TOMCATZ

Hi, just my two cents … The water looks very nice to me. Waves , structure all is fine and looks realistic. But the reflections of clouds seems to be to much. I flew some years close to the Baltic sea and Northern sea. And I never saw that reflections I have now in DCS. So I switched the detail level of water to "medium" which is fine to me. In result: Water - great job, ED! But reflections are way to much. Cheers Tom

Yeah right. In fact I disengaged tacview because multiplay were not possible any more. I think that something went wrong but I`m not pretty sure if this is an ED or Tacview error. Cheers Tom

Looks almost photorealistic to me. Very very beautiful work! I will use it, when Barthek has finished his dark magic. I`m very happy to see progress - Thank you very much. Cheers Tom

Damned.

Hm … maybe. But the core members which purchased a lot of ED modules using VR nowadays. For me- the option to use VR googles is the striking argument for DCS. So ED is correct when they pushed the issues into highly priority section of development. I really hope the team will be able to fix the cloud jiggling problem soon. The new cloud system is a big step forward but spent me a lot of motion sickness. Cheers Tom

Yeah - same here. Overall, the performance is very fine and 2.7 is running very smooth for me. But an increasing number of users while multiplay (arround 25 or more) causing stutters even when the graphic settings are low. It fells like it is caused by the update rate of the hosting server. In generell I not join sessions with more them 20 players these days. Cari saluti a Italia. (Questa firma è di Leonardo da Vinci - è corretto? Conosco solo la citazione in tedesco.) Cheers Tom

Yupp -same here. Plus : in Multiplay Jester call "Bolter" everytime, even when you catch the wire. Well - It could be possible, that some adjustments must be done by the HeatBlur team. Secondo me, all that things are not a showstopper but it would be nice if these are fixed at some day. Same as the crew animation while take off. That deck crew member who is using a rod into the launch system, is diving into the Tomcat shape when he stands up. Cheers and cari saluti, Tom

German is nice, isn`t ?

Same here - I got motion sickness . So far it`s not usable for me- so sad. I have waiting so long for this kind os update. I really hope they can fix it soon. Cheers Tom

I did it for Falcon BMS 4.33. That area is very important and the Falcon drivers loved that terrain! That is one of the most important area of Europe. Please keep in mind: the falcon engine was very old and outdated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HKQAzICIY Cheers Tom

I did it for Falcon BMS 4.33. That area is very important and the Falcon drivers loved that terrain! That is one of the most important area of Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HKQAzICIY <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w5HKQAzICIY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Cheers Tom

As long as the emergency jettinson bug is not fixed- I just tape the button as a reminder to myself. Tape here ... tape there ... looks like in the real army Cheers Tom

Hi, in most cases the AIM120 did a good job. And if they had not catched the target I mostly found good reasons for that. In most cases the enemys notched the AIM120`s out in combination with chaffs. Sometimes I lost the track and often the enemys flown sightlines to went out of the seeker of missiles. I personally like that. But sometimes the missile is on track , all is fine and short before impact the missile turn into another direction for no reason. Up in the air or trying to catch a chaff cloud even when these chaffs are out of the missile seeker. I don`t know why - Wrong inputs from the fighter-radar? ECM of enemy fighters? Ground reflections? I don`t know. But it looks a bit wrong to me. In past the AIM`s worked much better. To make it clear - I`m pretty happy with DCS but in my view the actives need a bit of attention. Thank you and Cheers Tom

Love your work! Very nice! Looking forward to see more WIP pics! Cheers Tom

Hi, I`am very impressed by the graphic engine. I made some nice pics I will share... Cheers Tom

Hi, I really love DCS carrierOPS ! Driving the Cat and the Hornet- all is perfect. But I really don`t like the FLOLS-overlay. Think it`s disturbing while landing. I can see the meatball clearly through my VR and the LSO working fine. So - please ED, create a switch to turn it off in menu. Incomming new clouds+ switchable FLOLS layer= verry happy and close to perfect to me. Cheers Tom

Dear TAZ004, I combined your trees dark version with Mustangs Terrain mod. Now Caucasus looks so much better. Your art work looks very good to me without any impacts on my frame rate. So overall this should be the standard of DCS Caucasus!!! Thank you so much for your work! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Cheers Tom

The probwash creates the airflow for rudders but it´s not simulated in DCS. Think, that is the main problem and why it is so difficult. Hope that one far day ED could take a look about it... at this Video you can clearly see the lift effect on the tail section forced by the probwash… so the take off should be much easyer as it is for now. cheers Tom

I made a small video ... Still love the DCS 109 K :pilotfly:

Establish speed arround 300 km/h turn and stay in turn until you can find yourself in his six. Do not try to pull the stick in order to turn faster - thats a typical mistake. The speed will drop and you will hang defendless in the air. Instead make smoooooooooooooooooooooth turns and hold speed high. Use the rudder in order to have a clean airflow arround your 109 - That is very important. If he create a break just go vertical above him and attack him again from the upper position. It´s a constant changegame between altitude and speed. If you do it right, you can outperform nearly all warbirds. Only the Spitfire is better in turns. All other warbirds will loose energy. The 109 is a killer if you able to survive the take off :thumbup:

Hi , For landing I would prefer a side slip ever! So the aircraft ist slow,in a perfect stable flight condition and you have a good view to the landing field. And ... there is no "bouncing" because of the low speed of the aircraft. Important is only the timing in order to neutralize the rudder and flare the 109 (maybe 10 or 5 meters above the ground- tribute to the sinkrate). Just wait until she is ready. How to: - Gear down - Flaps full - point to the airfield in 500 meters (more or less) and hold your altitude (don`t sink) - When the nose is "touching" the runway start your slip - Slip: Rudder left and Stick right and hold (or rudder right and stick left - what you like) - lift the nose or lower in order to establish the perfect glide speed which should be arround 200 km/h (indicated) - correct with small inputs by rudder and stick the direction of your glidepath (you should see your landing point through the small side window) (under perfect conditions and approach you don`t need any corrections - just hold the slip and enjoy the glide) - 10 or 5 meters before touch down neutralize the rudder , lift the nose but don`t climb and whait untill the aircraft touch the runway. Wait!! Don`t force it!!!!! - After touchdown pull the stick and touch the brakes - kind of balancing in DCS It´s very easy to learn. Normally you need 3 or 5 approaches to perfect your landing. And thats it. Cheers

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Well - yes. The gunners are too accurate. But.... In January 1943 B17`s were engaged by German fighters close to Wilhelmshaven. The German fighters were shocked because of the firepower of the flying fortresses. The American Forces lost 4 bombers. The German fighters lost 7 aircrafts. The Reichsluftwaffe calculated a kill to lose ratio against B17`s to one by one. The German fighters changed their tactics, attacked in the front, rushed through the lines in hope to hit the front. If bomber got problems and went out of the formation, all German fighters attacked the single bomber. There are a lot of interviews with old German veterans and all told the same: If you tried to attack from behind, you simply lost your life. All times in front.I tried that "tactic" in DCS and it worked fine for me. Unfortunately, all my wingmans (KI) tried the other classy way and died. So... overall...The gunners are too accurate, but the feeling seems to be right for me. Nice Interview (Unfortunately badly translated) Cheers Tom

Hi, also mit den Landescheinwerfern bin ich mir da auch nicht mehr sicher .... :( https://b-domke.de/AviationImages/Typhoon/11286.html https://b-domke.de/AviationImages/Typhoon/11652.html https://www.eurofighter.com/assets/img/aircraft/eurofighter-pilot-entering-cockpit.jpg http://data3.primeportal.net/hangar/bartolome_jordan/eurofighter_2000_typhoon/images/eurofighter_2000_typhoon_04_of_41.jpg Unterschiede in den Tranchen? Cheers Tom

yes- it feels like a glider. I would totally agree. The speed is much higher. But you can do a perfect slip for short landings and it feels like like in RL in DCS with that module. (of course I don`t know how a 109 feels like- but I know how a glider does it) First time I hated that module- but now I really love it! Cheers Tom