Robert31178

Agree with HiJack, why would ED absorb BST and then put their modules on another game? This provides an FC3 style game for the people who can't be bothered to learn AC like others in the community, and also targeting a new audience. They are all modules a lot of people already have which would make the community grow; we already have full fidelity planes vs FC3 grade planes online, why short yourself a huge market?

ED? Anything? Some support would be great, but a response I think would be just fine here......are you guys still paying attention to this module?

Funny enough I just read this in a book by a Gulf War I pilot flying off of Ranger. Yes, the panel is on the B/N's side, and they did not have KA-6's either. I know that the KA-6 was a dedicated tanker, which hinders the air wing ultimately by using valuable space on the boat that could be used by strike or AWS aircraft (S-3) to put on buddy stores. Maybe that was the reason, kinda like how the B's were strictly SEAD birds. When were either or both phased out?

So does that mean we are also going to be getting wartime fuel?

There is a plate by your right elbow that shows you the parameters for basic flight with regards to pitch and pressures - basic cruise, climb, max cruise, max continuous, etc..... I use the pitch adjustment on a button on my throttle, and then fine tune it if I need to with the mouse and cockpit in the lever. Seems to work fine for me. As a rule I go full pitch as part of my landing checklist, once my gear is out and I am configured for landing with flaps my pitch goes to 100% while the throttle is at idle. Once I need to advance the throttle I do so, you won't overheat anything because you won't need much as your pitch is maxed out. Once you are at the 90 and turning to final you'll be nose down descending and won't need much throttle at all. If landing is where you struggle I suggest making a Corsair carrier style approach, that way you can see over the nose until you roll out wings level over the threshold.

I was wondering if there had been a post made here yet. ED, check out this!! My shiny Huey! Can we fix this yet please???? Before - a nice flat grey like a USAF Pavehawk: After - Same skin, but looks like a dman P-51. Note the tail of a crashed Huey for comparison, it somehow goes back to the correct color once damaged??

Which we should already have, otherwise we are flying D's....

I started working on a tactic and have tested it a handful of times successfully using Shrikes. It does help if you know where the site is, but on thinking of that problem just now I think I have a solution to that as well. Here's how I have been working it. Higher altitude, like 20K. Pair of strikers in loose deuce formation. Once the SAM is launched they go opposite direction, the guy on the left puts the missile on his 2, the guy on the right puts it on his 10. Nose down slightly to pick up speed for maneuvering. It's immediately apparent who the radar is tracking, so that guy focuses on defeating the missile(s) launched at him, the other guy can turn back in and put a Shrike in the radar operator's ear. So far it seems to me that the radars lock up the closest target. If the missile shot comes from the element's beam then the closest guy can make sure the missiles are in fact going for him, and the free guy can roll and put his nose right on the radar site and get a Shrike off. Haven't tried this yet but I think it would work. ~Rob

I wanna say it's 100x100 in the A-4? Lemme ask, one of the CSG-1 guys, Thud, put my Dad's pic in cockpit for me. I think it's a way cool thing they did for us! File location is as follows: C:\Users\Rob\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\JSGME_MODS\Community A-4C mod - completely patched\mods\aircraft\A-4E-C\Cockpit\Textures\lookatthisphotograph Here's mine! Miss you Pops!

I'd just be happy if they would fix whatever made the skins shiny all of a sudden the last few updates. Broke damn near every skin I have for the bird.

Anyone else seeing the shine on Hueys now? I am having some strango mapping issues all of a sudden, and also the skins all seem very shiny. Can't recall exactly when this started, but within the last 2 months for sure.

Silo, sending you a PM

Did you have the right air force/nation selected?

I read that it was also more stable in a dive than the D was since it had more fuselage to keep it laterally stable.

I have a question, what do the Hueys do in this?

Here's the path I use to make skins work for this plane: C:\Users\UserName\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Bazar\TempTextures I have a fakey Marines skin for the Yak-40 and it comes right up. ~Rob

I disagree with keeping the fight fast. While hydraulically boosted controls certainly helped the P-38 in the "modern" fight, it's low speed handling made it perfect for that kind of fight. there are countless stories of Lightning pilots turning so tight at such slow speeds that the 109 pilots were flying themselves into the ground! A P-38 could turn itself at around 90kts pulling the yoke into the lap, there isn't a single engine plane on the Axis side that could match that except maybe the Oscar. Having handed props made it more than a handful in a low speed turning fight. As for dealing with Kurfust and Dora - by the time both of these planes were seen in numbers there weren't quality German pilots to fly them. Now we're back to what I have been saying, that the Germans didn't stand a chance; pilots were showing up with average 13 hrs to the US aver rage of around 200, and when the US met the Luftwaffe late war they enjoyed a 5:1 advantage in numbers. I do think the -P38 was a great fighter. I am vehemently against the Mustang taking any credit or glory since it showed up so late that it had a very easy time establishing itself as an air superiority fighter due to the lack of trained Luftwaffe pilots and lack of fuel and other resources to train Luftwaffe pilots. Everyone who knows anything about the air war over occupied France and later Germany knows that the Wolfpack did all of the heavy lifting.

Man I always hope that the dev on a project like this is sitting back watching all of us say "It's dead, it's dead" and then BAM! strikes like a snake, just hits us with an update.....

"Who here wants to reenact all the most famous Top Gun scenes with the Tomcat and F-5s? Anyone with me?" I'll do it in an A-4, there's even a Jester skin available on ED User Files for the little plane that could :-)

Orso and Kamikaze - Skyhawks at dawn? I'll referee!!

Forgive me if this has been covered already, but how do I drop tanks in the Scooter? I tried this morning with bags on the inboard wing stations and I could not get them to leave! I did look in the Community manual but it was not covered, not that I could find anyways. Thanks in advance! ~Rob

That video from the first page is kinda haunting too. That's Jeffry Ethel, and he's flying Tangerine out of Tillamook Air Museum, OR. Sometime later he was killed flying a P-38, not Tangerine, but at the same airfield. I agree with Fenrir on this to a certain degree, but as always the pilot makes the plane. Robin Olds and Jack Ilfrey are two pilots that come to mind that took the P-38 and showed the Luftwaffe what they were up against. While some folks hammer the plane for having been inferior to the 109 the Germans themselves gave it a well earned nickname, indicating that they thought it was a plane to respect!!

+1 for Horns' post.

Same as with any airplane that doesn't have a computer trimming itself to 1G......

Sabre has a fully moving stab, or floating elevator. It's impossible to fine tune trim in a plane that uses a full stab surface as trim and also has no computer or stab aug to help. It's a real plane, as in you need to know how to fly an airplane to fly it. I hate the MiG-15, but I'm sure it is too. You trim it close, then you fly the damn thing. Not sure how you are flying it Zimmer, but I don't have a problem making the plane fly how I want it to, and I use an old ass CH Fighterstick USB HOTAS and CH Pro Pedals. It doesn't stabilize to 1 G like an Eagle. It doesn't have a computer to help you. You fly it. It took me years to fly it like I thought I should be flying it, but even with that you still have to constantly pay attention and fly the thing. If you keep at it you'll be able to fly it like you think you should be able to, but not before that. As we say in the military: garbage in = garbage out. With that is the watered down experience of "flying" in DCS - it's a sim, so just like in real life you need to invest time into it to be, and remain, proficient. The other side is that no plane in here flies exactly like it does in real life. when you remember that is the case then you'll be happier. EX: I ran lifeboat sin the USCG for ten years. It wouldn't matter how realistic surf rescue sim was, you will never capture the real life feeling of handling a 50 year old lifeboat in 16ft-18ft breakers towing a heavy fishing boat. There's nothing wrong with the how the plane flies in this sim. Practice up and come back here and apologize. ~Rob