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I was in my late age 20's when I started working in tool and die work. I worked with a 1930's era French trained tool maker, he then in his age 60's. The way machinist's were trained in France, then, during their apprenticeship was every time he screwed up, he got whapped on the knuckles with a ruler by his instructor. By the end of his first week, his knuckles were so sore and swollen, he figured he better quickly wise up or try another trade! An earlier post stated the military's way of 24/7 training being very effective. I agree. My Navy training after basic, in my specialty was 10 weeks of very intense training. If elementary and high school were done similarly, we would be in college by age 14. Instead in the USA, schooling is just a glorified baby sitting experience.

I fly the Ka-50 old school as BS1 had the trimmer function, I use no trim mods. I use quite a few other mods to enrich the experience using JSGME to manage my mods. There are no Ka-50 MP missions of interest for me, anymore, nobody supports it, except as individual sorties like the 104th does it. I quit flying it. With FC3, the Ka-50 is a dead duck target for the F-15. Guys' interests migrate to the newbie stuff. The Ka-50 is a has been. I fly mostly WWII and Korea eras lately. Just wish DCS had a dedicated company run server like Aces High has and a similar win the map type gaming objective. DCS currently has the best aircraft; Aces High has the best gaming and player numbers and see the other guy playability. The Warthog A-10C is easy to takeoff, fly, and land. It is the weapons delivery and internal computer systems that get complicated, large learning curve. This is the best aircraft DCS offers---until they get the Hornet out in beta! For learning and support the DCS forums archive are valuable. I use YouTube videos for all the DCS aircraft to learn from, starting with Matt Wagner's stuff.

The only server I have tried using my new Mig-15 where I keep getting kicked off, is the Korea War era server. Yesterday this happened 6 times, I never got to starting the jet. I asked a question in text chat about it, then I was on a couple hours no problem. Ten minutes ago, same problem has occurred, a couple of times. I never completed the manual startup, then "connection interrupted". I do have the added English cockpit mod as well as the clear cockpit canopy mod. Is this issue unique to only this server? I have quite a few DCS aircraft and have sim flown in the DCS MP for a few years with few connection problems occurring. (later edit) : Got on the 104th Phoenix's server and flew the Mig-15 for an hour without issue.

My first day with the Mig-15. As Message #1 states, this still occurs today using the Korea era server out of NY City. I am using the manual start procedure that is in the Quickstart Guide. Also tried using the "Left Win + Home" starting cheat and the Mig-15 does not start using this same server. I tried a few different Mig-15 slots with the same result happening---no startup. Yet, some guys are starting theirs and taking off. (re: Message #8 ) : Thanks for the advice, I will go give it a try on the same Korea era server right now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (edit: a bit later) : Yes, that works! Switch on only the generator switch, right hand side, for initial startup. Make sure "Right Shift + Home" fuel shutoff lever is fully open or the engine will not spool up all the way.

Mt. Rainier in Washington State, USA, is just a bit below 15,000 feet. People hike up without using oxygen tanks. I think they acclimatize at Camp Muir a day or two before a summit attempt.

My first day in this aircraft, today. This thread answers a few questions of procedures I have encountered. Thanks.

In most MP combat sims I have played in, most of the fights are below 10,000 feet, usually lower. And most guys want to turn fight. Guys talk about wanting accurate simulator aircraft types and then do their fighting in no way as a real air combat scenario has occurred. Yeah, "chicken"... Whatever works to gain advantage and win the fight. I have never much liked joining squads. There is too much BS. There is a good sale currently, I am going to get the Mig-15. Been reading this forum for a heads up before I purchase it.

I read Chuck Yeager's first book. He talks about test flying a captured Mig during the Korean War, that's what I remember, it could have been later. I figured the USA Air Force has engineering data somewhere concerning backward engineering of the test flights. Was wondering how long they would keep the info to themselves.

I would rather see a completed FULL flight manual, not just the quickie one they gave us. Everything else is just nitpicking trivial stuff.

I saw a photo once, how the German pilots were trained using home built gliders as trainers during the 1920's. These gliders were launched from a mountain ridge. The glider was very simple, no cockpit, open air design with a simple seat over a carved 2x8 keel. That wooden keel was the landing gear. It had no wheels. The wings were overhead like a Cessna trainer. This home built glider looked like a how-to project in the old "Popular Mechanics" magazine. After the end of WWI, Europe mandated that Germany would not produce weapons. Germany worked around that restriction. For me, the DCS Fw-190 was the hardest to learn to takeoff and land, but I do good currently. I apply full throttle on take off. I use the rudder pedals both left and right, but mostly right. Stick is in my lap for up elevator. Stick forward a hair. Up on two wheels still dancing with the rudder pedals and stick, and up she goes. Landing I come in slow, stick in my lap, 3-point landing. I roll out quite aways before applying brakes. You just have to practice a lot. I could not land this thing at all in the beta. I do a lot better, now. Landing the Bf-109 in its beta is what taught me how to land the 190 better.

You had the best WWII server up a week or two ago; I could see the enemy aircraft way out, way beyond what DoW offers. Been wondering where your server went. Was betting you changed your ISP. I use the DCS open beta server, but few servers are offered when I am on. When I am on, Europe is asleep except for the occasional night owl.

Doesn't look like you are finding solution... Talk to the more educated and experienced technicians at your ISP's help line or personally go speak to technicians in the field. Befriend your local public library PC guru IT guy; pick brains. My local college also has an IT department. There is a quite knowledgeable guy here, username Skuzzy, that oversees the IT end of things: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php Good luck.

I have made custom snap views of the Fw-190, Bf-109, and F-86 lately. In case my optical sight goes down, which occurs too often, I made backup zoomed-in views right to centerline of the 2 WWII planes' iron sights that are default in the cockpit's front view, left of center. In the F-86, I set part of the front canopy's glass as a reference point and did the same. I also have views looking back over my tail both left and right as a "check six" of the 3 planes. These are all mapped views to specific buttons on my throttle and joystick. These custom snap views get saved specific to each aircraft's snap view folder. I finally took the plunge to figure out how to do this. Now to do same for my Ka-50 with a backup sight, because once my HUD goes down I am useless. As Blooze said earlier in this thread, if an update somehow overwrites the custom snap views created, they all will have to be redone, or at least the ones that were overwritten. The only way out of this MAYBE is to create a mod for each aircraft and use JSGME; just remember to disable all mods before doing an update.

My CH Products controllers .map for the Ka-50 allows me to pause my TrackIR5 and still lets me use views of NumberPad presets or custom snap views I create and I have best of both worlds.

___________CUSTOM_SNAP-VIEWS http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=140494 See Message #4 (I just updated this with an edit today.) EDIT : September 20, 2015 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Added this to my thread above, my new Message #5. ================================== See Message #3 here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=105224

The ball handle goes DOWN to lock the tailwheel. TAKEOFF ====== Stick in my lap for up elevator. Full throttle. A bit over 100 kph, stick forward a bit, up on two wheels, then airborne. LANDING ====== I leave the ball set down in flight, so when landing, makes landing very easy. Landing speed for me is well below 200kph, 3 point landing, stick in my lap. TAXI === The ball handle goes up.

I press a button that I assigned in Options/Controls to my CH Fighterstick during manual startup, it works fine. I don't use the ground crew menu for startup.

Does not take much gun damage from either ground fire or a Mustang, then the propeller auto-pitch / manual changeable pitch gets stuck in position. I always can go back to base rtb and land, but with significantly less power. When engine stops, the 3 bladed propeller is bent back over the nose cowl. In the Mustang, usually the 1st damage that occurs is a no engine governor situation. Have not yet had the problem in either plane that stopped the engine dead in flight from combat, except in the Bf-109, the keyboard "m" key, playing around with killing the engine in flight, if restarted too dramatically will kill the engine and stop propeller rotation dead. Offline in SP, I do not like playing with the AI; it is just not very realistic, except it is a good reflex exercise. My encounters are real people, them sitting with their computers.

In Bf-109, full realism, killing power of guns (both simultaneously) seems not too effective against Mustang on the DoW server. Compare to Fw-190, full realism, against Mustang on the Korea server which at 200 meters and about a 10 round burst does quite nicely. Bf-109 is still early beta, Fw-190 is final release. Hope the guns' effectiveness improves. Granted, cannon rounds drop significantly with range. If it is not the guns, then it is me!

WTF? http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.ph...43#post2364743 Flies like a helicopter! So this is what they found in the Area-51 hangar using the Nevada map? I can see the 104th using this with their FC3 liveries. Tyger would be loving this; the WWII aircraft set him off! Hollywood movie contracts? Have to wait for its release, no dying from heart attack or cancer at least until then. LOL!

X-wing fighters

I flew the 109 on the DoW server last night 2 or 3 hours. I teach myself to manually start all the DCS aircraft I own because it comes in handy sometimes when the autostart cheat fails to start or is not offered. Or like in the Ka-50 on a RTB and refuel/rearm fails to start again in autostart. Sometimes if I pick a particular plane slot, the aircraft will not start or runs erratic. I just pick another slot. The flight manual for the 109 states, and I have found, let the engine warm-up to its ideal temperatures before taking off. My frame rates are great. I have a good PC, finally quit DSL and got a 100MB/5MB cable connection and I set my Options/System appropriately to get what I want. I have to learn the mission map trial and error, learning where things are and where the guys hang out. Fly it enough, you can tell who it is just by the way they fly and fight and can get a feel what that guy will probably do next.

The ACG server does this with their current MP mission running. There is the alternative to refuel and rearm the next base over. I am not going to RTB back to my base of origin if the vulchers are waiting for me to land. Also, the Korea server has this going on. Definitely a game killer reason not to fly, if the option is not there.

Yes, I agree. :thumbup:

(re: Message #1) DoW server is most active at about 7PM Eastern Time Zone and again about 11PM, for about an hour each, a bit longer earlier. ==================================== For me seeing and finding the enemy bogie is the issue. ==================================== The only WWII server that works for me is the ACG server in England. I like flying around on the DoW server out of NJ, USA, but finding other enemy aircraft is near impossible for me unless I am half a mile away or closer. If you run one of the IP numbers, it says Toms River, NJ (you guys still call NY'ers benny's?) What is ACG doing differently? I went back to sim flying a more arcade style sim, WWII combat sim where I can spot the bogie far off dot 10 miles away before their icon appears at 6K. I played this sim for 5 years before discovering DCS. And they have bombers with up to two real people in them, not AI. Midnight this morning there were 160 guys playing. Their server is in Texas. DCS needs to do it better!