Raven (Elysian Angel)

Much obliged!

Perhaps ED is waiting for the new damage model to come to fast jets? This is purely speculation of course, but it would explain their apparent lack of progress in this matter.

Yes this is due to ED's annoying habit of automatically mapping your controls without asking for your opinion/consent first. It is a great feature for new players, as it helps with onboarding, but it is seriously annoying for the more experienced virtual pilots who have a lot more controls than simply stick and throttle. SharpeXB's post above mine is what will fix this issue!

Hello Maple Flag, Is this campaign going to receive any more updates? Particularly some of the AI behaviour could use some tuning here and there: - As the campaign gives us unlimited ammo (for which there is no need IMO), AI aircraft have unlimited flares and thus continuously spam flares from the moment they detect you, for as long as they are defensive until they get shot down - often consuming far more flares than they can physically carry. For smaller aircraft such as the F-5 and F-16, flare smoke completely obscures them from view. This would be considered a safety hazard according to the campaign's own rules. Also, why do they even spam flares to being with, in a guns-only fight? Clearly there is no need to spoof incoming heatseakers. - Uzi 1-1 joins up on your right during the entire flight, including when RTB, and breaks left prior to landing while passing the Motor Speedway, while the player has to break right. A number of times I had to slam the stick forward to avoid a collision, and on the last mission I did the inevitable happened: Uzi 1-1's F-16 slammed into me (breaking his own rules in the process). This could be avoided by having him fly on your left instead of your right while RTB - at least on the leg between WP14 and WP0. - Some of the AI models could use replacing by their more modern counterparts, especially ED's F-16 and Heatblur's F-4. Thanks!

Errr, there is no Su-24 nor a Su-34 in the Flaming Cliffs package Also, ED modules using proprietary technology from other companies might be… problematic…

Did you read my last reply to your previous thread? Petrovich works just fine.

At the very least I’d expect visors on aircraft that already have the animation to raise/lower the visor, and the external view of the pilot with a visor: F-5, Mi-24, CH-47. But yes, I personally would love to see it on every single module in DCS, as you say “just like in real life”

It is not:

Exactly. As said earlier: we finally have a nice little RedFor jet and the first thing people do is turn it into a BluFor one The only convenience option that should have been present is the same ones we already have for other RedFor modules: english cockpit labels and english Rita - for those of us who didn't grow up with Cyrillic. A metric F-15C is equally silly IMO, but if ED gives us a 'BigMac MiG-29' they should also give us a 'Tovarich F-15C'. The best option would of course be to simply remove the imperial MiG-29 options, forget about them and never mention them again. It's begging for bugs and opens the door for ever more silliness. Seriously, if we can learn imperial then the yanks can learn metric too...

Did you try unticking "Simplified AI"? It's the only Caucasus IA mission that has that option ticked. *edit* I just tested it myself: retained the cold start, but gave myself a few Shturms and added a target APC for Petrovic to play with. With that option unticked, everything worked as expected and the APC blew up for the glory of the Motherland! So, this is 'working as intended', and not a bug. In this particular IA, there is no need to bring weapons.

Nope, works just fine for me.

One of the first lessons you learn in DCS: don’t get too attached to your wingmen

The Caucasus cold start IA mission doesn't give you external weapons, just 2 external fuel tanks. So what's the point of the Petrovic aiming mark (the inverted Y) showing up if you can't use it? Did you load up Shturms or Atakas before asking Petrovich to warm up the weapons?

Am I missing something here? Bringing up the targeting reticule is your job, not Petrovich's, as the controls are in the pilot's cockpit. Petrovic will activate the weapons for you, and activate the sight, but the rest is up to you.

Definitely! It’s one of the most immersion breaking aspects of DCS currently. Sure, there are limits to computational power, but some sort of simplified/abbreviated version of at least believable sensor behaviour would be brilliant!

If you read the tooltips, they will tell you the default (realistic) settings for force sensing sticks.

You’ll want to add a track, if you’d like ED to have a look at this.

It depends on your unit settings as well as avionics language setting, making it a bit of a mess at the moment. The only combination that seems to be working correctly right now, is default/metric/native.

Feel free to equip the regular helmet and check again if it fits with your RL experience: ED gave us visors for both types.

Mine doesn’t

That reminds me: before I purchased my new R1 Falcon pedals, I watched the only review that was on YouTube at the time (from a Russian channel), and the guy mounted the damper wrong. Not sure how that would affect the functionality of the pedals, but still…

It’s up to you, but what’s the quality of review samples: are they prototypes, pre-production models or representative of what a customer can buy? It’s like going to a motorcycle press launch: the bikes there get ridden/abused hard. Is the handlebar bent because of a production problem, or because a journalist smacked it onto the pavement? I have a lot of Virpil gear, and not a single time have I seen QA/QC problems…

By the way, I have to say bravo to those new MiG-29 IA missions for the Marianas map (ignoring the obvious issues - how did a Korean MiG-29 (nice livery btw) even get there without in-flight refuelling capability? - I'll assume it was disassembled, loaded onto a transport aircraft and then re-assembled), flying the take-off mission through that weather was a lot of fun (it gave me reflux issues - imagine what it would be like IRL for a pilot in that weather): flying at 20m above the water next to the islands, or doing some cloud surfing at 5000m both are fun, and I landed at Andersen without incident. I was only able to see the runway when I was very close to it, so yay for RSBM and PRMG

Good evening, Tasky. I have used the Pro Flight Trainer Puma (an older version than the one being sold these days) for years without issues. It’s brilliant for flying the Huey and Mi-8/24, but lacks buttons and switches to operate the later more complicated helicopters (AH-64, OH-58). This is probably why later versions of the Puma added more of them. Currently I’m using the Virpil collective, as can be seen in my signature. It has the Ka-50 style grip which is more than good enough for my needs. There are other threads already about this exact same topic, so I suggest reading those as well.

Hmm so it seems my Rhino can be multi-purpose… oh, “rhino”… teehee… Hold on, I’ll be back…