ttaylor0024

Finished the Guardians of the Caucus campaign tonight. More screens. Also flew a 5-ship on the 104th... One guy killed 3 with an AIM-120 in a matter of seconds, as well as got another with an AIM-9. I managed to escape and was met with another F-15 when firing on the original.

Screenshots from a night of Guardians of the Caucus http://imgur.com/a/yfwkB

The A-10 just doesn't go fast enough to throw it good distances unfortunately

Very easy to bounce back in the air at those speeds

Not flaring in attack runs FENCE'ing in way early Turning on all the switches before the APU power is on

I'll redownload my steam since it seems to be easier for everyone else. ttaylor0024 is my username.

I had the same problem when first landing as well. I slowed my touchdown from 320 to 290 and it's worked out great

Don't drop the nose on the ground when you land. Release a little back pressure, but keep the nose off the ground and then smoothly place the nose-wheel on the ground. It will bounce back up if you slam the nose down, as well as risking structural failure of the nose-wheel, as it's only designed to take less than 15% of the aircraft's weight on average.

You really need to map those controls too. It was killing me watching you clicking everywhere haha

The attitude indicator (analog gauge) simply shows aircraft pitch in relation to the horizon, while the VVI indicates the actual flight path of the aircraft through the air. Not 100% sure I understood your question, but that's what I took from it.

I use the acronym ACE when I fly to panic with. Program A by default is good against radar SAMs, program C is good against IR, and E is both. If I know I'm only going up against IR or whatnot I will edit another program to match what I want. On average however, I never edit the programs, just start/stop as I please on the default. MWS will sound on any detected missile launch as well, making the calls when launching Mavs all the more important so people don't get slammed thinking it was a friendly shooting a Mav.

Who all wants to get together one night and play the dynamic campaign?

No. If your engine catches on fire you immediately want to put the fire out, shut it down, secure it, and RTB. Your aircraft can fly just fine with one engine, use it to let maintenance do their job so you can safely and effectively do yours in the future. Problems regarding altitude performance is a relatively easy one to handle once you know the procedures. In the event of an engine failure you immediately pitch to VYse (best rate of climb on a single engine). I do not know this number exactly for the A-10C to be honest. If you are above the maximum service ceiling then it will be your best drift down speed, or in which you lose the least amount of altitude per a given unit of time. Regarding the cutting the live engine, yes, unfortunately this is a real issue. It happens every year with multi-engine pilots, and if you go watch the movie "Unbroken" right now, you can see that very thing happen. "Dead foot, dead engine," is the saying we use to identify the dead engine. This applies to the fact that if you lose your left engine lets say, then you will need to use right rudder in order to keep the aircraft coordinated. This is rather difficult to do quickly in the sim because you cannot feel the aircraft like you could in real life, thus could misinterpret the yaw for the roll that immediately follows. The proper saying for the procedure is "Identify, Verify, Troubleshoot, Feather, Secure." The feather part won't apply to the A-10C, however multi-engine pistons it would, in which you would feather the prop to reduce drag. For this discussion, simply remove that and think Identify, verify, troubleshoot, secure. Identify the dead engine, verify the dead engine, troubleshoot it (did it just fail, on fire, what happened? As long as it's not on fire, you really are alright with trying to restart for the most part. Battle damage usually won't restart for obvious reasons, and could lead to major issues), secure (turn it off, fuel off, etc).

Downloaded it and flew it. Can confirm you need to refuel. Made it to the tanker with about 30 minutes of fuel to spare.... and that was still 70nm away from the target area! EDIT: It's Talon Reach that I was talking about! Love that mission!

This won't help you out much, but here used to be a really cool mission in which you HAD to refuel on the way in and on the way home or you would only have about 5 minutes on target, which wouldn't do much. Really hope people make more of these long missions where AAR is required. Really adds another element to the missions.

The first mission you just use the kneeboard. Dead reckoning is a navigation method that's still used.

Found this, enjoy! OCFMX5z-ed4

Love the missions, keep up the good work!

lol I had a similar experience the other day. Playing on the 104th I had just discovered another enemy F-15 after I had just splashed one. He was too close for missiles, so i switched to guns (first topgun reference of the thread?) After I passed him I was still undetected, however I ended up losing him because of how extremely unrealistic it is to see other targets in this game.... I can see a skyhawk fairly easily at 5nm in real life... Kept searching for him when I see a Flanker on my tail. I do some quick maneuvering and the Flanker stalls, in which I was still too close for radar so I decide pulling up on his left wing in formation makes the most logic. I figured that he didn't pull hard to get away from me so he had to be friendly.... Turns out I was right lol

It was already off by the time he started looking for me, he just checked 6

Shhh, your supposed to make the MiG sound good... Haha But yes, teamed up the MiG is much better. It was very easy to bait those F-15s to the mountains, in which one would go defensive and the other would... End the f-15. If anyone else wants to join, we would like to get a school of fish to swarm people

Hopped on the 159th tonight... After playing on the 104th so much, any other server is easy. 5 kills, 2 from guns, 1 R-60M, and 2 R-3R. MiG-21 was on top of the leaderboard above all the Gen-4s

We will find you...... :thumbup: