Diesel_Thunder

I noticed that the MB-339 has BLU-107 Durandal bombs on the wings!

Pedals made a huge difference for me. My old HOTAS was a Saitek X-45, which did not feature a twist twist for rudder, but rather a rudder rocker on the back of the throttle handle. It was ok at best, and required a lot of finger precision due to the limited range of movement. I didn't fly the helos much, or the warbirds either for that reason. The pedals are awesome as you get a lot more range of movement and also gives your feet/legs something to do, similar to the real deal. One more thing if I could offer, which has helped my sim helo flying a lot, is to use a joystick extension. The added range of movement adds so much precision and I find it much easier to hold a hover or even perform regular hand flying/basic maneuvers. I added an 8 inch extension to my TM Warthog, and it has certainly enhanced my sim experience.

That’s a good question. Not sure on the F4, but Deka Ironworks may be doing the Herky Bird based on this comment:

I feel like it’s in a really good state right now as well. For me, the Viper was my first hot rod in DCS, as the only modules I had at the time were the P-51 and A-10C. I bought it last April, and it had a lot less features then, but my god that bird was awesome to fly. I ran the start up tutorial to learn the basics, and then set myself up a slick wing Viper for a free flight. I started up, taxied out, pushed the throttle full forward and did things the Hog could only dream of (and emptied the tanks in 9 minutes). Cloud surfing with the new clouds is quite fun too! More and more features have been added since then. Targeting pod, markpoints, flight model adjustments. If Wild Weasel is your thing, the HARM Targeting System has recently been added as well as a nice implementation of ECM. I recommend it!

Planned EA is next month, around January 22nd IIRC. Subject to change of course

SoonTM I’m looking forward to it as well!

Glad I’m not the only one seeing this either. Next time I do some BFM I’ll save the track.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this the deck of the Forestal? If so, then that looks like deck crew and ground equipment as seen in the Winter Sale video.

I upgraded from a 17 year old Saitek X-45 to a TM Warthog. The difference for me was huge as far AAR goes. With the X-45 I could get close, but never was able to plug with any of my jets. The precision just wasn’t there, plus there was a fair amount of stiction from it being old. The first night with the Warthog I was finally able to connect, albeit briefly with the A-10. The new stick helped out a lot with it’s precision, no dead zone, and overall feel compared to the X-45. What it didn’t do was make up for my lack of skill at the time. With the X-45 I had tried a lot to AAR, failed every time, and gave up on it. The Warthog renewed my interest in that skill, and with plenty of practice, can now confidently do AAR in the Hornet and Viper. Just recently in the Hornet, I was able to hook up, fill the tanks full, and not have a single disconnect. Got just over 10K of gas in that one connection .

Dawn patrol.

We didn’t get the SEAD page on the DED, or any details in the Viper manual. Beyond that, I’ve been enjoying it as I’m able to do more of the Wild Weasel mission.

I saw that on the official manual too. Doesn’t have the new HTS detailed in it yet. Maybe on the next update?

I was wondering the same thing, as I've been practicing with doing Wild Weasel mission with the new HTS lately. Curious to know when the manual would be updated?

I have a feeling that may be a DCS thing in the primer coding (if primer unlocked - then engine roughness/instability). As grafspee pointed out, you were at 40 inches of MP. That should have forced the check valves in the primer pump closed, as the intake manifold is under pressure and not suction like at low power/idle.

The plunger type hand primers were the most common primers in use before electric primers. They typically squirted fuel in the intake of a couple cylinders (not all cylinders) to give the extra gas needed for a cold start. For most radials, it was usually the upper cylinders where the extra fuel was delivered. They operate similarly to a bicycle air pump where the upstroke will pull in fuel, and the downstroke delivers the fuel to the engine. The pump has check valves inside it to ensure the fuel flow went the proper direction. The primer pump in the P-47 pulled fuel directly from the main tank strainer assembly, and then to the upper cylinders. The reason why the engine will run rough if one leaves the primer handle out is that there is now another pathway for fuel to flow into the engine. For an engine to run smooth, every cylinder must get a similar amount of fuel and air as the rest of the cylinders (and ignited properly at the correct time) so that the combustion forces are fairly equal. Radial engines do a pretty good job at this as the intake manifold is pretty symmetrical, meaning that the fuel/air mix from the carburetor and supercharger travel about the same distance to get to every cylinder. At idle, there is some suction force in the intake, enough to pull some fuel through the check valves of an open and unlocked primer pump. And since the upper cylinders get the fuel from the primer pump, their fuel mix is now different than the other cylinders, making them run different than the others, and hence why it runs funny. Locking the primer pump closed off this path for fuel, ensuring that the carburetor was the only device delivering fuel to the engine for normal operation. As aircraft electrical systems developed, the hand primer was replaced with a switch that controlled a solenoid valve which was fed from the fuel pump. That setup used the same method as the hand pump which only delivered fuel to a handful of cylinders. This later evolved to a single nozzle that sprayed fuel right into the supercharger so that all cylinders got extra fuel for cold start. Our DCS P-51 Mustang features this style of primer.

It’s generally a server setting whether changing seats is allowed, or not in MP. It is not a hard rule that is not allowed ever.

We had a blast doing a double tank in a MP server recently. Two pilots and me as RIO in one of them.

Kobulati was my home field until Marianas was released. Anytime I shot ILS approaches, it was always on runway 7. Even with no wind, runway 7 was the “default” runway. Unless something broke recently, it should be working.

The view count on that video is incredible! And that video was only posted 6 weeks ago. For comparison, the A-10C II video was posted last September and has 352k total views. The Viper launch was posted 2 years ago (October 2019) and has 514k views. I would agree that the Apache is a very high profile/highly anticipated module!

I’ve searched and could not find out if this was something that could be done (DCS or RL). Is it possible to re-align the nav while on the boat in the middle of a mission, such as if you landed to rearm/refuel?

I’ve noticed that the formation knob now defaults to the full ON position, leading to confusing light behavior for those like me who use the light switches to control the lights. This mostly stems from that the formation lights on the Viper also use the navigation lights, unlike the Hornet and Warthog which both have a separate set of lights for formation. Request to have the formation knob default position changed to the off position.

@NorgeNate Thank you for the insight! The formation knob behavior certainly lends to confusion, especially compared to the Hornet. I still think the default position of the knob has changed recently, leading to my initial post on the subject as it made the lights behave in a way I wasn’t used to at all.

When you did the symbolic link, did you set it up as a target or a junction? If it is a target, it usually won’t work right since it’s a folder with sub folders. A junction is a hard link for that entire directory. I just went through this, though for my DCS download folder as my SSD is low on space.

It's for extending and retracting the HF antenna. It's usually extended once airborne, and retracted before landing. Currently in DCS it doesn't do anything.

Saw the thread subtitle requesting a track, so I went in and did another refuel from the KC-130. Observed the probe "moving" around in the basket while hooked up, and occasionally looked misaligned like in my screenshot above. The only other odd thing was that the KC-130 called for me to breakaway twice, before I even plugged the first time. Here's my track, took a full load of fuel and plugged three times in doing so. f18 refuel probe.trk