Ignition

So this bug is still present? It's impossible to click anything. It's worst than an earthquake in the backseat. Very annoying and unhealthy.

Thanks, it looks like I've always lost all the fluid. The last 3 times I've been shot I've lost the comb hyd pressure.

What should I do when I've lost comb hyd pressure? Is there some way to recover some pressure? Is there some way to lower the landing gear and flaps maybe manually?

If you will play alone, I would wait until jester use the radar because right now, you need to fight jester to get things done and its infuriating. There's no flight that I don't yell at him for its incapacity to use the radar. He does not search for targets for example. The plane in the air feels really good, I like it a lot more than the fwb aircrafts. ATM the only task you can do well is A/A, A/G if you have someone in the back and even then the TGP has an appalling resolution plus the non precise INS it gets VERY difficult to bomb vehicles (unless you dont want to id it). Also bomb a building inside a city is difficult too. In general its a good aircraft and the RIO is very unique and fun.

Jester is really bad using the radar, he doesn't even try to search and track contacts. Right now you can't crank once you have fired a missile so you need to fly stright to the target. If you lost the contact jester doesn't move a finger to try to find it again. Also he's very bad at switching between RWS and TWS. Maybe with the coming TWS auto he will be more usefull.

I don't know about the future but right now he can spot things that in DCS are impossible to see, I guees IRL it would be visible.

The changes to the aim 54 should come at the same time of the tws auto since jester doesn't use the radar at all, he only looks forward without puting any kind of effort to keep a target on the radar. Otherwise 90% of the missiles will be wasted in fail to track and/or to much risk going very close to the enemy without the possibility to crank.

All the lights in DCS are way too weak.

If the tharget is turning away from you the circle should get smaller.

When should I change this switches? It looks like in 99% of the cases the middle setting is the optimum. I don't understand what they really do.

I don't know how bright the external lights are IRL but they look VERY dim in the game!.

I didn't thought about that. How do you move the TID to center on a waypoint? It should be posible in Ground Stab I guess.

When I play a multiplayer PVP server I look for balance between both sides. I don't care about realism because I know its impossible in DCS with the amount of aircrafts available. Of course if we had more "red" aircrafts I would like a "more" realistic approach, but this will never going to happen since a lot of planes are classified. Speaking of JF-17, I need to see the flight model but I'm sure I'll buy it.

For which side will the F-16 go on the public servers when it releases? I hope it goes to the opposite of the F-18, otherwise 90% of the people will go to one side.

Like going with 10 Aim 120

My biggest problem is when I have a STT lock and tell jester to decrease the range on the TID he losses the lock. The lost of contacts on TWS and RWS may be due to a number of factors. Closure rate, MLC filter (even on open skies if the radar is below 3° it may be enabled), scanning elevation and azimuth (jester doesnt try to maintain the targets on radar). Don't forget pulse doppler modes are always stabilized to the horizon.

You don't need a TACAN, just follow the cable.

I think the problem is the pilot, its almost impossible to black out (during non extreme maneuvers). But yes, there's a discrepancy between the G tolerance of the pilot and the RIO.

If you don't see smoke over the target its impossible, even in daytime its almost impossible. You need smoke.

We need more multicrew aircrafts in DCS. A Tornado would be awesome.

Yeah I thought about that at the moment of writing the thread. Its nice to know it works. But it would be nice to do it in a more convenient way.

Is there a way to place a TACAN on the ground? I know its possible to add ADF but I would like to add an additional TACAN or two.

The problem with pd search is that it doesn't give you the range but you can see targets beyond 100nm

+/- 65º lateral -76º / +54º vertical

ED should do an improvised but functional system with the IFF. I would like to have something functional and not 100% realistic rather than not have a system at all. This also would be more ralistic than hiting a button to IFF because of blue or red coalition.