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 yesterday at 06:56 AM 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 yesterday at 05:19 PM by CrazyGman

[Hiob]

1 hour ago, CrazyGman said:

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

[pjbunnyru]

1 час назад, CrazyGman сказал:

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.

 

 

learn 10 leters diferent from latin- yes, its difficult. morse and nautical flags r easier.

 

[AeriaGloria]

What I care most about is keeping Betty/Nadia/Rita/Natasha in Russian. The English one sounds horrible in Wags videos, like a robot 

[Dača]

9 hours ago, AeriaGloria said:

What I care most about is keeping Betty/Nadia/Rita/Natasha in Russian. The English one sounds horrible in Wags videos, like a robot 

Looks like they had ChatGPT back then

[Dača]

From latest Wags' video about navigation. I understand that we can add multiple points in DTC "Points" tab. And if I understand correctly, MiG-29A navigation system can only see next tabs "Waypoints" and "Aerodromes" ? Can Points from the first tab be recognized and used by plane systems, HUD, etc... If they can't, what is their use then ?

[AeriaGloria]

11 hours ago, Dača said:

Looks like they had ChatGPT back then

They originally used a synthesized voice I believe, before some squadron got a radio personality to re record the lines 

 

2 hours ago, Dača said:

From latest Wags' video about navigation. I understand that we can add multiple points in DTC "Points" tab. And if I understand correctly, MiG-29A navigation system can only see next tabs "Waypoints" and "Aerodromes" ? Can Points from the first tab be recognized and used by plane systems, HUD, etc... If they can't, what is their use then ?

Points are just like a pre set. Once you make a point, you can use it for aerodrome, waypoint, or beacon. It’s just a convenience thing so you have a pool of points to assign to whatever without needing to make new ones for each tab. 

[CrazyGman]

1 hour ago, AeriaGloria said:

They originally used a synthesized voice I believe, before some squadron got a radio personality to re record the lines 

 

Points are just like a pre set. Once you make a point, you can use it for aerodrome, waypoint, or beacon. It’s just a convenience thing so you have a pool of points to assign to whatever without needing to make new ones for each tab. 

So it sounds like It's how I thought and similar to how it is with the Viggen cartridges. You just can have a bunch that you pre program that you can then select between, and you don't have to constantly make new ones each time if you want the same set of waypoints.

Except since the MiG-29 doesn't actually have cartidges. It's more like handing a playbook set of waypoint instructions that you give to the ground crew so you can go -"program waypoint set Sierra into the jet please"

Edited 3 hours ago by CrazyGman

[Dača]

1 hour ago, AeriaGloria said:

Points are just like a pre set. Once you make a point, you can use it for aerodrome, waypoint, or beacon. It’s just a convenience thing so you have a pool of points to assign to whatever without needing to make new ones for each tab. 

So, basically the Points are just like some kind of template to choose which waypoints will be needed and therefore defined into waypoints and aerodromes (3+3) ? The rest that are not selected as Waypoints and Aerodromes do not exist once loaded into aircraft? Did I get it right?

[AeriaGloria]

39 minutes ago, Dača said:

So, basically the Points are just like some kind of template to choose which waypoints will be needed and therefore defined into waypoints and aerodromes (3+3) ? The rest that are not selected as Waypoints and Aerodromes do not exist once loaded into aircraft? Did I get it right?

Not sure I understand but there is more then waypoints and aero dromes. There are also 3 beacon points 

[Dača]

6 minutes ago, AeriaGloria said:

Not sure I understand but there is more then waypoints and aero dromes. There are also 3 beacon points 

I know of beacon points (or at least I think I know), but I am not completely sure about "Points". Just the ones from DTC page in mission editor. Let's start with this question: How much Points (first tab from DTC) can be added in mission editor ? More than 6 ?

[Vakarian]

You can have a million of them, but you can't use more than 3 for beacons and more than 3 for airfields (which can also be used for beacons). As AeriaGloria said, you build a pool of points so you can reuse them later on.

Aircraft will have loaded no more than 6 points in total, but as Wags also mentioned in the video, you can build a route from the points you added earlier and that route will be displayed on the kneeboard later on. Really, watch the video again but pay attention. I know it's long one but it does contain a lot of info.

[Dača]

54 minutes ago, Vakarian said:

You can have a million of them, but you can't use more than 3 for beacons and more than 3 for airfields (which can also be used for beacons). As AeriaGloria said, you build a pool of points so you can reuse them later on.

Aircraft will have loaded no more than 6 points in total, but as Wags also mentioned in the video, you can build a route from the points you added earlier and that route will be displayed on the kneeboard later on. Really, watch the video again but pay attention. I know it's long one but it does contain a lot of info.

Thanks, bro.

Now I'm up to date. I watched it today and now with your and AeriaGloria explaination I think I'm good.

It would be much easier to learn if I had MiG-29 to try how everything works. Even harder is when my brain is currently set around F-16C.

[CrazyGman]

There is one thing I still don't quite understand. How does it work when you select both a beacon and a waypoint ? What is then is actually depicted on the hud and HSI?