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Nice books, I just download the A-10 one!

https://fightersweep.com/1904/hornet-vs-viper-part-three/ This pilot explains that US Navy hornet pilots cannot do any precision approaches on land what so ever. The best they can do is TACAN approaches. I’ve known this for over a decade as I worked on the legacy hornets for 7 years when I was active and now work on 35’s. So I know the difference. And how lazy can a pilot be that moving their head, even in a sim, is seen as inconvenient? As to the not looking out of the cockpit, I’ve been told by colleagues who have the instrument rating, that when they train for it they have blinders on so they only can look at their instruments. Your eyes can lie but your instruments don’t. It’s probably not as of big deal in a sim as I can feel anything. But I can tell you, in VR, you can get some vertigo. In really bad weather sometime it “feels” like I’m in a bank when really I’m straight and level. I can’t look at the HUD as it only makes the feeling worse. So looking at the instruments is very important. I never doubted your ability, OP, to fly with just your instruments. I just have no clue as to why you would make a rediculous and erroneous claim about the A-10 based on just the lack of an instrument rated HUD and lack of A2G radar. Seems silly and sounds like you lack piloting skills. Maybe you should consider going back to basics and brushing off those skills that seemed, in my opinion, to be rusty instead of blaming the airframe, the engineers, or complaining about what an airframe lacks.

I agree about getting the DLC campaigns as they are well worth the money. Enemy Within and OPF are hands down two of the best ones. The maple flag missions are great if you want to experience a close as we can get to training the real way in SP. Stone Shield is the last of the group, however it is still pretty good. The Red Flag campaign is awesome in 2.1 and I highly recommend that. As for MP, join a squadron if you can. There a few that fly constantly and have a ton of different mission set ups. I’m in one and it has been awesome! They’ve taken my flying to the next level. So there are things you can do to freshen the old girl up. And if none of those things work out for you, try a different platform. The M2K is outstanding, as is the F-5E. The latter is very overwhelming if you’re not used to flying older Jets. I got task saturated really fast in that jet for the longest time, but it made my flying skill a ton better. The Harriers about to be out and of course the Hornet will be out at some point in the future. So it’s really up to you.

I have flown sims like that, specifically the F-16, so I guess we can keep talking. So airplanes don’t really care about convenience. Not to mention if your HUD goes out you’ll be lost. Hence why pilots train the way they do. And if you want ILS info in your HUD, you better not buy the Hornet. It doesn’t even have ILS. Although it’s HUD is instrument rated. As for finding targets, the A-10 has a TGP that works really well. And if you think Radar is going to be an answer you will be fairly disappointed. Most pilots used the radar just to get in the ballpark and then use the TGP to get more accurate coordinates. And don’t take my work for it, read Hornets Over Kuwait. The author discribes that very thing. So even those jets with A2G radar will have there own limitations. The A-10C is an excellent airframe in all weather conditions. Does it have limitations. Of course it does, no jet is perfect. But saying this plane is worthless in bad weather speaks to the skill of the pilot, not the airframe.

I’m not sure what plane you’re flying but the A-10C is very good in all weather conditions. With JTAC or a FAC(A) giving you coordinates, JDAM drops are very simple. And IFR is meant to be heads down. Eyes can be deceiving. If you’re flying the plane correctly you don’t need your eyes until about 100 feet of the ground on landing. If you can’t do an ILS Lansing without the HUD you shouldn’t be doing ILS landings at all.

Very nice and a day one for me!

That I think would be a mistake. Do the merge when the map is release. Whether it’s in an alpha or beta stage. Having two of the same maps on different versions wouldn’t make sense. And make people mad all at the same time. And then release the SoH map after the merge.

Yeah the canopy is really bad. I’ve asked if this will be addressed but I have gotten no response about it.

I’m pretty sure MapleFlag is working on the training campaign for he 18. If ED was smart they would bundle the training as a campaign ala Mirage style. Baltic did a great job on the training missions and on the free campaign.

They need to fix this as this is an issue of playability. It doesn’t have to be perfect but I should be able to make out a truck’s heat signature out of a cold field, just saying.

No worries. That's what I ended up doing was just flying a circling pattern around him. I'm not a fan of the F-15 but your campaigns are awesome so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm sure I'll enjoy.

In route. I pushed him before I got into formation. But he was going so slow the whole time. It happened during one of the missions during the Mirage campaign too.

So in the first mission, the AWACS seems to be very slow. Too slow to realistically fly formation. I was around 150 IAS. Not sure if he's suppose to be that slow or not.

I got this campaign just to support you and your future DLC's. I might fly it, but most likely not lol. Keep up the good work my friend. Looking forward to the Mirage Red Flag, and A-10C DLC's

I've been telling people, even with the limitations of VR there's no going back. The feeling, The immersion, the depth, and the 1:1 head tracking far out paces the the resolution limitation.

Yeah that seemed to work. Thanks for the help

Well said Probad!

So no one was talking about FC3 planes with random fallers. Storms post was very specific on who he was talking about. And those people were anti-FC3 players. I do consider myself to be anti-FC3 due to limited fidelity. But I will retract my comment on the F-15 vs DCS F-16. I shouldn't have said no one, I should have said very few people would be flying the F-15. But my point remains the same, if the money was there, ED would be going that route. Money talks.

My $.02. I don't think the money is actually there for FC3 planes. It sounds good but I think the Majority of player want a full fidelity Module. Saying look at this server with F-15 and other FC3 planes is a bit of a misleading statement as we don't have a 4th gen full fidelity Module yet that does A2A. Basically they're all we have for now. I asure you if there was a DCS F-16 no one would be flying the F-15. As to the idea that people don't use random failures or realistic comms or tactics, you clearly haven't been looking. There are a ton of groups that do just what you are talking about. I know that cause I'm in one. We mimic as close as we can to real world procedures, tactics, and training as we possible can inside of the DCS World. As for starting of "easy" to learn, it really isn't that difficult to learn the A-10C or the M2K vs the F-15C or FC3. But I sure get a lot more of of both. I think the direction ED is going is the correct one, I believe that is where the money is driving them.

I have a US keyboard layout. I'm pretty sure that I have been holding my PTT long enough I'll double check when I get home.

Thanks I'll try and let you know

It is not necessarily for JHMCS alignment. I know that because all Hornets, from A-D, had it. Pilots said it was for head alignment, which is pretty close and basically the same thing. But it's called the HUD/BRU alignment cross. BRU stands for Boresight Reference Unit.

I haven't been able to figure out my problem. I did have an installation problem but I got that fixed. But now I cannot get VA to work with either the A-10C or M2K profiles. I've double checked to make sure my PTT is set up correctly and it is. I made sure the key bindings for my HOTAS mic controls are correct and they are. I make sure that my frequencies are right and then speak the commands. I get the log to tell me the commands are correct and that it has executed the commands but DCS doesn't do anything. I make sure I say start mission and that works just fine but when I call inbound or call my wingman nothing. I turned off the pilot no voice but I don't hear him. Hence why I believe that the program is not executing what is supposed to. I need some help, I really want to use these profiles as it is way better than my simple profile I set up. I don't want to say f1, f2 all the time.

So I'm doing the day time danger close mission and all I get the first two targets destroyed and am tasked with taking out an APC with mavericks. I ensure that I'm parallel with the friendly troops and I fire off my maverick. I hit the correct target and I still some how hit blue forces. Are they moving close to the target?

Thanks for the tip BD. Once I get my rig back from the shop I'll try it and let you know.