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+1!! And he should ask for autorisation before ejecting!!! ;-)

(Only SP) Thanks for the insight, I tend to go a bit up usually!

Dear all, Despite many pedagogic videos about the subjet, I endure very low success with my AIM54: approx. 20% killing rate. I tested mostly versus average to very good Mig 21, Mig 19 and Su 24 in various angles, always between 15 and 50 nM, using simply TWS. I wait until a numeric appears at right on the radar contact(s), then simply fire. Isn't that 20% killing rate a bit low, am I doing something wrong?

@SnapRoll: yes, me too: vibrations works in massage mode, but no longer in DCS!

True! Would be nice to also have an axis to bind to flaps! (The small axis right of Warthog throttles is not used in default config, so...)

I suppose the most easy and credible solution would be to think that putting on the OBOGS switch means technicaly "Pilot puts the mask, and the O2 system is on", and putting it off means of course "The O2 systeme is turned off, and pilot takes off his mask" ? (So no need for additionnal key for mask on/off, nor automatic removal of the mask)

To Jurassic_LP: most of us have 500+, or 1000+, or 5000+ virtual take offs. So, even without (or few) "real take-offs", our brains and neuromuscular system ARE used to react to control such take off. When we try to take off a new but flagship virtual bird, if the take-off is totally wrong and catastrophic, there is simply a problem with the simulation. Our gran-pa didn't have the opportunity to virtually train as us- if taking off with real Spitfire or Bf109 were so difficult than in DCS, 80% of pilot (and warbirds!) should have been off before the war!!! I suppose the model is quite "right", but faaaar too much exagerated.... (same is true with engine management: we count the minute of X manifold pressure or temp... but real ww2 pilots said themselves they didn't really care so much).

Really happy about that F14 module!! But seriously, a second-precision count-down to announce that the module will be ready the next season, no.

A count-down for...announcing a count-down for release?? Seriously??!

I fly both, find both 100% usable, and love both!!! As said by BBRZ, the Mig 21 has a lot of personality (aged cockpit, old switchology, airframe and poweeplant that will require you some care), while the M2000 is more "technical" and efficient! You can't go wrong with any....

@Laumaya: Yes, same here for the mission 1 with Aim 7, I tried frontal approach iso-altitude, at sea level, and at 30000ft... no good result! Problem solved with a 60 degree run first, then an attack from the side. Maybe that should help? The Aim 54 of the Tomcat could habe been well used in this mission!! ;-)

@SharpeXB: Sorry, while your argument should sound good for Ace Combat or such things, the cyborg-29X-binocs in a software like DCS World -which aims at the most realistic approach-, that's profundly wrong. I feel such superzoom you use in your video should be removed (accept for Easy Mode), and the spotting/dotting should be reworked.

Concerning the use of Missile Uncage, some source states that the Uncage should be done AFTER locking, while other sources says BEFORE locking. My own game experience is that Uncaging BEFORE the lock allows to catch and lock a target that is not directly on the piper. Maybe some real world pilots could comment the use of Missile Uncage?

No. City centers in these areas in real life aren't a massive infestation of old giant trees.

Idem. From "end of 2017" to "many things before release" -> ???

Spotting is not easy, ok. I've the "fortune" to live in an area of military planes passage (A10, M2000, C130, helis...), and frequently ultra-lights aircraft the sundays. Spotting them is clearly easier than is DCS. Really easier. Even with ultra-lights. And without speaking of the Airbus far far away. With a (little) Mirage for example, even from far you see "something", and that "something" is quite consistant.

Is there any news concerning Virpil or VKB making progress on a FFB stick base? (With the idea to be able to cover both heli force trim and fixed wing aviation) The Irid one with magnetic doesn't seems at all to be ready, and these magnetic forces bring other issues... After spending some time at car racing with modern excellent FFB wheels (like T300, between others), going back to planes -even with the nice Warthog- was terribly insipid... my wallet is ready for a new stick to replace the Warthog, but I'll definitely wait for a FFB stick!!!

I totally agree - the actual problem is that such tall trees represent the vast majority of displayed trees ingame: Batumi is full of >600 giant trees, where in fact 20-30 would be more exact. Reducing the medium scale of 30% as proposed sounds right to me to better represent the actual vegetation!! (With a bit more variance, eventually...)

Altough some oaks can effectivitely reach >35m, you can easily suppose the Batumi center is, in reality, NOT massively crowded by tricentenarial-laaarge-trees like it's actually the case in DCS 2.5!! (A quick look to real picture of these citycenters in Streetview is enough to understand that this large-tree-infestation is irrealist ) Honestly, setting a -20/30% treescale to better represent reality shoudn't be the most demanding task for the devs... (At first 2.5 flight, these trees immediatly made me remember of old CFS3 and his enormous pines everywhere!!)

Ok!! (I mean "curious" because I tought the drift of such system should be a constante, not a variable depending of how many time we took to calibrate it!!)

Thank you! By X nm/h, you mean an imprecision of X between the real coordinates and the coordinates that the INS displays? (That should finally not be a problem for prepared waypoints, because they are still exact because relative of our start position, but only problematic for absolute coordinates entered during flight) OR, you mean by X nm/h a drift per hour of X nm? (Wich would be curious to differ, as I thought the ALN phase goal was to calibrate the lat./long. coordinates?)

Ok! And do you know the degree of precision we could achieve with each of the 4 alignment phases of the INS?

I wich we'll soon see some small tracked device to wear at the fingertip of indexes, with haptic feedback... (furthermore, Vive stations seems to be open to such new devices)

Me too... really happy to fly such little plane with DCS standart...

And 3 years later... .... actually if I well understand, we can align the INS of 3 manners: - full ALN / full time - "quick" ALN with a stopped ALN (standard alignment, but without waiting the end of all 4 phases, at the expense of some precision) - ALCM Does ALCM actually works in a cold start?