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I agree about unofficial mods being a potential source of trouble in the game. The type of utility I’m thinking about would be used outside the game on a tablet. I’ve seen similar things in other sims. But yeah the F10 map in DCS could have an “authentic” mode. Many DLC campaigns like the WWII ones usually have an authentic type map on your kneeboard. So this is certainly something mission creators can do.

You can do this by pressing LAlt and clicking on the map. It brings up the coordinate you can then enter into the CDU Have you checked the User Files? My guess is someone has already made a utility like this. If I understand correctly you’re simply looking for a “realistic” map with tools that mimic period navigation. Like if you wanted to conduct a WWII flight using a protractor and ruler etc.

Well it’s a discussion forum. And you publicly posted the topic for everyone to see. So it’s not unreasonable to expect people to voice their opinions. That’s how this works. A helicopter can only travel about 50 miles in 20 min. One of the practical limits to this mission type in actual gameplay is that it would just take a very long time to accomplish. You mentioned a mission time of only 1-2 hours so in all likelihood the session would end before this mission could be completed. A round trip of about an hour would basically make this infeasible unless the pilot was downed in the early part of the mission and close to friendly lines. Longer complex missions like CSAR are better done in SP

It’s not worth developing features that hardly anyone would use. I think it’s already possible to create a downed pilot unit in a mission. And you can already control the downed pilot to a degree. That seems like enough.

Not really you used an off topic snarky teaser to get people to read the thread. Which has nothing to do with a pilot body. They already are handling it. You’ll be able to do what you want using the upcoming global map. I don’t know how you think they’d accommodate your request on a theater sized map of a landlocked country. Then you already know the solution to your dilemma. Don’t buy the Afghanistan map. Solved!

Well there are rules: 1.5 Any and all Off Topic posts will be deleted without notice. Posts should be on topic based on the thread title, and threads should on topic based on the Forum section they are posted in.

Well since Afghanistan doesn’t have a coastline you’ll need to wait for the global map or use an airfield. Or use any of the many other maps in this game (only two lack a body of water). Not sure why this is a problem.

Ok so this was a snarky way to complain and ask for more content? Ok… You know there’s a separate map request wishlist section where you could be more direct. So you’re having a meltdown because they introduce one landlocked map? Ok… Easy there.. let us talk you down from the edge. You know the SC is getting even more animated deck crew right? You will actually be able to fly from the carrier to anywhere with the upcoming Global Map. Now slowly step away from the cliff…

I come to that conclusion watching videos. You rarely ever see this enabled. It’s a funny feature for a flight sim since it blocks some of the controls and you actually can’t see it unless you deliberately look down. In a racing sim you see the hands working the wheel and controls so it makes sense there. Plus it’s usually better done. Here it looks like a muppet or rag doll without a head. So it’s not hard to imagine this feature being unused by most people.

Seriously? This matters? You fly around looking at your sleeves? Most people have the pilot body turned off anyways.

As far as I can tell, the A-10C is only 4th gen module with an Emergency Procedure section in its manual. So you’d need that (or the systems modeling?) completed for the DCS aircraft before worrying about doing tailhook emergency landings.

Of course. DCS has a random failures setting you can enable now. If they're done realistically they’d be extremely rare though. At the rate most people play games they’d likely never experience one. I had a bird strike and engine failure on takeoff in the A-10C. It was awesome! I got to pull the fire extinguisher and abort the takeoff. But that’s once in 12 years of playing the game. Again, exceedingly rare. Cool. But rare.

A Saber. Sure. Again you probably aren’t getting hit by missiles. WWII aircraft you get to land damaged all the time. Really that’s the best fun you can have in a flight sim. But getting to do that in 4th gen jets is exceedingly rare. Plus you have an ejection seat so odds are you’d just eject vs trying to land with damage. I would guess the hook is for system failures like hydraulics when you have no flaps or brakes. It’s also used for rejected takeoffs. I’m not really against the feature since again I’m all up for emergency landings. But I can see why this would be a low priority. Oh yeah. I did the Maple Flag A-10 course which takes you through all that. It’s great. The Hog is definitely a plane you can get the chance to bring home all full of holes.

It’s a nice touch of authenticity but hey maintenance guys, can you fix this?

I’m not sure if this is what you're asking for, but the centered “normal” zoom value can be set by pressing RAlt+Num0. This command “save cockpit view angles” will save head position and zoom level per aircraft as a default.

Sorta off topic but… I’m not necessarily saying this is incorrect, a modern jet fighter is by design not too survivable. It’s a fuel tank wrapped around a jet engine. Plus you’re usually getting hit in the game by a missile warhead. The state of the systems modeling certainly varies by module and their state of completion. But the bottom line is landing a damaged jet is something that will very rarely happen in DCS. I understand though that’s not the only use case for this system.

Cool. The video said “emergency” landing. I figured that was the use case for these. I guess the “emergency” is a short runway

I can’t quite see how you’d ever get the chance to use this in DCS. Unless you had random system failures enabled and just happened to have one that required this. The nature of combat damage in the sim is that you’re just completely destroyed nearly all the time. You wouldn’t get the chance to bring in a damaged jet. Unless it’s an A-10 which doesn’t have a hook. That’s the only DCS jet which I think combines survivability with a really accurate damage model. I really dig crash landings though so I’m all for it the Hog is the only modern plane I’ve done that in here and it was awesome!

Ok I can try that. The crash only happened that once and hasn’t repeated. I don’t experience that very often at all. Thanks

Was that response intended for me? I don’t understand what any of that means.

report and system info attached https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a4ky43s5kl4lbzy11agzx/dcs.log-20240324-223730.zip?rlkey=cbq1s4fuuwvmlsrtvfk4nzykl&dl=0 DxDiag.txt

Another error on the same server, in this case it awarded a kill which did not occur. The game scoreboard showed a kill for me against Sting 1-1 who was actually downed by a SAM. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y61o8cmd2zjdmf6iidkt0/Tacview-20240324-140448-DCS-BLUE-FLAG.80s.miz-dynamic.zip.zip?rlkey=olgd1bc7zqov4gly8aedcscfv&dl=0

I have read that the DCS frame limiter can cause problems. You could try disabling it by raising it to the max value. In any case you don’t need both limiters enabled. The NCP one is enough.

That will never happen. There have always been continual improvements, it’s not necessary or possible to just redo everything from scratch. DCS runs fine for the vast majority of players. There’s nothing to worry about when upgrading hardware in this regard.

It keeps the room cooleronce long ago I had two SLI cards blowing 180d air out of my case.