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The real pedals do not have a spring return to centre. They stay where the pilot put them.

Support the local industry. After all, Tornado is more British than the Phantom, even the one with RR engines. If they simply wanted the best interceptor for the money, they should have probably just buy F-15's instead of developing the whole platform. But that would mean more money sent abroad. Unpopular and less beneficial in the long term. Great stories guys, thanks for sharing

I limited the throw for helos below detent and have no problems with it. The levers still have a good throw and the electronics are precise enough to be a non issue. I previously used Warthog without detent for helos, so I'm coming from something with larger throw.

Even if you uncage to turn off LSS/LST, targeting pod and SPI are still not in sync, unless you move TDC. That doesn't seem right.

There are problems when attacking a target using LSS. 1. It is not possible to set SPI from LSS mode. TMS forward does not work and SPI remains where it was when LSS mode was activated. Not sure if that's correct or not, but it's possible to designate the target from LST in the A-10 or the Hornet. 2. If you exit LSS and switch to PTRK, the SPI still remains in the old position. That is clearly wrong. 3. Going TMS aft in such situation will snap TGP to old SPI position, loosing the target from sight. Currently the only method to make it work is to exit LSS mode, move TDC a bit, which will update SPI to the target's position, and then proceed with the attack. Attached short example track. 1. Target spotted in LSS, but SPI is in a different place. 2. Switched from LSS to Point track, but SPI still in the wrong place 3. Wiggled TDC a little, finally SPI has synced to target location. lss.trk

Sure, here it is https://easyupload.io/dfuu1i

Please don't create fake stories. When ED opened preorders in May 2019 and started taking money from people, they set themselves a release window of early autumn. That's not a year wide, in fact it's pretty narrow timeframe. I also don't remember demanding any early release, or any bargaining with ED. Never knew it's even possible to stuck such deal with a developer. Where do you sign up for that?

What I meant is that arguing that the current baked-in reflection are realistic is moot. Sooner or later, they will be removed.

There are certainly several new modules coming to DCS in 2022, some of them were initially planned for 2021. I've just realised that the last 3rd party aircraft released in DCS was JF-17 from Deka in 2019. Time flies. This year it looks like at least Razbam, Aerges and IndiaFoxtrot should release something, maybe also Polychop and even Heatblur if the stars align. Plus of course ED with 1-3 new products and improvements to the core simulator. Overall every year DCS gets gradually better than it was last year. Yeah, not as fast as we'd like, and it's sometimes two steps forward, one step back, but it's steadily improving.

No idea. But it's probably something that ED could fix in a few hours if they wanted to.

The problem here is with bad roughness maps. Everything painted black on the roughness map with have a glass finish in DCS. And there's a lot of stuff with black rouhness map in the Mi-8.

You can map it to a switch that stays in place, or use your joystick software to program a button like that.

Originally, LST switch was a 3-pos in DCS, ED patched it to 2-pos later. Easiest fix is to simply use 2 positions of the switch out of the three. 3-pos can still be useful if you decide to fly other aircraft.

No, it's been said that it may take longer if needed, so they don't seem to be tied to one another. But it sure is being teased on the trailers.

The whole argument is moot. ED has already implemented much more realistic dynamic reflections system which is being used in newer modules and that would solve the issue discussed in this thread. It's just L-39 is one of the old, low priority modules that haven't been updated yet.

I recently received my Orion throttle, overall good first impressions, but the thing I noticed was the very limited TDC movement, much smaller than with Deltasim Warthog mod, or the old Cougar throttle, or any gamepad ministick for that matter. The ministick on Orion throttle moved only about 2mm to each side before stopping, like here: I watched a few youtube reviews of the throttle, and it seems that on some units it works like on my throttle, but on some other it moves as far as the outer ring allows, which obviously provides much greater precision. Like here: Turns out the issue is really simple to solve. On my unit, the plastic ministick cap was pushed too far on the shaft, and it collided with the shaft cutout. I simply pushed the cap up a bit with a small screwdriver, so now it's free to move as designed. The cap sits tightly on the shaft and it hasn't moved back after a few days of use. But if that's not enough, you can remove the cap completely and put something inside the hole (paper, glue), so the shaft can't get so deep. Of course if you also had this problem and fixed it the way I described, you will need to recalibrate X/Y axes in the software to make use of the increased motion range.

Load F-15 with AIM-9P and AIM-7E. Remove the gun ammo.

Ah, yes, it's in the manual, but not implemented yet. Who does not love early access.

There is an option for serious Jester somewhere if you don't like the jokes.

Doesn't look like it made it, or it's an error in the changelog. The Chinese one was updated.

They already know what to develop without your help: Eurofighter, A-6, F-4E, naval F-4, J35 AI (if it hasn't been scrapped), finish the AJS37 and F-14. They have their work set out for the next four years or more. There are other places on the forums where you can ask for your favourite airplane that is not F-4. One such place is even called "DCS wishlist".

Guys, give it a rest. We've just had a new family of aircraft announced from a developer that already has two more complex aircraft in the pipeline, and you're already asking for more.

He has a point though. It was meant as a compensation for delayed release, but for whatever reason, ED awarded the extra bonus only to people who did not use the miles during preorder purchase. Most likely that's just a store system limitation, but the lesson is, do not spend Miles on preorders if you expect the situation like that to repeat in the future.

Technically no aircraft carrier we have in game is suitable for F-4E, but that's hardly anyone's fault

Hmm, I though this thread was only about changing the callsign, not redoing the voiceovers. Are the callsigns ever spoken in any of the AI recordings? Don't remember.