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1. I have it mapped to the pinky switch on my Warthog. 2. You can drop laser guided bombs, but you'll need a JTAC or A-10C for laser designation. "Our" version of the F-5 can't carry a designator pod, and no such functionality is planned.

Because grass runways are currently not implemented in DCS. But they're coming!

An internal combustion engine is incredibly inefficient, with a typical efficiency of around 20%. So 4/5 of the energy you put into the engine is lost as heat. For a 1200HP engine that would equate to ~3,5 MW (3,5 million Watts for the non-SI folks) in heat loss. The specific heat of water is 4180J/kg °K, meaning that you need 4180J of energy to increase the temperature of one kg of water with one degree Kelvin. 1 Watt = 1 Joule/second, so ~4,2kW of thermal energy will increase the temperature in one kg of water by 1°K every second. 3,5MW will do the same to ~840kg of water. Every second. And the total coolant volume isn't anywhere near that; perhaps around 1/10th (wild guess; I don't have any manuals available here at the moment). So it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that there is an enormous amount of heat that has to be dealt with, and it is not comparable to a gpu cooler or car engine, which have huge radiators compared to what you can cram into the wings and/or fuselage of a plane. Is the modelling in DCS perfect? Probably not, but that does not mean that people should make wild assumptions on topics they know little or nothing about.

At least Meier Motors doesn't try to hide the fact that the G-12 used to be a Buchon: http://www.meiermotors.com/index.php/aircraft/messerschmitt-bf109/messerschmitt-bf109-g-12?showall=1&limitstart= (in German, but probably google translatable into something understandable for those who don't speak it). I assume that a complete rebuild history would be provided by Platinum Fighters to anyone considering buying this aircraft, so it's not like they're trying to fool someone into buying counterfeit goods.

The G-6 ("Black 8") is not a Buchon conversion. Being a restoration of a crashed aircraft, there may ofcourse be a Buchon-based part here and there, but it's not just a Messerschmitt data plate riveted to a re-nosed HA-1112. However, the G-12 (two seater) they're selling is based on a Buchon.

Are you flying against AI or multiplayer? AI uses a simplified flight model, which unfortunately always works in your adversary's favor. That being said, the Mig does have a higher top speed and thrust/weight ratio, so that should explain #1 and 3.

Looks great. Thanks a lot :)

The purchase price for the aircraft depends on who you're buying them from. When the RNoAF retired our last F-5s in 2007, 15 of them were offered to a company in Texas (run by the son of a former US presidential candidate) for approximately $700.000 each. The deal fell through, but two planes (F-5Bs in very good condition) were left in Texas. When they were finally sold in 2014, Northern General Leasing LLC paid $15.000 for each of them. But the Norwegian defense logistics agency have also been selling (and I'm not making this up!) former naval vessels (MTBs and a large support vessel) to Nigerian pirates, so their sense of judgment, and thus pricing, is a bit fishy to say the least. As for operating costs: I don't have any exact numbers, but to quote luxury car dealers: "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". $3-5000 per hour is an educated guess.

Meier Motors rebuilds classic fighters for customers. They don't own these aircraft themselves. The 109s in question are part of Hangar10's collection. They're also selling a P-51D and a Yak 9U through platinum fighters.

The disadvantage of both the F-5 and the A-4 is that you'll need to send a ground crew with a turbine start cart ("huffer") to every airport where you plan on landing. I'd go for something with an APU or electric starter instead.

Check out NASA's STRM data: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

100% April fools hoax. No doubt about it. But regarding how fast bullets spin; a quick back-of-the-envolope-calculation: My AR15 has a barrel with 1:9 twist (for the non-shooters: the projectile does one revolution for every 9" of travel down the barrel). 9" = approximately 1/4m. The muzzle velocity is approximately 1000m/s. With a twist rate giving approximately 4 revolutions for every meter, that would result in 4000(-ish) revolutions per second at the muzzle, which is 240.000 RPM. With a faster twist rate (1:10, 1:12 etc.) and a higher muzzle velocity, 300k is within reach.

Please post screenshots of the radar scope showing the difference between friendly and non-friendly aircraft with IFF switched on. I have done some tests with the IFF switched on, and all evidence suggests that the F-5's radar does not have an IFF interrogator. The IFF transponder is a separate piece of avionics, and does not have any kind of interrogation capability.

F-5 doesn't have a IFF interrogator, just a transponder. So you can't use it for identifying anything, but other aircraft can identify you.

Are you downloading through the module manager in DCS or the DCS updater utility? I've never heard of the "out of downloads" phenomenon before. Bind the key from the heatblur store to your DCS account (paste it in the "license check" in the profile/personal section on the main dcs site).

Those are all discrete ON/OFF functions for keyboard/button use. Go to "axis commands" for analog (axis) inputs. Edit: like this:

If you don't have NTTR there is no point in installing DCSW 2 yet, as Normandy won't be available until the end of April. The FC3 aircraft will work, but there probably won't be any Normandy campaigns for these aircraft, at least at release (perhaps later, but nobody knows if or when that might happen).

1. No. You do not need NTTR for Normandy. 2. Yes

Looks awesome! Keep up the good work!

With the exception of the nuclear reprocessing facility at La Hague and the fact that the cities have grown a bit in size, Normandy hasn't really changed that much since 1944. Launching Rb05s at ships or RB75s at Soviet tanks should be just as fun in Normandy as it is in Georgia.

+1 as the kids say these days. I've been using the doppler nav for a few days, and it's an excellent system. Noting down waypoints with bearings and distances adds a bit more immersion to the whole DCS experience than just following a line on a display. GPS = cheating :P But I can't say that I won't use the moving map display in the Mi-24 when it arrives (whenever that may be).

Several of the files in the Coremods/AJS37 and mods/AJS37 folders have been updated, so at least something has changed.

Garmin GNS 430: That'll be a nice addition for those of us who have never bothered learning the doppler navigation system in the Mi8 :)

That's what happens when someone decides to partially pave a grass strip without building a proper foundation. Asphalt doesn't stick particularly well to grass. Edit: Oh, and a hot tip: when using the [ youtube] [/ youtube] tag, just post the video ID (the part after "watch?v=" ) and not the complete URL.

The thing about the Viggen is that most relevant information is easily available from the Swedish national archives. This is NOT the case with the various upgraded export versions of the F-5E/F. There are flight manuals and weapons delivery manuals for the F-5E available, but these do not cover anything featured in the upgraded versions of the F5. System information and and operational manuals for US made equipment is controlled under ITAR arms export regulations, and are not simply given out to a Belarusian company that wants to sell an entertainment product to flight sim geeks like us.