Dysko

I always wanted to try aviation wargames! Could you suggest some, both solitaire and for 2 players? (I already know Hornet Leader and the other DVG games)

Two airsow in two days. I haven't done anything similar since 2015. Lovere, a town on the northern tip of Lake Iseo, between the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia in Italy, hosts every year the Mario Stoppani Memorial Airshow. Mario Stoppani was a fighter Ace with 6 victories obtained in WW1 and seaplane test pilot and recordman who was born in this town in 1895. Several seaplanes were moored in front of the town since morning. Being part of the official photographers team, I could hitch a ride on a zodiac to take some "lake-side" photos. RC model of a CRDA CANT Z.501, patrol and SAR seaplane which performed its first flight in 1934, with Stoppani flying it. During the morning it was possible to fly as a passenger on a seaplane. Seamax amphibian ultralight with shark livery Skyleader 600 fly-by The airshow was opened by a Flight Design CT from a nearby flying school Due to limited room for maneuvering, the Frecce Tricolori were limited to a fly-by after opening the Grand Prix of Italy in Monza Autogyro pair, a closed-cockpit Magni M24 Orion and a Magni M16 CAP 10 from a nearby flying school Bell 206 Ultralight floatplanes fly-bys Aerobatic champion Andrea Pesenato flying a CAP 231 Aviation 46's wingwalking demo Maurizio Costa closed the show with his Pitts Special End of the show, time to go home...

The city of Desenzano del Garda (on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy) hosted Airshow del Garda 2022 on Saturday 10th September. Desenzano was the host of the Reparto Sperimentale Alta Velocità (Experimental High Speed Detachment), which tested the seaplanes which would have been used for the Schneider Trophy and for speed records. Seaside and lake-side airshows (which are the majority of airshows in Italy) are not my cup of tea, both because I like to see takeoffs and landings, and because going to and leaving the show leads to long queues, which these places can handle with much difficulty. However, being close to my home I went anyway. Just before the show, a State Police AW139 performed a fly-by The show was opened by a 15th Stormo HH-139B SAR demo Display by a Zlin Savage amphibious ultralight flown by Fabio Guerra, former F-104 and Boeing 777 pilot Francesco Fullin flying a Pitts Special Legend Formation, legacy flight with Italian Air Force trainer aircraft Prop planes formed the first diamond: SIAI S.208, Fiat G.46, North American T-6 Texan and SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 Aermacchi jet planes formed the second diamond: MB.339CD, MB.326E, MB.326K (single seat light attack variant of the MB.326) and M.346 Andrea Pesenato, freshly graduated as Italian aerobatic champion for the advanced and free style classes, flying a CAP 231 9-ship Tornado formation. The 40th Anniversary of Tornado service in the Italian Air Force was celebrated in nearby Ghedi airbase just 2 days earlier. The formation was led by the 40th Anniversary special color, which wears the 4 liveries flown by the type: prototype, early camo livery, desert camo livery for the Operazione Locusta (Italian contribution to Desert Storm) and current grey livery. A tenth Tornado flew some solo passes And, finally, the Frecce Tricolori!

The first post-pandemic edition of the Italian Historical Aircraft Group (HAG) yearly fly-in, held in 25th and 26th June in Bagnoli di Sopra airfield near Padua, home of HAG itself. The show was opened with a Viet Nam War memorial by Bird Dog "Mekong Mauler". Probably the most unusual visitor was a new entry in the HAG fleet, a Soko G-2A Galeb jet trainer. This is the first jet to ever land in this grass airfield! Front cockpit Two historical visitors from Aero Club Milano. Piper J-3 Cub Stampe SV-4 The first of the 2 Pitts Special which flew during the day. Formation with a Piaggio P-149... ...and 2 F.8 Falco Yak-52 take-off and low pass: Fiat G.46, post-WW2 trainer and one of the first planes built in Italy after WW2: Another Yak-52: CAP 10: Another Pitts: Corby Starlet: New entry in the HAG fleet: 1942-built Waco UPF-7 Finally I managed to take a photo of an F14! Ok, it is not the naval fighter made famous by an '80s blockbuster, but a rare Aviamilano F14 Nibbio, designed by Stelio Frati . Only 10 were built, and only 2 (including this one) are still airworthy. The Mekong Mauler takes off in formation with the Boredom Fighters Team for a closing salute

Fixed picture links, I didn't know [img] tags didn't work on this forum

Other than being an aviation enthusiast, I'm also a photography enthusiast, so I often mix the 2 hobbies. Some of my photos were even published on aviation magazines. I'll start with some pics from the yearly Italian Air Force SAR exercise Grifone 2022, held in San Damiano airport, a former Tornado base near Piacenza, Italy, from 13th to 17th June. The Italian Air Force used a HH-139... The Italian Army Aviation flew with a venerable UH-205: The Vigili del Fuoco, the national firefighting and rescue service, flew with a AW139: The Italian Navy with a EH-101: The State Police with a AB-212: The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie corps, flew with a AW139: The Guardia di Finanza, the national custom service, flew with a PH-139... ...and a UH-169: The only foreign participant was the Spanish Air Force, with a NH-90 and a CASA CN235 (too distant for photos): The local gate guardian, an F-104 Starfighter:

DCS vs reality I took the top photo in May 2014 at exercise REVITA 2014, the last reactivation of the military area of Buochs airport in Switzerland (which now only hosts civilian flights and flights to/from the nearby Pilatus factory). The bottom photo is an attempt to recreate it in DCS. Unfortunately, despite the CLOOOUUUDS update, I was unable to recreate the "diffuse lightning" conditions of that day. Using an "Overcast" preset results in a too dark picture.

DCS vs reality I took the top photo at SAR exercise SATER 01-18 in Verona Villafranca general aviation airport. It depicts an Agusta-Bell AB.412 used by the Vigili del Fuoco, Italy's firefighting service. For the DCS screenshot I used its "older brother" UH-1H and a skin I found in the mod repository.

DCS vs reality I took this photo of a Romanian Air Force MiG-21 LanceR C at Bucharest International Airshow 2019: I tried to recreate the same picture in DCS with the MiG-21bis module and a skin I found in the download section:

Nope, it is deactivated on my PC.

Nope, I'm not using any of them. But... So far this is working great! It may be an unorthodox fix but hey, it works :D

Done, but the problem appears anyway. I noticed one thing however... while the screen is stuck on the black "DCS World" logo, I can hear the menu music in the background. It almost seems like the menu actually loaded, only I cannot see it. In my "normal" install I disabled the menu music, that's why I noticed this only now. Log attached. Thank you for your efforts :) dcs.txt

Thank you for your assistance! Unfortunately, it did not help :( Hoping it may help narrowing down the cause, as a comparison I'm attaching the log file created with the sim in windowed mode, and thus loading correctly (please note that in this case I did not deactivate any mod). dcs.txt

I have this issue too since the first 2.5.6 update (currently I have 2.5.6.43931). On startup, the game remains stuck on the DCS World black screen. I noticed this happens only when I am in full screen mode, at any resolution. If I switch to windowed mode, DCS loads correctly, so it is not a show-stopping issue (but I'd prefer to play in full screen :) ). After the first 2.5.6 update, I deleted the "fxo" and "metashaders2" folders in the "Saved games" folder as per instructions. I also disabled all my mods (SRS, Tacview, A-4E, MB.339), but to no avail. Deleting options.lua did not help either. I made a repair after every update. I'm attaching my DCS log to this post. Thank you for your assistance! :) dcs.txt

Hello everybody! New user from Italy here! I've been playing with flight sims since I was a kid. I was frankly scared by DCS' steep learning curve, until last summer, when I found a "light" (no mandatory weekly participation and so on) virtual squadron whose members convinced me to buy some modules, and trained me with them :D As for real life experience, I am an aviation photography enthusiast (I have even published articles on some magazines), I graduated in aerospace engineering 6 years ago and also tried to get a glider pilot license (albeit unsuccesfully for several reasons, mainly excessive costs). Happy landings! :D