Dirty Rotten Flieger

Will FA-18 be open Beta or release ? I have the release version installed. Do I just update it or do I have to go open beta to fly the Hornet?

It is debatable if the glass glare in the sun is realistic or not... The problem is that the Migs opponents, the F5, viggen, and harrier have perfectly clear canopies and the pilot can look directly at he sun with no problem spotting targets. It's hard enough flying the mig21 against those planes as the mig engine will flame out from neg G or over speed. The mig wing will stall if you pull to much alpha and the other planes have none of these challenges plus they have great RWR . I love the mig21 and enjoy the challenge but the glare needs to be reduced or the server will have very few people willing to fly the mig.

Will the J-11a Have data link with AWACS? I thought the F15 with fire and forget radar missiles was actually a balanced opponent for the SU27 with IRST, passive IR missiles and AWACS data link... But R77 AND datalink changes things somewhat....

Really excited about this jet. I love 2nd and 3rd gen stuff. I'm still upset about Razbam Mig 23 getting cancelled. Strange to see that the radar symbology for target above and target below is opposite to the Mig 21bis. Am I mistaken? I thought the Mig 21 has a "-" with a tail pointing up if the target is above and tail pointing down if target is below...

Wow It's working ! I just threw 16 gig page files at it and now it works in multiplayer ....better than it ever has. Loading speeds have tripled. I increased the page file from 12 gig to 16 gig on the HDD, made another 16 gig page file to the SSD and also made another 16 gig page file to the external drive. I can't believe it works so well now. Thanks to who ever said to make multiple 16 gig page files ! Does using an SSD for pagefile wear it out quicker?

I can't even fly on DC server. My RAM goes almost to 16gig and I can't even choose an aircraft. I get about one frame per 20 seconds looking at the choose plane screen. I5@ 3.5 , 16gig DDR3 , Nvidia 1070 , DCS installed on SSD

HASHTAG Me Too 16gig of ram all used and multiplayer unplayible

I have 16 gig of DDR3 and multiplayer is unplayable. I can play simple offline maps and get good fps but online is hopeless. Resources says almost 16gig RAM used

Thanks for the intel I have the same problem when I try to update DCS

bump. Multiplayer flares and chaff don't work more than they work. I notice the first time i load them it says 32/32 loadout but he second time i land and rearm it says 40/18. First time it slightly more likely to work than second flight but not by much. What it the real load out? 40/18 looks like it matches the look of the ASO model but I don't know. Maybe this is not a bug it's feature and Soviet era CM were like this to keep the pilots on their toes. They compliment the nonsensical RWR that stops giving you direction of enemy radar when he locks you and when you really need most to know direction.

Still flogging dead Flogger rumour, cause thats what I want

oh no! this is really bad news :( Thanks for all the work you did keeping it going

I had another go this morning and getting the hang of it... I was able to fight 5 sabres by myself for 30 min and control the fight. You can extend away in a shallow dive quite easily and then zoom climb/turn. Shallow dives are the key. Also at only one point did one of them get into a firing position. I dived and popped breaks chopped throttle and did aileron scissors. We know the Mig 15 ailerons are better than the sabre air brake for decelerating so they can't help overshoot in this situation .. .just hope he isn't a good shot for the first few seconds ! So extend in shallow dives and scissor with breaks if defensive. This works but it is not at all what I was expecting having read so much about Mig 15 climbing away from Sabres in the war.

yep the cold war serve is the best thing going. I really don't like the way most servers have all the planes on both sides. I want red planes v Blue planes for lots of reasons but one of them is so we can visually ID enemy planes. Come fly on the cold war server it is full on the weekends. Hope that suits you

Okay I read some other threads about he ailerons rolls having more drag than the air breaks... there are some tests comparing the air breaks and ailerons rolls between the Sabre And Mig. So it appears that the Mig 15 has a big advantage in rolling scissors ... Maybe it's a bug ... who knows.

Also thanks for the education Beam scanner. I have never understood why the Mig21 radar will not show targets that are above the horizon when the Mig is flying very low. You description of the side lobes interference is the first plausible explanation I have come across. I have tested the F5 radar and it will detect contact if they are above the horizon no matter how low the F5 is flying. Maybe the mig21 radar is actually modeled in higher detail.

I see . All of the Problems I have described were against F5s. The Mig 21 and F5 we have in DCS are near perfect opponents.

I've just been flying for a few hours on the Korean War server ...Great server. I expected to be able to climb away from a sabre, at lower speeds anyway, and also expected the Sabre to pull away in a dive.. I found the opposite. The Sabres would catch me in a climb at hi or low speeds, and I could pull away in a dive initially but as the Mach built up I had to climb again. Which really put me in a difficult position. I can't climb away. I can't dive away. Turning at hi alt seems to favor the Sabre and at lower alt is almost exactly even. Add to this the fact that the Sabres always had the numbers davantage . Sometime I had three sabres v just me in the Mig15. It all adds up to just having to leave the server and fly something else... Quite a shame they didn't do versions of the two planes where the Mig 15 had the vertical advantage and the Sabre had the horizontal advantage. Thats what I think most pilot would want and expect. Instead we get a Sabre that holds all the cards. Team work can over come anything. But as I say everyone wants to play with eh niove toys and the Mig was out numbered every time I try the Korea server. DAM, I'm so disappointed. I was thinking that these two planes were evenly matched and an experienced pilot could do well in either plane if flown to advantage.

I don't want the roll exploit back. I just flew on cold war server in Mig21 against F5 and Viggen and let me explain what happens over and over... I was flying at 10K and AWACS would call a target a 30 km 6000m hot, so i would dive toward them and turn radar on. I would see the contact appear I dove passed 7000m indicating they were below me. Then at 6000m it would indicate they were same height . When I got down to 5000m and the radar indicated I was below them I locked them and after a few moments they disappear off my radar screen. I could not reacquire them even tho I was well below them and they were at 6000m right infront of me. I had many occasions when I can see the enemy plane about 6 or 7 km in front of me and we are both in the contrails with me slightly below them and ....NOTHING. nothing on my radar. Unfortunately to take a screenshot i have to press two buttons at opposite ends of my keyboard and I can't do that with one hand....but if I could take those screenshots you would see that they were in the right place to be on my scope. I pursued a contrailing F5 from his 6 o'clock slightly below him and kept turning on my radar as I approached him and it never once was able to see anything. In the weeks since the patch I have played many hours in the Mig21 and many many times I get an AWACS call nearby and dive down below the contact, see it on my radar for a few moments indicating it is above and in front of me and then it disappears and I cannot reacquire it . Very often I can see the contrail right in front of me but the radar says there is nothing there. This just can't be right. Also in pursuit of realism ... In real world Mig21 was not he only Red plane facing so many superior blue planes . This is in fact a game and until we have some other Red planes to help the Mig21 online, it is debatable if is a good for the game to nerf it like this. Also I nearly forget to mention ....from the German Mig21 site ... English google translations says that it is possible to take actions that reveal the lower flying targets position through the ground clutter with enough clarity to continue an intercept ,even though the target cannot be locked... "'To clearly distinguish the air target from earth faults, the interrogation query can be turned on. However, this may only be done for a short time, because during this time no positional signs are written and consequently the height grading to the air target can not be determined. 3. If, despite all measures, the target character with the position mark is not recognized, press the delete key briefly. Usually, after that, the real air target is written on the screen fractions of a second earlier than the earth faults. "Zum eindeutigen Unterscheiden des Luftziels von Erdstörungen kann die Kennungsabfrage eingeschaltet werden. Das darf jedoch nur kurzzeitig erfolgen, da in dieser zeit keine Lagezeichen geschrieben werden und demzufolge die Höhenstufung zum Luftziel nicht bestimmt werden kann. 3. Wird trotz aller Maßnahmen das Zielzeichen mit den Lagezeichen nicht erkannt, ist kurzzeitig die Löschtaste zu drücken. In der Regel wird danach das reale Luftziel um Sekundenbruchteile früher auf dem Bildschirm geschrieben als die Erdstörungen." http://www.mig-21-online.de/Funkmessvisier/fmv_UEH.htm

Dam i just wrote a long detailed explanation... and accidentally deleted it when i looked up and the forum was asking me to sign in :( Cant be bothered typing it all again but here is a German site explaining using the Mig21 radar for detecting low flying targets http://www.mig-21-online.de/Funkmessvisier/fmv_UEH.htm

Here is a screen shot of Mig 21bis cockpit with a Tiger II being tracked by the HUD reticle. You can see the Tiger is flying above the horizon. The mig 21 is flying at 500m altitude and the Tiger is a little above that. I tried many attempts to find the Tiger from above and below and the IR seekers would were detecting it and I could visually see it but the radar had not even a hint of anything. https://ibb.co/j8pfo6

I have been flying the Mig21bis on Cold War Server for the past few months and used the radar missile quite a lot. The latest patch show big changes to the radar. I made some tests . Mig flying behind a target F5 tiger at 200m 300m 400m 500m . I flew the mig behind him above and below trying ground filter and tilting the antenna. I could not see the Tiger at all with radar even when he is in visual range above the horizon...

I don't hink start up sequence mattes.... I start engine then order load out while engine spools up then finish flipping switches and flare work most times but not others. I do notice that there is a bug with the number of flares I can load too. Maybe this is connected? First time i load ASO i think it is 30/30 flares/chaff ... maybe it is 32/32? can't remember exactly which. BUT the next time I land and reload it is stuck at 40 flares and I can't change it .

Gee it has been years since I made this campaign conversion. Sometimes the patches would break things and I long ago stopped fixing these problems. You can open the problem mission in the editor and take a look at the mission goals. If my memory serves me correctly the bomber has to reach the boarder after successfully dropping bombs... "fence out". you should be able to find a circle trigger on the boarder for he bomber to fly through . Hope that helps

Sitting on my mat staring at the door waiting for Mig23 ML to come through, like Pikey's dog and i wonder if they were doing a Mig 27 then they could honestly deny the Mig23 ... maybe we should start a Mig 27 speculation thread? lol ! "I've got one thought. It's always the same thought. Get Migs !"