What an outstanding fun!

[Fleur79]

I own the A10 C for a couple of years now without using her at all. But yesterday I gave it a firts serious try. Jesus! What great a simulation this Warthog is. Even lighting the beast up in hangar felt great. Needless to say that I do not master any of her systems yet. But using some very basic rockets, bombs and the gun was pure joy. As long-term afficionado of the Fishbed I fear there´s a second favourite airframe now for me :). Oh dear oh dear.

[sirrah]

54 minutes ago, Fleur79 said:

I own the A10 C for a couple of years now without using her at all. But yesterday I gave it a firts serious try. Jesus! What great a simulation this Warthog is. Even lighting the beast up in hangar felt great. Needless to say that I do not master any of her systems yet. But using some very basic rockets, bombs and the gun was pure joy. As long-term afficionado of the Fishbed I fear there´s a second favourite airframe now for me :). Oh dear oh dear.

Wait until you find out about the Hog's exquisite HOTAS functionality or the JHMCS!

You're in for a treat! 

[scoobie]

Haha, another one! Don't worry, Fleur79, you don't need a psychologist, you're perfectly healthy - the Hawg IS great
And I concur with what sirrah wrote - while learning the HOTAS will initialy be serious PITA (so split the job into small chunks, i.e. specific use cases, and practice them one by one, e.g. multiple Maverick launch in a single attack run etc.), but once you build muscle memory it becomes... close to ecstatic, because you really feel glued to the machine, as if you two were one. (At least with the TM Warthog HOTAS, don't know how other gear works with the Hawg.)

Now, many people prefer clicking OSBs on MFCDs/DDIs/whatever and I can understand that - you read handy labels on the screen and click OSBs, so it's easy and gives the pilot the confidence, but on the other hand you are often FORCED to click all those OSBs to set up this or that.

In the Hawg there are very special cases where you may be forced to leave HOTAS and click an OSB. It happens, but seldom. Most of the time HOTAS is absolutely everything you need for the attack, or multiple attacks. That's why I call it TrueHOTAS, as opposed to SometimesHOTAS in some other birds.

And yes, HMCS is freaking awesome in the Hawg. I just wish I could wipe out old markpoints (the blank key on the CDU doesn't work), sometimes it would come in handy, but that's about all bad things I can say about HMCS.

Of course she's slow as snail, but the remedy to that is to stay away from fast birds for a while, switch to choppers or Yakk, or I-16, and then those 200-300 KIAS in the Hawg will feel "fast enough" You need to cheat youself so you don't notice how slow she is. I think if you come from the Fishbed, you might need such "treatment".

 

Edited October 21, 2022 by scoobie

[BuzzU]

Slow is good when you're an old coot like me. I find things happening too fast for me in the Hornet.

I'm seriously thinking of becoming a Hog pilot exclusively.

 

Welcome back to the Hog Fleur. If you haven't bought the A-10C II. You should.

[Sacarino111]

Hi @Fleur79

Try this mission ( https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315228/ ), and I think you will be hot for the rest of the campaign! 

Enjoy!

Saludos.

Saca111

[AJH63]

I've been away from the A10 for awhile and it's good to see the Marianas has had some tweeks so it is user friendly framerate wise. It is a great aircraft to fly in and when you learn to use all the weapons and sensors it is very rewarding

[bofhlusr]

On 10/21/2022 at 3:26 AM, scoobie said:

...

Of course she's slow as snail, but the remedy to that is to stay away from fast birds for a while, switch to choppers or Yakk, or I-16, and then those 200-300 KIAS in the Hawg will feel "fast enough" You need to cheat youself so you don't notice how slow she is. I think if you come from the Fishbed, you might need such "treatment".

 

 

You don't know your snails.  Coming from Microsoft Flight Simulator and flying small GA (general aviation) planes like the Cessna 172 and stall speeds of 60-70-ish KIAS, the Hawg is very very fast. 

[Leg2ion]

On 1/15/2023 at 6:32 PM, bofhlusr said:

the Hawg is very very fast.

Go helo - you can just stop!

[bofhlusr]

I'm tempted to buy the Apache. But I'm told ihelos more difficult to fly. Also, I already have the Huey, which I still even haven't touched yet. I should have waited and bought the Apache instead.

[Tom Kazansky]

Have to bump this thread.

The DCS hog is awesome. Whenever I come back from the new, fast and fancy fighters, the hog feels like a dream to fly. A blast for close air support. An exceptional situation awareness with the HMCS.

Thank you so much ED for never giving up the hog.

[TED]

Couldn’t agree more. The a10 was the first module I really got into in dcs. Over the years I’ve learn others and really enjoyed them all. The a10 somehow always has something else for me. After probably a year away focusing more on f15, 16, 18, I got a bit bored of the fast jet stuff. Too clinical and efficient. My real enjoyment is cas and a2g so I have come back to the a10c again and I love it. The systems, the pure role, the weapons and loiter as well just the way it flies. It’s my firm favorite dcs module by quite a long way, and I’m not implying there is anything wrong with any of the other modules. They are all fantastic and have given me so much, but the a10c is just something really special.

[BuzzU]

Providing you can remember all the HOTAS commands.

[TED]

Been doing a dcs retribution campaign for the last couple of weeks with the a10. I had really forgotten how good this module is. Seems like theres been a few nice little improvements as well since I was last using it. Even the ai wingmen work quite well. I can fly lead of a 4 ship into a CAS type scenario, datalink targets, get individuals in the flight to attacked targets at my spi, allowing me to manage some kind of plan and employ loose tactics to the attacks. 

Stick a SEAD flight and escort of f16 in the package and you can do some serious damage to the battlefield. Now I've got to grips with the systems again, I feel the a10 has the absolute most effective workflow for any CAS/a2g platform in dcs.

Edited February 28 by TED

[Dragan]

A-10 is an addictive plane, at least for me, I've been flying with it for so long, I'm still actually LOMAC, the peak has reached the current DCS, I wanted to try other powerful planes, but DCS's A-10 is in the first place

[carbolicus]

Just bought it and love it. It’s a pilot’s aeroplane and flies really nicely. It’s also great for old-fashioned instrument flying - if you want a challenge set up some bad weather and fly a cross-country just using the HSI and ADI, culminating in an ILS landing. It’s ideal practice for any trainee pilot in real life who’s studying for an Instrument Rating; wish I’d had it when I was doing mine!