What is your predilection aircraft...? The only one.

[zeufman]

Su-25. For ever

(sorry )

[mondaysoff]

Mi-8 all day long.

[Rhinozherous]

The queen of the dirtmovers, she is the beauty in her uglyness... The one and only A10C Warthog!

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Sorry . Forever taken by A-4. A-4 was in service for 50 years. Su-25 will probably also push that. Gen 4.5 aircraft are expected to serve 30-40. Gen 5 is for 50. In a century , aircraft airframes will be last centuries, only weapons and avionics , and procedures will change. Kind of like Star Wars, where space-craft and air vehicles are centuries and millenia old. Life converging with fiction.

[Headwarp]

I don't fly it in MP yet, but once as she gets closer to being feature complete I see myself spending a lot of time in the Bug, and will likely spend a lot of time in the F-16CJ when we get it.

 

The bug just has all the delivery methods you can want, The viper will carry less, but also will have all the delivery methods you can want.

 

But this question is impossible, the Tomcat and the JF-17 are going to get some love from this virtual flyboy too.

 

But once we get the data link in the Hornet it's probably where I'm going to be spending most of my time when I have the vr headset on, at least until we get the F-16CJ

[Shadow KT]

The Fighter/Attack - 10C

[River]

Not the Tiger, its a cool aircraft but there is just no sound feedback coming from the engines. Sounds like a glider if you have the box hear like in helmet checked. Sorry to say, really nice plane otherwise.

 

F18 is a beast but pretty boring to fly too, I'd say the Harrier is the most fun fixed wing as of now.

[Brigg]

Mig 21. I love flying on a knife edge :lol:

[Konovalov]

Almost embarrassed to admit this but the A-10A as it was my first love in the original Lock On days and even now I still enjoy having a quick flight in this FC3 aircraft despite the lower level of fidelity, no clickable cockpit, and no smart weapons apart from the AGM-65's.

[thrustvector]

it would be the huey, or the mi-8 if she was a bit more resilient

[Varis]

Gazelle. It's superb for reconnaissance and has good combat capabilities... actually the module is 4 different aircraft :lol:

 

Very agile so it can be a blast to fly... even if the FM is not 100% spot on, it's still great fun... and will get an update soonish.

[Dav IRL]

The harrier

[Doum76]

Hi guys,

 

Many of us bought many aircraft, but you probably noticed that you are commonly coming back to that one aircraft, which is the one you know best.

 

Let's say tomorrow you ED would have to force you to select one aircraft (in the existing ones) and that this aircraft would be the only one you would be allowed to fly for the next few years to come.

 

Which one would it be?

 

I'll start ... the F-5 tiger. That was a hard decision, but you are only allowed ONE. Don't write a second choice ;)

 

 

 

 

F/A-18 for me, back in 2010 or so, i discovered DCS by mistake while buying a totaly different category game online, i was flying in FSX back then, using the default Hornet or VRS SuperBug, back then there was only the A-10C and the KA-50 which started to fly on the same servers.

 

 

Since then, i was dreaming a Hornet comes in DCS when i'Ve seen the graphics, fidelity of the cockpits and it's system in the A-10C..,when new modules started to rain in DCS and DCS World came up, that dream came stronger and stronger, the day they announced the works on the Hornet module, you can't imagine how i felt, so now, i'm mostly flying the Hornet, but, the AV8B is not far behind. :)

[doxholiday]

Simple, F/A-18 Hornet. It can do everything.

 

^^ This

[Holbeach]

Simple, F/A-18 Hornet. It can do everything.

 

 

Except, take off and land vertically.

..

[DmitriKozlowsky]

I can't say for real world. But in DCS, between F/A-18C, SU-33, and A-4E-C, and AV-8B. In my view conventional, visual , carrier recovery , of first three is much easier then vertical landing on Tarawa with AV-8B/NA. Ironically with CATOBAR and VSTOL recovery on ship, the faster the vessel is sailing (into the wind) the easier it is to land. To me the slower the LHA is sailing, or sitting dead in the water, the harder it is, for me, to land Harrier safely. Same goes for CATOBAR with F/A-18, SU-33D, and A-4-C. Trapping on carrier moving 0-3 knots is much harder then trapping on ship booking at 15-20 knots. THe extra wind over deck and under wings makes aircraft more responsive small control inputs. Thankfully, an empty HarrierII, with 15% fuel remaining, and no stores, does not need H20 injection to land vertically (withrespect to the deck). If the deck has 20 knots of wind over it, landing is a breeze. Baadaa-bing-tzboom! Landing AV-8B on large deck carrier with 15-20 knots wind over deck, in DCS, is relatively easy. Just fly normal approach, an put her down in landing area on top of three wire with 5 knot relative (to the deck) air speed.

I don't see why US Navy refuses to deploy Harrier squadrons on CVNs. LHA with welldeck can only carry 6 Harriers (or F-35B). America class variant without welldeck, can embark a squadron's worth of AV-8B+ or F-35B. Not exactly an CVN embarked Air Wing.

F-14, S-3, SeaKIng, are no longer in the FLeet. It is just F/A-18E/F/G, C-2 COD, and E-2D. There is more space available. Would it hurt Navy to add 1 squadron of Harriers or F-35B , to a carrier air wing?

[Rotor57]

F/A-18C for me.

[Pasquale1986]

Hog

[Kev2go]

i like to fly variety of aircraft, but if i was forced to choose one from currently existing modules

 

F/A18C

 

Like other said its versatile and it can do just about any mission profile whilst also possessing modern avionics suite. I like my glass pits and the A/C is user friendly enough that you never feel overloaded with work.

Edited February 3, 2019 by Kev2go

[Kev2go]

I don't fly it in MP yet, but once as she gets closer to being feature complete I see myself spending a lot of time in the Bug, and will likely spend a lot of time in the F-16CJ when we get it.

 

The bug just has all the delivery methods you can want, The viper will carry less, but also will have all the delivery methods you can want.

 

But this question is impossible, the Tomcat and the JF-17 are going to get some love from this virtual flyboy too.

 

But once we get the data link in the Hornet it's probably where I'm going to be spending most of my time when I have the vr headset on, at least until we get the F-16CJ

 

 

Viper doesnt carry less than the Bug. where the F18 is limited to 2 bombs per pylon via Br33 addon rack. the Viper can carry 3 500 pound bombs ( either unguided or Laser guided) with addon racks, and even has a configuration for x3 Mavericks'. per rack. for the inner and intermediate hard points however draggy that may be.

 

Wheras the Hornet will either have to sacrifice its fuselage external tank to carry Litening (USMC config) or sacrifice an Aim120 or Sparrow from cheek station when using Atflir ( USN config), the Viper caries TGP on separate hard point near the nose . Meaning that even in Ground strike config youl always have 4 A2A stores available as well as utilize belly external tank. Wingtips aren't limited to Sidewinders, the viper can carry AMRAAMs there too.

Edited February 3, 2019 by Kev2go

[nessuno0505]

The tank with the wings, the a-10c.

Some say it's slow. Well, have you ever seen a fast tank? If you want to go fast, play project cars.

I like flying choppers too, but if I had to choose just one, then I say the hog.

Edited February 4, 2019 by nessuno0505

[draconus]

easy - F-15C

[captflyby]

FA-18C

[lobo]

"BRRRT" (A-10C)

[Plague2Delta]

AV-8BNA all day.