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I'm struggling to remain patient with this module. They keep saying things are in the works, don't really care about the ready rooms. The additional yellow shirts and plane captains will be nice eye candy. It really feels like this module is not a priority or is more effort than it's worth now that it's out. Still an improvement over the free carrier but I struggle to see the non-sale price of $49.99. Its only worth it when it is half off at this time.

US Patriot system for the time period unit we have was somewhat ineffective so I'm not sure ED's representation is that far off the mark. I think the current version fielded by the US has improved performance considering the number of updates in software and hardware that have been done. Also doctrine is different, US uses aircraft as the main deterrent to aerial attack. Russia uses SAMs, aircraft are mostly intended as aerial artillery.

As you said the mouse is many times more precise I can make minute adjustments with ease. AAR are a piece of cake using the mouse. What I am expecting (not sure if its a realistic expectation) is that if I let go of the stick and stop providing any inputs a trimmed out plane will remain in a somewhat stable flight for at least a few seconds with no turbulence or winds in the wx settings. Right now with the plane in autopilot and flying level with set airspeed disengaging the autopilot I typically see an immediate +/- vertical velocity of anywhere from 30-300fpm with 1.0g showing in the HUD and with a stick showing centered and no noise. This is less pronounced with a mouse and I can easily adjust for the any +/- of 10-30fpm over a few seconds. With a stick it is a constant fight to maintain level flight without bouncing up and down 10-20 feet constantly.

It is centered as is neither out of calibration or noisy. Windows and numerous other tools showed the winwing flight stick rock solid. I tried a thrustmaster and saitek as well. They all fly the same. I even install super heavy springs to the point I was getting a workout just flying. Curves and deadbands did nothing to help. I never knew when the controls would jump due to the curve or become active with the deadband. About the only plane this was not as big an issue with was the Harrier. At this point I fly so well with a mouse I doubt I would try a stick again.

Any possibility of creating a ZPU-2 and ZPU-4? Both the towed and truck mounted Soviet Bloc would be an excellent addition,

I have yet to figure out how to trim to 1G, the plane always is climbing or diving with a flight stick. Using a gaming mouse is so much easier to be precise with so that is what I have been using now.

This also happens time to time for me if I move the radar switch to standby or select silent mode on the DDI

I thought the super carrier was essentially finished they just were adding the briefing room which needed some other major update to the core game which has no schedule advertised.

The Serbians also used a very large volume of decoys that emitted appropriate or very near real radio waveforms to draw HARMs away from actual resources and deplete supplies.

This has not worked for a long time. Good news is you jest set things to use X in mission editor works on all things I used them on

That Bowen needs to see the doctor immediately for that burning sensation too. I assume it had a port call in the Philippines.

You have to load the settings into each station that has a harpoon. If you only program 1 station the rest will remain with default settings

I don't think AI talks on the radio unless you are asking through your player command. I've tuned tower, AWACS, other flight frequencies and there are no AI to AI communications. It would be a nice to have wish list item that maybe nice in single player games but probably take more time to implement than it's worth. Large multiplayer games would benefit from just implementing proper ATC and GCI/AWACS comms.

The tomcat podcast gave a good level of detail on the IRST capabilities but obviously did not have any graphics of what the instrumentation looked like in detail or switchology. I dont think the F-14D is ever going to see the light of day in this game. Maybe some other sim in 10-20 years once its all declassed.

Thank you Ithronwise.

I don't own the F-16 module, but do like having the F-16C AI and the F-16i as AI for the Syria map. Not sure why it's not working then for me. All F-16CM bl.50 units don't have a model after installing the F-16I V3.1 mod. The F-16C bl.50 and F-16 bl.52d do have models but I cannot seem to get any of the liveries for the F-16C to work with them.

Is there a way to get this mod to be AI only and not replace the existing F-16 and weapons?

I just give them a 1st waypoint out in front of the carrier at 500 feet then have them perform a climb to an appropriate altitude using a normal speed with burners checked off in the advanced waypoint options. There probably is a way to script a moving waypoint that is always 7nm in front of the carrier but I dont have the time to figure it out.

Half bad? The big AI BFM improvement was changing the AI to loop 90 degrees from the vertical and it appears it was to the right and a bit of jinxing. All AI do now is infinite horizontal circles with no to minimal energy loss. All I do is run them out of gas or force them to fly into the ground in the 1v1 guns only instant missions.

All you need to defend against a +10nm amraam shot is Split S. Works 100% of the time.

That composition is not unrealistic however 1-2 miles apart would be way too close. There would also be an oiler/supply ship with the battle group. Admiral189 has some excellent ship mods and an oiler is one of them. There is an inner group out to about 20-30km a middle group, and an outer group that can be up to 100km out from the CVN. Usually a DDG would be in the outer group as a picket ship but the ship type will depend on the commander.

Unless you know how to script, I think the AI will always disappoint. I found hours of work in the mission editor can be wasted for the AI to do some basic things and even then, they tend to do it only randomly or not at all. Best thing is find a server and play multiplayer its really the best way to use the sim.

I can confirm this as well. AI LGP regardless of map or mission editor tinkering will not hit designated target with LGB.

For certain missile types it should but is highly dependent on its dispersion and the missile would need to be within the chaff bloom or very close to it. The jammer should also impact fuzing performance on certain missiles, again highly dependent on aspect and range.

I am having the same problem too. No matter what I do I cannot get it to work anymore. Looks like I had a bug in my *.lua for the iads setup. One question to the group, what is the lua code to add a node to the command center? Is it the same script as adding a node to a SAM or EWR?