AndyJWest

The AI Mig-15s have very unrealistic FMs.

Because it hasn't been released yet.

Even ignoring the obvious other issues (starting with file size), a map that large would run into serious distortion problems with the existing 'flat Earth' modelling DCS uses. You'll have to wait until spherical mapping is implemented...

Yup. Sources say by 8 inches - not sure if that's per tip, or overall. Either way, it was because some RN carriers had hangers which were just too low to take an unclipped Corsair with wings folded. There are a lot of myths floating around with regard to RN Corsairs, and the idea that this minor modification was made for any more significant reason is one of them. The RN also operated land-based Corsairs, unclipped, so they clearly didn't think it mattered otherwise.

I'd be surprised if the small change to the wingtip profile made any meaningful difference to performance in real life. Maybe with very careful testing they might have been able to detect a difference, but why would they bother? It needed to be done (to fit some RN carriers), so they did it. Pilots who expected a difference might have thought there was one, but given all the other variables, there's no particular reason to assume this was more than imagination. And even if there was a difference, we don't have data on it...

Seems highly unlikely they'd form at typical wind over the deck speeds. If this were possible, with any carrier-borne aircraft, I'm sure we'd have seen photographic evidence.

The mixture control in a Hornet is the big lever on the left-hand side. For some obscure reason, jet-jockeys call it a 'throttle'.

Previous thread on wearing helmets in C-130s: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/377124-herk-pilots-dont-wear-helmets/#comment-5677838 Short answer: it depends, but more likely to be seen in a combat situation.

I'll believe it when I see it. Let me know how progress is going in 2030...

Or make us an entirely-new high-fidelity air combat simulation? For free. With an 'add new aircraft' button so nobody has to wait for pesky developers to make stuff. You want a XB-70 Valkyrie, but can't find it in the mission editor? No problem. ChatGPT will have it ready for you in a few minutes. Yeah, that'll happen... Meanwhile, in the real world, ChatGPT is still struggling with basic concepts like the difference between looking something up in a cited source and inventing fictitious but plausible-sounding citations.

It's easier to keep the F-14 straight after touchdown with differential spoilers (i.e. stick left/right) than with rudder, in my experience.

It would help if the lights weren't almost invisible.

I can confirm that landing on the Tarawa causes a crash, even when calling inbound.

I'd be surprised if the frame rate had any bearing on how often the buttons were checked. More or less any simulation or fast-paced game developed in the last 20 years has separated game logic update rate (checking inputs, updating object positions etc) from frame rate (how often the display is updated). Multithreading is a thing...

Sure, NVidia 'have you constantly as a customer'. That's what is known as a monopoly. And destroying working video cards isn't exactly environmentally friendly...