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Well, it is a realistic flight sim and the Hornet is a study lvl aircraft. It needs dozens of commands to operate it properly and you can´t expect VR to work perfectly while only using a stick/HOTAS, especially with one that has not a trigger(wich one?). Unless you have a fully functional home cockpit (or capto gloves), you will need to use mouse/keyboard/VR controllers additionally to the stick in certain situations. And if your stick does not have a trigger, you will need to use the space bar/keyboard everytime you fire a weapon. Or map space bar to a different button on your stick. This is just natural for a game like DCS.

No, it´s exactly the same base. They just started to advertise it separately from the grip with a different name. This was related to the EA launch of the DCS F-16 module, wich is why they started to offer the Warthog grip separately from the base as "F-16 grip" at the same time.

Depends. I own both, TM and Virpil. If it´s for the base, Virpil is definately high class and superior to TM. If we are talking about grips, i rate TM equal to VKB and better than Virpil in quality and superior to both in terms of used materials. The Warthog grip is made from metal (even the trigger) while VKB and Virpil are plastic. I don´t care if they feel high class, they´re still plastic.

Holy shit, what kind of prices are that for the Warthog. I purchased the set in germany, brand new for 360€ with a 4 year warranty. Ok, it was out of stock and i had to wait 3 months for it to be available, but boy... 600 or even more for a Warthog HOTAS? That´s insane...

I´d highly suggest not to purchase the X55/X56, you won´t be happy with it. I used the X-55 before i switched to the Warthog a year ago and i can tell you that it has significant quality issues. Ghosting, buttons stopped working, the software is crap, and more. And Logitech hasn´t solved any of these issues with the X-56. I´ve seen ppl owning both, the X-55 and 56 saying quality even got worse. If you´re low on budget i´d rather suggest getting the Thrustmaster T16000M+TWCS throttle and TFRP pedals. Should be about the same price as the X-56 (or even cheaper) but said to be way better quality. Anyways, the Warthogs price is only 90 bucks above the X-56 (at least over here), so if you´re sure to stay with DCS/flight sims it propably might be a good idea to save your money for 1 or 2 months more and get the Warthog... instead of purchasing a medium price HOTAS first and then switch to a high class HOTAS later

I know ppl with average monthly income spending thousands of €uros for fishing equipment. Nothing wrong with purchasing good hardware for a hobby you love. The remarkable difference is, you will feel a significant increase of precision, fun and propably skill while a 700€ fishing reel does not make you catch more fish than with a 200€ reel. Beeing "normal" is relative... ;)

My shipment from Virpil is announced to arrive at thursday. I´ll be able to tell you if it fits for the Hornet grip then.

I only have that for Hornets. Tomcats, MiGs, Viper... all have their callsign on comms, only Hornets are designated 211 for Springfield 1-1 and so on, regardless if AI or player. Since it´s Hornet exclusive for me, I thought this came as a change for the Hornet or something. Until i saw this thread.

That was my assumption as well....

ED is not the only one using the 29 as symbol for both, MiG 29 and Su-27, on the RWR. That Falcon, uhm ooops F-16 sim i was addicted to for years did as well. This little inaccuracy is realy interesting and i wonder why ED does not take care of it. Sure, not a top priority but still strange. Does anyone know if the real Hornet/Viper have the correct symbols on the RWR?

Spring tension of the Warthog is medium and it´s recommended to go for a heavy spring when using extensions. I´m running the Warthog with 35cm extensions (5cm + 10cm + 20cm S-type) and F/A-18 grip on top and Sahaj´s blue spring installed. The standard spring, even with only 20cm extension + Hornet grip on top already struggles to recenter. With the even heavier Warthog grip attached, it doesen´t recenter at all. The spring is easy to switch, takes about 2 - 3 minutes and, wich is important for a new one, won´t void your warranty. Sahaj offers green, red and blue springs for the WH. The green is lighter than the original one, the red is harder and meant for 10-20cm extensions and the blue one is for extensions way above 20cm. You won´t need a heavier spring than the original one if you´re not going to use extensions, as the original already feels pretty heavy (compared to other sticks) w/o extension. I assume, you´d rather decide to go for a lighter one. Anyways, the Warthog has it´s flaws but is a solid piece of equipment and i´ve never regret the purchase. You won´t find a better one in it´s price range. I got my orig. WH grip on a Virpil base wich is definately better than the WH, but also significant more expensive and it didn´t make my WH base obsolete. I still enjoy it. Also both TM grips are excellent quality and IMO way better than the plastic grips of other manufactors. If the WH is on sale, your budget allows it and you´re able to get a good deal, hit the "buy now" button. You won´t regret.

I upgraded from 16GB DDR4 to 32GB a year ago and i had no performance increase. The game runs better (more stable) in large missions or in MP sessions and it feels like (not sure if it realy is) as if loading mission/terrain etc. is a bit faster. If you are not running DCS on a SSD, getting one would be a more reasonable (and cheaper) upgrade than getting more RAM. AFAIK when it comes to performance (FPS), VRAM is what you cannot have enough of.

Realy? So why do they show up both as 29 on the RWR?

The description of the PG map says "adding Iran (and some others) as faction to DCS". Not sure if this means in general, or just for owners of the map. Anyways, more skins would be very nice indeed.

If it would be the same, or comparable size to the WH throttle (and sold separately)...this would be a day one purchase for me as the WinWing is not an option - unfortuneately. No separate throttle offered and even if, there is no chance the throttle will fit to my rig. You just gave me hope...

I knew about the RWR has a database containing radar signatures of different aircrafts, that Su-27 and MiG 29 both show up as 29 on the RWR as they share the same radar and so on... but wasn´t aware it also contains the signatures of onboard missile radars, what is on the other hand somehow logical. Now this makes sense, thanks a lot for clearing that out.

That sounds indeed pretty good. Also seems to be more practical than the 360° motion simulator, wich i think will exhaust you pretty fast in a dogfight. By the pictures i´ve seen about it, i´m ot sure if i understand the nature of the SFX 100... To me it seems to be a lift system only available as blueprint and i haven´t seen one for sale. So you´d have to built it up by yourself, or can you purchase the parts and just have to put it together? It seems to be very similar to this one: https://www.rseat-europe.com/RSeat-Motion-Simulators-DBOX-Dynamic-Seats/N1-D-BOX-Motion-Simulator/N1-M4A-6000-Black-DBOX-Motion-Simulator Or am i wrong?

Ok, but that´s exactly what is confusing to me. If the missile goes into a search mode and then switches to STT after going pitbull, the targeted aircraft should recieve only a warning sound for beeing locked, not a missile warning sound as it does in DCS. Shouldn´t it? Or am i still wrong? In this case in RWS, the missile sound on the RWR should turn back into a lock warning only if the motherships radar breaks lock and stops guidance of the missile, as soon as it goes pitbull. Right?

That is a bit confusing to me. Let me get this together...with RWS the targeted aircraft recieves a launch warning, because the attack radar emissions increase to support the launch/guidance of the missile. simple spoken. Right? But using TWS... what does the missiles radar do as soon as it goes active? I mean in terms of emissions. Are these realy comparable to those of the attack radars guidance mode with RWS? I´d assume, the difference to the attack radars STT is marginal as the missiles radar is less poweful, but then there would not be a missile warning on the RWR. Or am i wrong about this?

I´m flying coop missions with my brother each weekend and we use teamspeak. We join a public ts server and jump to an unoccupied channel room, but you can also easily start your own server. Hmm, seems like i´d have to take a closer look on that. I know the ingame VoIP from various other games beeing crappy and therefore never tried it in DCS...

That´s true, but how does the SFX 100 simulate/create the correct force in banking turns? Or upside down flight or climbing? Realy interested in that, but it´s hard for me to believe, that there is anything out there simulating those flight profiles better than this thing.But as i said, just thought that this looks pretty impressive. Not sure if it is realy practical or just a funny show off... However, what kills it for me in the first place, is propably the price...

The description under the video says: ....IMPORTANT: This Simulator has a belt tension System with 80kg force to simulate Positive Gs (unfortunately not visible in this video). Even in a loop the Pilot is pressed into the Seat! Further the vertical acceleration (surge) of max. 0.9 G is simulated with OnSet Cueing (pitch up/down). Drift or Sway is done by rolling a little left and right. Together with Valve Index VR Headset the whole thing feels extremly realistic... Sounds actually pretty good to me...

True. But the CM2 is said to be great as well, there is a promising VKB in the pipe and there is the also reasonable TM throttle, so you still got high quality options.

Check this out. Not available yet, but looks very promising https://totalcontrols.eu/

What about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhuUdkOJoU So far the most impressive thing i saw...