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Nice work you guys! I'm so excited to see DCS getting some sweet aerobatic aircraft! As an aerobatic pilot who regularly flies the Extra, I'm kicking myself for not seeing this project sooner, as I'd love to help! I would definitely buy such a model, and know how much work goes into an aircraft even with "simple systems." Hopefully someday we'll stop seeing the posts that ask why we have aerobatic airplanes in DCS. Not only are these aircraft a ton of fun, great at increasing you pilot skills, and item #1 on some of our wishlists, but they also benefit the people who wouldn't bother trying them: They require high fidelity flight models and the FM features needed to capture the nuance of actually flying through aerobatic figures realistically helps evolve the base simulator.

She's my ex girlfriend, and one of the only people who I can put through most anything that airplane can do without her throwing in the towel (and this includes airshow types). Her new man doesn't fly aerobatics, but he's understanding about her need for G! The single seater makes more sense 90% of the time!

I'm really excited about this one! And it's $23! I can't even warm up it's big brother Pitts for that price!

Those libraries were the problem in some way, though I was only able to clear the error by completely re-installing, rather than attempting to update.

Same issue after removing and re-installing the various .NET, C++, and DX libraries... I miss DCS.

I have been getting the (0xc000007b) error with 2/3rds of my installs as well. I have updated .NET, DirectX, as well as Visual C++ with no change to this error. DCS World Open Beta version 1.5.6.5199 launches without issue, however DCS World and DCS World 2 Open Alpha both throw Error 0xc000007.

VR is awesome - I loved using it in DCS, and found the experience of being *IN* the sim really immersive. I'd have purchased a headset after that experience, except there was one big problem: the current VR headsets have a field of view which is much narrower than the human eye, and for users such as myself who weight peripheral vision very highly, a triple monitor setup plus TrackIR still gets you that better than VR. In a combat setting, also keep in mind that to check 6 with VR, you actually have to turn your head almost all the way around - even more than you would need to do so in actuality (for the FoV reason listed above). Once VR approaches representative field of view, I'll be first in line.

Here's ours, in our modded VolairSim. VolairSim Mods: *Replaced the bars on each side of the rudder pedals to allow for the width of our Crosswind pedals. *Added a much larger floor plate to bolt the pedals to, with no lip, along with a spacer between the pedals and plate to allow for heels on floor usage. *Shortened the 90 degree bracket to allow the center stick to rest lower. *Fabricated an aluminum plate to interface between the throttle quadrant and the stock plate. *cut and re-welded the right side stick arm (the angled one that also holds the keyboard tray) to allow for the side stick to move a bit closer towards the centerline. *shimmed the stick and throttle supports to eliminate slop. *built a steel dolly with wheels to affix it to, that enables portability. The MFG Crosswinds also have custom footplates on them that I designed in CAD, based roughly on some CAD that I got from Milan (MFG) and cut on our HAAS. The pedals are elevated above the custom floor plate to allow for heels on the floor operation and the balls of my feet can now rest on the pivot point of the toe brake actuators instead of above.

Still available?

Flying K4 through a torque roll, the engine fails and releases the smoke, go external then internal, and the sim crashed with the following report: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: DCS.exe Application Version: 1.5.0.45208 Application Timestamp: 560e60b2 Fault Module Name: Weather.dll Fault Module Version: 1.5.0.45208 Fault Module Timestamp: 560bf204 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00000000000095a7 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 6725 Additional Information 2: 672530bb97b12d3b7cffcbc9e7f329c8 Additional Information 3: b483 Additional Information 4: b483bd324c6a9a849918545610d62239

Add me to the list of people who'd like to get in on this. I'd probably be in for two or three.

1) An Aerobatic prop aircraft, Sukhoi, Yak, Pitts, Extra...

I just grabbed the HUEY

In English it's called Pilotage. Dead or (more correctly) Ded-Reckoning is the related method which relies on using the compass, clock, and weather forecasts to fly a given heading, for a given time, using a calculated wind correction angle such that you end up near-ish to your desired destination, where you will then most likely need to use Pilotage to actually locate the destination. At very low altitudes, as would often be flown by rotorcraft in a combat setting, Pilotage is a challenge unless you have detailed maps (and detailed scenery) which shows local terrain features, roads, powerlines, train tracks, streams, rivers, and lakes etc.

Yes, that would be great! Thanks! Yes, I discovered the e key a few days ago. I hit 175 something without it but the main thing for me is the line through the course. I think there are a few more seconds waiting for me at the gates where the vertical is used...ie being as close to vertical when hitting them.