razorseal

I saw like on page 7 Nineline said at least give the a chance. I think we need to chill and really givce them a chance. Being in aviation myself, and knowing how closely certain things like the F35 are guarded, I will make a sound judgement that there is no data available. They will use physics, fluid dynamics and publicly available data (there's some out there) to create the best F35 they can. However I can with no doubt tell you, we will be missing some things like proper start procedures, SOPs, RCS, AESA, EW, sounds from cokpit etc. You think to tell me that our in-sim A120C or AIM-9X work like the real thing? not even close man. lol Look at turkey, second they got the S400, USA said nope, we won't let our F35s near those. There is no publicly available data. It will be a guessing game. but.... We gotta give Nineline and his team a chance. We really do. Let's see what they come up with. I would have preferred other things like newer block F16, Super Hornet, Their own version of the F15E since Razbam didn't work out... or hell, even the F117 (I bet there is more data on that), but this s what they want to offer us. so let's just give them a chance. Let's see what voodoo magic they come up with. Maybe they have some secret data we don't know about and it can't be publicly shared. That's on them. Don't ask, Don't tell baby.

I'm bummed by this decision. I've always seen DCS as study level simming. We've complained about F16/18 and been told there is no data available etc for some stuff. EW has always been a sore subject. now we're going to introduce the world's most compex, technologically advanced airplane based on youtube videos, trade shows, and air shows with a sprinkle or some pilots about about it on podcasts? We're going from all available official documentation to this?!?! This is so sad. Yeah, people will buy it... I will probably buy it, but this is how we start turning into a community of war thunder.

I came here because I can't think anywhere else where people could speculate better.... How is this possible? IFF... locations, datalinks, the F18 not picking up a lock by a friendly radar, getting missile tone. Lots of things to go wrong for a friendly missile to track you let alone just launch at you. I'm very curious about this. That being said, the commander of Gettysburg def gonna need a new job soon. lol

Yeah I tried anfew times and I csnt replicate it now. Either I pressed combo of magical buttons, or it was a bug I can't replicate.

Now I know. Thanks

Ok when I do that, I get a flashing scratchpad. I will try again Monday when I'm off work and put up a video

so you learned on a slow moving non fbw plane. Thanks. lol

With the recent update, it did better for me. I was too concentrated on tue target (which I hit) but this new update put (i think) a ranging line on thr right side of hud as well now which wasn't there before

Same. Razbam does great training missions (look at harrier). The few so far for f15 are great. I look forward to and hoping more for soon!

Ok so I made sure i had a weapon selected, no tracking modes boxed and go to SP mode. Then hud cmd and do it again. Seemed to work. Some things are very logical in this jet and some things are not. Bringing up a2g guns is a pain in the butt (unselected pylons, go to hud cmd, acq aft) lol. Or boxing the tracking box in tpod. Why csnt we use the tms buttons for it.

Ah ok, so enter it as a regular steerpoint but when going to it, put it in as 8. ?

To each their own. We can have disagreements on some things lol. Many ways to approach this game or sim or whatever you wanna call it. Pretty sure it's called dcs not dcg I would bet my left nut f16 and a10 students (even maybe f18 and other jets) from air force academies in this world use this "game" to practice maneuvers and systems. How do I know? Back over a decade ago when I got my IFR rating, I practiced hold patterns (before glass cockpits were a thing) using vor needles and HSIs on Microsoft flight sim on a similar Cessna that I flew.

another quick food for thought... THere is a 2 week trial for these jets. in our sim world, all you really need is probably a few hours with the person you're trying to explain flight basics to so they have an idea. so honestly you don't even need to buy it.

I agree (mostly) and disagree. There are few ways you can play DCS. as a sim or a game. it then branches out as a weapons platform sim vs flight sim. for people who want to just go blow stuff up, it sorta works. kinda weird to use 99% realism to blow stuff up when war thunder is around and does a pretty good job. that's my opinion. Then there are some like me who isn't into the full start up shut down, but enjoy the simulation of systems with an accurate flight model who understands principals of flight as a real world GA & former commercial pilot. and some that like full realism with squadrons etc. that's not me, but it is some. Tying to teach someone who to "fly" planes in this game is weird. like you said, go fly it yourself... if you crash you just press fly again. plenty of youtube videos. that's how I teach myself systems. that being said, there are few people here (i have seen one recently I wanted to help) that said "hello, i'm new to flying and don't know anything about flying. I got the F16 to fly... can someone teach me to fly the f16?". well. the F16 is a fast jet. things happen very fast, and if someone wants to learn to fly, it helps to be in something bit slower and not fly by wire so you understand how it all works. just makes a better aviator. but if you want to just war thunder it out, go get in, try to figure it you and you'll be aight. I was asking for people who would want to understand flight a bit better. like teaching a new student.

I remember that. when it came out, it was advertised (the training campaign) to be great for training basic flight. I wish the other trainer jets had some training campaigns.