drPhibes

If realism is the issue you shouldn't be flying these aircraft in the first place...

Just curious: which 120mm would that be?

Where did you read that? Following the flak ED got for the WW2 assets pack, they said that they had no further plans of doing the same thing again. I'm not saying that plans can't change, but I haven't seen any indications of the carrier being separate (and I think I've read all official info available at the moment).

Everything works as it should in 2.1. Here's a quick test I did wiith the Mi8: Left: 15kts wind @90°, right: 0kts wind (the windsock has apparently reverted to some default state). Look at the control indicator and how much i have to lean into the wind in the left shot. This is fully trimmed out in a stationary IGE hover :

OT, but so does the EH/AW101. And the Mil V-12 had four (although that hardly counts; twin rotors = cheating).

Or perhaps modifying the flight dynamics of an ancient module like the Ka-50 isn't a priority at this stage? I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an update to a feature complete module released 6 years ago.

That was LOMAC. Crimea has never been part of the DCS World caucasus/black sea map.

I find it quite interesting that the piece of land you (and that's "you" as the plural term; I'm not pointing at anyone in particular) fly over is the unrealistic dealbreaker, and not the fact that random geeks from around the world fly everything from warbirds to front line fighters with relative ease. We're playing out fictional scenarios with virtual planes. It's not historical reenactment.

And the Italian, Spanish, Thai and Indian navies.

Case in point, Kobuleti/Meria. All structures (including hardened shelters) at this airbase were demolished by 2006. It's hard/impossible to pinpoint any exact time frame for the current map, but some time in the mid 1990s isn't that unlikely.

O/T, but: what info do you base this on? And please don't say google earth, as the most recent picture there is 8 years old. Kutaisi was renovated in 2011/2012, with a new terminal building, ILS for both runway directions etc.

Squadron Signal's F-5 In Action is quite good IIRC. It's old (1984), and may be out of print, but copies pop up on ebay now and then.

Ok, so you want the templates, but you don't want to download them from the only place where they're currently available. Then I can't help you. And for the record, the file mentioned earlier is identical (verified with crc-64) to the .rar that I downloaded from the leatherneck site some time ago. Just saying...

The second search result (on the site we're probably not allowed to mention or link to directly due to EULA-stuff) points to a file named "DCS_LNS_MiG-21Bis_Official-Template.rar". Which sounds pretty official to me.

Until someone re-uploaads it to the user files (or better, template section on the main page), this is an option: http://bfy.tw/BrMG

Whether or not we want a full fidelity SU-27 (or Mig-29 (or anything else)) for DCS is irrelevant. If the manufacturer and the Russian MoD doesn't want us to have one it won't happen. Customer interest isn't the only thing that decides which aircraft can or cannot be made for DCS...

http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/en/aircraft/germany/messerschmitt/me163komet.html

Looks like a specular map issue.

That's old news. They have been listed on the tbs site for years. And the fact that something may be coming to TBS does not necessarily mean that it will be coming to DCS. There could be all sorts of government- and manufacturer permissions and licenses preventing that. So there's no point in speculating.

There's no difference at the moment. In Nevada the plane "knows" that it's west of the prime meridian, and in Georgia it knows that it's to the east. That'll have to change once Normandy arrives, as the prime meridian passes straight through the map area.

An example: if your next waypoint is at 36°35'15" N 115°40'23" W LOLA -> IN -> type in: 154023 363515. Longitude first, then latitude. And you simply skip the first digit in the degree part of the longitude.

You don't have to set up all your controls all over again. Just copy the control config files from your c:\Users\[xxx]\Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input\ folder to the new normandy folder under saved games.

The SH-37 has a different radar (PS-371/A, vs. the PS-37 in the AJS). It's modified for longer range and better performance for maritime surveillance.

In hindsight, perhaps you should have checked what the topography of northern France is like before buying the map? Did you expect the Pyrenees to pop up in an area where the elevation above sea level is typically 0-300m?

My excel sheet is way too messy to be presentable, but here's a step-by-step guide to making your own: Inputs: UTM N UTM E Distance to next WPT (in meters) Bearing to next WPT (in degrees) Magnetic declination - in either decimal degrees (e.g. 6.216°) or in degrees and arc minutes (6° 13' etc.). Calculation: First of all, if your magnetic declination is in degrees + arc min, convert to decimal degrees. Let's use the example above (6° 13'): Decimal degrees = 6° + (13'/60) = 6,216°All angles need to be in radians (at least by default in Excel): Radians = angle*PI()/180You then calculate the UTM coordinates of your next waypoint: New UTM N = cos(bearing+mag decl.)*(distance/10)+UTM N New UTM E = sin(bearing+mag decl.)*(distance/10)+UTM E