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Welp, I always did like the sound of German, I guess I might as well start learning it now :P haha

Has anyone read the book "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche? Is there an equivalent book for flying helicopters?

MY EYES!!!

It is? What if a crew member is injured/unconcious and is unable to eject themselves?

I find target acquisition in the Su-25T to be a joke compared to the A-10C.

Nerve wrecking! :cry:

This really stumbles a lot of people. Just about everyone, I guess. The problem is that trim reset is listed in the controls. There is no reason to believe that it is not supposed to work - why is it listed in the controls then? I think this SHOULD be a bug. Not that trim reset doesn't work, but that it's listed in the controls.

Ah, good idea! For anyone else interested, the sound file is Avionics_AC_400Hz.wav located in DCS World\Sounds\Effects\Aircrafts\Cockpits

I don't suppose there is any way to mute the electric hum from the batteries? (I mean, other than turning them off :P)

There is no such thing in the manual. In fact it actually mentions that you can launch Vikhrs in pairs. If you are referring to the laser cooldown, that is not what's happening in my case. The laser is still active and does not require cooldown yet.

Is this a bug, or something I don't understand? Once I have launched a Vikhr, and it has impacted on a target, I then lock on the next target, but I cannot launch another vikhr for maybe another 5 seconds.

If your reaction is really bad like you say, go see a doctor. :)

Are you allergic to latex? You'd know if you were, many rubber products contain latex. I do not know, but the joystick might have latex in its rubber, too. However if you are not allergic to latex, then maybe it's not the joystick you are reacting to, but something else?

I tried the same mission again, but this time made liberal use of the F10 map to view the location of enemies in relation to terrain. That really helped a lot. I was able to use the Shkval to scan the terrain in the area where the enemy should be and was able to spot them without too much difficulty. I'm just wondering if that's kind of cheating.

Is there a counter in the cockpit for the number of flares/chaff remaining?

Ok, so then what if I did something like this instead: I would imagine the area with known enemies as a red circle, and a do not cross line before it. And then just fly a lazy figure 8 while trying to spot enemies from the side of the window. Take out what I spot on the edges first and slowly move in further and further? The gimbal limits of the Shkval wouldn't allow for it to be used in such a scenario to help with spotting targets though. Although, is the Shkval even intended to assist with target spotting? Or only to acquire the target once the general area of the target is known?

Well then why is it that in all videos I see on youtube, whenever someone has been fired on by a radar sam, they drop flares?

I used the mission editor to generate an easy mission for my Su-25T the other day. It created a few groups of tanks, artillery, apcs and trucks, interspersed with a few short range AA defenses (mostly IR). So, knowing where the enemy should be, I confidently climbed into the cockpit and, being forewarned of the IR missile threat, I climbed to 5km, approached the target area and tried to spot the targets. Mmyeah... the Su-25T seems to severely lack sufficient sensors for this task, or maybe it's like this for all aircraft? Even knowing where the enemy should be, it still took a lot of squinting to discern the small little black dots agains the terrain. I dived in for a rocket run and promptly received an IR missile from a Linebacker up my tail pipe. So yeah, the lesson there was that was a really dumbass way to fly a mission :doh: Does anyone have some tips on how such missions should be conducted? I really have no clue...

Sorry, I can't help you with your problem, but I wanted to point you to this youtube channel that has many official tutorial videos, of much better quality than what is provided in-game. Maybe they can help you as a substitute. http://www.youtube.com/user/eagledcs

Uhm, is what you're doing here legal? The soundtrack for DCS:W is one thing, since the game is free to download, although if you are benefiting from hosting it on your website through advertisement that's very questionable. But the sound track from the paid P-51 module? That's a big no no.

Alright, you have a pretty good point about it being designed to penetrate rather than spread out explosive power over the surface. And I didn't realize 500kg was the weight of the bomb, and not necessarily the warhead payload. That makes sense now. So then if I were to drop a FAB-500 on that tank instead, then another tank 5m from it should be smashed as well, then?

So, just for the heck of it, I dropped a KAB-500Kr bomb on a T-72B from my Su-25T the other day. Within 5m of that tank, was another T-72B. The bomb only destroyed the tank that it directly landed on. The other tank was seemingly untouched. Now this is a 500kg warhead bomb. Designed to take out reinforced bunkers. You'd think it would be packing quite a large explosion radius, no? At least it should take out someting sitting 5m from its impact point?

But don't some missiles have both IR and Radar tracking? I think especially those carried by fighters? Or do those not exist in DCS?

I asked a mod about this the other day. They said to post Su-25T discussions directly into the DCS World forum.

I can't tell very well from inside the cockpit, when looking at my wingtips, what my nav lights are set to when it's light outside. So I looked all over the cockpit while pressing the keybind for the nav lights to see if any switches will start flipping, but haven't been able to spot any. Is there a switch that visibly changes state for the nav lights?