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Ex VF-74. Phantoms. (Yeah, that long ago.) Got out there. Lived just off base for a couple years. Saw the air shows lots of times. Used to be a shooting range just to one side of 23R.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss it! Chompin at the bit for this and 1.5.

Any idea of when this is going to be?

Here in Ontario, minimum wage is now $11.25. That's about two loaves of bread, two bus rides across town, 11 liters of gasoline (about 3 U.S. gallons), one hamburger or 1/100th of my apartment rent. Anyway, I saved what little I could and my parents gave me a bit of a Christmas present several years ago to put away for a rainy day. It rained and I got my gaming machine!:) The rest of the stuff I accumulated over the years. DCS is one of my two hobbies.

Just for the forum's records: according to the account records that ED is keeping for me, I bought my first ED aircraft in 2008. That was the Black Shark. Yes, I bought the disk version of LoMac back when god was a kid so I don't know what year that was. Today, I just purchased the M2000. My aircraft hanger is full of everything ED has ever sold. Everything. Several things (I'd have to look at the account history again) I have purchased twice simply to reward ED and their partners. And, no, I'm not rich. I have a minimum wage job. But DCS is my hobby. Although I don't fly the Russian aircraft nor the third party trainers much, I once successfully did carrier quals in an Su-33 with the 104th Phoenix, I fly the rotors off the Huey, the rivets off the P-51, The GAU-8's barrels are becoming warped from overuse, and the F-15's ejection handles are getting a bit worn out. Whatever flight model the Mirage will have once I'm in it, I'm sure I will be scraping tree leaves off the leading edges of it from the day it's released until Canada runs out of electricity to run my computer. For the past 10 years, on weekend days, I have sailed and will continue to sail, Lake Ontario. Weekend nights, I'm aviating and will continue to aviate via DCS. Anything DCS: :yes:

According to the latest newsletter from Boeing Boing, the F-15 Maserati Eagle is currently under flight testing at Area 51's Skunk Works. It has a single Lycoming O-360 nitro-methane burning engine instead of the two Pratt & Whitney F-100's and is rated not only above supersonic but superluminal. Fuel consumption is rumored to be in the area of 30 mpg on the highway. Argentina has ordered two of them while Iran claims to have shot one down over the SOH.

Blue A-10c again, please.

I don't know the real life NOE conditions are like. However, I have heard the yammer, not only from light plane pilots, but from USN pilots as well. I would point out that, at low level vs mid level, there is the turbulence factor. Wind moves differently at lower levels and, as such, give rise to lots of shake, rattle, and roll to the NOE flyer. Higher up, the only changes in wind speed and direction comes from thermals and gross land forms such as mountains. It seems to me that ED could add in a bit of code that would increase the physical jitter the plane receives as it gets lower in height above ground and higher in true airspeed.

Release it and I will certainly buy it. I love SP mode.

Ditto of Cibit. I probably could work my way round the German cockpit if I practice a day or so. Depends on if it's the weekend or not. I work weekdays. Weekends are MINE to do as I please! Any weekend, give me a couple day's notice so I can figure out where the landing gear handle is, and I'll fly something German for you! :)

Please tell me there isn't a GAU-8 in that car. If there is, where the hell can I get one for my Scion?

I am afraid I have some bad news for everyone regarding the NTTR. Upon it's release, I will be the first to fly there and I WILL conquer the entire region (including NAS Fallon if I can find it) and impose a NO FLY zone over the entire country of Nevada in my highly modified Cessna 172. Those of you in Pipers and Mooneys and, well, okay -- Bombardiers -- are, of course, exempt. That being said, I saw civilian craft at McCarran. Will there be civilian AI to give traffic issues for us navigationally challenged?

I think the photos of Nevada are all nice and all, but why can't we get some kind of resolution like that in DCS? What? You mean.... no.... that can't be. Not that good... OMG (is that how we spell the MGM)!!!!!! Makes sense to me. Oh, and I thought I saw a hooker I met once there down on the strip. Well, it looked like her. I'll have to get in a Huey and swing by the strip a couple times.

Sorry. I just read the DCS site download on it. (I just woke up so my head is not quite on properly. :-/ )

I only have a "released" version of DCS. When 1.5 comes out, will I have to DL the beta version to get 1.5?

I just flew it again, this time at Sochi... not that location matters. :) And, yes, the Joystick is the TM Warthog and gives me full input without issues. The snap roll CAN be accomplished. However, for some reason, sometimes, I get a weird reaction. (Thus why I made my initial post about it.) Here is the YouTube video of my track:

Thanks for the link, Crumpp. However, (and perhaps I didn't express myself too well), the directions given by Kirby Chambliss is precisely what I did to get a snap roll (ha! three years ago!) in the P-51. What I was saying about last night was that the P-51 refused to do it. It would not continue with the right wing stall giving the "snap". From Mr. Chambliss's text: 2. Rapidly and aggressively pull the control stick back to abruptly pitch the nose of the plane upward. 3. Step on the right rudder pedal, causing the left wing to lift and move forward while the right wing stalls"For a normal roll, you'd gently pull the stick back to move the nose up," Chambliss says. "For a snap-roll it has to be super-fast in order to stall the wing." Hold on. "The plane will be spinning at an extremely high rotation rate of about 500 degrees per second as the left wing flies, causing a huge lift, and the right wing stalls, causing no lift." I will try again tonight to make sure the FM will not allow the snap roll properly. Here is a YouTube video from 2012 that shows one of my old snap rolls.

Just watched Wag's Sep 6 video. I am SO relieved to hear that ED is now paying attention to missile flight dynamics and operational performances. I really don't care if the 9M completely sucks at launch by falling off the rail or flies for 100 miles and takes out cigarette lighters... so long as it's based on reality. From what Wags said, that's what they are shooting for. That realism is what I expect out of a study sim. As for the eye candy in 1.5, ah... who cares? (Okay, okay, okay! I am joking!!!! Don't yell at me!) Seriously, the scenes in the video are incredibly awesomely wonderful. Finally, I don't know about what other people were looking closely at, but I was hoping to see the L-39 touch the runway just a little off bank so I could see the physics kick in to level the plane. Wag's landings were very smooth so it was only on the last landing that I wasn't distracted by the scenery enough that I could see the "bump" of leveling. Awesome physics!

From my flight last night (single player), I was trying to do a snap roll. Previously, pull back hard with full right rudder and you got a very brisk snap roll to the right. With the FM last night, she refused to do it. I tried to ease the pulling only to get very weird physics tossing the plane around. So I tried one to the left. I pulled hard (not full, just about 3/4 the way back) and kicked left rudder and eventually got some semblance of a snap roll. The flight model has been seriously changed since I started flying it last year (?) when it first came out. Aerobatics "at the edge" is now, in my opinion, not realistic.

You someone's just gotta ask: When will I be able to get in and fly it? Wow, sure is nice looking! Also, what's the flight model?

This is a known problem. I don't know if 1.5 will fix that. I have been trying to make a video but the track of my hard work flying aerobatics had no relationship to what I flew.

Name: Randall MacDonald Callsign (if applicable): =Mac= Age: 4.2 times your minimum age of 15 Location: Near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America, Western Hemisphere, Earth Time Zone: EDT (UTC -4) Weekly Schedule (if available, leave blank if not): Weekends are completely open. Previous Experience: None. I have practiced a few tricks before, on my own. https://vimeo.com/45832413 or I have flown in formation with several other people but nothing professional or in a squadron. Email / Contact method / link: randall.macdonald@rogers.com I've been with ED flying since LockOn, Modern Air Combat. I've flown every western aircraft in DCS. I used to be a full member of the 104th Phoenix years ago and, as such, had to pass their carrier quals in an Su-33.

DCSW, at the moment, does not do graphics very well due to the heavily reliance on the cpu. DCSW 1.5 promises to help out in that department. It's going to DX11 and using more of the graphics cards than before. But, two things for now, are heavy on the fps. Heat blur and water. Explosions cannot be adjusted so any time there are explosions close by, your fps will probably drop. I get a slideshow when I fly through a burning tank. For my rig (see my sig), I get well above 60 away from things and up high. At Sochi or near a large city with lots of planes zipping about, water on, heat blur on, AA at 8, everything else maxed out on a 1080 screen, I get in the mid teens. And, yeah, Trackir gets fussy and stutters a lot then. DCSW 1.5 will change things a lot.

That does not surprise me. If not deployed just before the top, certainly when he saw that he was going to need them starting down the loop. Flip the little switch and hope for the best... All of the sympathies and sophistications of humankind are helpless against the laws of physics.

I saw the footage from a distant cellphone where the loop entry looked fast and the climb looked fast up to the point where the zoom precludes speed indicators. Coming back down, it looked like the pilot was trying to do a barrel roll to "hurry" the loop up. I suspect it was then he realized his altitude was insufficient to finish the loop. He definitely was nose high quite a bit of time just before and as he hit, but I don't think he was in a stall. Or, at least, not much of one. I suspect it was (1) too low altitude at the entry of the loop or (2) loss of power close to the top of the climb. My condolences to the people at Shoreham.