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Razbam hat die Tarawa noch nicht fertig gestellt und deshalb sind die Parkpositionen für Helikopter noch falsch und eine paar andere simple Dinge funktionieren nicht. Razbam hat aber kürzlich erst ein Bild veröffentlicht auf dem ein Harrier auf einem Aufzug steht. Momentan fällt man da auch direkt durch.

Check that you have your DMT turned on. The switch is behind the stick.

Is your target maneuvering or releasing flares? If so they loose lock because of that and not because you broke the lock. Especially head on is not the best aspect for an IR seeker. I last fired in 1.58 and the 27T does like to go after flares. If you want to test it in 2.5 just fly behind a non maneuvering nor flaring target, shoot and then drop the lock (EO/Radar).

I found no better place than the chit-chat section. Idea came with Wags talking about CASE I/II in the last video. I mainly think of the F-14 and F/A-18 but the Harrier with a completely different carrier is affected, too. Please do not use this as a Wishlist Thread and throw random aircraft and alike into the discussion. So what would we need in a (paid) modul to fly around and land on/takeoff the carrier (setting the bar high :megalol:) that is not already implemented currently? Add your ideas! Let's see what Heatblur brings us with their Cat, too. I divided my ideas into requirements in Single Player, Multi Player and "nice to have" features for the two. --- requirements in Single Player manuals with good information about take-off configuration (e.g. trim) and fuel requirements Flight Deck Personnel - Yellow Shirts, needed to move you around the deck (hand signals) and shoot you off AI planes that follow arrival and departure procedures in CASE I/II/III weather and do not run you over on the flight deck improved tankers; if we get a wave off in CASE III weather and have little fuel we need a recovery tanker that does not let us down like current tanker crews - improved pattern, more than a simple left hand holding/anker without alterable radius (e.g. recovery tanker should be able to follow the CV) - all the needed information over radio for a rendezvous in CASE III (altitude is not enough! and with the current altimeter bug useless anyway) - headsup for altitude, heading or speed changes AI Carrier ATC Center/Marshall - gives at least wind, visibility and cloud as weather information and BRC (base recovery course) - gives departure and arrival instructions and nav assistance in CASE III (ATC is able to currently but very primitiv) AI Air Boss - gives at least wind, visibility and cloud as weather information and defines the CASE - gives launch and recovery instructions AI LSO or paddles - the appropriate informativ, advisory and imperative calls Carrier equipment - instrument approach (TACAN, ICLS, ACLS) - IFLOLS (Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System) with a 2D aid for VR users or low res. displays users - Long Range Laser and Line Up System - jet blast deflectors - catapult --- "nice to have" in SP Flight Deck Personnal - all the other colours as "decoration" e.g. LSO on their platform - crews chain/unchain, refuel, rearm - "first person" walk to your jet AI Carrier ATC Center - gives full weather information e.g. sea conditions - gives departure and arrival instructions and nav assistance in CASE I/II/III LSO - grading of your landing Carrier equipment -back up MOVLAS (Manually Operated Visual Landing Aid System) -land based IFLOLS for training -movable elevators -barricade --- additional requirements for a good Multi Player experience a LSO/AIR Boss slot - can switch to Deck/LSO views - can direct the deck personnal (Yellow) to give taxi instructions or shoot s.o. off - can easily maneuver the CV and attached vessels (set course/speed, no need for a 3D bridge) - has a ship based air radar view and NOT F10 view where he e.g. sees 5, 10 and 50 nm radius and IPs set in the ME dynamic aircraft slots - if you hop into an aircraft slot you can choose your position on the carrier so that an airborne aircraft does not block the space where it spawned in reduced lag with new people joining in or taking a new slot - current 1 to 30 sec (with an average ~ 10 sec) lags would make a recovery impossible --- "nice to have" in MP LSO/Air Boss slot - allows to switch the CASE for AI planes

Agreed :photo: OP is scraping past 1.2 and 1.14? and his statements of his personal life are very questionable. I love the F5 how it is. It needs no "upgrades" - it is a little very capable aircraft. Here you can see it without any changes "today" in its role it was designed for: OP wants its successor - the F16. Even the F16 did not have all the capabilities mentioned for its first deployment.

yep! The example is worth nothing without any ranges and also miss what a Bullseye format or a BRAA format is and how to determine which one you get (the "usually" in the first sentence really doesn't help anyone). Here is how the Navy explains their pilots what is what (Vegas is the bullseye): from https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/pubs-pat-pubs.asp

BRAA bearing range angels aspect Bearing is the direction from your plane to the bandits/hostiles one. 308 is somewhere NW of your position. If the bandit flies directly to you -he is hot - you would meet him headon if you turn 308. In the F5 you can use the HSI for your heading. AWACS doesn't give magnetic directions, so the directions can be about 5° off. Maybe it helps if you pause the game when you get an AWACS call and try to figure out with the F10 map and the ruler what AWACS wants to tell you. Simply make a line from your plane to the bandits. A real controller would set you up for an intercept and would talk you through but in DCS you only get simple BRAA calls.

That's little compared to the Super Etendard in the French Navy :smilewink: :

In DCS this is not the case. DCS simplifies the calls. For Blue side: request picture -> bullseye calls -> relation between the bullseye and the contact - you will hear "bulls/bullseye" after the callsigns in a message request BRAA -> BRAA call from your position -> relation between you and the contact If you get an update without asking, it is always the BRAA format. on the Red/Russian side you will get only the BRAA format even when you ask for picture.

Onyx - AV8b I might need to be one of the first to join the server to be able to connect!

Check out this https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=157991 Bomb and Strafe Targets. Works well in SP and MP

If you see a switch symbol you are holding the cursor over the XY select. It is a ring around the right channel select dial. Try different position until you find the right place where you see the scroll symbol. Do you actually scroll with your mouse? If that doesn't work i would go with bender's advice. For example i bound the parking brake in the harrier to my keyboard because it is hard to aim for the right place with the cursor and easy to hit the cutoff lever by mistake.

Mine is working quite fine. Do you mean the buttons under the HSI? There you can select TACAN to effect the HSI and display range, bearing and more. But you always have to "screw" with the TACAN panel first.

Kleiner Ausblick für die S-3 in DCS:

Thanks mate. Fortunately I can spend all at once and don't have to do bad compromises. I may still observe prices and wait. I want to be happy with the total price of the system. There are a lot of ways to spend money other than on computer hardware...

Thanks a lot! My plan now is to buy a new system in once, mabye not all the top notch components you suggested. Even a "cheap" GPU with only 4 GB VRAM (1050 TI) will be a leap in performance for me. Together with the latest CPU and mainboard as well as 16 GB RAM it should be future proof for further upgrades.

Hoffentlich wird die KI ein bisschen schlauer, was das AAR angeht. Normalerweise ist immer ein Tanker bei Carrier Operationen in der Luft, falls jemand mehrere Versuche braucht. Mehr dazu in Folge 05 https://fighterpilotpodcast.com/ Erklärung des neu gezeigten und sehr gut aussehenden HISD (aus https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/pubs-pat-pubs.asp ):

Awesome Update!

Good Video, especially that he used the same resolution i have. 2.2 should be about the same as 2.5. Thanks If you have it try it out! Looks good to me. Maybe your SSD storage is small. Make sure you run DCS on the SSD. That helped me a lot with stutters.

It is not a "mini" card but only one fan like the founder edition. I think i will buy all but the video card for now. My current i5 is louder than my video card and i only care about noise in idle. When i fire up DCS with a headset i do not hear any noise.

Link for the 1070? Amazon Germany by EVGA and preorder Thanks for the help guys! I appreciate it.

Hey guys, since some of you give awesome advice I want to ask about some stuff. I am not an expert and build a system a while ago: I5-3470 Gigabyte H77 DDDR3 8 GB @1600 HD7870 2GB 500 gb ssd Is it a bad idea to buy not all parts at the same time? With processor and board prices falling, can i get away with buying all components but RAM and GPU and get them later? I want to get a good but affordable system that might handle VR with further performance improvements (Vulcan) of DCS: i5-8600k ~230€ a mainboard that supports a little bit of OC. Do you guys know one where i don't have to pay for some f* lights? In my experience there is no big difference between manufactures at that price range (MSI Z370 PC PRO good enough?) ~120€ 2 x 8 GB of RAM when the price is good (somehow they all cost about the same with different Mhz and Latency?) ~160€ Power Supply and cpu cooler no idea a the moment :helpsmilie: GPU: 1070? there is an EVGA single fan for 480€; good or bad? now i play on 1920 X 1080 and my main problem is my 8 GB RAM and my old GPU. -> can not join MP servers and my card hates high res. textures and MSAA :( I want to be able to fly some more awesome RED FLAG Events and enjoy 2.5 (and maybe win some more modules, hehe) thank you in advance!

Ich finde die Filme von dem Entwickler, Testpiloten und Ingenieuren, Mitschnitte aus dem Cockpit oder Interviews o.ä. mit den Piloten/RIOs am besten: (RIO) In Dokus werden meist 2 Sätze von Interviews mit diesen Personen eingefügt und alle Details und Anmerkungen raus geschnitten. Da sind meist gute Bilder und "fancy" 3D Visualisierungen wichtiger...

Again: QNH is always in the briefing. (Static weather) Just a little release for the guys that get frustrated: DCS calculates the height for the altimeter slightly incorrect. This bug has been reported. The impact on flying in VMC is little but calculating things for an IFR flight is almost pointless at the moment. For OPs question: Do not listen to ATC, set QNH, check recovery airfield charts for elevation and go with that! Fly safe!

This will most likely be the case if we get the F14 A/B "upgrade" versions. They both were able to carry the LANTIRN and were upgraded to the same avionics standard (close to the D - 1992). If so we will have two very similar versions and the main difference will be the engines. I personally hope we get an F14A from the early days that has different non digital avionics, no glass cockpit and no DFCS. Let's see!