Tom Kazansky

Thanks for the opportunity to fly such an aircraft in a combat environment. Never have but I sure will!

Before I got my rudder pedals with toe breaks, I used a slider (axis) on my HOTAS for breaking. Didn't like breaking with keys.

...and if the contact were a contact.

The "when?" seems to be the problem to me not the "why not?".

There is an known issue with most/(all?) aircraft landing on ships and crashing DCS.

That's from the wide angled camera that captures the scene. especially in those right banking turns. Picture this: Pilot's view 12 o'clock sees the horizon, 3 o'clock high sees the horizon and 6 o'clock sees the horizon. The cameras FOV sees almost the whole horizon line at the same time/picture. what else than a massive curve should be the outcome?

Maybe the Litening could be adjusted to its real quality in steps, so the pain is reduced a bit. If the display quality difference between current Litening and Sniper does not change, there will be those discussions for decades.

Litening = game Sniper = simulation ?

Really? Most of the time I don't update DCS in the first days after a patch is released and I never ever had a problem to launch DCS without an update.

Hi, I myself got very curious, too about how that works. For those who want to see and hear how that works in a civil sim, here is a YouTube video. It's interesting right from the start but if you want the fast access, you may wanna jump to 28 min to the lined up position on the runway.

For comparison, do you have an IR (WHOT) screenshot of a similar building 44 nm away with the Lightning pod?

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Thanks for clearing things up and refreshing my memory.

I remember the days I had played DCS in 2D and I had to press numpad 5 each time I started a mission to get rid of the initial zoomed out view. Later I learned to adjust the view like @MAXsenna described above but I still had to press numpad 5 to get to this saved view from the initial zoomed out view at mission start. Don't know if this is still relevant. edit: IIRC there is an additional keybind that resets the zoom in DCS. I can't remember whether I had to press that once, too. Just give it a try. (I will when I'm back at my PC)

Damage of one slat (left or right) that is not retractable anymore?

Router restart fixed it. Thank you.

That's news to me. didn't know I can bind keys that way. sounds very handy. will try that, thanks!

Since ED introduced bindings for their comms menu up/down/back/select/... I find it very simple and less immersion breaking to navigate through the menu(s). I just have a modifier and the 4-way comms button on my hotas to do this. I don't say it is better or worse than the big HB-style wheel, but you already don't have to fiddle with F-keys anymore in VR.

Is this screenshot taken from DCS or F.BMS? I won't post a link but if yo search for BMS 4.38 Trailer at YT and go to 2:20, there it is.

thanks! even the mobile version of the site works on my PC. seems to be something on my (not so) "smart" phone, or me.

Thanks for the input that led me to a test on my PC. And it works, but not on my smart phone. So it's on my side. Thanks! edit: no VPN's

Is it just me, or is the DCS website down? Any info for how long? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/

I Like that cockpit. Some scratches and wear but very nice readable white labels. Not too new, and not too old. Still a matter of taste of course.

Thanks for those hints