Njinsa

Every aircraft has it's own history line as each is born in different circumstances and for that reason only there are vast differences how technology is applied at specific aircraft. If DCS were not designed to recreate the authentic 'UI' then it would be called Ace Combat or HAWX, just to name 2 games which share more with arcade than a study level flight simulation game. Most of us would not be here.

Now that's a proper introduction to the Mudhen's HOTAS. Brutal respect !

Desert arena was indeed very forgiving for APG-70 as it provided high contrast environment. On the other hand, at 30nm WSO could get a map of an area sized as 1.3 nm x 1.3 nm (displayed on MPD) with resolution of 17 ft. Maybe enough to identify a aircraft as an object but not enough to discriminate fuel tanks hanged on wings. That could be more probable when map is taken at 20nm or less when resolution increase to 8.5 ft in a box like 0.68nm x 0.68nm.

Tested by users to work and act flawlessly, but not confirmed in same manner by dev team. For us it's less than a minute wasted to add { CLSID = "{5CE2FF2A-645A-4197-B48D-8720AC69394F}" into F-15c.lua Like Oceander mentioned, if their source code is really closed for new features, I say we can kiss goodbye and bark on moon indefinitely.

Well, there were some inside information here on forum indicating that Belsimtek has done some coding in areas like clickable cockpit, but obviously not enough to qualify it for DCS standard or ED decided that Strike Eagle module could yield better sales. Razbam is way off overdue and it will be interesting to see how ED evaluate them for additional candidates (MIG-23 comes on mind, as M2000 and Harrier are still in active support).

While I do share your view of a benefit of getting 9x onto F-15, I have to say that developer point of view and our point of view is not at same track. If something is dead hated in IT development, that's task switching. No matter how miniature the change or effort it represent, it's still something that decision makers get through the change management tree. We can hate them but that's the way they work.

I strongly believe ED can do this corrections but their workload is assigned to other stuff with higher priority or where they see higher sales potential. FC3 is nowhere near this so we're stuck with what we have.

Well, if anything, this discussion could help one to understand why western built planes do have quite a bit higher number of service life hours. With no attempt to get into Red vs Blue, I'll just quote the words of IAF pilot, Zivi Nedivi who managed to land a single wing unit (F-15D #957) and amazed his buddy flying the F-16 at that time: 'Can I transfer to F15s ?' Any similarities to the topic in focus is strictly a coincidence.

Desert storm clash between Eagle and Fulcrum was less favorable to Eagle than same units engaged in operation Allied Force in ex-Yugoslavia and fits better to compare those 2 platforms, IMHO. Serbs were trying to save their military resources from total destruction (partially successful) learning from Desert Storm lessons (fake targets, smart SAM displacement and radar usage) and thus all-out air battle was somehow missed. Iraqi MIG-29 were, in if not perfect, than in mint flying condition, flown with Russian tactics but crewed with experienced pilots from Iraq-Iran war. Of course, they were outnumbered but not in high ratio. Serbs had Fulcrums which missed a deal for already arranged mid-life upgrade program in early 1998, so almost all of units were grounded for a long period of time. Power generators, battery charges, missile ejectors charges, radios, FCR and RWR components are amongst the most severe ones failing from BIT runs before takeoff. Pilots were put off tarmac for months without any training on alternative platform - MIG-21 Fishbed was a lousy resource for that matter, too. Serbian GCI assets were jammed alongside rest of RF spectrum. Tactic they used was obsolete to say at least and generally they failed to develop a game plan for any offensive or contingency. The moment they took off they were doomed to be smoked by Eagles. If something similar could happen in 2020's (hypothetically) I don't expect different scenario even with more modern and capable Fulcrum flying against Eagles, In 20 years, even some C model units received FCR upgrades and more capable weapons with still superior flight hours and adaptive tactics than Fulcrums.

The best spent money in years. I just hope Boeing defense division is separated from civil aerospace division by a nuke blast reinforced concrete.

Problem terminated. My e-mail has been read, something has been fixed so I got it. They ARE fast.

Same problem here. Paid for it and got error in browser. I hope the whole site isn't a hoax....