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2 hours ago, jaylw314 said:

turn your view more than your head near the limits

Wow, that sounds like a recipe for motion sickness and vomiting for me. I hate when my view doesn't exactly match my head movement. 🤢

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Posted
17 minutes ago, Deano87 said:

Wow, that sounds like a recipe for motion sickness and vomiting for me. I hate when my view doesn't exactly match my head movement. 🤢

You can customize the curve to have it kick in only after a certain head angle.  You obviously wouldn't want it kicking off looking around the cockpit 🙂  I don't use it because I found it finicky and I use a swivel office chair, but many VR guys swear by it

Posted (edited)
On 1/15/2022 at 7:33 PM, Rukus said:

Hi.   I purchased the F-16 a while back.  I've enjoyed this plane as im a old Falcon 4 player.  When i mean old,  im in my mid 60's.  I started flying sims back in the early 80's.

When i played Falcon 4 for a while,  i got fairly good at managing the aircraft.  My Dogfighting skills were ok.  I could keep up with the AI enemys.

After i purchased the F16 in DCS,  i found that i was really rusty with dogfighting.   After a period of playing,  the old skills seamed to come back.  Now after 2 years away and flying with VR again (Quest 2 now,  used to be a Rift),  seems everything has gone away again.

I struggle to stay with the AI in a turning fight.  Seems the only thing i possibly could keep up with is a Ultralight.

I've lost the energy management, finding the turn circle, and basically anything else to win a fight.

Back early on,  you could feel when to add power,  when to turn,  when to relax g's,  and energy management what just normal everyday thing.   Things just clicked,  felt normal.

Does anyone else feel like this with a fair amount of experience with dogfighting and being away for a fair amount of time.   Just seems as hard as i try,  i just cant get it back lol.

Practice brother a lot . 
It is a lot of moving parts in a ever charging environment. 

AAR and Carrier landings are the easy part, fighting is the tough skill. That is why real pilots almost gets angry when we deskjockeys compare.  

But practice and find a rhythm but it is harder in the sim because you don't have the feel. Real can do sim but sim can't do real. 

Also get into a group and use all the aids you can get hold of. Tacview is good one for looking back. 

You can walk stairs blindfolded because you have done it every day for over 60 years, that is no fluke. 

Study methods that you can practice. Most great or naturals can not teach it. " I just do it" won't help ya 🙂

For me it was flying "on speed", tried it in the old days (pre DCS) and was never good or learned anything about it. Flying wise it was a eureka moment for me. 

In short, I got my systems knowledge in jets and flying in props (in sim) and in that order. 

It takes effort and time. Grind and you will find. 🙂
  

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