Lixma 06

I think the reason for the weird pitch behaviour is the front wing slats. To test - put yourself in a steady turn at, say, 750kph look behind you and watch your wings. Now start very gradually increasing back-pressure on the stick - sloooowly tightening the turn (and increasing your AoA). At some point the slats will deploy and *bang* the nose pitches up violently.

If you raise the flaps while taxiing you can turn much tighter.

You're missing the point. The tires on this aircraft (designed to operate from rough airstrips) are exploding on smooth tarmac at 180mph.

This one explodes at 285kph. It seems to happen as the plane begins rotating. Is anyone old enough to remember the A-10C beta bug where the plane would stick to the runway then bounce off into the air with a burst nose-wheel? Kinda feels like that.

The tire explodes at 300kph.

Same here - I tried briefly to 'fix' it by tinkering with the user curves widget but it ended up looking like an ECG and I gave up. I think it's intentional/realistic but I don't think it translates well onto PC controllers.

Hold L-ALT+9 (iirc) for 3 seconds. All the lights will go out and the warning will kick in. It's no fun, trust me.

Probably does double duty.

Page 1-119B shows an inboard/outboard ext. stores selector switch. I don't know if there's any way for the pilot to select individual pylons.

No matter how dramatic the AOA or how hard the maneuver I can't induce any kind of vibration or shaking. Is this normal or just a WIP thing?

Did you get the 'Y' override command thingy working? I press it but I can't tell if it's doing anything and there's nothing in the cockpit I can see to indicate whether it's on or off.

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\MiG-29\Doc That's where mine lives. I've attached it here. DCS MIG-29 Flight Manual EN.pdf

Well, I've always stuck with the stable release - but yesterday I bought the Mig and tried to install it and got an error. So I bumped up to the latest open-beta and it installed OK. So the Mig might not be available, yet, for the stable version. I've not heard anything official - and the store makes no mention that it only works under the beta, which is a bit naughty. I think tomorrow there might be an update for the stable release - but that's just a guess.

On the pitch axis it's not very important because the 'center point' is dynamic with airspeed - but the roll axis has a very obvious center (assuming symmetric load, undamaged) and the way it is currently modeled it's impossible to return to neutral trim; even the 'reset trim' command can't do it.

Makes it worse! Not complaining, though....I'd rather have ten 'esoteric handling' Mig-29's than one vice-less point-and-shoot-mobile.

+1000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=221965

And flexxy wings, too. Backdated to all DCS planes!

+1 You can be holding a steady turn but if you pull just 0.1% further back on the stick the aircraft's nose pitches up violently as if you've crossed a threshold where controller inputs are amplified. It's like flicking a switch. Fun to fly - but if it's realistic I wonder what the designers were smoking :)

Aye. You can probably dogfight using the trim control it's so quick.

This is right after take off. Try it - input some aileron trim then try and trim it out. You'll be there all day :)

It doesn't work - the lights turn green but it doesn't fully center the trim; the plane still rolls.

I defy anyone to trim a roll back to center. Either the trim controls are too coarse or whoever signed off on this at the factory needs shooting.

Yes, cleared them all and re-did them - it's still super-sensitive.

'P' works fine here (it just saved my life). The trouble I'm having with landing is that the pitch sensitivity is so extreme that if I dare bunt the nose after touch-down the nose-wheel slams into the tarmac and the aircraft rebounds back into the air and at that point I'm a passenger.