Ryback1973

Yeah! The documentation thing. I have the impression that razbam is making themselves lif a bit too easy! - Their pocket guide isn't even close to beeing up to date. No matter what's the reason for that...it sucks. - One of the instant missions (freeflight) for the AV-8 was a copy of an FA-18 mission. They didn't even bother to change the text message at start. - There is this download: https://www.razbamsimulations.com/files/DCS-AV-8B-Harrier-Guide.pdf , which is of course Chuck's Guide, but they again didn't even make the effort to update that file after he recently put some work into it. "Stealing" content from others and then getting caught with fails like those is kinda silly IMO.

Hovering with a harrier is a massive matter of practicing. Same with Helis as the Huey. My friend flies in VR and he says that it is much easier as you can sense much earlier that the airframe tends in a certain direction, of course giving you faster reaction to counter that movement. I personally fly with trackIR. Without it I would probably never get a hover done. Joystick sensitivity is a big thing. Giving too much curvature/deadzone results in far too much movement of Stick and Rudder for relative small corrections, while too small values result in almost instant Oszillation and loss of control. I have a Thrustmaster Warthog combined with a T16000 Rudder, my curvature of the pitch and roll axis is at 20 and a deadzone of 3. The curvature of my rudder is at 35 and 5!!!. Sounds much but this relatively shitty pedals combined with my absolute lack of sensitivity in my feet/legs make everything below that hard to controll the turns. After about 30 to 40 landings on the Tarawa I am able to bring her down quite on point on a good day. I built a mission with some airshow cones as a slalom course on a runway to practice traversing from hover to controlled forward/backwards flight and strafing with helis and the AV-8. You can of course also use landmarks as a reference. Works pretty good.