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  1. Raisuli
    So...today's uber dumb question. If I take DCS offline I can run it forever. If I want to update (every six-ish weeks) I take it on-line, do the update, then go off-line again. Apart from not being able to access MP servers, which I don't anyway, is there a downside to this? I'm really, really liking it. <edit> Ok, I have two installations; one for reviewing tracks and creating missions on my desktop, one for playing on the simpit game machine. Offline the desktop version has the time limiter, which makes absolutely perfect sense. I can always RDP into the game machine for that kind of thing or pop back on-line long enough to log the desktop in. Either way that's a me thing and ED did it right. </edit>
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    Woot! Thanks, BN! I owe the guys a beverage!
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    Won't even be a blip unless downtime becomes significant. This is the second time in recent memory, though, and the 'offline mode' failed then, too. You only get to 'investigate' so many times, and how many hours does a server need to be down before someone gets an alert? Not exactly five nines. It does set my teeth on edge, though, because I'm about to start a SOC audit (yeah...ugh) and once again we have 100% uptime because my department rocks. EDs IT team might need a review...
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    Don't they have fish ladders? Barbarians, I tell you! Of course this brings to mind Craters of the Moon National Security Area (the most bombed place on earth, even if most of them are subsidence craters). Sedan crater, that really big one at the north end, was going to be a demonstration of the 'peaceful atom' where nuclear charges are used to dig canals and other large earth moving projects. Mountain in your way? Why tunnel when we can remove the mountain? I recall the Friday Follies (kind of a long, boring, off topic story) that said the light on the D1G ball indicated a submarine was inside being refueled. Never mind how it got there. Nuclear powered ships are just slightly to the left of witchcraft anyway.
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    Nope. At least not as long as it takes to hit the water after going into a nice ballistic arc with only flaps and some rudder to manage it. Took off from 59, landed on 59, took off again, same problem. 59 is now retired and has been replaced with a different carrier. My gut is it's not likely to come out of mothballs in my lifetime. Incidentally if you run up to AB, then back down to mil salute gets you off the boat. On non-SC carriers all you need is mil. Still need AB to get off the Kuz, though. At least if you want to keep flying after the deck ends.
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    Yup. Getting Hawk flashbacks. The list of modules that are not authorized and won't be available includes...all of them. Does expose the lie of ownership; we own nothing, we're renting it, and the moment EDs servers go down we're left with an Su-25 and a P-52. I'm in the software business and I do get licensing, but I also get the grace period when our licensing servers go down, and they do go down occasionally. The good news is we have plenty of time to fix them before it's customer impacting. Do we get scammed? Not really; the software is pretty bright, and an uninstall really doesn't uninstall everything. Really wish ED used the same philosophy... Of course you can land. Landing is mandatory. The only variable is the quality of the landing...
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    There's as much chance of a carrier in Lake Mead as there is finding one in the Black Sea, but we're allowed to put them in the black sea. Neither of those two options are realistic, but we ignore one and enforce the other. I've tried to put a carrier in NTTR with no success. Otherwise my biggest complaint is...desert. I still cruise the strip (at mach 1.3 in an F-16, 1.18 in an F-18, and considerably lower in an F-5) now and then, and use Pahute Mesa as my favorite place to shoot BadGuys(tm), but I can do the same things elsewhere, stay away from the deserts, and have a boat to practice on. South Atlantic is becoming a favorite (no desert at all) and I'm really looking forward to Kola (no desert at all). Fortunately Iraq and Afghanistan are coming. There's no such thing as enough desert. We need Libya and Algeria to get more desert into the game.
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    Well, back to the carrier at hand, I had to remove it from a mission.. Can take off once; the second time I take off I have no flight controls. Makes flights short and interesting.
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    So...really dumb question. Is the problem the file for CM programs (CMDS_ALE47.lua in the case of the F-18) or is it a group of .luas, or is it all .luas? Exporting the RWR does much the same thing with IC, but adding control bindings does not (I think? Did that change?). The point being is it a wishlist item to sort exploitable vs 'safe' config files or is that a bit like ordering a sub-safe screen door? Yeah. The latter has been done, but it was messy.
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    Make sure Silver Dragon signs up, otherwise I'll never know what happens on Discord or Faceplant or any of those other sites...he's my go-to guy for DCS news.
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    I always have a Minion start my AH-50 while I continue to relax in my ready room. There's realism, then there's realistic. I don't get paid to do this, so it has to fit into the time available. Realistically pretending to fly seems to make more sense than pretending to do walk arounds and review maintenance logs and talk about gripes with ground crew and finally strap in and start up. After an hour or two the brakes might come off. Meanwhile outside my simulator it's time to make dinner...so it wouldn't matter if I had unlimited fuel and ammo set, my play time is over. Then again, some people might have to worry about all those things that seem to interfere with gaming and have virtually limitless time to align INS before every flight. Problem solved in both cases.
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    Doing CV ops with CV75 and 59 in the same group; 75 1.2-isn nm port of 59 and a little forward. Set up 59 for TACAN and ILS (and mode 4, but didn't try to link up). No ICLS, but that could have been me just as easily; sometimes it doesn't work with SC. No deck crew, radars spin backwards, yada yada. I like the Forrestal. Took off from 75, lined up to land on 59. First pass bolter (probably me flattening out the alpha). Went back around, and as I passed 75 got the IFOLS in my cockpit from what I assume was 75 simply because it was the only thing close. Landed on 59. In this track I go external to check flight controls, (because I've seen all this before). Line up with CAT 1. I've noticed on 59 the aircraft will creep forward forever once it starts, even with the throttles at idle. I've also noticed once I stop with brakes I have to tap them again, because my brakes in the -18 stick. Different problem. edit - DUH! Didn't box ILS...been a while...that's my excuse (among others) and I'm sticking to it! Line up on CAT 1 and launch. Once I leave the deck no throttle, pitch, or roll control. I had rudder, but that was it. So what did I do wrong? Honestly I don't know if this is a 59 problem, a '59 in a SC CVBG' problem, an F-18 problem, or a me problem. My normal mode is to suspect the latter. Sorry for the long track...incidentally why can I save a track anywhere but only load them from a local drive? Another different problem? 2024.02.05 CV59 Ops.trk
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    4x154A JSOW, 2x2,000 pound JDAMs, TGP, 1x120c, 2xAIM9x, all at 40,000 feet. Way more difficult than doing a show in air thick enough to walk on... Besides, I don't spend any effort thinking about what other aircraft (real or imaginary) can do. I kind of focus on what I can do with the modules available, and what their performance limitations are. Doesn't really matter how fast the National Guard jets that fly over my house can turn, I don't fly one of those...
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    Proficiency poll

    Raisuli replied to Kaktus's topic in DCS 2.9

    I have all the trainers. My favorite, hands down, is the F-5. Steam gauges, no autopilot, no hud, no computer, no GPS, no Bettys, or even Betty-Lous, nagging in your ear. The radar is great for telling the enemy where you are and not much else. Phosphor faced CRT displays. The most high-tech thing in it is the HSI, and that's VOR/DME or TACAN, which isn't very new either. Hand flying and endless trim adjustments wherever you go. If you can keep that straight and level over a thirty minute flight you know how to (pretend to) fly a jet. Ok, you can Velcro your own NS430 to the brow if you can't live without an LCD screen in your life. Otherwise it's slide rules and E6Bs and while you were calculating range your nose dipped and that threw the trim off and now you are not where you wanted to be. Time to recover. As for IFR, that's just a tweak in the weather settings, or do formation flights in clouds. You're either bolted in close or you try to maintain speed, heading, and alt on the instruments and hope you can find the lead on the other side without running into them first...
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    I love my F/A-18A+(C/2). If I had a real F/A-18C I wouldn't even know how to strap in, and forget about wrenching it (or paying for a full tank of gas). Besides, It wouldn't fit in my garage. But I can pretend to take off, use cartoon -154As to DEAD an airfield, then come back in and do all kinds of harm to a pretend ammo dump (with lots of simulated secondary explosions) blow up most of the helo graphics, do a 600 knot overhead break over a representation of a friendly airfield, roll left to break right, and act like I landed all without leaving my home office. All with stunning visuals and seamless integration with my home-built simpit. Plus or minus a few annoyances along the way. Like trying to formation land with a B-1 and getting wake tubulenced into a tree right at the edge of the runway. Pretty awesome! It's the closest a guy who never could be a military pilot will ever get to military aviation, and there's no military BS to go along with it. Doesn't get better than that! For that matter it's as close as 98% of the people who play DCS will ever get to actually flying military aircraft. Is it perfect? Gosh, I hope not. There are people out there who do this for real, and I'd hate for this to be a way to train BadGuys(tm) to cause them harm. I'd much rather the systems be nerfed/changed/different enough that it feels good with minimal risk. We already know what happens when BadGuys(tm) go to flight school, so it's a real danger.
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    Government manuals. Yeah. RPM and SPM combined exceeded the takeoff weight of an F-4 and occupied about four lineal meters of shelf space. The 'Red Book' probably weighed in at five hundred kilos, and we had to memorize that one. The only thing I remember is 'THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK'. Somewhere there's a manual that talks about 'Faded Giants', though. We did those drills about once a year (or two), and they were an absolute riot. There's also an F-4C manual (T.O. 1F-4C-1 - Flight Manual - F-4C, F-4D & F-4E (01-10-1970)) that covers the F-4C, F-4D, and F-4E, along with the NATOPS F-4J if you dig for them. Naturally not going to post links; I have copies in a folder dedicated to actual military manuals, some of which have cool information in them.
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    You mean I can't use 10 CBU-97s to clear a few city blocks on the theory that absolutely everyone in those apartment complexes is irrevocably evil and thinks football is something played with an oblate spheroid using your hands? That would complicate the crap out of my urban renewal planning.
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    If I'm not supposed to shoot C-5s at civilian airliners should I stop harpooning civilian ships?
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    Knowing how I fly? I always default to the nut behind the stick; it takes a lot of evidence for me to suspect the software. Generally if a problem is common I might think it's something else, but landing on a carrier is only easy for CGI artists, who can put an F-14 down the centerline even after losing an engine in the groove. Come to think of it I haven't even tried since the new simpit build. I'm sure that after two or three months without doing any work around the boat I'll be predictably skillful on those first two or three. Hundred passes. <edit> Yup. As I suspected. Enough bolters and the LSO starts to ask if you've ever considered flying for the Air Force, then if maybe you should try a Cessna, then they send you in shame to an 'alternate'.
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    Didn't know that was even a thing! Nice catch given the complete absence of anything resembling a useful error message! The problem solved itself, though. Apparently exporting RWRs to a 4th MFD gives me an unfair competitive advantage; of course I need all the advantages I can get flying against MP pros, but I don't want to be unfair about it!
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    Oh, we really need to talk! The AH-64 is out to get me...
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    Thanks, BN! F-16 loves to dance for me, too, and I've always assumed the nut behind the stick was a little loose. That's been slowly improving as my flight time increased, but this provides some concrete cause and effect to think about beyond over-correcting (which I do) and getting ham-ankled with the brakes. I don't expect that nut to get any tighter, but maybe the guys in the tower won't hurt themselves falling down laughing every time I land...
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    The 'Next' button is aggravating. So much less carpel tunnel from scrolling.
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    Yeah. Discord. It's almost a shame pretty much every squad/MP server uses it, because I'll only go there for things that have no other solution, like ordering the backplane for a FCP. The S/N ratio is asymptotic to Kindercare as often as not. Discord changes the value metric for a lot of things, but being somewhat non-social (for very large values of 'somewhat') that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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    Thank you, sir, and have a great weekend!
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