WOW!

[Ironhand]

It took a week to download the update and get the MiG installed but I finally have it. All I can say is "Wow!" Just had time to take her up for a quick circuit around Senaki. The takeoff handling is extremely smooth. And it's handling on landing was even better. With a bit less than the 60% fuel I took off at and 2 AAMs on the wings, she touched down at 260 km/hr, just as she should. Wonderful. Now I just need to find the time to learn this machine.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Ironhand, great to hear you are enjoying the Fulcrum. Thank you for the kind words. 

[The Gryphon]

@Ironhand I fully agree with you! 

What ED has created with the MIG-29A Fulcrum is simply put amazing!

The 3D laser scanned and photogrammetry cockpit is absolutely brilliant in VR, the sounds from the engines is bloody fantastic (best in DCS without any doubt), easily the most fun flight model (the MIG even beats the old king of the throne: Mirage-2000), a radar that is actually realistic, even the wheel tyres has deformation modeled,very good PC performence even on maps like Cold War Germany I could go on forever . 

 

 

[Bucic]

"Approved by Ironhand!"

Get some bucks for that staple! Quite an experience to witness this kind of progress in flightsim fidelity, isn't it?

 

On the ground handling. Can we get a confirmation that the 29 actually uses the new tire and strut / suspension modeling framework, please? 

 

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

It's pretty great! Once they fix some of the annoyances, this is one of their best releases.

I may grab the F-15C MSIP after all. Definitely when they get around to the FF Su-27S.

[Dača]

27 minutes ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

It's pretty great! Once they fix some of the annoyances, this is one of their best releases.

I can only agree to that.

[Revor]

I really like it too. It is very detailed and realistic modelled with some minor issues for an EA release. The Artwork of the cockpit and the plane is amazing. The flight model feels very good and realistic from what Fulcrum pilots in videos told about the aircraft. Great work ! I hope that ED will do a full fidelity Flanker with the same amount of detail. That would be fantastic for the future

[Flia]

The Mig-29 is a really well-made module. I also really like how well it's designed. What bothers me the most are the autopilot oscillations. It's such a basic thing. Until it's fixed, I won't fly the Mig anymore. For me, it's something that unfortunately ruined my enjoyment of the new module.

[Dača]

2 minutes ago, Flia said:

The Mig-29 is a really well-made module. I also really like how well it's designed. What bothers me the most are the autopilot oscillations. It's such a basic thing. Until it's fixed, I won't fly the Mig anymore. For me, it's something that unfortunately ruined my enjoyment of the new module.

It is enjoying to me for some strange reason. Makes me feel I am really in air. But it is not realistic and will be fixed soon.

[RyanR]

The Fulcrum has to be one of the best modules in DCS for something at this point in EA. It's *really* good out of the box.

-Ryan 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

6 hours ago, Dača said:

It is enjoying to me for some strange reason.

With FFB and in VR, the oscillations are very intrusive.
But yes overall I agree this is easily their best release since the F-18.

[AeriaGloria]

I loved it but SPO not working with radar really dampened my enthusiasm. I want to enjoy the great SPO-15 they made. 
 

Coop mode has brought some of my enthusiasm back. 

[Dača]

1 hour ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

With FFB and in VR, the oscillations are very intrusive.
But yes overall I agree this is easily their best release since the F-18.

Yeah... My configuration is 2D and without FFB. So I am comfy

[NineLine]

1 hour ago, AeriaGloria said:

I loved it but SPO not working with radar really dampened my enthusiasm. I want to enjoy the great SPO-15 they made. 
 

Imagine how the real MiG-29A pilots felt.

[AeriaGloria]

1 hour ago, NineLine said:

Imagine how the real MiG-29A pilots felt.

Haha yeah I’m sure. Can’t wait for coop to be fully implemented! 

[150GCT_Diego]

Yeah, same here ... 

The plane is amazing, and as I'm learning it step by step, I'm loving it ever more.

Bugs happens, it's not a big deal, they'll get fixed.

 

The most weird thing for me was how docile it is ... I was able to land it on the first try ... And I'm not so good. 

The radar is weird, it won't lock anything , the aircraft is an aerodynamic marvel with a crap electronic system and a HUD that is like an embrional idea of a hud. and that's amazing! Well, yeah, I'm still fighting to lock anything that tries to avoid me, but I really like it. 

[Bucic]

On 9/27/2025 at 9:27 PM, NineLine said:

Imagine how the real MiG-29A pilots felt.

What?! Real Beryoza can't be used with the real aircraft's own radar operating?!

Edited Sunday at 08:51 PM by Bucic

[draconus]

15 hours ago, Bucic said:

What?! Real Beryoza can't be used with the real aircraft's own radar operating?!

 

On 9/26/2025 at 4:25 PM, Ironhand said:

Now I just need to find the time to learn this machine.

Can't wait for fulcrumtraining.com

[swartbyron]

Well its here ️

This is what we all dreamed of while flying the MiG-29 all those years ago in Flanker 2.5

[Lidozin]

"At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, “Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’ll soon make you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.

“Ahem!” said the Mouse with an important air, “are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please!"
 

Now I can rest easy and carry on exploring the new module, pausing from time to time to see whether its flight model is really quite as ‘monstrously far from the original’ as some would have it.

[AeriaGloria]

5 minutes ago, Lidozin said:

"At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, “Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’ll soon make you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.

“Ahem!” said the Mouse with an important air, “are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please!"
 

Now I can rest easy and carry on exploring the new module, pausing from time to time to see whether its flight model is really quite as ‘monstrously far from the original’ as some would have it.

Great video, glad someone put Gvad’s claims to the test! 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

3 minutes ago, AeriaGloria said:

Great video, glad someone put Gvad’s claims to the test! 

Indeed, I like Gvad's videos but his latest one about MiG-29 smelled very off to me