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Certainly those airliners equipped with HUDs have synthetic runway displays (one of the main reasons to have a HUD there). As for why fighters don't have them, maybe the modern ones do? It needs some storage space to keep all the runway locations and orientations and the display is worse than useless if the INS position isn't very accurate (i.e. automatically updated from GPS or other GNSS).

You don't actually "need" it since you can navigate visually or by radio navaids, particularly in the MiG-21 which has radio beacons of most airports available. Having a mark magically appear on the map with infallible GPS precision is pretty much a cheat.

Treibstoffpumpe nicht an? Tutorial und Handbuch sagen glaube ich, dass man sie nur zum Motorstart an hat und danach nur bei Bedarf. Bedarf ist eigentlich immer nach dem Start, da fällt bei mir auch immer der Treibstoffdruck ab. Öldruck war auch nicht zu hoch wegen unzureichendem Aufwärmen?

Ground power gives you electricity only. To turn the engines pressurized air is used, that's what the APU delivers. The motor switch allows you to turn the engines without doing the startup, i.e. without ignition and fuel injection. The ignition switch is for in-flight windmill restarts (force ignition on when sufficient RPM is reached).

Technically it should — Valve stopped syncing keys from the ED shop to Steam (the other way around continues to work), but an old key from a 2011 box should have been synced to Steam long ago. Or maybe they don't sync until the key gets used, I don't know. Anyway, if you don't need Steam features you're better off with the direct install. It gets updates (new modules especially) before they arrive in the Steam version.

The battery is still pretty empty (all lights get dark when generator cuts out) after flying for a while. It seems the battery impossibly gets discharged while the generator is running. Also there's the flickering of the lights when that happens, even after stopping the engine. Where would that fluctuation come from when the battery is the only power source? This has been like this since the release of the 190, I think. Is that going to get fixed anytime soon?

Wenn sie gleich DCS 1.2 als Zielversion geplant hätten, wäre die MiG-21 wohl etwas früher raus gekommen. Als die weitere Verzögerung von DCS 2.0 klar war, mussten sie es ja auch noch mal an 1.2 anpassen. Das sind halt Verzögerungen, die sich in Zukunft so nicht wiederholen sollten.

It's to maintain high accuracy of the INS by clearing accumulated errors. You tell the INS that you're over that point with the known coordinates and the INS can reset its computed position to that. The A-10C has GPS units to continually correct INS drift like all modern INS equipped planes, so you don't need this. I don't know if the function is implemented, at least INS drift isn't. It is perfectly accurate at all times even without GPS.

Well, I once got into a veritable spin in the P-51D while following another plane at relatively low altitude. Went quite a few turns until I could recover just above the ground. That was on the Virtual Aerobatics server where all weapons are disallowed, though. No gun/cannon ammo would shift the CG rearward and be more conduvice to spinning.

And with the stick to the left, the right wing (at least in the aileron portion of the wings) will have higher AoA than the left and therefore stall first, causing a right roll. The high drag of a stalled wing should exacerbate the situation with right yaw. I still don't see the problem. We can argue that the effect is too violent for the F-86F in the given situation (I don't have the data for that), but qualitatively it seems correct.

What's the airspeed you're flying at? Going too slow will not help. Also see the thread about extreme high flying at http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=132962 and some of the profiles people use to get there.

Can you explain? What I see in the video is asymmetric stall, exactly what I would expect from the stick input.

Don't get too used to manual radiator flaps control, though. It isn't realistic, the knob is only there to change the temperatur set point for the automatics. There simply is no manual control. Some time back Yo-Yo posted something to that effect and that it will probably change in the sim.

I know that as divide by 10 then multiply by 3, same thing. That is the standard conversion for when you have to do it mentally and much more accurate than divide by 3.

Probably more because a nose intake limits what kind of radar you can stuff into it.

...except the lights not working anymore once you exceed 700 km/h. Surely I can't be the only one to have noticed this?

I don't know if it is simulated, but if you are in a side slip these indications are unreliable. Enough side slip, and the air gets sucked out of instead of rammed into the pitot tube and then speed indications can go into negative if there is nothing to stop the needle at zero.

I've been doing a couple of high climbs on the VA server in December. Not really zooming at the end, but the AoA gets really high at that altitude. Actually trying to deal with the AoA may have caused me to do a few inadvertent zooms... I went with the bare 21, no external tanks. Afterburner continuously on from take-off, climb around 700 km/h until 8000 to 10000 m (before M0.9 would be best I think) then shallow dive to go supersonic (at least M1.2) and continue climb until it goes no further. It's pretty easy. Screenshot shows me descending shortly after flame-out at 23430 m. More than half the fuel left for a leisurely flight home after restarting the engine below 10000 m.

It knows where the plane is pointed at and how fast it is flying in the air. Through the inertial navigation system (backed by GPS in modern planes) it knows in which direction and how fast it is travelling over ground. The difference between these is the wind speed and direction.

Sicher, dass das nur in DCS passiert? Sowas habe ich auch seit einiger Zeit vor allem innerhalb der ersten 10 oder 15 Minuten nach dem Booten. Das passiert aber auch in anderen Programmen und auf dem Windows Desktop selbst. Also so, dass manchmal der Sound langsamer abgespielt wird bis es anhält (der aktuelle Sound-Puffer in einer Schleife abgespielt wird), der Mauszeiger geht noch kurz und friert dann auch ein. Nach einigen Sekunden läuft alles wie als ob nichts passiert wäre weiter. Aber bei mir eben unabhängig vom laufenden Programm. Ich konnte bisher noch keine Ursache eingrenzen. Und ich habe eine AMD Grafikkarte auf Intel CPU.

Actually it does care about roll, it keeps your bank angle stable.

I was really just guessing at a reason for deceleration. As far as my reasoning went, mine shells would have a higher ratio of explosives to lead (or whatever metal), but I didn't actually look up anything.

Dude... Dude you could have set up a sweet pun by saying "medium and long range missiles weren't even on the radar of the designers at the time", but you didn't. You blew it, man, you blew it.

Hmm... Free fall of 41 m in 9.81 m/s² takes about 2.9 s. Over 1000 m that makes for an average velocity of about 346 m/s. If the mine shell loses velocity rather quickly from air drag (high caliber / low mass?) that does not seem outrageously far off.

First, it's Bernoulli. Second, of course there will be Bernoulli effects, no profile can magically transcend physics. Third, this "more like a fin" doesn't even mean anything. A thin symmetric profile may need a little more AoA than thick profiles at low speeds, but we're talking 1700 km/h here (even if it's TAS, comparable IAS has been posted already). Edit: Okay, this post may have been a bit rude. What I'm guessing is that you've fallen for that "air molecules race along the wing to meet up again with their dear friend molecules on the other side they have been separated from" explanation of aerodynamic lift. Just forget that you ever heard that explanation, it's a big load of nonsense.