Shimmergloom667

No, of course not - the boom is flexible and needs to be, alsoit needs to decouple instantly in case of any sort of abrupt moves by both planes, but probably especially by the receiving plane. Plus: the whole process is of course a bit abstracted, since this is not real life. It is not more and not less than: move into the right position as indicated by the tanker's position lights, hold your plane there, the boom operator moves it into the refuelling port and you will take fuel. There is a bit of maneuvering leeway, but move to far and it will decouple. Again: take an F-15 or A-10 now, move in with a bit of lateral distance, but still inside the refueling parameters and the boom operator will connect.

Like, what else is there to say? Take an F-15 or A-10, get into a refueling mission and you will see: Once you are properly positioned, the boom operator will move the boom into your plane's refueling receptacle, and it will stay there as long as you stay in place. So: yes and yes.

I'm so looking forward to the Viper, so that's fine on one hand - yet some 3rd modules (looking at you razbam) need some urgent hotfixes... no chance some sort of hotfix gets out, either? Anyway, keep up the good work, everything will turn out fine! :)

I mean, do whatever you want to do, but exactly WHY are you running these jurassic versions of DCS in the first place?

Radar is being reworked to better fit the real thing, this rework has it a bit bugged now, but also generally less effective than it was earlier, in the module. The bug may or may not be fixed this wednesday, but better get used to more complicated radar.

I sat in an F-16 not long ago - the pit is modelled perfectly and the MFDs are spot-on.

There is no date yet. Early Autumn is planned.

There were only ever 96 F-14B in existence, so probably not too many squadrons.

This, so much this.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4041754&postcount=1551

That is nothing new, they said station 6 was only for the first iteration, station 5 will be enabled soon

I'm pretty sure we will see A/G radar and TWS come out for the Viper and Hornet at once - they are now probably in some kind of release sprint for the Viper, the systems have a certain commonality and they are working on modular design for plane's features so I'm thinking that's where a lot of the apparent "delay" for the Hornet comes from.

DMT HUD slew is still bugged, right? You got any info if Razbam is aware of it?

There are some early vids on their youtube from when they were applying as 3rd party dev with ED - these are from 2017.

Thanks!

Where did you get that from?

Ok, that was a combination of an error and maaaaybe a bug: I forgot to turn FLIR *on*, yet it still showed land, for whatever reason. Another re-run of the mission with me following my checklist correctly had FLIR off and a black screen, turning FLIR on had it running normally. One other thing: the Tarawa is set to TACAN 44X, which seems to conflict with Kutaisi. When changing that via Mission Editor, all worked out nicely. You may want to look at that mission setup again! Apart from that it is brilliant, as usual! :)

This is why things now take a long time (with the F-18 most noticeably): they know that, and they started to rework a lot of things from the ground up to lay the groundwork for such framework. This is why it sometimes takes longer than expected in the F-18. This is why a lot of stuff flows much better with the F-16.

I have to thank you guys - at some points the manual / training missions really could use a bit more precision in their descriptions. I mean, it's all certainly very useable, but there's always room for improvement.

The INS alignment is still WiP

Yes and yes

I really enjoy your training missions, and apart from some general Harrier module bugs (TCN offset and W/P offset still not working?) I encountered one strange effect: starting in TM09, the FLIR showed land, while I clearly was on the boat - is that a general FLIR bug, too?

Because they can't hire new people, right? You do know, that the Viper is partly made by ED S.A., right? Fact is: you don't know how many people are working on what in the modules, so stop guessing.

Because at this point they are creating frameworks and basic layers that all later modules and components will benefit from. We of course don't know the exact programming commonalities between features and modules, but they are there - I am pretty 100% sure, that we will see TWS arrive for both the F-18 and F-16 at once, as well as other stuff. That's why, IMHO, we are *profiting* from the F-16 EA, since it will boost both F-18 and F-16 at the same time, even if we don't see that much for the F-18 *right now*.

How do you even reach that conclusion?? Its mind-boggling, nothing in the history of ED hints to them leaving an unfinished module to extents you are describing. Unbelievable.