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New graphics engine without NTTR and possibly some of the other changes. Sounxs like maybe we'll know better after tomorrows stream.

Since you are doing this as freeware have you put up a donation page? If so can you share the link? If not, would you consider it. I'd be happy to throw money at you for this!

Can't wait for C or ZA and purchased. DCS:W 1.5, P-40F, L-39C, and I should get my Croswinds around Sept too. It's starting to look like a whole lotta early Christmas. :D

Voted EE. I suspect we'd see something faster if you concentrate on one aircraft and I'd prefer a more capable multi-role aircraft over others. More variety is always good, but we're already seeing a C-101EB and waiting now for the more capable CC, soon it will be the same with getitng the L-39C and waiting on the more capable ZA, etc. If you really want to provide more than one I'd say throw us the EE and work on the CE later, as I figure if you decide to do both it's going to almost certainly be CE then EE. I've already bought the C-101 and L-39 and fly them once in awhile, but the CC and ZA variants will be very welcome whenever they show up. As for two-seaters the thought is nice, and I like that multiple humans will be able to fly one aircraft, but I wonder how practical that's all going to be in the end. It will be great when it works, but I doubt there will be many pairs of people that can work together that cooperatively. Anyway, my thoughts. Doesn't mean they amount to a hill of beans.

Nice! I had a good feeling. It's not all of it, but a nice part. Very Excited. :)

There is something to be said for small routine and frequent updates. I do update my system pretty much as they come and no problem. People sitting on Windows 7 (and older) screaming 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' are likely to hit at once every little rocky bump on the way to updating from there to whatever they finally go to. You're probably also as likely to perceive problems in jumping 3 versions of Windows as to actually experience them. I laugh at people who do this on fast moving bleeding edge Linux distros just as well. You're four releases behind and finally updating? I can't possibly imagine why that's causing problems. It's far easier to say, "I just did 3 updates and something went wrong so let's see what it was.", than "I just installed 300 updates and jumped three versions of Winodws..."

They're making good progress. Every time he opens a new screen whether Multi-Player server selection, multi-player aircraft selection, Encyclopedia, Mission Editor, etc. I see things I love. I think in my head the next reasonable date to hope for is sometime in September. The P-40F is coming, supposedly in September, http://veaosimulations.co.uk/product/p-40f/ To that end we'll either need a 'small' update or 2.0, I would think, in order to add the model for non-purchasers, etc. Either way though, if you watch the streams they're looking very good, aside from the occasional crashes, which even in the last few streams have been cut way back. And as it's in heavy development I don't even think that's unexpected. With a couple more months time I wouldn't be surprised if they can fix most the rest. And whether that means a release or just watching Wags for an hour of play without hitting a crash it'd be a good sign of progress, so either way, all good. Anyway, I don't think the breath holding comments are much warranted anymore. There is no doubt there is something nearly working at this point.

Thanks for the summary mwd2 and mtbikergt78. I like the sounds of the bugs fixes and issued getting is to alpha and better OR support! Watched the twitch streamearlier and keep seeing freat things. Cant wait to throw some money at them and try it whether rough around the edges or not.

Mirage doesnt count?

Tacview, if the server permits exported data (or in single player) is a great aid in figuring out what happened if youre willing to pay for it.

I just ordered mine today. I had to dig, but yes, once they're ready to ship (or a few days before) they'll send you an invoice at which time you pay. I'm a little discouraged to hear you say it's been two weeks waiting, but what can you do. I kinda expected there was going to be a wait and since I was almost wanting to pay up I started the waiting game today. Page 8: http://mfg.simundza.com/Downloads/MFG%20Newsletter%20March%202015%20general.pdf He also gives some input on whether to use your bank or paypal for currency conversion.

I agree. I'll probably update some of the Russian aircraft , particularly the MiG-29's and Su-27, and definitely the choppers. I don't know why, but when setting up the mission the choppers were racing, and I was just too darn close to slow them down in a smooth manner. I also don't trim much, a fault in my flying style (used to be not at all for entire missions if you can believe it), but I am learning to do this more often. I get what people are saying about tracks going bad after updates, but I practice landings with various aircraft a lot. I think landing is a tough thing for a lot of people to do, whether with, one, some, or all aircraft, and I like to be able to get aircraft down on the ground, so redoing them isn't a total nightmare for me or anything. I'll consider doing them as videos instead though.

Corbett1403, the tracks are in game trk files. Good idea and suggestion on grabbing a checklist app or something for each aircraft though. That would be a great list if I could find one for each aircraft.

Right, ok. I didnt say I was teaching everyone how to land every aircraft in every westher condition with every loadout. Empty aircraft on a simple visual approach. Maybe go read a manual if you want advanced topics. If on the other hand you are having trouble getting a MiG-21 or Fw.109 on the ground maybe take a look at a track for a demonstration. It's already 20+ tracks. Every permutation under the sun would be about 20,000. I love people like you who come at any decent act by anyone in this community with silly comments. Not for you, ok then. Walk away.

What do you think the bottleneck is? I am running 4k (8.3MP) with two 970's and I can see upwards of 122 frames and down into the 20's depending on what's going on. But that can be attributed both to graphics (bringing up the mav cam, tgp, and mirrors in the A-10C is good for a graphics hit) where I see scenery processing go through the roof, and CPU (throw a ton of SAMS all over the map and I can see micro stutter madness as my CPU tops out) maxing out. It seems odd that you think both are underutilized and yet your performance is still bad. Something bottlenecked.

I'm not sure if anyone has done anything like this, but hopefully it can help some people if not. I know there are often questions about how do I land X, Y, or Z aircraft. Youtube videos are good and all, but often people want to see where is the throttle set, what are the flaps set too, are the air brakes extended, what did gauge X say, etc. So I've gone and created a short track for each aircraft that demonstrates getting it down on the ground in one piece. I hardly claim that each of these landings is perfect as there are occasional small bounces, lofting down the runway a bit too long after flaring, etc. What is common about them all though is that the aircraft was not damaged while landing, so it should be a decent starting point for people to look around and watch, or even take control and duplicate, and improve upon what is being done to get the thing on the ground. Honestly I mostly just try to watch speed, approach, and the VVI/VSI to set the aircraft down as gentle as possible without forcing it. Controls used were: Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, TIR 5, Saitek combat pro pedals. I do not have curves set for any aircraft. If any of these look blatantly bad to someone I'm open to constructive criticism on how to improve them. :) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vm64JM4bFZVDVEZDRoWmdTVDA/view?usp=sharing

Asus PB287Q 28" 3840x2160

The stream was very impressive. Obviously there are stability issues that need tending to, but if those can be fixed so that theyre rare I'd love to see an Alpha/Open Beta released as is. Same with NTTR after that. If it can get to where it's mostly stable release it in Alpha and take our money. I appreciate that you want new explosion effects and other improvements, but if we can have race courses over vegas and the colorado river, the single executable, improved performance and effects as they are, even if at first only over the existing map it would be a great first step. Overall, aside from stability it looked to be at least alpha quality if not beyond. Even the stability is what I'd expect stepping into an Alpha. Alpha == there be dragons. Anyway, nothing but positive things to say coming away from the stream.

Stormovik was among the first

The GAR-8 a.k.a. AIM-9B was a notoriously bad missile. It was prone to outright failure, being fooled by the sun, ground reflections and so forth. I think I was telling people you'd have to fly around 5 missions to hope for one hit when firing both missiles each mission if it were realistic. Google is your friend. That said, it can be done. I don't have much luck with them but my buddy smoked a MiG-15Bis first shot the first time we went up. And I have managed hit rarely as well.

a quick lunchtime look at tacview says I went from 14.5G's to -5.2G's in a split second, followed by a maintained -1G (not 1G as I previously thought). so ya, I think that blackout is legit.

As far as I could tell there was no significant spin. I can reproduce it later and look in tac view. I dont know how many G's initiated the black out, but knocking off ASC in super sonic flight probably isn't the smartest thing to do...

Well, we were doing OK after even just a short time. We figured out how not to get into those inverted departures and just don't push the nose down like that. However, neither one of us is experienced with the aircraft and we started messing around trying to do Cobra's and what not. At our skill level with the aircraft it's not surprising we ended up splattered. My only confusion was how at 1G we were still blacked out, but if we flat knocked ourselves out doing extremely hard maneuvers I guess it is what it is.

Is the unrecoverable blackout in the Su-27 somehow realistic? My friend and I were messing around trying to see where some of the limits with this thing are and one thing we noticed is that if you go into an inverted departure you black out and don't recover. You just fall to the ground and die. The part that seems off is that you're doing 1, maybe 1.1 G lofting out of the sky, at least according to the external view, and you never recover from the blackout. You can't control anything and you eventually hit the ground without a hope. If you're dead because you scrambled your brain shouldn't it go to external view like any other aircraft? If you blacked out, shouldn't you recover after some time at 1G?

I've broken both hinges on my pro clip; I just super glued the second one yesterday. It's now one solid piece basically. I've been fortunate not to have to screw with the wires, but really it is a total piece of junk. One day the actual clip will probably break and I'll have to do something else to Frankenstein it. But given that I'm convinced a second purchase will result in a second broken pro clip I will not be buying one unless there is absolutely nothing left to salvage.