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forgive my naivety. I like the concept and I want to get involved. I connected the other day and followed the instructions to get me onto the blue team, my first experience was a little confusing, i had no idea what pak was about but it all made sense after i viewed the dynamic map. Also bearing in mind this was my first experience I spawned in to the same place a friendly huey had just taken off so thinking the area was safe I took my time with my little gazelle and just after a few minutes I've been blown up and lost a life already. When do lives regenerate? I think I read somewhere that it's after server restarts? I'd quite like to get stuck in using the simple radio mod and from it's own forum thread it looks pretty simple (as the name suggests) to get going. My only concern is that I've not flown combat sorties in multiplayer. Lets hope there's somebody with enough patience to guide me through if i mess something up. kinda worried about IFF as both blue and red use similar assets in the sky but I've no idea about the ground. red tend to be in a darker camo I've noticed. any tips? Thanks to the person(s) engineered this mission, certainly looks like I'm going to enjoy it :) Thanks in advance for any replies to this noob's questions and comments. Cheers

I would be interested in this. Isn't it the current world record holder for largest helicopter? The scenarios you talk about regarding salvage/supply I would believe possible and probably very fun! Bet it handles like a pig though!

Here's a glance at how version numbers work in all software releases, as a guideline. there are differences in the ways developers do things, please don't jump on me guys i'm just trying to show a rough outline: X.YY.ZZZ - build number 12345 X= Major version number YY= updates to the major version ZZZ= fixes and minor updates some systems even consider odd and even numbers, for example 1.2.933 would be an unstable version because it ends in an odd number, 1.2.994 would be a stable version because it ends in an even number. (I'm not sure this is how ED does it!) in our case: 1.2.8.27915 to 2.0 would indicate a large overhaul has taken place, which would be EDGE of course. I would anticipate ---- 1.2.8.27915 to 1.2.9 would probably be the arrival of MIG21 and Hawk ----- 1.2.8.27915 to 1.3.0 would indicate something like shared cockpit is available, or perhaps a large fix to multiplayer, engine improvments or just a really big update. ----- I do not work for ED nor do i know their update system, to re-iterate this is a rough guide seeing as you was asking about the numbers in-between.

Still having this issue, sorry to revive an old topic!

that's what braa means. is there a good guide from start to finish regarding AWACS, regarding picture. bogey dope etc etc? this thread has helped me already

I hate it when ... i am about to watch the carnage and hit ctrl F11 and the camera resets it's facing and then i miss the action.

Just as a final approach technique: IRL from my experience you dont flare all the way down which is a common mistake in flight simming, you keep a level attitude and let the aircraft sink, -slightly- pitching down if required and in our case changing pitch and throttle as if to end up crashing just before the numbers, this is to prevent a stall before we want to "embrace the earth". Then when it feels right (like instinct) take off the power, pull the nose up to glide along the runway at 10-5 feet, it's not an exact science. when your loosing lift the aircraft will want to descend, let it but pull back a little more as if you were rearing a horse just to take the edge off of the touchdown. Extend the airbrakes, hold the W key and if you like a little bit of rudder input. To answer your original question i think the other posters are right, didn't sound like brakes were applying but i thought i'd share my experience, everybody does things differently but . p.s. just in case anybody benifits, P51's maybe even KA50's remember BUM FFITCH when your downwind Brakes - off, Undercarriage - down, Mixture - rich, Fuel -sufficient and on correct tank, Flaps - down, Instroments - like barometer etc,Temps and pressures, Carb heat - 5 second blast, Hatch+harness To re-iterate im not saying that's how it is done, that's just how i've been taught. hope this helps somebody

Here's an awesome crash, me and a friend were casually flying low for fun and i had to share this spectacular mistake:

Many thanks :)

To confirm, (it might help to make it clearer on the world download) should i unintall my old dcs world for CA to work?

There's close to release and then there's close to beta. I would say it's extremely important to remember that.

Timmy? last I heard he was desperate, using a sunbed following Wag's advice religiously to get a chance at DCS:CA

Hey this is my first ever post (i think) major fan of all the work, my patience is in tact, I wanted to say thanks for the screenshots, especially nate. That actually made my day. Edit: turns out it's my third?!

Just opening up a question, do we think that BS will be ready say by june or july? (2008)

(my first post) well, id like to comment on the hardest thing to find....... you can get joysticks easy these days, this is for people like me, serious simmers but with a medium/low budget (why would i install a cockpit in my house?). so anyway the hardest thing to find are rudder pedals, i love my joystick that i fly lomac with now. rudder pedals are just really hard to find on their own One way around having no rudder pedals or a low budget is to buy..... a wired xbox 360 controller, works for dangerous waters some, xbox titles (im a closed beta tester on battlefield bad company) ive yet to try it on the very crude and arcadic battlefield series, quite hard to get to grips with at first but when you get comfy, it can be really good.... Anyway thats just for anybody who is thinking... holy hell im gonna have to buy a whole cockpit or something. oh yeah and just for the record im not "dissing" the people who do that, its a hobby :smilewink: cheers guys =)