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  1. I see that ED is endorsing the Pimax Crystal now, so I feel that I need to drop a warning here about Pimax's business practice. Last summer I brought a Crystal which did not function according to specifications (battery lasted only for 2 hours playtime even with power cable connected). After some back and forth, Pimax has ultimately acknowledged the defect and agreed to my demand for a refund. What followed is a half-year odyssey of Pimax resisting to accept my return shipments of the Crystal, with shipments not being picked up by Pimax and getting returned to me. They say they will not refund me until they get the Crystal back, at the same time not actually taking the Crystal back. After half a year, this is still ongoing. For anyone considering doing business with Pimax, especially with this endorsement by ED, I encourage you to consider these business practices.
  2. I think it it is interesting how strongly many associate the F-4E with Vietnam. From the Heatblur F-4E manual: In detail, the USAF confirmed 21 kills. In combat, the Israeli Air Force downed 116 jets. The IRIAF shot down 83 aircraft.
  3. So after many years I got back into the Hornet a bit. And to my dismay, bomb salvos are still aimed first bomb on pipper instead of center of stick on pipper. 5 years later! I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
  4. Maintining a lock/track is the job of the AWG-9 and the pilot (by remaining within the limits). There is nothing the RIO can do about that.
  5. Tracks on which a Phoenix is being guided should be held and extrapolated even when they are "lost". The sole purpose of this functionality can only be that a Phoenix is supposed to keep guiding on the extrapolated track. If the real target happens to remain adjecent to the "ghost track" it should still be hit. I don't think this is working in DCS though. When a track is lost the Phoenix (A) is gone.
  6. I basically stopped at some point last year. There were just too many insurmountable AI problems. I could never get the AI to do what I envisioned DCE to be. Instead I have been actually flying a lot more for the last 1.5 years and had a good time. I spend a lot of time in multiplayer, for example on Enigma. But after many years of trying hard, I basically abandoned the belief that a realistic (semi-)historical scenario "grand campaign" is possible with DCS.
  7. New development. At first the life of both batteries seems to have gone down to about 2 hours worth of DCS (with powered USB-hub connected). Now the headset has developed a new trick. When one battery was getting low, the headset started to constantly dim and shut down. I just changed the battery and also with the other (which is about 3/4 full at the moment) the headset keeps fading to black and shut down. Extremely disappointing! I have already opened a support ticket at Pimax. One thing more to add to the list...
  8. Modern bombers equipped with tail guns (Tu-95, Tu-142, Tu-22M3) take evasive maneuvers when attacked by fighters. This is a fruitless maneuver against a fighter and will actually make the bomber easier to catch-up to and shoot down (turning aircraft present a larger profile). In the case of the Tu-22M it is especially counterproductive as its high speed should force any trailing fighter to slowly creep up from dead astern in its tail gun field of fire. Instead it will try to turn against fighters. Bombers will also lose mutual protection from defensive fire from any wingmen. Reaction to threat setting has no effect (to be expected, works against ground threats only). Restrict Air-Air Attack will stop them from maneuvering against air threats but will also prevent them from shooting their tail guns at all. The WWII bombers in DCS actually fly straight and level while engaging with defensive guns. The modern bombers should do the same. Attached track shows no particular outcome. It just illustrates that modern bombers go evasive while WWII do not. EvasiveBombers.trk
  9. May I kindly ask about this again? I am doing a lot of bomber intercepts and this is a very common problem. The target is non-maneuvering and the interpolated track remains in the target vicinity, yet the Phoenix stops to guide.
  10. Please allow me add some of my own recent experiences. I got the Crystal about a week ago. Unfortunately I must say I am pretty disappointed. Yes when it works, it provides very impressive clarity. But unfortunately I encountered quite a few problems. 1. With the provided USB-hub, just starting the headset was a huge problem with constant connection failures. Each time this required multiple unplugging and re-plugging of the connections to eventually get the headset to be recognized by the Pimax software and start-up. 2. I could somewhat solve this by using my own powered USB-hub (the Pimax provided one is apparently very low quality). The headset now starts up pretty reliably but the connection problem still exists sometimes. Just yesterday I had the Crystal spontanously disconnect while playing DCS. 3. Even with either the Pimax provided or my own powered USB-hub, the headset empties it's batteries in 2-3 hours of playing DCS. It just seems as if the powered USB-hub is not charging the battery at all. This is a show-stopper for me, as this will not cover the duration of my regular multi-player sessions. Hotswapping the batteries is no option, as this will crash DCS. Other makeshift solutions with extra cables is not what I am looking forward to either. This is a premium product I paid $1700 for, which I expected to use for the next several years. I am not interested in having a makeshift solution for years. These are things which just need to work for a product of this price. 4. I have noticable chromatic abberation starting about 1/3 away from the center of the screen. When looking straight ahead in DCS and glancing down at the instruments with just my eyes, I can see a green copy of the white instrument needles about 1/2 needle width above. Unfortunately this greatly takes away from the otherwise great visuals. I saw quite a few reports online about chromatic abberation problems while others apparently do not have it. I wonder if this is a quaility issue in the manufacturing. 5. The headset is heavy and bulky (which I knew beforehand). Unfortunately it is also quite uncomfortable to wear. I haven't contacted the Pimax support yet as I am dreading the process ("yes I have connected the cables, yes I have updated the firmware... "). But I guess I will have to do it soon in order to deposit any potential warranty claims. Franky I have serious doubts that support will be able to do a lot about my issues. Looking online all of them seem to be very common without any real solutions. Frankly at this point I am already regretting the purchase and would really just like to have my money back. This is not a $1700 experience.
  11. What is your experience with the battery life? Today I had both batteries, initially fully charged, drain in about 2-3 hours of playing DCS, with my own powered USB hub connected (the Pimax supplied USB hub had terrible connection problems). This is awfully short and you cannot hot swap either without crashing DCS.
  12. In the Falklands War, Argentine Roland SAM shot down two 1000 lbs GP bombs. So the possibility exists in principle.
  13. Whenever the AI is tasked to attack, it will first decelerate (using air brakes if available) and immediately accelerate again (using afterburner if available) to ultimately attack with exactly the speed it had when the attack task was given. The deceleration and acceleration is completely unnecessary. This pretty annoying AI quirk exists probably since the Lock On era. Demonstration track attached. AI_Attack_Slowdown.trk
  14. There is a problem with lofting Phoenix against low supersonic targets. I tried to engage SS-N-19 Shipwreck missiles. If the Phoenix lofts, it comes down too late resulting in a terminal perpendicular dive from which it has no chance to hit the target. It would need to dive earlier and flatter to hit the target head-on. The only success I had was launches under 20 NM where the Phoenix doesn't loft at all and goes straight for the target. If it lofts it is a guaranteed miss. No track because they don't play back correctly anyway, but you can check out the test scenario in the mission below. Phoenix_Shipwreck.miz
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