Devil 505

If you are looking for a good video regarding assets, this old Discovery Channel Wings documentary is perfect. For those who know little about the war, I highly recommend watching this. A lot of good content from the old Wins series

Glad to see the positive feedback. Great aircraft and believe it or not, I know a group of guys here that use to fly them and still maintain 3 static models here in Fort Worth, along with a massive list of other aircraft. Hope this becomes more than a side project at some point. It would be a ton of fun.

So I have not posted a Vietnam suggestion in a while, but after watching the short documentary below, WOW. ED really needs to bring the Bronco to DCS. Not only did it start in Vietnam and has since been flown in every major conflict, it still is being looked at to be used in the future. Every major conflict has seen it reinstated to the field. This is a perfect attack/recon aircraft to bridge a gap between Helo and Fighters. Not only that, the potential for multiplayer in this would be very exciting. A back seat spotter designating targets for Hornet or Viper drivers. The armament was pretty impressive and its short take off ability on virtually any surface makes this a prime candidate for all maps. Really hope to see this legend make it into DCS. Before anyone says it, yes I know Razbam has mentioned it and even had some screen shots of it, but I think it is on the shelf for awhile. They have their plates full with other projects. Let me know what you guys think about seeing the OV-10 makes its way to DCS.

Looking forward to the update. I concur with the gents above. A lot of people out there who would probably be interested in helping you turn this girl into a full module. We all know the time it would take, but DCS is home to a lot of us and we would be willing to wait. This sim makes my dreams a reality every year. Looking forward what's to come with your mod. Good luck and looking forward to getting her in the air over the Channel

I think with the new Falklands map coming from RAZ and its size will start to show promise for heavy bombers. I know their will be criticism from the fighter jocks (I am one to) but I remember the days of Megafortress back on IBM. I really enjoyed the challenge of using each station. I know it was not realistic, but I got the same vibe from the Anubis C-130 mod. Hopefully that comes to a third party development at some time. It is only a matter of time before we start seeing bombers surface in DCS. Be it the Vulcan or B-52, I am thoroughly down for one of these modules and I think a lot of others will be to.

Full Refund, Can you post a video on here of your 50 FPS to 70 FPS? I would like to see what your settings are at. Used to be able to pull it off but since 2.7 and NVIDIA driver updates, I am hovering in the lower 40's upper 30's. Here was a refresher course flying the Black Shark on the Syria map. If you have the Syria map, I would love to see a video with the FPS counter on to see how smooth its running.

So I just shot another video which I will post below tweaking the setting as some mentioned above. I did see a decent improvement in the FPS, at least pulling in the 40's now. I will continue to mess around with it but these are my settings so far in game. Time stamps are in the YouTube video to jump ahead to the combat. Also listed the owner of the music in the video description.

Ok Gents, I will try to keep this one short. Since 2.7 came out, I am blown away like everyone else with the clouds and new stuff added. It truly is a dream come true with VR and DCS. Something I have noticed is when DCS releases a new patch, it always seems like there is a tug of war with the NVIDIA drivers. I have read every possible advice known to DCS players on tweaking the VR settings to get max performance. As shown below, I know it can be done. These were videos shot not to long ago in my PIMAX 8K running in the 50 to 60 FPS range running high settings. My specs and settings are posted on another forum I started. I really hope ED can push VULCAN out this year. I have not changed any setting since the videos below and I am now rolling with an average in the 30's and dipping into the jagged 20's in populated city areas. I am going to try to reduced the cloud settings as everyone on here has stated and see where that gets me. If anyone from ED is reading this, can you possibly comment on Vulcan and when it may be ready? I am fired up for DCS to actually be able to utilize the full potential of my Intel i9. This first video was the day 2.7 released. Not bad at sea, but FPS drops pretty good inland.

So now that this thread is hopefully back on topic, any word from HB they can pass down about the A-6?

Any news on the VR pilot coming anytime soon? I do not recall seeing it. Look forward to this, really brings the immersion level to the max.

First VR flight with 2.7 in the PIMAX 8K. Loving it! Great job ED, truly making dreams come true. Absolutely cannot wait for the A-6, these clouds, and a Vietnam map after dark. Keep up the breathtaking work gents.

LOL!!! I love it! 386 PC. I am old enough to know exactly what that is. Going old school with the 286 IBM floppy's. I remember the upgrade to 3.75in hard disk and then moving into a CD ROM drive with my 486. The 486 was purchased with Janes Us Navy Fighters. Now I am Flying off of the super carrier. What a ride Sims have been since I was a kid. I remember my first one being F-19 Stealth Fighter. OLD SCHOOL.

I thought the same thing, but I still had to tune into the carrier frequency to get in contact with the Tower. Also make sure you are in T/R+G mode. Here is a video I did today flying the newly installed EFM model with my PIMAX 8K. LOVE it. Absolute blast in VR. They still need work on comms with the super carrier such as calling the ball, but it still works a lot better than it did before. Another thing I noticed was when taxing up to the CAT, when the deck crew gives the signal to accelerate forward, you have to rock the throttle a little to get her hooked in. There is also an issue where the pilot reds/blacks out when hooking up to the CAT. The only other issue I have noticed and it may be my flying, is when I touch down on the deck and catch the wire, the nose will shoot into the air at times. Please watch the video below on the first trap and let me know if I am to fast or coming down to hard. Not sure if this is pilot error or a bug. Keep up the amazing work. Really loving this aircraft. I will post a night flight here soon using ILS on the carrier. I expect it to be just as scary as the F-14 with all the red lights.

ED, I am sure you have a lot of good info already for the ready room but I have never seen this video before and it would be outstanding to implement some of these features. This video gives a lot of good details of the locations of the ready room, noise factors, uses of the room, greenie board info, a nice touch being a bolt over a pilots chair for bolters ect... I encourage anyone to watch this video. It shows how the ready room would bring depth to DCS in multiplayer.

The Gazelle is one of my favorite Helos next to the Huey. Did a quick flight out to the ship on the DCS Aerobatics server last night with my PIMAX 8K. Nothing comes close to DCS in VR, especially the Gazelle with its open cockpit. LOVE IT! I encourage anyone who enjoys the Gazelle and fly's in VR to post their videos here. Really fired up for the Kiowa.

Given the fact that I know where the "real" F-35 simulators are located, I am fairly certain I know exactly what you sat in and flew, it is not the "real" F-35 simulator. Unless you are current service with the hooks ups, a pilot for the armed services, or a Lockheed Martin employee again with the hook ups, you flew a watered down version using Lockheed Martin Prepare 3D. The stick and throttle were more than likely Bug Eye Technology replicas of the F-35. If you are prior/current service and were fortunate enough to get into what the pilots train in, then good on you, but because I work with this stuff every day and know the clearances and strings that need to be pulled to get into the real sim, I am going to go with you probably did not fly the real one. It was nothing more than a fancy tech demo. I am no pilot for the armed services, and all I can go off of is what I have heard from the gents I know and work with around the world. So maybe there are some out there that prefer the old Harriers over the 35, but again, as you said its all opinion. In the end, the performance of the F-35 clearly impressed the USMC and the UK or they would not be replacing all their Harriers.

I currently work with F-35 pilots from around the world and have never once heard the aircraft referred to as a "Unicorn" and two have not a met a pilot yet that flew Harriers who did not want to transfer to the F-35. Like the Intruder pilots, when the Harrier squadrons with the USMC are being phased out, they are transitioning into the F-35 Bravo. There has been some adjust going from the Harrier to the 5th Gen technology no doubt, but never has a pilot said it is not capable of doing the sorties the Harrier could accomplish. As a matter of fact, the USMC were the first to use the Bravo in combat gaining the first confirmed kills in the US. Israel beat us to the punch with confirmed combat kills. Now the two jets compete for combat time on deployment. So FACT, the above statement is shit and Lightning can complete a Harriers mission criteria with no issues. The only thing you are going to hear is a pilots love for his/her older aircraft leaving service. It is a respect thing for all the hard time they have put in with the Harrier and memories of successful deployments with her. Same for the Britts that have made the same transition to the B model.

Lets not disregard the primary role of the intruder during Vietnam and its success ratio flying Iron hand as well as strike missions and avoiding SAMs. Before you say it, yes there were SAM casualties of course, but to say the aircraft just cant survive at slow speed is an inaccurate assumption. There are a lot of Navy a Marine pilots that would strongly disagree. As a matter of fact, many stuck with the old girl instead of going over to the Hornets until forced to. As far as avoiding Migs, most were guided by the surface to air radars during Vietnam, so they had a major disadvantage over fighting the Intruder. If you are talking DCS and putting it in an unrealistic or should I say no historic role against fighters it was never intended to fight, then the point is mute. The reality is, we have the Hornet and Tomcats there to provide Air support the Intruder and our beloved Crusader is inbound at some point to. All I can say is I have not been this happy for Naval Flight Simulation since Janes US Navy Fighters. DCS and their third parties are making my simulation dreams come true. The high fidelity super carrier combined with the A-7, F-8, F-14, F-18, A-6 is damn close to complete. All we need to complete the show is the Phantom and the A-4. Plus it would be really nice to see Pollychop knock out some Naval Helos. Sea Sprite, Seahawk, Sea King, Sea Knight ect....

Right there with you man! If the F-111 comes to DCS, it will be a day 1 buy for me as well. Love the aircraft and it needs to come to DCS for sure.

Wrong movie brother. That was Air America, but still a GREAT movie. If we ever have a proper military cargo plane, maybe we can get Robert Downey JR to be the AI. LOL. The golden BB line was "Jack" actor Art LeFleur. Funny guy in that movie.

For the love of God ED/HB, since we still have plenty of time, it would be awesome if you could somehow get Willem Dafoe to play the next AI/BN voice. I think even he would get a kick out of it.

Lurker, had to log in after seeing yesterday’s ED teaser video and HB’s official announcement of the Intruder being their next project. Just wanted to say hahaha I told ya so!

HELL YEAH!!!!!! "Devil 505, wave off wave off! He's too low!" There is a part in the video link above of inside the A-6 on the dash. I knew HB was bringing this bad boy to DCS! Most wanted module!!!!

BIGNEWY, Just confirming, ED planned a full C-47 module at some point? Not trying to start a hype train as I am pretty sure the Apache already owns that territory, but this would be awesome news for some of us. Just curious.