Blizz003

omg anything BUT the f16... please... how bout the F35? then the canadian skins dont have to be fictional!

Less complicated avionics than an a10c? So like a Saber or mig-15?

Wrong? Only thing wrong is game mode... , I'm not trying to hate on this sim. I'll be playing it at least until the next dcs game (erg sim!) Comes out... Before black sharki don't even remember the last real combat flight sim... Falcon I guess? Last thing I mastered was janesF18... I want mfcds and the hotas a10 joystick...

Thanks! I think I follow... I'll give it a try this eve... With the MAVs anyway... Still trying to figure out the bombs...

Thanks! That was an insanely fast reply! I figured it was as simple as such. Does this jet not have a traditional radar? Do I really have to slew to each new target? and how would one lock multiple targets to explode with say mavericks at the same time?

HAWX wasn't bad.... But comparing it to A10 is like comparing GTA to something like ARMA2. Not really in the same category... I'm glad the real pilot got what I've been trying to express... Though I do have a sim avionics question... When the JTAC directs me to a target do they also send a SPI? Generally I'm having trouble spotting my targets.... Ill orbit the target area for a half hour searching around the target waypoint with my TGP till I finally find something but its a tank when I want arty..... Or something along those lines... So yeah, is there a way to receive target data from other sources? How? I wanna help out those jtac fellows but I can't find their targets...

just got through the guns and rockets training... perhaps sim avionics is not as difficult as previously assumed? i know how dumb bombs work so the next mission shouldnt be too hard... but its the GBUs and MAVs that make this plane as kickass as it is so we'll see how those go... and I hate to say I was wrong, but it seems the way they (ED) have game avionics set up doesn't quite work properly so i guess i'm gonna learn to fly an actual hog. i wonder what the correlation is between competence in this game (ed. SIM, sorry lol) and exam marks..?

sounds simple like that... once my exams are over ill give it a try, but the 700 page manual seems a bit too much like my chemistry text book to read right now...

lol... no one gets it. If I had a replica cockpit i'd spend the day or two it would take to learn every little switch. I have a thirty button joystick. That's over a hundred buttons short isn't it? I'm not interested in pressing LCtrl + RShift + End + W + F3 and having that be somehow representative of flipping a switch in a cockpit whos true function I may not even know or notice. Theres nothing immersive about pressing a whole bunch of keyboard commands. Maybe with the TM HOTAS A10 and some MFDs but thats out of my budget for a while...

sigh... if you're in highschool than that means I've been playing flightsims since before you were born... I know how to fly. This isn't about game Flight mode. (i dont even wanna know how that is) this is about GAME AVIONICS MODE. Pick a target, shoot, move on. My joystick only has so many buttons....

yeah exactly. I spent probably years learning how to shoot a maverick from an F-16 (falcon4) then again with the F-18 (Jane's) and though I imagine the process would be similar, that was like a decade ago. I don't wanna have to wait till next september to effectively play the campaign. Even in gameAV mode there is a ridiculous amount of commands, most of which I don't have a clue about. Oh and it appears that the AG gun sight is totally absent. I hope the new patch fixes some of these gameAV issues... (and I meant five hours per system)

Okay, okay, I get it. I should be playing with sim avionics i know, i know, oh oh oh.. Please allow me to explain myself (and all the others who seem to be playing with game avionics and sim flight and get shot down the moment they mention 'game' anything...) Now, I've been playing flight games of all types since computers had joysticks. Heck I even flew a glider once IRL for like 2 minutes. The more realistic the flight models are, the better. (though I do loath the way single engine WWII planes pull to the left) I play with a Saitek X52 on a decent computer and I know I had a point when I began this but I appear to have lost my train of thought... Ah yes. GAME AVIONICS. I don't have five hours to spend learning every damn weapon system on this aircraft. I want one button push to select a new weapon and when that weapon is selected I want the appropriate radar modes and whatever else selected automatically. (why isn't this implemented in the real a10c? If i have sidewinders selected why the f*** would I want my radar in AG mode?) One button weapon selection. (or two so you can scroll both ways) One button target acquisition. (I use the throttle hat for next/previous air/ground) But do you get my point? I don't care how a maverick works. I'm not going to join the Canadian Armed Forces and even if I was, we only have F-18s from the 1970s and maybe some F-35s coming up. Point is, no A-10s. I'm in college, I have to spend my time learning about valence electrons and vapor liquid equilibrium. I simply don't have the hours to dedicate to learning every damn system on this aircraft. For all the other folks out there that appreciate (dare i say best ever?) an exceedingly realistic flight model where you can start the engine with one button press, I've been looking for a keyboard command list or a X52 profile for game avionics mode and they don't seem to exist so I've been working on them and will post when done. Now, my biggest gripe(s) with game avionics is(are) the apparent 360* HUD that shows enemies and allies with a diamond/triangle/box around them. I want the option to turn this off. really kills immersion and ruins my screenshots... and the fact that you can't do training missions (and apparently some custom missions? (it seems)) with game avionics since it forces the sim avionics on you. Just because i'm playing gameAV doesn't mean I don't need a couple flybys before I figure out how to work a certain bomb. (GBUs!!) maybe i'll try to make some training missions for gameAV mode... Weird how I don't complain about the terrible games I play, but the best flight sim since terabyte harddrives comes along and I'm full of complaints... Maybe when I win the lottery I'll by that 400$ thrustmaster a10 joystick/throttle and some MFD displays and trackIR and then learn sim avionics, but until then, I really don't care. I just wanna blow some s*** up in the name of capitalism. ed. Game Avionics Keyboard Commands most of the view commands are absent and some of the keyboard shortcuts may not be default, but its a start...