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Thank you Nealius for bringing this up, It's been this way for a looooong time and kinda sucks ED hasn't done anything about it. ED, if you need to see it for yourself, go into the 4YA Aerobatics MP Server and choose any F18C slot, they all default to VFA-37 and they always have the spam-modex.

Some are just late to the party.... 3nEriIB.mp4

3nEriIB.mp4 Cockpit shenanigans been done before, let's toast to more!

I'd pay $500 for each F-4, I'm hungry phor good phood. Gimme gimme gimme......

Ah, that makes sense. Always wondered why my Tomcat would spawn in on the replay about 400 feet below my actual altitude. Made it weird when watching Case 1 landings, replays would always crash the plane just past the 90.

I share your unfathomable despair and offer only the solace that deadlines are empirically flaccid. See, Iron Hand is sorta my thang.

Rudel, come on dude, this entire thread's intent is literally ranting about the regret of buying the CEII. Don't deflect from the OP with my post, try absorbing the irritation caused by CEII. I didn't even know the CEII had an engine for the first 2 years it was out, it would fly by me without a peep of sound. Utterly a broken module and deserves a good berating to get it fixed so it can begrudgingly continue to be a licensed and purchased civilian aerobatic kit-plane in a combat-oriented simulator. This module has been updated twice in the last 2 years, 16 total since it was released in 2019, and 7 of those updates were for textures or typos. This frustrates paid users, and rightfully so. However, to retort: The I-16 is, literally, a fighter plane and belongs in a digital combat simulator. The 3 trainers mentioned: 1) have served as light attack aircraft with actual combat service history, and 2) are incestuous in design and appearance with all 3 having similar qualities and appearance of being born by the same devil woman. Dumping 3 similar looking trainers into DCS doesn't merit a 'DCS already has enough trainers' comment, when I personally fly the crap out of the free T-45 (dare I say devil woman-esque?) and would welcome a T-2 Buckeye or T-28 Trojan (which is why I fly the similar Yak-52 often). I also fly the F-5 frequently because it reminds me of the T-38's that zip all over my skies. I concede the 3 devil children have a place in a digital combat simulator even though I don't agree with ED's decision to allow us to be spammed with 3 versions of the same looking trainer. I would prefer and enjoy some variation but that doesn't imply that CEII qualifies. When a national military converts a CEII to launch Zunis I'll change my mind. If I thought CEII was DCS, why did I click on Magnitude 3 in the Third party project sub-forum? Look, my point is the resources it took the develop the CEII could have been allocated to some military-oriented vehicle (*cough* Corsair *cough*) to be used in a combat simulator. Hence the rant is not pointless, you're just tired of hearing a common complaint. The CEII would be perfect for MSFS where it could shine. Coincidentally, I wish I had time to go to EAA Air Venture next week so I could see some historic examples of CEII's on display. IMHO, it's a great plane for other simulators, just not DCS.

Doesn't even belong in DCS a module in the first place, they could have spent the time on a half finished military trainer or cleaning up some DCS AI aircraft assets, or even making a pay-version of the Military AI Aircraft Mod.

Already mentioned, but USS Midway would be so rad for F-4 and A-6 (and eventual F-8), being the first and last air kills of Vietnam were from USS Midway F-4B's.

Yanks Air Museum opens up their E-121 Connie quite a bit, including tours by the EWO's that served upon them during Vietnam. I'll try to ask them if they recall particulars like above.

Are there just F-4E's in the video? Some of the nose shots seem to be fooling me and it makes me think there were B/C/ or D's in there as well. Crossing my fingers they're working on the naval variants concurrently, here's to hoping.

The Tornado announcement just induced fainting spells upon all the throngs begging for it on the Heatblur board. Not gonna lie, its a first day buy for me 100%, but I'm wary of this recent upchuck of module announcements. Here's to hoping these projects are well into their developement and testing regimes. Or is this a way for module makers to get a place holder for the aircraft they want to make? Looking forward to the new modules with excitement, though.

I'm acting like a freaked out BTS groupie for the Skyraider! Been quietly hoping for this for years now! With the A-1H, the F-8, the F-4, A-4, and maybe one day the A-7, we'd have a nice busy deck for Vietnam! ED, please get us an attack carrier like Oriskany, Intrepid, Yorktown, Coral Sea to fly these vietnam warbirds into the jungle!

Per a poster on the USS Midway Museum, here's a list of the aircraft of the Midway from 1945-1991: Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Vought F4U Corsair Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat General Motors TBM-3W Avenger Douglas AD-1 Skyraider Sikorsky H03S Dragonfly Martin AM-1 Mauler McDonnel Douglas FH-1 Phantom Grumman F8F Bearcat Grumman F9F-5 Panther McDonnell F2H Banshee Piasecki Hup Retriever North American AJ-1 Savage Douglas F3D Skynight Grumman F9F-6 Cougar Douglas A3D Skywarrior North American FJ-4 Fury McDonnell Douglas F3 Demon Grumman E-1 Tracer Vought F-8 Crusader Douglas A-1 Skyraider Kaman UH-2 Seasprite Douglas A-4 Skyhawk McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom II Grumman A-6 Intruder Grumman E-2 Hawkeye Sikorsky Sh-3 Seaking Vought A-7 Corsair II Douglas EKA-3B Skywarrior Grumman EA-6B Prowler McDonnel Douglas F/A-18 Hornet Although an A-5 is currently on her museum deck, I can't find any evidence they operated from her. Same for F-14, they were never assigned to her (even though a 2-ship did land and takeoff from her one time). I highly suggest a visit to the Midway Museum, such an amazing piece of history.

Tried Marianas again last night with Flat shadows , then off, then followed Spudknockers tutorial for frame rates. Still getting anywhere from 9-19 FPS in Marianas, but annoyingly even Caucasus has tanked in 2.7, now get about 20-25 FPS when I was routinely getting 45-60 FPS for the past 2 years. I'm a TrackIR user, no VR. Can't stand the ridiculous hit to FPS so I just bought an MSI i9 10900K with 64GB RAM, GeForce 3080 GPU, and 2TB M2 SSD. Crossing my fingers this makes DCS fun again. If DCS looks like crap with this, I'm giving the computer to my 8 year old and I'm just gonna fly RC planes.