Durnox

Okok...yes, stupid, park at the right position and you are fine :music_whistling: Sorry, for posting :smilewink:

Hi Folks, after some time away from DCS, I got back and found that promising campaign. But I guess I forgot lots of things - or got stupid during the time :pilotfly:: How can I finish the mission? First time the navigation was...hmmm..sub-optimal ...to be frank I got more or less lost, but finally found my way "home" to Maykop. The mission did not count, which seems to be ok. :cry: Second time I triggered all WPs - at least I always got messages to turn, passed the final villages, contacted Maykop and even switched back to 126, said goodby, back to 125, got eventually "ready to land" by the mates and touched down nicely on the runway (that even surprised me), taxied to a parking position and shutdowned the heli. But that did not count either...and I wonder why?

same here. Anything new on this toppic? The original post is now 10months old!! (The lua patch might help....but to be frank: This is payed content and I expect it to work. Yes, bugs happen - but they need to get fixed)

I wonder why you dont simply look into your keybindings? There you not only find everything - you can even change it...

And one more opinion :-) :smartass: If you really want to get into DCS the A10-C is simply perfect. Some guys say it is most challenging - I would NOT sign that! Yes, it is VERY complex and you CAN spend weeks, month, years to learn every detail, BUT you DONT NEED to learn everything at once. The big advantage: This thing is easy to fly, it has all "components" which are more or less common to all jets (engine, APU, CDU) - so knowing this stuff from here you'll learn the other jets much easier. The only REAL challenge in the beginning is the start up and the overview, where to find what. But there are lots of checklists to get through - and this you should train until you can startup this thing blindly. This also gets you in touch with most systems. Then try to (roughly) understand each step what is happening there - what is the battery doing, the inverter, the apu, the generator(s), CDU, Radio(s), external/internal lights.... Next: Taxi, Start, Flying straight, flying curves, landing. ..and finally dig into the complex systems, learn advanced flying (navigation, landing with crosswind, during fog or night, with damage, flying in "ant's knee height" through canyons, air refuelling, weapon deployment, countermeasures) Finally: Have a look at the mapleflag missions. They could support your learning quite well

OMG how stupid :doh: Thanks :thumbup:

After failing in a MP-session to hold a connect longer than...hmm...1/10s I tried it yesterday in an own solo-mission (DCS1.5). Well, I'm not very experienced with the ME (nor air refuelling). Anyway: I took a S-3 (?) heading east and placed my m2k some miles behind it. I gave the both 280kn initial speen in the ME - or at least I thought so. Now: Whem I approach the tanker to get to the precontact I was too fast. Surprisingly the tanker's speed was around 180kn and I had some problems to fly such slow. 1st question: How can I set the speed in the ME higher? 180kn seems much too slow, right? After I finally managed to get into the precontact position and told the tanker so - he accellerated...I think to 240kn - or something around this. btw: this behaviour I've seen in my first try in a MP-session in DCS-2, too. 2nd-4th question: * what speed SHOULD be hold during air refuelling? (by the S-3) * why did he accellerate after precontact? * what would be the correct configurtaion in ME for the tanker? Finally: For me a very small axis-curve worked better (0-4). For the A10c I had something around 20-25 and I used that for the m2k, too, but the m2k reacts quite differently on stick input. With 0-4 I managed 10-20s contacts at once.

Or use a calculator and a clock: D / (GS [knots] * 1.15) = t [h] D: Distance, GS: Groundspeed

Well, you are right - to some degree. But the "new guys" argument gets smaller and smaller - for them trainers like the L39 or the Hawk would be better: easy enough but a good degree of simulation depth. I would prefer to see the FC3 planes get more realistic instead of reducing realism from really good simulated planes. ("crappy" was too harsh - sorry for that)

Thats an argument to rework the crappy FC3 planes, not to strip down the M2000! At one server (buddyspike?) they even forced a complete refuel after spawning FC3 planes to hold them at least a short period longer at the ground. I personally hope that there will be some more fighters in the future which are more realistic in a way that MP makes more sense. Does anybody know how long a SU27 or F15 in reality needs for allignment? Although I will hate, waiting 8 Minutes - for me DCS is mainly a simulation and should be "as realistic as possible". Btw: there were a similar discussion about the Mig21 regarding the Gear-Lever...

Exactly

I faced the same problem - at least in this mission. We are circling each other quite close and the lock tone appears only in very high G-turns. By watching the tracks in TacView I saw that if the lock tone appears I'm by far to close to my opponent - so regardless of the G - the missile wouldn't hit anyway. So I tried different maneuvers to get some more distance - but now I never got a lock tone. At some point I simply shot as it "looked right"...and got my kill. The relevant things were: * be within missile range * pointing slightly ahead of his nose * be more or less behind him - just enough for the missile to "see" the exhaust It helps to watch your fight in TacView and measure the distances to get a feeling when shooting is successful.

Ok, #1 and #2 I found in the manual. Sorry!

Ok - just tried it out. one L39C directly before me - same heading. My missile even hits from slighly over 6km distance (for testing purposes he does no evasive maneauvers), only I have to place the pipper exactly on my opponent. But I do not get a lock sound. The lock tone changes on 950m distance. I dont know if this is correct..just wondering because 950m seems to be very close.

Uups - I meant EGT, not EEG in #1 Thanks for the info. Will try to look at #4 again