Kazius

I toyed with this ages ago and reported it. I can't remember exactly what I discovered but I think I found at 350 kias at 5000 feet I was almost hitting dead on from a level CCRP drop. But if I change speed I would go long if faster, short if slower. If I stayed at 350 kias (probably should have noted TAS), and increased altitude I would drop long and if I lowered my altitude I would drop short. So yeah, basically CCRP wasn't working at all. However, I did some CCRP drops with dive angles of 10-15 degrees and it helped a lot.

I hope not, I'm usually flying at less than half throttle. In this mission I have been taking off without afterburner, throttling down a bit to maintain 300-350 kias in a 10 degree climb. Once at 10,000 feet I level off and reduce throttle more so my wingman can finish catching up. Once I spot him off my wing I maintain speed of 350 kias until I get to the tanker. So usually my fuel flow is down in the 38/39 range in the hornet and I think it was the same in the M-2000C. In the image I was already slowing for the tanker I think. I have watched the flights in Tacview and the wingman doesn't do anything stupid that would require him to use burner.

Ah... I'm going to give this amazing Campaign creator even more money soon :) Merry Christmas

I flew it again and had kills on tanks on first pass every time. I think people just need more practice. Shadow KT you are right, I misunderstood what I read a long time ago or forgot. I don't think the gun is inaccurate. I have scored tank kills from quite a ways away. Even in the game it is by far the best and most accurate gun for A2G.

Your probably going to have to wait 25-30 years before you see an F-22 in DCS

I'm kinda weird and maybe a bit OCD, but every time I come to the hold short and can't request takeoff I wanna rip someones head off.

Went to try out some gun runs. I found the Gau-8 rips through T-55's T-72's and infantry like butter.

Only every 5th round is an AP round. It is why they call it a combat mix. The other 4 rounds are HE. Also you likely end up with angled shots so some AP rounds will deflect off the armor. The 59mm penetration rating is at 30 degrees. So if your coming in at a 20 degree angle and hitting the top of say the armor over the engine, it might bounce. Was curious about armor thickness not sure what a good source is but found this: Wikipedia: 205 mm turret front 130 mm turret sides 60 mm turret rear 30 mm turret roof 120 mm hull front at 60° (100 mm after 1949)[1] 79 mm hull upper sides 20 mm hull lower sides 60 mm at 0° hull rear 20 mm hull bottom 33-16 mm hull roof Tank Encyclopedia: Frontal glacis 120 mm (4.7 in), sides 80 (3.15 in), rear 45 (1.77 in), turret front 200 (7.87 in), roof 30 (1.18 in), bottom 20 mm (0.79 in) Another thing is, your firing at a dot on the ground, did the AP round hit the turret, did it hit the upper armor in the side / rear. Even though the gun is extremely accurate. You really have no way to 100% guarantee your round is targeted for the hull roof until you are super close range and by that time you are risking slamming into the ground. So you hit 20-50 so 4-10 AP round hits. Which of those rounds hit upper armor areas that are the thicker areas. Did it hit a hatch handle, a log hanging off the side, a tool box, a water can, etc.

Just a guess but Eagle Dynamics probably merged with Belsimtek for the purpose of having Belsimtek team focused on aircraft designs and the original Eagle Dynamics teams focusing on the game / graphics engine, mission editor tools, persistent server development, etc. But like I said, just my off the wall guess.

So I discovered this isn't just an F-18C Lot 20 AI refueling bug but a more wide spread DCS World bug. I tested this in the Mirage 2000C and experienced the same issue. Edit: I am Pontiac 11 and wingman is Pontiac 12. As you can see the wingman also burns fuel way faster than me. AI wingman probably need to be looked at for why they burn so much fuel. AI Mirage-2000C Dont Refuel External Tanks.rar

Yeah, the track system is horrible. Most of my tracks I take off, then at some point my plane falls out of the air and crashes into the ground when actually. i flew a good mission, landed perfectly in the end. It makes me wonder how they can use it for bug reports when it doesn't give correct data back.

I love the KC-135 refueling attempt in there for humor.

My question is, when I lift off, I pull in the gear and then set flaps normal and as soon as I set flaps normal the plane pitches upwards. I though flaps were to provide lift. Always assumed the plane would want to settle as soon as flaps are set to normal.

I've almost never been hit by a SAM flying a zig zag pattern away from the missile. Fist the missile is flying upwards so as soon as its out of fuel the zig zag pattern burns its energy super fast. Vs air missiles I always try to notch. So dive and notch. Most of the Russian planes in game fire semi active, so notch the plane. Even if they fire an active seeker there is a time before going pitbull so notching the plane can sometimes spoof the missile long enough that has picked up chaff anyways. As for heat seekers. I spam my flare button and turn towards the missile as hard as possible. I always get hit if I don't.

AI cheat in every game. Not a surprise.

Or Co-pilot if your in the Mi-8... I love that guy. Wish my Huey co-pilot would step up his game :megalol:

It does? I've been flying the A-10 all this time and not getting warnings from IR missiles. It's what sucks about flying over an unknown manpad. All you get is a thump and your trying to figure out why your computer's just turned off and half your plane is missing.

It has been like this since day 1. Guess I should have reported it back then haha.

Made a track file. Repeatedly tried to force him to fill his tank some more and he just doesn't get it :) But that is why humans are still the superior race. AI F-18 Dont Refuel External Tanks.trk

yeah, I told him to refuel again and no joy. This is super easy to reproduce so I will add a track file next flight.

I'm not 100% sure of this but I don't think AI F-18C Lot 20's refuel there external tanks. I have been building a mission and testing through a few times and I take off, half way to target I top off at a KC-130 and tell the AI to refuel as well. Upon return from the strike my AI wingman reports bingo fuel, meanwhile I have 60% fuel left. So I used some script to report fuel after refueling and noticed with 1 external tank each, I refuel to 120% and the AI only refueled to 100%. See image below (sorry, wasn't being fancy on making numbers into percentages):

One request. Please give us month by month support on the F-14 even if you start developing another plane. The six months of minor support on the Viggen during your 6 month grind on developing the F-14 was painful. I know I shouldn't have bought the Viggen at that time but didn't know it had become broken and wasn't going to get support until the F-14 was near completion. On the good side though I am super excited for the F-14 and no matter what I will support almost all developers of DCS so long as they support us back :). Thanks for doing a wonderful job on my favorite simulator.

I like it :) As it is that time of year, I enjoy the excitement in reading posts about F-14's, HARM missiles, etc. It is the same excitement this time of year brings to most people. On the other hand, I don't mind waiting till whenever stuff is ready. I have some experience coding and understand it takes time and patience to get things just perfect. I like how ED and most of its 3rd party developers do things. On that note, I still like the hype. Its fun to read.

Probably 99% easier and faster to code in than a HARM missile too, which is probably the real reason it goes in before.

ok, just a coincidence. I was reading about Canadian CF-5's and noticed a refueling probe. I was checking ED forums to see if they ever posted a reason for no refueling probe on the F-5E (maybe to keep it more pure USA model?). Anyways I came across this post. So look like this isn't the first time Wags has teased the DCS community. Same goes for the Harm although I truly believe the Harm still won't be released until January. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2510627&postcount=6