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If you do not maintain positive G throughout the drop sequence, you will die. If you are using forward stick to maintain the level drop profile, you killed yourself.

Easy. They enjoy the agony dripping from posts like these as much as I do.

Thats a good theory and worth exploring. Personally, I think its related to mission temperature settings. Caucasus missions in ECW are much colder so the aircraft performs better and its much easier to snap the wings off. Fly with flaps set forced to UP and you will reduce the number of wing failures. You will still get silly failures if you put in the slightest aileron while pulling G. Its an obvious misread of the limitations in the manual, which only prohibits aileron application to the stop. After two years, one has to assume it is permanent. It sucks to fight the Mirage, with nearly identical verbiage in its manual regarding G limits, and watch it do things you can only dream of in the F-5. And watching the skull crushing extreme G maneuvers of the Fishbed will rob your soul of any faith in the modeling integrity of ED.

There isn't much incentive to fix this. It will only decrease future sales to do something that makes it less competitive, even if it is correct.

Naval versions of anything fixed wing in DCS are rather silly if you can just do the land based version. The maps are too small for anything resembling real world ops, the ocean and wind modeling isn't up to the task, and, without a trained human crew, the boat is a menace to itself and its complement. However, this thread is good for comic value, so I encourage its continuance.

Naw, they will just believe they have more skill than F-4E pilots and tell you to "git gud". The F-5E glass wing is the example for this.

Overdone but at least the Spitfire doesn't explode from it like the MIrage F1 did (does?).

Exactly. The same command on both throttles, lift them over the gate one by one for the start sequence. Of course, I use the DX128 button mod and I don't remember if those positions are both available in the stock setup.

The short answer is yes. Wake turbulence is weight dependent. Its takes a pretty heavy bird to produce anything significant, over 100K lbs. Below that its a burble of varying intensity but nothing particularly exciting.

With the Warthog throttle, I use the left throttle up over the gate for the first detent and right throttle over the gate for the second detent then I lock them together for single throttle use.

I know the tendency is to focus on what is perceived to be realistic performance and I think that is a worthy goal. However, we all have to admit that lofty ideal is hard (and maybe undesirable in certain ways) to achieve. I am very excited, given the "generous" flight characteristics of the Kitty, that the Phantom may be generously endowed in a similar fashion and be an outstanding performer against its contemporaries in DCS and hold its own against its successors. That will be fun, at least for a while, after long suffering.

You don’t seem to quite understand the issue with the implementation.

This should be in Wish List as it isn't a bug.

My copilot. Its pretty great once you get one trained up. And before I had copilots, it was always a flow and review the checklist to make sure all was done. In the actual plane, what you can do by feel and muscle memory is impossible in DCS. Switch flipping on the ground in DCS is even more drudgery than IRL. In the air, its all on the HOTAS in DCS if I need it semi-regularly.

I know you are trying to be clever but FC3 is actually worse. Nothing is customizable on them. That is essentially what not providing access to the Autostart macro is, FC3 level. Out in the real world every manufacturer produces a normal procedures checklist. It is normally written by the Test pilots in conjunction with the engineers and is quite suitable for a Test program. A lot of read and do instead of do and review. For real world missions, whether they be civilian or military, those checklists quite often are completely unsuitable and have to be extensively modified for the average mission. This is analogous to that. The manufacturer is giving us the unoptimized engine start check in a macro format. All I want is the ability to customize that macro to suit my needs. I had the same thing out in the real world, although they were pretty high maintenance items.

Wives, girlfriends and significant others will love this feature. ” I thought you were spending the evening flying DCS” ” Jet’s broke.” The finest in realism.

Will Autostart be user customizable? That is all. **************************************************************************************************************** SOME EXPLANATION INEVITABLY REQUIRED BELOW Why? Because I never want to flip switches in a cockpit again. Plus, all sorts of really neat stuff can be customized in the Autostart and greatly improves quality of life for those of us with only a short time left on this Earth and don't wish to spend it mouse clicking all over the place. It is a fabulous feature in modules that give customer access.

New spotting is pretty crappy in VR. I wasn’t using clean canopy in the F-5 so I have been dealing with the horrible canopy issues. Just one of the many F-5 issues unlikely to ever get addressed. Why? My opinion is that DCS is a single player experience. As such, its all about creating an atmosphere that SP users find appealing, like they are the star in their own cinematic production. So we get silly effects only a camera would see like the canopy going opaque when backlit. Things that really matter in MP are not an issue in SP. Wings cracking off isn’t an issue fighting AI. The fights aren’t remotely similar to PvP. Losing sight because the canopy goes opaque is a “feature” when you are the hero in your own movie. Not so much in a multiplayer environment where the bandit is able to think and be unpredictable. Don’t hold your breath.

What do you mean its different? It is maintaining constant manifold pressure due to changes in the propeller pitch. It isn't a FADEC throttle that time traveled back.

Lower resolutions are better for spotting in DCS, unfortunately. And if your computer is slowing down in MP you need to really crank them down. The demand on your machine in MP is SP X (number of players) essentially and if your hardware can't deal with it, dots/airplanes won't get drawn and will be invisible.

Carb heat causes power loss. Hot air is less dense.

Carburetor ice doesn’t happen when its cold outside. Ice forms when humid air rapidly cools as it entered the Venturi throat of the carburetor. The prime conditions are above freezing. The chart only goes down to minus 5.

The better option is to not have night missions.

Ignore it. If you are VFR, look out the window and navigate via pilotage. If you are not VFR, you are flying radio nav, in which case just follow the needle. It only really matters when IFR trying to do precise dead reckoning and the maps are so small in DCS that it doesn't really matter.