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Here's a side-by-side comparison of 4 vs 5 from Natural Point. http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/02-products/trackir-product-comparison.html

I again tried the takeoff mission the other night and this time did a much better job of staying in parameters during the turn. This time after the turn it came back and said I didn't do it good enough (paraphrased) and to try again :) So it looks like if you do it REALLY badly it doesn't trigger anything. I've always found these sort of training missions frustrating in flight sims. You're trying to get certain triggers to fire and yet you have no idea how well or poorly you're doing until you're done.

I've found a good approach is as follows. Start by reading through the short manual. Its very quick to get through and actually gives you a very good frame of reference for all the more detailed info you'll plug in later. Now that you've done that, fire up the takeoff training mission. Skip the startup one, you don't really need to worry about a ramp start if you're just getting going. Then move onto other missions, going back and scanning the short manual here and there. Eventually you'll want to dive into the full manual, but I wouldn't start there if you want to get in and fly. If you're getting frustrated with the interactive training, chances are the full manual will trip you up as well.

I did activate the emergency brake when I touched down, but I'm not sure it did anything so yea I guess thats not the way to do it :)

well, at least in DCS A-10, you don't get a court-martial for destroying the fence as in Falcon or else I'd be in a load of trouble :)

I recall having all sorts of trouble trying to learn landing on Falcon 4.0 Allied Force. Keeping track of when you're supposed to have what airspeed and what altitude, etc, etc. I just found it complicated and rather difficult. I ran across a tutorial which said to just keep track of 2 things. 1) keep the flight path marker on the end of the runway where you want to touch down - use the flight stick to maintain this 2) use the throttle to control angle of attack So you're just doing those 2 things, holding the FPM with the flight stick where you want it to be, and then controlling the AoA with the throttle. This made landing amazingly simple for me anyway. I tried the DCS A-10 landing and it seems like a similar approach might apply. I'm pretty new to it though so I'm sure someone will correct me if thats wrong, but it seems like it should work.

I saw the same thing - tried landing and held down W but it seemed to have no effect. I wonder if you have to first engage NWS before the brakes work?

so nothing happening on this? was curious if there would be some lessons for DCS A-10, but I checked the site and I see there's nothing past the introductory lesson.

The more interactive training is, I think, a key feature of DCSA10. Should be really great when they're done. I tried the beta 3 and updated training missiong for takeoff and handling and at the end it tells you to do a 360 not 180 :) Still, I did the 360 and it never continued. I think this is just the end. It says that this turn will be the last maneuver, so I'm thinking its done at that point and just not saying so.

I downloaded the 1080p file with no problems and watched a little bit of it. So far it looks really nice! Looks like this series will be top notch and a must have for any BS pilot!

You can play Falcon 4.0, there's Allied Force which works fine under Win7 + NVidia. Or you dual boot to XP for FreeFalcon.

yea FF5.3 couldn't handle Win7+NVIDIA 32-bit either. I was curious whether or not it was fixed with 5.5. You can get around the issue by dual booting to XP.

awesome! looking forward to checking it out!

That's not really a problem imo. If you're going to spend > $300 on a HOTAS you're probably serious enough to get a pair of rudder pedals and the expense for those is likely not going to kill the deal.

I don't think HAWX or HAWX2 would be considerd "sims" :)