Robert1983NL

I haven't done it, but I do know it's really expensive. But if you've got the money, just go with what I said: Visit a couple of schools, pick the one you like best and get going right now so you'll enjoy the spring and summer weather :)

What's keeping you from going to a flying school and just getting started?

Well, what do you want to do? Fly fixed wing? Fly helicopter? RPL? PPL? Maybe CPL? You're gonna need a LOT of money, and just visit a couple of flying schools and go for the one which gives you the best feeling. I also have a question for you :) How's that HD7970 handling three monitors? Or DCS in general? I've got an old HD5770 which I'm looking to replace. I got my eye on the HD7970, but it's so damn expensive still.

Hey guys, I'm a noob at mission designing, but this morning I decided to have a go at it. Since it's my first time, I want to make something relatively simple. I want to create a mission where you have to fly into a steadily climbing valley. Meanwhile the weather has to deteriorate. I tried options with Dynamic Weather, but you can't really set that many options, so it seems to me this is useless for my wish. The standard weather settings also don't make any sense to me. It bugs me that it is in meters, instead of in feet. The base of the clouds can't go any lower than 300 METERS??? Why is this? And when I set the base at 300, the ACTUAL base is thousands and thousands of feet higher? Am I doing something wrong here? Also, the max thickness is 2000 meters... Why? I want really thick clouds for my training mission. Is it possible to have the weather deteriorate? Or are the weather options just very limited in DCS? Also, is icing simulated?

Normally the ground crew would just plug their headset into your aircraft. Can't imagine that being impossible on the A10.

I got almost 1000 hours as a pilot. ~55 hours PC7, ~120 hours TH67, 12 hours UH-1, ~750 hours CH-47D/F. That's where I come from, but you don't need to be experienced to analyse that landing and conclude it's not the way to go, imho.

Requesting startup is VERY normal. Maybe not for small Cessna's at a local yokel airfield, but normally you request start-up. ATC would like to know how many POB you have and keep an eye out just in case anything would go wrong during startup. Ofcourse you also want to know the winds and if the airfield is operational and the fire department is standby. Just a couple of reasons from the top of my mind. For as far as I know, QFE is only used in the UK. Though I'm used to working with QNH, I think that especially for IFR flights QFE makes a lot of sense.

Lol, you're funny! It's great for you that you don't care about quality. I do, so that's why I disagree with you. Has nothing to do with conservatism and 2013 lmao! :D

I'm not playing a smarta$$. Someone asked the question, I answered it. :) I've got 12 hours on the Huey, I can't remember hearing a clicking noise from pressing the force trim.

Yeah, we would also need voice marshalling if there's gonna be underslung load ops.

Did you open the canopy?

Lol... I guess you're adding this to the landing tutorial to show people how NOT to land? Come on... Are we going for realism here, or for ****ing around and accepting a terrible landing just because it looked cool and didn't get anyone killed? That's more BF3 style. I'm not saying it's easy to land the Huey in DCS, but really, this video is a terrible example of a landing.

In real life it's not as pronounced as it is in DCS. Actually, it's the only thing about the DCS Huey that's very unrealistic. Nowhere near how the real Huey performs with the vortex ring state.

He's crabbing like mad. In real life he would've probably rolled over. Plus the descent looks too fast and uncontrolled at the final part. Seems to me it was just lucky he didn't hit the ground prematurely.

Great demo? In real life he would've nearly died if he landed like that!

You can play in the game mode, that has more dampening.

All I can say is that the 'bad guys' usually have green tracers, the 'good guys' have red tracers. Most of the time not ALL bullets are tracers, but there can be a 'combat mix'. Like every 5th bullet is a tracer, for instance.

Though I agree we need windsocks, and I agree that ATC in DCS sucks completely, it's normal to get the wind info 1-2 km's from the runway. You get it together with your landing clearance.

Practice makes perfect.

You wouldn't want to be flying at 300ft in a combat zone. Fly lower.

Yeah... ATC is totally unrealistic in DCS. I hope it'll be something they'll work on in the near future. Right now it's just total bullshit really.

Haha, there's no way you could hear a button's click in a helicopter. It surprises me people say you can apparantly hear it in the Ka-50. Russian old fashioned technology I guess. Force trim is used to trim out the forces that are working on the cyclic. Pressing and releasing the force trim holds the cyclic in the current position, so you don't have to push or pull the cyclic anymore. If you don't use the force trim, you're gonna get a sore wrist after not too long :)

lol, seriously?? Conservative, seriously? Come on dude, you can't be serious.

Nah. Some helicopters can take quite a beating. It's not impossible like you say at all.

Nah, DCS is fine as it is. We don't need modules for the masses. We don't need the masses to come on the servers. We need serious players and realistic modules. Just like it is now. ED could try to do some advertising though, to draw more and serious players.