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The Gazelle is relatively easy to fly and is truly aerobatics capable. Spritely machine and a lot of fun.

I'm not quite sure how you arrived at blaming the entire operating system for this, there are so many moving parts to explore for this problem, hardware and software, each moving part is from separate companies and people which'll make it a lot harder to narrow blame, and sometimes it is down to a combination rather than one single thing. Traffic spikes apparently correlating with frame-drops in-game is the interesting avenue to explore if it's happening to a big enough sample of people. I've not experienced any of these issues, though; I have my rig behind a second NAT with a router I built from an old Thinkpad, in small part because I was annoyed at seeing so many packets coming from smart TVs not belonging to me, perhaps compartmentalizing the issue would help in this case, not suggesting you build your own router, but maybe just a cheapo SOHO off the shelf, then firewall any unwanted noise triggering dashost or whatever else it might be.

The Harrier also holds time-to-climb records that outdo everything else in the DSC fleet upto around 10,000' when the F-15 takes over, I believe.

With fore and aft control-column movement. Are you sure you're thinking of the right control surface, as a stabilator is an all-moving elevator and stabiliser, in regular forward flight this affects pitch.

I have an olde-school set of Xeons that do just fine at ~3.4GHz, CPU clock speed rather than core-count appears to be more important with DCS, though it won't hurt.

There may be certain exceptions to be made, that you'll see bigger/smaller spikes depending on frame-rate, so this'll be somewhat tied to CPU etc, in the ideal world there'd be a super-granular modelling of load factor the whole way down, but the landing is a very brief period of time so depending on when the computer sees model collision between the undercarriage and deck you might see unrealistic spikes. I don't know this for sure.

I'd grabbed the wrong information, but in essence; there's difference in load factor with sustained versus a spike. I just cannot find any solid numbers.

I have been flying the AV-8B in-sim regularly, and it feels authentic; I fly aircraft in real-life though just GA, this model behaves in a convincing manner, I've read through Harrier reports (Sharky, Franzak, Marston) and I can fly their numbers without issue. Whatever that counts for, I dunno.

By way of example, the Harrier's Pegasus engine (this goes for any other conventional or similar turbine) suffers in performance from high ambient temperatures and low air pressure, enough that when in theatres such as the Gulf war; vertical takeoffs and landings in certain regions were rare, if not at all possible.

No problem, yes; it makes sense when you look at Mach being a measurement of the speed of sound through local mediums, sound propagates at different speeds depending on the thickness of the fluid it's travelling through. On behaviour of jets at varying altitudes; read air pressures and temperatures; you will see variances in the power produced by the engine, so yes there will be differences in performance.

Great chart, I recall seeing this years ago and made me smile seeing that it's still up; though it is tied to air density than altitude, altitude being a happy coincidence.

Mach is not a fixed speed, it varies with air density, temperature and some other variables.

Mach numbers vary with air density.

The power usage is a great point, these Merlin singles have power to weight in buckets; you don't need to open the taps all the way, nor in a hurry; steadily raise the throttle and counteract for torque yaw with steady application of rudder. Pick outside references either side of the Merlin blind-spot for maintaining the centreline, once you see the ASI come alive you can pick the tail up with a little forward yoke (not too much) to afford a better forward view, rotate with back yoke won't be by much. That you have all that power; don't let it fool you into thinking you need full throttle; you don't.

Hehe, I find myself wanting to make those comparisons based on being useful on BF, the Huey is a joy to fly, but you'll take an age to get anywhere... yet have fun whilst doing it.

Tough one, both CAS, A-10 is tougher, AV-8 is faster. I have them both, and currently fly the Harrier more, a part of that due to being British and the history, heritage of the Harrier pings the old pride, but because the VSTOL capabilities haven't ceased to be fun yet. The A-10C currently has a far more complex weapons system, countermeasures et al, whilst the AV-8B has complexity in its different types of takeoff and landing with the numbers involved, weights and balances being far more noticeable in their importance and how it affects decisions with how you're going to get airborne, etc. It also has great night capability which is nicely modelled with NVGs and FLIR. They complement each-other well, so with that I'd say both.

Also, the 714 paged pamphlet quick start guide; https://info.publicintelligence.net/AV-8B-000.pdf Sniped^ caught me snoozing, feefifofum!

Here's one loop of a barrel-roll, or loop-n-roll;

I'm away from my rig, but I'll fly a loop and upload a track or video later. It's smooth but pretty quick as you can see with those nutters in Serbia, ease back stick all through and over the top, I don't recall lowering the collective at all, cyclic eased off as you start to come out of it to let the speed rebuild.

With speed well into translational lift, with enough it will loop quite readily.

Try switching USB ports, also unplug the VKB to see if that could be the cause.

The Gazelle has tricks that other rotaries in DCS will struggle with, great trim and stability, I've found it really easy to fly, it can also complete a loop from level.

Bear in mind, that they include the Air America skin, couple that with this;

We're just missing a physical Harrier throttle quadrant, wouldn't that be a nice thing, though maybe niche.