flask Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 If this has been covered please excuse my ignorance. Can someone from DCS say if you will be able to see pilots head move as in FC?, I mean we use the head movement for cue to takeoff when coms silent, also will I be able to choose my tail No in the A10c?. And finally, I love the " looking out of canopy effect" we have in the frog, what with the water drops and the curve of the glass, will the A10 be comparable?, for me the cockpit glass effect experiance in the KA50 is not as good, (however thats only my opinion and does not mean I dislike it ).
Frederf Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 Tail number and callsign is editable in the mission editor... maybe the flight planner as well but maybe not. I forget. I don't know if you can see head movement across clients in MP.
slug88 Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 I don't know if you can see head movement across clients in MP. You definitely can in FC2, presumably it is and will be the same for DCS. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Frederf Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 There are all manner of ways for "silent communication" in DCS. My favorite is the Morse code momentary navigation lights keying. Back in Falcon days a MP ramp start had all sorts of cues and all sorts of things needing cueing. There was "I'm a human not an AI" which was shown by raising your canopy at the very start. A timer of some minutes was given before lead would check in on the backup frequency. After that the canopies would close, beacons on, engines would light, and once your nav lights came on then it was a signal that you were ready for primary comms check in. Landing light would show ready for taxi roll. Falcon had the benefit of the IVC communications that were actually radio frequency based so deconflicting was natural. I still don't see why radio silent ground ops would be necessary at all though.
nemises Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 ...a silent takeoff procedure is good , so that the comms can be filled with mission relevant tx/rx rather than startup cues I guess? ... we use a similar startup procedure (though lockon ised) , and are able to use the time to pre-plan the flight whilst spooling and still keeping up with the Joneses
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