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You don’t have to understand. Complaining won’t trigger an update. You get it when you get it.

I could not see anything on phone or IPad. The video is showing, on both.

Well I would say that’s pretty damn close. All numbers are within 4-5% between sim and real A-10. It has been said in the past that ED has to reduce some of the values per contracts with DOD or whoever they may be. I would say that we are getting our moneys worth. Especially if they are required to reduce some values. 4-5% difference on a sample size of 2 is basically statistically insignificant.

Thanks for convincing me. I just bought the viper. Way to go ED. Love this sim. You guys are doing great work!

Thanks for clearing that up. I knew I remembered seeing it somewhere! It didn’t quote you David OC for some reason. But I was responding to your response to me.

I am not a pilot. So, maybe avionics is the exception to the rule. That being said, I have dealt with a lot of charts and theoretical performance standards in my life. I was a professional firefighter until I retired. My area of responsibility when it came to the budget was the equipment program. It was my job to know everything about said equipment. Things in the first responders world are similar to that of aviation in respect to performance and safety factors. Things like self contained breathing apparatus, hydraulic rescue tools, portable pumps, thermal imaging cameras, the pumps on the engines etc. etc., all have charts and performance standards to pass NFPA certification along with many other certifications. I can tell you, those numbers on those charts from the engineers rarely represented real life performance. Was it close? Yep. Was it perfect? No. The way we did things was the total opposite of what you explain. If the person with the institutional knowledge based on real world “feel” didn’t match the chart, typically you go with the person. Not the theoretical numbers from an engineer that say what max performance “should” be. I build houses for a living now. Same thing. What the engineer says on paper, never matches real world reality. It is close. There is a lot of “field engineering” done by the contractor and building inspector together to try and make theoretical number provided by an engineer work. What usually results is something that is close to the spec but the folks with the institutional knowledge and experience make the real life thing actually work. An engineer can put down whatever he wants on paper and all the math will work on paper. That changes as soon as you add real life to the equation. Infinite variables apply. The DCS’ flight physics model is supposed to mimic this variability. So while you don’t get real life sensations in sim, that doesn’t mean that real pilots don’t know more than the charts. I would trust the expert over the chart any day. You would be hard pressed to follow the conditions exactly in sim to replicate the exact conditions experienced when the engineer was calculating the chart. In sim you would need engines with the same amount of hours, an aircraft that weight exactly the same amount as the chart aircraft, the wind, temperature, and humidity along with barometric pressure and altitude would all have to match perfectly to be able to say the chart carried more weight than the pilot.

Agreed. I don’t know h0w many levels of sims there are. However I saw a video somewhere that this is a D 0r maybe E? Level flight sim. It was not clear if what we have is rated at that or if they were talking about one of Eagle Dynamics other non public products.

In the book the ravens never shot any harpoons. In the later books they shot a couple SLAMS.

This was my point exactly lol.

Turn on dust/smoke in the mission editor. Makes it as hazy as you want it.

You are probably correct. No real flight experience here. But had a career in the Fire Dept. Learning the skills is not hard. The repetition required to build true muscle memory for the task at hand is what takes time. You go into automatic mode in high stress situations and especially when woken up at 3 am for a medical call. That just takes sheer volume of repetition.

Spot on. The thing that makes me bang my head against the wall is that there are a few real life pilots on here. Specifically ones that have flown the A-10, the Harrier, and the Hornet. They kindly give feedback to the forum on occasion and are immediately told they are wrong by some 14 year kid because he saw a chart. And people wonder why they don’t give more feedback to the community. People ask for real life experience, and then turn around and disparage the pilot because they got an answer that didn’t fit their unrealistic expectation.

I had a Harrier patch this morning. Maybe that’s what he saw updating?

Don’t get discouraged CHPL. I have to admit I still have not been able to finish the first mission. I have gotten part way through and then had stuff come up personally so I had to quit. But sitting on the ramp, waiting gives good time to actually prepare, and is more realistic to real life. If this is an indication of the rest of the campaign, that is great! Thank you for making a realistic campaign. We need more of this . 15 minutes to wait is nothing compared to the hurry up and wait in real life.

Hey Suntsag, great mission! I really enjoyed it. I can’t wait for more! If you decide to continue posting missions in this series, know that I greatly appreciate all the effort and hard work. I have been doing Voice overs for a couple developers. The extensive one being for HornetProductions. You have extensive comms in your missions. If you would like free voice overs let me know. I would gladly do them for you as “payment” for the great content you produce. The Harrier certainly needs more missions. If you didn’t see Baltic Dragon released a new one today as well. I am building some for the Harrier in the PG. Have not decided if I will release those or not. They are pretty simple missions, but some folks like that. Only feedback I have is this: When sitting in the Hanger waiting for my turn to taxi, I had time to read the brief again, and it seemed that my wingman did not want to give me the ready. I waited for at least two minutes after the A-10’s took off. Once I started rolling the wing man immediately gave me the ready. Maybe it was coincidence and he was really about to call ready at that moment? I had done all the different radio calls and the escort was ready to taxi me. Nice Mission!

Thank you for sharing. I enjoy your videos and mods very much. Ill try out tomorrow!

Are your printer drivers up to date?

What David said. I have DCS on its own SSD. Nothing else on there. I have 24Gig of ram and and a RX5700 GPU that has 8Gig of ram on the card. I hardly ever play multiplayer so these numbers are for single player. In game looks like this; Ram usage 16-18 gig usage GPU Memory 6-7 gig usage So you certainly need more than you have. Granted I run almost all settings as high as they go but I hardly ever get any stutters. I’m not sure what MP numbers look like but when I do jump on a server I only notice minimal FPS drop from single player and the only time I really stutter is when the server has a hiccup. Other things that help. Run Process Lasso and and give DCS high priority along with cranking the power profile. If you have one drive or any other cloud based stuff running, make sure to pause it before running the game. If i forget to pause one drive, I get bad stuttering even when not online. I probably don’t need it but I have a page file mapped for DCS on the DCS drive, not the C drive. If you have a CPU with turbo boost, go into the BIOS and enable it. It is off by default. Keep the inside of your tower clean to get every bit of cooling you can get.

Really? Look at any straight line in his screen shots and tell me he is using any MF or AA. Plus his render distances are turned way down. As for other settings I’m not sure what any of those are set up at. Language barrier. But the screenshots appear to have very low settings unless there is something there that I don’t understand. Does a screenshot get all MF and AA stripped out of it?

Turn your settings up.

It looks like its because your settings are so low.

Good to hear you got it sorted out!

Good Point.

I get you are saying. My personal conclusion is that they got it really close to real life. As close as they could while still maintaining a playable graphics load for the most people possible. I think that if they would have gotten more detail, and fixed all the shading and alignment issues, it would overwhelm a lot of folks systems. Maybe this is a balance struck between the two? I know that I have a decent system and I can fly helicopters through the skyscrapers in downtown Dubai and abu Dabi at 200 ft. And still get around 50 FPS with everything set at Ultra using 2 monitors. And you probably have a system giving similar results. But a lot of people are not fortunate enough to have a system like that and I think ED does a good job trying to make it playable for those folks. Maybe with Vulcan someday, the new maps wont have to compromise. This will make high resolution high frame rate more available to more people. A RX 580 8GB would be enough on Vulcan. I know with my RX5700 I get fur mark to bench at around 60 FPS on DX and like 140 on Vulcan. It will be a great day if they go to this. A RX 580 and a I7 9700K is all you would need to push 1480P.

OK so I checked your coordinates. One is a field in Bandar Abbas, The other is Sirjan which is way up in Iran in a low fidelity area of the map, not in Kasab as you had labeled the screenshot and coordinates. At first glance it appears to be poorly modeled. Until you look at a satellite image in google earth. Then you realize that it looks very close to real life. In fact if they changed it once could argue that they would be trying to make it better than real life images.