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I don't like the ones that choose to fly on a 20 % fuel load plus a drop tank so their spit behaves like a UFO after drop tank is released.

The joystick also makes a huge difference. In a luftberry with a warthog or Microsoft ffb owner there was no way i could keep up and i was on 6 with a little more energy. In the same turn they could turn 2 times better. And i'm a very precise pilot .

I could not agree more.What is the point of realistic missile behaviour without jammers.

I have seen this bug also.Had both 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 Can't remember in what version i have seen it. Now i fly K50 so no blackouts.

The public announcement was a mistake.This things should be rectified between the production team and not on the forum. After so much work they should release the plane at some point.That is what i would do. As a customer i wold realy want to buy their product.But if it's never released it's not a big deal , life goes on.

@Sam77 welcome to the club.

" the problem is with our shoddy plastic joysticks, not the sim" The dcs is the most realistic sim out there because of the complexity of aircraft systems.But as for the flight model: why buy a 500$ warthog(the best joystick in my opinion) when you(the programmers,game designers and such) could make the plane fly a little more precise and you get the same result with a cheapear joystick.Certainly a lot more people would buy the sim. And no matter how realistic, a pc simulator is just a game in the end.A fun one but can't be compared to real life.

@Westr No bug. I think it's like that in real life.

looks great. and you do not need more than 30hz to play imho.

What i don't like about dcs: Lack of dinamic campaigns Multiplayer stability Stupid ai for aa f15 Su27 jet planes I love everything else and will buy every product related to dcs.

I wish there was damage modeling like that in dcs.

It's more than fine.The thrustmaster t16000m has more precision at same price.But if you want a hotas go with the hotas X.

@Furious On my 1920 * 1080 screen looks fine.Will do some tests. I'm new to this video stuff.

Managed to kill the dora ai in more or less 60 seconds:

The average pilot "spotting distance" is about 8 miles. Giora Epstein an israelian pilot was able to spot aircraft at a distance of 24 miles (44 km) .I have also heard about pilots in the israeli arab wars that spotted enemy planes 11 km below them. In simulators it gets easier to spot contacts over time.But if you use lower resolutions it's way easier to spot contacts which is unrealistic if you ask me.

Keep in your crosshair(collimateur) the far end of the runway.I come in a little fast ,pull up very close to the ground and try to touch the runway with all wheels at once.

I pray to god the pilots are ok.Had 2 relatives that burned alive inside cockpits.

@Echo38 I stated: Keep the fights short, only atack when having an advantage, do not slow dogfight a angles fighter.Do not spent to much of your energy. He only says i'm wrong.Is he wright ? Was the p51 build to energy fight or to dogfight ? If they wanted dogfighter why not build a spitfire. In the old Il2 i cut the path of a turning 109 or once, twice , i get a few shots on the engine or cockpit (engine brakes down or pilot dies). I never turn with the 109 , loosing energy.Even when "saving " a friendly i fire shots until the 109 brakes of but i do not folow him in the turn.I make a yo-yo and if i can't get the 109 after that i dive to refill my energy.I think it's also a good tactic for DCS P51 vs DCS p51 .Is this wrong ? This is how the tread begins : Taking part in MP dogfights..... The guy asks for info on MP tactics.And GGTharos argues only that i am wrong.

@GGTharos So so :) .. to do a downward spiral in a P51 with a 109 on 6 is wrong. what would you do ? I did not know the speed of the bullets so i was wrong about that. You have theoretical skills, not practical.It is clear from what you write you have not spend time in WW2 online sims.In an energy fighter vs an angles fighter you dogfight for too long you will end up dead .Most of the time a third plane kills you when you get too slow. But if you keep your speed up and deflection kill your enemyes then it's a different story.Most of the time i get lots of hits even from weird angles if they get slow.Very important is knowing if and when to enter or leave a fight. When i dogfight the dora i get realy slow.In an online many vs many match i would never do that.A lesson learned the hard way. Btw the FW 190 Dora has a bad damage model in my opinion.A few shots to the engine should damage it at least.

VnajsB when he gets close i dive my nose a little apply combat flaps and when he starts his turn to the right i turn to the left.Then rolling scissors.But this is me. You need practice.That is all. When and if i have time i will try to post some youtube videos. Hope it helps.

"Further to that, just because one plane is better at something than another, does not mean it can take advantage of it. What if an 'energy fighter' is caught below optimal speed?" Depends on the pilot.If the pilot does not use the planes advantages does he not make a mistake ? "Was it there because the pilot is horsing around, or did the pilot make a sharp turn to expend his speed for a kill?" Why not cut the angle and make a deflection kill at full speed ?

@Echo38 You just make me laugh so hard man.Where does all your frustration vs the old il2 come from ? Because it's irrelevant in this discussion. The biggest aces of all time Erich Hartman , Richtofen said that they almost never dogfighted.In fact Richtofen got shot down because of loosing his cool and chasing for far too long the enemy plane. My old il2 mentality tells me that you win fights with your mind(deciding when and where to engage and to disengage) ,not with your dogfighting skill, if you enter a dogfight with a superior maneuvering plane, even if you are able to kill him you still have a big "chance" to get shot down by another enemy in the area. Because you get slow and speed=life. Look at the video posted by WildBillKelsoe tha p51 wins but his speed in the end is 0. In a multiplayer 30 vs 30 for example game what if a enemy catches you at 0 speed while he is diving at max speed? He is going to set fire to more than your tail tip. I say again speed=life, never get that slow. I'm not saing not to do a yo-yo or 2 but one should know then to disengage from a fight. When i dive with the p51 at maximum speed on a 109 in the old il2 i only need a split second burst to brake a wing off. Because the speed vectors of my plane and my rounds combine, and the mg rounds have a lot more energy. kinetic energy is calculated like this: Ek = ½mv2 (that is m*(V*V)/2) So this equation reveals that the kinetic energy of an object is directly proportional to the square of its speed. That means that for a twofold increase in speed, the kinetic energy will increase by a factor of four. For a threefold increase in speed, the kinetic energy will increase by a factor of nine.So if you shoot at max speed your mg rounds have far, far more distructive enery. If you shoot from low dogfight speeds like "profesor echo" here your rounds have a lot less energy so you will shoot a bucket of bullets to get the kill if you are facing a pilot that takes evasive action and not a noob. DCS AFM or arcade fm has nothing to do with this topic.My arguments are valid even for arcades like war thunder. The only arcade jokes i seen are those History Documentaries.If Candelaria did anything like that in real life he would be dead. Because if you get slow enough to do that turn(The rudder can turn the plane like that only at stalling speed) the other guy just blows you apart with a very easy deflection shooting. And at high speed you just can't get slow enough , fast enough to do that sci-fi turn. And the other guy just stands still and calmly passes through your field of fire ?And the "concentration" of your mg rounds would be 0.Shooting like that i think would be a miracle if any hits on the enemy plane are scored. All the time the germans atacked in pairs(leader , wingman).The leader attaks while the wingman watches his 6. Stuf like: the skilled german leader fights the american and everybody else wathes is TV crap. it's just as realistic as a monkey shooting down a 109 by throwing a banana while hanging from a weather baloon. If i was in that p51 i would do a downward defensive spiral because tha 51 accelerates much faster in a dive and disengage. Why should i go up when the 109 is beter in a climb ?

Just seen this hotas project on sukhoi.ru forum. http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=169104&d=1374834391 beeing made by VKB FSC Europe i think. Looks like a pak-fa stick.or from a mig 29.

262 is the reason i pledged.