DaveRindner

In 1.5.8 (latest) if mission contains more then one LHA (Tarawa) ships. DCS crahes when LHA's are in POV .

No I respectfully disagree/ NWS implementation is poor. It is not a bug, as software does not crash, but the implementation is very bad. Landing with rudder deflection, and having to keep that deflection to keep aircraft rolling down the runway, makes it impossible to prevent a shimy and slide, when speed drops low enough for rudder to start loosing efffectiveness, and activating NWS. As soon as NWS is activated (say at 60 knots) there is sudden jerk to the side that is impossible to compensate for, without aircraft sliding. The culprit is NWS gain, the tinniest deflection (and I mean tinyest) causes overly large NWS steering . My rudder curve is set to 25. But NWS bad behavior remains regardless of rudder curve. Belsimtek, needs to take it back into the shop and give it another look. It is really that bad. A-10C, F-15C have excellent and correct NWS behavior.

A more modern Falklands would be more interesting. Air units for both UK and AR have hardly changed. AR still flies Etendards and A-4R. A-4R is a cool version of A-4, that I would love to have as a module. Basically LM took avionics from F-16C Block 50 (minus APG) and stuffed them into A-4. So cockpit has F-16 HOTAS and color displays. Export version of ALQ-164 . UK , of course, has retired its Harrier force. But that was a cost cutting measure. The airframes are still good, and could be reactivated if called upon. Falklands themselves are small. The whole theater is smaller then Crimea from old school pre- DCS LockON. A modern SAM system covers entirety of islands. Now if neo-Falklands somehow includes mainlands Argentina with Tierra Del Fuego, thats much more interesting.

After two months of F-5E ownership and flying every day, I firmly beleive that BELSIMTEK has made F-5E NWS wayl to high resulting in nearly impossible to control aircraft at high ground speed during TO and landing. Even the smallest rudder deflection , with NWS enabled, causes very high abrupt nose movement. Rudder control itself is fine , but NWS is just wonky. The other problem is activating NWS with rudder deflection causes an immidiate jerk to the deflected side. Overall, NWS, works badly in F-5E as it is currently developed.

It is caused by new stick options (under Special) for F-5E. When set to Displaced Neutral, and HOTAS does not have FFB, it causes abnormal stick pitch deflection during flight. Linear and Nonlinear work fine.

Since 1.5.8 The pitch control axis has gone screwy. It maps normal in options, but is heavily biased to +pitch during flight, that requires full deflection forward and pitch trim cannot compensate.

In 1.5.8 placing a UH-1H, KA-50 (and maybe AV-8B) on Tarrawa deck in mission editor, causes the unit to be placed in air adjacent to Tarawa deck. Causing unit to fall into water at mission start. Probably a bug related to DCS thibnking that Tarrawa is either Nimitz or Kuz, as both have larger decks then Tarawa.

Tried them all. Seems like same thing happens with AV-8BNA.

If mission starts with cold ramp start on Tarawa deck, the UH-1 is placed in air adjacent to LHA, thus falls into water when mission starts. Could be a 1.5.8 Tarawa specific issue.

A-4R, Pucara A-4R Fighting Hawk , Pucara, any Royal Navy CATOBAR fixed wing carrier borne of last generation, Puma or Augusta-Bell 412, SEPECAT Jaguar. Any military Pilatus STOL, add on avionics, sensors, or weapons to existing modules.

OK Thank you all. Kind of iffy, as F-5E lacks radarAlt. So when landing in IMC with low vis, pilot has to remember field elevation (ASL) and highest obstacle elevation on descend glide slope. Does not sound all that safe, for RL anyway. QFE is nice becouse, lacking radrAlt, you have a quick glance alitude AGL. I am cureious if real life F-5E's have radar altimeters for low level flight safety.

I am finding that I am unable to 'zero' the altimeter in some fields in Georgia (1.5.7) and NTTR 2.1.1 , as knob can only be turned so much. Usually what I do is to zero it to 1000 ASL, and that is my hard floor (sitting on a tarmac) with engines turning. Am I doing something wrong. I have no problem with altimeter setting in other modules (A-10C, UH-1H, Mig-21bis.). Thank you

Oh man, I fully expect, once I get the module installed, to be a continuous crash parade. With F-5, aside from pesky landing spinouts, I was flying it the first day. AV-8B transitional flight is going to be crash, smash, and eject before getting it right on 127th try. If I am fortunate.

Makes sence. It is a low level close air support, attack aircraft. So its performance is optimized for carrying usefull AG loads at low altitudes, avoiding enemy aircraft and air defense.

In 2.1.1 with Deffered Shading and 'normal gamma', I can't see grouind targets for krap. Even large static, like a FARP, which stands out during daytime, is lost when seen from cockpit , and darkened sight glass makes things worse. A challenge for IMC AG work. Aside from ramping gamma (a cheat) , does anyone have tricks?

I was amazed at how detailed this retired Marine Officer described Harrier operations. Enjoy

Like the others are saying. Use pod , in point mode, to define SPI(Sensor point of interest). That provides coordinates that the JDAM will guide itself to. Place HUD in CCRP mode, and fly to release point. When HUD shows MAN REL, release the weapon(s). The weapons are self guided, but cannot be adjusted inflight. So no moving targets.

When flying with AI, there needs to be a 'fuel state' or just 'state' message, so player can know fuel amount in flight. Using own state to guess wingmen's fuel, is not reliable.

Some special options cannot be in the as they are classified. NATO special weapons station release and PAL, probably won't be there. For obvious reasons. Any ARC secure encrypted radio communications. USMC Harriers and LHA's have Harrier special OLS director lights that guide aviator for precision vertical landing. I hope that is modeled. Harrier in-flight refueling is probe and drogue. Hopefully that will be in the sim.

ECM pods, developed for F-5E/F , would be nice. Jinking and banking while dumping chaff against OSA (SA-8) is fun. DCS SAM got some decent bite. Even Gen 1 systems (SA-8, and SA-6) are tough. Facing ,SA-11 or S-300 without terrain mask, and no ECM pod is virtual suicide. Buk and Tor are murder at low altitude. If there is no terrain mask, and you have to fly through or into their WEZ, you are buggered!

Depr of 15 is great for attack profile of 20-30 dive angle, 400 KIAS, with firing (guns, and rockets) at 1.5 km slant range. Ok, I want to attack with shallow 1-5 angle for strafe and rocket. So is there a DEPR setting chart? If some knows some magic settings, I am open.

After 70 years B-17 may be back on duty. Well not the Flying Fort. that pulverized Germany, but the designation. So Navy and Air Force are looking to using transport aircraft to launch masses of decoys, mini drones, and tactical munitions like cruise missiles. C-130, C-5M, and C-17. Which would turn those platforms into attack bombers. Turning C-17 into B-17.

I am not certain crossfeed functions. I find that left cell empties first, and left engine shuts down. Balancing or turning on Crossfeed, does not appear to transfer fuel. Perhaps I am doing something wrong.

OK so somehow my cockpit view in SU-33 got messed up. Will not properly reset or recenter. How do I reset to factory default for SU-33 only?

I like the model of Chinese PLAN 052B DDG. However I am unable to add it as a naval unit, even as Chinese unit. China is set as Red Coalition member. Is this WIP? Seems like it.