CBStu

Newbie here trying to figure out what new plane I should buy. I fly the stock TF51 fine but found it has no guns. I bought an A10C and found I can fly it fine but the electronics are way beyond me, at least at this stage. I watched a tutorial and 50% of that was way over my head. So I thought a WW2 plane might be the way to go since they are much simpler. Bought the Spitfire and can't fly it. I have about a 10% chance of getting off the runway and those few flights I usually crash on landing. What can you recommend? Also is there somewhere I can read reviews of various planes?

Also I am not sure that the runway number is exactly it's course. They seem to me to be close but not exact. In another sim I do a lot of short hops and I set it up so I start on the runway. As I am sitting setting up the flight, I note the heading displayed on the instrument panel. That is the exact heading number.

Thanks guys. Yes TF-51. No wonder it won't shoot. I will try your suggestions for getting to a browser.

In quick action flights: 1- How do I shoot the guns. I see the toggle just ahead of the stick but it doesn't do anything. Another arm switch somewhere? There is no mention of guns except for gun heat in the control menu so how do I set the joystick trigger?. 2- After a crash is there a way to get a quick start or do I have to quit and reload the flight? 3- Is there a way to run less than full screen so I can pause a flight and get on the web for info?

I can't really help much w/ one exception. A year or so ago I wanted to upgrade my card and one thing I ran across on the web is to be sure your power supply will run your new card.

I am newbie here too. Flew the F51 that comes w/ the world. Was looking around while the sale was on and grabbed the A10C. WOW, I can take off, fly around and land OK, but still haven't figured out how to fire the gun. Watched a tutorial on the armament and didn't even know what half of the terminology meant. So thought I'd drop back to a WW2 plane since they are much simpler. Saw a neat module for the Spitfire where you can follow a campaign via a real Spitfire pilot. But you need maybe 3 modules to make that all work. So I thought I'd just fly the plane and decide later if I wanted to do the rest of it. That Spitfire is the worst sim plane I have ever flown. Dang near impossible to get off the ground and the 3 times I got it in the air I crashed on landing. Yesterday I was determined to be able to fly it so I went through the tutorial and spent 2.5 hours trying. Pretty much the same results. Also the instruments, especially airspeed, are terrible. I don't know how close you are expected to sit to the dash but I had to program two easily reachable key board keys to zoom in and out. Went back to the F51 and immediately took off and landed. I did break the landing gear a couple of times but my success rate is about 80%. Oh, and I can read the gauges too. BTW, I am a newbie here but flew all the Microsoft flying SIMs back in the day. About 6 months ago I got back into sim flying w/ XPlane 11. No expert there but I can fly the 737 and use it's autopilot and I can land the FA18 on the carrier w/ maybe 85% success. I will be doing both XP and DCS because there are things I like in both.