Robert31178

It's because they modeled that kind of door gun/weaps mount vs the pedestal mount. It would have been nice to have both in Huey. They do it with the IR gear, you can remove the diffuser, but you lose flares too.

Lol....methinks you are following the Zach Brown Band recipe for vaction... "I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand, not a worry in the world, cold beer in my hand...."

And thanks for the video post, I will watch thst when I get back home in a few days.

Oh I read a lot of aviation stuff, and a lot of what I read has some good info on configurations and "do's & don'ts", but haven't done any Tomcat reading. I keep meaning to, but end up finding other stuff thst looks more interesting. For example I went on Amazon to find some F-14 related material and ended up buying "Launch The Intruders" lol......I know, I'm silly. ~Rob

So effing ready for this jet!!! It was easy to buy too, Harrier is my wife's favorite military aircraft so I didn't have to make deals to spend the money on another module like "fine, I'll do the cat box for the next month of you let me get this"....

Was watching a video that might explain it. A guy using the Of flight Puma was going through setting up controls in a vid on YouTube. He said that joysticks with a center return sometimes have "digital noise" while at center, and you can see it on the axis tune window in your control set up. That would translate to in cockpit too. I had forgotten totally about this, but might be another reason why I don't see jitters....I always keep a small dead zone at center, around 5 for the value, because my joystick is so old and not as accurate as when new. Coupled with the above I believe you can tune it out. Try it out!! ~Rob

Sweeeeeet!!!!

The F-5 seems to roll off on it's own when I'm not paying attention, so unless I am the only one that this has happened to it's not a DCS thing.

We've got stuff on the way, it's a comfort. I hear what you are saying, it just seems to me that people get so wrapped up in that mindset instead of just waiting patiently for the next fun ride. Someone has a plan lol.....I have to believe the devs all talk to each other behind the scenes. With BST's Phantom, early Hornet, Harrier, Community A-4, and RAZBAM's Corsair II on the horizon we seem to have a nice mix of planes that starred in Vietnam who also fought in the Gulf, and also planes that were designed and built based on shortcomings found during Vietnam. This is just my observation, and to be honest I seem to be one of the dumber people on here so maybe what I'm seeing isn't right. The other thing that makes me happy about the next "generation" of DCS modules is that I grew up seeing these planes at air shows, drawing them, flying them in Sims like the Jane's series and Strike Fighters, so I'm ready!!! For your heavy strike, sit tight. If you flew FSX or SF series then you know RAZBAM crushed it on the A-6. I would be shocked if it never found it's way on here. I'm not saying anything intel based or "insider knowledge", hell I'm the last guy with that kind of info, it just makes sense to me that they would get around to it because of how popular they were the previous decade - NO ONE gave you a better Intruder experience than these guys did. Above all else though are two heavy lift helicopters. I'm a helicopter guy, sorry! There's a bunch of folks here who are. Huey is great, but she's old and slow. Both Ch-53 and Chinkook fly faster and carry more, so when word dropped that we might be getting the Super Stallion I nearly lost my mind. For a guy like me who likes the jets, flies them because they are neat, but LOVES flying helil's and being in that support role this was great news! So there's your answer, some of us are just wired different and go nuts for niche aircraft like heavy utility birds. ~Rob

Someone once told me that I had some control binding overlaps and issues once when this was happening to me on another module. I went through and sure enough I had some things to fix, and afterwards my jumping throttle stopped. Might be worth a look. Next, recalibrate your gear. I am using CH Fighterstick pro and it's abkut 8 years old. It has some minor jumping when the stick is center, like small jitters when I am not moving the stick. It DOES show up in Huey for me, small jitters that are varely discernible, and since I've got other stuff to do while flying a helicopter than look between my legs I never notice it :-) ~Rob

I'll messcook before I volunteer to do that job lol..... ~Rob

I've not done a ton of F-1= technical reading, or really much of any F-14 reading at all if we're being real honest. My question is piggy backed off of the first one I guess, but does the Tomcat experience adverse yaw like Phantom and Super Sabre did? ~Rob

I don't think using the map is a cheat. With all of the battlefield tech I'm sure you can see on a display where your peeps are in real life. In the world if mariners a program called AIS displays every ship on my gps, and you can click on the contact and see info like name, what cargo, where they are headed, etc.....I would be shocked if a tablet isn't used by infantry to track Blufor

That's just mint!!!!!

But if I'm fighting you Dudikoff and you make a mistake on my end that IS considered luck, as in "lucky for me you muffed it", ipso facto, luck.

Thank you for weighing in here Firm. I am not so good at reading between lines and was parroting some things I had heard previously. The is for clearing it up and setting me straight! ~Rob

I thought the MiG-23 project was squashed by ED, and that it happened like that because ED is maybe going to the MiG-23 themselves? With the two "secret" airframe potentially coming I have to continue to wish for a Drumstick at some point. RAZBAM's Intruders in SF1 & SF2 were RAD!!!!

Lol....I made my own up..... The A-7E is an A-6 TRAM but not really at all.

Really it's a matter of what you're comfy doing. There are best practices for each aircraft, like high altitude b&z in the Mustang, but the plane will mix it up in the right hands. Once you gain confidence in just flying the plane and monitoring systems becomes second nature you will inevitably start trying different maneuvers to see what works for you. As above he was posting a technique that worked for him, so it adds another trick to add to someone's bag. The only one trick pony that I know of who succeeded in WWII was....wait a minute, there wasn't one. I hate to choose a side here, but you can't bash/badger/be stubborn about someone offering up something that works for him. Now whoever read the previous page has two things to try, when one stops working switch and see if you get a result. It's how all of us learn what works for each of us individually. Personally I stick to B&Z with this plane, but there are things to watch, like going too fast and pulling wings off. Stay in that 300-350 range so you can use your energy to get back upstairs. If you see "low hanging fruit" look around real good, then attack, keep your speed up still. Everyone going slow will out turn you, but every time they do they lose energy, speed, or altitude (sometimes all three at once!!), and eventually they will have nowhere to go but out in front of your guns. Also if they keep turning it's fine, climb up, look around to make sure you aren't about to get busted, then head back down. By maintaining your speed you will always have an escape route from the guy you are after. Reset, rinse, repeat...... If I find myself starting to get low and slow I disengage towards safety and get myself back up to a good altitude. Low and slow is no place to fool around in a Mustang. ~Rob

Yessah :-) Can't wait!!!

Stryker, If you build it they will come, or in this case pay. Doesn't matter what gets built we will buy it. As for our hang up with niche stuff like helos, well, some of us don't want to fly jets and it's a chance to fly a full fidelity helicopter in a battlefield environment, something you can't do in fsx or P3D. Some of the stuff you said doesn't make any sense. No heavy strike aircraft? This while thing started with history's best strike plane lol....Warthog. Fast mud movers are coming, the ground radar has been the recognized hold up from what I gather, and it seems like a lot of devs are waiting for ED's code to plug into future modules, while others are going both feet into making their own (Community A-4). The MiG-21 is missing it's running mate Phantom, for now, but Fighter Weapons School used the F-5 for years specifically because it performed about like the F-5 did, and you have about the same capabilities in one as you do the other in an ACM setting. At times it does seem a little incoherent, but only if you are looking to tie it all together. I think you are missing the point of everything if that's the approach. For a lot of us the fun is in the variety; for me personally it's the fact that my jet bros in the squadron can ball out of control on co-op night and I can be a dedicated CSAR asset in a Huey, which is what I prefer. ~Rob

Buzz is hitting in spot on. Look, the Mustang in real life was a turn fighter sorta. With combat flaps at high speed it could get around on a 109 or 190. At low speed the 109 has the advantage (depending on altitude), it has leading edge slats and didn't have the nasty wing snap that Mustang had; it did better vs 190 because the 190 had the same nasty habit, but more exaggerated. To succeed in a Mustang you need to stay above the competition, and stay faster. You boom and zoom the enemy to death. If you can pair up with another pilot and use US Navy style 2 person bully tactics then you'll do even better. There's two critical things missing from the equation that cannot be replicated here in a MP server: 1) by the time the represented module came to the fight the Luftwaffe was hurting for experienced pilots. Average newbies went into combat with 13 hours of flight time, compared to roughly 280 as a new Mustang pilot. 2) By the time the represented module came to the fight it enjoyed a 4 or 5 to 1 numerical advantage. Those two reasons are a large part of why this plane was so successful. It was a fantastic airplane for sure, but vs a 109 in the hands of a veteran a Mustang pilot had his hands full, and if you read enough books you will see that repeated over and over.

Someone's on Craigslist job hunting.....

BrassEm, Sorry for the delayed response, I am a space cadet and forget to follow up on these. Thank you for your work and the update. ~S

I will check it out, sorry I took so long to see this, I started work a month and a half ago and have only flown once since mid Sept. I will check this kout out next week, the 8th, when I am home. Thank you in advance, I will report back, and you Sir are awesome!!! ~Rob