Corrigan

Yep, you do good work with those PTFE rings, buddy. I wanted to ask a related question: Does anyone imagine there being any danger in removing the four post springs completely? I found it to tighten the stick up around the centre. Conversely, it's softer at the extremes, but I can live with that. Ideas? EDIT: just wanted to confess that the real reason I want them gone is the annoying clicky springy sound they tend to make.

Press RCtrl+L for Soviet nightvision.

Sidewinders would be awesome, I believe the Egyptians had those on their 21s?

Throttle idle? Generally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blown_flap

Properly? No. You can poke some grease in, and it might be better than nothing, but I dunno if I'd recommend applying the good grease when the bad, stock grease is still there. Not cleaning it properly before might be asking for trouble.

EDGE multicore support is far from confirmed. See for example from this month.

Clearly I'm the annoying person.

I can only assume that they're using that model as a placeholder (it doesn't exactly look burned-out) until they make a proper wreckage model. I hadn't noticed it had a pilot, though :D

No, the aircraft livery. I've noticed that when a MiG blows up it leaves a white (or light at least) plane with bort number 0000 or something, in red. Is that what you mean?

Hey now. I irritate many more people than that.

Think you saw the wreckage placeholder. It was white, right?

Called it! What did I win?

I image there'll be a patch through ED's updater (obviously), but containing only MiG stuff. I also imagine it coming this week.

970 is very, very good for the price, compared to what you could get for the same money a week ago.

wat (by which I mean "I emphatically disagree")

Yes, I know. I'm saying that the 980 doesn't "nudge out" the 290X---it beats it comfortably, to the degree where the card you should be comparing the 290X to is the 970 rather than the 980.

Sure, but I dare say Novak could add to this discussion. He probably knows if there is such a tendency in DCS, and he obviously knows much more than we about how he's tuned the MiG high-alt performance, if it behaves as he's set it, etc etc. I'm not sure how we can proceed by our selves; we've found that there are problems with the cruising ability and service ceiling, but I don't know how we can investigate further.

That's due to the excessive LoDs they've used for the external model. It's known and probably a good way towards being fixed. :)

I think this is tied in with their plans for EDGE. The sound engine will be revamped then, and I suspect that file infrastructure that does not seem to work now is in place for when that time comes. In that case, I feel I can live with the generic placeholder sounds for a few months.

Honestly, I think the most useful thing right now would be for the MiG devs to chime in. Some inside info would make much of this speculation obsolete and we could concentrate on more constructive things.

Only that's not true. The 290X is actually closer to (and above) the 970 in the bechmarks/reviews I've seen.

I think he means that DCS has a systematic mis-modelling of high altitude performance? If that was the case, I can imagine how it would be hard to get low- and high-alt. characteristics simultaneously correct, regardless of aircraft.

It can't possibly be aerodynamics, that would be utterly unphysical. I was also surprised at what you're talking about. I assume that giving rudder input actually differentially brakes the undercarriage, but I'm not sure that it's working as intended. Was, like you, expecting having to brake with the lever and simultaneously give rudder to get ANY turning at all.

Also bear in mind that nvidia control panel settings can have a big impact!

Wow, TSSAA? Try turning that off.