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Its still kind of wishy washy. I guess DCS means PFM but not necessarily ASM now. The new terms don't totally eliminate all doubt from how to correctly interpret the old terms.

I burned out hard on this game. At first its very addictive. You spend hours in it. Then it wears down because there's no real depth. Its so repetitive and there's no real skill involved past a rudimentary level. I was really let down by how bland the loading docks are. There's no traffic, there are few other trailers, and there's way too much room so its never really a challenge at all in delivering your cargo. This is the kind of "sim" that needs difficulty sliders and a hardcore mode, but unfortunately SCS are pretty obviously not interested in courting the nerd end of the spectrum. They're if anything trying to go the other way.

My take on the new terms is that the difference between 'DCS Flaming Cliffs' and 'DCS' is PFM. The presence of an ASM is not strictly relevant. Whether the Flaming Cliffs distinction itself will still be relevant once they add the new terms to the pages is yet to be seen.

Incidentally if you find HUD camera footage of A-10s working the range you can see this thing being used as the track reference Noodle is talking about. (at least that seems to correspond to what he described) NbWGNjyU2yQ

I could write an essay.

It would require some kind of system to be implemented. Would it be wild and crazy to have smoke generators the only thing you can equip on this plane and then you could just have a binding for "Fire Weapons" that turns the smoke on without any need for an internal switch? EDIT. I should also mention that after having flown the TF-51D for the first time tonight, there are still all the old switches in there for the combat version, they just do nothing.

Any chance some system for using the smoke generators will be added? Seems like this of all the aircraft ought to be the one using it.

No dedicated documentation for it so far, or training missions. I take it all non combat related info can be used from the existing P-51D doc?

Biggest issue is how Youtube moved towards allowing open claims to be sufficient to shutdown content with the burden of proof being on the video owners. This is so laughably easy to abuse its not even funny. Total Biscuit did a video about issues like this when a crappy game developer had one of his videos removed because he said nasty things about their game. The aggressive protections being created around the internet and so called intellectual property and copyrights will kill some or much of its innovative nature. I'd say competition would be great but unfortunately people are too lazy for that. Even if you could prove that youtube planned 9/11 people would still go there because of the volume and the popularity. Anytime you put the burden of proof on the accused party you're clearly not interested in anything resembling the word "fair".

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Incidentally, the above explains why this is not a bug:

I agree with shagrat. The brain does all kinds of crazy things to compensate for motion when delivering us an image of the world around us. That isn't to say that there wouldn't be some perception of vibration but I think that even if that were noticeable you would still have a great deal of it being dampened out by your brain. The problem anytime you try to do vibration with weapon sighting in any kind of game or sim is that it often creates an unrealistic difficulty in maintaining the sight picture and aiming. Its almost definitely some combination of the lack of any physical input from the aircraft itself that we're not actually in and the extremely low perceived visual resolution of the simulated world versus the real one. I imagine having the image on your monitor vibrate while you're not would be totally messed up. Its kind of like Arma head bob. I always turned that crap off because real heads bob but what I saw through my monitor was nothing like real life.

Great... now I stand to spend more on upgrading my gaming peripherals than on my whole computer cost next time I embark on that Quinquennial project.

That F-4 is by far my favourite. Wonderful sense of motion, and I love the shading.

Anyone got any idea if turning any settings up or down affects the visibility or apparent brightness or size of other aircraft's external lights?

If its pilot suicide or a knowledgeable hijacker then the voice recorder could be partially or totally uninformative. All that could help then really is the data recorder and that might only confirm the flight path. It might explain the whole climb to FL450 and the decompression thats been suspected I suppose. All in all I doubt we'll know anything if ever for a while now. If they do find actually find the recorders they might take their sweet time figuring it out and it could be months before more info, and then years perhaps til a published conclusion. Unfortunately this will end with a whimper that does no justice to the rampant speculation I think.

If I have to put up with any kind of intrusive advertizing in my private gamer space I will literally not participate. I refuse to succumb to some coercion towards jacking in to some network that exists only to expose me to crap I didn't want in the first place. I pray the product becomes its own thing and is only an adjunct to a wider set of possibilities rather than being the flagship proprietary gateway to some hardwired social network of numpties throwing eDollars at crummy games that can't be won.

"Place the pipper on the target" is a far more complicated thing than it sounds. :P Literally this boils down to months of practice and critical revision of your skills at flying the aircraft. Every bad habit you have comes out when doing a single dive bomb run. Pushing negative Gs, being badly out of trim, not pulling the velocity vector through the roof onto the target, dancing the pipper around the target and getting the windshield wiper effect. Its all about understanding your aircraft and knowing how to corral it and not doing all the wrong things that make for an unsafe, erratic and unskilled delivery. The thing that CCRP does a bad job with people is that it forgives you for being a terrible pilot. You can fly like a jackass and it'll give you kills. Inexperienced people with no mentorship kind of just flop around any which way because it doesn't feel like you need to do a whole lot to get a release solution. I thought I was a half decent pilot of the A-10 until I sat down and started learning CCIP. I learned lots about just flying from understanding how badly I was at doing a basic rote range deliveries. CCIP was a refreshingly humbling experience after the ease of doing guided ordnance delivery. It puts everything you do wrong under the microscope. Edit. Eddie the ninja, with better concision skills than I.

Exactly! :smilewink: Its a grey area. I think they clearly knew that it wasn't a verified picture because of the way they presented it. Down the line they can just follow up with "And this picture first shown on Turkish State news has turned out to be a cleverly cropped photo of a Russian flight demonstration team." I'd say its not the height of journalistic integrity, but its also clear its not a total deception on their part. They said "This is what the Turks say" and clever people figured it out. Part of the news' job is to report things being said so that the rest of us can speculate and be critical. Its not necessarily their job to chase down every lie as long as they don't themselves call them a definite truth. Everytime they put a video of say the Syrian revolution up thats on youtube news agencies make a point of saying things like "We cannot independently verify this footage" and yet we consider it newsworthy. I'm sure they'll be editing this article soon enough to recognize the deception however.

CCIP is all about flying the aircraft into the release parameters which are based on the concept of a bombing triangle. Its much less forgiving than CCRP. It is however, in my not so humble opinion, far more satisfying. These two threads pretty much run the gamut of what you need to know to get more than started. They contain lots of resources and links. 476th vFG, 76th vFS "Battle Book" Looking for comprehensive dumb bombing guides

Wasn't all that impressed with his review. Didn't feel that all inclusive, mostly it was him raving about how nice it was. He says he isn't paid to say that stuff but he is appearing in public for Saitek using the stick soon apparently so... uhhh that SOUNDS like he's associating himself with them in a not so unbiased way. I would have appreciated something like what SimHQ does where they run software that actually shows how accurate it is. Also since this is basically something of a successor, or might end up being, to the X52 comparing classic X52 problems with the X55 would have been good. He mentioned the rotaries a lot and I wanted to yell into the monitor "What about the pots! Do they spike at all!?" It felt very borderline fan video. Most of the review was just him flying it and saying "its so smooth". I also found it odd that he was unwilling to utter the brand name of the main competitor to the X55 as he put it. Why not? I feel like he's getting a little cozy with Saitek and he's gonna ride that boost to higher subs. I felt like there was little review of the minutiae of it all. He shrugged off the whole toggles thing, but what I noticed immediately when he was flying was how awkwardly he had to reach around the throttle to use most of the toggles. on the X52 those used to be on the base of the stick so thats easier to reach for blindly. However, the ones on the X55 seems like they'll be a lot more awkward to use in the heat of things. I like Froogle but... meh, not liking this review much.

Well according to the BBC news article... So really it seems like the joke is on the Turks.

Perhaps something with an F/A designation? :music_whistling:

My test button has never shown me a perfectly symmetrical fuel load. I recall always having 5900 on the test total. Asymmetry could be due to the APU drawing only from one tank (via the DC Fuel pump). Is this only before you start APU or after?

This is the thing that sprung to my mind when I considered what the loss of the airframe, all emotional attachment aside, would mean. Even if a new airframe is fielded in maybe 20 years that can do a credible CAS job, how much of this knowledge is lost forever? Reading that guy's passion was very convincing. A passion like that really died too young.