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Mud : AS the H is not able to distinguish a target from anything, I don't think the precision of the SPI would have any impact on the capabilities of the Mav to lock. Thanks for your answer still ! If you try the H, let me know if you can get the Force Correlate working with oyur HOTAS. Weltensegler : Yeah, the toogle switch can be a good guess. I'll ask them, thank you ! Cheers everybody.

Hi guys, Force correlate is not always a known feature for some DCS A-10C pilots. I'm flying with some of my friends and they can't lock their AGM-65H in Force Correlate. Here is my procedure : -Search targets with TGP -TMS UP long to make the TGP's target as SPI (RCtrl+ Up for me as I use keyboard) -I select my AGM-65 H, and slave them to the SPI. -I always zoom my mav sensor with China Hat Forward (V key) -I hit Boat Switch Center (RAlt+ down) and then : TMS Up (RCtrl + Up) to try to lock the target. The Mav is not locking every time at the first try. It can need some time to get a lock. But generaly I can lock at around 8 to 10 Nm at 15 000ft and sometime I can even lock at 11Nm. The thing is : none of my teammates (they have the HOTAS Warthog) are able to do this ! Their AGM-65 is not locking until 5nm or less. I would like to know if Warthog users can lock their mavs the same way I do with my keyboard and is my procedure for FC correct ? Thanks, cheers.

All is in the title : the clouds are bright at night in the 1.5.8 (15 December update) ! By the way. I flew in the Viggen last night in the 2.2. There is the same problem for night flying, and this since years : the ground is bright ! At Night !? How can we see the ground at night without any lighting source ? The FLIR of the Harrier is just useless because you can perfectly see the ground. But i'm pretty sure it has been reported since a long time. Screenshots : Wait, it doesn't work. I can't attach my screenshots, I don't know why. Anyway. Cheers.

I'm really disapointed. It's in the Title : Digital COMBAT Simulator. As a buyer, I don't agree with you're vision of the sim. I hope DCS will not compete with the 2 other big civilian flight simulators (seriously !? How many years ? And we still not have an ATC !?) You've made the Fishbed, which need correction right now and you're ''big'' announcement is this !? Anyway, it will be without my money and my little help. I think you've made a mistake. However, I sincerely wish you good luck for this project and the future ones. Best wishes and cheers from France ! P.S. : you see BIGNEWY ? I havn't mentionned the name of other sims, lessons learned xD ;)

I suggest you to find a team. I've learned a lot of thing in my old team (VEAF). Great experience. And with the coming AV-8B, the Hog will get a new friend for CAS and all the muddy stuff

Guys, seriously? 70€ ? That's too high. Too expensive. I think you need to set the price down to 60€ max. That's really disapointing. I've paid all the module except the C-101B. It represent pretty much 570€, without campaigns. And the price go higher and higher ? I know it's a lot of work, and very hard work, I respect this and take it into consideration. But... Just keep it real... Just keep it real. 70€... (And guess what ? The product will stay in a ''Beta'' version for at least 9 months ! ). I'll not buy any DCS modules that are more than 59 € MAX. Over than that, I consider that it's stealing, or at least neglecting, our verry little and fragile community. This is not honest. I react like this because, it was 49 and 59€ yesterday, 69€ today... And tomorrow ? It scares me to be honest. The future of DCS with 100€ each modules will be without me. Lower the price a little bit please ED and Razbam, please, you're going on the wrong way in my opinion. That being said, if the devs show us their investment/benefits ratio for an aircraft, and if this ratio shows that it's very hard for them to make the ends meet at the end of the month, I'll be ready to accept those prices. With no disrespect, and no offense. Cheers from France.

Try to MP Cobra847. He help me a lot a year ago with the MiG-21 activation issues

hello there. Since you all seems to have a great experience in the F-5 I would like to know what your thoughts about the F-5 roll rate with the wingtips AIM-9. I feel like the F-5 is more manoeuvrable (concerning roll rate only) with a heavy payload than with only 2 Sidewinders. I mean, the roll rate is pretty low for such a manoeuvrable aircraft. I'm wrong ? Thanks have a good day

Apreciate the fact that devs came here to tell us what we think about this. Opinions are deverse. Here is mine : DCS is supposed to be a realistic flight simulator. Not a guesswork Flight Simulator. For me, having guessworking on the F-14 can discredit DCS and Heatblur (just a personal opinion). I will pay, but only for a full realistic product (as much as devs can get of course). If you have true data about this Russian made missiles on the F-14, then why not ? And share those datas in the manual when released. But there is pretty much zero credible data about this. So, my 2 cents : forget this and keep focus to give us a pro-level F-14 :). Cheers.

The textures and colours are the main differences with the Black Sea map. Trees are more ''exotic'' also. There are probably a lot more differences that I don't know. Anyway, it's work in progress but very enjoyable at this time. Try it and if you can, donate some bucks to Starway if you like his work. Cheers

Nice find. Can the devs take a look at this please ?

Wow, pretty impressive. Great work ! But to be honest graphic textures like the Viggen and the Fishbed are already really great, my personnal expectations are more about the realism of the systems and flight model rather than the textures. Hope that systems and FM will be as detailed as this TCS/ALQ-100 !!

Oh sad to ear :/ And about the roll rate with sidewinders ? You don't think that it is too slow ? I mean, it's pretty much the same roll rate as the Viggen... I doubt about this behaviour

Ok, I've removed it ;) Ok nice to know I'm not the only one to have this feeling. Thanks for your replies. Do I need to write to the devs directly to report this bug ?

Misunderstood here. Sorry, English is not my native language. I don't talk about the cover, I talk about the rocket themselves, the pod is full, but there are visually no rockets in the pods. By the way, I like your videos GrmlZ, good continuation to you from France

Hi everybody. Here is a little bug report with the little Tiger. With the LAU-3 rocket pods (19 HE rockets), there are visually no rockets in the pods, but they are there and we can fire them. See attached screenshots. The Mirage 2000 had the exact same bug some months ago. Also I have a question : The roll rate when you're carrying wing tip Sidewinders is surprisingly slow ! When you fire them, then you feel like you're back in the Tiger. Is it supposed to be like this in the real life ? Or is it a bug ? Thanks

Oh completely forget to precise this. Yes off course, I've set the QFE indicated on the kneeboard for my attack waypoint. Because I was not sure that it was correct, I've calculated the QFE by myself according to the XxjohnxX tutorial video (+- 5Hpa of difference). It doesn't solve the problem Also, my altitude source is set to Barometric, didn't try with the Radio source

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to get confortable with the Viggen's weapons systems. I've set a little mission with an enemy outpost to attack. I use ARAK rockets and low drag bombs (not on the same aircraft). I've set up a little windy condition : 248 for 5m/s of wind at sea level. I follow the instructions of the manual, but when I laucnh my rockets they constantly hit behind the targets. The bombs hit the ground before the indicated position of the sight. There is probably around 100m of difference between the sight and the impact point for both bombs and rockets. I've tried to put wind data in the CK-37 and about this I have a question : The briefing indicates 248 for 5m/s. Converting m/s in km/h is not a problem, but what direction the CK-37 want ? 248° like says the briefing and Mission Editor, or do I need to do the same thing than with the A-10C, add or subtrack 180° to the indicated wind direction ? I use bombs with the dive mode, master mode to ANF. For the rockets, I've tried the master mode on both ANF and NAV. I unsafe the trigger after putting my sight over the enemy and I've tried to disable the target motion measurement (221, by the way, the manual indicate 211 instead of 221, page 293 ''adress 21, value 1 (...)'' ) By the way, the AKAN gun pods are also very inaccurate, but i feel like I'm missing something.. Thanks, have a nice day until Normandy 1944 :)

Hello, I've just flown the Viggen on the NTTR, and i notice that the total velocity vector (flight path vector) is always moving from left to right. Is it supposed to be like this or is it a bug ? Thank you

Good job ! Hope the devs can fix this too. Good luck to them.

Good catch 'Jump, completely forgot about this pitot tube.

The 2nd picture is a 2000-5, the first one is a 2000-9 or a 2000E with client modifications, which can explain this kind of CDU. On the exterior, 2000-5 have a bigger antenna on the top of the fuselage, behind the cockpit, on the equipment bay (the antenna the most in the back on the big door with the ''sauvetage'' marking (it's the MIDS antenna, or L-16 integration if you want)). On the edge of the vertical stabilizer, under the forward looking RWR sensor, there is the LAM antenna (Liaison Air-Missile), a little forward pointing ''sharp'' antenna. It's pretty much all the exterior differences between the C and the -5. You will not have enough informations for the systems.

If you want an interresting read about this, you can buy the book : Tomcat ! The Story of Grumman F-14. Written by Paul Gillcrist. The author mentions about the ACID test of the AIM-54A, and other excercices like AIMVAL/ACEVAL. jamison1982 : If I understand (and remember) correctly (I'm not english), it's not a drone failure but Phoenix failures during the 6 on 6 test (at least for one of the 2 missiles which missed their targets)

Jump a raison, il y as des manuels de 600 pages que les devs se sont fait chier à écrire, lisez les ils contiennent 85% des réponses aux questions posés en vrai. Mais pour Buzz, c'est différent car ce sont des connaissances annexes relatives à l'aéronautique en règle générale, non documentés dans le manuel du Black Shark il me semble. Donc j'vais tenter de t'expliquer les différentes pressions rapidement. Pour plus de détails, utilises ces mots clefs dans google : altitude QFE, QNE, QNH. Etant en Baccalauréat, les profs utilisent énormément le site ''l'avionnaire''. Rends toi-y et fouilles dans les différentes sections pour avoir de plus amples informations. - La pression barométrique est prise par rapport à diverses références: par rapport à l'altitude topologique du terrain sur lequel tu te trouve et donné par une station de relevé météo (c'est le QNH). Par rapport à l'altitude à laquelle se trouve ton appareil au décollage (QFE) et enfin par rapport à un réglage ''hypothétique'' que j'aurais du mal à te décrire qui est le QNE qui considère que la pression réelle serait la même que la pression ISA (International Standard Atmosphere, à savoir 1013,25hPa) quelque soit les conditions météo. A NOTER QUE JE SUIS PAS SUR DE CE QUE JE DIT A PROPOS DU QNE, D'AUTRES TE RÉPONDRONS MIEUX QUE MOI, ET TES PROPRES RECHERCHES AUSSI. Petit exemple rapide de la nécessité d'avoir plusieurs prises de références à disposition : Si tu décolles d'un FARP, dans les chaines de montagnes près du Mont Elbrouz, point culminant du Caucase, tu peu régler ton altimètre directement à 0ft (ou m dans le cas du Ka-50). Cette altitude correspondras à la pression atmosphérique de l'endroit où tu décolle, c'est la QFE. Si tu descend en dessous de cette altitude (comme dans le creux d'une vallée par exemple, ou encore que tu sors des hauts reliefs pour atteindre des terres plus basses) ton altimètre t'afficheras une altitude négative, ce qui n'est pas pertinent pour le pilote. D'où l’intérêt de changer de pression de référence en vol. Si tu passes de ta QFE à la QNE (1013hPa) ou QNH, tu auras alors une altitude indiquée plus parlante pour ton pilotage. La radio est effectivement prise par rapport au sol, mais tous les radio altimètres ont une portée limité, limitant de fait comme tu dit leur emploi aux basses altitudes uniquement. +/- 20% devrais être propre au Ka-50, je n'ai jamais fait attention à ces variations, si tu as eu cette plage de tolérance dans le manuel, considère la comme vraie mais que pour le Ka-50. Tu devrais avoir le choix de ton type de sonde à mettre en référence dans le Ka-50 pour le Pilote Auto si je me souviens bien, sur le même panneau que les options de pilote auto et des amortisseurs de cyclique (les gros carrés bleus sur le coté droit, en dessous du clavier de l'unité de navigation et ABRIS. T'abstiens pas à l'avenir, ces questions sont les bienvenus, sauf si t'as pas lu le manuel x).

C'est normal tu as différentes sources d'indication et de mesure dans un avion. Le HUD et l'altimètre t'affichent une altitude basée sur la pression externe par rapport à une valeur de référence (altitude de départ de ton appareil, niveau de la mer ou autre). Le variomètre comme son nom l'indique t'indique une variation d'altitude. C'est lui qui te donne ta vitesse verticale, combien tu vas monter en tant de minutes (ou secondes en fonction de l'appareil). Alt Hold est un mode du pilote automatique, il essai de maintenir l'altitude à laquelle tu l'as engagé. Bar menu F2 2318ft. Je pense que ta question viens de ces 2318ft. Cette bar menu est un interface et utilise le système de mesure de ton choix dans les options du jeu. De base il est en pieds (Ft) comme pour la grosse majorité des avions dans le monde. Mais là tu est en Ka-50, appareil russe, et les Russes n'utilisent pas le système Impérial mais le système Métrique. C'est pour ça que dans ton cockpit, tu as des altitudes/vitesses en Mètre et autres mesures ISO comme la pression atmosphérique en millibars il me semble pour les russes. Quand à l'ABRIS, je ne sais plus si il te donne une altitude radio, une altitude GNSS ou une altitude arrondie par rapport à l'altitude barométrique. Le manuel devrait répondre à ta question. Il est situé dans ton dossier DCS, fichiers Mods/Aircraft/KA-50/Doc La VI est la vitesse indiquée. Je suppose, étant donné qu'elle est en unité Impériale, que c'est celle indiquée sur la bar F2. Ben c'est tout simplement ta vitesse par rapport à la masse d'air dans laquelle tu te trouve (c'est pas une vitesse par rapport au sol.).