Chrinik

Well MiG-15 and F-86F don´t carry much weaponry to begin with XD

Okay, this is giving much confusion to people...say the target waypoint is a Building on the end of a Road. The road is going 240 and you are approaching from 180, but you need to (for whatever reason) approach over the road. So you set your RD for that waypoint to 240 and it will guide you so you will approach the waypoint from that direction.

Why? MiG-29 is nothing new, except for the model, which you can look at, the plane doesn´t handle any differently.

"So the AMRAAM manufacturer released the information about thrust, fuel flow rate and accel time?" No, he didn´t, and that is the problem. "since it has 6 large instead of 120C's 4 small fins" Where did you get the idea that the R-27 has six fins and the 120 has 4? Both missiles have EIGHT fins, four tailfins, and four Elevons, with the R-27 having some sort of stabelizers on the nose section. You don´t just need fins to pull G, you also need SPEED, and your missile was rapidly bleeding speed since it was apparently launched in very shitty parameters needing to pull 7 Gs sustained to even keep close to tracking the target. In the end, the missile was simply defeated kinematically, the target left the seekers gimbal limits, and it just went stupid.

But then I´d rather call it "Vietnam" rather then "Korea"... Very interesting, I hope the air to ground won´t include too many hard targets, it would be fine. But I´ve been looking for an excuse to get into the MiG-15 I just bought.

Yeah, I thought I had it right the first time...well, the joy of WIP XD

I quoted the typo in my initial post, what is your incorrect input needed for? It only tells me there are more typoes in the manual. To remind you, the typo that threw me off is: ""7. The alignment process will abort if: a. You click the PSM Mode knob to another position." "8. You can check the alignment process status by clicking the PSM Operational Mode knob to the TST position." " The reason this threw me off is that there IS no "TST" position on the PSM Operational Mode knob, only STS, but there is a TST setting on the PSM Mode knob that will abort alignment. So me following the manual led to breaking the alignment process.

I know this sounds condescending...but...do you have Maveriks loaded on your wings?

And the manual contains a typo that made me twist the wrong knob thereby aborting the INS alignment instead of checking it´s status. I have also had to change from Lat Long Decimal to Lat Long in the options menu to get the right data.

I can´t get this thing to work, I don´t know where to get the right coordinates, the aircraft starts with complete bogus coordinates (apparently), making a manual input absolutely needed(?) on every, single startup, it does not take the ones I offer it, only some arbitrary numbers far, far away from my position seem to be legit (opposite end of the parking space, a good 2km off) and I just don´t know anymore. Half the stuff described in the manual doesn´t work and is contradictory, such as: "7. The alignment process will abort if: a. You click the PSM Mode knob to another position." "8. You can check the alignment process status by clicking the PSM Operational Mode knob to the TST position." Not only does this NOT give me an indication as to how far the alignment is, it also aborts the damn alignment. I just give up. Edit: I think I worked it out, the Manual contains a typo...it is talking about the PSM Operation Mode knob but instead of TST (which is on the other knob), it means the one that has STS...this threw me off so hard.

While we are on air to ground stuff, what is up with my gunpipper? I can´t seem to get it to move, it stays boresighted. I must have missed something, rockets work plenty fine, bombing works, but as soon as I try to gunrun I can´t get the gunpipper to predict an impact point. Not even an inaccurate one, it just stays boresighted. Is it not implemented yet or am I missing a switch somewhere?

Well, when you are used to planes that do the flying for you and cancel unwanted plane movements (such as supressing roll inertia)...:smilewink: Technically the SU-27 also has a FBW system, but it does different things and works slightly differently. It helps prevent you from doing crazy stunts that would hurt the plane or make you stall, but AFAIK it did not actually make the plane fly for you exactly as you input it. That´s why we still have to trim with speed changes, as the FBW does not do that for you. It did not fly "on rails", so to speak. So for a common US military aviator born and raised on powerful machines kept in check by computerized flight controls it would feel like it has alot of inertia and no "pitch stability"...atleast from my reconning, don´t know what machines he was used to. I wonder if russian aviators would comment on US jets that they feel "boring" or something because they can fly them "hands off"...

We can only dream for the future XD

Depends where the missile looked when it reaquired, but general consensus is that they should not reaquire targets because of some Radar magic being performed to only guide your missile, and not everyone elses. The S530 does not have DL or INS guidance and is thus an entirely passively guided missile. Wether or not it can pick up targets after lock is lost if the seeker simply sees the return again is beyond anyone, I believe.

Also, don´t use AI opponents as a benchmark for anything...they use SFM.

Same issue here.

Yeah, about that, why did only the A get a new 3D model? The S is far more used in MP then the A from what I´ve seen...is the S still coming or am I going to have to wait another year or two?

The loadout screen is going to be interesting if it gets done.

My head is sticking in the HUD Glass and I can´t remove it. Can´t see the cockpit at all. Well, further testing seems to confirm that Track IR does not recognize any axis that isn´t "turn"...so I can "turn" my head left right, up down, and roll side to side. But I can´t move the head forward, backward, left, right or up down. So I am stuck in whatever position my head starts in. All the axis are set up. No other plane does this.

I am going to propose a little thing that would help contact visibility somewhat, especially against lower flying opponents: Glinting. Having a planes reflection of the sun make a small, glistening dot appear would help tremendously in distinguishing contacts at long ranges, kind of like how afterburner glow already helps a ton. It would be realistic, I presume, and would put lower flying planes into the disadvantage they could supposedly have. Higher flying planes tend to be between the sun and the onlooker, so reflections cast into the sky would obviously help them stay harder to spot visually... Not sure how easy or hard it would be to implement, if it should be a global effect that just happens OR in fact be determined by sun position. But what do you guys think? Discuss!

Quoted from Buddyspike Forum: "(players play DCS since at least 3 years and have many hours of flight in fighters online, like me for example)" He should know, what with his 3 years of experience. Sorry...this is too much. DanielNL, Kamerad...we should really sit down in teamspeak one day, I can explain a bit to you, you seem to be making alot of threads and posts about stuff that is basic level or known behaviour in DCS, blaming the equipment instead of your own mistakes.

Why are we even argueing this? He doesn´t like the F-5 due to his lack of funds and calculates in "BucksPerAmraam", if he doesn´t like it, he doesn´t like it, end of friggin story. But Tirak, why are YOU mouthing off against people who want to have it? Who are you to tell them they are wrong for liking something you can´t afford? I don´t understand how people can like the A-10C, slow, unweildy POS tub of lard mudmover....but the people that like it, like it. And that´s none of my buisness to interfere with. The F-5 is an awesome enemy against the MiG-21, an aircraft that needed a counterpart for a long time. The F-5 vs. MiG-21 servers will be very popular.

Well...did you activate the IFF system in the A-10 correctly? AFAIK if you mess it up, he won´t get a correct response.

Yes, I see that now. As I said, I was misinterpreting a source from head I had read quite a time ago. To this I want to say that people still argue their data is incorrect... Refering to IASGATGs missile mod thread, in which he argued with a developer about their missiles performance in game.

Great...I wasn´t referring to that...I was referring to the exact steps, IN ORDER, that the missile goes through prior and post launch. I could previously only find information on the very old Sparrows. Newer Sparrows essentially function completely differently then the old Vietnam Era ones and thus might have different processes. And since you obviously know, please, point me to the exact rundown of all systems and steps, and their function, during the launch of an R-27ER, I´d love to see em, I don´t think I saw them in this post apart from GGTharos´s post, which wasn´t missile specific.