Man it's awesome

[Phantom_Mark]

Well after buying myself the warthog hotas and about 10 hours worth of self learning trial by error I completed my first weapons delivery test scenario, dropping lgb's and cbu's and firing mavericks at bridges, armour, aa and some troops, all with a kill in a tame live fire environment :)

 

God damn this sim is awesome, not even missing the ffb by changing from my msff2.

 

I can do basic nav and weopons now, the flying part os peezy any way so landing and take off no biggie from the start, in fact the SU25 felt more fickle in lomac tbh, wish I could merge those two into one sim as I loved flying the frog.

 

I spent lots more time with ka50 and never felt this comfortable so quickly, and I still fly that like crap tbh, user error for sure eh !!

 

The feeling of satisfaction went of the scale once I cracked my test mission, really need to grasp nav, flight systems fully now, I had a wing fire the other day with no idea how to cut fuel to that tank and transfer it (if possible), that stuff can all come in time and practice now I have learnt the meat and potatoes of this sim !!

 

Tactics, weapon deployment envelopes., missile evasion all high on my next hit list.

 

Man this rocks, did I say that already ??

 

:)

[bluepilot76]

oh youve got it bad dude .

 

So you got the Sim and the TM Warthog at the same time?

 

Sweet.

[celticcoho]

Welcome to your new World, learn it, enjoy it...Many more feel the same.. Enjoy, Jim!!

[RodBorza]

Well, hijacking your thread a little bit, but I just want to share too. I've known this sim since Beta 3, but today I got to buy amore RAM memory for my computer, also a new 9800 GT video card. I know it is not a top of line card, but man, now I can (almost) fully understand how this sim is amazing! The details, the terrain, the sun...and of course, the cockpit shadows! All in 40-60 fps glory (20-30 with mirrors on). Next on the priority list: Track IR 5! Amazing!

[Phantom88]

LOVE IT!!! I feel this Sim is the best of both worlds,Flight and Combat. :)

[Cibit]

Livin the dream:thumbup:

[Phantom_Mark]

I started out with a few hours flight time back on version 1.05? Using my old msff2 and a x45 throttle quadrant, then I saw the Warthog Hotas and fell in love, spent a couple of

months talking myself into the purchase, took the plunge and also got a pair of mfd's at the same time (not hooked those up yet tho), before I bought that I was really struggling to understand all the terminology and what controls were important to have mapped to my setup, thus beyond flying and dumb bombs and guns had no success with the mavericks and lgb's etc, once I got the proper hardware and learnt exactly what those buttons do properly it's all just fallen into place to be honest.

 

Can anyone suggest good guides for my above remaining tasks? Are the ingame training sorties ok for that ??

 

If I had one tiny moan it would be the canned damage skins, hell, even B17 ff had real time bullet holes and other damage based on the hits you took using a simple opacity layer on the skin, worked great all those years back !!

 

Off to take another flight now before bed, btw, my decoys switch does not seem to be releasing flares, chaff only (fwd), left and right change profile I get that, moving rear seems to do nothing at all ?? I have flares in my load out ?

[98abaile]

Off to take another flight now before bed, btw, my decoys switch does not seem to be releasing flares, chaff only (fwd), left and right change profile I get that, moving rear seems to do nothing at all ?? I have flares in my load out ?

You do know that the CMS has a push button right? Just click the stick.

[andysim]

I started out with a few hours flight time back on version 1.05? Using my old msff2 and a x45 throttle quadrant, then I saw the Warthog Hotas and fell in love, spent a couple of

months talking myself into the purchase, took the plunge and also got a pair of mfd's at the same time (not hooked those up yet tho), before I bought that I was really struggling to understand all the terminology and what controls were important to have mapped to my setup, thus beyond flying and dumb bombs and guns had no success with the mavericks and lgb's etc, once I got the proper hardware and learnt exactly what those buttons do properly it's all just fallen into place to be honest.

 

Can anyone suggest good guides for my above remaining tasks? Are the ingame training sorties ok for that ??

 

If I had one tiny moan it would be the canned damage skins, hell, even B17 ff had real time bullet holes and other damage based on the hits you took using a simple opacity layer on the skin, worked great all those years back !!

 

Off to take another flight now before bed, btw, my decoys switch does not seem to be releasing flares, chaff only (fwd), left and right change profile I get that, moving rear seems to do nothing at all ?? I have flares in my load out ?

 

CMS aft stops the program running, so it only works when you are dropping chaff/flares Program E or F should have flares or you can make your own program hehe.

[Sarge55]

Hey PM, welcome.

 

Off to take another flight now before bed, btw, my decoys switch does not seem to be releasing flares, chaff only (fwd), left and right change profile I get that, moving rear seems to do nothing at all ?? I have flares in my load out ?

 

Fwd will start the program and aft will stop it, what is released is based on the program you select. "A" for example is for radar guided missles IIRC so only releases chaff "D" will release both, etc..

 

If you set your CM to "Auto" it will pick the best program based on the threat and start it automatically. The down side is you will go through your flares and chaff very quickly. The push down action will activate your jammer.

 

I don't have it handy but if you do a search, someone has put together a very handy table of the various program functions.

[Phantom_Mark]

Excellent thanks guys, all up and running with the cms stuff properly now thanks :)

 

Re: Cms push, you mean it pushes down as well as aft/fwd/left/right ?? Tia.

[Sarge55]

Yup, that's how you activate the jammer.

[Phantom_Mark]

Ace thanks.

 

After poking around a bit I also discovered the comms hat pushes in as well, guess I need to read a little lol, no doubt the damned thing would feed me coffee if I read the manuals properly right :)p

[MTFDarkEagle]

:D The radio switch only has down-fwd-back connected. So you can use the other two functions for for example trackir commands, or teamspeak push to talk.