Horizon Line

Don't get me wrong, I love this sim more and more. :pilotfly: Here we go, just me there, in my first mission of the day (not multiplayer) in a nice winter morning in Republic of North Ossetia, west of Mozdok. After neutralizing the air defences of a medium sized convoy (14 ~ soft + armored targets) i go in a dive with rockets and guns. I shoot 6 rockets in a dive with no more than 10 degrees of bank and maybe 20 degrees of vectorial descent. 1 second later (8:49: 2 8 pull nose up 3 degrees, small GAU8 strafe on a BTR-80 (~ 2500 - 3000 ft, ~ 290-320 knots). Changed target to another BTR-80, a little more than 1 second long trigger pull (altitude ~1300ft?, can't tell much from this point. Speed increasing, throtle 80%~). While no visible splash yet from the second strafe I pull the trigger close to a third target, not the ideal by the altitude left as it was pretty low, but it is for fun after all. As soon as start shooting on the third target i see 2-4 flashes on the side of the second BTR-80 (longest shooting), right at this moment my screen blacks out, I freeze thinking the game crashed, betty came with her third pull up message (should've heard the girl), I know I'm screwed, without seeing nothing i pull the stick without much effort mesmerized of what happend. Couple of seconds latter my pilot's vision starts to come back with the tunel vision effect. Too late. 1 second to crash. :joystick: Stick pulled, belly first. Explosion. Attached debriefing Screen Shot of the last seconds. Saddly this was one of those you, mistakenly, don't hit the save track button. :doh: _________________ ___________________ ____________________ PC Performance: Absolutely no stutter during dive, nothing heavy running in the windows background. Everything safe. Old trusty fella Core2Duo E7500 stock clock + PNY 670GTX 2Gb VRam + 4 Gb DDR2 Ram. Win 7 professional 64 bit. Mission performance at 30 to 60 fps. Mods running: -Horse of War A-10C cockpit. -Generic airport high fidelity textures (taxiways and runways) I don't really have the mod name in hand right now. -And that's it. I don't really know if I should put this on the Bugs session as I might guess it was a 30mm rebound but I can't really tell if it's possible either IRL or modeled in the sim. Sorry for this possible incovenience, I just thought it would be worth posting either for bug fixing, simulation features awareness, and the most, WHAT THE EF HAPPENED ? Good Flying :) -Horizon Line

I remember as it were yesterday when I first tried Lock On Modern Air Combat demo (early 2000s). Being a Novalogic raised young simmer I was completely hooked, as I never seen such a fluid simulation of a MiG and, until then, never getting into such deph on russian birds. The very sim that amazed me with fierce iconic modern fighter jets and finally showed the path which I would find the role I most appreciate playing, when before I only cared about destroying other planes: the CAS/Ground-Attack. With the A-10A and my biggest underrate, the SU-25A, maybe now my favourite bird to dive into enemy's territory. When the DCS A-10C came on, I bought it, eventhough having no GPU power to supply the needs. Years later I'm, now, clearing some heavy dust out of the good'ol Lock On/FC2's soul on DCS World, and with a BLAST, the Thunderbolt II. Here it goes, aprox the last month before this post, more or less chronologically. Thank you Eagle Dynamics. You guys are one of the brightest sparks of PC gaming/simulation. Not only for product quality, but also for community engagement. Untouched images I just found, after hitting Print Screen without knowing for sure it would save, that encouraged me to make this post. Good Flying. -Horizon Line