Looney

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Weird, I have the frequency of the tanker, including its altitude, TACAN code and racetrack on my kneeboard.

The Tico had right of way, I guess the commanding officer of the squadron is yelling his arse off against he CO of the Tico :)

It's always been a problem. For some reason, once a plane or helicopter lands it's not hooked to the object it landed on and if the ship turns or accelerates, you most likely simply fall over the edge.

Don't change collective an faster then 2 degrees per second (from the top of my head, the value is in the manual somewhere). Keep an eye on the blade AoA gauge lower left corner of the pilot's instruments.

The Mi-8 doesn't have an autopilot, only dampening channels. Make sure the engines are revved up to their nominal RPM and the generators are online. Select the middle button on the center console and make sure the light goes on (green colour). Once this is done, the trimmer button will hold the stick in the position you pressed the button but depending on your settings in DCS, you might need to recenter your own stick or use any other mode that you feel comfortable with.

Mine worked fine.

What's wrong with it? How to reproduce? What have you done yourself to try and mitigate the problem?

20+ groups and waypoints would generate a huge amount of CPU work to calculate all the routes as well as check every second who can see what, where and how and calculate all the actions involved, no wonder your FPS crashes. Try with less groups, less waypoints and less units?

The F-14 are two separate cockpits without interaction, e.g. as a RIO you don't and can't see what the pilot is doing in his part of the cockpit. As RIO, all you see is the interaction with the environment, e.g. the pilot putting the aircraft in a turn. Both cockpits are separated. In the S342 this is not the case, the synchronization between the two parts of one cockpit needs much more coordination. The pilot can flip switches on the gunner's panel and vice versa, up to a degree. This needs far more network traffic as opposed to the F-14. Let's hope ED optimizes the one cockpit / two persons code. The L-39 and the F-14 are the two aircrafts using multicrew and it's easier because it entails two separate cockpits.

Get a Human RIO and triple your fun.

It really mimics the simulated world in DCS very well. Most of the pilots who fly the F-14 in DCS don't wear helmets and don't sit in a cockpit surrounded by canopy glass. They sit behind a desk, chair or whatever is a room that's usually larger than a fighter cockpit. That said, Jester does an awesome job at simulated exactly that enviroment. If Jester were to sound like a real RIO is a real cockpit, it breaks the livingroom immersion since virtually nobody knows what the real thing sounds like nor have been in the pilot seat talking to an actual RIO. For me, leave it as it is, learn to fly with a human RIO and triple your fun.

Far field of view Narrow field of view Can't see anything wrong there.

I have no problems setting my X52 in DCS using the controls menu in DCSW.

Airports turn their lighting on when called via the DCS comms menu, did you try to raise the carrier on the freq and announce your intent to land?

JTAC?

Ah yes, those were the two. Just keep in mind that when using this procedure, the dumb bombs will need to be delivered on target by the intelligence of the pilot. Squeeze the pickle button a fraction too early or too late will result in a miss.

You have CCIP and CCRP computer available in the RIO seat. They're not called that, the one is tgt and the other IP or something similar.

This would be great, The request is to update or enhance the API calls to be able to interface iwth the datalink system.

Same capabilities.

We have the F-14B, the GPS version was part of a digitalization program of the DOD, called the F-14B(U).

Already reported, Grover is on it: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=236113&highlight=lantirn

Grover, what are the limitations of the LANTIRN pod with respect to weather? are clouds OK or not? Apparently, fog and dust are not OK, up to which conditions can we expect the LANTIRN pod to area track / point track?

If the target cannot be destroyed by stand-off weaponry, blown up by spec-ops or long-range artillery and the target constitutes a high-risk target that needs to be taken out, will an air strike be planned. As Kengou stated, the planning phase takes a lot of time, air defenses, routes, waypoints, refueling, C2 elements, target recon, area recon and god knows what else needs to be included, including risk to the strike package itself of course and planning for losses, CSAR and so on. After that, it basically comes down to follow the plan, improvise, adapt and overcome whatever may be thrown at the strike package and work towards a successful mission. It's never "simple" or "easy", ask any DCS veteran mission designer out there. There is a lot of stuff going on behind the curtain we never see or experience.

What was the weather like?