Scania203

My biggest annoyance is 3 A-10's. The A fair enough but what's the difference between 10C and 10C II. Both manuals are huge so, print both for the sake of 10 pages ? I know they put a lot of hard work into these modules but the documentation is just as important so rather than use another ream I would like to be able to see any changes in sheet at the beginning of the document and just be able to print those 10 sheets rather than another 700 odd.

Maybe I'm missing something but :- Some flight manuals have a list of amended pages, if, like me, you like a hard copy this can save you a lot of ink and paper. With DCS being updated so often would it not be too much to list changed pages for every manual ? Just asking, save the planet and whatnot . . .

Well that explains it then. At least its not me :D

Sorry if this has been covered before, I'm old and too lazy to search :P Why is it : - I save a track and no matter what happened the the game the aircraft in the track crashes or does something even more weird like picks the wrong cat or no cat at all ! . . . WTF ??

They should really be there for the Normandy map at least :thumbup:

Yep :thumbup:

It seems to me that now we have a channel map that WW2 assets needs some updating. If the idea is to produce missions or whatever for this map then some more AI aircraft are needed, for example: Do17, you know, the flying pencil :) He111 Ju87 Bf109E Bf110 Hurricane Defiant Spitfire 1a Battle Blenheim, have I spelt that right ? Some Italian stuff that I've heard was involved although I'm not sure Have I missed anything ? This stuff might already be there, I'm downloading it now, I'm drunk and I'm old so sorry if I've jumped the gun. Just saying :P

To answer your question . . no the radar tracker is just an addon and had no optical element apart from a TV but we might be getting into the realms of cant say. In general I think DCS does a a good job of SAMs et all but im no expert, a proper combat pilot would be able to say if so, They get me most of the time :pilotfly:

Sorry, talking about the real thing :)

OK, Rapier never needed the radar tracker. Everything was supject to the operator selecting who did the job. When a target was detected (any target including jamming) the kit would slew to that azimuth, the operator searched in elevation as did the radar tracker until the target was aquired. If the radar tracker found the target it would inform the operator with a tone in his helmet but it was down to the op to select radar or track it himself. Its a bit more complicated than that but our major concern is how DCS handles it. IMHO if you get within the Mx envolope youre screwed, in my experience you cant jam it, flares are useless unless you get em out within 3 seconds of launch and it will see you even it youre a hovering helicopter, a B2 or a F117...... or even a wave top, curtain on a lorry trailer or speed camera :thumbup:

How DCS handles I have no idea, I can only talk about the real thing. I did try once to see how it reacted but it just ignored the incomming hostile :D Still, that might just be me not having a clue about the mission editor. Yep the Falklands was a bit of a thing, Rapier did not like being bounced around all over the place, Whiteladder is spot on that if it had no chance of hitting a target then it would not bother with it, crossing or receading and that. However when it was sited correctly and not abused too much it was a good piece of kit, now FSC is an absolute killer but as Whiteladder pointed out, it was all designed to protect a particular thing i.e. airfield, airhead, route blah blah. 7Km and 10000Ft and youre ok assuming DCS is correct :)

Not quite, it could be deployed as an optical system, launcher and optical tracker, or combined launcher , optical tracker and radar tracker. You must have the launcher, for obvious reasons :D and you must have the optical tracker because thats where the operator sits with all the luvely buttons, switches and knobs. The radar tracker is for blind engagements, cloud, night and wotnot.

Just noticed this thread so I hope this helps. A Rapier launcher, optical tracker and radar tracker is one fire unit. It could be deployed as an optical or combined system but nothing works without the launcher or optical tracker. The launcher, as far as I can remember, is deployed 26 to 28 meters from the optical tracker and the radar tracker deployed on the oposite side of the optical at about 6-7 meters. The launcher containa a surveillance radar and a command transmitter, the optical tracker is more or less just that and the radar tracker once a target is detected searches and then tracks the target. I'm not going to talk about sop's cos they changed over the years but in real life no operator will fire at you if you are beaming. Before anyone asks, yes I worked on Rapier FSA/B1/B1MLI and B1TDU over about 13 years or so. Don't ask me about FSC, I know a bit but was never trained on it. Oh BTW the towing eye on lancher and RT (for real) point 3200 mils from datum whereas the middle leg on the optical points to datum. Hope this helps, most of this info if not all is on the internet prolly :)

Hehehe, yup you are quite right, I was drunkin at the time :):)

What I would love to see in DCS (not just planes) Lightning preferably the FMk6, Hunter, TSR2, Tornado, Jaguar, did I mention the Lightning, Buccaneer, Phantom and oh Lightning and the Lightning :) A proper or near as dammit GCA and GCI ( You got it on Vulcans JetPilot for the Amiga with just 4 floppies and 512Mb of RAM ! ) A dynamic campaign that equals Falcon 4.0 which was on 1 cd and not that much bigger after the BMS team did an epic job of dragging it out of the mire. An ATC that knows whats going on. Pairs takeoff and landing ( Jetpilot and Falcon4 ) with an AI that has an idea of what you're up to when you call the tower. Just sayin. Per Ardua