Grundar

A Zero makes sense. It's an iconic aircraft of WW2 that was well liked by it's pilots. Weak by the standards of the later war but if flew beautifully by the sound of it. I always love reading Samurai by Saburu Sakai. Though the English version has been alleged to have fictitious stories added to it increase sales - with great variation between that book and Saburu Sakai's Japanese biographies given as proof. I can't read or speak Japanese though and have never read other biographies so can't verify any truth to the claim of fiction.

Best avatar! Seriously Cobra if you guys are putting a UN Spacy skin together for F-14.... :thumbup: Macross/Robotech so wonderful and given that those craft are practically F-14's - highly appropriate! Also Dave Baranek is a great guy, loved his Top Gun Days book, chock full of interesting information, humour and respect for those he worked with. Has a good website too. I listened to him on a podcast with Aviation Xtended and he was great.

Maybe there is some other installed module that is causing a conflict or some such change? Seems unusual that a few are experiencing this and that others are not.

You don't need anti-radiation weapons to be SEAD capable though, iirc Dan Hampton on his memoirs of F-16CJ Wild Weasel work was quite unimpressed with HARMs as a weapon for effective SEAD.

The Mad Catz software is just a massive pain in the arse, I avoid using it and just map through DCS. This unfortunately rules out using the throttle mouse nipple, but it otherwise works just fine. The X-55 has no deadzones by default so you will have to set your own (if you want them). The joystick is large and not particularly ergonomic, the throttle is great though, really enjoy using the X-55 over all though.

Sounding fantastic guys, a happy new year to all. :)

Re Mirage III's in RAAF service from pilot interviews in the book "The RAAF Mirage Story" I can't really find anything in that book on stability control, but I imagine that they would of wanted to deactivate it once the got those back wheels screeching on the ground to bring that nose down and start bringing the speed down quick.

I love watching those Viggen road landings - they just get that front wheel down fast and throw in that reverse thrust and just seem to suddenly stop - it looks great. I've always loved the Swedish aircraft - they look great, they are robust looking aircraft and being able to have them load on makeshift road airstrips is inspired - in the total war prospect of the Cold War, those fixed airbases would of been destroyed very quickly. My only wish is that they do a Draken lol.

Merry Christmas all, have a safe holiday.

Tomcats either had all their sensitive parts stripped out and popped in museums or they were destroyed. For a similar reason the F-111's of the world were similarly destroyed. Part because the TF30 also powered the Tomcat and they don't want them in Iranian hands AND because F-111G's in particular were nuclear weapon capable and were included as as part of the nuclear delivery disarmament treaty with the former USSR in the past. Hence Australia's F-111 fleet were either destroyed or had the engines destroyed and then placed in a museum.

I can translate into Australian if you want. Or if you want to do it yourself just throw in a few words/phrases like "bloody", "she'll be right" and "spewin'" and that's the localisation done. An example: The wings have an auto-sweep and manual options, just bung her in auto and she'll be right for most activities, unless of course a manual sweep was required and you eat a bloody AA-10, mate, bloody spewin' if that happens. >_>

Correct, it isn't a set amount of thrust at all altitudes and conditions; the attached chart I put in an earlier post provides info from the USN on the performance difference between the engine types and some basic altitude differences - At sea level and at altitude. It isn't a be all and end all of various configurations, fuel loads etcetera as that certainly does sway the T:W result. The F110 engines were a great improvement over the TF-30's in terms of reliability and usability . It doesn't mean that the TF-30 didn't have it's advantages though or that the F-14A was a useless combat aircraft.

The Pigs big advantage for the RAAF was it's range - it could strike outside our borders (which are all ocean) and return again- it offered a very long reach and with the upgrades to avionics/systems it performed with a high level of threat. It was a great deterrent regionally. Australia now operates an air defence force, emphasis on defence, with the Pig gone we lose that regional strike capability we had. The F-35 cannot replace this or perform as the Pig did. To the question at large re: maneveurability; ROE often limits engagements to visual which starts to negate the BVR weaponry that the West enjoys. Russian aircraft - such as the Flanker are built more towards hypermaneveurability because even with these wonderful weapons we have now, if you need to be visual to engage then BVR is "useless". Getting a merge is still going to be a big thing in air combat for years to come imho, it kind of reminds me of the whole no guns on the F4 in Vietnam because missiles were the new hot thing, didn't turn out so well, until they fixed it.

In the end it's a game. Albeit a very detailed and specific one, but it's a game. DCS does a great job at simulating aircraft it depicts but it's not akin to flying a true military simulator. The game one is much more fun of course and features all those wonderful options games have over simulators - eat chips while you fly, pause the game to go for a wee, alt-tab out and browse forums all from the comfort of your custom setup. It's a wonderful game, I can see why people would get upset about it being called a game - it takes a good amount of dedication and skill to play it even to a satisfactory degree. It has the top notch flight modelling and attention to detail. It still is a game in the end though and I love it.

I think the most important thing, or at least one of the important things is to not just present a theatre of operations - but to present it in context. Specifically WW2 units on Iwo Jima will be so much better than what we have now - which is only the one map with modern units - feels very, very out of place while flying WW2 fighters. Would be great to see combined arms updated to include such vehicles or hell make them an addon to combined arms to reap some costs back.

Outside of Europe, many people only know Swedish from the Swedish Chef on the Muppets - which is not even Swedish, but random gibberish interspersed with English. :doh: So thanks for the translations. Got a fair idea that those who can speak Swedish will be getting a lot of translation requests in the near future :thumbup: that post you linked has the Draken in it, damn it's beautiful aircraft, absolutely divine to look at. It was also the very first model aircraft I ever got and from there I have always loved the Swedish aircraft - great designs, great camo and your roundel looks cool as well.

I believe that DCS uses Starforce for it's copy protection and it is pretty stringent on what constitutes a "hardware change". For example with a Windows OS activation you could pretty much swap anything in and out as long as it wasn't the CPU or Motherboard - which would trigger a requirement for activation. Starforce does not share this definition of a hardware change. Luckily ED and it's partners are quite generous in the allocation of activation limits so it would take a lot of hardware changes to max out your allocation limits. There were some issues recently with DCS 1.5 and Mig-21 activations - Leatherneck worked on it and compensated activation keys back to affected users.

Hehe Reminds me of the old chemist ditty: Johnny was a chemists son But Johnny is no more What Johnny thought was H2O Was H2SO4 Also looks like they are on track with the F-14 which is fantastic news.

Indeed it looked cool to me back when I was a kid, not to mention that in Robotech/Macross - Roy Fokkers Valkyrie had the VF-84 motif - it was just badass (for lack of a better word lol).

And of all things, never ever defrag your SSD! I'm still running an Intel SSD, one of the earlier models so it's only 120GB but man does it load things fast. As was said earlier in the thread if you are attempting to clone the drive over then it'll need to be the same size as the HDD (which can get mighty expensive with an SSD). Why not just clean install the SSD with the OS then copy over from the HDD set up in a slave position (non-boot)? That way you get a clean OS install and then you can cherry pick what you want to transfer onto the more limited space of the SSD. I'm not sure if it's the same with the newer SSD's, but with older ones you didn't want to fill them up, you left roughly 10+% or so free space.

Ha, I remember the actual toys that you wore on rings on your fingers. There was an adjustable plastic ring (gold coloured) that you wore on your finger - a clear plastic strut and atop it the aircraft with some outlandish paint job. It's been a long time but my brother and I had the Viggen, a Phantom, Mig-29 the F-19 (hehe lol did they ever get that model wrong - everyone pre F-117 reveal lol).

Why are people getting down on Leatherneck/Cobra? Sure the Viggen might not be your desired aircraft but the guys obviously have access to an actual Viggen cockpit, reams of local information/data and a passion for bring the aircraft to life. Even better it is the AJS version with ground mapping radar and lots of options for ordinance. Hey it would be great to see a JA as well, but I think that a ground attack variant is more exciting and the more under-represented role within the larger DCS picture. The only thing that would be better would be a Draken. Mig-21 was a module that people were not too hot on and that turned out to be amazing and flipped peoples opinions on it because of it's attention to detail and care. Viggen and the F4U will be no different given that history. Leatherneck will be none too pleases about this leak and it is a distraction from their work that shouldn't of happened. Maybe they were working up to a big Christmas reveal or something and how great would of that been? Sure people would of been upset regarding that it was the Viggen and the Corsair and not a Zero/F-4/SU-22/Mig-23 etcetera but at least it would of been information released with ALL the relevant information about the products/modules and not simply a couple of names released into the wind. Sharing opinions is all well and good - there is no reason that it cannot be done respectfully and constructively.

Will be great fun to put this bird down on a carrier - not to mention cruising the pacific.

*Money clenched in fists* Oh yes! So hoping that it's true, especially the Viggen, really especially the Viggen.

Edit: Doh, should really check the forums more. Good luck peeps! *watches You Tube NTTR stuff*