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Lol, you're not wrong about Jane's! (Also one of my favorite 90's "sims".) I do think it would be an easy module here for player aircraft. It's so simple from a systems perspective that even if you make it an AI aircraft, most of the hard work would already be done!

I know the wish list for aircraft is as long as the Earth is wide, but I'd like to throw the A-37 on the list (as well as the T-37 variant) for a few reasons - in no particular order: Fairly simple aircraft! (It was designed as a trainer after all) Fits nicely in the fixed-wing niche for Vietnam era COIN operations. (Won't mention the little hints at Vietnam map all over the place ..... oops) COIN OPERATIONS! - We're getting there as a side effect of Afghanistan/Iraq releases and infantry overhaul Armament options aplenty Still has aerial refueling Used post-Vietnam (even still today) Are there other aircraft that would take priority in a Vietnam map? Sure. In fact, OF COURSE! But after an OV-10 for COIN/CAS, I'd love to see this unique little guy. Thoughts? A-37 Dragonfly Youtube Video

Awesome, thanks. Super excited to give'er a go!

Nvm. I don't care about whiners' opinions.

I'm downloading this tonight. I'm curious though, is part of the variety rocket/rocket (10lb'er) and/or rocket/hellfire (HFs on the right)? Those were two very common loads IRL.

The folda gap would be fun. I'm personally happy with Afghanistan so I can relive my early 20's. But variety certainly never killed anyone.

I'm not certain, but perhaps because there have been no major air operations in modern times (80s onward) in those places that trump Afghanistan/Iraq? If you're only looking for cool looking places to fly (many here would say boring), Kola and South Atlantic will be up your alley. Or go tool around MSFS until you want to put a 2000lb JDAM on an IED-maker's compound.

@NineLine @BIGNEWY I spent a year in and out of Fob Griffin on the Southwest side side of Maimana. If you would like assistance in replicating it, shoot me a DM. Also, the PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) base on the Northeast side of town had a short runway. The 1st Cav blackhawks were there when I was so you might be able to see of one of those guys could help. I only ever cared about the chow hall, hospital, and turf soccer pitch so I forget when the rest looked like.

I THINK i read there's some serious distortion with them that maybe they're trying to fix?

Going to be tough. At some point, you get significant diminishing returns. I'm running a Q3 with everything in cockpit maxed out both in-game and headset. It's easily legible but not perfectly crisp. I still use the vr zoom extensively. You may want to posit your question in the VR subfirum to get some more ideas. However your "max clarity" is only going to be so high, and I'd venture a guess that it still might not be good enough. Things that help: Quadview foveated rendering (fixed, of course). Supersampling in your headset (virtual desktop makes this very easy) Running standalone so steamvr isn't eating resources. Community mods for VR MPD clarity, specific to F18. Edit: Looks like mods moved it I to VR, thanks!

Just read the update where HB explained the delay and some of the HBUI features. It got me thinking; apart from the Jester functionality, perhaps HB might consider a standalone tool with some of the functionality? I know Openkneeboard hits many of these marks, but there are some shortcomings I'd love to see filled. Just a thought.

It's the "thrust" axis. There's one fir left, right, but you want the both bind.

Ugly load out meaning asymmetric load out which is common in the f18 for several reasons. https://www.youtube.com/live/YmiVxj5Gt3Q?si=DMHPlXNDJ1EzTP9h

Hmm, probably not, but next time you look externally, check for ugly. I think you said it's always pulling the same direction regardless of your heading so you can rule out wind Because dcs will auto-assign axes to controllers. For example. My rudder always has an assignment for the pitch axis when setting it up with new keybind profiles. Should also do the rudder.

Be safe, do both! Start with the joystick software then do dcs

Running ugly loadout? Crosswind? When's the last time you recalibrated your joystick? I find, since I turn off my USB hub when not in use, that my joystick center position wanders a bit over time. This is always an annoying culperate. Spent hours trying to fix it once only to find out that just having an Xbox one controller plugged in was adding input.

Are you using Steam or WMR?

My 8 year old believes the Hellcat is better because it wasn't as hard to land on a carrier. His belief was that both can fly, shoot bad guys down, and protect America, but thought it was silly that the Corsair couldn't do exactly what it was designed for (thanks to my engineer wife). The fact that the British figured out how to land it on a carrier reliably didn't sway him. Dang it, I can't disagree with that logic! FYI: He likes the Corsair more since we watch Black Sheep Squadron on Saturday mornings. Mind you, he's not a genius. Just loves planes and WWII stories.

Post this in the VR thread and you'll get better answers.

Why is this in the squadron recruiting forum? You'd likely get better response if it were in the appropriate sub forum...

Don't want to hijack the thread but it seems there's a resolution already here and don't want to add yet another F18 Kneeboard thread... Does the pilot model kneeboard pull from your Saved Games/KNEEBOARD documents as well? Or, do I need to put them in the actual DCS directory?

I'm only asking because I'm finding it difficult how it works in conjunction with hand tracking, since in DCS, I didn't know the virtual hand acted as a mouse pointer where you would only need to map mouse clicks.

Any appetite to post a quick video of it in action? I'm very happy with my PointCTRL but my dad is getting back into DCS and I'd like to give him something like this instead of waiting months for PointCTRL.

Sorry, I should have clarified. I was more speaking to the one sentence in your previous post: "For VD you need to make sure you use a dedicated router." I don't have such a thing and it works as expected for me. I also don't have a crazy network speed, and have plenty of internal wifi traffic (wife/kids). I saw a few dedicated routers as I was waiting for my Q3 to arrive and debated on getting one just in case, but decided since (as you mentioned) Amazon has plenty that could be at my door same/next day, I ended up playing the "wait and see" if I need it strategy. Naturally, I didn't need to upgrade anything network related. Just make sure you're on the 5g network.

While this may be true for your experience, I don't believe it's the majority of user experience with VD. Perhaps my Nighthawk Wifi 5-GHz router is special, but I doubt it. I'm pushing VD with the godlike setting and 500Mbps in the Oculus debug tool with zero issues. Honestly, I felt it was easier to run DCS/MSFS/IL2 on the Q3 with VD than it was for my Index (okay, maybe it was because Steam is dog doodoo for maximizing performance). Much like many other good things in life, you have to put in the effort to experience the benefits. VR is no different.