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On the latest versions, this mods hangs DCS when loading the briefing screen.

Keep it forward for at least a second.

Should we input anything at all in the interrogtor? Not for gameplay purposes (the whole IFF stuff is mainly non-functional), just in terms of realism.

I have a 24'' central monitor for the main viewport, and a right secondary monitor with the MFCDs, the RWR, the clock, and the CDU.

Nobody told him to mot try. I personally simply gave my insight on why an A-10C wouldn't be employed against a proper IADS. Others already answered the original question, and the discussion went on from there. Nobody wants to limit how you're using the sim, but learning the differences with real life employment is part of the sim experience for a lot of people.

I would say that explanations on why you wouldn't engage a SAM in the first place counts as an answer. Otherwise nobody would ever learn anything.

Isn't the D2M activated by default?

AoA is the angle between the line that extends from your nose, and your velocity vector (i.e. where you're actually going). The FPM in the HUD is a visualization of the latter, which explains why you can place it on an ant on the ground and be 100% sure you're going to give that particular ant a very bad time. When you climb or turn, the direction you're actually going will "lag behind" where you're pointing: the slower you are, the more it lags (i.e. the higher the AoA). At certain angles, the airflow on the wings becomes disrupted (basically vortices start to form), and you start losing lift: that's buffetting. If you keep pulling the stick, increasing AoA, one or both wings will completely loose the ability to generate lift, stalling the aircraft. The "wing-drop" you experience during tight turns when riding the chopped tone is exactly that. It's also not true that the faster you go the higher AoA angles you can pull: an aircraft can stall at any speed, you can check by yourself by yanking the stick back hard while in a 300+ knots dive. Just to be clear, although it's easier to think that AoA is controlled through the pitch channel alone, the fact that it's a function of speed means that thrust is relevant as well. To understand how this work, slow down to 160 knots and place your FPM on the horizon line: note how your nose is pointing up, but your velocity vector is straight forward; now add thrust while applying some forward stick to keep the FPM stable, and notice how your nose lowers as you gain speed; if you hadn't applied forward stick, the nose would have tended to stay in place, and the FPM would have risen instead. This ties to pretty much everything when it comes to flying: trimming and landings for example. The latter is especially interesting, because it explains how switched controls work with landing (i.e. controlling speed with pitch and slope with thrust). To confuse matters a bit, the AoA gauge in the cockpit is not in ° but rather in unspecified "units".

Also make sure your radio is set to PRESET and not MANUAL mode.

Regarding radios: you are technically not talking through any radio, your own messages will always play regardless because they're trigger based. Most of the time intra-flight and IPs will answer on Red, so don't change radios unless you're instructed to (as it is done IRL I believe). AWACS should answer on Green (as to keep the channel with lead open), that may be something to check.

If I open halfway the speedbrakes while on the ground, then flip the SPD BK EMER RETR, what's the correct behaviour IRL? Should they slowly close, or should they remain still? EDIT: Was answered elsewhere: the correct behaviour is to slowly close.

You don't. A proper IADS is a tough nut to break even for dedicated SEAD packages. That's why Tomahawks often open air campaigns, and flocks of mini-UAVs are being considered as saturation.

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You shouldn't be shooting them down.

No fixes for the AI taxiing and startup bugs?

I thought I had that covered?

Try to get closer.

Check the briefing cards for the code, I can't recall it from the top of my head.

Then getting closer to him should solve the problem. Keep your spacing during the taxiing, and close up once he's on hold.

Fly towards the given TACAN, overfly the airport, and turn South for 20 nautical miles.

Is he stuck right in front of the vehicle, or just before the turn on Alpha?

Your instructor should is in front of you right?

Make sure you do everything he asks for.

AWACS is available through the standard F7 menu, not the custom F10.

Channel 4 on the main radio.