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Ah, the gen warnings? Yeah that doesn't mean much except you shifted blade pitch too fast and rpms dropped. It should stabilise after a few seconds, although ideally you should be a little more gentle. I can see why you'd think that -edit I apparently lost track of the thread. I was directing that to the comment about the generators Btw, Yak-52 does the same thing if engine RPM drops

There's a dedicated Korean War server where you can fly against people. F-86 and MiG-15 both are fantastic aircraft. I haven't messed with the F-16 much, it's not near finished, obviously, but it's fun to mess around with and still has quite a bit of capability. The Av-8 is in very good shape these days overall, despite the tendency for a handful of people to dogpile on it. I primaried it extensively and it's capable of a LOT of interesting stuff. Very good choice if you like being in the weeds, and like flexible weapon loadouts. Very capable aircraft. Don't know much about it, but it has some limited multirole capability and is a potent dogfighter. Very flexible jack of all trades This is probably one of the more complex аnd challenging aircraft. It really depends on what you want. Sabre аnd Mig are old school dogfighters. Harrier and A-10 are dedicated ground pounders. 16 & 18 are fly by wire, hyper modern super fighters/flying computers. F-14 ''it's the 70s again!'' Mirage is inbetween. What do you want to do? Pick the plane that looks most appealing to you. Don't worry too much about bugs and doomsaying. As you say, they all require an investment, so pick the one you're most interested in.

Those insurgent skins look especially good, imo. Good work all around!

Really? I've never really noticed that. Of course, if they don't survive the first hit, they wouldn't be able to pop smoke. Still, I've seen the convoy ''scatter'' sort of, for a few minutes, where they sit still, then after a few minutes resume their drive. I never noticed smoke popping, though. That's cool, but sounds like it's not good for much.

#1 afaik DCS vehicles don't deploy smoke, they also generally don't evade or ''think'' at all. #2 I was mostly thinking about the context of PvP helos, which can't smoke

Very few people use an actual cyclic and collective. If a HOTAS is ''niche'', then an actual helicopter setup is an albino unicorn. A regular stick can function as a cyclic well enough, excepting that a stick centers and a cyclic does not. This is why the helo modules have a trim mode where you ''click, then center the stick'', effectively resetting the center. The cyclic changes the rotor mast orientation, effectively your aircraft's pitch and roll. A throttle for all intents and purposes will work just like the collective, except it moves back and forth instead of up and down. The collective changes blade pitch, increasing or decreasing lift. This has the effect of increasing or lowering your altitude, or increasing speed if pitched forward (or some combination of the two). Rudder pedals work more or less normally, except again, the helos do not center normally, whereas they do on a plane. This is rectified with the same trim control mentioned previously that resets the center. As for the ACTUAL throttle, you only touch this during startup and any manipulation is done automatically when you move the collective, but for practical purposes a helo engine runs more or less full throttle the whole time. You need that power whether you're moving at speed or a hover, so you don't ever really ''throttle down''. Therefore you do not need an axis for this function anymore. It is set, and then not touched again except in emergency.

This is actually something I'm very interested in attempting to exploit. By carrying only these, it greatly reduces weight, making hover sniping a viable tactic. Even if the target sees them coming, they can't be decoyed (although hitting an evasive target will probably be very difficult). It's not limited by laser burnout or a flakey optic tracking system. And for in close gunfighting? I mean, damn, it's got a 3000rpm, high velocity, BRRRT gun. It's not got the fancy tech of an Apache, or the maneuverability of a Ka-50, but it's hardly ''without options''.

Yeah, normally you'd be hard pressed to use them all in one sortie before having to RTB for fuel, but they take care of that with ripple fire ;) Course, the other guy is doing the same... I wonder how many online encounters end with mutual kills? If 4 guys fire 3 missiles apiece at each other, close enough to pitbull....... the odds of anyone surviving is probably near zero. Actually, this makes 10-12 missiles even more odd, since the likelihood of dying before using them all is probably like 80-90%.

As Buzzles said, there's already a procedure for community submissions. Also, it doesn't work like that where ED go around hounding the community for free work. They're a business and have to operate under certain legal and economic constraints.

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Yeah, everytime I see somebody complaining about something being underpowered they invariably fly around like this : actually I can't find the picture now, it's a photoshopped F-18 with TERs and Mk82s on every hardpoint. Most people seem to not understand MTOW literally means ''more than this and it can't fly''. They load to MTOW (or a little beyond) then seem shocked they have trouble @@

That's a problem I have, too It's hard to focus on any one thing. I have spent more time learning the Harrier and Ka-50 than anything else. It's a pretty flexible aircraft, and very capable, I really enjoyed it. It can do a bit of everything. I used to dogfight a lot in WWII sims, do in DCS I'm biased toward A2G which I never really messed with as much. Imo, it's a lot more varied as to what you get to do and have to respond to. I'm thinking about the Jf-17 or F-16, but the F-18 gets to use the Supercarrier =p Ahhh, decisions decisions. I remember back when we only had like 3-4 choices. This is a good problem to have =D

The Bell Invictus competing for the Kiowa's replacement project is pretty much Comanche 2.0 Thus far it looks to have relatively large wings, and more aggressive ''attack helicopter'' vibes, as opposed to the lighter more scouty Comanche, but they clearly are drawing heavily from that experience. I'm not a fan of the pusher configuration the other design is presenting. There's inherent limitations to what a helicopter with rotors can do, and the pushers don't really circumvent them, so imo it's wasted money/weight and adds complexity. You either go conventional, or build a tiltrotor, and that's pretty much it.

Dude, you really gotta up your game Those credits at the end ''blah blah Production'' in other words, it's a guy playing with animations. Which should be a given, since the ships are clearly CGI, but the end credits should cinch it no matter how convincing the animation

Well, they're different, anyway, for sure. I would say the biggest differences are having to match speed with the ship, and as opposed to slamming down on the deck, you have to set a Harrier down gently, but not TOO gently and try to avoid accidentally rolling into a parked plane. The Harrier vs a helo, as far as hovering, they're similar in principle, but in particular, it's a lot easier to lose control of the Harrier than a helo. An aggressive bank in a helo isn't that big a deal, but the Harrier can't right itself if you overcorrect, the RCS thrusters are for fine adjustments only. The turbofans are not as fast to respond to input changes as the rotors on a helo are, either. So, IF you screw up, it's harder to recover from it before hitting the ground than in a helo. On the other hand, you don't have VRS.

Rofl, yeah, that's pretty much how it works. It's all vague and ambiguous until they throw your ass in a cell, then it becomes crystal clear you're screwed lol

On the mids, eh? Interesting.

On the KC-130 you can use either basket, at least. As a single, I've refueled off both. I had always assumed it was the same for all of them, but never really deliberately experimented.

I'm wrong apparently about number and placement

It's no different in the Arma community... or any other, really. The majority of servers compete for the lowest common denominator @@ If you came here expecting the DCS community to be appreciably different, sorry to disappoint you ) You'll have to go for quality over quantity servers, or ideally, join a clan that focuses on gameplay you're interested in. Some have higher requirements, some are more casual, but that's your options in this and every other game. Pub : take your chances Clan : still take your chances, but much better quality of experience. Usually. As for ''why Hind''? Because it's a Hind and you want to learn about it. That's literally the only reason to have anything in this game. Or do you intend to immediately stop flying everything but the Eurofighter when it comes out, because it's objectively ''better''? Play for the experience, not the K/D.

@malcheus The AI pretty much instantly spots you anytime it gets LoS, even if just for a moment. We know it's flakey ) You'll need to adapt to it for now The addition of trees blocking LoS is relatively new, it's still pretty spotty.

Yep. That and Caucasus is cobbled together from bits of experimental tech and left to its own devices. The tree shadows are still backwards afaik.

You could do it very cheaply indeed if you simply printed it black and white on regular paper. Only if it was ACTUALLY bought and sold in book, which it would not be, because 99% of people are going to use the free PDF. Especially considering some stuff is subject to change.

Wojak crying in a mask? Sorry, you'll have to stick to more generic insults, I don't watch that kind of anime and I'm afraid the reference passes me by. I don't know why you have such a problem understanding what speculation means, but sure, two guys on Youtube confirmed it's aliens from Rigel 7. You sure showed me. I don't know what I'll do with the rest of my day now.