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Lace

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About Lace

  • Birthday 10/17/1978

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  • Flight Simulators
    DCS, MSFS, C:MO
  • Location
    EGNT/LFMQ
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    Mostly flying
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    Yacht Engineer

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  1. Lace

    Home airshows

    We regularly get Typhoons and Grizzlies at low level over our house. It is fairly easily recognised from the air, so I'm not sure if it is intentionally chosen as a WP, maybe it is just the OH sunbathing topless in the garden. but for any active aircrew, we are 10 ish miles south of Smokey Joes, not quite as far as Dun Fell golf ball (IYKYK). Give us a wave.
  2. As per the title. Distant LOD model shows the canvas tilt removed, which suddenly appears once you get closer. A minor issue of course, but I couldn't see it reported yet.
  3. The simple compromise, which I've mentioned on other similar threads is to disassociate swell with chop. Chop can be linked to wind, as in real life, and swell can be independently set. Chop is largely cosmetic, and swell effects the vessel pitching, rolling and heaving movement.
  4. I too have my reservations about the UI integration. DCS already stretches PC resources, and another seemingly unnecessary process running is certainly not going to help matters. It reads to me like the good idea fairy paid a visit to the team, and they are too far committed now to write it off and just make an aircraft module, which ultimately is what we all wanted in the first place. I think perhaps they were a l little too ambitious with this one, I hope I'm proven wrong and they turn it around, but I feel we are in for a long ride of frustration and troubleshooting well after general release.
  5. J & similar. The E is too loong. Not as aesthetically pleasing.
  6. Another bulletproof moustache right there.
  7. Oh, I know the nav basics, it's just I find it's generally not that necessary in game. I have a little LHS time in the Gazelle IRL, and that was also all done looking out the window. Generally very short VMC flights over known terrain though.
  8. Confession time... I've been flying the Gazelle for years without ever really using the NADIR. I recently started looking at it, but I find the Gazelle is very much a VFR, map and stopwatch type of aircraft. Most missions are <30minute combat radius. Its hard to get lost.
  9. No doppler on the Gazelle, I just look out of the window. How high are you hovering?
  10. Yes, I've uploaded it to User Files, it's just awaiting approval.
  11. I have made a small semi-realistic training mission for the HOT 3 missiles. You are a Cyprus Air Command Pilot tasked with performing a firepower demonstration at the RAF Akrotiri small arms range. The mission takes place at dusk, and can be carried out under NVGs or using the ambient twilight. Duration 30-40 minutes. No radio comms or needless voice chatter, just perform the task as briefed. Edit to state the obvious - Syria map required. null Cyprus HOT3 Training Exercise.miz
  12. The 500lb GBU-12 ideal for anti-armour, especially as you can essentially guide them in through the commander's hatch. Anything in the 1000lb class or over is excessive for single vehicles.
  13. I take it back, mine had a much better flight yesterday evening, and even managed three vehicle kills. I did find I had to be much closer to the targets, and stay in a very predictable (and therefore vulnerable to return fire) orbit, but he did ok. He picks up targets from a long distance, and starts tracking them, which is good, but still fires through the terrain if they are blocked and he is 'Weapons free'. It's also worth remembering (I'm guilty here also) that it's only a 7.62mm minigun, so doesn't have the stopping power of the other helicopter's bigger crew served calibres, and will be mostly useless against anything armoured.
  14. There is no 'landing speed' for the Viper, it is all AoA. If you are coming back heavy you could be 180KIAS+ over the fence, if you cleaned off the jet and are running on fumes it will be around 140. Also density altitude makes a difference as stated above, so another reason not to fixate on the speed, and just look at the indexer.
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