Raisuli

Sounds like a Russian to me. Russians are are famous for many things, customer service is not among them. Yeah, yeah, I'm about to get flamed in Cyrillic, but you know I'm right! :thumbup: :smilewink: La-La. Watch me start playing in WWII arenas...freaking rocket ship on the deck; higher HP/Weight than even the vaunted Typhoon (no, not THAT one, the other one!). If he can make an La-7 that's even in the same football pitch as the I-16 it will be a winner in DCS.

PG is Persian Gulf (map) Crossroads Baker is the most famous Wilson cloud in history. The underwater Bikini test. We, and this includes ED, already know the ship damage models are borked, but it's still surprising that the smaller warhead is more damaging to ships. Makes me wonder how that's modeled under the assembler. I played with ship damage a months ago working on Harpoon launches from the F-18 and IIRC the Soviet destroyers' performance varied significantly based on terminal behavior and cruise height of the Harpoons. I also seem to recall two destroyers were significantly harder to hit than one. Unfortunately I didn't document those results as well as you, but I ended up bringing in some Tico cruisers at one point to bat cleanup after my flight of 4 F/A-18s were done.

Still working on the 'stop' part that comes right after 'land'. It's eluding me. I find people who decide to taxi across the landing area when I'm halfway down the groove (in an F-18C LOT 20) far more annoying. <edit> If I wanted the 8 after F-18 and the parend that followed to be an emoji I would have made it an emoji </edit>

Did the single mav hit sink the ship? I've noticed in PG it can take multiple harpoons to sink one of the built-in commercial ships, but a single mav sends it down faster than Crossroads baker.

The other option is to take an existing mission and play with it in the editor. It's a great way to highlight the aspects you enjoy and learn the mission editor at the same time; if you can make your own missions you never run out of single player content...

Correct is the position you prefer as far as I know. Sometimes I bump the seat up to get more view over the nose (especially doing carrier landings in the F-16), but the HUD limits how far you can take that. The (clueless) guys who did this for a living might have better information, but they're probably wrong about it... :smartass: :joystick: (that last bit was entirely tongue in cheek and an attempt at humor)

I hear ya, and you motivated me to get past the 'install Voice Attack and figure out how to get Viacom Pro working' point. I've got the one installed and my license activated (surprising given how long ago I bought it). Now I'm at the 'nothing works' phase. If I get this thing going finally I'll have to get the SC license. Ziptie, that's exactly what I was doing, but my ability to keep the oscillation down up close is minimal at best. Hand from throttle to fumbling around for the KB, which is not placed well, was enough. That and the WifeACK was firing on full auto, so I got a little frustrated. Didn't realize KC-135s have ejection seats... :thumbup: Then again, I was making the ball calls on my latest AFU landing and the LSO never got it. Odd. That binding usually works. At least with the carrier I've finally realized when people say "fly the ball" what they really mean is "fly the ball". That's making much better sense and my approaches are improving.

The two planes I seem to find myself in most are the F/A-18 and the F-5E-III. The F-5, like the MiG-21, is a pilot's plane. Steam gauges and the original fly by wire system...if you look around in the cockpit you can even see the wire. Of the maps currently on the table I'd say Syria; in theory it's still growing, but what you have is enough. You can fly against anything you like as AI, and if you master something like the F-5 or MiG-21 you can fly anything out there. All you need at that point are piccolo lessons.

I have voice attack and VIACOM, I've just never set them up. Ignoring the Air Force seems like a workable alternative, however. Thanks for the tip!

I watched the video Tim Davies did with Simon Pierson, and as a joking aside Tim described EXACTLY what I do with A2A refueling (and quite nicely gave me the clue needed to fix it), so I tried again. SO close. >< that close. But then the KC-135 started giving me that 'return precontact' silliness, and since I have to take hands off HOTAS, which is a contradiction (it's not hands on if you have to take hands off) to do the communications, is it? Kept getting 'return precontact', kept having to click and poke to give the ready precontact, kept getting return back...so I shot him down. That's okay, isn't it? The Chair Force doesn't mind losing tankers when Hornet drivers get annoyed with them, do they? How nice it be to get a key binding for 'ready precontact' like the 'call the ball' binding...

No, but that might be because it's mapped, and the default for my F-5 sight mode switch (5 position) is "off" (I really, really need to clean my plate so I can work on the Mk II pit) which correlates to "INT". Because it re-aligns the cockpit to switch positions that might be enough to move the switch "all the way left" and it lines up. I hadn't thought of that before, but maybe that's why I've never had the mid-position problem, and the mouse just moves it from label to label but the binding does not. I've been doing way too much software QA the last few weeks, which is not what I normally do, and my brain is fried; no clue why that didn't occur to me before. Good catch!

Yup. Saw that, don't have that problem. With the mouse it always hit the labels (a detent is something else :) The real question is what kind of pathetic spelling checker doesn't recognize 'detent' as a properly spelled word in English? :smartass::joystick:

I love messing with those files. There's already a list of things I need to change; I guess I never considered the possibility they also affect the graphical position of the switches themselves. After every update I spend quite a bit of time re-changing default.lua files in DCS; the A-10C-2 was an inevitable addition to the change list. Thanks for this. You ARE the Master of Controllers! :thumbup: :joystick:

I noticed a while ago that the fuel selector switch works perfectly if you use the mouse to move it, but I have it mapped to a 5 position switch, and when I use that to change settings the dial is out of position. I've included a video with the mouse moved off the switch (yellow cross) and I use the mapped control to change position, then the last run I bring the mouse over and cycle through again. Video here

I don't think there's a time limit given I can fly the length of Lebanon, part of Syria, and into Turkey before I successfully fail to refuel. The probe is out the whole way. :thumbup:

Lavochkin La-7 or even the La-5/La-5FN from осьминог-г?? First day buy. Heck, I'll pre-order. Want to kick start? La-5FN was an all time favorite from a different sim. Absolute beast on the deck as long as there was no failure/poor manufacturing modeling. Yes, I know, I buy all my mods first day, but I'd actually fly this one! Two (or three) 20mm cannon, accelerates like it has an afterburner, good visibility (in non-Soviet versions). The only one I've ever seen is a replica at the Nizhney Novgorod Kremlin museum, and it was still beautiful...

I'd bet money this will positively be brought up when... Just kidding :). They'll release it when it's done, I'll buy it the same day.

That's exactly what I did. About as rusty as you can get, but I did manage a (very bad) landing at Ramat David the other day. Like riding a bicycle; you get it all back pretty quick.

Well. Good news is by the time it's done downloading the Hind, Apache, Mosquito, F4U-1D, Zero, Essex class aircraft carrier, F-4J, and F-22 will have all been released!

Very, very cool stuff. Thanks! <completely off topic, but the horse is already dead, so...> All the threads around here with real people who've done the real job starts to explain where all those thousands of dollars per hour to operate these machines go, and why it takes so many people to maintain an aircraft. You 'know' it, but it makes a lot more sense now. As for 4 HARMs...I just use those realistic red parachutes with weapon power-ups to get more missiles in flight. If it wasn't for the purple parachutes with gas I'd be in trouble... :thumbup: :pilotfly: :joystick: <we now return you to your regularly scheduled equine carcass beating>

I've seen exactly one stutter, and I think that was my fault. Are you using VR? Motorola 6845 CGA chip? This is the graphical equivalent of 'the internet is broken' and makes troubleshooting, and assistance, challenging.

If the radio menu is open the mouse won't work. Have to close that first.

So...pardon the dumb question. If loading up to ferry equipment, do they bother to hook it up? Can you have an AGM-88 on the rails as just dead weight, then tell the jet that weight is there by other means for the FCS to whip out the slide rule and do whatever it does? And a follow up question, does it matter that the dead weight can't be jettisoned in an emergency situation if it's on a rail that can't fire it? This is all nit-pick operations stuff, I'm just curious how it works.

I just learned takeoff was under ground crew and not ATC a few days ago (because it never really mattered until then, I guess). Land, taxi to some free part of the flight deck, rearm/refuel. Radio menu->ground crew->request launch. Take off. Wash, rinse, repeat. The good news is you can do that all day without maintenance getting on you, and by the time they know what you did you've already closed the program.

Um...I'm not sure you understand the International Trade in Arms Regulations. There may be all kinds of security restrictions on the transmission of information to anyone without a security clearance and a need to know, but ITAR only applies to export, and even that's still possible with a license. I have all kinds of ITAR controlled items in and around my house, including, and I know everyone will be scandalized, a...telescopic sight! I can show these to any private citizen I want because none of them are classified, but I better not pack them in my bag if I cross the border! It's also worth noting that the SMEs have to be somewhat careful on these boards because everything they say is exported. It might not be classified, but some IP may fall under ITAR. This is part of the dance ED has to do, and why they tend to be very, very careful. :thumbup: :pilotfly: :joystick: