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Where is the JF-17 official manual? I can only find a chuck's guide.

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The difficult part is that they need to balance how deep the systems will be described in their public manual，so they won't be taken down by the government.

  Personally I hope we can get a manual like "that f-16 sim one" or the dcs manuals for the Tomcat and the Mirage.
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Tolovay

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I've heard over 1.000.000 copies of this module were sold. Multiply this with a price and you starting ask yourself: A manual is a problem? For that money? Hmmmmm.

1 hour ago, Akiazusa said:

The difficult part is that they need to balance how deep the systems will be described in their public manual，so they won't be taken down by the government.

  Personally I hope we can get a manual like "that f-16 sim one" or the dcs manuals for the Tomcat and the Mirage.

 

A manual is not a problem. Why would anyone develop systems so deep knowing they can be taken down by government and then not describe them in manual? It would be a complete waste of time.

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26 minutes ago, Tolovay said:

I've heard over 1.000.000 copies of this module were sold.


I really hope that number were true, for the financial health of the developers, but it seems really improbable when you check other numbers, like the number of users at Hoggit forum, which is 77,000 and the number of users at ED forum, which used to be around 100,000 (currently it cant be seen).

 

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On 3/2/2022 at 9:12 AM, Tolovay said:

I've heard over 1.000.000 copies of this module were sold. Multiply this with a price and you starting ask yourself: A manual is a problem? For that money? Hmmmmm.

A manual is not a problem. Why would anyone develop systems so deep knowing they can be taken down by government and then not describe them in manual? It would be a complete waste of time.

As rudel said, where did you here this? 

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Tolovay

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On 3/4/2022 at 1:39 AM, AeriaGloria said:

As rudel said, where did you here this? 

i won't disclose this since it is not first hand info.

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On 3/2/2022 at 6:57 PM, Rudel_chw said:


I really hope that number were true, for the financial health of the developers, but it seems really improbable when you check other numbers, like the number of users at Hoggit forum, which is 77,000 and the number of users at ED forum, which used to be around 100,000 (currently it cant be seen).

 

Numbers you see are just the tip of the iceberg. The majority of players are not even registered on forums NOR care about multiplayer. And when you start to calculate how many people are getting salary from DCS, those cash number are actualy not that big.

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Napillo

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10 hours ago, Breakaway said:

I doubt Deka's manual will be better than Chucks anyway

from what I've heard the official manual of the JF-17 was made with some humor - which could make it better than Chuck's if they follow that style.

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Napillo

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5 hours ago, hlfritz said:

update on the manual, Chinese

Chinese manual was released, it'll be already on your computer. English - not yet.

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On 2/5/2023 at 7:41 PM, Napillo said:

Chinese manual was released, it'll be already on your computer. English - not yet.

336 pdf pages in the Chinese manual. Now if we can only get it translated

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Pilota310

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Is there any news about the English manual? (complete one). I don't understand what the problem is? If there is a Chinese one, why not an English one? I don't accept beta as an excuse 😉 the module has been out for several years now and costs 80 EUR. Come on guys......

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Iron Sights

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Still waiting on the English version of the manual. Any chance of that happening in the near future? I know Chuck’s is out there, but I do like to have the “owners” manual as well. Just as reference.

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CreepyLP

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Same over here, still awaiting the English Manual. Too bad, because i'd love to see all the stuff about their custom Datalink etc. in Detail.

That is why I started manually feeding it all, step by step into deepl.
I now reached the limit, but here is the first fourty Pages (Badly formatted, not checked AT ALL, literally copied and pasted from deepl!)

I might add to this at some later date.

JF-17-Deepl_Translation.docx

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5 minutes ago, CreepyLP said:

I might add to this at some later date.

 

Thanks a lot for the effort, lets hope that the official manual can't be that far away, so not sure if it is worth your time to be attempting this translation.

best regards.

 

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we found a translator to translate CN to EN last year, but after two- three months, he said he had no time and quit, and we didnt see anything from him yet.

still finding a new translator

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1 hour ago, uboats said:

we found a translator to translate CN to EN last year, but after two- three months, he said he had no time and quit, and we didnt see anything from him yet.

still finding a new translator


thank you for the candid answer … if I were fluent on Chinese, I would offer my services on a heartbeat, unfortunately its not the case … hopefully you will find a good translator soon 🙂

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On 3/5/2024 at 10:07 PM, uboats said:

we found a translator to translate CN to EN last year, but after two- three months, he said he had no time and quit, and we didnt see anything from him yet.

still finding a new translator

 

Hello @uboats .. I see that on the last DCS update there is still no sight of an English Flight Manual.

While the translation that @CreepyLP did is a great help when studying this aircraft details, I still would prefer a proper human-translated manual, can you please update us on the current situation? did you find a translator?

I love this aircraft and was hoping to re-make my old JF-17 training missions, and having proper documentation is a big incentive for me.

Best regards,

 

Eduardo

 

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On 7/24/2025 at 10:56 PM, Rudel_chw said:

 

Hello @uboats .. I see that on the last DCS update there is still no sight of an English Flight Manual.

While the translation that @CreepyLP did is a great help when studying this aircraft details, I still would prefer a proper human-translated manual, can you please update us on the current situation? did you find a translator?

I love this aircraft and was hoping to re-make my old JF-17 training missions, and having proper documentation is a big incentive for me.

Best regards,

 

Eduardo

 

not yet, 😞

neither no time of those qualified people nor translators have no knowledge of avionics terms .... sad

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