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Norton. I know a lot of people hate it, but it's worked well for me for years.

Steam is easy if you want one stop shopping for all your game purchases and care thereof. I can't remember why I started out with DCS on Steam but I did, and it works, and I'm still on it. Also, you can try a product before it's out on free trial, and if you use it for less than two-hours and decide you don't like it, you can get a refund. I've done that three-times over the years I think, and ended up re-buying the modules later on and keeping them. I also like to load up my Steam wallet when work is solid. So no credit card action for modules in the down season, everything is pre-paid.

Exactly. This is a flightsim first and foremost, I'd say 50% of my flight time is just for the fun of flying. No "Kaboom!" And the Chinook is going to be a blast to fly. As far as Huey books go, "Chickenhawk".

Yeah, but it's going to be a riot to fly.

I completely understand your love for steam gauges. But for me, born before Neil took one small step, I want all the fancy tech toys I can get my hands on. It's 2024 and I want my space ship.

Oh, and I love the music in the trailer. Brought a smile to my face right away.

I certainly hope so. I am optimistic and enthusiastic. I am looking forward to whoopin' around in the Chinook for the sheer fun of flying. It's gonna be great. But someone somewhere has got to throw me some good news first. They have their price, I have mine.

I am super enthusiastic about the CH-47. Easy Top 3 of any of the upcoming modules. But I need some feel-good from the powers that be first.

Sweet! I am seriously hot and bothered for this chopper. But I share Rudel's concerns, and will wait.

I hope it's coming soon. Been nothing new since June of 2023. Longest dry spell I've seen with DCS. I hope Kola or the Phantom coming out doesn't push the other back by months just for the sake of separating product releases.

Just hope ORBX doesn't get into the "coming soon" thing where it means sometime between two-weeks and when your grandchildren retire.

On one hand they have no experience with DCS, but on the other hand they've been making terrain for a long time and in great quantity. I'm feeling positive about it.

I'm hyped. Bring it!

He showed three-years of charts, all too small to see properly. Brilliant.

Now THAT is an update! May need a new SSD.

I'm on Steam and my pilot needs an exorcism. His head is a' shaking. Doesn't bother me, but I guess a bug is a bug.

Makes me think of my pre-DCS days, flying another sim but taking a look at the DCS forums from time to time, and seeing change logs 100 lines long with things like: Fixed - AIM-7 sub vector paint micrometer bearings Fixed - AIM-7 partial fin delayed reaction cooling Fixed - AIM 7 weekly gyro update crew tangent above Mach 1 ...and I'm thinking WTF! is all this? Now it all makes sense.

Fixed the flashlight in the Yak-52. I'll take that as a win.

Speed, height, distance. Even with A2G those are beautiful things. (But still love me some A-10) And those funky long range A2G weapons and radar targeting, you get your Space Shuttle of Death jive going on.

I just got it and I find it very hard to get used to. Old dogs, new tricks, and all that.

That's one of the best things about DCS: a great in-game easy to use mission editor. In my years of DCS, 99.99% of my flights have been through the mission editor. Every flight is my flight. It's the only way I want to fly.

I think I had a senior moment.

Thanks! For some odd reason, the key I binded (is that a word?) for centering keeps unbinding itself. Don't know why. Not a big deal, but odd.

Oof! Not easy getting used to head tracking. Going to take a while to get the settings right. It's either too wild or too tame. Not to mention sitting in the same position. Hard to change 25 years of flightsim habits. But the eye tracking is wild. Hold your head still and just look to the left and there the camera goes. Pretty funky.

Thank you for that. And it seems Amazon is delivering my webcam a day early so I get to try it out tonight.