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I will never pre-purchase again. However, the MINUTE I can download and fly this helo, I'll buy no matter the asking price. I've wanted to fly this monster ever since I watch the Replen Ops in the highlands of SEA. Aside from the (civvie) Cessna 310r, there is NO other aircraft that I've been as hungry for than the Hook.

The first thing out of his mouth, people were falling in love with that deeeep voice.

Six people have already tried to login and reported they could not. I tried and could not. I suspect the login server crashed. So, don't worry. It's not you.

Just some idle time, off hours from vVMFA-251.

I'm not the greatest at aerobatics but I do enjoy a good sky-dance or two!

YouTube video I made in DCS Hornet.

I put eight 500 lb JDAMs on one single (Pyotr) battle cruiser. All eight hit and exploded. I paused the sim and, F10, looked at the battle cruiser. No damage. Performed repetitively, no damage to the battle cruiser. (Life bar entirely green) I didn't check the life bar after 4 bunker busters (fuse delay) but all four hit. Still alive. Realistic???

I crashed (and in another flight landed) in the Instant Action Solo flight around Batumi. I saw an AI CE2 flying so I clicked on the F10 map and Alt-J to try to fly it myself. DCS froze solid. (Didn't CTD.) Tried twice. Both times, froze. Second issue, when I was doing loops, there were some digital readouts in (reddish?) printing (and I think a duplicate above in blackish??) that was rolling around inside the cockpit. Disappeared while in level, upright flight. (Same, I think, in inverted flight. Not sure: I was too busy flying.) Finally, the CE2 feels a lot better somehow. Snap, aileron, and barrel rolls feel about right. Haven't tried the zero-speed dynamics yet (tail slide, lomcevak, etc.) Glad the CE2 is getting some attention!!!! Thank you.

With altitude, the grass reduces the flowing, which is awesome! When landing (Huey) the flowing is crazy. Awesome, also! However, when the collective is zeroed out, the flowing should be reduced a lot. Not a bug, per se; just a suggestion.

Read the brief carefully. Cold start, no weapons. And, yes, I'm Canadian. Dead Reckoning.miz

When the Christen Eagle first came out in DCS, I could easily do a Lomcovak. Today, the physics of low IAS is certainly not realistic and, thus, the Lomcovak cannot be performed. (This is defined as reverse airflow over the tail while climbing or level flight... not falling as in a tail slide. Basically, it's a tumble with flying backward briefly.) The P-51 can no longer perform a Lomcovak, either. Edit: Even jets can do a Lomcovak:

This seems to be a problem of the release team having no idea what planet they are on.

Can't launch DCS still. Big Newy said that there was a fix put in (yada yada point 1) which I downloaded and updated. Still cannot get authorization. "What we have here is a FAILURE to communicate." -- Cool Hand Luke

Has anybody flown it in DCS yet? Beta testers, whoever? How's the flight dynamics?

SA-5 will intercept a HARM.

I flew a Colorado River Run in the Hornet and decided to do one in the P-51 also. Not perfect but it was fun to fly. The gamma was set wrong; that's just one of my mistakes! I don't know why the "ground camera" failed to record audio. I suspect it was the GeForce graphics card recording, not DCS or DaVinci Resolve. I have a bad habit of climbing in a turn. I'll practice to get rid of that climb.

I thought you were sleeping.

It is what it is. Be happy it's not MSFS with pretty pictures only. My only concern, and not really a gripe so much as a strong wish, GOOD flight dynamics so I can get GOOD aerobatics out of the Yak. When I first got the Christen Eagle, it performed as it should and a Lomcevak could be easily performed (if you knew how). Now, you cannot. The ONLY reason I have piston aircraft is for the flight dynamics that is better to real life than MSFS which.... edited. Three years ago:

Leave a comment on your opinion of the vid. Thanks.

She flies very nicely.

Gawd, I would never be able to trim for that. I even tried Baro autopilot. I am just like you, Gripes: just fight the dynamics until plugged in, then relax a bit until the dam thing banks for a turn without calling it.

Well, that's who is telling me to hold position. Also, last night, some other pilots were getting the same call.

On the carrier, where does the Hornet get it's STD HDG? Is it uploaded from somewhere? If so, where? How to update after returning to the boat?