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    Improvement needed: Radar Limitation with Narrow Azimuth Scan in RWS

    in Wish List

    Posted · Edited by =Mac=
    clarifying the dates

    Enjoy your timeout....

     

     

    The Hornet was released into EA on 1 June 2019 - sure seems like you have no clue what you are talking about.

     

    According to my account's "My Orders" list, I paid for and downloaded DCS: F/A-18C Hornet on 01/12/2018. This is 12 January 2018. (I bought the Christen Eagle on 12/28/2018 showing that the 1/12/2018 is not December 1.)

     

    Maybe you got your copy on 1 June 2019?

    Overkill

    in Aircraft AI Bugs (Non-Combined Arms)

    Posted

    I ran 4 AI Hornets with 4 Harpoons each and made them attack a stand-alone Kuznetsov (which defended itself.) Of the sixteen (16) Harpoons launched, 12 hit the carrier solidly. Yet the ship still sailed on.

     

    I should like to demonstrate why an aircraft carrier (compartmentalized as they all are) probably would not survive 3 or 4 Harpoon hits... let alone 12 of them. (Skip ahead to 1:10 to see the actual hit.)

     

    Hornet TGP laser ranging

    in DCS: F/A-18C

    Posted

    I wanted to put an bomb through a window half way up a tall building in Dubai. I tried setting the GPS coordinates at the front door and increased the elevation a couple hundred feet. Hit the front door. I tried again, this time with a 90 degree drop angle. Still hit the front door.

     

    Then I tried a laser guided bomb which did head for the window but my flying tactics failed my self designating caused by the Podium Effect. I tried high release, boards and in a dive, and kept spot on for as long as I could. Podium effect again. I tried low angle, pull up, release, and turn almost 90 degrees but lit up the left side of the building while the bomb went stupid towards the front. Podium effect again.

     

    I switched to a long shot with an E Mav. I launched twice (about 15 seconds apart) on the burj khalifa about 100 floors up and hit the boards with a shallow dive. The second one hit 100 floors up. Not sure what I did to lose the first Mav.

     

    I'd still like to try an LGB 100 floors up. Any suggestions?

    JSOW Differences between TOO and PP

    in DCS: F/A-18C

    Posted

    Please ignore this pertaining to DCS. This is simply a theoretical yammer:

     

    There is no such thing as a physically accurate, perfect point anywhere in the universe. If you try to say something is EXACTLY here or there, you will always (theoretically) be off by some small amount... either a couple miles, a couple inches, a couple millimeters, a couple angstroms, a couple widths of a quark... etc. There is no such thing as exactly here. (I'm playing with Zeno's Paradox, by the way.)

     

    Oddly enough, there is no such thing as NOW, either. It's always slightly (or a lot) in the future or always slightly (or a lot) in the past. Now cannot ever exist.

     

    I'm sure you will have to think about it to actually get it. Nevertheless, theoretically speaking, it's all true. Practically, however, it's time for me to stop yammering.

    Bug report: Unable to select AIM7 when mixed load with AIM120

    in F-15C for DCS World

    Posted

    3 Aug 2019 still has this bug. For me, I had 2, 2, 4 and, for the life of me, could not fire a 120 until I got rid of the 7's. I tried putting it in TWS, going Flood and back to BVR, and even cussing didn't work.

     

    And... since I haven't flow the Eagle in a long time, just what the hell happened to the speed demon at altitude? Flight dynamics (clean wings) had me in a stall so badly that I couldn't keep up with a tanker. The poor thing flies like a Hornet now. I had thought the speed brake was up but that wasn't the case at all.

     

    Oh well. Two years with this 7, 9, 120 bug means it will never be corrected.

    Update

    in DCS: F/A-18C

    Posted

    In the Mission Editor use Left Alt and Y repeatedly until the precise coordinates appear

     

    You also have to move the cursor to get the change to show.

    Appeal for calm in the DCS F-16 community

    in DCS: F-16C Viper

    Posted

    I loved the F-15 Eagle when it first came out (back when God was a kid.) I flew it until a couple years ago. Of course I complained about the... well, I complained just like everyone else did. But, I FLEW IT for years.

     

    Then came the A-10C and I flew that for years. Not sure I complained much about that.

     

    Oh, the Huey... Not one word of criticism on that contraption. I fly it often even today! I can't tell you how much I love it.

     

    The P-51D is exactly where that Merlin engine needs to be and I fly the Mustang just for the joy of landing and taking off.

     

    I know everyone loves the Spitfire and, while I did get it, I love the P-51 more. Sorry, Mr. Churchill.

     

    I flew some of the Russian monsters without really knowing how to put the landing gear down but only complained that the F-15 didn't have the (whatever they call their SA page) nor long range IR missiles. Cursed ETs! :)

     

    Then some trainers popped in here and there and, yeah, I lost one (financially).

     

    For whatever reason the flying gods decided, DCS got the Hornet. Clumsy, way under-powered and has a nasty tendency to hover in full burner if you get her into a stall. But, (2,560 items listed that I am in deep love with, omitted for brevity). The reason I don't fly the Eagle, the Warthog, nor the Mustang much any more is because I am eye-ball deep in my (virtual) squadron's current deployment to the Gulf. I never knew what the difference between Case I recovery and Case III yet I've flow clear skies as well as night rain onto the Stennis precisely like the NATOPS manual depicts. Radio comms and all. (I'm just very careful I don't pull lots of G's enough to get into a stall. Well, I try not to.)

     

    The Christen Eagle. God, what a beautiful thing to fly! I just don't have enough time in my life to fly more than an hour or two a week because the Straits of Hormus is acting up and us (virtual) Marines are now deploying there! :) Semper Fi, Magnum, egressing south, four point six.

     

    So, sometime in the distant future, we're going to get the Viper? Yea. Or, really YIPPIE! But, well, yea.

     

    Complain about it? No. Not yet. Why?

     

    TOO BUSY LOVING ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT ED HAS GIVEN ME. I'll love the Viper when I can pull some G's in it.

     

    Finally, whoever reads this yammer, can you please tell ED to turn OUT the lights on the Stennis' island at NIGHT!

    Post MotherBoard Specs Of Bricked TM Warthogs Here Please

    in Thrustmaster

    Posted

    Just wanted to mention for anyone else that experiences the brick of death that I am selling some new PCB's to fix the bricking issue at lower cost than TM if you're out of warranty. I am also setting up to repair old broken PCB's (these would be at LEAST as reliable as brand new ;) ). It's especially a good deal for people in Canada followed by USA. Shipping may be a bit excessive to EU but who knows for sure.

     

    https://www.ebay.ca/itm/233024689318

     

    Will post on buy/sell also.

     

    I have just bricked my throttle. How much to get it running again? Windows sees it but it refuses to light up. Tried to boot with TM software; no joy.

     

    You still do repairs? If not, can you sell me a PCB?

     

    randall.macdonald@rogers.com

     

    Mississauga, Ontario

     

    PS edit: I have a stick with scrapped axis ball. I bought a new stick. Suggestions?

    Can you please activate the rwy lighting at night

    in DCS Core Wish List

    Posted

    In a war/conflict zone, not only would the airports be dark, all the surrounding night lights would be dark. Houses, streets, factories, and even car headlights would be dark.

     

    I would imagine that DCS maps have four sets of map layers for day and four sets for night. (Summer, winter, spring, and autumn.) Perhaps... maybe... who knows... it might be feasible to have yet another four sets for war zone blackout?

     

    For the record, in my squadron during Case III recovery, flight lead often reminds us to call the carrier to get the lights turned on. Each trap, the lights go out. Not realistic, but it does allow for lights-out traps. Now THAT's realistic.

     

    By the way, anybody who's been on a carrier ever seen the island lit up at night?:music_whistling:

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