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Thanks for the reply Any update on the F1M? Is that still coming, and if so, any general timeline?

Hi all, I'm a little late to the F1 party here. Are there any plans to implement a virtual pilot body? It's a bit of an immersion breaker. Also I noticed some of the external sounds, especially afterburner flybys are lacking a little.

Those "high res" fields are still there I think in the final product (in the sim) but the problem is that 95% of the remaining area is genuinely horrible and totally unacceptable. Not to mention those beautiful "Norwegian-looking" fields have no place in Russia. If you check goggle maps it's not even remotely like that. So both a combination of wrong high res textures and totally appalling low res textures in other areas. The bright green colours are also so nothing like real life. Orbx, please redo the whole map. This is very poor for a company of your caliber.

I don't understand anyone who is praising this map and the new summer textures. They are easily as bad as they were. The whole map as it stands, with the exception of some NATO airbases and whatever towns are currently modelled, is beyond poor. The textures are appalling. It's literally unflyable at low level because it's so bad. It's not even 10% as good as the old default Caucuses map. To say this has been a huge disappointment is a colossal understatement. I was expecting a lot more given the reputation Orbx has in MSFS. I'm beginning to loose hope it will ever actually be enjoyable. Hopefully someone in the community can come in with a texture mod to fix it somewhat.

And to add - the new retextured summer on the Kola map is terrible. No better than before. To say this has been the biggest disappointment in my DCS history is an understatement.

Dogfighting my friend, a real 4th gen fighter pilot, in the Su-30. Super fun! Thanks a lot to the devs for letting me have a go at the new (early access) version of the flight model. Also, a note to the devs - please watch the last part of the video. There are some very strange FM bugs there that are hard to describe but easy to see. Hopefully they can be ironed out?

A little video to showcase the improvements to the Su-30's flight model coming in a future update:

Does anyone have a flight manual available for the OH-6? Or know if the exact Autorotation procedure by any chance? Cheers!

I made the mission, it's available to Patreons like all my missions

A full revamp of the exterior would be great for the UH-1 too! Looking forward to the results either way

Made a little obstacle course for the OH-6

I would really love to know even a little bit about the AI GFM - it's a little bit unfair to have previewed this and showcased it 2 years ago and then total silence. Even an update to say "guys, this was way more difficult than we thought and things aren't going well here" would be better than total silence, to keep us in the loop. I think honesty and transparency gains far more trust from consumers than constant "stand by for future updates" that never come. Same for the other promised features too... ground units AI, some kind of F-5 product that never materialised, supercarrier marshallers, ground crew AI and so on. @BIGNEWY Anything you could tell us at all, especially regarding the aircraft AI formation behaviour that's been in the works for so long?

Did a little "milk run" in the OH-6

Great explanation, thank you!

Hi folks sorry if it's obvious and has been answered before but do we still have to manually launch the Multithreading version of DCS from the bin-mt folder or is the default exe now always using multi-threading? Thanks!

Made a little video about the Loach:

Does anyone else just have a black screen with the new launcher? My one is glitchy. I don't get any of the screenshots on the launcher everyone else is seeing. I just have a black screen, and even my "lunch DCS" button doesn't load properly. It's orange but missing the text on it unless I start clicking around on some of the the buttons on the left side. Hmmm

Is this with regards to the "Unofficial Development Thread"? Yeah if so, bring it back please

Ah! Indeed! The FC3 aircraft are all there and playable. Great!

The problem I'm having is that once loading DCS and going to the modules manager I get an option to install "FC3 Planes" - I do so but it doesn't actually download them. I'm confused as to what is going on really.

Sorry if answered before but has there been any update on getting the FC3 planes to work for those of us who have had the FC3 pack before the update went live? Thanks!

I'm sorry but big improvements need to be made to the FM no matter what curves or saturation you have - I agree that saturating the curves is a good idea for most stick set up especially with short extensions and that will definitely gain some benefits but the mod is really far off feeling realistic in terms of controls or hover. I'm really hoping big tweaks are on the horizon.

Would any modders out there be interested in creating the sort of set up that Ukrainian MiG-29s have with a mobile phone/ small tablet attached to the HUD and/ or a simple hand held GPS? Like here: https://www.twz.com/ukraines-mig-29s-shown-firing-firing-u-s-agm-88-missiles-in-stunning-cockpit-video If we could get something similar with a moving map/ route that would be fantastic. Something similar could be implemented for the Su-25 too. I'm actually somewhat surprised that nobody has attempted to do this yet? Huge Thanks in advance!

@tobi Any FM updates on the horizon?