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Well I was referring to before I realized the KA-50 pilot had arms.

Well let's not get carried away... I mean, if it took them three years to do this would you still be as jovial? I mean, let's not forget... "When it's done." :D

Yeah I'll pass on trying to find out what moment of a 4-minute video is relevant to this thread. Agreed!

KA-50 had pilot arms? I can't even really picture the pilot blocking that much stuff - maybe make the circuit breakers and, of note, the completely non-functional TISL controls harder to see, but... yeah? You might have a hard time accessing the power knobs for the radios. And setting the TCN / ILS frequency or playing with HARS - but none of that is essential. Nothing important would be blocked by the pilot. I mostly would just want the pilot legs if it featured some sort of interactive kneepad. So instead of this wonky app on my iPod I could access the same information without even pausing or leaving the cockpit view. A couple of clicks and my threat table is up... then switch to the briefing page...

I've found radios to be somewhat buggy - from ramp starts, usually I won't hear a peep from my flight until I cycle the channel knob up and down again. At one point, the UHF radio ate total shit and wouldn't let me select the number 1 with the frequency dials and changing the channel would cause random frequencies to pop up.

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Four legs? Wat? Have you built a sim-pit where there's monitors surrounding your every bit of body? Pretty sure 99.9% of people have their legs under a desk and look at the monitor in front of them. No offense but that was without a doubt the single stupidest reason I've heard to poo-poo an idea.

Yeah keep in mind that if your graphics card isn't beefy enough, 3-screen will absolutely melt your framerate. Simply upgrading from 1920x1200 to 2560x1600 brought an overall 30% framerate drop in every game - expect 3 1920x1200 monitors to be even worse (7m pixels vs. 4m). You can settle for less with a low resolution, but extreme loss of forward-facing fidelity will make it hard to fly.

I've had TrackIR for ages and it's annoying as hell. If I look down, or around, or move my head at all, it never seems to 'recenter' properly and my HUD and everything will be off by a little bit, so badly I had to remap the 'center TIR' button to my HOTAS. Nobody in any Youtube videos ever seems to have this problem... in order to look in closely at the radios, I have to physically lean back, look down to the left, and then lean back in... it's retarded.

Well, airbase operations at home station are totally unlike what you see in a combat zone. Suffices to say, at an F-15 base (2x F-15E Sqs, 1x F-15C), typically there's 6 flying blocks - two gos for each squadron. Typically you're looking at a 12-turn-10. Bagram however, don't know what you guys are talking about with combat airbases being quiet - sure we we do a lot less flying, typically two-ship operations every four hours or so... about once or twice a day we'll get a scramble call and throw up two more in less than five minutes... but in there's a hell of a lot more traffic overall. Running ATC at that base must be a nightmare. There's usually F-16s at Bagram as well and they like to pretend to play war by putting up some aircraft at about the same schedule, but they never get scramble calls (no JTAC alive would take a lawndart for anything over an F-15). All during the day something is taking off or landing. Chinooks are going in and out, Apaches and Blackhawks are puttering around, sometimes you'll see AC-130s and there's *endless* amounts of cargo traffic - a few AN-225s come in and out a few times a week, several C-17s and the odd C-5. Ground traffic there's not much where we were at, but if you go on the other side of base, the *one road* that services all of Bagram's dorms, B-huts, the BX area, DFACs, etc. etc. etc. is an endless sea of people and one massive traffic jam.

Actually that means the F-15E holds a lot more - with tanks STA 2 and 8 you can get about 35,000 lbs of gas. Of course, the F-15 eats that gas like it's nothing whereas the A-10 may as well be a hybrid when it comes to fuel consumption rate :P I wonder which one gets the best milage....

Well you could say that every time it comes around. Right now our options are two single-seater airframes that aren't very good choices in general.

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Leave it to the US Air Force to go from highly artistic, stylized nose arts in WW2 to a tiny little painting inside a panel that has to be closed for flight... we had some guys paint the underside of a speed brake with the squadron colors and logo on the OG aircraft and they got in trouble with that. The best part is, the USAF officially just talks non-stop about heritage even though they piss on and draft new regs every week to ban anything even remotely morale-building. Hell, I'm surprised there's even A-10 squadrons that can still paint the tusks on... though that doesn't change the fact that most of them cannot even if they once did.

Uh, if it's on the RIGHT wing, having the left wing lower (and thus, making a left turn) means your fuselage is going to block the picture for like 60% of your turn... surely you meant the right wing dipped, making a right turn? One thing you learn about the Air Force after being in the Air Force - the bottom line is always money :D Additionally did you think about how the pod underneath would greatly complicate a gear-up landing? It's also probably extremely difficult to fit other stuff under there if the TPod was there, in addition to causing issues with released munitions. It could also be situated on the outside of the wings to avoid the rocket exhaust from Mavericks which would seriously cause damage to it.

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At the end of mission, it has a button that says 'save track'. Don't alt-tab or use time compression though as it will seriously screw up the tracks.

I was about to say... the number one way to cause it is to pull off to the same direction after similar runs on one target. If you alternate pulling off left or right, the gimble will rotate in the opposite direction and happy days will be had by all.

The way I understood it, the reason you get the air condensing over the body / wings in aircraft is because their movement is creating a lot of negative pressure behind the areas where it's formed, essentially 'sucking' the pressure so low that the clouds appear. In order for this to happen you need a wide body, high speed, and high AOA. The A-10 doesn't really have any of these. In very humid conditions you can get them off the wings, but the A-10 simply can't hold onto enough speed at high-AOA maneuvers to make it happen the way an F-16 can. If you really like it, wait for the DCS: F-15E, because it's such a colossally fat fuselage almost every maneuver in moist conditions will cause it :D

Why the left wing, when the TPod is usually on the right? I'd say the reason it's not underneath the fuselage is because the A-10 is designed to be able to belly land without much damage. Once you punch off fuel tanks and munitions there's nothing really left under there. If you had a Sniper XR pod, well, that's a really expensive bit of equipment to scrape off on a runway every time you have a hydraulic or gear failure. Seeing as how all versions of TPod have been in laughably short supply, well, there's your answer for that one. As for why it's not on the outermost station, probably weight or limitations on the kind of pylon you can put out there. Remember that you need a lot more wiring as well to support a targeting pod.

Totally completely off topic but...Sobek what in the hell is your avatar? Looks like someone with a ****ed-up hand waving a stick in front of some trees...

There's creative ways around two-seaters... Jane's F-15E did a good job implementing two seats and that was over a decade ago. It isn't that huge a problem on the F-15E though, since 90% of the tasks can be done in either cockpit... just allow hot-swapping. Honestly in my opinion the biggest annoyance of the F-15E would be the hand controllers in the back seat... HOTAS overload.

Pfyeah good luck, I've seen maybe a dozen incentive rides on F-15Es, and most of them were to nonners. I think I've seen one engine guy, one APG, and one spec get rides. Yeah guess who got the ride when we were in Guam? God damn CSA. And they put a Level 1 Over-G on it too.

Technically the F-15E's been rated to carry just about anything that goes boom :p

There's a button on the UFC that says ALT ALRT - hit it and then... I think you use the up-down keys, and you can set it to 0 feet. Also keep in mind a radar altimeter is useless if you're doing anything except straight-and-level flight.