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Luftwaffe Fighter Ace : Norbert Hannig Great book, feels very much like Pierre Clostermann book, but from the opposite perspective. Has interesting insights on the difficulty in fighting in the East (Navigation over the Russion step for example). Well worth a read.

Yeah I have a couple of Stream deck devices that I have the Knobs mapped to lots of rotarys( radio channels, volumes, level etc), the rotary is clickable so you can stack as many functions as you want and you can swipe the screen at the bottom to switch pages, the number of confguration is literally infinite. I`m definetly getting the controller to attach to the stream deck.

Great Idea!! I especially like the expanding controller. I wonder if you could them with a tablet and then use Helios to export the tedac display to the tablet?

I'm also having this problem, with dumb bombs this seems to happen. If I sensor select down twice, place the flight path on the ground, tdc depress to create a target point it will drop the bomb in auto mode. If however I use tdc slew after the initial placement to refine the aim point it will not drop not matter if I press the tdc depress or long hold wp increment. Also if I try to undesignate with the Nws the dmt box randomly jumps around the Hud and not back to the flight path marker.

This thread is giving me serious cockpit envy. Mine is a nomadic simming existance, with a lenovo p50 laptop ( just exceptable fps), X56 sticks, trackhat head tracking, streamdeck xl, streamdeck +, mfd's exported and pedals.

Yeah this is a great video, he has some super advice, about using just pitch and rudder for the final few feet of line up and wriggling your fingers and toes before pre-contact! Well worth a watch

Ok so this is a very niche problem, but just in case anyone else comes across a similar issue. We had an old lenovo P50 laptop come into work to be scrapped, battery was charging slowly and wouldn't hold the charge very long, with a clean install of windows and latest drivers it was running dcs at 70 fps, admittedly with low graphic setting. Opening the nvidia control panel made this drop to less than 10 fps, and to only way to get it back to 70 fps was a fresh install of windows and the device drivers. What was happening was when the nvidia control panel was opening it was checking the battery, seeing a problem with it and setting the power consumption of the graphics card to low to try and allow the battery to charge( overriding the windows and nvidia battery settings set to performance and not power saving). When I removed the battery and ran the laptop on just the mains it went straight back to 70 fps. With the battery in back to 10fps So if you have an older laptop and the battery has seen better days it might be having an unforseen effect on your performance.

Agreed I have the xl and +, the Dialstack is really good I have the first 2 dials setup with 2 radio channels, top level is channel selection, click the dial stack and second level is radio volume. I have the next 2 rotaries set to various dials in each cockpit, so for example in my AV8B setup the dial stack on rotary 3 are all e/w related, its top level Decoy control, second is RWR volume and third is jammer selection. Also the ability to swipe pages with the LCD screen is so useful, I have mine set with page one set as a threat page, so for example from the harrier it has the SAM, CW, AI and AAA lamps on the top row of buttons, these illuminate as appropriate, under that the next row of buttons I have chaff dispense, flare salvo (spits from all 4 bucket continually),flare ( either single or if program is select in the EW page that) and on the last button something I call Flare Popup, which I hit if I`m running in for a popup attack it will fire 1 flare every second for 30 seconds. If I swipe to page 2 its set to Engine read outs, with fuel flow, JPT, Stab position, H2O level, RPM, Fuel Total and Flap Pos displayed on each button and a 3 way switch for H2O selection. I have the Xl set so when it changes the cockpit profile (F16, F18.AH64,AV8b,and F14) it automatically switch to the appropriate profile on the Streamdeck + as well.

Have had the opportunity to sit in the cockpit of a Vulcan recently, my vote was easy.

I know what I`m asking for my birthday in September!!

I think the situation when using any pod against Sam systems (with the stock game, and no sam scripts running) is quite complicated. If you are on a strike mission, using the jammer might create a gap in the Wez between 2 site that allows you to sqeeze through, however if there is a bigger enough overlap between 2 sites running the pod prior to being locked is a bad idea. This is simple because generally the Sam sites are so dumb and will always launch at you at the earliest opportunity, which is good for the pilot because it gives you the best chance defeat the missile kinematically ie bleed its energy. With the pod switched on all the time all that is happening is pushing the engagement closer to the Sam sites no escape zone, I don`t think the deception jamming give a bigger enough safety margin to outweigh facing missiles with much high energy. In fact against the stock game on SEAD missions you could argue that saving the weight by not taking the pod and using Israeli wagon wheel tactics are the most effective way to deal with Sam sites, you want the most shots at you at the longest range, and then hit the site while the launchers are empty.

This is what I`m currently working on, been on the go on and off for about a year.

The seeker can distinguish between a valid target and a structure.

So I think the OP is refering to a incident from the Book Viper Pilot where Dan Hampton talks about coupling the ils to a Markpoint. This is related to a incident where he recovered group of F16 to a divert airfield, which had no published ils approach. The direct quote from the book is: Dan Hampton states he could have data linked this to the rest of his make shift flight, but past the lat/long verbally for them to generate their own markpoints to couple their own ils. It certainly is implied that this mark point is being use to drive the ils needles instead of the normal ils signals. Another quote later in the same chapter confirms this So I guess there are 2 questions does our dcs f16 version have this feature irl and is it modelled in game?

Just to be clear does this mean you can`t couple the ILS to a Markpoint?