Cavemanhead

Thanks for being so selfless and sharing. This is such useful information and so very much appreciated!

Does anyone know if the carrier deck in DCS can pitch as in the YT video below (reference at 2:10)? Would be great to see this added at some point... Very cool video too - "made from scratch".

I'll just say this... I hope any FM changes to the F-14 moving forward are "in the noise". It (and the F-4) just feel right. They feel like they're heavy yet "flying". I don't know how close the "numbers" are to every point in the flight envelope, but I do know that the sensation of flight is amazing. You just feel that the plane is under the control of some very organic atmospheric physics... behaving to control inputs as it's supposed to behave. You can really feel the depth/quality of the FM while practicing carrier landings... What a great technical achievement. Kudos to HB for a job well done.

Maybe someone knows if this is possible but I just want the ability to be "first person" after ejecting from the Spitfire (and probably any plane). Once my chute opens, I just want a clear view to look all around and watch the action. Like I can turn off the pilot figure in the cockpit... I want to be able to do the same thing after I bail out... Is there a shortcut key for this? If not, there needs to be! I think keeping the chute would be ok but an option to get rid of that too would be nice...

Maybe someone knows if this is possible but I just want the ability to be "first person" after ejecting from the Spitfire (and probably any plane). Once my chute opens, I just want a clear view to look all around and watch the action. Like I can turn off the pilot figure in the cockpit... I want to be able to do the same thing after I bail out... Is there a shortcut key for this? If not, there needs to be!

Cool project(s)... Does DCS have the capability to render only the external view with no cockpit whatsoever for full cockpit setups like this ones showed in this thread. It would make no sense to render a cockpit view and obscure the screen if one already has a 3D-simulated cockpit IRL...

Thanks much. I'm astonished that the website doesn't allow that capability with a single button click on the photo like 99.9% of all other pics on the web. Is that too much to ask It's almost like you just need to "try a little harder" to see a better view of the photo. Weird.

Yeah, it's a great map... Also enjoying it. The development screenshots are shown about 1/2 size making them hard to see. All one can do is arrow left or right to see the series... I want to blow them up larger so they fill the screen. How is this done?

Really? I'm surprised nobody here has a Virpil collective (or some other type)... Just looking for a few opinions based on real world experience...

I Have Vipil equipment for fixed wing and have loved it! Its great quality and functionality and I'm looking for a great hardware option for the collective. Is Virpil considered high end and/or best bang for the buck or should I open up my view to additional options?

I fly the F-14 for carrier ops 99% of the time and typically just practice trapping so I'm in a constant state of Launching and trapping over and over again - sometimes 1-20 in a row to get proficient. I'm hoping there is a mode for people like me that land, unhook, and taxi to the nearest cat for launch. I hope this capability remains!

Has anybody tried Running TET in DCS with the new version of Opentrack rather than the gamehub software? I use TET 5 for head tracking only. At least for IL-2, Opentrack seems to give much more view angles than the Game hub driver can.

Another one for Tobii integrated into DCS...

The option is next to the option for GUI Scale. 4K here and switching from 1.25 GUI scale to 1.0 fixed the issue. Was practicing carrier traps on the super carrier with the F14 when the issue occurred after the most recent update. I assumed it was present in any mode and did not confirm in anything but the Carrier Quals instant missions in Marianas and Persian Gulf

Yep, Same issue here. Flickering at the start. Then Escape key pressed and all is well but then when escape key is pressed again there is no menu to see...Grrr

7800X3D and 4090 and never looked back. Works great for DCS, MS2020, IL-2, Xplane. Fantastic Chip. And... you help drive competition to help lower prices. Win-win.

Well said.

I'm thinking/hoping the PIMAX crystal is the first PIMAX product that will be win/win for the company and the user. Most are happy with it's technical capability and it's at a price point that's (almost) realistic for a serious simmer. I'm hoping they improve the view angle and resolution marginally, and make it lighter with fans. If they can do that for roughly the same price, I'll jump in. A next gen Aero would be a better product most likely but the cost may be prohibitive.

If so... Can you use Gsync with an HDMI Cable? And, how has the experience been with the image quality, etc...?

Is it just a run of the mill DP cable and if so, how long is it approximately and what version of DP?

Loved the trailer and I'm completely jazzed about flying the F4. That said, I have very little time, and although I like to support the developers, I don't want to throw my $ away with a few flights in a the non-carrier variant only to spend the same amount on the carrier version when it comes out. Of course, if the carrier version will be a small add-on fee (or even free), then yes I can see picking up this module now. Does anyone know how the carrier version will be marketed? and... when it might come out?

I read my original post and it was way to strong and have reworded to put a more accurate emphasis on the message I was trying to get across (that it didn't seem to work for me... probably because I did not understand the concept as well as I thought). And I want to personally think you for the effort and time spent to make such a useable program for so many folks. I'd really like to learn to use it better and will look you up in a few weeks if at all possible. Thanks again for your capability, professionalism, kindness, and generosity.

The concept is great... If I could only master it. The binding/mapping process in DCS is straight-forward but tedious. I thought JoyPro was supposed to make it easy. It's like it randomly decides to map a profile when it feels like it... I have a clean file, and yet simple things like landing gear or arrestor hook show up in JoyPro but they wont map to DCS. Instead of making it easier, it's ended up being a challenge of its own. But, I know others would not think about not using it so I'm assuming it's me and not DCS or the program.

On standalone. I've never had to pick which version I want to run. I simply update to latest standalone and start... I'll go back and double-check my claim though... I'm getting older and more senile with each day so need to verify, but I don't believe I was ever prompted to make a new shortcut and choose a version, etc... And in the lower right it's just a number with no "MT" designation.

Thanks for the question and for explaining this. I really thought I was losing my mind because I thought the game was supposed to automatically pick the latest (MT) version when I started the sim. Why on earth would my machine default to the non-MT version is beyond me. I suspect there are a lot of folks out there who've never tested the MT version and think they've been using it!!! I guess I need to reroute the icon I use to start DCS to pull the "other" (MT) executable at startup. CRAZY!