CrazyGman

Absolutely hate the new dot system. Completely immersion breaking. Look I have a 1440P monitor, and play cold war the most often, and I was able to spot targets just fine. Does it require some training and practice...yes, but it's easily doable. I originally went from a 1080p 17 inch laptop screen to my current screen that is 1440P 27 inch, and have always been able to find planes at realistic distances. Now the current dots are just horrible in my opinion.

Yes she is heavy. She is a big aircraft compared to the F-5 and MiG-21 with a relatively underpowered engine when it comes to wet thrust (dry thrust is actually pretty good) she gets her good speed from good aerodynamics (unless you thought the cockpit front visibility was just there to make life more challenging) it also doesn't help that she carries speed well and there is a narrow margin where you have to fly her where you aren't carrying too much speed but you are also not bleeding too much speed, as she is both hard to slow down and speed up. this is much narrower then in the MiG-21 and espessially the F-5 where you are fine for quite a while..until your not, with the F-5 able to point it's nose at will up the point where you go below 300 knot (just be gentler at high speed with the wings). And the MiG 21 slowing down with next to no effort, and then just muscling through with afterburner to get speed back, and using take-off flaps to float like a kite Also from a psychological standpoint if you are doing serious slow speed dogfighting with her the alarms will be screaming at you the entire time, and simple fact, if you are going against an opponent that is half decent, unless they just let you gun them in the back when you win the rate fight they are going to bring you slow to try to force an overshoot, so you need to get used to using combat flaps, your airbrake, and most important your rudder for low speed manuvers and your aircraft alarms yelling at you the whole time.

Nevermind it's already been done

The problem is heatblur decided to give Jester a personality, but they should have learned from their exposure to F-14 SME's that those personalities are terrible.

Would it be possible to create a Jester replacement mod for the F-14 and F-4 called R2? I find the idea of replacing Jesters voice and mannerisms with a series of high pitched whistles, beeps and trills far more tolarable.

The Mirage F1 flight model is fine, and at good weight and loadout she is awesome. I fly both the F1-CE and F1-EE on ECW and do very well fighting all opponents from F-5s and A4's to F-86s, and even back when fighting MiG-19s and MiG-21 when it was part of blue force. The tweaks that Aerges has done are subtle but noticable throughout the last year, and the plane is in a good state. Just watch my video here And here are my stats on the server in case your wondering, and about 85% of those hours in the F1-CE are with guns and AIM-9B, So trust me it's more then a match for it's contemporaries in game Half fuel and wingtips only if your going to dogfight, otherwise boom and through.

Were you getting weapons loaded onto your plane at the same time you were doing the alignment?

Guys the problem is you are arming during alignment. When you arm during the alignment process the weight of the ordinance being put on your aircraft moves it, (yes just the squatting of the gear under the new weight is enough in game) thus messing up the alignment. Which means you have to do rearming before or after the alignment process. I noticed the error the first couple of times in ECW and was wondering if the shimmy of putting the 530F on was doing it. Then paid attention during the rearming and lo and behold as soon as weapons got put on the pylons squatting the aircraft the alignment failed.

Currently if I select the matra 550 by going into close combat mode, and then go out again, it takes a full 35 seconds for the missile to re-cool down and get tone. Even if i turned it off for less then a second and am pointing at the sun. I'm guessing it was supposed to be 3.5 seconds like it is for the other missiles, but there was an error entering the decimal at the right spot on the magic 1s

Thanks!

Manage your weight and she'll do fine vs the F-5 and MiG-21Bis

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If you have a copy of a manual could you send it my way too?

I'm guessing it's been posted before but does anyone have the tables or procedures for doing rocket lobbing with the Mi-24P?

So looking at the ammo feed animation on the 2A42 gun. regardless if I have AP rounds or HE rounds selected, only the bottom ammo feed gets feed into the gun. The top ammo feed remains stationary, and the bottom feed animates regardless of the type of round selected.

Sigh....been away from the server for a long time. Really sad to see that it has gone.... This is where I first got into multiplayer with DCS and with the MiG-21. it was always an awesome experience, and the missions were memorable. I miss the challenge and tactics that were involved, and when things were line up these were the best and most enjoyable multiplayer experience. I'm sad to see it go. Thanks for all your hard work and effort Alpenwolf

I'm guessing the nose of your aircraft is to far of center. When your asking him to fire. Can be easy to havw happen if your just looking at the target and not making sure your aircraft is well line up with the target

I find the subsonic acceleration has also taken a major hit. also it's turn rate used to be that you could be at 410knts and maintain that at 15 AoA, now trying to do the same thing you can only maintain it at 12 AoA, and also trying to get the speed up from 300 to 400 is now much more of a chore. Could be though that that is just how it's supposed to be.

Compared to the F-5 and MiG 21 she takes off easy...remember guys unlike other aircraft it's full flaps for take off on the F1. Spool up till afterburner. Release the brakes. Rotate at 140-150, and she pulls up smooth without to much stick.

I'm fairly certain it's not currently implemented. Had it both positions starting a flight in multiplayer with both missiles. Works regardless of position.

Most times I fire the 530EM it's at 4-3nm at the most at a hot target outside that the 530 will frequently be defeated. You can't effectively turn the plane to notch in time for Chaff to be efffective inside those ranges. Same against any fox 1 fired at that range.

In reality they get destroyed quite frequently. Almost everytime they deside to merge with 2 opponents. It's big and easy to spot. And you just get 1 guy to drag and bag them or tie them up and they die pretty quick. The short range IFF ability is also reduced since it's not instant and frequently you'll have to use the tv camera to confirm. Even if the server allowed the tomcat to take 2 phoenix missile it wouldn't really improve matters for it much in the long run