DmitriKozlowsky

Thank you. In my Case 1. Stennis has TACAN of 74X. I have TACAN ON, and enabled in HSI. But I don't see STN 'DIST' on HUD. Thats the only difference for HUD symbology I see. Also , on my 2560X1440 panel, unless IFOLS overlay is ON, I do not see ball lights. They are either too dark or too small or both. Same for Kuz. My RTX has a tendency to darken view through HUD a bit. In Wag's demo, his Stennis's landing area textures are clearly seen from distance. Mine don't resolve until I am between mid and in-close, and my aniso filter is 8X. Higher then that and it hits my FPS. Obvious that people wh find line up easy have a superior sight pcture then I do.

Track recording and playblack needs an ACMI style GUI and playback. With rewind, fwd, and trajectory of aircraft.

Here is me struggling with line up and altitude control, while in pattern. Also I am less confused about sequence of actions at catapult. Point of 'what should I do now' at catapult, when hook up greenshirt is below the plane and spinning his hand. Is that a signal to pilot or to someone else? If I don't do anything, he just sits there spinning his hand. I don't get why I am getting such large excursion, to starboard when coming on to final. I bank at same 45 or so angle at same or so speed as bow break/ FA18CCQl.trk

OK thank you

How does one bring ILS bars onto HUD? For Stennis ILS Chanell : 11 ON. TACAN 74X: ON Mode: NAV Is there a HUD submode for NAV landing?

How does one bring ILS bars onto HUD? For Stennis ILS Chanell : 11 ON. TACAN 74X: ON Mode: NAV Is there a HUD submode for NAV landing?

Why am I getting LSO grade in Harrier landing on LHA Tarawa? Usually it is "No Grade, improper communications" I have Supercarrier module and it works with F/A-18. In AV-8B with Tarawa, I only have "Inbound and Request Landing" options. There is no ILS overlay of approach lights that LHA uses. Which are different from CVN. There is no LSO communications. So what gives? What am I missing?

At some times, on final. LSO would go quiet, no communications at all, and ball overlay would loose the light. I appear to be on some glideslope, but with no ball light, I cannot tell. Does that mean that something went wrong? I have deviated so much off glideslope that OLS and LSO just ignore me, when I am on final. No wave off. Just silence. But then I trap, and I get a C or '___' grade. So it is confusing. I still have lineup issues. I am not sure why. I fly upwind leg of case 1 at 800 AGL at 250 knots, 800 feet off stbd beam of carrier. Then enter base leg at 650-700 feet at 200knots , gear down, flaps, hook down. Baseleg is continuous turn into downwind leg at 600 feet at 150 knots, then enter into continious crosswind leg turn into final to line and intercept slope. But despite best efforts, turning 170 deg to final from upwind leg, I dont get a line up. I end up far off beam, and have to fly at angle to inter. All my turns are between 30 and 40 degrees of bank.

USS Shangri-La CVA of 1950's and 1960's. For Vietnam Era A-4, F-8, S-2 Tracker. I really like those small Cold War CVA-ASW carriers. Fast, wooden decks, two cats, extra-small landing area. Perhaps Royal Navy angled decks of 1960's and 1970's for future F-4K and Buccanner modules. H.M.S. Eagle for example. With primitive mirror Optical Landing System.

Well, with a little imagination yuo can imagine all sorts of hyper-no-rules-no-barrs scramble. 1, Incoming enemy cruise or ballistic missiles, or enemy strike at its IP going into their bomb run. 2. You are stealing a Harrier, becouse Pepsi promised you one, and did not deliver. So you joined USMC or RNFAA, went through program and qualled on Harrier, just to steal it. If an enlisted Marine E-5 sgt. can steal a A-4M in real life, you can steal a Harrier in DCS. 3. Spitfire like air-air scramble during day with decent weather, to intercept low alt bogeys that snuck in below radar. You dont need nav, you can turn on comms and HUD after you r are in air. You dont need MFD's ON. All you need is engine power, electric power, Master Arm ON, and be in SEAM mode. 4. You are taking into battle a HarrierII with No-Go avionics. A common condition in Red Flag , and equivalent Navy/Marine exercises. A scorer would declare that this airframe has non-op FLIR, no TPOD available, laser designator/spotter is NO-GO, enemy has 'jammed' GPS so no IFA, then directs crew chief to turn off INS, so pilot has to fly mission with whiskey compass and a paper map. A new in theater, combat ROE, is that to limit collateral, using modified inert 'blue' ammunition on target. Rounds have propellant, but are low density 'blue' resin projectiles. Inert rounds impacting a traveling civilian car can still rip apart that car and occupants. Again what does Harrier needs to take off and fly? Pilot, engine power, hydralic power, electric power. Once in air, throw a few switches, to get HUD ON, go into SEAM mode, Master Arm: ON, and visually aquire. You are ready to fight. When oppourtunity arrises, switch NAV from OFF to IFA, and let GPS guide you. You won't have INS NAV, as gyros are not spun up. Your altitude may be whacked , as altimeter was not set. But hey you are fighting and flying in visual. Just like Group Captain Johnny Blaize against Gerrry in 1939-1940 BOB.

Cannot line up in Hornet. Just do not see runway lineup lines on carrier until in close Can't do it. Cannot line up. At 3/4 miles, I do not see carrier runway textures. All I see are blurry gray and white that only resolves into a discernable image in close , and by that time, its too late. Tried the 180 -20 method, but still I need to see carrier line up lines. But cannot see them. Anyone else having that issue.

Nope, no fingering. Takes too long to get her into their air. However, in practice, as I throw switches and power up, I am going through finger checks, without opening pages. What is not needed: No lights, no comms, no nav. Really not even HUD, but its nice to have. What is needed: POWER, flaps, nozzles. Combat Power: ON T/O-Land H20: As needed, when needed. Flaps: VTOL Master Mode: VTOL VSTOL gate to 60, 65, 70,75. depending on weight, density altitude, and available runway distance. WHeel Brakes: stepped ON Bring power to full As power comes to full and wheel brakes are over powered, release As speed goes above 60 knots nozzles to 60, 65, 70, 75 as needed. By the time the nozzles are in position the aircraft is near or above 90 and weill jump into air. Think like a pirate or criminal. What does aircraft needs to fly and what it does not.

I am having a hard time getting AV-8B to spin. It somewhat resistant to spin. Still I found that if I stall at high AOA, liike almot 70 units, it may enter spin. At that point, full power, nozzles to 84, rudder to opposite of spin, and stick center full fwd. will recover aircraft very quickly. So either its naturally easier in DCS AV-8B or VTOL are just easier to recover. I am curious why that is. Without the aerodynamic math.

Time hack 10:27. Shows QRA F-15C from ANG(?) with SniperXR pod on centerline. Instead of chins of F-15E/EX. I have never observed that. Makes me wonder if SniperXR can go on centerline point of F-16C

Still worthless. Does nothing. I run installation, and nothing happens. So whatever!

WTF is Google Authenticator and why am I not actually getting challenge codes? So here is the thing. When I donload Google Authenticator App for WIndows, it never passes Norton test, and it is reported as malware. When I install it as Android app on my pad, it gets nothing. So what VERIFICATION CODE is DCS site asking of me?

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So what do DCS players with more intelligence and experience do? How do they know which runway to land on? How do they know which parking spot to taxi to? WHat is the correct answer?

How does one see targets through FLIR or TPOD in FLIR mode when rain and fog are present. When rain and fog are , I can't see anything through FLIR or TPOD in FLIR mode. Its just slighly different shade of green. Not much use in landing. In clear weather, at night, FLIR and TPOD FLIR work fine. With rain, clouds, fog, I get little to nothing. Have to bomb blind on waypoint or tgt coords. I am discounting cheating using colored dots for ground units.

What I am asking for is clarity from ATC. When there are multiple runways with same azimuth number, ATC needs to tell me LEFT or RIGHT. The audio ATC part of 'taxi to runway' also has no L or R. It has to be read from screen message. But no such L or R is included with neither audio or message on landing runway. In same way, ATC needs to hand off to field tower and tower directs to specific parking spot. "TAXI TO PARKING" is just not enough. I used to beleive that parking on return is same as parking on start. But that is not the case. Then I looked at wingmen parking and followed them. There is no predictable patern I saw. AI taxies to somespot on field that was not used at mission start.

There is high turbulence and crosswind (10 knots) with rain. But that is immaterial to my post. Tangential at best. I dont have Viper mod. I may trial it to see if 06L and 06RL ILS beams works. In Mirage2KC, I can only capture 06R at ILS 110.10. 06L with 109.30 is not captured my Mirage.

So this is the issue I am experience with Mirage when recovering iin Guam at Anderson AFB. Poor weather , low viz, and rain. Visizibility is less 3km. OK There are two 06 runways at Andersen. 06L and 06R. 06L ILS is 109.30. 06R ILS is 110.10. Active runway is defined as runway that ATC directs you to T/O from at start of mission. Presumption is that T/O runway is same as recovery runway. So if ATC directs you to T/O from 06L, the recovery runway is 06L for the mission. So on landing ATC directs you to runway 06. They do not tell you which one. So we are left with presumption that we land on same runway that we took off from. However in DCS, Andersen 06 runway only 06R ILS works. 06L ILS does not. So in APP mode with ILS set to 06L 109.30, there is no ILS path and synthetic runway. You have to recover on 06R. P.S. Do not rely on flashing approach lights to determine which is the landing runway. Its not always the case. Sort of random. All these problems add up when there is low viz with rain at night, with ILS set and ON, TACAN set to 54X and ON. ADI set to TAC. Mode is APP. At low altutude with high terrain of Guam. Gear down, speed is 180knots. But there is no ILS capture. So you have to go around, and start throwing knobs . THis is case when ATC and ILS do not gove pilot correct information. Or information is incomplete. ATC has to direct clearly which runway to land on. At minimum.

So this is the issue I am experience with Mirage when recovering iin Guam at Anderson AFB. Poor weather , low viz, and rain. Visizibility is less 3km. OK There two 06 runways at Andersen. 06L and 06R. 06L ILS is 109.30. 06R ILS is 110.10. Active runway is defined as runway that ATC directs you to T/O from at start of mission. Presumption is that T/O runway is same as recovery runway. So if ATC directs you to T/O from 06L, the recovery runway is 06L for the mission. So on landing ATC directs you to runway 06. They do not tell you which one. So we are left with presumption that we land on same runway that we took off from. However in DCS, Andersen 06 runway only 06R ILS works. 06L ILS does not. So in APP mode with ILS set to 06L 109.30, there is no ILS path and synthetic runway. You have to recover on 06R. P.S. Do not rely on flashing approach lights to determine which is the landing runway. Its not always the case. Sort of random. All these problems add up when there is low viz with rain at night, with ILS set and ON, TACAN set to 54X and ON. ADI set to TAC. Mode is APP. At low altutude with high terrain of Guam. Gear down, speed is 180knots. But there is no ILS capture. So you have to go around, and start throwing knobs . THis is case when ATC and ILS do not gove pilot correct information. Or information is incomplete. ATC has to direct clearly which runway to land on. At minimum.

V=Bombers were kind of done by late 1970's. Their heyday was late 1950's, 1960's, and early 1970's. Victor is , IMHO, far more mysterious and baddass looking then Vulcan. Vulcan was all area rule and ogive delta wing blended lifting body organic. Flying cuttlefish. Or mantaray. Black Buck mission, as heroic and legendary, really showed to RAF and NATO that Vulcan was not a global strike platform. What was difficult for RAF Vulcan and Victor tanker package in 1982, was everyday work for USAF SAC B-52 and KC-135 crews. Takeoff from anywhere in the world, and strike anywhere in the world, then return. If Victor was flying today, it would be stealth black RAM coated, cerramic IR suppressing nozzles. It would look like it belonged sitting next to B-2A and B-1B. With glass pit, SniperXR pod, AESA LPI nav/attack radar, carrying LRASM, JSOW, and hypersonic ASM.

Try without water injection. You'll find it next to impossible. Water injection was not originally in design of Harrier. It was added , during late development, at 'suggestion' of US Marine Corps, after marines joined Harrier program. As technology water injection is 'weird'. Its really old tech, predating jet engines. Water is 1000X denser then air. Spraying demineralized water turns mist into steam and it it ejected along with exaust gas out of nozzles. Becouse it is 1000X denser, it increases thrust, but it also cools down combustion chamber, causing incomplete , inefficient fuel burn. Thus overall thrust is increased, but fuel burn is lowered, so exaust is dark and sooty. Its not very apparant in Harrier II as design is optimized, but its still there in photos. Bcouse water injection increases fuel usage dramatically and amount of water carried is limited, water is 100X heavier then fuel, use is limited to T/O and landings. Earlier water injection implementation can be seen on 1950's B-47 and B-52 departures. Engines exause is dark soot. Gross! I do not know if SR-71's J-58 used water injection. I guess its still classified.