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I'd like to know as well. I'm honestly disappointed that Bagram isn't included in the initial map. I was really looking forward to flying out of there.

I voted for the Mi-26, but I would love to see the Mi-10 as well. I just think it would be interesting.

Nice!! That sounds like just what I'm looking for. I'll check it out in the manual. Thanks!!

The FCR is currently cosmetic only, but ED is working in implementing it, hopefully, within the next few months. IIRC, the FCR was the next thing on their roadmap to implement after the datalink, and we just got DL in the last major patch. So, my best guess is sometime by Q1 or Q2 2024 you'll see the FCR implemented.

Will do. Thanks for the help!!

Thanks!! I'm browsing on Newegg (just looking atm), and my one concern might be fitting these cards in my case. I'm also pretty ignorant to all the different "flavors" these graphics cards come in. For example, the GIGABYTE Gaming OC 3080 is a different design than the MSI Ventus 3080, which is again a different design from the EVGA GeForce 3080. I have no idea which one fits or would be the best

Sounds good. I forgot my PSU in my OP. I have a 1000w. Had to upgrade to that to OC my CPU.

Sure. I've got around $4k between last year's paycheck and this year's. I don't want to use all of it on the card. I'm also wanting to upgrade RAM, and maybe get a new grip, either a TM Hornet or Virpil F-14 (I have a TM Warthog stick and throttle). Plus, my desk-mounted sensors for my Pimax headset (I can't remember off the top of my head which sensors they are... maybe Vive sensors?). The main reason for wanting the 30 series is so I'll have some significant amount of those paychecks left over for other things. If I get a 40 series, I might not have enough left to buy a stick of gum. Edit: I just remembered... the Pimax uses Valve Index desk-mounted sensors. Those are the ones I need.

Thanks. The RAM wasn't even a factor I was considering until I read a thread on these forums about two or three days ago explaining why 64 Gb really should be the minimum. That sold me in updating my RAM right there. I'm thinking a 40 series will probably be out if my price range, but with the 40 series out, combined with Cyber Monday, I'm hoping to get a good deal on a 3080 or 3090.

Hey guys. I just got my paychecks cashed from my local haunted house this year, and I've got quite a lot to spend, especially combined with last year's check, still mostly untouched. Anyway, I want to take advantage of Cyber Monday this year and upgrade my graphics card and RAM. I just need some advice on which graphics card to upgrade to. Here are my specs: ASUSTeK TUF-Z390-PLUS Intel I7-9700K (OC'd at 4.9Ghz) Nvidia GTX 1660ti 32 Gb RAM (looking to upgrade to 64 Gb) I really want to upgrade to a 30 series RTX card, but would like some opinions on what card would work best with my system. Thanks!! Edit: I almost forgot, if it makes any difference, I fly exclusively in VR in an Oculus CV1 currently, but I'll set up my Pimax once I get the sensors for it.

I'm not sure where you're located, but in Baton Rouge (Class C airspace), I've always flown off the south ramp, flying Cessnas, and you do NOT have to contact ATC to start your aircraft, if you're flying VFR. You can even taxi around the entire south ramp without talking to ATC because the entire ramp is a non-movement area (or a movement area, I get the two backwards). If you want to enter onto an actual taxiway, however, you need to contact ATC.

Welcome to DCS and to the forums, if no one else has welcomed you yet!! Unfortunately, the F6F isn't released yet. ED hasn't shared any news, not even any screenshots, let alone videos of it, yet. If I were to estimate (please understand, this is purely a guess based on years of experience with following DCS releases), The F6F won't be released until late Q1 or Q2 of 2024 at the extreme earliest, emphasis on extreme. Even if ED released the first screenshots of it tomorrow, or more likely Friday, there would still be between six and nine, ten, or eleven months of hype/build through screenshots, mini update videos, and then the preorder (preorders from ED tend to last about three to six months on average, just depending) before it gets released. Really long story short, it won't be here for a while, unfortunately.

...but, we actually do have a map with Iran. The Persian Gulf map has a pretty big slice of southern Iran as one of its main landmasses.

Iirc, the Hornet's FBW system allows alot of the maneuverability to be maintained, though you'll still be severely G limited. I could be wrong, though. Anyone feel free to jump in and correct me.

You can absolutely do it in the Phantom. It's not like your missiles won't shoot if you have bombs on board. But your maneuvering potential will be severely limited if you need to defend against a missile or you get to the merge with all that weight and drag on your jet.

Yeah, the Hornet was the first fighter designed to be able to do that, and that engagement in ODS was basically a proof of concept. But any other aircraft prior to that point would have had to jettison their A2G loadout before engaging enemy aircraft.

In the book, I can't remember the exact reason they used dumb bombs over smart. Probably due to a lack of laser designator, if I had to guess. Their Nitehawk pods weren't very good. But Auto almost certainly kept them away from air defenses for the most part. There were some pretty hair-raising stories about being shot at when they did Auto dive bomb runs, but they mostly tended to do level or shallow-dive runs with Auto. I'll have to go back and read it again.

I've read Hornets Over Kuwait by Jay Stout several times, and from what I remember, they rarely carried guided ordnance, and almost always bombed in Auto mode with the dumb bombs, whether from blind radar designations, radar designations backed up by visual contact, or pre-planned coordinates. It seems to me like Auto would be used even with dumb bombs to try and stay out of the WEZ of enemy AAA and SHORADS. With CCIP you generally have to get pretty low to get the pipper on target. Why do it this way in DCS? I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I do it to replicate RW procedures and techniques, like what they did in the book. But if I'm doing a more modern scenario I'll usually use guided ordnance.

Turning on MSAA stopped the crash, but turning it off again caused another crash when pressing Fly. Crash log attached. I'm hoping I can keep MSAA off due to the performance hit it causes. dcs.log-20230406-225823.zip

I trialed the Spitfire (trial now expired), but the same thing happened in MT. Tried a slow repair, and it didn't fix it.

Instant Action, Mission, Training, etc. Doesn't matter. DCS always crashes with the Apache. Log attached. dcs.log-20230405-042751.zip Edit: I typed this in a rush, so I need to clarify... this happens when I press the Fly button, and it crashes when the Loading splash screen should show. Instead of the splash screen, it's a black screen, then the crash dialog box.

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That makes sense, as far as getting him to engage the MiGs, but what about getting him to engage the mission and rejoin? He ignores that as well. I could try attacking by myself, but he can see targets better than I can, and I could watch where his bombs fall and put my bombs near that location

Track attached from flight tonight. Wingman actually responded "Unable" a few times, but mostly ignored my commands, and I wound up taking a missile to the face. No Respond.trk