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No finished external model or new skins either unfortunately. Ah well, at least the gunsight works now, hopefully some bigger F-16 updates are in the pipeline.

It's a fantastic aircraft and I agree that despite the magnificent new cockpit, there are some annoying bugs. I've had real trouble doing any ground attack work over the close range radar mode coming on all the time. Still, if it gets ironed out soon, get it. The missions and campaigns that ship with it are some of the highest-quality in DCS as well.

Thanks, didn't know the plane could do that! Will take a look.

Finally gotten round to trying this one, thanks for all the effort Baltic, loved all your campaigns so far. All went well until I got to the crash site and was asked to mark it. How do you do it? Descended and destroyed the manpads but couldn't figure out where to go from there...

Would love to have a map of the three baltic nations, parts of Sweden and Finland along with St Petersburg, would make for great scenarios.

Agreed. Detail levels on the AI SU-34 and SCUD are magnificent but considering it's taking years to overhaul or add new units to the sim, maybe a different approach is needed. As some others have suggested, it might be a good idea to get the community involved in the creation of some more AI units. Some modders made a fantastic P-3C model, why not add stuff like that to the sim? Look at the Supercarrier - it'll look incredible but we'll be stuck with SH-60 and S-3 models on the deck from Lockon which was released 17 years ago...

Couldn't agree more. Look at the Persian Gulf - we have absolutely no Iranian naval units beyond the speedboat. Really stops mission makers from making any proper naval clashes on the map. We don't even have desert camo for the vehicles yet.

Great job guys. Wow, adding the Liaoning and AI J15 is huge news for the Marianas map, same with the bomber. Enjoy Chinese New year and keep drinking.

Good question. For example, how would it work with Baltic Dragon's Raven One campaign which he is working on or any other carrier-based campaigns in the future? Will two versions be released? One with the supercarrier and the other with the regular one?

Nice update guys, great that you took some time off.

I wasn't doing the stored heading align and that turned out to be the problem. Went through the alignment again and it worked! Thanks a lot for the help!

Thanks for the suggestion - tried it but still no luck. Did an autostart on the same mission and that worked - it definitely seems to be something I'm missing on the startup process. Will keep searching, probably something simple.

I also prefer the cockpit layout of the Hornet more. Same with the probe and drogue refuelling over the boom. Plus it can carry quite a lot more ordnance than the F-16.

Cold and dark start. Seems to work fine in an air start so I'm definitely missing something....

Quick datalink question. I've made a mission with some friendly F-15s and F-16s, E3 and some enemies. I can't see them on the datalink or anything for that matter on the HSD, not even my wingmen. IFF is on, as is the MIDS switch. Just wondering if I missed a step or forgot to press something somewhere?

PC Pilot it seems! Sounds exciting - could be great for carriers and to get the Chinese asset pack more involved!

I also love the weathered cockpit, it's a work of art. Sat in a few old planes over the years and the shabby beat up look is pretty typical, the team did a fantastic job with the textures. You can almost smell the grime.

I believe Sadjad Vosoul made a great IRIAF skin pack last year which might help for now - I think one or two of these were added to the base game but not enough: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=216906 But I agree, it would be nice if ED could manage desert camo for the vehicles, skins for Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran and the regional players. Should be a prerequisite when it comes to paying so much money for a map imo. Imagine we got the Syria/Turkey/Israel map with no Syrian and IAF skins and only European paint schemes for the vehicles?

Hope we get an updated S-3B soon - the 3D model is from LOMAC days and the basket really isn't up to scratch compared to the KC135 and KC130.

L-39C and ZA is definitely a great starter aircraft.

Really wish they'd be able to put a team together and just really finally overhaul all of those old lomac models once and for all.

If it's a good chance to somehow get the Eurofighter, Rafale, F-22 and SU-35 into the game, I'd be happy with that. Would add a lot going forward in terms of the future dynamic campaign and immersion.

Agreed. Seems like ED have enough work on their hands already, would rather they work on the Mi24 and then return to something as complex as the F-4E as soon as that's done. This actually seems to be exactly what the majority of the community wants. Actually on another note, I was surprised nobody at Mudspike asked Wags about the new free map that's in development - hopefully we'll still hear something about it this year.

+1. They even had a Joint-Stars back in Jane's F-15 which functioned quite well so could be manageable.

Agreed, was in a fun dogfight with a MIG29 and had to take a look at the MFD to change and lost sight of him, really need this to be on the HOTAS!