DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum FAQ

[YoYo]

1 minute ago, draconus said:

What makes you think that? You could've checked my sig.

Yes, because as I said, you can turn it off.

Ahh, right . I see, sorry!

12 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I doubt Draconus is the only one wanting an accurate representation of the real MiG-29 (not the pre-production MiG-29A since I highly doubt it even had an armament system).

 

But I for one do, and I'd say let's wait and see how it actually works out in practice. When that system is active, you'll be (mostly) looking outside of the cockpit anyway, so there might not even be an issue  And perhaps it's an incentive to many to start using proper fence-in / fence-out procedures, instead of flying with "master arm on" during the entire flight...

I've already written about this, it's not as scary as it seems:

 

[Hawkeye_UK]

19 hours ago, Volator said:

Wags' landing video shows English cockpit with metric units, which is a good thing.  

The HSI distance indication however shows miles despite the units setting in the simulation.

I hope this will also be changed to km before release @NineLine

Never seen an approach chart in KM.....feet and miles.

[Volator]

3 hours ago, Hawkeye_UK said:

Never seen an approach chart in KM.....feet and miles.

This is a Warsaw Pact aircraft. In the Warsaw Pact distances, even in aviation, were measured in km. 

[VanekK30]

5 часов назад, Hawkeye_UK сказал:

Never seen an approach chart in KM.....feet and miles.

 

Edited 10 hours ago by VanekK30

[Volator]

[draconus]

On 9/13/2025 at 8:20 AM, Volator said:

Wags' landing video shows English cockpit with metric units, which is a good thing.  

The HSI distance indication however shows miles despite the units setting in the simulation.

I hope this will also be changed to km before release

You will have independent settings for cockpit language and units. It was already shown in previous videos.

[Volator]

Just now, draconus said:

You will have independent settings for cockpit language and units

Wags had metric units activated (see HUD) and still had the miles on the HSI. 

[draconus]

Just now, Volator said:

Wags had metric units activated (see HUD) and still had the miles on the HSI. 

WIP I guess.

[Hawkeye_UK]

10 hours ago, Volator said:

This is a Warsaw Pact aircraft. In the Warsaw Pact distances, even in aviation, were measured in km. 

yep agreed, however my point was to the gentleman making the reference to the english cockpit, for those that want to fly in metric, keep the cockpit in its native form Cyrillic.

8 hours ago, VanekK30 said:

 

Yep my point was someone was asking for metric in the english cockpit - when in the western world we don't use metric.  If you want metric use the native Cyrillic, no need for additional waste of dev resources for people that want to fly metric but not prepared to think russian lol.

[Dača]

17 minutes ago, Hawkeye_UK said:

yep agreed, however my point was to the gentleman making the reference to the english cockpit, for those that want to fly in metric, keep the cockpit in its native form Cyrillic.

Yep my point was someone was asking for metric in the english cockpit - when in the western world we don't use metric.  If you want metric use the native Cyrillic, no need for additional waste of dev resources for people that want to fly metric but not prepared to think russian lol.

I agree. I fly MiG-21Bis and don't speak Russian. Whenever you hover mouse pointer on certain switch, you get text which translates to English. Like that I am able to use it without problem. After couple of months you get used to all switches and don't even need any language.

[Volator]

[CrazyGman]

Not going to lie I learned originally in metric when doing flight Sims flying German and Russian planes in IL-2, and then with the MiG-21 and MiG-15 as my first planes in DCS, and I actually prefer flying metric. However  for the Mi-24P I had the labels in English for the first couple of weeks to help rapidly learn her. Then when I had it down I switched back to Cyrilic. 

I'll probably do the same for the MiG-29.

Sorry learning morse code, and nautical flags are the first 2 side quests on my SIM agenda. Cyrilic is a distant third.

 

 

Edited 14 minutes ago by CrazyGman