drPhibes
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You obviously misunderstood my post. I didn't say that making DCS playable on linux is a waste of time, but that improving playability through Wine/Proton is a more sensible way of spending limited development resources.
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Increased linux compatibility through Wine/Proton is probably the best we can hope for. Making DCS a native linux application would be a massive undertaking, and is not worth the effort. The graphics API is only a small part of how the game interacts with the host OS, so while switching from DirectX to Vulkan certainly helps, the rest of the job is not as simple as replacing windows.h with linux.h in a few source files and recompiling.
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18 hours ago, MAXsenna said:
Norwegian Vipers have chutes.
Viggen can reverse. Not sure what the Finns do. Not sure even if any field have wires. Not that l have been to too many.
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Several of the large fighter bases in the area have arrestor gear. Bodø and Evenes in Norway, Vidsel in Sweden, and Rovaniemi in Finland.
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It seems like some people here are confusing frequency conversion and frequency pairing. VOR and TACAN are incompatible, but if the VOR is co-located with a DME, the frequencies are paired according to a table defined by ICAO. Unlike VOR, DME and TACAN are partially compatible, so a DME equipped aircraft can get the distance (but not bearing) to a TACAN beacon, and vice versa.
The same goes for ILS, where you just input the localizer frequency, and the glide path (and DME, if appliccable) frequencies are set automatically.
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114.9 MHz is a VOR frequency, and can't be used for ILS. The highest available localizer frequency is 111.95 MHz.
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110.10MHz is a localizer frequency, and is thus invalid for VORs.
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Make sure you have a headwind of >5kt for the runway direction equipped with ILS.
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1 hour ago, Rongor said:
I wouldn't rule out ILS gets turned off to save power, especially on airports which face hours of no arriving traffic at all.
It still depends on whether the runway is equipped with ILS for both directions. If ILS is only available for one direction and the wind demands approaches from the opposite direction, they would likely still leave the ILS active because you could still make use of it for backcourse localizer approaches. Even if this type of approach isn't published for that airfield, it still can help in emergencies.
Backcourse approaches aren't really a thing anymore outside the US. Modern ILS systems use highly directional antenna systems, and the back lobe of the array is so marginal that it can't be used for backcourse approaches.
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13 hours ago, exhausted said:
Because priorities, and not everyone is going to want the F-15E.
So you want Razbam, who were not involved in making the DCS F/A-18C, to make a F/A-18D instead of the F-15E that they are actually working on? That's the only way your post would make any sense. The alternative would be that you don't understand that ED and Razbam are separate companies, with their own products.
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7 hours ago, JG14_Smil said:
(I think it should match the other frequency.)
The localizer frequency for two opposing runway ends are almost never the same. The UK is the only place I can think of that does this on a regular basis.
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1 hour ago, BIGNEWY said:
Ok you have no more information to share that can be verified as facts.
thank you
You'd be hard pressed to find a single fact in all of his 4.6k posts. I'm not trying to tell the mods how to do their jobs, but the fact that there have been no consequences for sabotaging countless serious discussions is beyond my comprehension. His delusional ramblings are basically forum poison.
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We have seen multiple times (e.g. with the Hind) that the OP is completely unwilling (or unable) to listen to the advice given, so trying to help him is simply a waste of time.
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Yay CGI. Exactly what every sequel to a bad eighties film needs...
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On 3/21/2022 at 11:17 PM, Flagrum said:
UX Design - User Interface Design. Can Boeing even ...?
If I was to buy a new, would I consider Boeing as manufacturer/brand?
None of the examples you mentioned were developed by Boeing. Both the AH-64 and the F/A-18 were inherited from McDonnell-Douglas after the merger.
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The big question is: who has the nicest mag? The CPG or pilot?
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A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion, but choses not to.
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I have been looking around the cockpit in the model viewer, and the level of detail of the M4 model is impressive (maybe even a bit excessive). Even parts that are invisible from the outside (like the top cartridge in the magazine and the locking lugs on the barrel extension/bolt) are modelled. Now let's just wait for some rivet counter to complain about that the primer is too large, and that the barrel extension is rotated 22,5° CCW
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2 hours ago, viperBAT46 DTF46 said:
Upsetting at best. I don't have the internet speed nor the ssd space for that.. wait I will.
This I'm looking at.. but I do not understand it fully. Risky for me.
Switching your stable install to open beta will consume a marginal ammount of disc space compared to the update you need to download to get the Apache.
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22 minutes ago, BeastyBaiter said:
Confirming shooting out of the window of an Apache is done in real life on a routine basis. Here's a historical documentary on its practice.
To be fair, that looks better than every single film Michael Bay ever directed.
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Good point.
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53 minutes ago, Mogster said:
UK Army Air Corps take the SA80 carbine, and a lot of other stuff it seems.
https://medium.com/voices-of-the-armed-forces/apache-pilot-whats-in-my-kit-1103dd3291ad
The best way of using an SA80 is probably dropping it on the enemy from high altitude
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5 hours ago, HotTom said:
Not many big cities n the Negev, Sinai or along the Suez.
...and the area between Ein Shemer (which is basically as far south the detailed part if the map currently goes) and the and the Negev desert is famously completely empty, devoid of all signs of population?
F-15E not authorized
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Step 0 should be uninstalling McAfee. There is no reason to use anything other than MS Defender.