JozMk.II
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An in-game flight map for DCS World much like the one in IL-2, Cliffs of Dover, and Rise of Flight would be great, especially for aircraft like the P-51D that lack GPS displays.
Here is an example of such a map from Cliffs of Dover:
This map is displayed by hitting the M key. It can be scrolled, re-sized, and zoomed in and out with the mouse.
Such a map would work a lot better than the F10 map currently available in DCS world, since this one enables you to still fly the aircraft while looking at the map; It reasonably simulates having an actual fold-out map on your lap in the cockpit. Such functionality would be great for planes like the P-51D, Su-25A, A-10A, and even the F-15C.
Please, Eagle Dynamics, seriously consider adding this feature to DCS World.
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Whiners like this guy are a large reason why so many developers would rather work on the next Call of Duty knockoff than develop realistic flight sims...
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The guy in the preview image looks like:
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:pilotfly:
I'm not certain how this relates to the thread, but man, does that sound like music.
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Fake. It isn't a very good animation job; Heck, the bounce on the landing looks as if someone was playing with a toy airplane on strings.
To clarify, I'm not saying that's exactly what they did; Rather, it's a statement on the quality.
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RC helicopters really can do insane stuff like that thanks to reverse pitch and crazy power/weight ratios. However, I'm not certain if this particular footage is real; the lighting on the helicopter is questionable, and it flies as if it has virtually zero inertia.
I'm willing to believe this to be real, however:
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Wow, that's depressingly good..
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Black Shark 1 is what made me a fan of Eagle Dynamics. I had played Flaming Cliffs 1 before that, but it never grabbed me like the high fidelity Black Shark did. The flight model was and still is superb, and I learned a number of helicopter-specific flight principles and tactics from the product. The combat engagements were the icing on the cake.
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And this is what fails to be correctly modelled on about every sim I have used, with the exception of DCS :-)
I was assuming he says S&L = Zero geometrical AoA... Of course slipstream or any other prop effects are reduced when the q in q * CL * S becomes the dominant factor...
I wish other sim maker could learn, and implement, such a BASIC concept :-/
Well, at least "the q effect" is acceptably modelled in MSFS, and in FlightGear 2.10 with JSBsim too, probably in Aerofly FS too, although all fail to model slipstream effects and asymmetry...
What are these three variables, q, CL, and S?
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When changing power settings in straight and level flight, what causes the Mustang to want to yaw? I don't think it's P-factor, since P-factor shouldn't take effect in level flight; and I don't think it's torque, since torque is responsible for rolling tendencies, not yawing tendencies. The only other possible cause, I believe, is the propeller-induced slipstream that curves around the fuselage of the Mustang and strikes the vertical stablizer.
Is my assessment correct?
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In light of the tazer story...I offer this story.
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Last week while travelling I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It's called Airship Earth, and it's a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it, and two propellors hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium put batteries in it, and you have a radio controll indoor blimp.
I'd seen these things for sale in Sharper Image catalogs for $60-$75. At Zany Brainy it was on clearance for $15. What a deal!
Last night my wife was playing tennis and it was just my daughter and I at home. I bought a small helium tank from a party store, and last night we put the blimp together.
Let me tell you, it's quite a blimp. It's huge. The balloon has like a 3 ft diameter.
We blew it up with the tank attacched the gondola with the propellors, and put in batteries.
Then we balanced the blimp for neutral bouyancy with this putty that came with it, so it hangs in the air by itself neither rising nor falling.
It was easy and fun, and then I blew up another balloon and made Mickey Mouse helium voices for my daughter.
My three year old girl loved it. We flew the blimp all over the house, terrorized the dog, attacked the fish tank, and the controls were so easy my daughter could fly.
Let's face it, blimps are fun.
Alas, the fun had to end and my daughter had to go to sleep. I left the blimp floating in my office downstairs, my wife came home, and we went to bed, and slept the sleep of the righteous.
At this point it is important to know that my house has central heating. I have it configured to blow hot air out on the ground floor and take it in at the second floor to take advantage of the fact that heat rises.
The blimp which was up until this moment a fun toy here embarked on a career of evil. Using the artificial convection of my central heating, the blimp stealthily departed my office. It moved silently through the living and drifted to the staircase. Gliding wraithlike over the staircase it then entered the bedroom where my wife and I lay sleeping peacefully.
Running silently, and gliding six feet or so above the ground on invisible and tiny air currects it approached the bed.
In spite of it's noiseless passage, or perhaps because of it, I awoke. That doesn't really say it properly. Let me try again.
I awoke, the way you awake at 2:00 AM when your sleeping senses suddenly tell you without reason that the forces of evil on converging on you.
That still doesn't do it. Let me try one more time.
I awoke the way you awake when you suddenly know that there is a large levitating sinister presence hovering towards you with menacing intent through the maligant darkness.
Now sometimes I do wake up in the middle of the night thinking that there are large sinister and menacing things floating out of the darkness to do me and mine evil. Usually I open my eyes, look and listen carefully, decide it was a false alarm, and go back to sleep.
So, the fact that I awoke in such a manner was not all that unusual.
On this occasion I awoke to the sense that there was a large menacing presence approaching me silently out of the gloom, so I opened my eyes, and there it was! A LARGE SILENT MENACING PRESENCE WAS APPROACHING ME OUT OF THE GLOOM, AND IT COULD FLY!!!
Somewhere in the control room of my mind a fat little dwarf in a security outfit was paging through a Penthouse while smoking a cigar with his feet up on the table, watching the security monitors of my brain with his peripheral vision. Suddenly he saw the LARGE SILENT SINSITER MENACING FLOATING PRESENCE coming at me, and he pulled every panic switch and hit every alarm that my body has. A full decade's allotment of adrenaline was dumped into my bloodstream all at once. My metabolism went from "restful sleep mode" to HOLY SHIT! FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE OR DIE!!!! mode" in a nanosecond. My heart went from twenty something beats per minute to about 240 even faster.
I always knew this was going to happen. I always knew that skepticism and science were mere psychological decorations and vanities. Deep in our alligator brains we all know that the world is just chock full of evil and monsters and sinister forces aligned against us, and it is only a matter of time until they show up. Evolution know this, too. It knows what to do when the silent terror comes at you from out of the dark.
When 50 million years worth of evolutionary survival instinct hits you all at once flat in the gut at 200 mph it is not a pleasant sensation.
Without volition I screamed my battle cry (which is indistinguishable to the sound a little girl makes when you drop a spider down her dress (not that I'd know what that sounds like,) and lept out of bed in my underwear.
I struck the approaching menace with all my strength and almost fell over at the total lack of resistance that a helium balloon offers when you punch the living shit out of it with all the stength that sudden middle of the night terror produces.
It's trajectory took it straight into the ceiling fan which whipped it about the room at terrifying velocity.
Seeking a weapon, I ripped the alarm clock out of its plug and hurled it at the now High Velocity Menacing presence (breaking the clock and putting a nice hole in the wall.)
Somehow at this moment I suddenly realized that I was fighting the blimp, and not a monster. It might have been funny if I didn't truly and actually feel like I was having a legitimate heart-attack.
On quivering legs I went to the bathroom and literally gagged into the toilet while shaking uncontrollably with the shock of the reaction I'd had.
Unbeleivably, both my wife and daughter had completely slept through the incident. When I decided that I wasn't having a heart attack after all I went back into the bedroom and found the blimp which had somehow survived the incident.
I took it to the walk in closet and released it inside where it floated around with the air currents released from the vents in there. I closed the door, this sealing it in, and went back to bed. About 500 years later I fell asleep.
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At about 7 am my wife awoke. She had been playing tennis and wasn't aware that we have assembled the blimp the previous evening, and that is was now floating around the the walk-in closet that she approached.
The dyndamic between the existing air currents of the closet and the suction caused by opening the door was just enough to give the blimp the appearance of an Evil Sinister Menace flying straight towards her.
This time the blimp did not survive the encounter, nor almost, did I, as I had to explain to my very angry spouse what motivated me to hide an evil lurking presence in the closet for her to find at 7 am.
I can order replacement balloons on the internet but I don't think I will.
Some blimps are better off dead.
ROFL!!! GIANT EVIL BLIMP OF DOOM!!
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That's very good; a good representation of the destructive paths that hate can induce; it can truly overwhelm us if we aren't careful.
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I am a real-world pilot, and I can verify that in this case DCS is correct and FSX is incorrect (and ARM505's description is right on). With a constant speed propeller, increasing MP will only make the engine sound louder (maybe more "throaty"), but the propeller will keep the engine turning at the same RPM. So the pitch of the sound does not change.
One exception to this that we encounter in the real world is when the plane is flying relatively slow at a low power setting, such as coming in to land. In that condition the prop may be at its minimum blade angle setting, so the RPM will begin to decrease. In this condition, adding power will increase the engine RPM up to the governed speed (and make the sound pitch increase). But that's kind of a special case. :)
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Just the sort of feedback I was looking for; it means much coming from a real-world pilot. Thank you very much for your confirmation.
Very cool to hear of another one of the many intricate details that ED got right with this sim.
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Hi,
I've noticed in DCS: Mustang that alteration of the manifold pressure by itself does not change the audible pitch of the engine; the only audible difference in such a case is that the engine volume changes in intensity. Changing the RPM, however, does change the audible pitch of the engine.
In other simulation aircraft with constant-speed propellers, such as RealAir's Lancair Legacy for FSX(a very fine payware aircraft if I do say so myself), alteration of the manifold pressure DOES change the audible pitch of the engine, as does alteration of the rpm.
My question is, which is correct? In a constant-speed propeller-equipped airplane, does alteration of the manifold pressure with the RPM being constant cause a change in the audible pitch of the engine?
Or, are they both correct? IE, are there some constant-speed prop-equipped airplanes whose engine's audible pitch can be altered by change in manifold pressure alone, while there are some who aren't?
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The bullseye is a reference point on a map whos location is decided pre-mission. The point is marked on a map by a yellow(or is it white? I forget which.) target-like symbol. When an ally announces the position of something in relation to the bullseye, he gives the heading and distance from the bullseye to the object in question.
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The Concorde was a supercruiser with specially made low bypass turbofans.
They're actually turbojets, not turbofans.
I'll present the case of up to 6 EJ200's, but my group has discounted using turbojets due to the lack of fuel efficiency at low supersonic speed.The EJ200 is a turbofan, not a turbojet.
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Glad to hear it worked for you, Lange.
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I've run into this problem myself. I've found that there are two possible situations, both with their own solution:
1. If the CH Control Manager shows that no controllers are detected(as indicated by the indicators for "Off Mode," "Direct Mode," and "Mapped Mode" at the top of the CH Control Manager window being greyed out), then open the Windows Task Manager and check under "Processes" for multiple instances of the TrackIR5 software running. Turning these off, for whatever reason, does the trick on my end.
2. If the previously mentioned indicators for the different controller modes at the top of the CH Control Manager window are in fact NOT greyed out, then click on "Test/Calibrate" at the top of the CH Control Manager window, and hit "Rescan" to re-detect your CH devices.
Hope this helps.
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Geez, that was fast! Do you guys receive alerts on your smart phones when people create new threads? Haha
Your solution worked great, thank you very much!
I'll have a look at the information in those links you provided, too; it looks useful.
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Hi,
I would like to know how to alter the elevation of the default center view in the cockpit of a DCS aircraft. I don't like the downward angle of the default center view in the A-10C; I'd prefer that it were more level with the HUD. Can someone tell me how I might alter the default center view of an aircraft in the game files?
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Actually, it's labeled as a version of Internet Explorer for the Xbox 360.
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Yep, they finally made a web browser for this thing, six years after the web browsers for the PS3 and Wii were released. Took them long enough!
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Images taken from here: http://www.su27.de/seite83.htm
Here's the first page, in case anyone's interested in glancing through the documented build process: http://www.su27.de/seite1.htm
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Uh, this is disturbing. Very, very disturbing. Those are actual people, like the ones I see walking outside right now, being targeted and taken out.
If I ever fly for the US military, it'll be in transports, thank you very much.
Request: In-game flight map
in DCS: P-51D Mustang
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Oh geez, that's nice; A sectional map! Man, I wish I'd known of this before. Thanks to everyone who replied for enlightening me of this feature.
Quick question: Is it possible to zoom into individual pages, or am I limited to switching pages for different pre-loaded zoom levels?