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Looking at today's newsletter, this might actually have been fixed by ED now!!! I can't believe it, I thought I wouldn't live to see the F-5E improved by them. Gotta test this tonight.

Great news. Incredible progress after the module had been as good as dead at one point.

Oh, wieder mal deutsche Hueys mit IR-suppressor, flare dispensers, miniguns und rocket pods - die Kunst ist frei.

Think of Fallon NAS when flying from Nellis AFB. I see no reason why Navy guys and gals cannot enjoy Nevada. If you wanna follow real-world procedures in a plausible environment, there's no better map in DCS than Nevada/NTTR, lots of documents and charts available for that. (Maybe Mariannas also offers real-world procedures and charts, haven't checked.)

Found this by coincidence on the Italian forum: That might possibly mean more delay, but if it also means an increase in quality, then so be it. I'm very much looking forward to the Gina. Along with the F-4, the F-104 and the Tornado, a German AF cold-war afficionado can hardly ask for more... well, maybe also for an official Alpha Jet A module, but I'm happy with what's to come.

I wanted to be grateful for what we get and not too demanding… but you are right of course, that badge would have been much better Nice pic as always. .

Here you go. It's still not fixed. F-15C_AAR_no_stop.trk

Very nice!!! Also a massive like for including four official German AF skins (including two Richthofen skins, just the right thing for my virtual 1./JG-71 )

Zeus und Apollo, die "Jungs"

M3, push that goddamn Corsair out already, scrap the effing Crusader and turn to the only really important thing: Re-doing the MiG-21

Is there any chance that M3 will add keybinds for the clock controls?

And it doesn't break integrity check?

Yes, too much left pedal required with the new FM, plus speed is now excessively high (according to a German Army Huey pilot they used to cruise around 90 kts in the Huey) and the torque behaves in a strange way. Somebody with obviously a lot of knowledge showed that the old FM was underpowered and that the new FM was more spot on but didn't take some factors for the rotor blades into account IIRC. I tend to take the old FM as the significantly better one and consider my Huey as if it was carrying some payload (which it actually doesn't according to the loadout screen), which then corresponds to what we have right now with the old FM and what feels more plausible. First action for me after a DCS update is always to go back to the old Huey FM.

I still have all those sounds you described as missing. No editing or mods or whatsoever, vanilla 2.9 Mi-8.

+1, even more so with Kola map now representing the natural environment of the Saab birds.

That's not the point, and while I wouldn't use the word "scam" and am still confident that the L-39 and other older modules will get some attention by the devs at some point in the future, I also am not happy with the timespan between those overhauls bugfixes and that other modules (the cash cows F-16, F/A-18 and AH-64) do get significantly more attention.

I somewhat experienced the same with the Mi-8 and found out that whenever I have the ship trimmed nicely for level flight, activating altitude hold activation sends me into unpleasant pitch oscillations, but if I activate the altitude hold when I have some gentle and stable climbing or descending around 1 m/s going, altitude hold kicks in very smoothly and does not cause oscillations.

Does the E variant have a HUD?

Lol. Go figure.

What are we seeing here? Official picture or mod?

I have no insights at all, and since most communication seems to take place in Discords these days, I miss most of the info anyway, but here's what I would assume based on the only facts we really know: RB and ED have publically thrown accusations at each other, their business relationship therefore has taken serious damage, and three very valuable people of RB have left the team. After the all the public drama between RB and ED, the bridges have been burned. At this point I don't see how any of both sides would want to invest into future projects beyond the already released modules. Also, the leaving of three very relevant people from the RB team probably is a serious blow to the coding side of the MiG-23. Based on these facts, I consider the RB MiG-23 dead. I would love to be proven wrong though, because I'm seriously craving for a MiG-23ML(A) in DCS and this whole drama desaster and its consequences really sadden me, but seeing the fact that none of the Razbam officials or Overstratos have commented here in months or even more than a year, I also don't expect to hear anything from them.

The dedicated thread has been dead for some time now as well (more than a year I think) so it seems it is abandonware. Really sad, because it was a software that had great potential and filled a gap that DCS still painfully shows.

Two ideas: 1. Even though ED has said time and time again that NTTR is complete and will see no additional features in the future (which is a sad thing to he honest), people won't stop cluttering the forum with those wishes, so ED needs to keep it in a constrained area to keep the forum clean. 2. ED likes to torture people by making them believe a wishlist forum makes their wishes being heard and then making them feel the pain of being ignored while hoping in futility. Other theories?

17. April 2024 Four-ship formation training flight