nicka117

I believe he's played with them in real life also.

Of course, the correct answer is carrier landings.

I'm getting kinda tired of the phrase "very soon."

Wednesday, February 13th.

Would be nice to also have the jet do the noticeable squat as the cat shuttle is released.

Yep, key commands for the main menu and all the sub menus would be helpful for VA.

Is any wizard here is capable of coming up with a mod/hack or some other voodoo magic that can allow us to just turn the Carrier landing lights on or off manually? Just soooo tired of having to call stennis every case III approach to have them turn lights on again that should already be on. Also, low light conditions during the day. Especially helpful for VR....essential. Just, please....please.

Is there an NDA in place that holds the vids until a certain date?

Very informative, thanks!

Might as well throw in Redkite while we are at it.

Was Jabbers one of the youtubers that recieved a pre release media copy? Love his videos.

Is the new f-18 engine rpm effect not supposed to change in intensity as I increase the RPM? It just stays the same throughout the entire throttle range.

I have found the same thing as Schmidtfire. High Shadows in cockpit are worth the cost. MSAA and Visibility are not worth the cost.

If we are just doing fun speculation, my bet would be an open beta release on a wednesday in mid to late Feb. Don’t think they’ll need to wait until March.

Everytime i think this thread cant get better....it gets better. The innovation is crazy.

Have any backers here gotten their 5k plus yet? Figured someone around here would have one by now.

Sure man, you bet.

yes, it is much easier with 1:1 scaling and depth perception. My dad thought the sim was "pretty neat" on a monitor and "super cool" in my rift. ...but, to a newcomer, real pilot or no, flying tight form and tanking, even in VR is not easy. You have to perfect your "sim visual scan". Obviously, the learning is much faster in VR.

Meh, some things are easier in the sim and some things are harder. My dad has 1000's of hours and hundreds of carrier landings (flew the S2, A4, A3, A7 and F4) and he has goofed around with my sim quite a bit. He says that tanking and formation flying (during the day and good weather) is way easier in real life than in DCS...mostly because of the lack of seat of the pants feel. When you can't feel the accelerations, it dumps you into PIO's real bad until you get your "sim" visual scan mastered. But, in real life, you don't know what you don't know. For instance, interestingly, during my Dad's Westpac cruises in the late 70's they would often times tank A-3's off A-7's. The A-7 would do this weird thing to the A-3 when it got near the basket. because of airflow or jet wash off the A-7, the A-3 would yaw right exactly before the probe hit the basket. The trick was to just fly the probe like you were going to miss left and it would just snap into the basket at the last second. So, my dad was teaching a FNG to tank off the A-7 and he refused to do it that way. He just decided to kick in some left rudder. Bad idea.....rolled the A-3 upside down....which the A-3 doesn't really like. He never heard the end of it. You just don't know what you don't know.

Exactly^^

To the contrary guys, Lex is extremely involved in the DCS/Hornet community.....so much so that he has his own discord chanel, his own squadron, and his own server.

Concerning any seed of doubt that we are all sitting in our mother's basement in flight suits........well, he wanted to eliminate that completely.

What the heck is going on with this stick. Didnt they say by the end of this year?

Yeah, I started the thread and i kept bumping it so that people would see it and also add a plus. I probably broke some rule or something. I dont know why they just cant give us a reason of why they cant do it? Or if they plan to do it and just haven’t got around to it? Instead, zero explanation and delete the thread completely. I’ve bought hundreds of dollars of their products.

Yeah, thinking about ordering one myself but want to see a few decent comparisons on DCS between Odyssey Plus and Rift, which I have now.