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You can also use side-slip to loose altitude. Just turn ailerons to one direction, and apply rudder to opposite. This is very useful.

Thanks! I've read it through, it is great for start. Yesterday was my first time on DoW server and I think I saw you... on the dark side ;). Today I played few hours on DoW and it was so much fun! I think I got addicted to this adrenaline rush while sneaking low and fast within the hills, to attack on red airport! It looks very good. I will use that. I need to leave home for 2-3 hours, so someone else can start server and I will join in later around 6 p.m. UTC. Please name it "Novice dogfight training" or smth like that. See ya!

Thank you both for your thoughts. But different people have different learning attitutes and different goals to achive. If my target would be to be the best of the best, I would take your way Echo38. However, anyone who tried dogfighting knows, that at the beginning it is a real pain in the... bottom. You need to be motivated and put quite a lot of effort to overcome this first phase. I don't have too much time to spare, so my goal is to gather few people with the similar skill and have more fun quickly. Sure, we won't become aces very soon, but I think it will be less more frustrating :). And fastfreddie - thanks for the link to your mission. I will try that tonight . I feel the same. Within the "novice" players group we can set up server as we wish. OK, so we have 5 people including me - jkeiltaylor, =Mac=, jcomm, =FoReIgNeR=. Today I feel sick after yesterday party, so maybe we can make first session tomorrow? Maybe 5:00 p.m. UTC ? I am flexible about time. Do you have some idea how to stay in touch? Facebook? Skype? Lukasz

Hi, So... For a while I am trying to get motivated to improve my dogfighting skills and try MP fights against humans. I don't have bigger problems with handling P51, and I can do some aerobatics. I spend 99% of my MP time on Virtual Aerobatics Server. What I suck at is dogfighting. I am afraid, that when I join MP server, I will become a cannon fodder and completely loose my motivation. I think it is always better to train with people of the same skill. I would like to contact any other people here, who are rookies in dogfighting, so we can arrange some multiplayer sessions and try to train together. So, is anyone in? Lukasz

Yes! Vielen Dank! Lukasz

Hi! I am preparing a short, closed presentation about aviation and flight simulation for my co-workers. I remember, I have seen photo of National Guard soldiers in classroom training with DCS A10Cs on PCs. I can't find it anymore. Does any of you have any clue where to find it? Thank you! Lukasz

Very nice landing, congrats :) Currently I am spending much more time in P3D since it is more "eye candy" now. But I hope to comeback to DCS after version 2.0 is released and practise more with FW190.

Wow, 40 knots of cross wind in a 1500hp tail dragger... This only ensures me, that you are our aviation stig :P. "Some say..." :thumbup: Very nice landing. I have managed to do few with P51. But had long break and now I can't even do proper touch & go ;) But this means only one thing. Now we're waiting for DavidRed to do crosswind carrier landing :music_whistling:

I love topics like this one - you can learn something new :). I am no expert in aerodynamics, but I have some minor knowledge (I am private pilot in rl). I am wondering - all the YoYo's examples in this thread are based on smaller models. Including radio controlled ones. I think that what OP wants to discuss is if this behaviour could be scaled to larger planes. Isn't there any other air properties that interfere more in smaller models? Like, in example, air viscosity? Weight of those models could be not directy proportional to larger planes as well, when comparing scales. In previous posts I could see photos of WW2 planes flying without significant parts of wings and it is amazing. However, OP screenshot shows Dora with around 80% wing missing (rough guess). It is not a secret that anything can fly straight with enough speed and energy. Someone here brought up story of israeli F15 landing without a wing. The point there was that pilot had to keep significantly larger speed to keep flying straight and then land safely. If I understand correctly, OP could land Dora without needing much more speed. As real world example I can bring Polish TU154 crash in 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash "Soon after, the aircraft began hitting trees. One, a large birch with a trunk 30 to 40 cm (12 to 16 in) wide, ripped off about 6.5 meters of the left wing, including the left aileron. The resulting asymmetrical lift caused an uncommanded roll to the left. Within 5 seconds, the aircraft was inverted, hitting the ground with the left wing followed very shortly thereafter by the nose." Looking forward to read more information here :).

Sure, it is my case at the moment. I have mapped "respawning combo" under my HOTAS and it is OK for now. But I agree, that it would be nice to have some "restart" in the menu. It is more intuitive and when there is new update, or you are doing full reinstall you don't need to search for this "respawning combo" to assign it again :). :megalol: Yes, I remember "Huey landing trainings" ... Lots of fireballs... :D

Very nice!!! I love the engine physics when it bounces off a runway a little and then goes straight. It's a pleasure to watch. What was your wind speed and direction relative to runway?

Thanks guys. I forgot that key combo, I couldn't find it in control setup. Anyway I think there could be this button, because how many people remembers RSHIFT + RCTRL + smth :) I guess I need to write it down and stick it to monitor ... At least for Dora training... ;)

Hi all, is there any good reason why there is no "restart mission" button in game menu after pressing ESC? That could save me some time while I am trying to land Dora and ending up in a pretty nice fireball. Thanks

I would also like to know when it should be uncaged and how to set it (according to procedures). I don't think you should wait so long to align it since AFAIK this is simple gyro instrument. I have noticed that it is very capable of getting errors if you lower your RPM even for a while letting suction to go "below green".

Maybe your airspeed is just too high? According to this http://www.bluethunderairracing.com/the-plane/specifications/ best rate of climb speed (Vy) for P51D is 170mph. This is at sea level. This speed decreases with altitude. Meaning that if your speed is above your Vy you will gain altitude slower. Ie. for C152 Vy at sea level is 67 knots. But at 10000ft it is around 61 knots (if I remember correctly).

Well, 'not rated' doesn't need to mean that it will not do it... especially over occupied Europe with some bandits on 6 :music_whistling: I am curious - why do you guys think DCS version of P51 has wrong implementation of snap rolls? I remember that I have been doing them with no ailerons help - just elevator and rudder. And AFAIR they are very fun at 100 ft ... if you're not hitting ground just afterwards ;)

Sorry for offtopic, but I thought that DoW server was only for dogfighting (I have never joined it before). I am little bored with Virtual Aerobatics since I have mastered basics of flying P51, but I am rather a cannon fodder with dogfighting. I am looking for some oportunity to improve that. Do you have your own teamspeak? Will there be some good souls that could give me some advices rather than rain of bullets? :smilewink:

Some say, DavidRed never uses flaps because he really was a little ugly duckling who always wanted to be pretty. He never got prettier but he grew up to be a bad angry motherf***. :gun_rifle:

Hi, During your traffic pattern you need to constantly manage throttle only. Up to downwind leg you leave your prop to constant RPM for cruise flight. Then, after you put your gear down and full flaps, put prop to max RPM (so in case of go-around you would have enough power) and adjust only throttle -> with landing config ~30MP should be enough to keep proper speed. In my opinion it is very hard in this sim to keep constant altitude with P51 because of its massive power. I suppose that in real world it would be a little easier because you would feel some "feedback" on controls. Hope that helps!

Nicely done. Enjoy :)

I use older X45 and I have the same reaction. But I think this might be the feature since fly-by-wire won't let you overstress your aircraft when making high g turns. In my understanding - this is why you can't make violent turns with high g load.

I am currently developing standalone application for VFR navigation. You can plot your route on OpenStreet map, enter WP by GPS position, search airports, VORs, or cities in DB. You enter wind values, your cruise speed, magnetic deviation and it calculates all your needed magnetic headings, wind correctons, fuel burn (basic calculations) and time to reach waypoints. It is still WIP but it saves me 1-2 hours of preparations before my real world flights (I am student pilot to PPL(A)). I am planning to release this as freeware. Recently I didn't have time to continue development, but I could fix some major issues and share it with you, if you're interested :). BTW: I have implemented feature to export created route to FSX flight plan, so maybe it would be possible to implement feature to create DCS mission file somewhere in the future (However at this point this is my "lucky guess" because I am not familar with mission file format yet).

There was so much to learn for me, that's why I have divided it to small parts and combined practising with some fun. In example- instead of reading all manual first and learn all theory or whole startup process I have just learned how to set up 30mm cannon and practise shooting with it. After some time when I got confident with it and got bored I have learned how to shoot mavericks, and practised it again for a while. And so on ... This is what keeps me motivated to learn. Good luck :thumbup:

From my personal experience I know that you can't ask RL pilots a general question "Is this sim realistic", because many of them would say that it's not because maybe they are computer newbies or has no experience with them at all. They just don't know how to separate computer/hardware limitations from sitting in real cockpit. You need to ask more specific questions like "Are stalls/spins/sideslips realistic?", "Is slow flight realistic?" e.t.c. It's much better approach which would give you better overview of how close to real is sim. I am "just" a student pilot with only 25hrs of flight exp, but I am also a programmer and "sim geek" so I am aware how to compare real world flight experience with sim. I have tried dozens of flight sims and different plane models, and I think DCS P51 has the best flight model for single engine prop plane I have ever seen in sim. Just focusing on aerodynamics and what to expect from a plane in the flight- I haven't find anything that is not modeled (yet :smilewink: ). If this flies like the real P51- I hope someday I will know :), but now I can belive testemonials of some other P51 pilots. (BTW: one of them has posted in this thread already).

Hello, since I have read some books about ally fighter pilots, now I would love to read some concentrating on Luftwaffe side. I am not looking for historical cold facts, rather pilots testimonies, dogfights stories and some everyday reality. Can you advise something? The more is better because I am not English native, so I would try to find it in my spoken language :) Thanks!