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No, thanks. Two years ago I'd have probably bought it just to support the developers, but now after Razbam debacle I'm much less enthusiastic about spending money on DCS.

It took Razbam more than 10 years to make those 4 airplanes. Sure, you could argue than a more focused and competent developer, already familiar with DCS, could make them a bit faster, but who's available? ED barely makes one aircraft a year, more like 1,5 years to early access. Heatblur takes even longer. Hope we'll all live long enough to actually see those "replacements".

Yes, haven't played dcs recently, but that was still bugged a few months ago. Come on guys, with stronger ffb hardware this becomes a real safety hazard.

It's even simpler than that. Don't touch Steam, just copy the folder from old drive to the new one, turn off PC, replace drives, turn on PC. Last but not least check if Windows assigned the same drive letter to the new drive as was used by the old drive, if not, correct that in Disk Management. That's all. No need to fiddle with 3rd party cloning or partitioning software.

You can order from amazon.com with shipping to eu for a few extra bucks.

Not only bombs but also 530 missiles are fired in a salvo now.

Compared to other DCS aircraft from ED, the dynamic glass reflections on instruments are much too strong. Also, the effect is using a low resolution map of rear headrest area to create "reflections", which gets very jarring once you start moving the head around the cockpit. Default view: Shifted view: The "reflected" area. For reference, here's how this effect looks in ED P-47 and Mi-24 aircraft parked in the same spot. Note the reflection is maybe half as strong (or less), and more blurred, avoiding the very jagged lines we have in F-5.

Licensing is one of the issues. You can't just slap the data scraped from Google maps services into your software for free.

Good idea, added.

Dcs shouldn't have issues with two identical devices as it is, it handles them fine. The only issue may be that it changes the order in which controllers are shown in the menus, so it may not be obvious which is which, but the mappings stay in place once done.

Yep, it looks like VOR/DME issues have been fixed at some point in the last few years since I made that post. I checked a VOR/DME station on PG map and DME works there using TACAN radios. So if you have a VOR/DME on a map, you should be able to receive the distance on a Tacan radio if you dial the corresponding channel. Unfortunately a standalone DME like Paphos (108.90) here on Syria map does not seem to work. And we still don't have an ILS/DME navaid type defined in the sim, so most real world approaches can't be flown. Looks like here the map developer attempted to recreate ILS/DME setup by manually placing a DME near the runway threshold, on the same frequency as the Localizer. Except it's only on a single airport, and it doesn't work anyway.

In case you experience very long DCS loading times, exclude DCS folder from antivirus scan. That often helps.

It is not messy in real life. All the existing navaids with their locations and frequencies are available online for free from the respective AIPs. For example here's Norway (enroute are in part 2 ENR 4, landing navaids are in part 3 of the document, separate for each airport). https://ais.avinor.no/no/AIP/View/136/2025-01-23-AIRAC/html/index-en-GB.html Obtaining historical data is more difficult, but since the maps in DCS represent modern times, this is not a big problem. The problem is that DCS developers do not know, or do not care about the issue.

Personally, I don't mind having this aircraft added to the sim. It's a very interesting platform that should be quite fun to play in DCS, even if parts of it will be made up. And it's probably the the only way we're getting one for DCS in this decade, or the next. It should sell well and bring good money for ED, even if some hardcore simmers would skip the purchase, and server owners that care for balance will disable it. Maybe it won't even be such a power beast in DCS, given that it probably won't have full sensors integration with other platforms like in real life. Also a lot of combat in DCS focuses on dogfighting, where fat Amy struggles anyway. One problem I see is that DCS currently doesn't really have much of modern AI opponent units. No advanced versions of Sukhois and Migs, no modern Chinese aircraft, no 5th gen aircraft at all. No advanced SAM systems. Even the blufor side is lacking. And the pace at which ED adds new aircraft AI models (or updates the existing ones from the previous century) doesn't inspire much optimism. So quite possibly it will be another cockpit simulator without any battlefield environment to match its timeframe.

Nope, it's still in the beyondland.