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Cool, but it wasn't a clue. Sorry.

Well according to this message it will be : the Mig-19 is in front of the A-29, the A-29 is in front of the F-15E and that´s in front of the MIRAGE-2000-D and 5 and so on..

I personally can't fire rockets, cannon or Mistral missile on Steam edition, the option to fire gun/rocket has disappeared. Told it on the Discord (Helhest on Polychop's discord)

Yeah, add two guys i know and me on the list. 10 to 20 servers in the list and can't connect to each other via IP (while we could everyday before). Checked antivirus, firewall, port forwarding and everything we could think of. Certainly the update.

Almost. I'm between a desk without any place for my feet & my bed. No place for any wheels, rudder, or anything more than my T.16000M. You know, navy/army's kind of living room. I already got the chance to have a desktop computer. I don't have any pedals/rudder, can't have one. Are we even talking about the same game ?

Or buy me a house so that i can find the place to have a rudder. :)

Yeah well, i'd like to see that change, because a 0.5° heading change would cause a terrible wobbly effect on the gunner's camera. It'd be better if we had the chance to choose which autohover type we would like to use.

Or you can team up with someone having LotAtc, and try a GCA. And yes, there are IFR Gazelles, civilian ones, very different panel.

In France you cannot do an OAT/IFR (CAM I - Circulation Aérienne Militaire aux Instruments) Flight with the ALAT Gazelle, but it doesn't mean you can't go in IMC with it. In fact in CAM T (Circulation Aérienne Militaire Tactique - equivalent to US Tactical OAT) you can fly with 500m of RVR, while being in IMC yourself without an IFR-certified aircrafts. In fact, until the Rafale arrived, there weren't that many aircrafts in France that were strictly IFR-certified (and not every Rafale are IFR-certified). Mirage 2000 (except N) & Mirage F1 weren't for example, it doesn't mean they couldn't do IMC, they just couldn't fly IFR (GAT-IFR or OAT-IFR : they weren't certified anyway) so they flew Tacticool OAT in IMC instead. (Edit : And just to add that there aren't many civilian IFR-certified fighter pilots either. Only Navy guys often have them ... and even then ...) Back to the Gazelle, if this happens, you won't use the ADF, which by itself isn't enough to get on the ground properly in these conditions, you'll just end being ground-controlled to the airport/FARP/LZ by a Spartiate or PAR-NG station. That'll be under what we call "HOTEL" procedures, meaning that you'd do an instrument approach with minimas over the current meteorological conditions, as improvised ground-controlled approaches are often certified for 1500m RVR, almost useless for instrument helicopter operations (Special VFR ends at 800m vis ...) except if cloud base is lower than VMC. So while the Gazelle isn't IFR-certified (but can fly IMC under OAT Tactical), their pilots are military-IFR certified (military-IFR because having the civilian CPL/IR isn't mandatory for french army pilots, especially Gazelles ones, though many modern recruits do validate their civilian licences otherwise they don't get their wanted assignment (NH90 or Tiger for example)). Now, don't forget that it's very rare to see those procedures in place, because special VFR ends at 800m visibility for helicopters, and many of the pilots will prefer to do a voluntary interruption of flight (IVV - Interruption Volontaire de Vol) rather than flying an approach outside procedures, if they can (which during operations might not be possible for many reasons). Some Gazelle did land with Ground-Controlled Approach in Ivory Coast during Opération Licorne, hell, 3 Pumas even landed with 1m50 of their main blades missing. Everything's possible under operations constraints. But believe me, you don't want to end up on a GCA approach under 500m visibility with improvised Spartiate Station and LZ, with the precision of that thing, you'll just land hundreds of meters away not at the right place, and obstacles will arrive in your face faster than you think as mandatory speed for instrument approaches is 70kts and you want to keep that speed to have the most accurate approach possible.

Is it me or people are getting bitter by this end of year ?

For helicopters, it's big enough. Even if the lack of true open network like IVAO or VATSIM (PilotEdge is DCS compatible), might be another negative point. Also there's a very good civilian Gazelle from MP Design Studio on FSX/P3D that outride engine limitations, if the DCS civilian Gazelle goes out, it would go head-to-head with it. Sure FSX/P3D as it is may intimidate many people, but it is, as you said much more open world/network : what civilian pilots are searching for.

Very very nice OH-58 model. Looking forward to what you'll announce in the future.

Yes, but i think the sight is not modeled. So, that might be it.

Reality has nothing to do with simulation on that matter. You may, like me, have started with a F-16 right on. Tho, many people gave up by these planes said to be too complicated. It's not the case with the Eagle. You can start right off the bat with a funny, simple & training-compatible airplane. And the Eagle is way funnier than the Yak-52. I've got friends wanting to learn dogfight for Star Citizen, it could be done on the Eagle.

Trainer, when fully IFR qualified unlike the L39, have a purpose. Training pilots and friends, who will then buy a full module. And it's more deep than FSX-P3D. Fully civilian aircraft on the other hand does not. They can only be useful as AI. So no point dedicating time for them from my POV.

A trainer version (with modelled failures & those things) ? Would buy it. A civilian version ? Won't buy it. A new civilian helicopter ? Would buy it. A non-combat training-only semi-civilian helicopter like the Fennec ? Would buy it. For sure i won't buy the same helicopter twice, and i'd choose the military version over the civilian one. And i'd prefer one with a purpose in the DCS universe.

It's a very nice idea. And i'll second that without restriction as it is my life goal to bring people to the wonderful world of simulation. I already did with the Gazelle, i'd do it even faster with this plane if it was as your described. There's indeed a business model to explore, and a game mode to re-energize : coop. (Or as we call it, shared cockpit) It would transform my big no to this plane into a big yes. Because let's be honest here, right now i'd rather prefer to let my friend buy X-Plane during summer/winter sales then do a shared cockpit on anything possible, than to make them pay for this only plane without being sure they'll stick to this. It's quite an investment for a single plane. Plus, it would force to do things the right way : you start in shared cockpit, then one day the newbie buys it then you can explore formation or combat simulation. It. Would. Be. Great. And true to the game's title "Digital Combat Simulator".

He also said it wasn't the Mi-28N. Might be the Gazelle, i think one version of the Gazelle has it, maybe the Viviane.

Looks a bit like this, but at the same time, different : EC665 Tiger backup sight (or primary sight, depends which model) It seems like an older version of it. And it's not from a Cobra or an Apache. Maybe found in a "transport" helicopter ? Good question.

Well, even if i support M3, i know it's not the end. Maybe i'm in my denial phase after the death of my hopes and LNS' dignity but i'm pretty sure we can expect something better from them. If you seen their trailer, you just saw a terrible video with a poorly incrusted M3 logo up left to (sometime) hide the video recorder's user interface, a terrible montage with framedrop & terrible zoom, all of that for a terrible plane. Is that the reality we live in ? I don't think so. This video is too simple, after all we've gone through, it can't be this plane we were waiting for. Or rather, it may be the one they intended us to wait for, but there must be something under the hood. You can't go from a very stylish teaser with ZX Spectrum virtually showing nothing BUT what the user want to see, and then bam a rookie montage from 2008 done with Windows Movie Maker showing what they hinted us for. No. The answer is elsewhere and we should get into an epic quest to find it Think outside the cube.

I've searched for it, and another plane could be the An-2. I've found perfectly fitting An-2 silhouette over the image, it's a military plane, 1977 was the year some An-2 did an airbridge to Mongolia, it is aerobatic certified (it even has no stall speed ...) and it could do some recon.

Hey, now you're talking about it, it's an helluva commercial strategy. You hint the community toward an ultra-light, then bam, it's a Cessna Caravan with Hellfires.

You see what suits you, like many people.

Digital Simulator ?

Debate already started while nothing is confirmed. Be patient guys.