click the freqency dial to power it on) and myself up for quite a long approach. Would be my first night landing. As I always start and land from batumi (dunno why) i knew where i had to be and followed the glide path without much trouble. then it dawned on the that i should switch on my lights. As i never bothered with lights so far i played around with the pinky. hit F2 and wasn't satisfied. Lowered my gear and flaps and started to search the Lights panel. Got a bit nervous as i couldnt find it. had to abort the light searching for touchdown. hmm didnt have ILS bars. whatever i saw the runway nicely and thought i was coming in good. gave me an altitude warning. no attitude indicators,WTF. thought i had messed some buttons in my search for landing lights. whatever. looked good, speed 130 knots. touched down. master caution. MFDs go black. A million warning lights on the panel. DAMN. My gears werent out. Either I didnt hit F, T, H, B or V ionstead of G in the keyboard or something else wen't wrong. As the approach was nice I still stopped in the middle of the runway. Thought "chief's not gonna be happy" switched stuff off opened canopy. thought it's good it's just a game . mission accomplished. best time I ever had with a flight sim.

if you like beer do yourself a favor and try Augustiner (i'm having one right now :thumbup:) Germany's classic best. Would rate it a solid 9.5/10 Best american beer is Miller Genuine Draft imho. Mind I'm biased cuz it's from milwaukee... Nearly scratches the eight, say 7.6/10 Germany has an extreme variety of micro-brews. One of the best is Gruibinger Brunnenbier Really hard to get, but definately worth a small fortune. Around 9.7-9.8/10 Last beer i want to feature is the wonderful polish Zywiec. Doesn't get the international renown it deserves. It's a pristine pleasure. 8.9/10 Getting to whisky, there's no way around #1 Glenmorangie (try cherry cask version over classic, it's a very all-round pleasure) #2 Lagavulin (very heavy, extremely intense, i drink it 50:50 with water) #3 AnCnoc (very nice at any time) do yourself a favor and forget anything but single malt scotch unless you mix it with coke ;-)

mower you seem to have a bad day?! come on it's friday :beer: or are u serious?

waiting for a new beta nearly drives me into purchasing FC2 so i can fly the A-10A...

if no small arms are at hand (being not from texas or switzerland) you could just kick against your case a little, will do the trick...

wrong. read post #2

yes please, another beta 6 thread is what we need :wallbash: :bash:

this should be moved to Home Cockpits...

:rotflmao: lol this is the funniest thing i saw

oh no, the pitot heat. again. someone sticky the pitot heat thread please.

are you bragging about test-flying beta 6?!? I'm sure he'd be happy to upgrade to the latest build with your assistance. as many others

now that sounds like you get hit a lot ;-) maybe change your tactics? congrats on the landing tho must've been tricky.

like that kind of work who prefers which for what reason. I still have some trouble in choosing my ordnance. i prefer CCIP cluster bombs for tanks but not so successfully in dcs:w so far. (mavs always work nicely) most people seem to prefer GBU. should help in more difficult situations (wind, AAA) but for now i would like to get some routine in dumb bomb dropping

thats sad, they've been my fav with falcon. any word on performances of CBU 87 CEM vs. CBU 97 hockey skeets enganging tank columns?

sorry for stirring up this old threat. just to check: 1. is it correct that no ordnance can be loaded to station 6 anymore? shouldn't i be able to load a mk84 if i leave 5 and 7 empty? (for whatever crazy reason i would have to do that) 2. why can't i load rockeyes on the A-10C? considered obsolete? missing in beta?

okay makes sense to turn off anti-skid in some emergency case. F1 cars don't use ABS cuz they don't really need it, having huge wheels and a low center of gravity. if you're really interesting read this. Basically the bigger the wheel contact surface is in relation to the vehicles mass and gravity center height, the less important ABS gets. which implies its VERY important for the A-10 if used for after touchdown braking ;-)

eww u got your litening pod on the right wing. crazy.

that was later in the war when the mav's started to go dumb. usually they would try and get relieved of their 3,000lbs drag of bombs first. makes sense to me to keep the most effective weapon as long as possible. of course you could argue that yeah when i ordered it from amazon i had to take a used one cuz it wasnt in stock. meanwhile they re-stocked on it ^^ EDIT: btw, anyone has this book? The Modern Hog Guide: The A-10 Warthog Exposed It's rather expensive but sounds really promising. not sure if there's any additional value to the DCS:W manual. but after having finished said 'Warthog' and nearly 'A-10s over Kosovo' i need more stuff to read

i wonder why there's even a switch for anti-skid. why would you want to turn it off? if i understood correctly it's something similar to ABS