The Integrator
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Honestly, they are put together just terribly. My trackir is a patch work of cable ties, blu-tac, and elastic bands just to hold it together. Recently ordered a Pimax and I tell myself it's for greater immersion, but deep down I know the real reason...
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Has anyone had any experience using the Vive hand controllers with Pimax?
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A new ATC has on progress by ED, first on the carriers and after coming to rework the airbases.
Is there any word on whether this will include updated AI behaviour or simply better radio communications with the player?
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Is the 8k even out? Can DCS even run the 8k?
I have seen Youtube videos about it, for example
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What are peoples' thoughts on the Pimax 5k+ vs. the 8k for DCS? I have heard some people say that they are switching from the 8k to the 5k+ since text on e.g. the HUD and cockpit instruments is clearer.
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Alright, I think the main issue here is that I have assumed that CAS and TAS are the same, it seems I misread a few definitions. If that's the case then we are discussing a semantics issue and not anything really fundamental. If we take the definition as given by Fishbreath above then sure CAS is a better measurement to use. I think we are all fundamentally agreeing with each other but using different terminology for the same thing.
P.S. of course the real limit is temperature, this isn't my first rodeo :p , but that's not really the issue I'm getting at.
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In fact, the real limit for a supersonic aircraft is temperature.
These speeds are just guidelines for the pilot, and the Mirage HUD display CAS.
Have you looked for the definition of Calibrated Air Speed ?
Calibrated airspeed is the same as Indicated airspeed but corrected for position error (it’s “true indicated airspeed” if you will). You’re right that that is the number you should be looking for with regards to structural limits...Is it not the case that calibrated (or true) airspeed, TAS, is the IAS accounted for calibration errors, air density, temperature etc. and wind? In other words, in zero wind conditions, it is the same as GS. This means that even if I am in a region of very low air pressure my TAS will not change compared to a region of very high air pressure, my IAS will. Surely then IAS is the best measure of dynamic pressure (which is what the pitot tubes and hence IAS are really measuring) and hence of airframe stress?
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The maximum allowed speed is officially 750kt CAS (safety margin).
It is known to have tested without issue up to 800kt.
In ISA conditions your M2.3 at 45 000ft would be 843kt.
I think we can call that a feature :thumbup:
But climb 10 000ft more and you will be only doing 702kt. Should be OK.
Forgive my ignorance but why are aircraft structural limits in terms of calibrated airspeed? Wouldn't indicated airspeed make more sense since that's a more direct measure of how much air is hitting the airframe in a given time, and so a better measure of the stress on the airframe?
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I am a little confused by something in today's (28 Sept.) newsletter. It states "we conducted calculations for the wings and stabilators in XFLR5 software...with a non-viscous flow model." I have no experience whatsoever with the XFLR5 software, but a very brief search revealed that it is designed for working with low Reynolds numbers (although, as in all too many cases, it does not provide a rigorous definition of what it means by a "low" Reynolds number...). Does this not invalidate the non-viscous flow assumption?
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About two weeks.
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It’s pretty OP though... have fired at least 200 Missiles at it, but it’s still going strong. :joystick:Shooting Sidewinders into the sun does, apparently work. It's time related, though. Shoot at the sun in the morning and it takes about 12 hours to hit the sun and make it go out. Fortunately, it respawns the following day and you can shoot it down again. Try it in the afternoon! It doesn't take so long. Usually only a couple hours. A word of advice, though. It's very difficult to find the sun near the horizon at lunch time. I have researched it for days; it seems that you CAN find the sun near the horizon around lunch time only around the north and south poles, depending on the time of year. However, in summertime at the poles, you just cannot hit the sun with a Sidewinder... not sure why.
The sun is just ridiculously OP right now ED really needs to fix this, just unplayable.
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The only Swedish I know is Automatisk Fart Kontroll...
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I've noticed this with the formation lights on the A-10C (although it's actually kind of useful for providing cockpit illumination at night since the flood lights STILL don't work properly).
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I never had to run DCS in windowed mode when I was running it with three monitors and two USB Lilliput monitors. Can you guys post your monitor LUA file?
My two monitors are 1920x1080 on the right (my main display) and 1440x900 on the left (for the MFDs). The bottoms of the monitors are aligned (so there is empty space, so to speak, above the left, smaller monitor).
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Slight necropost I know but I am curious about this as well. I use two monitors with different resolutions, the MFDs on the smaller one, and would like to know if there's a way to use full screen.
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The A-10 gets the target elevation from the DTS elevation map. From the A-10 FAQ:
In order for the IFFCC to compute a CCIP solution, it must know the elevation under the CCIP pipper (gun, rocket, bomb, etc.). This can either be a HOT elevation based on the Steerpoint elevation, or DTS elevation stored in the digital map database system. If not in DTS and the steerpoint is at a higher elevation than the CCIP pipper, you will get a CCIP INVALID message. Unless you have a DTS failure, you should always use DTS, as indicated on the HUD in the data block. If you do not see DTS, press the DATA rocker on the UFC and then the SEL rocker until DTS appears.You can also input it manually (as a HOT elevation mentioned above). I guess the F/A-18 is the same.
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I updated the OP with my first attempts and eventual success (at least in the sense that I put the plane on the deck, but it was not pretty...)
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Alright now that the absolutely fantastic Hornet is in our hands, let's see those carrier landings! Whatever the weather, whatever the outcome, let's all embarrass ourselves in front of each other :thumbup:
Here are my first attempts, I eventually got a "successful" landing (any one you can walk away from, right? :P )
Now for the excuses: my only training, so to speak, was watching Wags's carrier landing video at the time it came out. I'm a little better now, but only a little :P
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The whole cat thing got things going. Hail to the cats!!!Without the cats this wouldn't have been possible!!
Remember this for future releases.
Maybe if we spam the Heatblur forums with cat pictures they will release their Cat sooner... :joystick:
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Could it be that different parts of the world get it at different times? Not deliberately necessarily but just because they're using different servers there could be differences.
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Y'all relax like my cat.
What variant of the Hornet is this?
I would have also accepted "this is a Hornet thread not an F-14 thread"
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What can happen wrong if I force the update?
Could end up downloading incorrect/incomplete/broken files I guess...:dunno:
Rendering quality, pixel density, and readability
in Virtual Reality
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I got my Pimax 5k+ a few days ago and it really is amazing, completely lives up to expectations. The cockpit readability is mostly OK however I do have a few issues mostly on MFCDs and DDIs etc, (even with this improvement) though also on the odd switch or dial label. As I understand it this is mostly an effect of the following three settings: rendering quality in PiTool (currently set to 1), application resolution in SteamVR (currently set to 80%), and the in game pixel density (currently set to 1.4). I am curious how exactly these settings work together and in particular how they can be adjusted to improve readability of cockpit text.
i7-8700k
2080ti
16 GB ram
Thanks!