DaveRindner

Within context of DCS. A-10C is easy to fly, and easy to land.A little more practice is required for instrument ILS approach and landing. I find inFlight refueling is quite difficult, I have hard time stabilizing the aircraft with respect to refueling boom. The most technically demanding task is managing targeting pod and CDU, with weapons employment. But it is learnable.

Appears that scraping burner cans of SU-33 explodes the aircraft.

I am almost embarrassed to ask. What is the status of Kuznetzov's OLS fresnel lens?

MH-53E SeaStallion. Please O'Lord it be HFiveThree

IS the damage model in DCS 1.5.6 FC3 so sensitive that scraping burner cans on touchdown would completely destroy air craft, as in CFIT?

Gaudata, Nalchik, Mozdok, and Suchumi. I think its on all of them.

MIG-29A is affected likewise. Two issues I tested with and both have not been explanatory. 1. Gross weight on touchdown. I thought that having too much fuel on landing was issue. So I tried landing with fuel between 500 and 1000. Basically between critical and low fuel state, and no weapons. No good. Even VV of 1-2ms causes explosion right after the wheel touchdown squeak is heard. 2. Sideslip on touchdown. Even straight down centerline of runway causes explosion. Looks like excessively strict limits on Mig-29 landing have crept in. I have no problems on take off.

Hapilly SU-27 flies and lands just fine. The blown tires issue , IMHO, is a realistic effect. Do not exceed takeoff speed of 290 kph for more then two seconds. Do not exceed max braking for more then two seconds. On departure rotate around 240-250 kph. Do not exceed 3 meters/s VV on touchdown, and do not exceed 290 kph on touchdown. 270 kph touchdown works great with 2 m/s VV.

MIG-29S keeps exploding upon touchdown, regardless of VV. Started in 1.5.6 that just got patched.

Has anyone got to use new version of X56 Rhino (blue model) with DCS? If so how is it? I have older black version , and its not so great. Older models Zaxis(rudder) has sticktion and inaccuracy that no amount of silicon grease can solve.

Whats this A-4K from Viper Never heard of them.

I have MIG-21 BiS. So I am expecting same flight fidelity from Viggrn. In the mean time , when will Viggen be in DCS 1.5.5 as non-flyable aircraft, and how close would the ai controlled capabilities be to the flyable model? F-5, Viggen, Mig-21Bis, UH-1H, MI-8, Mirage 5-2000C, F/A-18C, A-10C (without pod and GPS embedded INS , is an A model). All thse are high fidelity flight models and systems modeling. Its like we are simming in late 1980's - late 1990's End Cold War/Post Cold War period prior to GWOT. I like it, those were good times for me, being GenXer. Now we need F-16C Block 50, and MIG-29SMT( fully simmed and sytemed MIG-29C), and fully simmed and systemed SU-27BM, AH-1W(USMC and US Army National Guard), and we got ourselves a decent set of period systems. Really would like to see Baltic campaign set in 1993 - 1995 context. Don't know if anyone cares, but I would love following modules. A-4M, Sepecat Jaguar, Tornado GR-4(UK and German Kriegsmarine), and AV-8B sim!!!!. Especcially Harrier!

Thank you. Solved. But DCS is not so great when panels are of different size. DCS needs panel editor built in so 2nd panel can be used for LCD and instrument display.

I have two panels Panel #1 is 1920X1080 Panel #2 is 2540X1440 set as primary monitor. I experimentally changed resolution to 4480 X 1080 Now the top of screen is gone and I cannot change the screen rez back becouse I cannot see the little gear icon. Which of the LUA files controles screen rez?

A-4EVER

None of the above. The project should be A-4 Skyhawk A-4, A-4 A-4EVER!

Vray , Arnold, Octane. Which renderer was used?

No nighttime work. Everything is done in bright sunny day.

Hi fidelity MIG-29M2 or K with PFM and ASM would be most welcome. At least by me. Along with F-16C/D Block50/52.

It was not used in combat by USAF. It was used by US NATO, Asian, and non-aligned nations. Thailand used it in its Air Force, Singapore, Phillipines. Matter of fact many F-5's that appear in 1970's and 1980's Vietnam movies, like Apocalypse Now, were Philippine Air Force, and Royal Thai AF. USAF and Navy , obviously used it as an aggressor DACT aircraft, becouse it could mimic MIG-21. Indonesia may have used it combat during their hostile takeover of East Timor. Swiss used for a long time. As did Malaysia which replaced it with SU-30. In early late 1970's and early '80's US offered it to then ally Pakistan, but Paks insisted on F-16A/B. I heard a rumor even Russians used it, they reverse-engineered captured F-5 from S. Vietnam , and designated it MIG-28. They used it to drive off American F-14A's. That tidbit came last April 1.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPTyB3DXhJ8[/ame] Couple of clips are really impressive. F-111 in spin departure. The crew pop the drag chute, which stabilized the aircraft in nose down attitude. Then eject cleanly from the aircraft. That is two ballsy aviators. The Ukranian SU-30MK. Spin departure, and recovery a little to late with stall, and grazed the ground just enough to destroy the engines, but enough energy to get altitude in nose up attitude, followed by clean ejection. Mig-29 airshow ingesting a large bird. I think the pilot was Anatoly Kvarchure, and this was in 1989 Air Tattoo, or 1990 Ramstein air show. Big shouout to the ejection seat designers. The guy left the cockpit few hundred feet above ground, and his had time to pop and inflate. The US Navy cold cat shots. You feel for the aviators, being failed by technology tottally out of their controll.

Isn't that for release chute (after deployment)switch cover. I do not see shortcut for deployment button cover.

I am unable to deploy the drag chute. System ignores the shortcut key.

Really really accurate PFM for any currently fielded fighter attack thats not classie I would love a module for any currently fielded 4th gen or 4.5th gen fighter/attack with very accurately reproduced flight model, avionics, sensors, and weapons. That are not classified, so that developers do not have to make guesses or rely on unauthenticated data. Pretty much all Western, Russian, and Chinese air systems are out. Their systems are classified. Perhaps AMX A-1 of Brazilian Air Force. Or export F-16E with export radar and avionics, but that platform is probably loaded with US classified sensor and communication gear.

Human body cannot handle anything over 11. FOR ANY AMOUNT OF TIME that is not of instantaneous duration. Few, vew few, pilots in prime physical condition may handle 9 perhaps 9.5 instantaneous, then GLOC. Fighter pilots are trained for sustained 7-7.5G ACM fight, 6-7G for SAM/AA missile evasion. At 14G pilot will die. He will have either a catastrophic aneurysm in brain, stroke, or catastrophic myocardial infarction (heart attack). The aircraft itself will suffer an airframe failure. Either in the wingbox (strongest part of airframe) or langeron (a box of airframe bulkheads connection cockpit/nose part to wingbox. Engines will probably keep working due to fuel gravity feed and feed tank pressure. Not sure about fuel pumps. Electronics are hardened to resist damage up to instaneous 100G (to survive shock of detonation and kinetic energy absorbtion, of enemy munitions). I am fairly certain that should F-15C or any F-15, enter a 12G condition, and return safely, will probably need an airframe rebuild , or be grounded permantly. Hi G and OverG conditions are highly regulated in nearly all Air Forces. G meter can only be reset by maintenance. Crews are trained in authorized G limits during training and have loosened restrictions during combat and emergencies. To overG is below seriousness of violating Rules OF Engagement, but is still very serious issue. Crews have been grounded and lost flight status. From Government's point of view, over-stressing the airframe is equivalent to damaging government property, and decreasing readiness , as a combat asset is decertified. A crew needs to have adequate explanation. Squadron commanders are held responcible (to a point) for performance of their subordinates. So an overG, if a Class A mishap (damage over one million US dollars), expect the crew and squadron CO, to stand before Wing CO, normally O-6 colonel or BG. Careers are not guaranteed to survive. Thats why Air Forces are looking at unmanned combat system, or tele-manned. Aerospace industry can build a combat aircraft for sustained 9-10G combat performance or more. But not with a human inside. Man is not built for this. One of the highest scoring aces in RAF, in WWII, lost his legs but continued to fly. He could outfight the enemy, at nearly 6G, as he had no legs for blood to pool into.