DCS

[Lusekofte]

53 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

A-10’s operating from highway

 

Damn - almost makes me want the A-10. Mustn’t become more distracted.

 

 

#warthogfarp.

A 10 has been on my to do list since it first came out.  But since you are a Hornet pilot. You might find the systems pretty similar.

Anything you learn in the Hornet. Is pretty much useful if you later go A 10. 

A 10 is my kind of plane

[Gambit21]

I haven’t really cracked into the Hornet at all yet, but I will at some point.

[Bremspropeller]

Oh, you will crack alright...

[DD_fruitbat]

12 hours ago, LuseKofte said:

A 10 has been on my to do list since it first came out.  But since you are a Hornet pilot. You might find the systems pretty similar.

Anything you learn in the Hornet. Is pretty much useful if you later go A 10. 

A 10 is my kind of plane

 

I have to largely disagree with the systems being pretty similar, they have a completely different workflow to deploy weapons, and because the A-10 uses SPI's its actually more similar to the Viper, which does to.

 

While there are some basic similarities between the Viper and the A-10, they are still very very different in deployment of weapons, the A-10 is its very own distinct beast.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

After getting it properly set up and building my new rig, I'm having a blast in DCS: 

 

[Bremspropeller]

Pancake and me on the way back to the carrier after wreaking havoc on a terrorist hideout.

 

Fox 2 - wondering where that callsign came from...

 

Our signal is Charlie, so we're going straight for the initial.

 

Pancake on the ball.

 

Pancake and @Admiral practicing in  the wonderflu delEight.

 

 

The Mi-8 flight-school is attracting curious onlookers...

 

Meanwhile @Dierk3er is giving the GZ a try.

 

E-3A going deep and looking for a sub.

 

Looking for a place to place my towel.

 

@Admiral and me on a sightseeing trip around Guam.

 

Escorting @Admiral to his first rolling landing at Anderson.

 

Me in the bolter-pattern.

 

 

[Gambit21]

Major Dwight "Colgate" Smiley and myself as the dash-2 took off out of Incirlik this morning to on a practice sortie to the Akamas weapons range on Cyprus.

On ingress just southeastt of Akrotiri, a pair of Marine F-18's decided to run a practice intercept on us...Marines....

 

We check in with Akrotiri and are cleared operational to our low-level VR entry point to the southwest. We descent to 1000'

A few seconds after this shot was taken, I break to the northwest for 35 seconds or so in order to deconflict the target area.

 

 

 

 

 

Colgate calls "One's in!" as I'm still a few miles out. He then calls "one's off to the west!" about the time I'm lining up my run...good timing today.

We drop our snakeyes (will be BDU-50's eventually) He then makes a gun pass on a green smoke marker, and instructs me to put my rounds on the red. I do so after he calls "off" again, just before we get a call from Turnstyle (AWACS) on our Victor and requests that we press Carmine 52 on Uniform.

 

 

 

Colgate verifies the frequency change with me (I need a bit of supervision still) and tells me to forum up at Parkway. 

As I'm doing so Turnstyle let's us know that a pop-up group of bogeys has penetrated the no-fly zone east of Lebanon. The F-15 CAP (Misty) is out of position to the east and inbound, but we're in a better posit and given a heading to intercept. We have live missiles onboard despite our training sortie since we're basically in-theater. The carrier group is arriving on station to the west, and their Hornets are up but still well west of Cyprus. As soon as I'm in position, we press.

 

 

 

 

I'm more of a "loose deuce" kind of wingman, but I'm doing my best.

Colgate does tell me to "bring it in" a time or two.

 

 

 

 

 

Colgate does a nice job of calling out the intercept and range of the bogeys...50 miles, 40 miles now...etc. Some higher up type on AWACS chimes in it's "weapons hold" and his "roger 35 miles" almost doesn't sound annoyed at the unnecessary reminder. I'm having trouble with my radar because...well I've never used it before and haven't read the manual yet. Hey I've been busy....anyway Colgate calls 20 miles...visual...and we pass 180-out with a pair of MiG 29's who barrel roll past us... and a bit disturbingly, the lead aircraft is Russian. The dash-2 is Syrian...odd.

 

Colgate busts a 180 and forms up with them. It takes me a minute to catch up because I was a bit too "loosey deucey" but I plug in the burner and get there eventually.

The MiG's never answer any of AWAC's radio calls, nor ours. Eventually then make a 180 and head east, with Colgate and myself still holding position with them.

This is clearly a "statement" I spend my time getting better at holding my position in the slippery Viper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This all takes a while. 

Misty shows up eventually from dead ahead,  and after forming up has the nerve to get on the horn with his drawl and say "much obliged gentlemen, we'll take it from here"

Colgate keeps his cool...but he sort of talks the same way with the obligatory Chuck Yeager drawl so what's he going to say?  "Colgate simply says "Misty, Rumbler one one, copy...two press steerpoint 15" and we press to the northeast.

 

 

 

 

A little shot of Misty pulling up. Eagle drivers can be a bit full of themselves...look you can just see the ego from here.

 

 

On the way home I have time to make a few notes, including a reminder to crack my air to air radar manual.

Mostly I just try to hold position and fly an actual echelon as requested.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by Gambit21

[Lusekofte]

22 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

I have to largely disagree with the systems being pretty similar, they have a completely different workflow to deploy weapons, and because the A-10 uses SPI's its actually more similar to the Viper, which does to.

 

While there are some basic similarities between the Viper and the A-10, they are still very very different in deployment of weapons, the A-10 is its very own distinct beast.

Thanks. I just referred to information from FB and ED forum members stating so before Hornet came out.

I know nothing about Hornet and forgot all in A 10.

8 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Mostly I just try to hold position and fly an actual echelon as requested.

You come a long way, I do not even know what a echelon is. 

[dburne]

Got several of my controller bindings set up for the Viper late yesterday.

I will probably "break the seal" on this puppy sometime today and do a little free flight and maybe the cold start procedure.

I am hoping the learning curve might be a little shorter on the Viper now that I have a lot of the Hornet behind me. Still more to learn in the Hornet but have a feeling that will always be the case.

[unlikely_spider]

56 minutes ago, dburne said:

Got several of my controller bindings set up for the Viper late yesterday.

I will probably "break the seal" on this puppy sometime today and do a little free flight and maybe the cold start procedure.

I am hoping the learning curve might be a little shorter on the Viper now that I have a lot of the Hornet behind me. Still more to learn in the Hornet but have a feeling that will always be the case.

What are your plans for it? There aren't any F-16 story campaigns yet, right?

[dburne]

1 hour ago, unlikely_spider said:

What are your plans for it? There aren't any F-16 story campaigns yet, right?

 

Not sure - by the time I have my arms wrapped around it to where I can fly combat hopefully there will be.

 

Edit: Seems there are at least some user created campaigns, nothing in the pay-ware category yet though.

I just downloaded a Balkans campaign for it - unfortunately it is in the Caucasus though. I would prefer some newer maps. It is hosted on the ED website so at least it has their seal of approval.

Edited August 7, 2021 by dburne

[DD_fruitbat]

2 hours ago, unlikely_spider said:

What are your plans for it? There aren't any F-16 story campaigns yet, right?

 

There's plenty you can do in it through DCS liberation for now.

[Gambit21]

4 hours ago, dburne said:

 

Not sure - by the time I have my arms wrapped around it to where I can fly combat hopefully there will be.

 

Edit: Seems there are at least some user created campaigns, nothing in the pay-ware category yet though.

 

 

Working on it - it’s going to be a little minute.

[dburne]

46 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

Working on it - it’s going to be a little minute.

 

 

Plenty of time. I just took the Viper out for first spin on the Islands. Hot start takeoff. Cruised around for a bit and brought her in for landing.

I managed takeoff and landing ok, but I can tell I have much to learn on this one. VR performance was not so good on the Island map. I also seemed to have trouble getting the AOA indicator lined up properly for landing. 

Seems HUD is a bit far away in VR also making it a little difficult to read clearly.

 

[unlikely_spider]

20 minutes ago, dburne said:

 

 

Plenty of time. I just took the Viper out for first spin on the Islands. Hot start takeoff. Cruised around for a bit and brought her in for landing.

I managed takeoff and landing ok, but I can tell I have much to learn on this one. VR performance was not so good on the Island map. I also seemed to have trouble getting the AOA indicator lined up properly for landing. 

Seems HUD is a bit far away in VR also making it a little difficult to read clearly.

 

VR performance on that new map is strangely bad, seeing how it's mostly water.

[Bremspropeller]

I'm currently trying to wrap my head around a mission (constraint: shall work on a dogfight server) that is supposed to do something like Operation Eagle Claw.

 

This is my idea:

 

Three Hercs (covered by 2 to 4 Hogs) are taking off from a road in the UAE, flying 500nm low-level into a forward base deep in the iranian desert.

There, the Hercs (and possibly the Hogs) will land and this will trigger the availability of choppers and the return-flights (two Hercs and two Hogs).

The choppers are then going to fly 50nm to extract a couple of high-ranking hostages from a village. Then, after picking up the hostages, the choppers will (duh!) fly back to the forward desert airstrip and they'll then switch over to the Hogs and Hercs, which in turn will take off back home. The Hogs will then "clean up" the area and will make it look like nobody had a happy accident in the desert and then will escort the Hercs back to the original road in the UAE. Again, about 350nm back at low level.

 

Any thoughts on scripting this mess? ?

Edited August 8, 2021 by Bremspropeller

[Gambit21]

As with IL2 I’m sticking with SP logic, still I could probably help with some of it.  I could make the AI do this mission for the most part. I’m a bit unclear about a few things. - these are all ‘player’ aircraft/no AI?

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

All player aircraft and no AI.

 

A new day is dawning for this hand-down-trainer Sabre.

 

On my way to test the ingress-route for the A-10 / C-130 package. The overladen Hog struggles to attain 280kias.

 

Staying low to prevent detection by radar.

 

Almost there. It took me more than 8000lbs of gas to reach the FWD base - only to bust my landing-gear in a touch-down that was more suited to the Hornet.

The road is mightly narrow for the A-10 (about as wide as the track) and the airplane will stick like glue once off a few feet.

 

I'm glad I didn't build the mission at night...

Lots of fun-potential, though!

[Bremspropeller]

More testing in the desert.

 

The desert-strip is marked by the inconspicious fire-plumes...

At 6000ft of elevation, the Hawg isn't going to be a performance-wonder...

 

Checking out the area where the extraction is going to take place.

 

 

Turning base.

 

On finals.

 

The road isn't exactly very wide. Now if only I could turn the airplane around to take-off again...

Edited August 8, 2021 by Bremspropeller

[Bremspropeller]

Some Herc testing on the Frankonia server. Impressive mod, to say the least. It offers lots of gameplay options that aren't in the stock game.

 

An Aussie and a US herc low above the lebanese countryside.

 

Dropping stuff on a FARP. The FARP wasn't scripted to take any paras, but there seems to be a possibility to bring stuff to FARPS and airports with the Herc. When using a lua script (comes with the mod), the mission-builder can make the dropped stuff stay in the mission.

 

 

Pancake making the sky go dark in the distance.

 

Back to Beirut!

 

Turning finals.

 

I skid-dropped a Humvee out of this brazilian Herc.

 

And that HEMTT was off-loaded on the ground.

 

The delivery-options (air, skid, sans suffixe) can be chosen in the armament-menu.

Having high hopes for mission-building...

Edited August 9, 2021 by Bremspropeller

[Gambit21]

What is the base flight model used for the Herc? How’s the cockpit?

[DD_fruitbat]

27 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

What is the base flight model used for the Herc? How’s the cockpit?

 

Can see the cockpit in this vid,

 

 

Edited August 9, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[Blooddawn1942]

The Herc Mod is truely awesome! 

 

@Bremspropeller

I would love to have this included in our Friday Sessions.

Edited August 10, 2021 by Blooddawn1942

[Bremspropeller]

1 hour ago, Blooddawn1942 said:

I would love to have this included in our Friday Sessions.

 

Same here, but as it turns out, a certain number of people does need an insurmountable effort of persusasion that installing free mods won't take away anything, but will rather provide additional gameplay options...

[Bremspropeller]

 

As Cesar used to say:

 

"Per JATO ad astra.."

[Gambit21]

On 8/9/2021 at 3:12 PM, DD_fruitbat said:

 

Can see the cockpit in this vid,

 

 

 

 

Looks like a lot of work went into it...the F-14 kinda ruined me though as now I'm a bit more jaded as far as what I want from a sim pit.

 

[Robli]

Chuck Owl's guide for Hind is out. I guess now is the time to actually start looking into learning it.

[Lusekofte]

This is art. And I was sure it was a screen from DCS

[Bremspropeller]

 

Hung GBU-54 is hung.

Is there any way to tell the airplane to STFU and drop the baaaagm?

[AndyJWest]

2 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Hung GBU-54 is hung.

Is there any way to tell the airplane to STFU and drop the baaaagm?

 

Doesn't it have selective jettison?

[Gambit21]

3 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

 

Hung GBU-54 is hung.

Is there any way to tell the airplane to STFU and drop the baaaagm?

 

You have to yell "GET THE F$#@* OUTA HERE, IT'S A BAAAAAGM!!!"

 

Then it will drop.

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

8 hours ago, AndyJWest said:

Doesn't it have selective jettison?

 

Yes, but I want to make it go boom. I had been fumbling around with the inventory page, but I'm not sure I went the right path.

[Lusekofte]

1 hour ago, Bremspropeller said:

 

Yes, but I want to make it go boom. I had been fumbling around with the inventory page, but I'm not sure I went the right path.

I am sure you heard it before. I never been Fully trained I'm the A 10. But I managed

To drop most things using Chuck's pdf at hands. I struggle big time getting the complete picture on this module

Edited August 12, 2021 by LuseKofte

[DD_fruitbat]

3 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

 

Yes, but I want to make it go boom. I had been fumbling around with the inventory page, but I'm not sure I went the right path.

You need to do it on the DSMS page, and load the weapon profile on to the system.

 

Basic vid explaining,

 

 

Edited August 12, 2021 by DD_fruitbat

[Bremspropeller]

11 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

You have to yell "GET THE F$#@* OUTA HERE, IT'S A BAAAAAGM!!!"

 

Not sure what's funnier - the existance of the word BAAAAAGM, or my mind reading it out in a Bill Burr fake-Arnie voice.

Edited August 12, 2021 by Bremspropeller

[DBFlyguy]

?

 

Chooooo choooo goes the sound of the ED hype train! Nice work mixing in real shots with sim shots, kinda hard to tell them apart!

 

 

Edited August 12, 2021 by DBFlyguy

[DBFlyguy]

New Razbam F-15E Pic

 

 

[Gambit21]

17 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

 

Yes, but I want to make it go boom. I had been fumbling around with the inventory page, but I'm not sure I went the right path.

 

I'm cured of my momentary A-10 weakness.

[Bremspropeller]

6 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

I'm cured of my momentary A-10 weakness.

 

Momentary weaknesses are like malaria-attacks. They're coming BAACKK!

[Lusekofte]

8 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

I'm cured of my momentary A-10 weakness.

It is like P 40 in GB. It haunt you. Poke you. 

Making sure you never forget it.

So want to fly it. But it      take      time      frustration        unbearable