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The technical hover stop on the nozzle lever is 82° (81°-83° indicated), for hovering with the "Witches Hat" at 2° above the horizon. While the Harrier sits at about 6.5° nose up on the ground, the engine datum is 1.5° to the fuselage datum for a grand total of 8°.

Thanks for the update, BIGNEWY. That's really unfortunate. There's always some suspension of disbelief doing training missions in the combat theater and NTTR is definitely not the ideal place for it once the Red Flag novelty has worn off. What are the chances or even feasibility that a 3rd party could add areas and assets to existing terrain modules? SW U.S. could be used as a conflict map though with the bases laid out like they are. The Weapons and Tactics Instructor course is an example of a real-world (notional) conflict between a threat nation to the north (Capital of Las Vegas) encroaching on an allied nation to the south (Capital of San Diego), with sea-to-shore operations and ground combat operations throughout the area. And it would be ready-built for carrier operations and anything else, since there is plenty of ocean and the area is littered with LHA/LHD training pads at outlying auxiliary airfields.

That's a shame then, considering so much stuff happens just outside the southern map boundary and how much utility players and mission/campaign-makers could get out of it. I know it's no small feat to add swaths of terrain and airports, but having a training campaign for Hornets and Harriers on their home turf, providing an actual sandbox where they fly together, and having an ideal area to continue to develop DCS: Combined Arms might be the tipping point for many people hesitant to purchase the NTTR module but who are excited about these other aircraft and possibilities.

I was looking at the map area for NTTR and it struck me that there was an enormous missed opportunity based on the map size and location. With the F-14, F/A-18, and the AV-8 on the horizon, would it be in the cards to have the map area extended further south ~150-180km? This would be a roughly 150,000km2 addition but it would add a ton of depth to the map by including all the major Navy/Marine Corps stomping grounds in the southwestern U.S. 1) NAS/MCAS Miramar Current home of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3d MAW) and former home of NSAWC and TOPGUN, "Fightertown USA." Hornets and Tomcats (and dare I say Phantoms?) are right at home for any modern or historical training missions. Current home of Marine Aircraft Group 11 (MAG-11). VMFA-232 Red Devils (F/A-18C) VMFA-314 Black Knights (F/A-18C) VMFA-323 Death Rattlers (F/A-18C) VMFAT-101 Sharpshooters (F/A-18C Training Squadron) 2) MCAS Yuma The busiest Marine Corps air station and fielding excellent year-round flying conditions, it is surrounded by premier air-to-ground training ranges (Chocolate Mountains, Barry Goldwater, and Yuma Proving Grounds) that it puts to good use during the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course: the Marine Corps' top-level weapons school and counterpart to TOPGUN and WIC. Twice a year, thousands of Marines and a handful of joint and coalition partners travel to Yuma to conduct the largest combined arms exercise in the world to include Battalion-level helicopter air assaults, high-tempo close air support, self-escort strikes to Nellis AFB, and even foreign humanitarian assistance and embassy evacuation exercises. Current home of MAG-13. VMA-214 Blacksheep (AV-8B) VMA-311 Tomcats (AV-8B) VMA-211 Wake Island Avengers (AV-8B) (now VMFA-211 (F-35B)) VMA-513 Flying Nightmares (AV-8B) (now decommissioned) MAWTS-1 VMX-1 VMFT-401 Snipers (F-5N) Adversaries 3) NAF El Centro Winter home of the Blue Angels and frequent training stop for VMFAT-101. 4) MCAS Camp Pendleton Major west coast Marine Corps infantry base and home of MAG-39. HMLA-169 Vipers (AH-1W/Z, UH-1N/Y) HMLA-267 Stingers (AH-1W/Z, UH-1N/Y) HMLA-369 Gunslingers (AH-1W/Z, UH-1N/Y) HMLA-469 Vengeance (AH-1W/Z, UH-1N/Y) HMLAT-303 Atlas (AH-1Z, UH-1Y Training Squadron) 5) MCAS El Toro Attacked and destroyed during the War of 1996. 6-9) Naval Base San Diego / NAB Coronado / NAS North Island / Pacific Ocean One of the largest naval bases and shore commands in the world, and home to many carriers and amphibious vessels. More ocean than you can shake a stick at for CVN and LHA/LHD operations. With so many current and upcoming modules that have historically called this area home, it should be a natural addition. Is this something that might be a possibility, or are we stuck flying Marine and Navy jets out of an Air Force base? ;)

Multi-crewed cockpits. One step closer to my dream of an F/A-18D.

As mentioned in numerous other threads, I would also like to see dual-seaters implemented. How hard it is to develop, difficulty finding people to play with, or "what I'd do if someone lags" is irrelevant to me. The cooperative experience of sharing a cockpit is too good to pass up, and can also be used as a trainer or as a tool for easing people into the scary (oft expensive) world of study sims. I'd really like to see some variant of the Hornet (either D or F), given their multi-role nature. It has a robust mission set in both air-to-air and air-to-ground (the Marine Corps uses them as all-weather strike aircraft). It's capable of performing all functions of OAS and SEAD, and opens up a lot of multiplayer opportunities for simulating FAC(A), TAC(A), and SCAR in large scale missions with a variety of other platforms being flown. Plus there is the added bonus that variants of these airframes and models are already being created, lessening the workload somewhat for the developer. If not a Hornet, a Strike Eagle would do nicely. As for helicopters, a more modern AH-1 or an AH-64 would be amazing.

Fine, how about LMAVs (AGM-65E) and HARM/ARGM? Or if that doesn't tickle your fancy, Mk77 Firebombs, since the Marine Corps is the only branch who uses them anymore? :P

Voted for the run-of-the-mill F/A-18. Source documents are widespread and readily available (and unclassified), plenty of flight model data, multirole and multi-service (Marine Corps and Navy), carrier ops, new weapons (particularly GBU-16s)... Not to mention they can model the C series, the more modernized and lighter A++, or even have the option to do 2-seaters with the D series ATARS birds for strikes or FAC(A)/TAC(A). Can't beat it in terms of flexibility.

Well then, I guess Eagle Dynamics gets $0 instead of $30. Way to lose the trust and loyalty of your customers.

Yeah, I just figured out that if you change your timezone in your profile, the sales will reappear, and then they disabled changing timezones in your profile, thus removing the sales again... This is starting to get frustrating.

And my sales disappeared again... So if sales aren't UTC, why aren't they showing up? It's 1342 on 29 Sep 2013 for me, shouldn't I still be seeing the discounts? I want to purchase Combined Arms and Black Shark 2, and it seems like you guys are making it really difficult to do, which seems like a strange business model.

Confirmed, just set my Profile timezone to +11 UTC and the sale prices returned on both the storefront and the checkout page. Strange.

I checked DCS: Combined Arms and in both the E-shop and Checkout it's listed at $29.99. Was really hoping to purchase it on sale on my one day off this week. Guess not.

I'm having the same issue. Was hoping to purchase DCS: Combined Arms on my one day off this week only to find out that the sale ended early? What gives? The banners on the side of the site are still advertising it!