Mr_sukebe

Could you please confirm the following: Size, i.e. width and height That all the the buttons, panels and switches work I assume that the MFDs are Thrustmaster units, is that correct? And they all work? What's the control board handling the various buttons? What's your rough postcode area? I'm in south west London. Just trying to gauge distance

I found that dropping (internal) Textures to Medium helped a lot. My assumption is that the snazzy new 4k textures are overflowing the VRAM on my 3080ti. I have to say, that I don't feel short changed by the Medium textures. Give it a try and see what you think.

Default> That's a very interesting graph to provide. Would you know if that's how ED have implemented it in the F16, or is that something that is recommended to emulate in the axis tuning?

VR isn't for everyone. My guess is that around 10% of people who try VR in DCS have gone back to a monitor. Of course that does imply that way more than average prefer VR. As TN states, it's massively more immersive, though it does require more grunt. The key implications being that you'll be trading off immersion against visual niceties to get a similar frame rate. Personally, I've never flown DCS outside of VR, and that's since 2016. I just love it.

One thought that does spring to mind. As I understand it, above mach .8, drag increases significantly. For a reason that I have no understanding of, drag decreases again above mach 1.2. To get over that "hump", my usual method is to get to above angels 30, climbing at mach .8, then put the aircraft in a shallow dive and hit the burners to get over mach 1.2. Once that's been hit, then start climbing again.

Very happy to. In my case I searched for PDF documents that summarised the wars (Iran/Iraq, Desert Sheild, Storm and then the invasion). I found around 15. The "area of opportunity" being that each was 100-700 pages long, so probably close to 5000 pages in total, i.e. rather a lot to go through by hand. That's when Notebook LM came to the rescue. Notebook LM is a free AI tool that allows the user to upload circa 50 docs at any time and then interrogate them as you would whilst using say ChatGPT. That allows questions such as how many troops, aircraft, SAMs, their locations etc. It's a whole bunch easier that trailing your way through the material. My findings were: SA2/SA3 units were sited to protect cities SA6 units were sited at military/strategic sites SA8s, and AAA units were rather spread about Specific locations for units in say Kuwait were not fixed. I assume that the Iraqis changed their positions I did find which divisions were most involved in the assaults into Iran and also in Kuwait Tanks units included T55s, T62s and T72s, with the Republican guard getting most of the T72s. They also had some T59s, i.e. Chinese copies of T54s. Lastly there was mention of them having upto 130 Chieftains, that they'd captured from the Iranians. No idea how accurate that figure is. My assumption is that a good deal of them were not very well Tank brigades seemed to have around 30 (ish) MBTs, and then a similar number of APCs (BTRs) some artillery (15-20 ish) and some air defence (e.g. Shilka and SA8s) Soviet procured jets included Mig 19s (or the Chinese equivalent), Mig 21s, Mig 23s, Mig 27s, Mig 25s, Mig 29s, Su25s and L39s. Interestingly the 25s were stated as primarily recon, or as escort aircraft for senior military staff Soviet helicopters were mainly Mi8 and Mi24 None Russian aircraft included were the Mirage F1, Sa342 I could see no mention of AWACs capability They did have a small navy, but that seems to have been nothing bigger than a corvette and some missile boats. I seem to remember reading how they tried sailing them to Iran and having the whole lot sunk en masse in a single engagement during Desert Storm For my Iraq mission I've: Included at least one flight of each type of the above aircraft mentioned Every city has an Sa2 and Sa3 site along with some AAA that blind fire when a coalition unit is within a trigger range All airfields have an Sa6 and some AAA. I'm conscious that the amount of air defence is "light" when compared to reality. However, the scenario is likely to be only be used by myself, so making it a little lighter helps balance I put together a standard kind of tank brigade with 30 MBTs, 30 APCs, 15 artillery a command group and some air defences, layered in a sensible type of defensive position. With the new copy tool, that allows very easy replication of the brigade, such that I was quickly able to duplicate and put several in Kuwait, one near Iran, and some more in Iraq Added CSAR and CTLD for the choppers Added some other target types, e.g. Scud units A single allied carrier group including a supercarrier, Tarawa, Invincible and supporting ships Some F10 triggered recon flights and defensive flights There's a lot of units, but it seems to run fine, which rather surprised me, but in a good way. Going forward, my intent is to build that out when the rest of the map is updated with the intent of: I'm hoping that we'll get some Iranian airfields in the north east. If you look at the map view, Tehran and other major cities are shown. It even includes airfields. Unfortunately, they're currently just on the map. Take a flight and it's just rolling terrain with textures showing the locations. If we get some airfields, I'll be adding some Iranian gear for the Iran/Iraq war and redeploying the units I've put into Kuwait into Iran. If don't get airfields, maybe I'll mock up some simple towns anyway I get the impression that the south will include not only additional Iranian bases, but also some in Bahrain and Saudi, both of which housed allied gear. When that happens, I'll build out the allied ground units to be stationed. Exciting times. I've already flown every relevant aircraft that the Iranians had that we have in DCS. Great fun.

I wonder if there's a simple way to extract the data directly from the files. Probably so. Would be good if it was added as a standard feature, i.e. that each map has a KB page with a full list of frequencies for airfields. Personally, my list includes all the data that is shown when in the F10 map and you click on the airfield.

I love flying on the Kola map, it's ace. Just been out to conduct a night time bridge strike in my Harrier. The visuals are stunning at night. One re-request. I see that the frequencies for some existing airbases have changed (again) with the introduction of the 2 new airfields. Can you PLEASE stop changing them as I like to include them in a kneeboard for the map which is manually maintained, and therefore a real pain in the butt.

I’m waiting for the southern part of the map to be implemented before even trying to work on Desert Storm. That will hopefully include much of what we’re looking for. In the short term, I’ve put together an initial version of Desert Shield, including a bunch of Iraqi units and a single US carrier group, which is vaguely representative of the status around a month after the invasion of Kuwait

The F18 has an info page available via the MFDs that provides the optimum speed and altitude. Check it out.

Every so often, I wish that the group behind IL2 call it quits on what they’re doing and create a series of FC3 style WW2 releases with a bunch of period WW2 aircraft for use in DCS

No, that’s not the case. The current core batch of WW2 were voted for around 2014. The reason for the mismatch is the guys who wanted the most common Spitfire, and the best versions of the 190 and 109.

I believe that the blue and red coalitions have access to all modules, regardless of country

Empty your FXO and metashaders, the start working on your settings, which would appear to be too ambitious

I’ve owned Virpil gear for around 7 years now and have a number of their items. I’ve found their customer support to be excellent.

Try setting Textures to medium

It would be a whole lot easier to just buy the Viggen when it’s on sale…

With the F14, you need to salute befit starting the cold start, then again at launch from the cat

We do currently have the Hercules mod. I’ve flown it, it’s pretty cool. As it’s free, why not present that to the FS community to see their interest? My personal assumption is that a large element of the FS community want to just see the scenery, which is not the best advert for DCS with its map/theatre limitations. For all that, flying an S3b tanker might appeal to some.

I was out in an F4 over the Falklands yesterday, with textures set to med.. No 900’ issue. In VR, I really couldn’t tell a difference to the interior of the F4, though maybe there is if you pixel peep. Either way, it’s a compromise that I’m happy to use. Using Med also resolved the performance issues with the Chinook. It really is worth giving it a try

We’ve already had some patches. No idea who’s doing them

Personally I use a pair of over ear headphones. I used Koss KSC75s for quite a while. Much better than you'd expect bearing in mind the cost.

The incoming 29a is looking very cool. Question on the RWR. My assumption is that it’s used in a number of Soviet aircraft. Is the new SPO-15 created as a logical unit that could be retrofitted to other existing Soviet aircraft with little effort, eg Su25?

Thanks for advising. Apologies for the dumb question, but does that mean that ships will appear on radars in day the F18, as provided by datalink, or available via F10 if “fog of war” is selected?

Others that spring to mind: - Duxford, the obvious one. It’s massive and really is a must visit - Hendon. Much bigger than I expected, great day out - Fleet Arm Arm (Yeovelton area???). Adds in the Royal Navy variants and had a lovely Phantom - somewhere in Norfolk, an early warning GCI site. No aircraft, but a great example of what an early warning radar and control centre was like in the cold war