Darkwolf

They do when you turn. :P

since you can adjust your viewpoint....

you don't defeat R27. They are just designed to miss you :P Just Kidding, great screen. That's a Tail Radar. Useful tho. I thing It has a RWR but not implemented. Ok Hitting RWR P51 in google just get me in my own yesterday's message. --->[]

Business. Eagle Dynamics is a company. They need to pay their employee and make benefits in order to run. So, to keep it simple, like any other each plane / map / new feature is like a new product. Those products have cost (devellopment) and revenue (sales). They will consider viable project and devellop them. Beside this, as a company, they have to consider all the legal liability (copyright) and things that are impossible to devellop. For example, F/A-18, which is a very well know plane, is an heavy investment with a heavy potential. BF-109 is a lesser costly project but with faster income. DCS-2 is a project that won't bring any money straight away, but keeping the customer base by providing superior simulator environment, hence supporting the sales of other products. Or I may be completely wrong and they just choose random planes after a few bottle of vodka but I doubt about it :P That would be nice from Wags to jump in here.

Actually, I setup my pylons at first. AA mode, SAR and my R3R pylons. So when engaging, I don't have to mind too much for that. regarding RWR, I use it to home on target. ID is really tricky but here is some tips : Put your target on 90°, bank 45°. If it's still on, you have an aircraft contact. I go left and right to pin point the source correctly. If it lock, just run back your base. Of course, that gives you a very rough guess, but hell - instead of thinking "I wish I could have a F15 RWR", I just keep positive and think "Hey, that's better than the P51 RWR that doesn't exist :P". I played a lot of submarine games to guess a target location only on tiny indication :P That help now. On a general basis, studying the mission helps finding targets - most of the crowd just go from Allied airport to Ennemi airport, without even thinking of anything else.

Believe me, I prefer the Atoll than the R-27. If only i could get some on my Su-27......

I don't think we'll see V.2 this year. And honestly, I'm not sure this would be a good thing. Releasing such a major update just before the russian holiday .... I mean, they will obviously be bugs and chances are some will need immediate correction.

Well - you can't win everytime - especially in the 21' ! I wouldn't go fighter sweep over ennemi territory if they is several 104th pilots or some other great squads, connected in the opposite side :P

Not worth comparing. It mostly come down to what you want. TrackIR if you want a Homecockpit with a lot of stuff around you Occulus if you want only HOTAS + mouse. Getting a occulus in a full size cockpit is counter productive.

TrackIR helps to keep track of ennemi. However, I wouldn't dogfight anything in a mig21, even a P-51. everything in the game can out-turn you. AH AH AH AH I was thinking the same at first Then after a few flight online... I was like "Are they all blind or drunk or what ?" - Then a few day after, i found a smaller target than usual, 2 bar on the su-27 radar. Searched for more information on Mig-21 RCS and found that it's a hell of a ghost. Experiment in DCS proven that it is also the same in the game. Now I'm confident when i go against the F15s. They can't EOS me and they have hard time seeing me.

Mig21 is really ok in the current environment. It can be tricky in populated skys with awacs, but remember it has a RCS which is quarter of the F15. I have countless time flown to the ennemi base without being noticed by all the fighters above me. As the numbers goes : Detection range from a su27, Flying 4000, head-on target, Interleaved PRF Mig-21 75km F-15C 110km Su-27 90km A-10C 85km High PRF Mig21 100km F-15 140km Su-27 120km A10C 120km When target is low alt, detection range proportionnally drop down to 2/3 of this. That is still plenty of time on a "head-on" interception. However on the battlefield, that is hardly happening so most of time - mig 21 is still a valid threat. The only difference with other fighters is the weakness of the missiles. They are damn accurate (my personnal weapon log shows 86% accuracy on radar version) but they haven't the range. So basically, the tactic is : Fly silently, stay low, and when you see contrails above your head, go for the kill, you are already out of the target radar cone. Shot and run when target destroyed/miss. If you are locked at any time, second level reheat and just run as fast as you can. The F-15/Su-27 have hell of a time to keep lock on a Mig21. Keep in mind position of your own SAM so you can get back under cover.

The mods are going to come if we keep talking about BOS. :P DCS has still a long way to go, but at least it started. :P

Regarding the helicopter lock... it still seems to work. I've been shot with a R77 today, while static. The missile tracked but missed (Russian missiles Ah !). Helicopter drivers should not consider themselve invisible yet ;)

If any (EU) squad is looking for a full time GCI controller, i may be available for that during a few month. I'm currently moving back to France near my family, after 5 years in Belgium. This involve the destruction of my home cockpit, and eventually i will not be able to fly for a long period since most of my gear will stay in Belgium, until I find a new job and place to stay. But I don't plan to drop off DCS activities since I'm a junky which need his daily fix of DCS. I already own a copy of LoATC, and i may be able to show up on CA too. If any squad need a dedicated controller, I'd be delighted to make your game even more real. This can be either in English or French. Let me know via PM.

I usually fly on the 104th and COG. Unsure if they publish tracks. That would be awesome but I understand that would be more work so i'll try to check the replay solution. :smartass:

Bye Bye DCS. Updater has failed. Now the game is broken. Repair also is failed. EDIT : found it. SSD IS FULL :/

This post unfortunately resume 99% of this forum content. Thank you ED for the 109 ! Can't wait to test it.

EDIT : Deleted - got the answer by myself. :P Thanks BST for the manual :)

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Don't work for me in MP. It only records my flight. I assume that they must be some protection on the server for anticheating that is messing with TacView :/

Hi ! Great server, I had great time on it this week. I do like the limited ammunition and realistic aircraft setup on the factory mission. :) One note tho. You recently updated that mission, but we can't join awacs with the Mig21 anymore. Can you correct it please ?

Yup. Even tho the rafale isn't in, They is plenty of great toy already in place. And the Mirage 2000 is on the way.

Great. I'm not working the 4 and the 5. :P

I had a flight with my wingman yesterday, RWR on our two plane were not indicating the same things. like while flying close formation, one of us could receive RWR signals while the other not (our own radar off)

Is anyone having issue with IFF online ? I've friendly fired someone on the 104th. I banged a couple of F15 and a Su-25 on the COG server yesterday, just loosing one Mig to a engine failure at low alt while RTBing. As soon as you have some cover such mountain, you can have fun. Still, the hardest point is maintening SA when you don't have AWACS (or when radio isn't set properly as most server missions are), and also to refrain attacking whatever shows up. Most of the time, you just stick around waiting for the good opportunity. Regarding the missiles....I got a little logbook of my own. I fired seven R3-R over the last few days, 6 have hit their target. It hasn't much range but that's a damn good missile.