Zorrin

Fox 5?

So what you really want is Airborne Command & Battlefield Tycoon? :D

I'd pray for the ejection system to malfunction and play a game of death with the rotor blades than sit through Euro Truck Simulator!

You can buy a Mig-21 in the scheme... If you have a few quid knocking around and decide you wish to invest it in a non-return generating Mig.... http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/Mig21%20jets%20for%20sale.htm Although quite how "up-to-date" that link is I don't really know....

A Huey: Gunship and Transport variants. You can already feel the slapping of those two f**k off huge rotor blades.....

Poncho is right. Rear Seat = Chauffeur Front Seat = Man with guns, and lots of.

What's wrong with heading back to the airport you took off from....

Well I don't know. I'm quite hopeful for Black Shark, that looks like it will solve the issue of "feeling" by overwhelming you with avionics and actually aircraft management. I've never tried Flightgear so can't comment. Physically flying an aircraft isn't the hard part. It's managing and the command decision that goes along with that. And your point about "yaw" well I feel that the SU25T yaws too much. But, without having flown a Toad, I can't tell so I have to accpet what is put in front of me with a pinch of salt. And how can you clarify 5-10% error? That's the problem with this question/arguement. It's personal perception, what makes it seem real to you, may not seem real to me. Based upon our own experiences in real flight, simulated flight and what we have learnt from others. What sims don't do, is give you the consequences. In FS I can bumble through controlled airspace and nothing happens... I can't fly through the London TMA without filing an IFR flight plan and get away with it... The likely fact is I'd lose my license and have upset a shed load of airlines by ruining the slot times at say Heathrow or Gatwick... I think that if they [ED & the Beta testers] have done their work properly, DCS could easily become the "most realistic" sim. While the ultimate factor of "feeling" is certainly beyond our technological capabilites right now. Real immersion and consequences of mismanagement can make up for that. In FS what happens if you fly a turbocharged aircraft and have leaned it, and then decide to open the throttle fully? Doesn't matter that you are operating the engine out of limits, it's not gonna stop... That's what will give the best realism. Lets see what happens to our Ka50s when we overtorque it and start stressing the gear boxes... And apologies for mentioning Black Shark, but using that as a reference because, in principle, it is the first of the uber-modelled sims to market. What do you want from a simulator? As Flight Simmers we're predantic, fussy and bitch about everything. You can only try these things for youself... Want visuals take FS X. Want a better flight model take X-Plane. Got the cash to spare? Try them all.

I skimmed through the article. I have 100+ hrs on 172s as well as hours on various other types. For what it's worth, I feel X-Plane 9 is better than FS X. It's still nothing close to the real thing, but it's closer than FS X. FS has nice visuals and is great if you want to practicse IFR procedures or approaches. That's mostly done with the autopilot so the lack of feeling isn't a problem. IL2, is reasonable. But the aircraft are too prone to dynamic stalls... But I can't speak from experience as obviously getting hours on a Warbird is not easy, nor affordable. At present, I don't think there's anything that really comes close to it. Even the $20m simulators that FlightSafety / CAE use. Yes you have real immersion you are sat in the cockpit, and it sounds real and it moves. But you are lacking the forces of gravity that let you fly by the seat of your pants. And when a sim can give you that "by the seat of your pants", then you will have the sim that makes it feel as real as possible!

Actually you can choose to record sections of a track. If when you load the track you should see the start time and end time in the top right. (The box where you select/create units in the mission editor). In this box you can set the start and finish times for both playback/recording for this single session. Peyoteros: I had that problem too. It started after I tried to edit the "record avi" resolution in the cfgs. Only way I solved that problem was to do a full hard reinstall.

If you can't be bothered to hold down Ctrl+R to refuel (it can take a while) or you are just lazy (like me)... Press and hold Control, then press R then press M [this brings up the chat dialogue] you are now free to let go of all the keys and you'll carry on refuelling. To stop, close the chat dialogue and then press Control + R once.

Rooks at dawn.

And then swing by the Armoury and pick up a couple of Stingers and get those f**kers that shot you down. Hoo Hah.

I have a MacBook Pro and an iMac and yes if I load up XP on them it'll run ike a dream. Windoze runs better on a Mac than on a PC.... AlphaOneSix's sig is also an indication that it'll run just fine on a Mac with Windoze...

I have Vista and hate it. The reason being is that it isn't a nice OS to use. It has a lot of things that have been part of Mac OS X for a long time. Perhaps I'm just biased as I use a Mac for all the hard hitting things I do, like surfing the internet, not getting viruses etc etc. Vista caused me several problems until they released SP1. After that it seemed to clear up a little, but it does seem to mainly be a driver issue. Fundamentally it does the job, albeit in a clunky fashion.

Will the pilot be sick on the hot bumpy days when you haven't had enough to drink and you feel the bumps just wearing you down and down....? :D So with the air movements, will the movement of the air affect the weather in anyway? How soon can we expect some real dynamic weather? Or am I clutching at straws...

Well annyoing thing is I landed fine... And stopped... I didn't pay enough attention when I went to turn round... and then fell off the side :(

120hrs is nothing on type....

So that's this DCS: Hog I've been hearing about!

I use my wingnut. He takes my missiles!

ctl + m to use text chat by default to BOTH sides. alt + m to use text chat by default to YOUR side only.

The only jet engine I've touched with a FADEC was Cessna's Citation Mustang. It was a simple start procedure, just click the throttle through the idle cut off detent and then press the starter. But the FADEC didn't take control until the engine had reached something like 44% or 48% N1 (I can't remember the exact figure now but you saw the colour change on the avionics display to notify you that the FADEC was now "in charge"). So we're both right and wrong! And Yellonet - not really off-topic as it's still related to the Ka50 and it's controls... Sort of... :music_whistling:

Well if whatever governor or whatever else is metering the engine rpm fails, how do you control the engine rpm? Obviously with no experience of twin-turbine helis I can't compare it to anything else. I just find it odd that there isn't a throttle. I can understand that the condition levers which would be moved from cut-off to idle to full/auto or whatever. Yes that makes sense but what happens happens if your governor fails on the KA50? In my mind when you posted about the "levers that you move from idle to auto", to me in my head they seem to be condition levers. But I'm happy to accept they're the "throttles" until I get my hands on a KA50! Again I don't know anything of the systems in the Shark so I can't really ask you more specifically other than what else is there in the engine/rotor management?