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I think you're underestimating the actual cost involved. First of all, there aren't many wind tunnels in the world that are large enough for full scale aircraft, and renting the tunnel at NASA Ames (the only one I could find with some quick googling; there are probably a few others around the world) isn't cheap. Second: no warbird owner in their right mind would ever risk damage to a multi-million dollar aircraft for such an experiment. Good scale models and accurate CFD simulations is the only feasible way of obtaining this type of aerodynamic data, and even these "cheap" methods are extremely expensive (if done right), especially considering that DCS is a tiny niche market compared to other sims and games in general. If spending a few years digging up existing relevant data saves you x% of profit margin for the final product, it's often worth the wait.

I have only flown the unarmed version (no pylons/hardpoints mounted), and it does not have the gunsight mounted.

Schwitzerdütsch (and maybe also Bavarian) is the only proper German. All that hochdeutsch-nonsense is cheating :P

IIRC, someone from the Razbam team mentioned some time ago (either here on the forums or somewhere on FB) that it was already being tested by ED. But all these "when will it be released?"-speculations are pointless. Read the manuals instead, so you're prepared when it goes live :)

Often, but not always. As several people have mentioned earlier, the Gazelle was released the same day sales started.

I had a quick skim through both the AV-8B and SH-60 manuals, and none of them mention any landing aids (just, as you mentioned, TACAN, which at least helps you find the ship), so it seems that you'll need to land visually.

You could just overwrite the Russian audio files with the equivalent English files, but I'm not sure if it will pass the integrity check with the changes that have been done there lately.

Check your axis assignments, and make sure that radar elevation isn't bound to a slider or something else where you don't want it. IIRC, I had problems with this happening to some aircraft (can't remember which) some time ago.

I know this sounds like complete crazy talk, but you don't actually have to buy a new module the first week after it is released. If you are unsure if it's worth buying yet, wait for a complete feature list to be published (like I'm doing).

Several do. For instance Burning Skies WWII. All the "F-s" are disabled. It makes even finding the runway at the obscure Normandy airfields a chore...

Then you are, of course, welcome to not buy the module and ignore the fact that it exists. And feel free to check what you have to pay for equivalent products for the other sims [that shall not be named....

Zlad is the only thing worth listening to: ...and Audiopain:

Hanging out of the door of a Schweizer 300 with my Sig P210 would beat the Huey any day! And maybe even the Mi-24P. (and no, this is not one of the wishlish thread derailments that seem to pop up everywhere these days).

But whatever the reason may be, "fixing" it is easy:

There could be several reasons. The most obvious is licensing issues; if you want to use Garmin's registered trademarks commercially, you need their permission. Which usually costs money. An other aspect could be possible publicity reasons. If Garmin should feel that a simulated version of their products give an unfair/inaccurate representation of the real world product, they might not be interested in allowing use of their names or proprietary IP.

Fortunately there were no injuries, despite the fact that the missile hit the ground few meters from the spectators. It did not explode on impact (presumably because the warhead didn't arm in time). And the year was 1977 (May), not 1978.

Oops. You're right about the Ka-50. I haven't flown it for 1.5 years, so I completely forgot about that. In principle i could be possible, but it all depends on which I/O signals you have available on the different systems. I would imagine that the GNS430 supports some kind of data output, either via serial NMEA messages or a proprietary binary protocol, but interfacing this with an existing IMU that isn't built for it isn't a trivial task. So if the Mirage INS supported any kind of GPS augmentation it would probably already have the GPS receiver integrated. And IIRC, the Gazelle does not have an INS. The NADIR system is a doppler navigation radar. Edit: sniped! By several folks. That's what you get for writing half of the post before and half after a 45min meeting...

At the few airshows with modern aircraft I've visited, all planes that weren't flying were covered up with intake and pitot covers, and all munitions on display are dummies. Regarding live munitions: in 1978, an F-5A from Rygge AB launched a live AIM-9 during a simulated attack on Torp airport during an airshow. After that the RNoAF stopped using QRA aircraft for airshows...

Neither the Mi-8 nor the L-39 has an INS, so no. In certain integrated systems GPS can be used for providing correction data for an INS (combining the short term accuracy of INS with the long term accuracy of GPS, via a kalman filter), but the only aircraft in DCS where this is theoretically possible is the A-10C (the only other INS equipped aircraft (Mirage 2000) doesn't use GPS).

Not a tutorial as such, but here's a video about the real thing. It could be quite usefull for sim use, depending on how accurately BST have cloned the GNS430:

If WAAS is the only SBAS supported in the 430 it won't do you any good in Normandy or Georgia.

Safariland flight sim gloves: https://www.safariland.com/products/holsters-and-gear/gear/gloves/duty-and-traffic/specialist-gloves-17626.html#sm.0001m1sxw0zu9d9gx0e23q5hfxxr3 ...or a version of the Garmin GNS430 GPS with a small name change to avoid licensing issues.

Not necessarily. Whether or not there is a pre-purchase period is up to the developers. The Polychop Gazelle was released the same day they started selling it. All we know for now is this: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3130849&postcount=1154

The GG12 GNSS receiver used in the ABRIS is available in a GPS+Glonass and a GPS only version. So GPS is always an option.