Rhino4

Caution: *Feeling a strong desire to be mean and say, " 1.13 = DCS:BS"*

My head hurts...I need a nap....

To clarify, I believe you can move in any direction to get out of VRS. Since you're in a helicopter, it makes no difference. My 2 cents regarding what everybody else already said: The rotors are your wings. Because they spin through the air they generate lift. But if you're dropping fast enough, then it's the same as an airplane with no forward speed. You just drop like a rock because there's not enough airflow over the wings in the right direction to generate lift. You have to have enough speed in one direction for your helicopter's wings to generate lift again. Then you can increase collective and start getting altitude again.

LOL...Not laughing at you, alex, it's just funny, hehe...

Doesn't say jack about ai tho...

@ Crunch and Baka: BS was built to run in dx9. But that doesn't mean it won't run under dx10. It WILL, but some features are no longer supported and therefore you have compatibility and graphics glitches, random crashes, or perhaps your game doesn't work at all (depending on the specific game title). Just because a game is a dx9 game doesn't mean that it won't run under anything else... @ Crunch: And if you were running DX8 by default then you wouldn't be able to run this game at all because you wouldn't have dx9 installed...

Why not just make an identical (but completely new) group spawn at the same spot you had your last group start at when the first group gets killed?

Sure you can. The new weathered textures look great and very realistic in my opinion. My favorite detail is the cracked paint. It looks amazing. I am very happy with this and I think that it will be the one I use when it's available. Edit: Janko was spot on when he said it would look real if you added grass, but I'm not sure if that is even possible. You'd have to model something like a tiny tree and then get it to sit on the runway lol. Whatever, it looks great now. Is it up on lockonfiles.com?

I would take anything if it would mean landing on a carrier. A2A, A2G, it makes no difference. Gimme some carrier ops and I'll be one happy camper. (A-6 would rawk)

Just outa curiosity: How'd you give the turk's ka-50s a chaff load?

Loooove the weathering on this model. No one ever weathers their skins and they always look like airshow skins to me...It's a russian aircraft. It's a ground attack aircraft. It should have some dirt on it.

@ Necroscope: The joints should be perfectly straight. Remember that most contruction jobs of this type are completed using metal forms that don't easily bend (and if they do bend, a quick swipe with a sledge hammer does the trick nicely :)). And the joints are the correct width. I've done several construction jobs of this type over the years and this looks right to me. As for the color of the concrete, I agree. It's a really good representation of the color of new concrete. If he were going for a more weathered look I would say that the concrete needs to be darker with water spots in places from sinkage and imperfections in levelness, and the individual blocks should have expansion cracks from normal heating/cooling over time running through them. I would also say that he should have some of those cracks (though certainly not all) be covered with tar from periodic repairs. I would also have him add a few weeds in the cracks near the edge of the parking ramp. But since he's going for "new-ish" I think it looks spot on. @ DragonRR: Taking the paint out of the joints is a 100% improvement. It looks very nice indeed. Too bad about the taxiway and ramp joints not lining up, but oh well. Can't have everything. :)

As for the temp bridge, it depends on if they have engineers with them or not. Most likely not. It would probably be at least a few hours to hook up with a unit even if there was a unit of engineers in the area...They might try for an alternate fording sight of one was available though...

@ ED or GG or anyone else with apparent vast sums of knowledge in this area: Based on DCS's goal of providing aircraft that are as completely realistic as possible, and only modeling aircraft that they can find good documentation for, what would be the likelyhood of developing an F-14? Would the available documentation for this aircraft even make it possible? Just wondering since this aircraft is no longer in service (except for in Iran I believe) and I'm sure that at least 80% of us would all love to see such a classic fighter modelled...

More of a feature than an easter egg I would say...Oh, wait, that's another topic lol!

You should see Iraqi tv. Words cannot describe the horror of being forced to watch an iraqi action movie. *Strangles self*

My argument against it would be: -It's unrealistic. The vikhr may be overly complicated but that's just how it is. -DCS: BS is supposed to be as realistic as it gets. -The KA-50 is not a scout helicopter. -If helicopters ran into each other in real life then they would most likely be scout helicopters, like the OH-58D. ...You see, we have a circular argument here: "I want provisions for A2A put into the KA-50." "But it wouldn't be realistic." "I don't care, as long as it would make my life easier. BS is hard enough as it is." "BS is hard because it's realistic. If you want phony a2a, then play lockon." "I don't want to play lockon. I want to play BS, and I want to shoot A2A." "If you want to shoot A2A, then why would you want to do it from a helicopter?" "I dunno. I think it would be cool...And it would be easier than using the damn Vikhr." "Well, I think you're looney, and that you would risk degrading the accuracy of this simulation just so you can have a bit of extra cheese on your cracker." "Well I think you're an ass who can't see that it's not real anyways so why should it matter?" "Because it does. It's a simulation, damnit, not an arcade game." "Then why does it have an arcade mode, smarty-pants?" "For morons like you who think crying about how hard life is will net them an easier way to go about it." "But it's not life. It's a game you blathering idiot! And since it's a game, I don't see why we can't have a friggin' A2A missile!" "Because it wouldn't be realistic!" "I don't care, as long as it would make my life easier. BS is hard enough as it is..." ....And on and on and on... Best to just quit arguing about it and let ED decide if they'll put it in or not. P.S. Arguing with yourself can be quite frustrating when your other half can't see eye to eye with you on the most trivial of crap: My other half is a complete ass.:D

Oh, how I hate that music! Makes my ears wanna bleed.

I wouldn't post, but I think it has potential, so...Two things: 1) The lines where the taxiway meets the parking ramp should line up. Most large-scale concrete pour jobs of this type are completed by using small forms set up in a grid and poured one at a time, removing the old form-work and moving it to a new location as needed, therefore all lines would meet up (or at least 99% of the except for a few mistakes). 2) The place where the painted lines cross the joints should not completely erase the joints. You should still be able to see them. They would simply be a darker shade of white, or visibly indented. Sometimes you don't even paint the joint because it is too deep or narrow to be bothered with it.

What's are those, BTW? (Hafta give food to the fanboys too. wouldn't be fair otherwise, lol.)

Just give up GG. You're obviously dealing with fanbois.:D We all know you'll never convince them that just because the RL chopper doesn't carry them and that they only fired a2a missiles in tests from prototype/testbed acft, and just because the photos on the net and in books are only mockups and not operational acft, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't get to use them in a game labelled as a "study sim" where absolute realism is paramount to its presentation, does it?:megalol: On the other hand: I wonder why they made KH-25s available to the KA-50 in-game? They don't carry those in RL either, correct? Or is that just a workaround as in lockon and not actually an option included in the game?

Seeing as how I'm from America and thus have never heard of it (damn americans never know anything about other countries), it was obvious to me at least that I was having a little fun with Antier Pierre for his demand to, "Fix it right now, ARRRGH!!!" (paraphrased). Guess I shoulda done something like this:

Well...I guess, "If you ain't cav..."

I've seen some people on youtube just doing a roll. Not a barrel roll, but a roll as they would in a fighter. Looks very wonky and uncoordinated.

OH NOES!!!