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This. And right now I'd love to put a person inside a hanger or hardened shelter. Get tired of launching all my aircraft outside their shelters, particularly on maps where the shelters are so nicely modeled (if a little grassy in places, and I love the trees in there...)

That's been true ever since they started getting severely punished for putting actual news in newsletters. Since then they mostly recap what already happened this week, or add something with no discernible deliverable, and I can't blame them even if I'm not fond of the change.

It was actually an off the cuff comment by Casmo that convinced me to wait. This is the first DCS module I haven't purchased, so kind of a change for me and I might end up with it 'just because', like far too many other modules. I also do single player and while the more advanced airframe is tempting I have, at last count, six helos, of which I (attempt to) fly two and a half occasionally with one more on pre-order that may or may not end up oxidizing in the hanger. That's not counting the hangers full of jets and props that are also oxidizing because I only fly a few of those with any regularity. Doesn't mean Polychop didn't do an amazing job and if it had gone on sale in pre-order I probably would have jumped in, just not necessarily a fit for my flying habits. For $70 I can wait a bit and see how I feel about it later.

Oh...that was fun...and it works for cluster bombs, too.

Oh, I'm not talking instant. There's still that five hundredths of a second delay, and if it delays between each rocket it will still talmost 15 seconds to dump all 285. Still not up to the standards of a mild forth of July in my (fireworks that leave the ground are illegal) area. Easy way to test; air start, active pause, set up, F2 view, fire away. Track on request.

Rockets everywhere, enable all the pylons, set to continuous, it will only fire the rockets from the outboard (1 & 9) set of pylons. I have to disable that set, push the bomb release again, then it fires from the inboard (2 & 8 )set of pylons. Disable those, it fires from the center. I can't find a way to dump all rockets from all five pylons at once. Me problem? As intended and not a problem at all? The thing is a bloody bomb truck. Drives like one, too. Smokes like one. Sounds like one. Gets about the same mileage. Are we sure this is a jet?

I just got accused of making out with concrete. "Man, you just kissed the runway! Nice!". As mush as Jester is annoying that was oddly satisfying at the same time. That and apparently my landings are improving. Strangely it seems practice helps...

Meh. It was a two seat aircraft and it has two seats. I'm not a fan of Clown, but I can work with it. I didn't like everyone I worked with while I was in the military, either, and it's safe to say quite a few people didn't like me, but we muddled through anyway. As HB improves the code in theory Jester will have more utility and function better, but it's not going to slow me down in the interim and statistically they'll write code faster than I improve as a pilot. Before long Jester will submit posts wanting to kick me out!

This. Same issue with the F-14; the F-4 version is a little less annoying, but without any experience flying military aircraft I still feel he's more like a Hollywood caricature than an actual professional, and I have heard and experienced, universally, that military aviators are professionals. Just to make bad worse he ejected in the middle of a training mission (right on top of the BadGuy(tm) base). I completed the last couple passes of the mission, landed at the forward base, tried a repair to see if I could get a replacement Clown, which requires a shutdown. Nope. No can do. Refuel, restart, but now I can't get the INS aligned. Flew back to the rear base by dead reckoning, landed, had a steak and lobster tail while Clown was being tortured at the BadGuy(tm) Motel 6. Not even classy enough for a Hilton, but it served him right. Was he rattling off snarky comments?

I am currently struggling to understand how I keep my seat as a pilot in the Phantom. We make a good team; neither of us know what we're doing or do it well As I understand it allowing stress to show in comms is a hangable offense in Navy ready rooms. Maybe the air force is different. I do know, having had to communicate through stressful situations in the military, that 'uhhh' is still dependent on the individual. I know a few people who can't get a sentence out in non-stressful situations without two or three of those. In a perfect world I'd have a sit down with Jester and we'd work on that. It's not something you fix right away but with a little effort you can get past it, stress or no stress.

Thanks, Zabuzard! Look forward to that!

PIO. I could qualify as an instructor in the Advanced Pilot Induced Oscillation syllabus at any military flight school in the world; I'm an absolute expert at inducing oscillations. Strangely, taking my curves from 20 to 8 was a huge help controlling that, but some days I'm so ham fisted there's no cure but go do something else. One way to test this is set up something big, like a Bone at 400 knots, and fly formations with it at various distances. If you can fly steady a few plane lengths away and start to oscillate up close it's all you. <edit> If it's wake turbulence in close it's going to snap-roll you like a paper airplane in jet exhaust (I got spun into a tree trying to formation land with a Bone at Tel Nof). It won't be porpoising, it'll be a sudden, probably violent loss of directional control. Further out it's a little less violent, but no less obvious. I get into wake turbulence all the time flying formations with F-14s when they turn into me (or I get ham fisted), which is my normal lead. </edit>

He did say he's 'lost that lovin' feeling...forever' after what I thought was a reasonable landing. The secret seems to be keeping your foot on the gas until the wheels are centimeters from pavement. I've gotten spoiled by things that fly on their own and cut power way, way too soon. I've gotten a 'nice landing' or something like that and a couple other compliments since I started flying it right to the ground. Am I doing it 'right'? Probably not. It's a beast. I like it. Might even get used to Jester some day.

Got it! That makes perfect sense; just gotta get Jester trained up! Early access...he still has delusions of adequacy, just like the guy in front! Still want a binding, though, because if I'm chasing a BadGuy(tm) through the weeds trying to manually guide a Sparrow I don't want to deal with the wheel...lessee...Jester, Radar, TREE!!!

I see this as less a case of messing with his knobs (after flying with Jester a while I'd really rather not, thank you) and more me telling Jester where his knobs should be. It's not that much different than telling him to set the radar scan to 50 mile wide, which he often ignores. In this case I'm telling him to set a particular aspect based on what I see in the front seat. Given he can see squat from the back seat I don't see the problem.

This! Double plus good idea.

I've heard every snarky comment for bad landings a few times. Once, quite by accident, I got "Text book landing! Nice!".

I get that after the engagement is over and the sky is perfectly clear; not so much as a seagull, and I've fenced in. No pavement, no spikes, not a pound for air to ground on these missions... Stuck on 5nmi and whatever other oddness he threw in there. I have to go back into the WSO seat to get the radar where I want it. Then other times I fence in and when I look up we're back at 50. I think Jester is just prickly. I generally don't mind that; I can be a little prickly myself, then he decides to depart the aircraft and I can't even go into the back seat (because he took that with him) to fix things.

Syria or Sinai, but lately I've done a lot of training in Kola. The problem with Kola are the distances. Since geopolitics doesn't exist on my maps that shouldn't be a problem, but that western coast is so pretty I don't want to blow things up there! I run into the same problem with SA. Kola also has a metric boatload of unimplemented towns and villages, and while it's tempting to use the streets to lay out a custom BadGuy base eventually I expect buildings to appear and mess that up. With the S maps I just put the BadGuys out in the desert, and since Massun was added I can build an entire base from scratch on a blank piece of sand. F10 menu to add threats as needed depending on what I want to play with; at some point I should start to use AI wingthings, but for now I just fly single jet and manage the targets as appropriate.

This has been night and day for both targets and environment around airfields. Absolutely amazing addition, and hopefully ED identifies and adds more of the same, and Massun 92 doesn't stop here.

I use the little thumb rotary axis for zoom, and lately it's been really, really jittery. Anyone have a similar problem, and any suggestions for a fix? It's workable right now, but pretty soon I'm going to have to use something else for zooming...

Your wife doesn't piss me off at all. Jester, on the other hand...love having to squirm my way into the back seat to change radar range after an engagement because he suddenly can't seem to remember how to flip that switch.

No external power, just plug and play. A little slow on the refresh, but those exported screens don't need blinding refresh other than maybe radar, which is why it's on the card. I don't notice the delay on any of the other screens (or even the F-16 radar). https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-USB-HDMI-Adapter-Converter/dp/B09CDZXX3S/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1C8EBDG4P74Y0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.W4O8i5syNQMMJPA8-iZ53ooGjZQPA-Y9DK-7sobGQu4ncH3lrhjXhoVVS1Ex5vY95BAJCOiRJf3jW8o-e5FBAUTgSXzeQNdTvsAMyN0M5_2TPcdo8EftKZBRMrR3X2L_YfS5vVaLIGqm8PtnaBUcoDnAOaZZCmhuKsVJYkjMUgSA9vFgDehVibjBLx7B5KmXE3jRIpEhQ2ogw_QWz-dy_Elf9nLCyUVUowzkDzAQ_L4.7BN-BGYfHw080QDiExzRf2YAsvNJWsNJIL1VMkeY0Q8&dib_tag=se&keywords=usb-c+to+4-port+hdmi+multi-monitor+adapter&qid=1717004455&sprefix=4+port+usb-c+to+hdmi+adapter+for+monitor%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-4

I run 4 Cougars with monitors behind them and have never actually seen this; one of them is directly attached to the video card and the other three to a 4 port USB-C to HDMI converter (F-18 radar lags when it's on the converter). Once in a great while the USB-C device will need a reset, but once that's done everything works again. They get used on the F-18, F-16, F-5, F-14, and anything else I decide to set them up on. Of course that's cheating. On the F-4 all four Cougar monitors are blank unless I kick on the kneeboard, then it's where (ED thinks) it belongs way over on one corner of those distant monitors in a completely unusable location. Changing that is also cheating, so I don't use the kneeboard because I'm too lazy to fix it and I've gotten used to not having one. Anything I try to export from the F-4 shows up on the side of the main screen scaled wrong, almost as if the F-4 refuses to recognize anything but the main view port. Posted on the bug reports, got crickets back. It either gets fixed some day or it doesn't, in the mean time my RWR is an overlay on the right side of the screen. Almost better that way.

Would be nice to have a toggle for X-Y on TACAN. Given the 6.023E23 commands available, which was wonderful to see, I'm a little surprised it's not already there!