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Changing PRF has no impact on the lock yet. Loss of lock without any reason still remains.

Thank you !! Agree. As I said this is a game changer with all the best it brings and it surely deserves to give it a go for those who haven't done so yet. To me it sounds more like you got offended by someone else rather than actually an issue reguarding the coms. I don't think Blue Flag is meant for beginners as it already has some high standards within its core mission design, it was made that way. Thus, I believe people who have chosen to fly on Blue Flag are mostly advanced pilots with years of experience who had enough of easy tasks and training instead of casual players and beginners who are still wondering how their aircraft does work and fly. There are probably some rookies over there, but less than you think. I believe people have chosen Buddy Spike's Blue Flag over other servers for the high level it comes with, for the challenge it brings and for the coordinated teamwork it requires to make something. Adding SR on top of this has to be considered as a powerfull tool over TS since it provides mostly advantages over any other forms of communications as it has already been said. As you're evolving into a rich environment on Blue Flag, with descent standards, I believe it's a must for the pilots out there to at least know the basic rules of aviation regarding ATC auto-information and phraseolgy for the sake of safety as each live given does matter. It's not only because we are hardcore, it's aswell a matter of safeness and situationnal awareness. By the way, I wouldn't mind being a global ATC for a round being in charge of aircraft taxis, runway departures & arrivals and traffic deconfliction, then monitoring the aircrafts to the active GCI's frequency once there are airborn 10 miles out their homeplate. But o'well, that's just me, I might be out of my mind... Finally, everything in DCS requires some knowledge and some work, learning ATC rules is by far one of the easiest and most achievable aspect of this simulation. Some of us are real life pilots, some others are just enthusiasts with insane knowledge, that said of course we're all aware this is a simulation/game, but we all do want the best as Blue Flag is the current Top 1 server in DCS community.

+1.

As in the title, the plane seems to be restrained by the ground when taxiing which induce excessive usage of thrust.

You can't use the digit selectors and the rotaries with easy coms, you have to get normal coms. This is set trough the mission editor. Hope it helps.

For your question about Magic II missiles, yes it's buggy, Zeus said he will take a look on monday about what's going on with the latest patch, he got many feedbacks regarding this issue. The RDI is still WIP and that's again a bug... It shouldn't loose lock upon weapons change.

+1. It seems that the GCI are kinda the game masters of each side. I do agree on the fact they should maybe consider every options. Being a GCI is an important role which can lead the team to a victory in no time, they have to be responsible. If I'd do GCI, I would probably use SR only, mutting myself on TS and putting a GCI tag in front of my name while giving the frequency on the team chat from time to time for those who are lost. Then those who would like to get a picture would have to be on SR. Sounds evil, but well, that's either TS or SR... I've chosen my side. Me neither. :noexpression:

Ehm, I don't get it or I might be missing something here. Even russians do speak english nowadays... just like frenchies and all other people, it turns out it's kinda obvious when you're keen on aeronautics since it's a must. Moreover, people are free to speak in whatever language they want to inside their own flight packages with their friends, trash talk allowed if they wish. That's one other benefit that SR brings. I'm trying to find any downside of using SR but I truely can't find any as this tiny software is a part of every hardcore simmers wish/dream on the list. If you don't wanna hope in, well that's your choice, everyone has the right to choose. Now, speaking for some people around me, our expectations regarding SR usage would be people using SR accordingly on public frequencies (ATC & GCI until then), which means knowing basic ATC rules and phraseology. If you choose not using SR, then I guess you aren't concerned at all. Finally, just a little reminder, even tough some people are on TS and others fully on SR, there's still the ingame chat to meet new mates. I've met really cool guys on Blue Flag just by the chat. That said, being either fully on TS or fully on SR won't completly split apart the casual players from the hardcore ones. My thoughts here, people using SR should at least know their business for the sake of immersion and better experience amongst other pilots working on it. Thank you Greg !

Could you please add some french M-2000C aswell ? :thumbup:

My god this was hilarious ! :lol:

This is a bug and all tanks are able to be refueled.

Alright ! I'll take a look then, but anyway I do support your work. :smilewink:

Well you said everything mate, it sums up pretty much everything. TS could still be used for people having trouble setting up SR, or for people not confident enough on the radio coms for instance and if in any case there is issue regarding SR's server it could be used as a backup aswell. Now that we got the Blue Flag frequencies list published, there shouldn't be any issue concerning frequency tuning, it pretty much goes like this : one frequency for your flight package (prebriefed with your mates on TS or any other plateforms such as social networks), ATC & GCI frequency. That's it, no more, no less. Benefits ? Better situational awareness, less trash talk, better immersion, usefull informations only, step forward realism, better efficiency, better focus, no more step-on. Needless to say that wingmen doesn't have to transmit anything to the ATC while being in a flight package. Only the leader does transmit on ATC & GCI channels. So it's even easier as they only have to transmit on one single channel which is their own flight !

I might have miss something here, why did you choose to remove the "yellow" version ? It was great imo. I'm still using this one by my side, glad I always keep my addon backed up.

I stopped being on TS as soon as SR got released. It could be a standard if the community raise up their voice, this is YOU guys who are making this game alive. I'm just talking to everyone out here. At first, I had some doubts regarding SR but Ciribob obviously made a fantastic work. Of course, SR might have some bugs, but the guy is just insanely fast at fixings things up and adding new stuff on top of that for the community. This is a real game changer and I believe that DCS truely deserve the best. With this addon, I've the feeling we enter in some kind of new era regarding the community and I think it's now the good time to get to the next level. For the newbies out there, reading my lines, I would like to ask you one question: Why have you chosen DCS over the other sims ? Why do you purchase modules people ? Why have you chosen Blue Flag on top of other servers ? I'd put my hand in the fire betting than people started DCS at first for the complexity of the aircrafts simulation-wise on top of some realism and immersion. Well guess what, there are rules in the sky when you're flying online. I don't mind about taxiway takeoff as long as these people remain on solo or random other servers. Blue Flag is kinda one hardcore campaign, you got 4 lives every 6 hours, 1st person only, so I guess it should come with some standards as everyone as to fly with other people and act as a team. I'm totally agree with you. I'm trying to raise awareness around/trying to know what everyone is looking for when flying on Blue Flag, what are your expectations ? What do you enjoy so far ? What would you like to get ? I'm just deadly curious about what motivates people to join Blue Flag whereas there are tons of servers more accessible to anyone who starts DCS. Finally, DCS could be the next BMS in some way, it just needs more implicated people as in BMS. I'm not trying to promote BMS community as I don't know much about it, but many of my friends flew on BMS and... yeah... these guys know a shitload of stuff regarding aeronautics and procedures and so on and fact is, they're willing to teach people out, but well, some of other virtual pilots are like "nobody ain't got time for that". So yeah, that's a complex story that requires more reflexion. Lot of players, two main categories.

Hey guys, I was quite surprised by the fact there wasn't a lot of people using SR this evening on BLUFOR, including the GCI who rathered TS. Are there any issue that remains on SR that prevents people from joining ? Me and my leader felt quite lonely this evening on the net. It would be great if someone with enough free time into his hands is willing to do a tutorial about radio coms to keep it straight and simple regarding ATC (at least phraseology, not even circuits) for beginners. Some people don't even know what brevity stands for which is normal at a certain level. As Blue Flag administrators are not willing to put SR mandatory (yet ?) for coms as they may be affraid to loose a part of the casual players (which I can understand in some way), however it would be nice if at least people in trouble who are using SR get familiar with the coms. By the way it would be easier for GCI if you guys had callsigns on top of your individual nicknames, just my 2 cents here. I've already seen some dudes with their own callsign as they were forming up a flight package. Fun fact, I got a really good friend of mine who's pilot and who's a navigator in the french airforce, he was quite on the hype for Blue Flag when he began to check it out as I introduced it to him, however some of the coms just frightened him away because everyone was stepping on each other on TS. So here is the split between casual players and hardcore simmers that I would like to highlight. From now on, it's pure reflexion, let's consider this as a brainstorming, I don't wanna offense anyone, this is just a free speech from my point of view. Some people have more fun doing their own thing being a lonewolf, not givin' a damn regarding procedures, doing random barrel rolls and stuff, taking off and landing on whatever runways, once again I understand that some players would be satisfied in that kind of gameplay and perhaps think they don't have the time to learn other things. Some others rather being into procedures and being close to the RL thing, with structured stuff, defined flight packages, brevity only usage on the coms with the GCI, auto-information on the ATC channel, sticking to active runway and so on... This may lead to some misunderstanding when both categories encounter on the coms. Fun fact number 2, I was at Sochi on the defined ATC frequency, announced my taxi and as I was just about to line up on the runway from the holding point rwy 06, I heard someone who announced "I'm landing Sochi". No more, no less, I asked the guy to be a little more precise regarding his intentions as I don't even knew who was talking and what runway he was referring to. When I asked him about the runway he said "I don't know, the big one nearby the sea" or something like that, I had a good laugh, then I said "Well that's 06" and then he goes "I don't care, that's a runway" *sigh*. So here's the point, it would be great to find a way that both categories of players actually find their fun equally as Blue Flag is the only server who has such an incredible mission with an insane work behind it, regarding scripts, map cloud, .pdf and a lot of other things. This is by far, the best server I've been into, so that is the reason I'm telling you guys all this right now by giving my thoughts. Having structured coms may not only frighten newbies away, but it can aswell prevent hardcore simmers and real pilots (they are still clients right ?) in most case from joining this campaign. What are your toughts guys ?

What came to my mind is that we could use the RD when delivering CAS to a JTAC which states a 9-line in order to match the "final attack headings" restriction for instance. Right ? This could be used aswell to avoid specific areas full of muds or to remain into a specific airspace.

Yep, this issue has to be fixed ASAP as we can't fully rely to those S530D because of the current RDI weakness and we don't have a plenty of loadout, the M-2000C is now grounded on CAP missions until gettin' fixed. Sounds like a good time to get back to circuit training in the meantime.

Blue Flag Round 8 Official Frequencies : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LYS-K2EBGBZ1RjD0UGUdOkAXJBGw3mmRQZ2cSsdbJao/edit#gid=0

Turn up the MIS volume knob, it should be enough. :thumbup:

This server is the real deal. I'm there daily for at least one full session. I got a flight package there, callsign Charcot. The server crashes sometimes but the administrators made an awesome work on it. For the best experience, I encourage anyone who is interested into a fully dynamic campaign in DCS to download and install Simple Radio Standalone mod which works in conjunction with Blue Flag. Brevity codes usage and understanding HIGHLY advised.

Yes it's working, apparently my joystick is about to die after 15 years of duty and thousands of kills... I had to put more and more deadzones and curvatures over time in order to fly correctly. So I had to configure it again as I couldn't pull enough Gs while pulling on the Y axis... A moment of silence for him. :cry: Once again good work.

It seems that the high pich tone that used to indicate G-Pulls/Speed disapeared. It is present in the vanilla aircraft. I have to say this tone is pretty usefull in combat turns as it indicates you to stop pulling too hard otherwise you'll bleed to much energy. Could you add it again (or make a rework of it if you find a better sound) ? The pit seems very silent otherwise during high maneuvers in turns. Other than that, I like the new sounds, a bit too low on the volume imo, but turning the volume up on the volume panel fixes this.

Instadownloaded. Thank you very much l'ami !

Gotta look on that one as the navigation lights on the A-10C irritate me aswell, I'm thinking about reworking the UH-1H too, but the thing is that each aircraft are made differently regarding textures and stuff. This is another topic mate, I'm aware of this though, the issue was based on the fact that navigation lights renders on DCS are unrealistic and shoudn't be that visible at noon. As follow, this is how my mod renders out at noon time with a sweet SKC CAVOK.