BigHairyGobbler

CCRP doesn't work at all.

Yeah, that's part of running DCS. Your laptop seems fine, though if you have a mechanical HDD that's a big bottleneck. I have a 1TB NVME 3500MB/s drive and it still takes a long time to load DCS.

If we have a frankenviper we’ll need a torches and pitchforks missile to counter the creature.

I made a bombing mission to depart at 0700 expecting it to be just getting light outside but it was pitch black. I flew it anyways in the F-16C and really struggled to get bombs on target (didn't know NVGs were available). Anyways, landed fine using ILS but I looked at what made the AV-8B a "night attack" plane and the NAVFLIR really interests me...too bad AV-8B doesn't have ILS but we can just land near vertically and not worry about it.

For frequencies, I've found this on the DCS User File Section (author = asherao)

I just started STOL and some VTOL and it's fun but I find the AV-8B does little else to make me buy, however, there's something compelling in the AV-8B that forces me to keep looking for a reason to buy it.

I'm curious how everyone finds their way back to their base after a sortie without using the F10 map. Do you set a way point to the base before you fly, use TACAN, use the ATC option and ask for heading or something else?

Does anyone sell the TM Warthog throttle and base but with an F-16C grip instead of an A-10C grip?

Yeah. I have it off by default and can press throttle to 100% and fly around with fuel burn <10,000 PPH. If I press the afterburner detent button I need to lower the throttle then press it back forward and I blast off with afterburners going. When done with AB, I press afterburner detent button and lower throttle and back to flying without afterburner. Makes much easier to conserve fuel.

No, the Warthog is hard to find under $500. Waiting and watching but I mapped AB detent to a button.

I set my F-16C to not go into afterburner unless I toggle a switch. Then it can go into afterburner mode but I'll then untoggle the switch to prevent it from wasting fuel. The F-16C is fairly easy to land as well and I've landed all shot-up or using the short landing circuit in the manual. Only squirrelly thing with landing the F-16C is to use the airframe to slow the plane until your nose drops when you can pump the brakes. The AV-8B is really hard for me to land...not sure why but my angle is always too steep with that plane. It seems like it wants to land faster than the F-16C so I need to practice that more but that's the only negative about AV-8B.

I really enjoy flying the AV-8B but it doesn't offer anything over the F-16C to justify.

I've noticed the F-16C HUD will become FUBARed, usually after some extreme-ish maneuvers but sometimes it just gets messed up and I can't determine what I did to cause it to do that. For example, the compass row that's on the top of the HUD will be at the bottom or middle and other things move around as well.

Well, I meant it’d be better to have a timeline scroll bar so I can get to end of flight without fast forwarding.

That happened to me when I was monkeying around doing extreme maneuvers.

Ok...in order to return to the page where "1" actually takes you to ILS you need to toggle the DCS to RTN. That was driving me nuts.

Well now I know why I said "4" initially because when I hit "1" to go to ILS page it starts entering a comm1 or comm2 freq. Going to LIST then selecting "4" should take you to NAV but that's not set up yet. To recreate, start your F-16C then click A-G, LIST, COM1, etc. then try to change ILS frequency. How do I do that because pressing "1" at that point starts entering a frequency NOT the ILS freq.

Ok. Was hoping there were other controls as Ctrl z is not ideal. Thanks

Thanks. I meant “1”. I’ll give it ago in the AM

I can enter ils freqs on the ground or in flight but once I hit a button in the center console to do something and later try to enter an old freq it doesn’t enter as ils and enters as comm freq. what button do I need to press to be able to enter Ils freq. If I hit 4 To go to ils it enters freq starting with a 4 for comm1 or comm2 for example.

Are the time controls the fast forward control or are they something else.

Hopefully, the Harrier will be part of the next month of free trials that starts tomorrow. I'll fly it a little more.

Thanks for the input. I've now flown quite a few missions with F-16C and enjoy flying it quite a bit. While I'd like to also fly Harrier, I don't want to bounce back and forth between aircraft so will just focus on F-16C for now. Regarding fuel, the F-16C seems to be very fuel efficient so long as you don't use afterburner but it's good to know it's there if needed. Razbam had said they were going to relook at the Harrier fuel burn rate as it seems to not be very fuel-efficient.

I didn't save the track but will keep an eye on negative-g's.

Hard to tell if I was pushing stick forward. I was in shallow dive and on target so I doubt it