Horns

Couldn't agree more. I imagine the E would be comparable BVR, but the threat of winding up in a dogfight would make me hesitant to engage a fighter, let alone with a numbers disadvantage.

I've been able to use the F Pole maneuver fairly successfully against Russian ordnance, but I can't quite work out how to successfully engage against F-16s. The AIM-120s allow them to fire NEZ snapshots from outside my S130s range, their AIM-9s have a greater range than the Magic 2s, and when I go defensive to evade these missiles the F-16s are comparable enough to the M2Ks speed and maneuverability that they wind up getting on my tail and chasing me down with guns. I know many must have found a way to succeed with the Mirage 2000 against the F-16s, so if anyone is willing to share any effective tactics I'd greatly appreciate it.

Ah ok cool, that makes sense, thanks

I'm curious about what happens when a flight in formation enters combat. Do they hold the formation they are in on arrival, do they transition to a different formation before/during combat or does each pilot prosecute the situation as they see fit (while obeying orders) and rejoin after? Apologies, this must be a basic question, but I haven't been able to find an answer to this anywhere. Thanks for reading.

6 and 3 for the panic button is correct, and I did neglect to mention it should be used in response to an unknown type of missile in the air, thanks for elaborating :thumbup:

The countermeasures section of the manual (from p186) covers the settings pretty well, but I'll try to give a TL;DR version of how I use this: Countermeasures Panel: "Modes" (Sabre mode switch) - square (middle) "BR" (Sabre master switch) - M (on) "D.A." (RWR) - M "D.2M." (Missile launch detector) - M "LL" (Spirale mode switch) - S.A. (Semi automatic) 11 position dial: A (Off) I then use the panic button to dispense as needed, and this will dispense both chaff and flares. Notes: The manual states that the automatic Spirale decoy programs don't work AIM-120 AMRAAMs can home on jammers like Sabre, so I bind the "jammer Activate/standby" toggle to a button so I can use it selectively in case I fight someone using AIM-120s.

Ah ok cool, thanks for explaining that, much appreciated

I didn't think about getting to refill the external tank and I didn't know the fbw could be changed with an empty tank, thanks!

Haha, I did wonder about that! I can just imagine some unlucky guy getting crapped on by bird, thinking “great, what else could go wrong?” and looking up...

At very high speed I expect

That's exactly what I wanted to know, thanks for clarifying :)

The air-to-air training mission suggests that we should jettison the RP-522 external fuel tank in order to minimize drag and gain the chance to activate the FBW air-to-air mode. Is this an optimization we get the liberty to perform thanks to flying in DCS as opposed to real life, or is this tank usually jettisoned in real life too? Can anyone guesstimate the cost of these tanks (eg 1k, 10k, 50k etc)? Neither question is super important, I am just curious.

I am indeed in the Mirage atm and was seeking an answer to this exact question, hopefully someone knows and will answer.

I hope you're right. In the Viggen, aside from the few words that are very similar to English I was totally lost after about six weeks, so it was a choice between using the English mod and giving up on that a/c. I laughed so hard so often remembering a system was called "Automatisk Fart Kontroll" the time was not a total waste. I am trying again with the M2K at the moment, I can retain "A" for off and "M" for on but that's about it so far. Still, high hopes :pilotfly:

I wish I were able to work with foreign language pits. I hadn't thought it would be that onerous so I tried for months with the Su-25T in Russian, I did try with the French for some time in the M2K (and am trying again now) and Swedish in the Viggen after, but I struck out on all three. If I could work with the pit in its native language I would prefer to, I see how having the language as it was seen in the real thing would be part of the a/c's character, this is very much a case of unable rather than unwilling.

Tacview is awesome! Such a great analysis tool, thanks for alerting me to it :)

If I understand you correctly, I think we're in agreement that the English cockpit was committed to in order to sell to people who wanted the English cockpit. If they hadn't done so I wouldn't be complaining because I wouldn't have bought the module.

If RB promised it, you're entitled to it. If I'd bought the module without considering my need for an English language cockpit and then started griping about needing one that would be on me, but as I pointed out, I looked and confirmed there was an undertaking to provide a cockpit before buying, hence my feelings on this.

Glad to see it. Thanks for posting this, if you hadn't I wouldn't have known.

Mission is great now, cheers! :thumbup:

Very much appreciated Defeatist. These are changes I could never have made myself, kudos :)

That would be awesome, thank you! Did you fix it by editing waypoint 2 using the info on the Batumi kneeboard page for runway 12?

Thanks for taking the trouble to unpick all those problems. So the synthetic runway was on the wrong runway, and the other cues were for the runway that should have been used. I see the irony in this, but I’ve done that mission so often now that I actually feel pretty confident landing now, so I guess I’m better off creating a fast mission and using that to practice landing?

I'm happy to concede the -bis model was not in Vietnam based on your belief. Obviously I shouldn't have mentioned Korea either, I don't know what I was smoking when I said that but I wish I'd saved some. I'm not a student of history at the best of times. What I should have said, and what I was really getting at, is a lot of people like to use this a/c in a historical / alternate history (eg cold war gone hot) context. Forcing something on them that reflects the state it would be in now would be anachronistic, and that's before considering the practical problems many report using the canopy in this state.

Hi, thanks for replying. 1: No, this is a training mission so it starts as you prepare for approach with no mark points set, and there isn’t really time to create one. 2: I didn’t check the CP/PD, but the synthetic runway is located exactly where it should be so I don’t think it’s navigation error. There are times when I’ve banked more than 360 degrees without ever catching back up to the runway axis line, so that suggests an error in the symbology rather than accumulated navigation error, yeah?