Joe Kurr

Check if you are logged in to the master server. Yesterday when flying with our team we got the black screen as well. After logging in the problem was solved.

I will be there on Sunday. Too bad the Romanians and Canadians have canceled. Looking forward to the special Swiss formation.

Amen to that, although a nice cold glass of beer is also very welcome at times. Just discovered a new local beer called Oops. The brewer told me it started off as a mistake, but tastes quite nice, so he kept the recipe. It's a dangerous one though, it goes down like lemonade, but contains 9% alcohol.

Some mixed formation practice by the Dutch Flanker Display Team. Su-27 (Wasserfall and Beerhunter) + MiG-21 (Joe Kurr and LigerZero) Mi-8 (Joe Kurr) + Hawk (LigerZero)

The biggest difference (and to me the most annoying) between Windows 10 Home and Pro is the way updates are installed. With the Pro version, you will have control over your updates. With the Home version, updates will be automatically installed whenever they become available, and there is no way to change that. If it works the same as in the tech preview, this means the system installs updates and reboots without warning, so any documents you have opened will be lost.

Windows 10 comes in two flavours: Home and Pro. If you're running Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic or Home Premium, you will get the Home version. Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate upgrade to the Pro version.

I tried DCS World on the developer preview for a while, but reinstalled Windows 7 a few weeks ago. Main reasons for dumping Windows 10: - Extremely low frame rates (average of 6-7 fps with all settings on LOW, compared to 24-30 fps with settings HIGH on the same PC running Windows 7) - Very aggressive auto-update, reboots your PC without warning, and renders it unusable while the update is in progress (even when it is supposed to be running in the background) I know that the first issue may well have to do with it being a preview and not optimized for anything, but for now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

Reminds me of this story: F11F-1 shoots itself down

Belgium does have a lot of breweries (over 180) and there's nothing better than a good strong Belgian beer after a day out. Most are quite strong in alcohol, 7 to 11% is normal. So you don't gulp them down like an ale, but enjoy them like a glass of wine. The Brits have a special beer for us aviation enthousiasts too: Spitfire Beer! (the Bottle of Britain) :)

Two of the three Mustangs flying at the Oostwold Airshow last weekend: 1. TF-51D 'Miss Velma' 2. P-51D 'Damn Yankee' The third one was 'Ferocious Frankie', but I didn't have time yet to edit more pictures.

Here is the trainer variant: the T-50 Golden Eagle, wearing the colour scheme of the ROKAF Black Eagles display team. Unfortunately, this particular aircraft crashed a few years ago, killing the pilot.

Joined the club with the release of Flanker 2.0, so "Semi-original" here I suppose :)

That manouver is called a Forced Roll. To perform it like in the video, you will need thrust vectoring. AFAIK only the Su-30MKI, Su-35 and MiG-29OVT can perform this roll properly.

Does indoor skydiving count? :) I've done a couple of 'jumps' in a vertical wind tunnel with an instructor. Quite a thrill!

AFAIK this is already implemented. I have the cockpit language set to Russian, which gives me native cockpits in all aircraft (German in the Fw.190 for example), and it has no effect for me on US birds.

First pic: thick streams of vapour from the canards, no visible cones over the wings and intakes. Vapour cloud over the cockpit behind the pilot's head. Second pic: thin streams of vapour from the canards, visible vapour cones around the intakes and the wings. Vapour cloud over the cockpit right above the pilot's head. Another one, taken on the same day as the first Rafale shot, showing the actual shock waves under the intake and over the trailing edge of the wing (look carefully, you will notice faint vertical lines where the pressure differences are) Any faster and he would have gone supersonic.

Just to show the difference in effect for varying atmospheric conditions. Here are two pictures of Rafales close to the sound barrier. The first one is flying under a heavy overcast, in a light drizzle. The second one has slightly better conditions (no rain, breaking overcast). Both are flying at roughly the same speed - Mach 0.95

This has been asked numerous times before. Since the visual vapour cone is highly dependent on atmospheric conditions, don't count on it being implemented in DCS World anytime soon. The sound is there. Just fly supersonic and press F3. You will hear a bang when you fly past the camera. The sound gets deeper with distance, so if you press F11 and overfly the selected airbase at altitude, you will hear a deep boom.

Great initiative, please check your PM for another interesting document ;)

Yes. And I'm going to loose another one, as my motherboard died last week, so I was forced to build a new PC (or at least a new mobo + cpu)...

I upgraded my RAM from 8 to 16GB, and had to re-activate the MiG-21. All the other modules were fine though....

Maybe this might help you :) These are the dimensions Wasserfall and I calculated based on other known dimensions. From this, you should be able to determine the size of your knobs.

Hi Extranajero. As you can see in the other thread, I'm working on the same panel, although I haven't done much in the last months due to time constraints. I see you are using potmeters for the rotaries to save IO ports on the Arduino. I had the same problem, and opted for some extra components to reduce the number of IO pins dramatically. I added two 74HC165 8-bit parallel-in/serial out shift registers for the inputs, and one 74HC164 8-Bit Serial-In, Parallel-Out Shift Register for the LEDs, which are wired in a 4x4 matrix. This solution now only uses 6 digital pins, 4 for input, and 2 for output, leaving the rest open for extra switches and / or LEDs.

Now if only we could see other players walk around in MP, that would make for some interesting CSAR operations...