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Voyager

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  1. At least according to Fedex, looks like mine has been sitting at Charles deGaul for the last week or so. Not sure how long that usually takes.
  2. So what happens if you try to gift a module to someone who already has it? The sale bounces? Or disappears?
  3. They're going to come down this year. Mining is cratering, and Intel and AMD are adding new process nodes to the pile. I think by the end of the year we should see significant too end performance improvements, and enough availability of 30, 40, Arc, RDNA2 and RDNA3 cards that the 10&20 series parts can be replaced by considerably better cards for relatively not insane prices. Straight up inflation is going to bite, but we should see a lot of GPU power hitting the table pretty soon.
  4. He mentioned something about the computer as well and some system that should be calibrated before or during flight. I also recall at one of the AIM-9/AIM-4 fly-offs, the Hughes team had brought a metric ton of support equipment for the falcon, that the Sidewinder team didn't need or care about at all. I think it was more than just the coolant, but have never really dug into the century series fighters to know what. I've just seen enough odd things in the whole Sidewinder vs Falcon stuff to suspect there is something very wonky that was going on in the Falcon that later IR missiles just didn't bother with. If you look at most very 1st generation systems, they pretty often do things in really weird ways compared to what is found to work later. Look at the differences between the Mannlicher M1894, the Luger and the M1911, and realize they competed against each other. I think if we really want to see the AIM-4 Falcon, it's probably worth digging into how it actually functioned, and was intended to function. The reality may be stranger than we can guess.
  5. So, I see how you can buy a module as a gift for someone who you already know who it's going to, but I'm wondering, is there a way to buy modules for delivery at a later date? Thank you, Harry Voyager
  6. At least according to the guest on FPP F-106 episode (37:22) the F-4 was missing some of the fire control equipment the Falcon actually needed to perform right. He doesn't go into the details, just that they worked very well on the F-106 with the fire control computer the F-4 didn't have. Definitely worth digging into what was actually going on if the AIM-4 ever gets modelled. If I had to guess, I'd suspect it had some sort of mid-course correction thing going on that was supposed to put the missile where it needed to be when the sensor was ready to roll, as opposed to being hot off the rails, but that is purely speculation right now.
  7. According to J Baugher's research, it sounds like the F-4E Block 53 and later got a J79 with low smoke combustors. McDonnell F-4E Phantom II http://joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f4_11.html I do seem to recall that Heatblur had mention we would be getting both an older and newer block of the F-4E, one with the smoky engines and one with the cleaner burning one? Addendum: based on the serial number list he has for the German F-4F's, it is also possible they received a mix of Block 52's with the older J79 and Block 53+ based versions with the newer low smoke J79's but that needs more research to prove or refute: McDonnell F-4F Phantom II http://joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f4_17.html
  8. Cool. I finally decided to bite the bullet and get a base on order, since I discovered all the screws were working themselves loose on my TM base, and finding out it requires just about dismantling the system to get them all put back in. (It had previously been damaged, with the connector becoming recessed, so I'd expected to need to replace it eventually, anyways. This, and some other things just pushed me to go for it now, instead of later.) Funny thing is, I think I managed to make it in just before the price hike, too. Addendum: Just got the Fedex ship notice, so it is about a week after the billing notice and about a week and a half after my order. Looking forward to having it in hand.
  9. I would expect for the interest in the F-15C to increase after a successful F-15E launch. It should be not difficult to learn the F-15C after mastering the E, and it will bring more variety to have both, especially since both are active.
  10. I see now. I was running the updater from the directory, but the shortcut runs it with the "update" flag. If it is run without the flag it launches DCS.
  11. Is there a way to run the DCS updater such that it checks for updates but does not launch the game itself? Sometimes I've got times when I can run big updates in the background, and it would be nice to be able to do that, without the game also firing up all of my VR stuff and loading everything up. Thank you, Harry Voyager
  12. Weren't we getting a Midway with the Corsair, or was that a different carrier? I suspect as naval planes start proliferating EA may look into doing more general carrier packs. Trying to run an F-14 out of a modernized Midway could be quite a bit of fun, but not sure it would be required for the F-4 pack, especially since we'll have the Forestall.
  13. Found the problem. I have all my controllers plugged into a powered USB hub, and that hub plugged into a USB 3.1 slot on the mother board. That worked fine with my old mother board, however here, it could not properly detect the MFG Crosswinds, so the computer was installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, uninstalling, reinstalling, again and again in an endless loop. DCS hit that and got completely stuck on there being an indeterminate number of USB devices attached to the system. I moved the Crosswinds to the front case USB 3.0 slot and it all works fine now. (Sounds of a head gently rapping against a desk...)
  14. And after resetting the computer, it now blinks on and off of a black screen and the desktop while the taskbar icon strobes. Added a dxdiag if that helps? DxDiag.txt
  15. Just did a full up computer rebuild and am reinstalling everything. I installed the 2.7 Open Beta, and it appeared to install correctly, however when I launch the game it gets to 42/43% and stops responding. I've done an install repair, and it still does the same thing. I'm not even sure where to being debugging this. This is a fresh install of Windows 10 64 Bit, and a fresh install of DCS on a mostly empty SSD. I've installed Il-2 on the same SSD earlier, and that worked, so I think the SSD is working. Not sure if it dropped any logs either. I've found the latest auto-update log, but that's pretty bare. Thoughts on where to start? This is boggling. autoupdate_log.txt
  16. At the 1:03:50 he has a chart with the roll rates of a large number of aircraft including the P-47 as a function of speed, but it's an early C model plane. The 60 degree per second at 50 lbs stick force (80 for the P-38) was the 400mph one, but it's a late war D model with unknown loadout. One of the convolutions of the P-47 is its got more travel than you can get access to at 50lbs, so a stronger pilot could, potentially get more toll out of it, but I've also heard there is a wing flex issue that may limit that as well. All in all, not a trivial thing to analyze.
  17. Greg's Airplanes and Autos has one in his video on the P-47 maneuverability: Go to 1:03:50 Addendum: there was also a design change to the ailerons and linkage at some point in the P-47's development and production. I believe the effect was to trade low speed roll rate for better leverage at high speed. Oleg Maddox had posted a copy of the report on the old Il-2 forums in the 2000's but, like an idiot, I didn't keep a copy of the report, or write down what it was called. It did get incorporated into the old Il-2 game, so I'd assume copies of the report have made it into most current P-47 simulations as well. But, it may mean you will get different results from early P-47 models to later ones.
  18. Finding test data on the P-47 is not easy. Fairchild destroyed everything they had on hand because they didn't have funding to declassify any of it, so, as far as I know, the only test report that exists was for a very weird scenario where they were using only 60lbs of stick force. All we are left with then, short of someone contracting one of the few flight worthy planes to do a flight test cycle, are the pilot qualitative accounts and modern simulations. That said, the roll rate is going to be impacted by loadouts. What I've found is that most of the WWII air combat missions seem to have been flown with the 250 rounds per gun loading, rather than the 425 rounds per gun load. That's going to add around 450lbs of additional weight pretty far out in the wings. That's going to hurt your potential roll rate quite a bit. Also, re-reading Johnson's descriptions, he appears to be doing snap rolls, rather than plain rolls. I haven't been flying WWII era in a while so haven't experimented with it much yet. The plane does, readily, enter accelerated stalls, so I can see how a skilled pilot could use that to snap the plane at will. Definitely worth testing.
  19. I'm given to understand there are a number of flying P-47's in operation now. Has anyone checked in with any of their pilots to see how landing is supposed to be handled?
  20. Found it: P-47C Tactical Trials http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/p-47/p-47c-8thaf-tactical.html Paragraph 9d specifically, complains about the flap system asymmetry. Apparently every single P-47C tested in that trial had asymmetrical flap deployment. Unless the hydraulic flap system was redesigned, and given that we see the same issue in the P-47D-30 used in the later NACA tests, it seems likely that it was not fixed, merely lived with.
  21. So that whole thing turns out to be even stupider than that. If you're using a computer with a >650W power supply and a GPU with more capability than a 2080 Ti, it becomes considered a "highly extensible PC" so the restrictions don't apply to it. So what they've managed to ban are low end and mid-range gaming PC's, not the personal space heaters...
  22. Definitely good to see AMD back on its feet again. Between the 40/7000 series war and the Ren 4/Raptor Lake conflict, gaming is going to be impressive.
  23. Congrats. Out of curiosity, how high did you dial up the FSR on yours?
  24. What GPU do you have? I got the VP2, but only have a 1080 Ti to drive it, and it is not enough. If you're doing well with the VP1, but don't have a 30 series or RX 6000 card, you're better off running with the VP1 until you can get a GPU upgrade.
  25. Is it just DCS, or is it other games too? When I was fighting the HAGS issue, I'd noticed that the SS% had no effect on anything. But it started working after I'd turned off HAGS.
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