Random Failures

[Frostiken]

I was on the second leg of what ended up being a 1.9 hour sortie (on one tank, no externals no less!) and pulled a modest amount of Gs... when my CDU blanked off, cautions flashed on the screen, and just as quick as it came up, it went away and the CDU reset itself, booting to a 'warm start' screen. Needless to say it seriously messed with a few of the things I was doing, but I thought it was a great touch, a nice change from the old 'works fine or never works at all' problems. As an avionics guy this is exactly the kind of problems that pilots see in-flight.

 

Now we just need component sub-failures :)

 

I really just wish failures were documented in the pilot log at the end.

 

Honestly for the next DCS I hope they focus even more on the random failures aspect, with a boatload of component subfailures and other problems. Actually what would be really neat would be a dynamic campaign with a maintenance aspect, where jets accumulate Code 2 and Code 3 writeups and have to undergo repairs, so if you treat your planes like crap you may eventually run out of planes to fly, or end up taking one with a handful of Code 2s like 'radio induces lots of noise when keying', 'HUD video is crunched too small', 'RWR random tones and spikes with no correlation'...

 

Anyway, horray for simulating what real military aircraft are like :)

[Haukka81]

I was on the second leg of what ended up being a 1.9 hour sortie (on one tank, no externals no less!) and pulled a modest amount of Gs... when my CDU blanked off, cautions flashed on the screen, and just as quick as it came up, it went away and the CDU reset itself, booting to a 'warm start' screen. Needless to say it seriously messed with a few of the things I was doing, but I thought it was a great touch, a nice change from the old 'works fine or never works at all' problems. As an avionics guy this is exactly the kind of problems that pilots see in-flight.

 

Now we just need component sub-failures :)

 

I really just wish failures were documented in the pilot log at the end.

 

Honestly for the next DCS I hope they focus even more on the random failures aspect, with a boatload of component subfailures and other problems. Actually what would be really neat would be a dynamic campaign with a maintenance aspect, where jets accumulate Code 2 and Code 3 writeups and have to undergo repairs, so if you treat your planes like crap you may eventually run out of planes to fly, or end up taking one with a handful of Code 2s like 'radio induces lots of noise when keying', 'HUD video is crunched too small', 'RWR random tones and spikes with no correlation'...

 

Anyway, horray for simulating what real military aircraft are like :)

 

 

+1 :thumbup:

[Supersheep]

Now, I would like some failures to make the pre-startup checks useful.

Of couse everyone does them now, :D

but they are strange if you know that they will be perfect in the end every time and there is not even some switch in a wrong position every ~(1-10) flights (which I imagine to happen from time to time).

 

 

Supersheep

[Joe Johnson]

It would be really nice to have a failure log in the debriefing so you exactly know what went wrong and if something went wrong.

[airdog]

The next step will. E to have a virtual maintenance department to A-799 your gripes.

 

 

A-799 is the Navy/Marine Corps VIDS/MAF code for "Cannot Duplicate".

 

LOL ......11-1-A-799 to add a bit more from my memory.....only thing I remember from the navy after being out for 22 years.

[Eihort]

I experience a large amount of failures with the flight stick actuator and the flight suit insert.