Eddie

CONTINUOUSLY Computed Impact Point, and there are far more than 3 methods of employing it. You're also incorrect on the mechanisation of 3/9 (incidentally, you don't pronounce the slash, it's just 3 9), and you've got them backwards in terms of potential accuracy. I suggest reading the following threads for the basics. http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1431431&postcount=19 http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=99688 http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=117350 Well done for the effort though, but there are quite a few common errors and misunderstandings in your video.

Use them the same way you would outside of combat, to coordinate turns and rapid roll inputs. Sounds like you would benefit from just reading up on basic flying and control principles really, there are a few good videos on YouTube by various flight instructors intended for people staying for their pilots licence which are good to watch through. Your rudders should be seeing just as much use as your stick in all flight regimes.

In the case of most test variants of missiles yes, there isnt enough room for a live warhead and a telemetry pack. Goes for most AA and AS weapons, unless you start getting into larger weapons of course. Of course, I guess you're assuming that the seeker video and impact video in the quoted clip come from the same test shot. I'd suggest not, although it could be. I've seen bigger "bangs" from purely kinetic hits.

It's a test missile, with the warhead replaced with a telemetry pack. The operational missile cannot transmit seeker video other than via the physical cable connection to the aircraft.

No it isn't. For "scramble" launches the stored heading or best available true heading (BATH) alignments are used, both of which are much faster than a full ground alignment and especially an in flight alignment. They do however provide a degraded alignment, at least if EGI GPS is not available. A stored heading alignment takes less than 30 seconds to accomplish. These alignment modes are not modelled in DCS, and as you can't "cock" the jet (ie pre configure it for a "scramble" launch) they wouldn't be all that beneficial anyway.

If you're that bothered (not sure why anyone would be when dealing with well know entities given credit card fraud protection), get a "virtual" card from a company like Entropay and top it up with whatever amount you need for your purchase. I do exactly that for transactions with unknown companies, especially outside of Western Europe.

If there is, then it's a bug and it shouldn't be there.

Most of the things that most people do in DCS are in fact bad habits.

You can use China aft to step missiles, however by doing so you'll negate quick draw, which is the main advantage of using LAU-88s and the reason why they don't automatically step from one station to the other.

Sorry, but that is a load of ----. Yes there are weather conditions that will necessitate cancellation of missions, but what those conditions are depend very much on the specific aircraft and its capabilities, and the importance of the mission in question. There were cases in "Desert Storm" where F-4G weasels took off with zero visibility, that is not even being able to see the runway they were taking off from. Now that is a very extreme example granted, but it can and does happen. And similar things happen still today, regularly. Conditions that would prevent civil flying and even cancel military training operations, do not necessarily cancel combat operations. That said people aren't talking about creating hurricane conditions, just some realistic and varied weather conditions. If you think military aircraft only fly in clear blue skies you are very sorely mistaken.

A slew switch replacement for the WH would be very popular I think.

Yes.

Yes beta 6, also noticed it in the last v0.9 version as well. Also just to confirm, this is with both DCS clients and the lotatc clients connecting to the same server and mission instance multiple times.

Dart, We have been seeing issues with duplicate/ghosted contacts for human controlled aircraft on our server. It seems that each time a pilot joins a new "track" is created for them, but the old tracks from previous missions are also present. Often leading to people having 3 or more tracks all overlapping, making reading the labels and determining aircraft/flight numbers near impossible and it's even more of a problem when players have ghost tracks from both red and blue. See the attached screen captures for examples. Any ideas on how we can solve this one? The issue goes away after the server is restarted, but with us often running a single scenario for two weeks or more that's not really ideal.

All instruments in the aircraft reference magnetic heading.

http://www.476vfightergroup.com/showthread.php?3131-Air-to-Surface-Weapon-Delivery-Methods Questions?

It's just a charge to propel the flare/chaff bundle out of the dispenser that's all.

That photo shows the empty spaces where the dispensers would be loaded. Most US aircraft use pyrotechnics to "fire" chaff/flare from the dispensers, hence their placement on the aircraft. Other types use mechanical action to push expendables from the dispenser. For chaff, you shouldn't "see" anything more than a puff of smoke from the pyrotechnic charge, or in cases such as the BOL dispensers used on Typhoon/Tornado and other aircraft nothing at all.

A nice declassified US Navy instructional video on Self Protection Jamming from 1962. Has some nice clear and easy to understand explanations of a few ECM techniques such as Range Gate Pull-off and Velocity Gate Pull-off. And even mentions numbers and types of RADARs that can be countered simultaneously (by 50+ year old systems). Imagine what we can do 62 years later. And what modern Surface and Airborne RADAR systems have to do to try and counter the countermeasures.

Seperate checklist(s).

Sadly not. The closest you can get is to reduce internal fuel by the same amount, which will allow the fuel to feed from the external tank to internal tanks once engines are running and RPM is high enough (airborne essentially). In an ideal world adding external tanks would just add fuel capacity to aircraft, allowing you to move the fuel slider up beyond 100%.

Sounds like you're approaching the tanker with Master Arm & Gun/PAC Arm still set. Both should be set to safe and you should be fenced out before you are approaching the tanker. As soon as you open the refuelling door EAC is disabled, which of course disables PAC which will cause the pitch up.

It's just primer that's all, it just happens to be green because that's the colour it's made with. Not all aircraft primer coats are green, but it is a common colour for primers in general.

Ok thanks. We have a few guys who are pretty much unable to fly at the moment due to issues with Aries so the next version, which I hope will fix the issues (all already discussed afaik) and make it all work well again.

Any eta on the next update guys? We have quite few members having serious issues with Aries (total loss of comms/loss of PTT functionat the moment, mainly related to the Eavesdropper issues that have been mentioned before.