Mr_sukebe

No, that still doesn’t work. There was a reason that the Luftwaffe waited close to the German border before engaging the bombers, ie to avoid the shorter range allied fighters. If a bunch of 190s had gone in at altitude over the channel, there would have been time to get a shed load of Spitfires up to meet them. The nuisance raids were effective because they went in at very low level, so as to avoid radar, giving little time to respond. The only vague would be to go in at low level, then try to max climb to 25,000 feet to intercept, putting the initiative height advantage firmly with the allied screen of fighters. That might have distracted some of the screen, but not all, and the 190s would probably have been cut to ribbons. You really think that any of the above options sound sensible?

My logic for expecting higher losses are: - Longer flight durations just to get to and from the combat zone, which burns fuel the Luftwaffe didn’t have and adds wear to engines - Fighters sent to England would be intercepted by not just the long range fighters, but most probably the hone defence fighter groups, which if anything would be more dangerous than coming across a bunch of P51s, as we know all too well that the Spitfire was a better dogfighter - if you get shot down or have a mechanical failure over England or the Channel, you don’t get to bail out and take a taxi back to base. Instead you get escorted to Canada to a POW camp or maybe get picked up by air sea rescue

If anything, my belief is that attempting to engage US bombers over England would have finished off the Luftwaffe even faster, as they would have lost pilots much quicker. The 1000+ aircraft redeployed as a result of DDay weren’t just from France. On top of that, the Allies knew they were being sent and also which airfields they were going to, which made them easy pickings. Those 1000 made no significant difference.

Probably just aswell that it was nixed, it’s a dumb idea. A key benefit of flying over your own territory is the ability to bail out from either combat, or technical mishap and most probably get to go home, as against a POW camp. Trying to move the combat outside of Europe would have been a disaster. On top of that, there were more than enough shorter ranged allied fighters (eg Spitfires), that could have seen off the Luftwaffe fighters, and still send out long range escorts such as the P38s, P47s and P51s.

??? Circa 2/3rds of the fighter production in 44’ were for 109s and the Luftwaffe will have been only too well aware that fighters outfitted with additional cannons to shoot down bombers, are going to struggle in a dogfight, which I assume is why the fighters were told to avoid allied fighters and focus on the bombers.

This suggests that only 100 of the 481 available aircraft on DDay were fighters; https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/g/gaf-invasion-normandy.html This article states that JG26 had 3 fighter groups on DDay, two of which were A8s and one being a G6. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_26

I’m hoping that eventually they’ll be added to the map table. That would be cool.

The American made equivalent being?

Maybe the next time you see someone with a MAGA hat on, you can ask them to pay the tax. They voted for it.

I see that active pedals are now available for racing sims. Has anyone seen software around that would allow configuration for use as a set of rudders?

Take a scan here, might help:

To answer the OPs question, based upon my own experiences of moving from a 3080Ti to a 5080. Rest of my PC is 7800x3d/64GB ram: Do ensure that you've tidied up your VRAM use (e.g. disable Oculus home, use VRemptyHangar. Having done that, I've not seen more than 12GB of VRAM use with my 5080. The 3080 would on some map/aircraft combinations could therefore be VRAM saturated, which leads to some very unpleasant stutters The 5080 is a good deal faster in general visual processing, you'll notice that The 5080 is a lot faster on sourcing data to and from RAM, again reducing stutters None of the above will make the slightest different to the legibility of the cockpit of your aircraft. That's dealt with by selecting the cockpit resolution in DCS and any super-sampling that you might also add in VR. The key point being that the performance enhancements from the move to the 5080 will allow you to run higher cockpit resolutions and super-sampling without completely tanking your frame rates. For myself, my frame rate is now mostly 72fps in my Quest Pro and with "good" visuals.

If you’re talking FFB, that can be enabled in software for some bases

Bearing in mind how well the Zero could turn, basing on a P51 seems a bit of an odd choice. An i16 is probably closer

Wow, that's great news.

Yes please... Maybe ED to give the Spit a visual overhaul, give us 1944 levels of boost, add the hook as an option and charge us a smallish amount for the update.

That's damn clever. Awesome work.

Another setting to reduce AI UFO capabilities is Restrict Afterburners. In a warbird, that apparently prevents AI spending 100% of their time using full WEP.

Did the Yak 3 ever see a K9? I did think that by the time the K9 and D4 arrived, that the Luftwaffe was pretty much 100% focused on trying to intercept and shoot down bombers over Germany?

Does that include axes that aren't functionally modelled in DCS?

Sharpe> I’ll say this once. Unfortunately, I’ve found so many of your responses to myself or others to be what for me were simply too combative. As such, I can’t actually bring myself to read what you’ve written. Just wanted you to know that I’m not accidentally going to ignore you. It really is deliberate. Hoping that things improve at your end!

With some of the above posts, I do wonder how some drive a car successfully. Do you have to look at the gear lever to change gear, the wiper stalks to use them?

I did wonder if we could have ChatGPT conduct air traffic control. As for using it to recommend settings, another alternative would be to used the search option here. Its quite obvious that a lot of players jump straight to complaining about performance, as against searching for ideas first

Has anyone found a RAM air switch/lever? The use of RAM is mentioned in the charts. Additionally, has anyone compared indicated airspeed in cockpit, against the ground speed, as shown in F10? I had a look today, and at 2000ft, the difference seemed quite large. My guess is the conversion of knots to mph and also wind.

+1 I use both. It’s a bit like touch typing. You quickly learn where controls are. its part of the reason that most control panels use different types of buttons and switches. The exception vein items like the Thrustmaster MFDs. For those, I use small velcro blobs