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Odd, yes, but certainly not the ugliest jet ever built. The lines are sleek, its symetrical.

Mmmm the Leduc is quite good looking IMO, ugliness is quite subjective. Maybe we should start similar thread, with the most good looking planes :)

Looking at the corresponding screenshot (in DCS World combat employment section, from your link), it looks pretty much like the old engine. e.g. destroyable small buildings probably, but I won't expect anything magical about the dam.

Very good advice, thanks :thumbup:

What do you mean? Maybe I wasn't clear, my point is if you get a time penalty for repair then people would likely not bother to land, just eject and take another aircraft.the I think the game should provide incentives to land.

I think no one should be punished for bringing the aircraft back... What makes sense in some setups is to force a delay before respawn after a crash but IMO bringing the A/C back to the landing strip should be rewarded with a quick and painless repair.

As the OP I'd quite interested to know how experienced guys manage to keep their wingman when there's no datalink and poor visibility. What I was doing with the SU-25 was to use a bulls eye wpt to estimate position and try to meet on a radial, but sometimes this would take ages to get the formation back. Hopefully we can use the radar to find each other. @Chimango, next time I go 104th I can send you a PM, I go there rarely though. That'd be interesting to try.

I think *any* battle damage would get you grounded for a while IRL. What would be cool though would be an option to increase system failure probability if you take off after patching your aircraft.

If you've done everything already then we are almost at the same point then, I'm afraid I can't help you much. My A2A experience is mostly WW2, I did very little A2A within DCS. Basically I'm doing (trying) what Hadwell said, it sums it up very well. For the visuals, make sure you don't have anti aliasing enabled as other AC blend easily in the sky or in the ground.

Better turn 90°, then bank the aircraft to estimate the altitude ;) This way you won't bleed your energy and you'll be beaming the threat at the same time. @Chimango, you need to proceed in order. If I assume you never used the MiG, I'd do the following: - Training missions from DCS to learn the systems (in "Training") - Target practice to get used to the weapon system (in missions, MiG-21) Once you're confortable shooting those missiles in the medium or hard target practice, try single player missions or the built-in campaign. The campaign "Gardians of the Caucasus" is also very well done and will put you directly into action, I recommend it. Make sure to download TacView software in order to review your flights, this will help you a lot I think (this way you'll see why you missed your shots, where the target went when you lost sight, where it shot you from). Playing online won't help you learning, it will help you hone your skills but if you're barely starting you'll be dead meat. Good luck!

Good idea! Don't let those dislikes down you, it's probably someone who saw "formation flying" in the title without any actual formation flying in the video ;) Maybe the title should be more explicit.

Mmm I don't think it means what you think it means... If you "manhandle" it (I had to google this one) you will end up deep below ground level ;)

For weapons and sensors, an area system would work I guess. Each area with trees assigned with a probability (depending on trees density) of sensor obstruction and weapon collision. Better than nothing...

Default payloads should be locked, only copies allowed :crash:

Yep, it's kind of scattered in the document, no worries ;) This manual is worth going through entirely a couple of times (diagonal) to have a good idea of it's content, before going into detailed reading.

Couldn't agree more! I hope that this is not too far in ED's roadmap - I mean, an official API for programmatic mission update :music_whistling:

Of course doing a smart AI is difficult. I was only commenting the post saying (repeating?) that bolting a dynamic campaign on the sim was super difficult.

Why would that be difficult? A dynamic campaing is only a matter of keeping a persistent state to use it for the next mission - actually it was done as a simple mission file and .lua export/import by MBot for MiG-21BIS, it's the Guardians of the Caucasus campaign. Once you have that you only need to write snippets of code that will alter this persistent state to your linking (be it from the result of a mission flown by the user or any other event you see fit). Your statement seems familiar, did you just repeat something or are you genuinely believing what you wrote? I'm just curious to know why you think it's hugely difficult, myabe there's something special I'm not aware of.

Look at pages 455 to 471 of the english manual of A-10C, there are some diagrams that will help you I think.

The line says "Custom shaders for enhanced visual fidelity (e.g. CRT Screen representation)". So yes, the CRT screens are already there (MiG-21 radar display) and they (LNS) are improving their tools to make them better (Custom shaders). However I can't tell if those custom shaders will be used for MiG-21 or only for new developments.

Good Good :D

All pictures you posted are zoomed out, so the number of pixels available to display the ABRIS is rather small. As said, you need to zoom in first. After that you can maybe tweak the resolution of MFDs. P.S.: IIRC, "native" resolution for ABRIS is 480x640

Since you talk about a diamond I assume you're using the SU-25T (not SU-25A). Here are a couple of tracks I made (no joystick, it's pretty bad I know), showing CCRP and CCIP runs. I kept [sPACE] press during CCRP attack. It works exactly the same as iron bombs, so maybe you're out of parameters when you try your attacks (too low?), since you seem to do well with normal bombs. What is the name of the bomb you try to drop ? If you're using KGMU it's a completely different weapon that will work only at low level CCRP. SU-25T-cluster-CCIP.trk SU-25T-cluster-CCRP.trk

Cool video, thanks, Not having put background music is a plus :thumbup:

Which aircraft? You should attach the track of your flight here, it should make it easy to find the answer. Cheers, P