Complete Noob, please help

[Madone]

OK. Lets say that after some training, especially when weather conditions are good and your aircraft has no damage, landing is pretty easy. However, with heavy cross winds, zero visibility or with some technical problems it's another story.

 

I totally agree! :thumbup:

[Yurgon]

You shouldn't say that landings are easy, all pilots are on the same line to say it's a difficult manoeuver.

 

I'd say it's a matter of perspective. I learned how to land the F-16 in Falcon 4.0. At first, I thought it was practically impossible and that the simulation made the aircraft waaaay more fragile than it could possibly be in real life. But with some of the excellent training missions and the description in the manual, I quickly got the hang of it. Later I sometimes landed on the taxiway or paced away from the airfield with full AB and then killed the engine to do a flame-out landing with what energy I had left.

 

With that background, I always found the A-10 to be very easy to land and I was quite surprised that my first landings were "good" landings in terms of not crushing the landing gear (well, except for a few times... :music_whistling:).

 

But if A-10C was my first simulation at this level of realism, I'd probably be swearing that this thing is impossible to land and they must have gotten the stability of the landing gear all wrong and the runways are way to short and wind-gusts have too much effect and crosswind landings were impossible anyways. :D

 

I think we can agree that landing an aircraft is in fact a very difficult task, but obviously one that every pilot must master. And with enough practice, landing somehow becomes an easy thing (unless we include low visibility, battle damage, system failures, bad weather and so on - some of these are probably going to scare the crap out of even the most experienced pilots in real life). :)

[rss0900]

Good point, I understood him differently. But it doesn't matter much, as we seem to agree that TrackIR should come before the Warthog. :)

 

 

I do have the trackIR and it took me much longer than most to get used to it. I hated it first but now can't fly without it. I ordered a Warthog just the other day, been wanting one for a while and based off this forums post as well as a couple others I can't find anyone complaining about them, seem the vast majority love them.

 

I agree based off what others have said so far the TrackIR is at the top of the purchase list. The buttkicker is nice too one of those things you get used to and don't realize it's there until it's off though.

 

For those using Helio's and MFD cougar panels, would you change to a touch screen for a 4th or 2nd monitor? I'm expecting that I should never have to touch the keyboard again once I get the Warthog, but to program the CDU I'll still need mouse control for the numbers (posted screen of setup on prior page). Touchscreen vs mouse with MFD Cougar panels? thoughts?

Edited January 29, 2013 by rss0900

[Hamblue]

received my TM warthog today -it's amazing :joystick:

 

it feels nearly as good an expensive cars steering wheel.

 

 

although my landings still need some work :doh:

 

A couple of things to consider and I recommend.

I have the Gray rocker on the right of the throttle programmed for zoom.

I have the paddle switch on the Joystick programmed to center trackir.

Both come in handy quite often.

[schkorpio]

Yep, one or two important things missing there... wings for example :megalol:

 

The way i see it is, i'm creating jobs for mechanics and manufacturers.....

 

 

After watching the replay it looks like my left land gear didn't deploy - I took a fair bit of machine gun fire from a couple of tanks.

 

this game is so much fun :)

[FreeFall]

For those using Helio's and MFD cougar panels, would you change to a touch screen for a 4th or 2nd monitor? I'm expecting that I should never have to touch the keyboard again once I get the Warthog, but to program the CDU I'll still need mouse control for the numbers (posted screen of setup on prior page). Touchscreen vs mouse with MFD Cougar panels? thoughts?

 

I have three screens: 24" main screen, below it a tiny 18.5" monitor with TM Cougar MFD frames (attached with velcro tape), and a 23" touch screen located to the right of the other screens.

 

In addition to Cougar MFDs (and of course contents of A-10C MFCDs exported inside the Cougar frames), in my tiny sceen I have all the essential gauges visible as well. With my touch screen I run a modified (MFCDs removed eg.) Loz SM v2.1 Helios profile. I'm pretty happy with this arrangement, which kinda minimizes the need to use keyboard or mouse. Of course I also have TM HOTAS Warthog and TIR5.

[shagrat]

but to program the CDU I'll still need mouse control for the numbers (posted screen of setup on prior page). Touchscreen vs mouse with MFD Cougar panels? thoughts?

Use the HOTAS Paddle Button as a modifier for the Keyboard to emulate the CDU - hold paddle just press T-G-T-1-<return> and the "insert,Delete,PGup,PGdwn" etc. for the LSK keys. :thumbup:

 

...or buildyourself an UFC (see my signature) :D