Captain Spears

Hey Bunyap - I love your YouTube videos and find them extremely useful. Especially as you know what you are talking about. Even with your lesser experience with air-to-air, the way you figure things out as you go along, makes way more sense in conclusion. I've already watched #4 for the F15. Keep up the great work! Can't thank you enough.

Rhino - I'm probably not too far ahead of you. I'm learning as best I can on a laptop while I build a new rig. I'm treating this as a "sim of a sim" so to speak. While I'm very experienced with advanced flight-sims (PMDG), I am starting DCS-A10C by learning navigation and flight management via the digital flight planner; including divert-to, and how to get back on precise flight paths between waypoints etc. It's a whole new level of challenge and detailed learning. After about the first week, I fired the GAU-8 for the first time after following the tutorial, and it felt like I genuinely earned the right to fire it! Each to their own, but I am treating A-10C as a study sim, taking my time, learning as much as I can, and loving every minute of it.

Hello - I Cannot seem to find a post relating to this. I have just purchased A-10C from Steam. It shows up in Steam as DCS World DLC (right click / view DLC) as purchased. However the state remains as uninstalled. How do I install it into my existing DCS World? Note: My existing DCS World (and Mod) were purchased here. EDIT: I think I have answered my own questions - I need to download via ED and then enter the CD Key on install. So essentially you are purchasing a CD key at Steam. Thanks, S.

These tutorials are absolutely superb. Thanks Psyrixx by the way. They should be standard viewing for everybody new to DCS World.

Yes, exactly what Skouras said. Alt+1, followed immediately by Alt+2. Start with that.

Thanks Skate. It appears you have to hit Alt+1 first, before engaging Altitude hold (Alt+2)

I posted this in the beta forum earlier but am worried it might have got buried (i..sorry for the double post). I read that the autopilot is working again since 4/25. I bought and d/loaded the F-15C last night, and autopilot refused to engage in my initial few flights. Can somebody please advise (at least confirm it works), and / or please guide me through the process in case it is different than I expect. Thanks. S.

To me the F4 Phantom is the plane of which boyhood dreams were made. As I got older the magic and charisma of this aircraft never left. I think it is a beautiful piece of engineering. And to fly one in an environment such as what DCS offers would be that boyhood dream come true. Even for this 40' something year old man! With that I shall continue to dream and one day fly this beast in DCS!

I am embarrassed to say I now see the single player icon hidden on my desktop! Thank you :D

Hey All - is there a way to play 1.2.8 offline?

Nice - thanks Skate. Is the Super Sabre still in the works? https://www.facebook.com/VRCF100

One more question; what about sound card? or is that part of the video card nowadays?

LunaticFringe, SkateZilla - Thank you! ... and yes I can turn a screw driver and would prefer to do that anyway. I am pumped now. I will report back here once the build is complete - mid / late summer. Cheers guys.

Cool, well we chatted a bunch then. I was one of the first round of FM1 artwork creators along with Duffman, Jamesways and co. I too bailed after FM3 and MS / T10's complete lack of support especially with offering repeated unupdated tracks year after year. Forza fulfilled my simming needs while I was no longer able to fund flight-simulation (you know, family kids, mortgages etc.) . It's good to see a familiar name, here of all places. Thanks again for pricing that out for me. So, for monitors. I was thinking 3 x 27" eventually (probably just starting with 1 monitor in the beginning). Is there any real need to spend greatly here?

My word fellas, thank you all so much for your valuable input and welcoming messages :thumbup: I now have what I need to proceed and formulate my plan. It may be a few more months before I'm in the virtual sky, but I have taken the first step - which I have been looking for, for quite some time.... It has been 10 years since I last had a flightsim rig. And I have dreamed about owning one ever since. SkateZilla - You pricing this out for me (to build my own) is the cherry on the top. Thanks so much. You didn't happen to moderate the old Forzacentral forum back in the FM2 days did you? (If so my username was Kartman then) :smilewink:

I am making preparations for my return to flight simming and in particular DCS combat sims. It has been a long time, and I cannot wait. While researching rig builds and specs I came across Digital Storm and their well received gaming rigs. One of their machines, the Vanquish II (level 4), falls within my expected price range. The hardware seems great and sufficient for A10C, but I really have no idea how well it will actually perform. I would love to get some feedback from people here on this. Please let me know if you think this build would provide a good DCS simulation experience: - NVIDIA GTX 770 2GB - Intel Core i5 4570 CPU - 8GB 1600MHz Memory - 120GB Samsung EVO SSD - 1TB 7200RPM HDD - Upgraded CPU Air Cooling - ASUS H81 Chipset Motherboard - 600W Corsair CX Power Supply You can take a look at this product here: https://www.digitalstormonline.com/configurator.asp?id=927501 This is my long awaited first post on these forums. It feels good :) Boone