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Hello Red Dog, I wanted to thank you for all the inspiration you gave me. You belong to the Pioneers of Cockpit building. almost 20 years ago I was in my teenage years when i stumbled over your pit at viperpits and it blew my mind what you guys achieved there. Sadly i like the Su-27 the most and i m still waiting for exact meassuerments for the Su-27 cockpit, so i still didn't start to build a full fidelity pit like you did. Maybe i will switch to the MiG-29 cockpit, because Eagle Dynamics will soon release the MiG-29 with laserscanned cockpit. As the ejection seat, joystick, throttle, HUD and Canopyframe are the same on all versions i can interpolate the dimensions of the MFDs from the SMT version so i have a modern russian cockpit. But until this happens i will fly in my much simpler VR cockpit Thank you again for showing what we flight sim enthusiasts can achieve.

As the F-16 and the F/A-18 heavily rely on UFC input controlls it was always a little pain to fly in my VR cockpit. For almost everything i needed to use the mouse with my left hand (I am right handed) and now that WinWing released a nice looking (also not 100% realistic dimensions) UFC i bought it and made a nice update to my cockpit. And this is how it looks now: I think it looks quite cool and i like just sitting in it hehe I had a little break from DCS, as i didn't have a plane that i liked to 100%, but with the updated flight model of the F/A-18 and now more realistic landing behavior i started learning the F/A-18 again, and with the UFC controlls it makes much more fun.

From the newest Newsletter: Key features of the DCS module: MiG-29A Fulcrum At Early Access Release: Fully interactive and highly detailed cockpit that is based on 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry. Thank you so much Eagle Dynamics. This is what i wanted to see. When the Aircraft is released i can start making a CAD Model and build my own and very accurate MiG-29 Cockpit I never liked to build a look a like cockpit. If i build and spend 1000s of hours on building it, it should be spot on accurate. Almost 10 Years ago i made a CAD Model of the F-16 cockpit based on accurate infos from the viperpits forum. Here is a picture of it: When i have more time beside my work i will make a new topic where i can describe what i don't like about the DCS F-16 Cockpit. But the easiest thing for ED would be to just update every cockpit of DCS based on laserscanned data. Now that they made even the MiG-29 with laserscanned cockpit i m sure that sooner or later they will update every cockpit to this standard

Finally my report gets addressed I hope ED gets it right. Landing Gear behavior is so important for carrier landings

Does someone know if Eagle Dynamics uses 3D Scans for its new planes and cockpits? Grinnelli Designs showed some pictures of using it for the cockpit and details of the F-100D. The F-16 Cockpit is not very accurate on the Dimensions in the cockpit. I hope ED can scan a MiG-29 Cockpit.

I know, but it is still not correct. I will make another video when i have more free time.

Here i made a report that the suspension is not correct modelled. I even made a video that shows what i mean: Why ridiculous? Read my Bug report and then tell me again if this is ridiculous. The Su-33 always had it right. The F/A-18 and F-14 suspension is just not correct.

Thank you Beacon, but as you say it, its just for singleplayer. I can't use it on a training server like 4YA-Servers. And also i can't reload the weapons, so if i have more targets then i can not RTB and reload and fly another attack. Since when do we need system details on FC3 planes. How to use any weapon is very simplified on all FC3 planes. For FC3 planes we don't need detailed informations for the weapon interface. I m not against a working mod, but at the moment i can not reload the weapons or play on training servers. A official option just would work without a lot of bugs or restrictions. As i said before, a FC3 plane doesn't need detailed information on how the weapon is deployed.

Thank you Exorcet, that is what I am thinking. Where is a AGM-88 on a MiG-29 fantasy. And because it is FC3 we don't need to know how it is used or how the missile is wired to the plane. Just Launch Override and there it goes would be enough for FC3 standard. The same goes for Kh-31P for Su-27/33. I don't ask for fantasy loadout or that ED has to put a lot of effort into it. This is what I am trying with this poll I really think that the FC3 planes would sell more and would be flown much more if they had a few more capapilities. And that would mean more money for ED. Or ED would let me mod these weapons to the plane, that would already be enough for me. But they encrypted the needed LUA-Files, so that is not possible for the moment.

That is why it shoud be a option. ED has 122000 followers on youtube. So maybe 30000 would be very happy about this option. There are options in the sim that are used by a lot less people.

At the moment 1 out of 4 people would like to have more advanced weapons on the Flankers and Fulcrums. It is the minority, but actually not very small. I at least hope ED is re-evaluating their decission and giving us the option to get some of the weapons of Flanker 2.5 back

I still fly Flaming Cliffs becuase the Su-33 is the only Carrier Aircraft, that has good landing dynamics. The F/A-18 still doesn't bounce on touch down and the F-14 only has good landing dynamics when i tweak some files

Did i miss something or since when do we have the Pratt&Whitney Nozzels?

Glad to see that i m not the only one who thinks ED should give us a little bit more options about the weapons. This is somehow the same i think about it. MiG-29 with AGM-88 HARM or Su-33 with Kh-31P would be a gamechanger for me. I would only fly the russian planes

I made a poll. I hope i made it correctly