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Interesting! From what I have seen, the Vive controllers have impressive accuracy, but I can imagine cockpit interaction would require crazy accuracy. I would be really impressed if this actually works well.

Apparently, the F-35 has it. It's probably just a matter of time until most military aircraft has it.

Pretty sure he meant bigger systems (as in more complex), not a physically bigger airframe. :)

Yes, but if you scroll up a few posts on this page, you will see he admits to it being a typo.

Q: How is the Mirage autopilot ? A: It is a simple implementation. It has four modes: a. Attitude Hold, which is connected by default when activating the AP. b. Altitude Hold, which holds the current aircraft altitude. c. Select Altitude Hold, which holds the altitude selected by the altitude selector (the group of drums below the AP panel ligths). e. Glideslope and Approach hold mode. For automatic landings. Source: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2531810&postcount=11

I thought I read that in the september update from cobra, but I went back and checked and I can't find it :huh: Pretty sure one of them is a WWII bird though. :D

NO!!! One of them is a WWII aircraft. That is a fact, not speculation.

Thanks for the screenshot. I hope the EFM is coming along nicely and not causing you too much headache :)

Slightly off topic perhaps, but I think some might find this interesting. In BMS 4.33, as some of you might have noticed there is a new flyable Viggen. To create the flight model they used used recently declassified data from krigsarkivet (war archives). 170 pages of data on the flight characteristics of the Viggen. They also had a few real life ex Viggen pilots try it out and give feedback on the flight model. They even got to spend some time in a military Viggen simulator at F21 in Luleå and compared the flight model to that :) I wonder if Leatherneck is going through the same process as we speak?

Sorry about that. I mixed them up because last weekends and this weekends news was in the same thread.

There was a newsletter today that said next week.

Easy to make with this excellent software: http://tacview.strasoftware.com/ This is one of the strong points of the M2000, but it bleeds energy quickly during sustained turns. I read somewhere that the MiG-29 max ITS was around 28 degrees per second, but the MiG probably has better STR than the Mirage. F-15C vs Su-27 is really interesting now since they both have PFM's. F-15C excels at BVR if carrying AMRAAM's but the Su-27 excels at WVR combat, being more agile, having better short range missiles (R-73) together with IRST and helmet mounted sight. You can pull off some crazy manoeuvres with the Su-27. You can even do pugachevs cobra the same way it's done IRL now that it has a professional flight model.

They don't do that anymore. The only reason we have simplified aircraft is that those were imported from old LOMAC and Flaming Cliffs. Don't expect any new ones to be developed.

I set up a dogfight, guns only and 100% internal fuel, MiG-29A against M2000-5, both piloted by AI set at high skill level. I watched the fight at the same time as I recorded it using Tacview. It looked pretty even, but the M2000-5 eventually won. I believe it was because it got lucky and put itself into an offensive position right away. If the MiG-29A had been the one to get into that spot, I believe it would have won instead. Here's a graph of the turn rate during the fight:

In my opinion, audio is perfectly fine in DCS. It has good support for multichannel surround and that's all you need to spatialize audio. That SDK you are linking won't work for DCS, but you won't need it either. Many sound cards have features in their drivers that will let you specialize the audio for headphone use. It works regardless if you are using the rift or not. Personally I have an Asus Xonar Esscence STX, and this is how to enable it on Xonar cards: Set to 8 channels Activate Dolby Surround Launch DCS Enjoy When I'm done with DCS I go back and set it to 2 channels and deactivate Dolby Surround so it doesn't mess up the sound when I want to listen to music or other 2 channel sources. Edit: Of course, this method has some limitations compared to having HRTF built directly into the game engine, but it's pretty good anyway. The biggest disadvantage is that you can only differentiate left-right-front-back, and not up-down.

What I was trying to say is that there might be minor technical differences, but don't expect to be able to notice them, except the difference in ground handling. The way you experienced the flight model in LOMAC is exactly what you can expect from the current version of FC3. Personally, I don't think it is lacking in performance. What's lacking is how it feels and reacts to your inputs, changes in speed, altitude etc. Some things with the SFM might even be advantageous. To me it feels like engine response is too quick, and static thrust is too high, which causes the take-off distance to be really short (seems unrealistically short to me). I also think it is impossible to get a flame-out with the SFM. On the other hand, you cannot quite achieve the extreme AoA's that you can with the Su-27 since that got the advanced flight model (in that case ED calls it PFM, professional flight model). If there ever were to be an AFM, PFM or whatever you want to call it for the MiG-29, I think it will have both advantages and disadvantages to the aircraft's capability, but for me, I don't care how it stacks up against the competition. What I care about is realism, feeling and clear differentiation between aircraft's. With the SFM's they all tended to feel the same, even though their performance was different. Comparing it to the Mirage2000 is impossible right now, as it's not released yet. Of course, you could compare it to the old AI only M2000, but I don't find that particularly interesting. Wait until it's released as a DCS module and compare it then. From what I know of the M2000, it's going to be similar to an F-16 but it bleeds more energy during turns due to it's big delta wing. Falcon BMS 4.33 has a flyable M2000 with a pretty accurate flight model if you want to try it in the meantime while waiting for DCS M2000. I think MiG-29 and M2000 will be a close match when dogfighting. One last word: DCS isn't about game balance. It's about simulating the real thing. With SFM it was just a rough approximation, but with AFM/PFM we are getting very close to the real thing. If real life isn't balanced, then DCS won't be balanced either.

Actually, I believe it is exactly like LOMAC. That's where the SFM's were inherited from. There may have been minor tweaks. I know there was something about the ground handling that was tweaked. With that said though, I don't think that should put you off. MiG-29 just got a new 6dof cockpit, which means there are no more LOMAC cockpits. The MiG-29 was the last one before it was updated (only in open beta so far though, but likely to be released as stable pretty soon). There are only two aircraft which still use the standard flight model (SFM). It's the MiG-29 and Su-33. I believe they will follow in the footsteps of the other aircrafts and receive advanced flight models some day, but there's no official confirmation on that yet. As someone who bought FC3 when it was released, I gotta say that we got a great deal, because there have been so many big updates to it since then, and ED never asked any money for the extra stuff they added in later. I prefer full blown DCS modules and I own them all, but FC3 can still be a lot of fun even though it lacks some of the stuff that the full DCS modules have. Maybe some day, one of the FC3 aircraft will turn into a proper DCS module. Some of them are actually really close, with complete cockpit, flight model and only lacking mouse click-able cockpit and advanced systems modelling.

Yes, it's WIP.

Reality is a bit more complicated than that, but I'm sure jojo only simplified things for the sake of making it easy to understand. :) There's a little thing called friction, which decelerates the shell as soon as it leaves the muzzle. The example jojo gave is only true if there is no atmosphere, thus no friction. Of course, the deceleration in a certain atmosphere can be calculated and compensated for, given that the ballistic coefficient for the projectile is known.

The same idea has been mentioned several times before on these forums. It started many years ago. The truth is that there is probably no such interest from the BMS community for several reasons. They have a thriving community built around Falcon 4 and BMS. Some of them also play DCS, but not all of them. Some even look down upon DCS. They don't want to split up by moving people over to DCS. DCS is so different. Porting the F-16 to DCS will probably require them to start over from scratch. Most of them have probably not developed for DCS so there will be a learning period. They do have one thing though, and that is knowledge of the F-16. All the research on flight model, systems etc. is already done. That's a big part of developing a module.

Enough news for one day. BMS4.33 release, ED newsletter, Nevada NTTR video etc... You should take a break and try the new BMS. There's a Viggen in there you know, with cockpit and everything :) Good for passing time while waiting for the LN DCS: Viggen

It's the swedish m90 pattern. It's used for pretty much everything in the swedish armed forces, from uniforms to tanks, ships etc...

Before 6dof cockpit I would barely touch it either. Now I think it's actually worth doing some occasional flight's in, but it certainly feels a bit incomplete without AFM. Same thing goes for Su-33. I hoped that AFM for Su-33 would follow after we got it for the Su-27, but we haven't heard anything from the devs about it yet that I know of. Anyway, we who initially bought FC3 got great value for our money, since none of these things were initially listed as being included in FC3. A big thank you goes to ED for refining FC3 in this way. :)

Nice :)

Been using Win10 since spring or early summer (tech preview) and TrackIR5 has been working flawlessly all the time. Same thing for my HOTAS Cougar and Simped USB pedals. Haven't had much driver problems at all since going to Win10. If it works in 7 and 8, it will most likely work in 10 also.