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  1. 11 hours ago, Art-J said:

    "Yorktown class is "2nd best" and the most logical choice then because, with all due respect to light and escort carrier sailors, nobody except history geeks cares about these. It's the big vessels that are in spotlight."

    Sorry Art-J but I have to disagree with the last part of your post here. History geeks notwithstanding, I do believe that there is a huge part of the DCS World customer base that are "Carrier Geeks" (myself being one) and I feel like there would be a tremendous attraction towards the Independance class CVL due to the smaller size and attendant degree of difficulty in operating from its smaller flight deck. Their flight decks were just slightly longer than a Jeep carrier's and actually a few feet narrower. Their only advantage being their ability to keep up with the fleet carriers. I, for one, would have been far happier to see ED develop any one of the CVLs in lieu of the famous, highly decorated Enterprise. But that's just me. 😉

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  2. I am having a problem with the RAID/FOV button when carrying Mavericks. If I am just carrying GBUs or LGBs or any other weapon, the TGP functions normally, allowing me to control the FOV and switch between TV and IR via my HOTAS but if I have either model of Maverick on board, the hat switch assigned to RAID/FOV no longer functions and I have to manually select those functions from the DDI with the targeting pod displayed. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I am using a TM Warthog HOTAS with the Realistic TDC Slew box checked.

  3. On 12/28/2023 at 6:05 AM, bkthunder said:

    We need a sea state slider, independent of wind (or much more loosely dependent). That's all. 

    That's it in a nutshell 👍

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  4. On 2/26/2024 at 9:29 AM, Fergi19 said:

    After the update, my pitch control is terrible for A2A refueling.  The elevator seems to be very jerky causing huge pilot induced oscillations when trying to plug the basket.  I was fairly decent at getting gas before the update, now it is downright frustrating.  This is on the canned mission for CASE 1 landings and hitting the S3 at 300 kts and 15,000’.

    I used to have curves set at 25, now it takes at least 50 for the pitch just to get it smooth enough to have a chance.  

    Anyone else?

    I am experiencing the same thing. I have a 10mm extension on a Warthog stick and have always been quite comfortable behind the basket, day or night but now I am almost totally incapable of getting plugged in, much less staying in! I had a +20 in the pitch curve and bumped it to 25 with no appreciable effect and have tried 30 and now 35 and am still having problems. It is really quite frustrating! All the rest of the changes to the FM seem to be very nice though. 

  5. I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that the Navy wasn't the only branch of service to use this technology for getting the planes back home. I believe that the Army Air Corps also used a similar, if not identical method of allowing their planes to navigate their way back home. If ED could figure out a way to make this happen for the upcoming Magnitude 3 LLC F4U-1D, it shouldn't be too difficult to make it available to the rest of the planes as it only involved tuning in a radio frequency, there were no cockpit instruments involved. It would be nice to be able to get around without having to use the F10 map. And before y'all jump on me like a duck on a Junebug, I am aware of the method of time, distance and heading (dead reckoning).

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  6. Bozon, there is no arguing with your statement that the Hellcat was there when the battle happened, which made it more significant however that doesn't make it the better fighter of the two. The fact that the Corsair carried on from late in WWII throughout the entire Korean War while the Navy relegated the Hellcat to the Training Command, Reserve squadrons and other yeoman duties, I believe is a fairly clear statement that the Corsair was the far better plane of the two. It was faster and was eventually capable of carrying far more ordinance.
    This is not to denigrate the Hellcat at all. When the two planes came out of their experimental flight testing, the F6F was a far better CARRIER plane than the F4U and that is what the Navy needed at that time more than anything. One that the 3-400 hour nuggets could get aboard the carrier without much drama. Once the Corsair's teething problems were solved, it became more of a logistical issue of supporting it at sea where the Hellcat had already made a home for itself in the previous year aboard a rapidly growing fleet of CV's.

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  7. I apologize if this has already been "wished for". I went back 4 pages and saw nothing regarding trigger zones. First off, let me thank the ED team for giving us the ability to make trigger zones that are circles OR trapezoids. That has been a huge boon to mission builders everywhere I'm sure. What I am asking for is to give us the ability to define the trigger zone in the vertical by allowing us to set floors and/or ceilings to the trigger zones. As it is now, if we wish to keep players above or below a given altitude, the trigger has to include EACH UNIT that may possibly violate that altitude limit within a zone. I feel like this would make the process much more streamlined and easier to accomplish. Thanks for taking the time to consider this.

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  8. I'd be more than happy to just see the ships get some kind of AI that would let them take evasive maneuvers when being attacked by aircraft 👍

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  9. "Damage must be seperated from flooding (buoyancy), meaning a "destroyed" ship can still float and a "not destroyed" ship can still flood and sink"

    I get the first part, about a "destroyed" ship could still remain afloat, but the second part about a "not destroyed" ship can still flood and sink doesn't make any sense to me. I recon that the whole point of attacking a ship is to sink her, thus "destroying" her.

    That said, I do agree with your comments over all. ED could definitely use some improvements in the shipping department as far as damage is concerned.

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