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Its more like the shorter slant range required to effectively engage armour causes you to have to be closer when you pull your SEM so you're now within the engagement envelope of the super duper CIWS commander's gun.

Its a testament to how things are that I'm more afraid of the commander's gun on a T-72 than I am of a Shilka.

You should pretty much have the TAD page up 24/7. Its the only MFCD page I never don't have up because its the biggest multiplier of your SA you can get. It blends moving map GPS location, target sharing via SPI, flight plan waypoints and mark points and all the other goodies. DSMS is just useless 90% of the time except to check for your remaining stores. You should use the HUD as SOI to cycle your active weapon profiles and switch the Master Mode as appropriate. There's a reason that you have Coolie Hat Down Long as a DSMS page quicklook - this strongly implies that the HOTAS system was designed to not have the DSMS page on the MFCD except very briefly at any point past the preflight stage. As for RWR its an SA instrument only linked to the countermeasures system. It has no link in sim to any other systems.

In real life runway numbers are almost never the same as the runway heading, even if its off by just a degree. The problem is that because of these errors in DCS you end up with runways being almost 10 degrees off so its counter intuitive to the standard runway naming conventions. For instance as an A-10 pilot at Vaziani its Runway 14 and 32 but the runway magnetic headings are actually about 131/311 respectively. In real life they'd be renamed to runways 13 and 31 but we just have to make due. In any event there'd never be an ILS approach in real life without an approach plate anyway. However the ones that come in the DCS Doc folder are... weird. They look like some weird like combination GPS and visual with ILS but without most of the standard ILS plate info, like there's no localizer final heading or any coherent descent profile or minimums. As someone who flies VATSIM in FSX regularly they are totally alien to me.

Whats the point of a stealth ground attack aircraft if its going to have all that unstealthy ordnance hanging off of it?

Its all rather inconsistent since you use the same eye ball to aim a ZSU as a Manpad, only the Manpad gives you positive lock feedback. I think the issue is that much of the dumbing down for night is to do with visual range, but once they do sight you they can see and track and engage you far more effectively than any real life counter part in a perfect daytime condition, nevermind night time. It takes a serious amount of script work to get some units to behave even halfway realistically, and the more scripts you add the more issues a server can have, so... its a bottomless problem, sadly.

I got shot full of bullets from the turret guns of about 6 tanks last night, in the dead of night, while pulling 4 Gs, at 325 knots. They hit me centre mass. They hit me alot. I wasn't aware that they were installing CIWS systems onto T-72s these days.

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Perhaps some therapy could aide you in developing a stronger resistance to the typical stresses you experience. I don't think that its necessarily the same thing being social with people making small chat and being totally professional and taking charge of a situation. Anyone who's spent anytime in any social or work settings can tell that there are always louder extroverts but that not all leaders are limited to that template. I know its not as easy to overcome anxieties as extreme as yours by simply 'making friends' but certainly there's some measure of personal development that could be done to adapt on some level. Considering the degree to which extensive psychotherapy can help persons afflicted with things even as extreme as Borderline Personality Disorder, I would find it unlikely to think that someone with introversion issues couldn't make some progress. Frankly I think just about anybody out there could be helped by a little therapy. When people go looking for life coaches or just need to sit down with their loved ones to talk things through, thats basically therapy. Issues more extreme, such as extreme anxieties, just need more focused and studied support. Considering the passion and the financial commitment already made it could be worth exploring. The only real limiting factor long term I could see with an aversion to being social, provided you can find a way to adapt to a degree necessary to get into the business, is that unfortunately merit doesn't always play into career advancement. Often charisma and social connections aide in getting ahead, so that could be its own limiting factor in longterm career success, but that runs the gamut generally in all careers so it might not be terribly relevant. Even mostly introverted fields like computer related work tend to get dominated by the extroverts, if anything more I'd think.

There's a reason virtual wings tend to make their own charts for DCS.

This is always one of the weakest aspects of DCS. I'd love a civilian aircraft project for DCS just so that someone would have to revise these parts of the game.

Thats what I meant, the CDI link to the Command Steering bars. As a matter of procedure you always enter the course though. Aviation is generally a system of overcaution to make up for confusion during task saturation or the complacency of consistent success. I still wouldn't want to fly an ILS with the course wrong in zero visibility til minimums. I don't think most people's brains would do well under those conditions.

Command Steering bars should steer you onto a maximum 30 degree bank to intercept the radial dialed into the CDI Course Knob from the nav source that you've activated on the Navigation Mode Select Panel. The only thing the vertical bar is supposed to do is guide you to intercept whatever raw data you're receiving from your instruments. If the ILS is active the vertical bar should steer you to the CDI course to intercept that ILS localiser signal. The CDI is called a Deviation Indicator because it references deviations from a nav source, ergo it cannot operate without one, be it ILS, TACAN, or GPS. This is true to real life on any aircraft. You always have to dial in the final course for every ILS approach, even on a 787 Dreamliner (though the computer does it automatically for you these days).

I'm no sure if that vid was made before or after the patch that fixed the command steering bars. Its more than a year old so I'm gonna guess it was before. Look up the command steering bars in the A-10C manual. They make flying the ILS a lot easier.

Rudder also helps increase the roll rate. Yaw damper being less than effective is not a totally unrealistic thing too I might add. The Bombardier/de Havilland Dash 8 Q-400 has a Yaw Damper that you wouldn't even notice if you didn't turn it on. Funny thing is that this is a FBW aircraf too! Nice thing about the A-10 is that unlike the Dash 8 you don't actually have to trim the rudder. Now how much of the performance of the A-10's yaw SAS channels is realistic I can't say, but its not as if the current performance is implausible. At the end of the day the A-10 is still a stick and rudder aircraft so putting a little rudder into your turns and rolls is all part of typical airmanship.

Its extraordinary that anyone should ever think war is anything else.

I've never seen fuel efficiency and time on station being characterized as a weakness before. If an F-16/F-18 could carry everything it can carry, fly as fast as it can fly, and meanwhile stay on station as long as an A-10 everyone would call these amazing aircraft the greatest multi-role fighters ever built, not weaker because they don't have to hit the tanker after a dozen minutes in the AO.

Yes I suppose so! I guess the sim/RPS community is so small that I should expect to get recognized across multiple communities, but hey it still feels weird. :P This colouring book underlines how simple but smart a lot of real life military (or general) wisdom really is. All the SOPs and OIs and whatnot doesn't change the fact that these are often simple guys trying to do a relatively simple job. The ins and outs of how to put the plane in the right position to exploit what this colouring book describes is rightly complex and involves a lot of judgment, experience, and practice, but the underlying wisdom of how to kill a tank is pretty simple. Shoot the bastard in the ass and do it no further than this.

I believe I read that for a good shot at penetrating some armour its fire at 0.8nm and break off at 0.5nm. 1.5 is however perfectly effective against BMPs and against soft targets you can fire at or even before 2.0. I forget where I read that. I might try to dig it up. Just remember that range affects dispersion, the greater the range the greater the dispersion. The round impact cone looks like a flashlight's beam, so the further you are the wider it is. In order to get good effect on tanks you want tighter dispersion creating more impacts. Of course the nuances of armour penetration are completely absent from DCS, but hitpoint systems are similarly affected by dispersion since the tighter the dispersion the more rounds impacting equals greater DPS. Edit. Yea here we go. For reference, 6500 feet is just over 1 nm 4500 feet is just under 0.8 nm 3400 feet is just over 0.5 nm 2500 feet is about 0.4 nm I think 1.5 nm is wishful thinking against real armour. Best effects are had against a perfect rear shot, with obliques creating better armour performance thanks to natural geometry of armour penetration. I have no idea how aspect angle affects DCS so don't bank on much other than dispersion being relevant to a hit point system on a given armour facing (note difference from aspect angle). Source: A-10 Pilots Coloring Book

I wonder how you could possibly have a stealth CAS aircraft with stores hanging off the bottom of it.

The Wipeout is okay. The cockpit layout is actually really lame. The digital instruments look inspired by civilian digital displays in airliners but they're hard to read and not much use at a glance. No real point in replacing steam guages with digital ones that are harder to read. One of the nice things about the Boeing PFD is that its a lot easier to read almost all the information, such as airspeed or altitude because the numbers are big and not in a relatively smaller dial. The displays on the Wipeout are pretty much the opposite. The analog displays that were replaced with digital were all easier to read. The HUD also doesn't have any predictive pipper so you're basically left to drop bombs like its 1944, but without even a graduated reticle to help you estimate aim off, so the order for the day is to fly at a super high dive angle straight at the ground and pickle at the last possible second. Since the controls are also rather sluggish for a single seat fighter its really unnerving. Its a nice start, but its still got nothing on the best examples of ground attack from Arma 2's ACE mod.

Imagine the kinds of first dates you go have with that thing. "So what are we going to do tonight?" "True Lies" "Oh a movie?" "Not exactly...."

For ultimately clarity, when you say "release" what do you mean? Using the nomenclature in the manual, TMS Aft Long should "Reset SPI to Steerpoint".

Thats what I do too. I don't use any of the axes as axes on the X52 that aren't the stick or the throttle. They're all crap, but with bands they can be very useful. I basically do the same with the Majestic Dash 8 in FSX using one of the rotaries as a condition lever (engine RPM). Its crude but effective. Nevertheless, bands plus the mouse nub is by far my favourite adaptation. Most useless control made into a most useful one.

Is the APU louder than both engines simply because its contained within the fuselage of the aircraft which would therefore conduct the noise?