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Nice, that is spot on :)

Oh, I see. I don't suppose there are any new cockpit mods for Su-25?

Does this still work? I installed as per the instructions, but saw no change to the cockpit.

If you're taking tally, I vote for the "A" first :)

:doh: Thanks

At around 9min20s into the video, he is shooting up some bad guys at what appears to be an oil field of some sorts. Does anyone know what area of the map this is? He takes off and re-arms at the Novorossiysk airport (if I'm not mistaken), so it must be somewhere nearby there. I've flown around, but unfortunately haven't been able to find this place.

All this talk of realistic loadouts... this thread has more activity on it than the rest of the Su-25 subforum. Do people fly this module at all? Apart from this subforum being mostly dead, I also haven't been able to find any player-made missions for the Su-25. There were 1 or 2 that were sort of "one size fits all" and compatible with the Su-25, but nothing specifically made for it. Is this module just dead, in terms of players interest? Is the Su-25T more popular?

Great idea! I will definitely try this out of carboard before I finalize all the dimensions. The appearance does not matter to me. I do not intend to make any kind of finish on the thing. Maybe if I end up with sharp edges I'll have to sand that down so my cats don't cut themselves when they inevitably end up rubbing themselves all over the thing. Yeah, I forgot to add that to my sketches. I was just going to add a piece like this on the back: The reason why I don't want to attach anything to my desk and am instead wanting to build a small stand is because my desk is too high. Even if I clamped a board underneath the top part of the desk, I would end up with my wrist at about neck height when on the joystick, unless I raise up my seat - in which case my monitor will now be too low, and the pedals will be uncomfortable to control (They are propped up against the wall. If I raise the seat, I cannot reach them back there and have to move them out closer to my chair, and I'd have to find a way to keep them in place without sliding around on the floor). Yikes! I didn't think this could happen. Those rails I intend to purchase are pretty thick and solid, and they are pretty cheap, too. I might just use them for now and if they become a problem replace them with some brackets. What's this talk about using glue with screws? I figured I would just use angle brackets and screws to attach the pieces together, something like this: Although, with only 3/4" thickness I would need some really tiny screws not to go right through it. Or maybe I should? And then just fasten it from the other side with a nut? Although then I'd end up with screws sticking out and would probably scratch myself on them eventually. It's nice to see people passionate about their hobbies (or professions?), but I didn't really mean to elicit such a heated debate, haha, sorry! :)

Yes, I think QFE is what I've seen in the text that pops up. Edit: read up on wiki what the QFE stands for. So they give you both a radar altitude and a pressure altitude? Why do they give you an altitude in the first place, though? Shouldn't you climb to the height specified for your first waypoint?

This is a general question as I've seen this during take off in different planes, but I haven't been able to find information anywhere on what this means. What are those numbers that the tower calls out to you when it clears you for take off? Something like, climb 300, pressure something something? The climb 300 part is easy to understand (climb to 300 meters), but then the rest of it I don't really understand.

Slides because I don't know what position will be comfortable, further or closer to my body. What wood? Any that can be bought at Home Depot or similar ;) These are just regular drawer slides, so they do stop when pulled out to the maximum, but I don't think they lock in any way. For that, I intended to semi-permanently lock it into place once I found a comfortable position with something that I can easily remove when I want to adjust the length again. The joystick is the Saitek X52 Pro. The base of it is 180mm in width. The rubber sticky feet stick out an additional 50mm on the sides, so I figured the panel on which it will sit must not be any less than 200mm. What is your experience with rails? Do you find them wobbly and unsteady? They move back and forth all the time? Have you found no way to lock the rails in place? I've actually searched for a way to make a pedestal before I ended up with this stand. In fact this was supposed to be a pedestal when I started on it, but because of how wide the mounting panel for the joystick stand will have to be, and how long (I want it to be closer to my body), it seems to me the pedestal will just topple over. From what I've seen other people do, it's either some how attached to the chair (sometimes even a piece of the chair is cut out between the legs to make room for it), or it's some kind of mounting on the floor with the extended TM Warthog stick. I don't have a Warthog stick nor do I want to mutilate my office chair that I sit on, so I figured the best way is to have something standing in front of me, with a panel that extends from it and goes above my knees for the joystick to sit on. I'll take a look at the 3/4" MDF, although that seems a lot thinner than I expected haha. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hi, I want to build a simple stand for my joystick. It'll slide under my computer table, and the joystick will slide out on drawer slides. You can see a sketch I did on the images attached. The dimensions shown is what I measured that I will need, but now I just need to know how thick should the wood be? I want to make sure the construction ends up solid and steady. If it's not too much to ask, would someone experienced with wood work mind taking a look and see if this is 1) feasible at all, and 2) how thick should the wood be? (Just to be clear, that's not the computer table with the slide under it. It's the whole stand that will go under the computer table).

I second it. There is no lack of English-speaking people who would find your videos very useful and will be very thankful for them. So if you have the time, at least English subtitles would be great :)

What I did, after first time flying head first into them, was next time going slower. Like you say, I didn't want to sort of "cheat" and fly way above as if I knew they were there, so instead I just went from one cover to the other. Using the mountain corners for cover. I would stay at each one for a fair amount of time, watching the road. At one of them, I spotted the convoy, still pretty far off, and popped the first AAA threat I could distinguish, then hid behind the mountain, flew further way, and then approached from farther distance, but again with the mountain as cover. Worked out pretty well, but I had to do it a couple of times because my bad piloting skills I crashed into the mountain once, and another time strayed out in the open for too long and got shot haha :)

Nice, thanks Magician :)

Actually the question is "Will there be collision with trees?" And the answer is "Not in 1.3.0"

What is NG, anyway? New Game Consoles?

Do all these changes come with a new manual? :)

Sorry if this question is dumb obvious to some, but this is my first modern military flight sim, and I can't find information anywhere when to use chaff and when to use flares? There is no explicable difference described in the manual. When should I use which?

What? Isn't Ricardo's blue put in English? http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2022453&postcount=158

I know this is pretty far-stretched, but just curious - if it were possible to create mechs like in Mechwarrior or other fantasy universes, what kind of realistic combat role could it play on a real battlefield? Let's ditch the fantasy notion of them being indestructible superweapons that only other mechs can take down, and consider more of a "realistic" sci-fi angle - what could they be used for? I imagine that if they had a functional propulsion system that allowed for a limited amount of vertical movement, they could be useful in hilly terrain, or even heavily forested areas where normal ground vehicles cannot pass? What do you think?

Just curious, are there other people out there that like to put on a bit of music when flying? Perhaps not when out with your squadron, but certainly when just having a bit of a joy flight? What do you listen to?

No, you misunderstood me, sorry. I bought the keys on steam, and I want to activate them in my DCS World game (that is standalone from steam).

What was "Central Position Trimmer Mode" does in the options, again? I forget...

Realized I still have the Huey and the P-51 keys on Steam from the last summer sale (yeah, I still haven't played them, been flying other things :pilotfly:) How exactly do I go about registering those keys to my DCS World account? It says in this FAQ to use these keys to authenticate the module, but how? In the module manager, there is only a link to buy the module. There are no buttons anywhere to authenticate keys or register keys that I can see...