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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

Installed FC2 (had bought it when it came out - but cue hassle of re-downloading the files for this PC) Updated DCS World (needed but not mentioned - so cue annoyed wait for another large download...) and then it finally allowed me to install FC3. Launched and ran fine. But promptly got shot down in minutes as couldn't find where half the controls were mapped to on the Warthog HOTAS before being pounched upon. oh well! least it works now.... Concerned though that others with just the Lock On CD will be shafted if it can not detect it automatically. Will they be forced to buy and install FC2 as well to get it to work? ED/DCS - any install and activation advice for the CD users?

Should be stuff in there. I have a bunch of DCS World install repair uninstall and multiplayer icons etc. Might be a bad install?

I have Lock on installed from CD. It's the Ubisoft CD. No key or anything. Registration takes you to the Ubi site only. FC3 installer says I need Lock on 1 or FC1 or 2 to install. Which I have. But does not recognise it. No readme or instructions or anything. Nothing to say how I get the old Lock on registered with ED. How do I get FC3 to recognise it and install? Do I need to install all the FC1 and FC2 files one after the other first? A ball ache to download and re-install if they just get ignored and or overwritten for FC3. And a real problem for anyone with just the Lock On CD.

Cheers.

Don't try quoting 'technique' whilst she looks looks over your shoulder at the mangled remains of your last landing attempt.:pilotfly:

You rarely fly exactly where you want go due to winds blowing you off course. E.g. you may need to fly 125 deg at 430kt to end up flying an actual track of 120 deg for 400kts distance. And thats assuming winds don't change. Add in this wind drift and you can be way off and way behind after a while if you don't keep a list of landmarks to look for. look for anything that stands out enroute and make it a leg or reference point for the flight. E.g. turn on new heading over eastern edge of that lake, reference passing 3 mile due east of that easy to spot pair of villages at ETA 14:30 etc. Google for private pilot training and navigation info as much of what you learn to do in a Cessna etc. navigation wise is what they did back then. (except the radio navigation stuff we have now - Germany didn't provide much in the way of convenient radio beacons for allied pilots during WW2. Not sure why...:music_whistling:)

Now that is a hands on plane! A plane that has no stability whatsoever and is constantly trying to spin and flip. Makes the Mustang look like a dressage pony by comparison. Watched one once do what could best be called a back flip rather than a loop. Most impressive manouver I have ever seen a plane do.

Something to escort and something to protect them from. AI is fine for now. But we need a mission to fly.

Yes you can fly with keyboard or xbox - same as you can drive with just one gear and an on/off accelerator pedal. But you are doing it the hard way. Proving that it can be done with inferior tools is one thing. Doing it the best way though makes life easier for you. People here have been simming years or even decades. They have been there done that, and when they say use a joystick it is fellow simmers giving good advice. Once you get used to a joystick going back to an xbox controller is like going back to the stone age. Don't set it up in the same way as a controller. Do that and all you do is mimic the Xbox controller that is a second rate method of controlling a plane. The key board is even worse - 4th rate at best. Set it up totally default and try with that. Remember though that these planes require very small smooth movements - think moving a glass of water around, or swirling it but not splashing and spilling it. Don't yank it side to side like an xbox controller - they work differently with coding smoothing and force proportion modification etc. A joystick is true control surface deflection as occured on the actual plane. It is how planes fly - they all have joysticks or yokes (which are simply joysticks with the roll and pitch movements separated out ). The only aircraft I have ever come across that didn't is the original Wright Flyer that used a weird hip cradle for roll control. But even the Wrights switched to a better joystick arrangement for there following models. Fighters are very twitchy - they need to be for dogfighting. They can be a right 'female cannine' to fly till you get the feel for them. Pilots that failed to gain that feel were downgraded to more stable planes like heavy bombers. One you get a feel for how twitchy they are you can dial it down to your liking if you wish. Also try the A-10 with the joystick to compare the two as that is a pretty stable plane with modern flight assistance systems to take the twitchyness away.

Actually you could and did. (just correcting info - not flaming or anything) In those days there were no two seat trainers for fighters like the P-51, Hellcat, Corsair and P-47 etc. Most of the trainers available at that time were far less powerful as well, and often biplanes. But the skills you learnt through basic and advanced flight school were sufficient that you could study the manual, get a spot of ground school, and jump right in. RAF pilots went from Tiger Moth biplanes straight to Spitfires and Hurricanes. Early USAAC/USN pilots often came straight from Stearman biplanes onto fighters. If they were lucky they might get a 2nd line P-40 or Wildcat to try out first. As the war progressed T-6 trainers more akin to fighters performance wise were used. But even so you went from one of them straight into the cockpit of your new mount alone - be it Hellcat or Mustang. So giving a Hellcat pilot a Mustang is even easier than giving it to a fresh faced T-6 pilot as the Hellcat is nearer in performance and his hours and experience on the Hellcat stand him in good stead for the Mustang. Jump in, start up, take-off, do a circuit and land. If not - well you get a free miltary burial.