pyromaniac4002

Not really. Actually the -1 has nothing to do with your opinion on F-35, and I don't know if saying someone's exhibiting "troll-like" behavior is really crossing that threshold in to "name-calling." When somebody is needlessly rude and insulting (i.e., to Prophet), I have no qualms about calling it out.

I see you're really trying to kick the hornet's nest. Negative rep earned and recorded. :thumbup: Looks like the link works now, by the way. Eat your heart out. EDIT: Sniped!! Still, this guy.. Obvious troll is obvious.

I'm sorry I can't speak from experience, I have a set of CH pedals myself. Never given me problems, but I've never seen anyone say this was happening with their Saitek pedals either. Which module are you trying this in? If it's P-51D, taxiing is tough period. There's probably nothing wrong with your setup. Otherwise, the FC3 stuff doesn't have pedal toe brakes incorporated (yet, at least), and I haven't spent much time with the Su-25T, but there could be something funny with how the toe brakes work.

I've got a question that has plagued my existence long past the mast-bumping, lurching around barely maintaining control introductory days to the Huey: What exactly is the descending vertical speed I should be looking for when trying to avoid VRS in a hover? So far I've only narrowed it down to "something slightly below 1000 feet per minute."

I can't imagine all the developers getting involved with DCS would pass up the opportunity to put out the first DCS-level MiG-29 module. The aircraft struck fear in to the hearts of Western pilots for decades, it's definitely worth the full glory of a DCS title. I'm quite sure that as far as dreams go, it's not a far-fetched one at all. Only a matter of time. :thumbup:

Before I start this, I just want to say to all of these people with the criticisms, you need to be honest with yourselves about whether you're even open to changing your mind. Otherwise, there's really no reason for you to read any of the following or respond in any manner. It will save us both a substantial amount of time. :ermm: haha, a little graphic, but okay.. Granted, nobody here wants their donation to be in vain, but there's an appropriate level of skepticism, and then there's an inappropriate one. You might consider that the guy (the head honcho of this organization, no less) is pretty busy organizing other aspects of the project other than securing his initial funding. He's actually been surprisingly responsive to comments (and questions) that people have had on the Kickstarter, certainly much more so than I would ever expect a person in his position to be doing, so I'd give him a lot of credit for trying to make himself available to all of us. You'll have to kick in some fraction of a dollar, but if you're really this concerned to get a response right here and now, I'd say that's your best bet so far. You can probably expect even more transparency when the support staff for this module takes better shape and he actually gets some dedicated people to sift through these innumerable forum posts and address peoples' questions before they keep winding each other up to the point where it's been two days since the Kickstarter went live and you guys are screaming bloody murder about how this is such a scam. Update: They're having a Q&A on the project's Facebook page. Nut up or (as politely as I can put it) shut up. https://www.facebook.com/DCSF35/posts/165754143606898 When I first saw this I did plenty of investigation myself, even though I wasn't going to go ahead and call it a scam outright anyways. The guy's website is legit, it's referenced by other websites for a couple home cockpit system things you can buy, he's got several standalone flight simulator games under his belt, and he has experience with avionics in military-grade simulator to boot (unless of course we can't believe anything anyone says about themselves anymore). And it must be the 5th time I've said it, but: Eagle Dynamics has okayed him and his team to develop this project for DCS. If you have any faith in the team that has built the products that this entire forum is based around, you can have a little faith in the people they choose to add on to their legacy. We're also not the only community in the world that they're promoting this module in. I'm sure there are people in a number of places having this exact same conversation. If I had to manage a project like this and deal with damage control on even 3 different threads like this at the same time by myself, I'd be locked in my bathroom sucking my thumb and rocking back and forth in my bathtub for 10 hours a day. Be thoughtful about this, because there are an awful lot of blatantly obvious reasons that Mr. Kinney and KI literally cannot cater to your every question and concern. And again, it's been two days since this really started to become relevant. If anything, you can understand that a little bit of patience is appropriate. For MiG-21bis, which so far as I can tell is a product of only a handful of people if not mainly Beczl, maybe. This guy and his company have worked with complete development teams like you might expect from a major video game developer, so it seems like this is the objective with F-35. The $75,000 they're looking for in the Kickstarter isn't just for kicks, it's to hire the necessary people to get started on developing this project! All that aside, you know, you could find that during these OPEVAL sessions, we could have a non- or partially functioning cockpit like we've seen in screenshots of a few other things. There's absolutely no reason you have to have a fully-detailed cockpit ready for people to take the plane up in the air and test some of the flight dynamics. It's all incremental. FSX is the anti-christ of combat flight simulators. This F-35 is a combat aircraft which they intend to model in the best manner possible, in my mind there's not a chance in hell that KI or Mr. Kinney himself would put it in a combat-less flight simulator. I don't know what the plan is, but my guess if it is to be available in a truly DCS-independent fashion is that they would put out a standalone version, like we used to get with Jane's USAF or Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. They have the experience of doing it in the past, I don't see why the current case would be any different. Besides any of that, you're here on this forum, so I would assume you have DCS: World and more than likely a couple of the modules for it, so how does this little detail make any difference to you whatsoever?

I'm all for realism, but this will become more relevant to me when I can call ATC and have them set up their emergency arrestor system when I'm flying in with less of the plane that I flew out with. :joystick: Good man.

Hey, the BLUEFOR equivalent F-16 isn't even represented with a player-controllable bird yet! :cry_2: In all seriousness though, I'm sure we'll have a top-notch MiG-29 eventually. If ED doesn't do it, someone else sure will! Same as the F-16 I'm sure I'll one day fly in DCS.

Well I'm white (and Jewish, if there are any Hebrew-speakers who want to fly an IAF squad :thumbup:), but I can do a pretty decent black guy voice on teamspeak/ventrillo if that counts... :P

Sorry, did you have the full roster of everyone who worked on DCS: Huey? I sure didn't, and I've been flying a UH-1H around DCS: World for a while now (and having a hell of a good time in the process). Strange for some fly by night operation that nobody knows who did what for. Jeez, I'm offline for half a day and all of the skeptics decide to fill a few pages worth of material with all but libelous accusations that this is some kind of fraud. Look, this thread is real simple, if you want an F-35 in DCS, kick in a few bucks at your discretion. If you don't (this includes those who will find any and every reason to criticize this project or its developer), you keep your money right in your pocket. Your criticism has been noted. For what it's worth I appreciate a degree of devil's advocate as I'm sure many people here do, and maybe you'll even have some positive input in getting the developer to allay this litany of complaints (the graphics guy did post the early model in DCS screenshot), but good lord, the way you guys (and it's only like 2 or 3 of you that I've noticed) are going after this thing is more like a personal vendetta than anything. It's like it doesn't matter what anybody says to the contrary, you're just going to bury it in text so a handful of people will see it before it's 4 pages back in the thread anyways.

Honestly, this is just ridiculously negative. It's not Wags's job to "advertise" a module. He didn't "push" anything, he made one quick post with a link to the Kickstarter. If you're just looking to find fault with the module, just jump on the "too little available information to properly model, though we don't actually have a clue what KI has access to" bandwagon. This is nuts.

They've been quite forthcoming that this is intended to be an A-10C-level of fidelity, so obviously that entails a 6DOF cockpit, AFM, and the like. I don't know where I ever mentioned anything about this, but if you take the time to read the whole Home page on their Kickstarter, it answers all of this. It even mentions that modelling the radar (including a SAR mode) is going to be one of the more complicated aspects, given that it's an entirely new feature to be added to DCS, but they certainly intend to meet that challenge with success. Why would you see anything other than a 3D model right now? The whole reason they're on Kickstarter is to get the initial funding to start working on this. And this developer has a history of building whole standalone flight sims, not just add-ons for FSX, so while I'm not familiar with whatever it is that is making the FSX add-on guys here "struggle" (are they, even? I wouldn't have said so), developing a full game is more involved and speaks to a greater degree of know-how. Whatever the time frame, F-35A is obviously going to be a full-featured module like you would expect from ED or any of the developers that they allow to create modules for DCS: World. Again, this always boils down to the point that DCS is Eagle Dynamics's baby. They're not going to let halfwits and scam artists come in here and take a bunch of money from their customers for a crap product or no product at all.

For anyone that didn't know already, there is an "Update DCS World" option in your Eagle Dynamics folder in your start menu. Maybe that's a more convenient option for someone with time constraints like Smoky. You could even conceivably run it at Windows startup if you really want to make it foolproof. As for patches, I'm very happy with getting whatever updates ED is ready to release. Bring 'em on!

hahaha If it's all the same to you, I'll take an American copy myself. Don't want to get lead poisoning while I'm exacting swift and overwhelming revenge on all of those SA-10s, -11s and -15s that have plagued my airborne existence for years. Also a quick afterthought from my last post, for anyone who has their doubts about the intentions or abilities of the developer to deliver on this product, read the Home page on their Kickstarter. If you have suspicions about their using Kickstarter (like the guy I was originally responding to), see the "Why Kickstarter" paragraph. It's after all the stuff introducing DCS: World to those who aren't familiar with it, so it's pretty far down the page.

This developer has been around for 30-odd years doing exactly this kind of work, and they've been vetted by Eagle Dynamics. A lot of people seem to forget that. Wags announced the thing in the first place even. I'd say that's plenty of reason to say this isn't some scam. As far as why they're going with Kickstarter rather than "conventional" means of obtaining funding, it obviously has benefits for the developer, but it also benefits us. You can contribute as little or as much as you want, you'll only actually pay anything if they meet their financing goals, and you can get some very nifty perks in the process. Besides, we're not the biggest demographic to market a product to. Anybody financing a project like this with a monetary interest could stand to make a much larger return in other endeavors. This also serves to diminish any kind of interference an investor might have in the end product, allowing KI to pursue the project that they (and we) want to produce. Even with A-10C, Ka-50, and CA, ED's biggest profits still come from the lower-fidelity Lock On sims, and keep in mind that because of their contractual obligations with Ubisoft you still can't get FC3 without having an earlier version installed. Luckily that's being remedied in the near future with the individual aircraft modules for DCS: World, but it's been ages that we've dealt with this ridiculous hurdle because of their arrangements with their producer. This is a small, but experienced developer trying to make their virtual take on the F-35 a reality, and the clear consensus here is that the members of this community want to see that happen too. It's a smart and mutually beneficial move, and the plans for the OPEVAL process are something that I think proves the dedication and passion that this developer shares for advancing our common interests.

Oh please, plywood and modeling glue don't fly! :P

Haha, yeah it's tough starting out with some pedals. I've only recently become efficient with their use in the Huey. Try to think of using them as moving one foot forward and the other backward at the same time, it will let you be a lot more precise than simply pushing one or the other forward. Maybe like you're standing up and pivoting. Hang in there and once you finish your re-education I know it will be a night and day difference from flying like we all did at one point with a Microsoft Sidewinder and a keyboard. Congrats on the new setup and enjoy!

Military aircraft aren't about "what's right," they're about what wins. F-35 might not be out in the wide world yet, but they will be soon. The F-22 and B-2 are out there, and the F-117 has already completed its distinguished career. PAK-FA will be flying too before we know it, even that Chinese piece of crap. Stealth aircraft are reality, and DCS is about reality. You might be upset that the Red side might not have their corresponding stealth aircraft at the same time we would get the F-35 on Blue, but that's the reality of virtually every aircraft in DCS (though I'm sure they'll slap a slick-ass Ruskie paint job on the F-35 in the meantime too). Red is going to get their PAK-FA eventually, the F-35 just went in to development first. Doesn't mean you should kill off either one just because its corresponding opfor aircraft isn't ready yet. And about including 5th-gen aircraft with the existing platforms, we've got the comparatively-ancient P-51 (which I love) and the Huey (which I also love) now and we'll be getting 3rd-gen aircraft like the Mig-21 soon enough. There's already a strong precedent for including aircraft that are "out of place," so to speak. So if you eliminate the idea that we're going to have DCS as a sim set in an actual place and time (though this is obviously possible at the mission designer's discretion), this is really a decision between including more aircraft or not. I for one would love to see the F-35 as much as the F-14, Mig-21, or whatever else I can get my hands on. I want them to develop the hell out of DCS and include everything they can think of. I'm sure most people here want the same. And to the guy you replied to, it's definitely A-10C level. Not FC at all.

Chipped in my buck o' five (not actually $1.05, mind you). Really hope to see this become a reality. For those of you sitting on the fence because of realism or what have you, I'd just say maybe throw in $5 or something minor that you won't miss because there's still a lot of ground to cover to reach their goal. From what I understand this kickstarter thing is all or nothing, so they either need to get the combined $75,000 or they don't get anything at all, and I could only assume getting nothing would be pretty obviously detrimental to the project, if it doesn't kill it outright. While you're still making up your mind on whether to invest, the whole thing could be canned. (The deadline is July 13th, by the way.) And for all those concerns about realism, this developer has what appears to be a very strong background in military aviation (real-life F-22 and B-2 avionics work makes me think they can pull off an F-35 for some strange reason :P), besides I'm sure being thoroughly vetted by ED to join the DCS product line, so you can rest assured that you're going to get the best F-35 sim available and when they find out something new or changes to be made, they'll incorporate it. There's no real downside to it other than the F-35 never getting off the ground in the first place.

I love the idea, but the big impediment to this is just the whole nature of getting a flight simulator to coexist with a simulator for anything on the ground, be it infantry or tanks. The flight part covers thousands of miles of three dimensional space, and that's not conducive to high fidelity graphics when you get down to the smaller parts like individual houses, trees, terrain features, etc. I'd buy a full-fledged M1A2 sim for DCS, but somewhere down the line, I think it's going to become a problem that we have a fantastic simulated tank that we're driving around in an environment that's not even totally on par with Battlefield 1942 back in the day. Computers are getting more and more powerful all the time, but even at the exponential rate that performance is increasing, there's still a while to wait before hardware allows developers to pull something off like a proper land/air/sea DCS: World.

They are implemented, but you can only load them on the outermost pylons, and to turn them on you need to flip the bomb arm switches. Oh, and they're only available in white right now.

Yep that works, as long as TGP is set as SOI. When you press the fire button, the coordinates are taken from whatever is presently the Sensor of Interest (again, SOI) and passes that in to the bomb's GPS guidance. So in other words you can use a steerpoint/mark point from your CDU or the HUD Target Designation Cursor in addition to the TGP for telling the bomb where to go.

Well, I for one am very excited to try this when it is modeled. :P

F/A-18C or F-15C, I don't care which comes out first. I just want them to do whatever will get the next DCS aircraft out fastest. If that means using the 6DOF cockpit and skins already available for the FC3 F-15C, I'm all for it. And for the people who feel like FC3 is worthless now, I'll just say I'm happy to keep it around for when I have a friend or two over and they don't have the slightest clue of how to fly anything. They can pick it up much faster than throwing them straight in to the A-10C, and it's still a whole lot of fun. I for one am very happy to have both a simple and detailed F-15C/Su-27.

It really is surprisingly fun to just fly around in. I didn't expect that I would like it more than the A-10 or Ka-50 or any of the FC3 stuff (but then again SFM doesn't really count in my book), but I'd have to agree wholeheartedly. I just spent a good 3 straight hours just flying around on a free flight server, and if it weren't so late I'd still be happy to keep going. It's especially fun now that I'm getting a good feel for the controls and can actually hover or taxi for a proper takeoff. $50 doesn't seem cheap, but it's turning out to be a much more worthwhile addition to my collection than I ever thought.