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I firmly believe tactile buttons would be more effective than the capacitive touch sensors. I don't exclude the choice between the two since maybe someone prefers capacitive, but I will explain why I don't. Tactile feedback gives you a "roger that" that makes it faster and more foolproof. I have had a HP41CV calculator "for ever" and I still haven't found a keyboard that failsafe, I always know that my press was recorded and correct. I have an HP41CV emulator on my phone, but I always notice missed keystrokes - a physical key makes a vast difference. I have a LG monitor with touch keys on the front, I truly hate and despise it, it is almost impossible to see where you are intended to "press" and you never really know if you hit the correct one. Lousy user interface... Enough about that. I am so very HAPPY that you report further progress! Good work!

The mission is of high frustration level... The search light is just illuminating some rain but has no real effect on ground, it is almost of no use at all. The illumination of the cockpit itself makes it even harder, the contrast is hard to deal with. The radio menus are overfull and missing Batumi is quite a drawback, landing is very hard without illumination. When cargo is hooked the problem of getting the navy to light up is not easy, I messed around with the radiomenus while flying and dropped into the sea. Since the mission involves quite a long transport, it takes a long time to start all over again. Hard night conditions should involve a short mission, not a long one, this is a frustrating mission - not a fun one.

I could hook the cargo, stood very close to it. Then I dumped it into the sea... Flying this without NVGs is not fun since the search light is of no real help at all...

MilesD, just do what you are doing. Few have the knowledge AND the energy and time to do what you are doing. Don't listen to us, do what you think is right and I assure you that I and many others will buy it... Listen to our wallets :-)

@ MilesD I want to buy one! Simple as that. Your design decisions and compromises are exactly what I believe is right. Just stop listening to all of us and just produce it! We will buy it.

About Miles "stealing" an idea. I have no absolute proof but some reflections: Throughout the years I have come upon two things: 1. Simultaneously ideas pop up at multiple separate places. The time is just "ripe" for ideas based on what is known at that point in time and the problems encountered. 2. Ideas get "borrowed" in some way or another, sometimes is is outright theft, sometimes it is completely unconciously. The number of "inventions" that later on are proven to have been thought of earlier, sometimes decades or more, are countless. The thing is, to be frank, the one who actually implements the idea AND successfully markets it is THE "inventor" remembered. The inventions and ideas lying in some desktop drawer somewhere are in a sense meaningless since they didn't come to the awareness of others or to be used. I have many times noticed that ideas I put forth in discussions may pop up years later from one of the persons listening to me, and they describe it as THEIR idea and frankly BELIEVE it is their idea. Something got into their head, falls down in some vague memory and pops up as a new brilliant idea. For them it is their own idea since they do not even remember where it came from or who planted it. People work that way, not many of us have perfect recall. I have high respect for any creative person no matter if it is an artist or inventor, BUT I have come to the conclusion that "intellectual property" is just a tool for the big man to crush the little man, and is driven by pure greed. Patents, Copyrights etc are just creating monopoly and hinders true invention, the opposite of what is officially claimed. This is just my opinion. For Thick8, or whoever feels bad for not getting credit for ideas, I sympathize with that but at the same time - that is life. I actually created a working prototype for reading fingerprints optically in 1982! When trying to patent it I discovered a vast amount of gadgets that /could/ interfere with such a patent, and without economical muscles you cannot enforce a patent anyway. My invention was put in a drawer... Today my phone has a fingerprint reader, and someone somewhere are making a lot of money, not me. But so what? I applaud Miles for his drive to make a working product. I will for sure buy one! I also have had ideas very similar to this to solve my own problems in DCS VR, but I am very glad to let someone else do the work...

I recently flew that mission. I had to try several times. First I am to trigger happy and run out of ammo. Second time I miss some vehicle and search for a while and giving up. Third I try to aim better and flew low and got myself into the explosion&debris... Then I tried to take it very easy and slow, shot a few rounds and wait for results, go around taking time to line up, almost standing still and waiting for them to travel to me. Low, slow and shot a few rounds at the first vehicle. After a few circuits all vehicles seems destroyed and I just waited to get a message "mission accomplished" but that didn't come. So, I went in slow and low and took a look, and about ten men stood around the vehicles so I had to go shooting them down. It took me several circuits and it wasn't easy targeting small things I could hardly see (Oculus Rift), but I finally got the last one and RTB. For me, this was the hardest mission (yet, up to at least nr 15).