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Well, German “East Sea” and Baltic Sea might not be the place for carriers, since those shallow waters make operations with larger aircraft carriers rather unfeasible. But German North Sea is feasible.

At that time 9 US carriers were dedicated for NATO purpose. Further 6 carriers could additionally be deployed. NATO doctrine for that time was 'all in'. Especially for the naval forces, since Warshaw Pact naval forces were seen considerably stron­ger in its assets.

Helgoland + Düne. So we will have 1 airstrip for the start on this map. That's not too bad...

Uh... excuse me, Mr. President? That's not entirely accurate. https://archives.nato.int/force-comparison-1987-nato-and-warsaw-pact

Roger that! Just as an addition to clear up any misunderstandings: The top of my grip has a height of 30cm (measured from the gimbal). Basically I shifted the original grip upwards by one grip length. With the resistor mod the forces are doubled. The FFB-forces at the new grip position roughly corresponds to the previous unmodded state. The new grip (B8 replica from old joystick) is very light (all plastic) and the extension is a short aluminum pipe with 16mm diameter. I consider this to be the maximum change without losing the original properties. From this it can be seen: The FFB2 is rather weak-chested, even with resistor mod there is not plenty of headroom to handle long extensions and heavy grips. About that old app which came originally with the FFB2: That piece of software just adds pre-tensioning by applying engine forces before the grip is even moved. You can do the same with simFFB which still works fine. You have to deactivate FFB in DCS of course, because control has to remain at simFFB.

Wow - that’s a quite long extension. Is that aluminum? My FFB2 looks very similar to this mod: I slaughtered a vintage Thrustmaster Top Gun joystick from 1996 in mint condition to get a B8 grip (probably cost me a few karma points). I also applied the resistor mod which is important when using an extension. However, there is zero deadzone on it. As soon as one of the axes of the gimbal moves/rotates, the potentiometer of that axis will create a signal. As long as there is no dying potentiometer there should be no deadzone. Therefore I'm still a bit confused by your observations on your device. When you say you have 15-20mm deadzone, than you mean the top of your extension? How much movement is noticeable at the gimbal? When I played around to decide how to best mod the FFB2, I also realised that too much weight for the grip and the extension creates some issues. Especially a cranked extension shifts the COG away from the joystick centre and creates a moment on the gimbal. Did you try a with an uncranked shorter extension (20cm)?

Since I read this again and again and it sounds kind of generalised: Of course a lot of those devices are worn out. I had a whole collection of them and kept the best devices. But even with the most scrappy ones I had no game breaking dead zone, perhaps 2 or 3 mm deflection per axis on the mechanical side. But even then the device should convert every hint of movement into deflection, regardless of the wear and tear of the mechanical parts, because the sensors don't care about the wear and tear. On the other hand your not the only one complaining about sloppiness around the centre - could you quantify your dead zone in mm? Just to give me an idea, what we are talking about?

Given the overall scenario... ...we need Dynamic Campain!

Never needed varying collective input in the DCS Huey - not even during hovering (in terms of constant input corrections). I set exactly what I need for collective, and that’s it. Only need to regulate it, when slowing down or accelerating. If you do decide to use the collective constantly, like it is perhaps necessary in other Helos and you are used to that kind of varying input, than you end up in an endless correction loop.

The M-2000 radar shows false contacts. Contacts with overlapping ‘V’ symbols correspond to actual aircrafts. This is not always very convenient to use but it is a detailed reproduction of the real radar behaviour. But if you think this is hard, wait until you find out about the option to use raw radar return data - it will be even more difficult to identify your contacts.

Although there are usually no limitations for the number of type ratings a pilot can hold, there are strict limitations for commercial pilots concerning the number of different aircraft types they are allowed to fly as part of their commercial pilot activities. Aviation regulators around the world believe that a commercial pilot who would fly many different types of aircraft would no longer be able to safely handle the different emergency procedures (regardless of the age of his brain ).

Wait…could the same strategy be applied to all older (feature complete) modules? Would save a lot of time for bugfixes and would catapult customer satisfaction into orbit.

Will at least be 8 - 10 kg.

This is not the place for gender esthetics. Will report this instantly to the forum management! Edit: Just checked the size of the FFB-Base and possible weight. Goddammit - we’ll need a longer thing for the thing between our legs!

sarcasm /ˈsɑːkaz(ə)m/ Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, although it is not necessarily ironic. Most noticeable in spoken word, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoken or, with an undercurrent of irony, by the extreme disproportion of the comment to the situation, and is largely context-dependent.

There is no adjustment possible from the mechanical side. The actual centering is done by tensioning the two axes via the two motors. Just as a sidenote for those who are toying with the idea to get a FFB2 or already got one: Lots of units are simply worn out. I had a whole collection of FFB2s which I bought systematically on eBay to find a good one. The good ones actually have no deadzone at all. On those every micro movment on the stick is translated into deflection. BUT: Since the gears and transmission parts are made mainly of (durable but not wearfree) plastic material, there will always be an inherent and noticeable amount of elasticity when operated with high forces. Also sensor resolution is only 10 bit (equals to a resolution of 1024 datapoints per axis) which is considerably lower than modern joysticks. With the well known resistor mod the stick forces can be safely doubled. The two ffb motors are oversized and built to survive WW3.

Disconnecting/connecting the USB plug should always reset the FFB2 to default settings, no matter what went wrong within an application. Never had a persistent issue with the FFB2.

To be fair, this statement was neither made literally nor should it be taken literally. Of course, this was a statistical statement. And the Germans Mig-29’s win rate in dogfights amongst NATO partners was actually significantly high at that time. Of course, it was absolutely part of reality, that the Mig-29’s lost fights. But it was not a 50:50 game. It must also be clearly seen that the successful series of Mig-29 dogfights took place in a rather narrow time period. On a larger temporal scale, the hard-to-beat Mig-29 was itself just a statistical outlier. But within that time period, defeating a Mig-29 in a dogfight was not an everyday occurrence.

I really have no motivation to stop you or others from expressing their opinions. But what I do notice is that rival camps have formed, each working on one side or the other to settle the question of guilt. As if that would change it for the better. Having one side being very loud and the other side being very quiet causes damage that is even greater than the loss of a 3rd party developer and its modules or than his possible misconduct in the matter and the legal consequences - this damage is the tremendous loss of trust in the DCS ecosystem itself. Restoring that trust on the customer side will not be accomplished with an encouraging letter from Nick Grey. It will cost a lot of time and money to iron this out. Our biggest concern should not be whether the modules can be kept alive and whether Ron will be nailed to the cross (after grabbing into his empty pockets). Our biggest concern should be how many resources are left on ED side for further development in the coming period while trying to straighten out this communication disaster. ED is a company of a couple of hundreds of people. This all hurts them a lot. Some people here seem to seriously believe that ED has extra-wide suspenders in comparison to Razbam and that they only need to snap them to solve the problem. My own mistake in this discussion is that i am often blind to many people's need for drama and soap opera (= speculation). Should have grabbed that bag with popcorn instead…

Nice try to intentionally misunderstand me, but I still have a question: If the true pitchfork crowd lives at the Razbam Discord channel - who are the people around here in this thread (and I specifically include myself because I don't think I'm something special)? The quiet and reserved ones who hold off on making snap judgments until things are sorted out? The ones who objectively and soberly analyze the facts? So actually the ‘good’ guys standing on the right side of history?

According to your wording this would imply that Razbam could have used a highly emotional accusation merely as a pretext for a calculated strategy for the impending legal battle. Which in turn would make Razbam look even worse than it has already achieved with its unfortunate action. I don’t see any point in fueling the torch and pitchfork crowd even more. It might be an unpopular opinion in this thread, but: This is not about someone who did something terribly wrong and now needs to be held accountable. It's about a communication disaster that damaged all parties involved, regardless of who was to blame. And that is what makes me as a DCS aficionado really sad.

The modern legal system in constitutional states is one of the greatest achievements of all. We certainly shouldn't get rid of it. Especially since it replaced the medieval torch and pitchfork system, which some still prefer, for whatever reason…

One could as well argue that after 88 pages there are still those who pretend to see the world in black and white, right and wrong, guilty and not guilty. My personal takeaway of this debacle: All have lost. Us customers, Razbam and Eagle Dynamics. Naming someone to blame only serves to channel your own anger because in the end you are helpless anyway and cannot change the situation.