DCS

[AndyJWest]

Yay! Another opportunity to try the Tomcat for free, decide I really want it, and then not buy it because if I do I'll never get around to learning all the stuff I've got already. 

[Tyberan]

Dude Tomcat is dope just get it. 

 

I might give the harrier and F16 a crack on free play. 

[Bremspropeller]

55 minutes ago, AndyJWest said:

Yay! Another opportunity to try the Tomcat for free, decide I really want it, and then not buy it because if I do I'll never get around to learning all the stuff I've got already. 

 

We both know you want it, Andy! Give in already ?

BTW:

 

 

[AndyJWest]

Aaaargh! Another plane I can't buy because I'll never get to learning it.

 

What I really need is a DCS: 48-hour-day module. That or a DCS: Immortality module. Which will be useful while waiting for the Harrier to be finished. ?

[ZachariasX]

Good. No A-6. I would have bought that one and never have the time learnimg it.

[Lusekofte]

1 hour ago, ZachariasX said:

Good. No A-6. I would have bought that one and never have the time learnimg it.

Heatblur announced today that the Intruder will be made flyable in a cooperation with ED. But in the beginning it will be ai as a package for tomcat

[dburne]

Finally, finally I managed to fill up my tank in the Hornet in an air to air refuel. Spent literally the last three days trying to accomplish this.

Man that was the hardest thing I have had to learn with the Hornet by far. Even harder than carrier traps.

 

Now on to Jdam and Jsow bombs, they look somewhat complex as well. After that I think I have covered all the bombs. I be a getting there!

I can smell campaign flying coming soon now.

 

[Lusekofte]

41 minutes ago, dburne said:

Finally, finally I managed to fill up my tank in the Hornet in an air to air refuel. Spent literally the last three days trying to accomplish this.

Man that was the hardest thing I have had to learn with the Hornet by far. Even harder than carrier traps.

 

Now on to Jdam and Jsow bombs, they look somewhat complex as well. After that I think I have covered all the bombs. I be a getting there!

I can smell campaign flying coming soon now.

 

Naaah why bother  Intruder is coming  

[dburne]

9 minutes ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

Naaah why bother  Intruder is coming  

 

LOL nope I have full commitment to the Hornet now.

Should I decide to move on to a second jet, it will be the Tomcat as I already own it also.

[CanadaOne]

Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! Clouds! 

 

And an A-6 would be nice.

[Bremspropeller]

The one where Ross was in the Navy...

 

 

[Tyberan]

Clouds look awesome but that A-6 though. Will add so much to the atmosphere when using the F14, but I might cave eventually and get the A6 as well. 

 

 

[Lusekofte]

11 hours ago, Tyberan said:

Clouds look awesome but that A-6 though. Will add so much to the atmosphere when using the F14, but I might cave eventually and get the A6 as well. 

 

 

I will hand in the Hornet , A10 and Falcon for the intruder myself. 

[DD_Crash]

I dont think you can part ex modules

 

[dburne]

I sure hope all these hours and hours I am pouring into learning the Hornet helps pay off somewhat in the learning curve of some other jets like the Tomcat.

[DD_fruitbat]

6 minutes ago, dburne said:

I sure hope all these hours and hours I am pouring into learning the Hornet helps pay off somewhat in the learning curve of some other jets like the Tomcat.

 

Tomcat is completely different I'm afraid. Different generation, different tech. Some stuff is transferable ish to the Viper.

[dburne]

 

[DD_fruitbat]

Can't wait for these clouds.

Edited February 6, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[dburne]

7 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

Tomcat is completely different I'm afraid. Different generation, different tech. Some stuff is transferable ish to the Viper.

 

Ah man ... well it is what it is I guess.

Hope to be campaign flying in the Hornet about a week from today.

Then got to get back to some IL-2 flying. It will likely be a while before I tackle another jet anyway.

[MeoW.Scharfi]

[DD_fruitbat]

Goodbye TOMCAT,

 

Hello INTRUDER!

Kidding, Still TOMCAT too.

Seriously looking forward to the A6, even though its a long way away. I'm wondering if they will model a pilot moustache.  

 

 

 

Edit,

 

Short video, with Jester making me laugh....

 

 

Edited February 6, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[Tyberan]

Just flew on the OCG server (australian server), It was dynamic inferno caucaus at night with high wind and rain. Selected F14B off carrier. I've never done that before but holy cow it was cool. Fired up the plane and loaded some AIM54's for CAP.  Took off in pitch black only going off instruments, levelled out at angles 25, clear night sky. it was pretty cool experience. 

 

Headed for Nails, got a good lock fired two phoenixes, got 1 bogey. More bogeys appeared I started beaming, and got out of dodge back to carrier. Started to land but because i chose Stennis instead of Lincoln I didnt have any of the direction options from ATC. Decided to fly by carrier, only some lights on. Estimated rear of the ship and prepared for final, wind all over the place pitch black, i did two bolters. 3rd time got a perfect line up slightly high, got a 4 wire. 

 

I've never landed at night on the carrier in game but damn it was nerve racking, I dont know how those guys did it for real. Anyway after my eventful sortie loaded up again, nails appeared again this time F-4's. Took off headed to their bearing, fired 2 AIm54's one hit but ended in a gun fight, watching them dump flares through cloud and the dark was awesome. Got a lock on with the sidewinder, splash bogey 2. 

 

Hectic fight with the phantoms but i'm still noob with the F-14. Headed back to carrier but decided to land at sochi instead, only 4000lb of fuel left. 

 

One thing I hate though is Jester is terrible at calling out locks with TWS auto, I can see he has locked on to some radar returns but no idea really. I assume you can just fire Aim54 and hope he's looked them on if I havent called for STT lock?

[DD_fruitbat]

6 hours ago, Tyberan said:

One thing I hate though is Jester is terrible at calling out locks with TWS auto, I can see he has locked on to some radar returns but no idea really. I assume you can just fire Aim54 and hope he's looked them on if I havent called for STT lock?

 

If you have Hot trigger and the launch steering cue, he's locked on, if not he isn't. You can tell he's in TWS by the more narrow radar field of view, the wide one means he's in RWS.

 

 

The number on the right of the radar contact is launch order and again, shows he's got a lock, and in which order the missiles will fire with multiple targets.

 

Currently, there is no way to make Jester cycle them, although thankfully it is coming at some point, as its a pita when there's a few of you flying together, and all your jesters want to lock the same target as priority.....

Edited February 6, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[RedKestrel]

2 hours ago, MeoW.Scharfi said:

 

[SCG_OpticFlow]

If you missed that video in 2018...

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

Is there a way to switch off the IFLOLS-popup? It kinda distracts at night...

[dburne]

Man the Jdam and Jsow's can be a little complex. Looking up all the co-ordinates for the different target areas and entering them is a pitb.

I think part of the problem is the Mission Qualification I am choosing that use them, starts you off in air close to the target area, and much of that info that needs to be input

for the weapons would ideally be entered on the ground before taking off. 

[DD_fruitbat]

1 hour ago, dburne said:

Man the Jdam and Jsow's can be a little complex. Looking up all the co-ordinates for the different target areas and entering them is a pitb.

I think part of the problem is the Mission Qualification I am choosing that use them, starts you off in air close to the target area, and much of that info that needs to be input

for the weapons would ideally be entered on the ground before taking off. 

 

If its starting you to close, slow the procedure down with active pause, and do it like that while your learning, that would be my advice. You know you can slave them directly through the TPod, don't you.

 

1 hour ago, Bremspropeller said:

Is there a way to switch off the IFLOLS-popup? It kinda distracts at night...

 

Yes, you can edit a lua file, although an option is coming in the gui soon, apparently already in dev versions.

 

for now,

 

Quote

If you want to remove the FLOLS overlay which pops in your cockpit just before landing:

- close DCS

- go here C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\tech\Supercarrier\PLATCameraUI

- open FLOLS.lua in admin mod (with Notepad++ for example)

- line 41, replace "FLOLS:setVisible(val)" by "FLOLS:setVisible(false)"

- save, close and restart DCS

 

And put "false" to "val" to revert

 

Edited February 6, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[dburne]

59 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

If its starting you to close, slow the procedure down with active pause, and do it like that while your learning, that would be my advice. You know you can slave them directly through the TPod, don't you.

 

 

 

Yes but this particular mission the Hornet is not equipped with the TPod.

[DD_fruitbat]

12 minutes ago, dburne said:

 

Yes but this particular mission the Hornet is not equipped with the TPod.

 

That's dumb of the qualification mission!

 

Well second tip would be to map your number pad on your keyboard to your UFC keys, makes typing in co-ordinates much quicker!!!!

 

You can still use active pause to enter all the co-ordinates though.

Edited February 6, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[dburne]

3 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

That's dumb of the qualification mission!

 

Well second tip would be to map your number pad on your keyboard to your UFC keys, makes typing in co-ordinates much quicker!!!!

 

Yeah but that don't works so well in VR lol.

Edited February 6, 2021 by dburne

[DD_fruitbat]

6 minutes ago, dburne said:

 

Yeah but that don't works o well in VR lol.

 

I do it, just took it bit of muscle memory! 

 

I have actually toyed with the idea of buying something like this,

 

 

and mounting it to the right of my joystick for this purpose, they're dirt cheap, 20 pounds on amazon.

Edited February 6, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[Gambit21]

2 hours ago, dburne said:

Man the Jdam and Jsow's can be a little complex. Looking up all the co-ordinates for the different target areas and entering them is a pitb.

I think part of the problem is the Mission Qualification I am choosing that use them, starts you off in air close to the target area, and much of that info that needs to be input

for the weapons would ideally be entered on the ground before taking off. 

 

That’s exactly it.

[Lusekofte]

Man I better move to forum upstairs . I have not the faintest idea what you guys talks about.

All I got out of it was Jester may or may not have locked, even he say he locked

3 hours ago, dburne said:

Yeah but that don't works so well in VR lol.

This is why I fly more advanced modules without VR . 

But fir those who bother, is this not something voice attack was made for

Edited February 7, 2021 by 216th_LuseKofte

[Gambit21]

13 hours ago, dburne said:

I sure hope all these hours and hours I am pouring into learning the Hornet helps pay off somewhat in the learning curve of some other jets like the Tomcat.

 

Like FB said, different gen.

That said, learning the Hornet should pay off for the F-15E, same builder/similar cockpit etc.

[dburne]

10 hours ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

 

This is why I fly more advanced modules without VR . 

But fir those who bother, is this not something voice attack was made for

 

Yeah I have Voice Attack with Vaicom Pro for DCS.

[DD_fruitbat]

15 hours ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

Man I better move to forum upstairs . I have not the faintest idea what you guys talks about.

All I got out of it was Jester may or may not have locked, even he say he locked

 

 

Well, you can always bypass missiles and just use guns......

 

 

 

 

?

[dburne]

Ok so Rising Squall campaign off the Supercarrier is going to be my first campaign.

 

 

 

Supposed to be pretty good for beginners.

I am tired of trying to learn all this stuff and think I am going to just start this campaign in the next day or two, and learn the rest as I go.

Figure I can take a peek before each mission at the armament the Hornet will be loaded with and do any refreshing of my learning before flying the actual mission.

 

Might be a better way for me to learn at this point anyway. I am craving some serious action.

I took a peek at the first mission, has us launching off the supercarrier in a thunderstorm - woohoo. Loaded with 88C Harms  and 154c Jsows.

So I will refresh on those two and will be headed off for my first mission here shortly. Finally!

 

 

 

[dburne]

And first mission of Rising Squall under my belt.

I am finally after all this time, flying in a campaign and shooting stuff!!

Took off from supercarrier in heavy thunderstorms - very exciting and my performance in VR was surprisingly good.

[DD_fruitbat]

33 minutes ago, dburne said:

And first mission of Rising Squall under my belt.

I am finally after all this time, flying in a campaign and shooting stuff!!

Took off from supercarrier in heavy thunderstorms - very exciting and my performance in VR was surprisingly good.

 

After you have that under your belt, I can really recommend the Raven 1 campaign, only 3 missions in myself, but got to say, its so far one of, if not the best single player campaign I've ever done with regards to immersion.

 

F/A-18 Raven One | Baltic Dragon (baltic-dragon.net)