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Oh ok, now I understand, thanks for clarifying that.

I got the email announcing 60% bonus deals on modules participating in the bonus program, but when I go to the checkout stage where I can apply my bonus, it only calculates from full price (ie I'm trying to buy the Blackshark module, checkout shows full price 39.99. When I apply my existing bonus of $22, it shows 17.99 outstanding. Help would be appreciated please. I tried the transaction several times since just after the email came through but it always follows the process above. I hope I'm not making a mistake and bugging you over nothing.

The idea of landing according to the AoA on approach is intriguing, I have been adjusting pitch to control speed and glancing at the AoA gauge, but a stall would be a bigger problem than a little extra speed, and maintaining some AoA means I'll be losing some speed anyway. When I know I'm cutting it fine on AoA I will try using that as my main reference. Thanks :)

Thanks, I hadn't considered that the pitch ladder in the hud was not relative to airflow. I will make sure to check the AoA gauge as well when I'm flying more than 5 degrees above or below level. I didn't realize that I could bring up the AoA at the bottom of the screen, thanks for that too :thumbup:

Absolutely, and google is always my first port of call, and if I don't find anything useful there I search this site before posting a question. My initial question was what the warning tone I kept hearing in this particular tutorial was likely to be, so I did google the tute to see if others had posted about the problem I was having, and I posted the question only when I didn't find anything relevant. I am very grateful that Ironhand went on to explain the likely cause of the warning after suggesting what it was likely to be, and I expect that was because my original post had demonstrated that I had misunderstood what a stall actually was. Ironhand's extra information allowed me to return to google with a clearer idea of what I needed to learn.

I've had a couple of issues with the tutorial for Su-25T unguided rockets. The first problem is interpreting the voice-over instruction "as you pass through the top gate, roll the aircraft inverted and pull your nose down to the target". I know 'inverted' usually means 'upside down', but I tried rolling 180 degrees to upside down several times, and besides disorienting me and making the screen red out, I wasn't able to hit the target at all. I tried rolling 90 degrees and that seemed to work better. Does the instruction mean roll just 90 degrees, or all the way over? The bigger issue is that I'm not able to correctly identify the target - to be clear, the problem is not that I can't hit what I aim at, but that I'm not sure where to aim. Hitting the ground directly below the red smoke doesn't do it, and I usually can't see the trucks until I'm in such a deep dive that I crash. Can anyone suggest a way to ID the targets sooner? If I am ultimately not able to consistently complete this lesson, how much of a handicap would it be in the rest of the game if I were unable to use rockets effectively? For any of you who have real-world experience, would you consider a pilot incomplete if he couldn't deliver rockets well?

Thanks for explaining in those terms. I come in with no knowledge on these subjects, and I had mistakenly thought all of these were about getting clean air to the engines. This is what happens when a pleb like myself sees words like "vector" :cry: It would be great if you did produce that resource in this plane. It would be a great way to show prospective new players who are using this free plane that there is a strong DCS community invested in helping people learn.

Thanks, I'm still not consistently managing my speed well in this lesson. so this is very helpful. I see that you stay between +-10 and allow the director circle to come to you, I guess that's what you mean by not chasing it? I go up to +-20, which might explain why I get stall warnings. It's much easier to learn from experience having an example.

Thanks, I'll do exactly that :)

Thanks. I think I initially dismissed that because it was a different variant, but in hindsight that would make more sense than the general FC3 forum :)

Thanks, that is great advice. I don't have any knowledge of flight or the physics at play, so it's great to get guidance like this. I will take care to be patient with this bird - since my goal is the A-10C it is probably best to get used to low-speed flight lol.

That was the information I was missing, I hadn't realized that I need to throttle up before raising the nose, but I probably should have. Thank you so much! I think I have this figured out now so I won't upload the track, but you've answered the biggest question I've had in this game so far, thanks again :)

Low 300s and no flaps sounds entirely possible, I was sticking to the route air speed but I do remember thinking it was awfully low. Thanks for telling me how to access the track too. As soon as I'm back at my machine I'll upload it, and being able to watch these again would be a great learning tool for me too.

Thanks, no idea how I missed that gauge. That means I must be mistaken about being wings level, yeah?

I'll start by apologizing, I'm sorry for placing this in the wrong forum, since there is no dedicated Su-25T thread I thought this was closest, and I believe Su-25 and Su-27 users may be able to answer my question. In the Su-25T training mission "Landing (easy)" in DCS 1.5 I keep getting a warning tone (no voice), and I'm not sure what it is, so I can neither identify the problem nor seek a solution. Edit: I can't post the track because this is training, and third party game recorders mess with my PC for some reason. My best guess is that it's a stall warning since it happens most at low speeds (300 - 400) and it seems like increasing thrust fixes it. However, the problem is that the warning often recurs within seconds, and I often have to increase thrust to max to fix it. This warning often comes up as I'm on approach to the landing strip, so I wind up having to land too fast or too late. I don't *think* it's an AoA warning since it happens at wings level as often as not, so it seems like the engines are getting plenty of clean air and I think the AoA warning is spoken rather than being a tone. That said, I'm still getting my head around AoA so I wouldn't be totally surprised if that is it. Also, once you were competent to fly the Sukhois, would you usually complete your missions without flight-related warnings (like the one I mentioned here), or are warnings an ongoing part of flying these Russian birds? If anyone can offer answers and/or solutions I'd be very grateful.

Apologies if someone said this already and I missed it... I think the issue is that, while Steam allows programs to be released early access (and labels them as such), I believe DLCs cannot be issued in pre-release status. Steam treats DCS World as the main program, and the modules are classed as DLC, so I don't think they can release the hornet or any other modules in a pre-release state. Of course, ED could just do what a lot of Steam developers do, and *claim* an obviously unfinished product is actually at release stage... maybe those developers are mistakenly set to CCIP? :D

Deactivate Modules, install new SSD, move and 2.1 folders to the new SSD, and then reactivate modules. You won't need to download anything. Thanks again to David OC for explaining that to me.

Thanks David, that's exactly what I wanted to know. I will deactivate the modules first; I think most people know about a windows installation nightmare, so better safe than sorry

Is there a way I could back up DCS World 2 Open Alpha and its modules? It looks like I'll have to replace much of my PC hardware, which means a new Windows 10 install. I'd rather not download everything all over again if I can help it, especially at the download speed I get. Apologies if this is in the wrong section, I couldn't see any section that was more relevant.

Thank you all for your responses, they have been very helpful. I will do the first few missions of the Su-25T, and if all is going well I will transition to the M-2000C after that. Thanks again :-)

Hi, I would like to buy the M-2000C but I have very little existing flight sim knowledge, so I have the following questions: 1: Do you think trying to learn this fighter from scratch would be too much for the average person? 2: Are the manual and any available training missions designed to be used by beginners, or is a significant amount of prior flight sim knowledge assumed? 3: On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the FC3 Su-27 and 10 being the A-10C, how complex is the M-2000C? If people are prepared to answer these questions I'd be grateful, and any additional information you think might help would be appreciated too.

I found DCS through Steam (I think it was listed as similar to a game on a friend's wishlist). I bought FC3 and A-10C through Steam before I realized there was a standalone version of the game, and until a few days ago I thought I had to continue using Steam in order to maintain access to my DLCs. I have the standalone version downloading as I type this, but it is going painfully slowly, at a quarter of the speed of the Steam downloads (regardless of whether I use torrent or HTTP), so if there are large updates to download regularly, or if I have Kaizer's problem and can't access any DLC, I might wind up sticking with Steam. In hindsight, I should have checked that out before buying NTTS to get access to DCS 2.

Oh nice, I'll look into that ASAP! Thanks everyone, it would rock to get into the standalone

I would (more) happily buy the Hornet for the standalone, but would I have to buy my other dlcs again? I have the A-10C and FC3... If I can get keys without having to pay for those again I'd much rather go standalone. I'm itching to see DCS World 2!