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The Dogfights DVD sets have some good F-4 action over Vietnam. F-4 was built more as an interceptor for Soviet bombers than a true dogfighter. But could take on MiGs in the right hands in a knife fight. Sadly the F-4 was frequently hobbled by the Rules of Engagement in Vietnam, such as needing to visually identify the obvious MiG rather than just splashing it BVR where the Phantom ruled the roost. And forced many fights into the close in dogfights that better suited the MiG's

Pre-ordered. Now to pull out that F-4J Flight Manual book I got a while ago ,and get reading.... And will try not to get too distracted by my other Phantom books/DVD's and suchlike

So BS3won't work with DCS 2.7 latest?

Hi, My Throttle is bricked now as well. Reading through for the causes and fixes, both temporary and permanent. Question - is the replacement board an exact replacement (i.e. some part so will brick again at some point) Or does it have the USB voltage fixed on the replacement board (i.e. new version won't brick again) I know nothing is guaranteed, as other things can brick it. But don't want to swap a part with known issues for a part that has the same known issues

Thanks that got it trimmed. Holly crap that's glacially slow! Took at least a minute and then the flashing box eventually disappeared. Would hate to need the constantly trim the Viggen if that's how slow it is.

I'm having the same problem. Back to DCS after a bit of a break, Fresh to the Viggen and really wanting to fly it, as rather fond of it. So want to go through the training missions. Including cold start. Not touching anything until told to. Not even going near the Emergency Trim switches. I have nose trim mapped to my Warthog HOTAS joystick. Works perfectly fine on the P-51 etc. and can even watch the trim dials move on it when I trim. For the Viggen - nothing. Doesn't move the needle at all. Even used the keys and extra trim mapping on the Throttle. Tried pulling and resetting the Circuit Breakers mentioned above. But it will not change the trim at all. Means I'm stuck on the tutorial as it won't let me past the trim point. Tried altering the trim in the taxi and take off tutorials as well, and nothing either. Is the trim system broken at the moment? Anything else I can tr to get it trimmed?

Nice setup Abburo. Where did you get the G940 extention from? Now have the Warthog with the Pedals and Joystick of the G940 as well. So just need to switch joystick when needed - Warthog for 'playing the piccolo', and FFB for the Pony etc. Which is actually very easy in DCS as you can set up plane specific setups. Warthog throttle has more features than the G940 one so that can go back into storage as extraneous (nice tip Aelisug). Pic of my setup attached.

Will keep the warthog for the Warthog and fast jets, but will add in the G940 as well for the prop planes and such like. May need to shuffle the room and desk around a bit, but reckon I can create space for both, and use them as needed. Will look into the electric issues mentioned above. So cheers for that.

I have a Force Feed Back Logitech G940 and a Warthog HOTAS. Whilst the Warthog is superb for the A10C, what about the P-51 and Dora? More than enough buttons for the prop planes, and feedback too. Is it worth the effort and clutter of putting the G940 onto the PC as well for the DCS Prop planes? I'm wondering here how much the ffb would help with feel and handling compared to the Warthog? (P.s. already have the G940 pedals connected to a switch and trim box so pedals taken care of when using the Warthog):joystick:

Think of temperature and time like you would your car. The handbook will tell you safe standard times and temps, but you rev the engine hard stuck in traffic on a hot day and she'll overheat pretty fast. Do the same thing mid winter and you will get away with it. In combat it's also more about controlling the pace than going flat out all the time - like a racing car braking and coming down the gears for a tight corner but accelerating hard on a straight. Full out all the time and they'd never make the bends.

It sure does. I'd hoped for an easy fast mission where I could wobble off the airport and go try to find a ground unit to beat up on. So that I didn't need to spend a load of time settting a mission up as time was limited. I wasn't expecting a bunch of aircraft right above me straight away that could outpace me and kill me from distance. This was on 'easy difficulty'. I'd hate to think what I would have faced if I picked a 'hard' quick mission...

Thanks - was just wondering that myself having got the huey and Mi-8 last weekend and flailing about miserably whilst matching the tutorials settings. Was about to ask the same myself.

Just got the Mi-8 and tried to go for a spin. (Quick mission - on easy). But I couldn't even get off the ground. I kept blowing up just trying to get into the hover. Didn't even last two mins. I knew I was a newb on the Mi-8, but come on - I aint that bad. Was checking controls and trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Then I noticed the post mission summary. There was a flight of A-10 right over the airfield firing mavericks at me. I was under immediate attack on a quick mission on easy....:cry:

Slightly 'off topic' but thought you might like the look of the new hasagawa eggplane out soon - wonder if we can get one in FC3... http://www.hasegawausa.com/product-pages/hsgs6131.html

EDIT: Seems to be a topic in the bug folder with a possible fix : http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=97317