Hey Mates! As a veteran Falcon/BMS simmer going back to the night it went gold with Gilman, I have for two years now tried to get my head into the bucket of the sim with DCS. I have hours in the A-10C, MIG-21bis, and F-5E. Up until the last mission in the AV-8B, there has never been the moment when I was "There" and it felt like I was literally fighting the sim most of the time.
I purchased the AV-8B and after a few hours of training and videos, I decided to load up a mission and go bear hunting. I downloaded SEDLO's LION'S HAMMER (ver 1.0) and fired her up.
In this mission as I came off the target with a MIG-21 coming in hot for baby, Grunting and Twisting in the clouds above green mountains at the merge I pulled into his 8 for the 6, popped the winder and looked it in for the kill, rolled out to my next steer point with a heart-pounding adrenaline pump in a cold sweat.
Thank you, DCS, RAZBAM, and SEDLO for a true moment of being "There".
Boner
