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I had a weird experience today. In dogs of war server I pulled in behind a dora, and fired a 3 second burst, and to my shock the Dora pretty much exploded. The guy said he was kicked straight to the map. Now if I could only learn how to do it again lol

My track ir is shifted right. It's the first thing I noticed when I entered the cockpit. It's directly lined up with the gun site? I wonder if there is a box in the special options menu

Yeah well the D model has a more powerful engine as well. The Merlin :)

From my experience online. I feel the p51 has a turning advantage over the Dora. I never really had a problem out turning Doras when I had sufficient corner speed Edit: Also when I was flying the Dora I had a real challenge turning with the p51s. Generally I'd stall trying to keep up. I'd end up putting the boost on and climbing away. Then come in for re attack

Pilots who's favorite is Fw-190 stop reading :D I've noticed against flying with some buddies (me in P51), I could defend against the Fw190 boom and zoom sometimes if I extended in a shallow dive, then when the Fw190 came roaring down on me, I would pull a turn, soft at first so the Fw190 would think he could hang, then I would pull all out and more often then not he would overshoot. This was pretty much an energy trap. Now the Fw190 lost a lot of energy. Then I'd pull him into the scissors where I made holes in them. Its still possible in a P51 :) This isn't perfect, and relies on your enemy making a mistake, but the key is to lead him into follow you, then force the trap Edit: The key with extending is that is better for you if the enemy has to make a more shallow dive at you, then a more vertical one. A shallow one is worse for their energy management

Can we have a raffle for preview access :)

Thanks for the imput. I really believe it will be interesting when the P51s are escourting B17s at high altitude. If the Fw-190s have a misison to intercept, I think it could be quite interesting at the higher altitudes. If the P51s mission is to protect the bombers, then the Dora's may not be able to lead the P51s down into a low fight where it has the advantage

Huh?

Someone is getting a little excited...

we know of Hawk, if you look at their forum, it looks like a strong possibility Mig-21 C-101 Nevada map??

Here we go again :drink: ding, ding :chair: I kid of course

Interesting finding :) Credit goes to Deadsix for finding it, this was posted in Hawk forum, just wanted to share. http://steamdb.info/app/223750/dlc/ Could it be?:xmas:

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If you set the Dora to your main menu theme, then it plays

Not to offend you or anything, and believe me I want the F/A 18 as much as the next guy, but DCS isn't just a "modern sim." This has been stated here. WW2 is coming on scene, with the new aircraft and map. I personally believe it is a very good thing. I love dogfighting and that feel of one on one with your adversary. Close in, knife fighting. Not to go too off topic but I believe WWII will bring a lot of new people to DCS. Some people are very reluctant to learn the A10 , Ka50 or future F18 with its sophisticated avionics. WW2 aircraft are much more approachable from a systems and avionics perspective. Flying them is a whole other thing, but many people seem to be less afraid of that. Besides, sometimes people like challenging flight dynamics rather than challenging avionics WWII has a huge market, and I believe they can pull in players from IL2 and Warthunder. THen once they understand DCS, they will maybe try a less complicated aircraft like the Sabre and trainers and move up from there. I do believe it will be nice stepping stones, and will help attract new people. Also I'm a huge rotor head and I personally love the influx of Helos, as there are no other sims that come close to the Dcs Huey and Hip. This has opened up new market potential as well. I envision DCS in the future to be a home of all generations of aircraft. New maps can be released to work with Vietnam, Korea, Pacific Theater and many other future scenarios. Not to bash, but just my thoughts

Well regardless of the competition, the systems and what not are still their intellectual property. Other 3rd party companies appear to be doing radar systems as well, and they could perhaps take some of the code. ( I am not accusing anyone of doing this, just a possibility). I don't really understand coding and whatnot, but It makes sense to me to allow them to keep the more complicated parts safe. It is their work after all. Just like how people attempt to protect their writing/music etc.

+1 And we usually dont agree :)

The problem is there is no way to identify what squadrons are legitimate and what aren't. Also what measure would be used? Is a group of guys who have families, and only have time to fly together a few times a month to be considered a squadron the same as a unit that runs servers constantly and flies detailed missions every day. And who at ED will be in charge of "investigating" these squadrons. And imho this will cause squadrons to become "watered down" as people just join them for discounts. I just don't think its a fair situation

I an a $10 backer and all I see as well is the bronze medal thing in manual. I cannot select a plane there. Same as the other guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrMPv78JNk I believe this variant had 4 20mm cannons, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, enjoy :smilewink:

Thanks !

Any chance we could get a few videos coming up on the mig-21. Not to sound like a nagger but its been a while, and I really wanna see those A-2-G missiles in action :)

Just used a 70% off coupon voucher. $15 is pretty easy too. In the checkout page there is a box to select that will apply the max bonus