Corrigan

Don't worry, it'll break again in the next patch. :p

Wait, screen blackouts and red edges? Those are g-effects, buddy...

I think there is, yes.

Also flaps need to be fully deployed, right?

I know, but he was trying to detach it. That's how he got confused; the ripping off from thrust coincided with him pushing the button. I guess I should have said "Why the fugg were you trying to detach your chute at 100% power?"

For the SPS, you have full flaps? How low is low speed? You should not exceed 360 indicated, IIRC.

Why the fugg were you detaching your chute at 100% power? Emergency go-around?

Thanks, friends. The specific danger I envisioned was increased wear; I agree that it probably won't explode. :p The centre is stiffer without them (they help when stick is pulled), but that's fine since my stick is extended. It makes the centre more defined which is nice if you, as did, have a small bit of play at the centre.

Anyone else notice this? I can swear that the 21 tends to roll slightly left on its own. Several of my flying buddies say they've noticed this too, and I've checked that it's not my controls. So: bug, feature or imagination?

Well, flying on a given radial lets you approach the beacon from the specified heading. Useful when you want to get to an airfield and arrive matching the rwy heading. Today, some squad members and I used it for taking off in crappy weather: we took off at 30 s intervals, then turned and followed a certain radial away from the field. Since we were all on the same radial, we were guaranteed ending up on a line later when we broke the clouds. If you know your current radial and the distance, you can essentially fly in a trail formation even though you can't see eachother, say leader is at radial X 10 km out, 2 is at radial X 8 km out etc. There lots of cool tricks you can do with your approaches too, check the pics on p. 115 and on in the manual. Also, your current radial plus the distance to the beacon form a polar coordinate system in the plane, so you can easily relay your position to others. Think Bullseye.

Try running the repair tool.

Aw. Well, if Sweden is out I always cheer for Canada in hockey. Incidentally, here's a pretty sweet video of that.

Shamelessly quoting myself; does anyone know?

Yo-Yo, I just wanted to say, I love you.

There's only one patch. If you updated today, you have the latest. MiG-21 rev. 1350 is included in the latest ED patch (which I'm almost sure is the .524 update).

You should probably report this on the 21 forum too.

I actually find the Sabre harder to land, since you have to go so slowly. Safe gear-flaps speed is something like 220 kts, not much room for error, and the brakes suck. The A-10 shouldn't really be used as a comparison here because it's the kindest, most forgiving aircraft imaginable.

The nosecone switch on the top right side console switches off when you rearm/refuel. Then the nosecone won't open and your engine will choke to death when you go fast. Was this after rearming or repairing etc?

Yes, they are in the patch available now.

Of course, in the same way a rifle makes a sword obsolete. Doesn't mean you suddenly wanna get poked by one :P

That's actually a really cool story.

You should go to "Games" in windows, select your stick from the Input devices (or similar) list. Then go to Calibrate, and you can see the inputs in real time. Also, try "resetting" your controls by just rename the Config folder in Documents; DCS will create a new one with the default binds when you start the game.

Well the obvious place to start is to check your binds.

^ That's a great one. I tried my hand at making this look like a 60's postcard.