DCS

[Gambit21]

2 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

Been very busy with real life this last month, but thought I'd have a look at some of the new super carrier effects, the new night paddle lights for the ground crew, very nicely done I think.

 

 

Yep

Was messing around with this last week - very nicely done.

 

I’m looking forward to the taxi director and improved ATC comms etc.

[Lusekofte]

50 minutes ago, RedeyeStorm said:

Well I only own the mosquito so my advice is visit the DCS forum. That said the sound and study quality of the planes is a plus. But the AI is terrible and cheats. Damage modeling has been specially adapted for WOII. But the most terrible thing is visibility. I fly VR and use subdued labels (just a grey blob) to give me a change to spot anything. Il2 in comparison is the holy grail in spotting. My opinion of course but I am always right!  

 

You are in fact correct.

The P47 in DCS adorable,  Mosquito beautiful. But to me not much of a good ride. Terrible disappointed on how it respond to the controls, probably do deserve some input tweaks , but still I like P 50 and 48 much better.

Channel map is a bit challenging for my system in special low over populated areas. 

But still better than the other ww2 map.

Nah, DCS excell fir choppers, and jet's with radar, my only hope for vintage prop flying is Cod with VR

[Gambit21]

47 minutes ago, LuseKofte said:

 

Nah, DCS excell fir choppers, and jet's with radar, my only hope for vintage prop flying is Cod with VR

 

Ummm...it's quite excellent for jets without radar too...or jets with radar even when you're not using the radar.

 

[dburne]

4 hours ago, SCG_motoadve said:

How is DCS running lately? interested in WWII only, I know online is not popular, but how is it offline?

Is the DM better?

Is the VR performance any better?

AI has improved?

Last time I played was two years ago, and  found it boring with the AI and DM totally arcade.

 

I wish I could help you but I only do my WWII flying in IL-2. at least so far. DCS I only use jets and choppers. I own the WWII stuff but never got into it with DCS. I am not having any significant issues currently running both the Hornet and the Apache in VR with my Aero.

 

Now that I own Point Control I may be a little more tempted down the road to try some WWII action in DCS, but I don't see myself doing it anytime soon. Got my hands full currently with what I am doing now.

[Bremspropeller]

Kev, you still got that video of me Mirageing and being a D1ck to bystanders on the airfield and ultimately crashing in a most spectacular fashion?

For some reason I cannot not crash in the Mirage - seems like a law of nature I'm ending up being a twat to everybody in the pattern in this airplane. ?

[AtomicP]

On 4/29/2022 at 1:33 AM, Gambit21 said:

 

I love this bit of carrier ops too.

Yeah with all the time you've put into the Hornet, if I were you I'd keep current no matter what else you learn.

 

 

 

It's sitting down at my computer to operate another computer...zero attraction for me. 

 

 

I had the same problem with BMS. I keep trying the latest version because the idea of it is fantastic with the excellent attention to detail, but the reality is I'm flying a jet that more or less flies itself so I can push some buttons at the right time to bomb an unseen enemy on the ground or fire a missile to another unseen enemy in the air. In DCS I can get some enjoyment out of the Hornet and the F-5E, but I've realised my enjoyment of these sims is the flying, not the computer inside computer metagame.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

Noticed an error in the F/A-18C video. When spreading wings you do not turn the handle back to HOLD after spreading but push it in to lock in SPREAD position. Otherwise nice video..

[Gambit21]

5 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Kev, you still got that video of me Mirageing and being a D1ck to bystanders on the airfield and ultimately crashing in a most spectacular fashion?

For some reason I cannot not crash in the Mirage - seems like a law of nature I'm ending up being a twat to everybody in the pattern in this airplane. ?

[arnold voice/true]
“Look out! It’s Thomas on final in the Twat Wagen!!!”[arnold voice/false]

Actually Arnold, “Twatwagen” - one word.

 

[Art-J]

On 5/2/2022 at 4:19 PM, SCG_motoadve said:

How is DCS running lately? interested in WWII only, I know online is not popular, but how is it offline?

Is the DM better?

Is the VR performance any better?

AI has improved?

Last time I played was two years ago, and  found it boring with the AI and DM totally arcade.

 

Were your last flights made before or after the new detailed DM got implemented? If before, then there's a great improvement on this side.

VR - don't own one, but DCS is generally still a resource hog, so I don't think much changed in this regard.

AI - only slightly less stupid than in old days, so still years behind Il-2 46, CLOD and GB.

 

In the end, keep in mind that if you're not Steam user, since last year you can take advantage of new free-trial program - install and test any aircraft or map module for two weeks freely (then wait 6 months for the "trial clock" to reset and do it again).

 

[Lusekofte]

Kind of start liking the Hind, and that feel is new. I like the analog system and pit.

Start to own the instant action, but I guess those ai are dumbed down

[DD_fruitbat]

9 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Kev, you still got that video of me Mirageing and being a D1ck to bystanders on the airfield and ultimately crashing in a most spectacular fashion?

For some reason I cannot not crash in the Mirage - seems like a law of nature I'm ending up being a twat to everybody in the pattern in this airplane. ?

 

Hey Tom,

 

I didn't upload it, because for some reason it didn't have any sound rather annoyingly (I'd forgot to do something when i updated my nvdia drivers).

 

Would of made a great addition to my DCS shorts collection!

[DD_fruitbat]

Explosions look pretty at night,

 

 

[Ribbon]

On 5/2/2022 at 4:19 PM, SCG_motoadve said:

How is DCS running lately? interested in WWII only, I know online is not popular, but how is it offline?

Is the DM better?

Is the VR performance any better?

AI has improved?

Last time I played was two years ago, and  found it boring with the AI and DM totally arcade.

I was suprised how good Channel map runs and looks (best map in ww2 combat flight sim ever) in Spit SP campaign (reverb g2, 3080, i7 10700k, mid-high settings runs good in those two official campaigns).

DM did improve, AI still cheats, but it is better than it used to be and it is challenging (good enough for me).

[DD_fruitbat]

A couple of videos have surfaced of the upcoming South Atlantic map, looks seriously amazing!!!

 

 

 

 

[Gambit21]

7 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

A couple of videos have surfaced of the upcoming South Atlantic map, looks seriously amazing!!!

 

 

 

 

Yep!

I have plans. F-4 + SA map.

 

 

[DD_fruitbat]

I have some ideas regarding the Mossie and some of those Fjords!!!

[Gambit21]

26 minutes ago, DD_fruitbat said:

I have some ideas regarding the Mossie and some of those Fjords!!!

That will be loads of fun.

Plan on taking off from the continent though - transit time from the island to feet dry is 45 min in a Viper. ?

[AndyJWest]

3 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

That will be loads of fun.

Plan on taking off from the continent though - transit time from the island to feet dry is 45 min in a Viper. ?

 

If you are pining for fjords, you really want the Chilean coast, too. 

[DD_fruitbat]

Tom in the Twatwagen.....?

 

 

[DD_Fenrir]

[Bremspropeller]

10 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

Tom in the Twatwagen.....?

 

 

 

 

There used to be a video out of a glider with a M2k on station on the wing, but it seems to be lost in the bottomless depths of the web...

[Gambit21]

7 Mile DME from Mom....Lead already took off a minute or so earlier. We'll form up at 23K/high-holding over Mom then push.

 

 

 

 

 

He's right where he should be orbiting over Mother at 23K. I form up, and we push...scheduled for some friendly ACM off the coast of Cypress before continuing to Incirlik.

Will test that logic next session. Flying formation with the AI is just impossible right now as they're all over the place. Jester calls "Nails" every 30 seconds due to the Hummer that's up...need to do something about that. I have the Jester "just up" script ready.

 

[Picchio]

Is there a cypress in Cyprus?

[Bremspropeller]

Yeah, it's on some Hill.

[Gambit21]

7 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Yeah, it's on some Hill.

We’re going to strafe it.

 

[Lusekofte]

I find them best done with using unguided rockets. 

30 mm HE is also effective

[Gambit21]

On 5/6/2022 at 1:50 AM, DD_Fenrir said:

 

 

Was looking at these again...just lovely shots. 

Hard to beat Tomcat carrier ops.

 

 

[DD_Fenrir]

14 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Was looking at these again...just lovely shots. 

Hard to beat Tomcat carrier ops.

 

Thanks Gambit.

 

Was an interesting mission; we (the Cats) ran a high speed, low altitude, pop-up TALD delivery against an SA-10 site with a load of SHORAD, coordinating with a Hornet SEAD flight lobbing HARMS from medium altitude. All this to cover a DEAD flight of Hornets running in at low level to make a pop-up Maverick strike against the IADS site. 

 

Getting lit up by an SA-10 is not usually my go-to hobby in the Turkey but it was certainly an... invigorating... experience!

 

On my exfil from the SA-10 WEZ, weaving constantly in full burner at very low altitude, I nearly collected the inbound flight of DEAD Hornets (there's a 'DEAD Bugs on the windshield' gag there somewhere... groan!) and then we had to wait an hour for our recovery window, with each of us three Tomcats playing "1000lb-of-fuel" tag-team across an ever dwindling number of S-3 tankers. We had just called Marshall on our inbound for recovery thinking there was just enough daylight left for Case 1 when Marshall called Case 3.... ugh.

 

All good though, we settled into our Case 3 stacks and did our best to push on time though I was about 30 seconds late and a bit concerned with the slightly meagre 2,800lbs of gas I had left. Not a lot of opportunities to bolter and with every Viking now sucked dry, there was no trick-or-treat on the ball option either...

 

That said I flew a pretty good approach until the burble caught me out; this day it seemed a lot closer to the carrier and I got a distinct settle at the ramp despite me advancing the throttle; should have been a one-wire but the hook-skipped and caught the four instead; hey, I'm down in one piece, I'll take it!

 

All good fun though ?

[Bremspropeller]

Sounds like fun, Tom!

[Gambit21]

4 hours ago, DD_Fenrir said:

 

Thanks Gambit.

 

Was an interesting mission; we (the Cats) ran a high speed, low altitude, pop-up TALD delivery against an SA-10 site with a load of SHORAD, coordinating with a Hornet SEAD flight lobbing HARMS from medium altitude. All this to cover a DEAD flight of Hornets running in at low level to make a pop-up Maverick strike against the IADS site. 

 

Getting lit up by an SA-10 is not usually my go-to hobby in the Turkey but it was certainly an... invigorating... experience!

 

On my exfil from the SA-10 WEZ, weaving constantly in full burner at very low altitude, I nearly collected the inbound flight of DEAD Hornets (there's a 'DEAD Bugs on the windshield' gag there somewhere... groan!) and then we had to wait an hour for our recovery window, with each of us three Tomcats playing "1000lb-of-fuel" tag-team across an ever dwindling number of S-3 tankers. We had just called Marshall on our inbound for recovery thinking there was just enough daylight left for Case 1 when Marshall called Case 3.... ugh.

 

All good though, we settled into our Case 3 stacks and did our best to push on time though I was about 30 seconds late and a bit concerned with the slightly meagre 2,800lbs of gas I had left. Not a lot of opportunities to bolter and with every Viking now sucked dry, there was no trick-or-treat on the ball option either...

 

That said I flew a pretty good approach until the burble caught me out; this day it seemed a lot closer to the carrier and I got a distinct settle at the ramp despite me advancing the throttle; should have been a one-wire but the hook-skipped and caught the four instead; hey, I'm down in one piece, I'll take it!

 

All good fun though ?

 

That sounds amazing.

It also give me a "oh crap, I'm online!!...where's the Master Arm again...oops sorry tanker that was too fast....oops too slow...damn I forgot the DLC!!" helmet fire just reading it.

[Bremspropeller]

34 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

That sounds amazing.

It also give me a "oh crap, I'm online!!...where's the Master Arm again...oops sorry tanker that was too fast....oops too slow...damn I forgot the DLC!!" helmet fire just reading it.

 

And Robey's like "them kids these days..."

 

[DD_Fenrir]

4 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Sounds like fun, Tom!

 

57 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

That sounds amazing.

 

 

On reflection it was; in fact, we were quietly leery that the TALDs and HARMs were going to provide much of a window (especially given the number of SA-15s we suspected to be in the vicinity) for the DEAD Hornets to do much but get smacked in the face, but, by jove, it worked and the DEAD Hornets managed to smash a significant number of the radars, launchers and an SA-15 or two; even one the HARMS (which were really only there to force the emitters offline) got lucky when the Clam Shell operator turned back on to have a peek and got an explosive telephone pole to the face for his impudence!

 

At the time it seemed like a lot of pedestrian formation work, with a brief intermission of squeaky bum time, a lot of quietly sweating out the fuel, repeated tanker jousting (sweaty palm joystick wrestling) and then Case 3 low light landing. Frankly I was relieved to be down but, yes, on consideration, it was brilliant!

[dburne]

Ohh I so love me some carrier ops off the Super Carrier - but in the Hornet of course. I have flown four campaigns now, some of them 2-3 times, and all off the carrier - great fun. And after each mission must make a successful trap back on the carrier for mission success. Good pucker factor.

 

Right now though I am very engrossed in learning this Apache. Either I am going break it, or it will break me one or the other. Love using those Hellfires. I equate trying to hover that thing in place a few feet off the ground to trying to balance a basketball on the end of a pencil. Or heck at any altitude for that matter. At least ATT Hold sort of works now which helps a little. I am going to have to get back to some of my Hornet campaign flying soon though to at least keep everything fresh in my mind.  Seventy hours already I have put into learning this Apache and still got a ways to go. 

 

Off to watch some more of Wags videos on the Apache, I figure if I watch each one many multiple times something will start to stick. I have short term memory problems so it takes me doing it over and over much more than it used to. They really could have used more than four training missions upon release as well. 

Edited May 9, 2022 by dburne

[Lusekofte]

12 hours ago, DD_Fenrir said:

 

Thanks Gambit.

 

Was an interesting mission; we (the Cats) ran a high speed, low altitude, pop-up TALD delivery against an SA-10 site with a load of SHORAD, coordinating with a Hornet SEAD flight lobbing HARMS from medium altitude. All this to cover a DEAD flight of Hornets running in at low level to make a pop-up Maverick strike against the IADS site. 

 

Getting lit up by an SA-10 is not usually my go-to hobby in the Turkey but it was certainly an... invigorating... experience!

 

On my exfil from the SA-10 WEZ, weaving constantly in full burner at very low altitude, I nearly collected the inbound flight of DEAD Hornets (there's a 'DEAD Bugs on the windshield' gag there somewhere... groan!) and then we had to wait an hour for our recovery window, with each of us three Tomcats playing "1000lb-of-fuel" tag-team across an ever dwindling number of S-3 tankers. We had just called Marshall on our inbound for recovery thinking there was just enough daylight left for Case 1 when Marshall called Case 3.... ugh.

 

All good though, we settled into our Case 3 stacks and did our best to push on time though I was about 30 seconds late and a bit concerned with the slightly meagre 2,800lbs of gas I had left. Not a lot of opportunities to bolter and with every Viking now sucked dry, there was no trick-or-treat on the ball option either...

 

That said I flew a pretty good approach until the burble caught me out; this day it seemed a lot closer to the carrier and I got a distinct settle at the ramp despite me advancing the throttle; should have been a one-wire but the hook-skipped and caught the four instead; hey, I'm down in one piece, I'll take it!

 

All good fun though ?

I see a lot of words put together like in  sentences , but all I comprehended was "All good fun though

??? Only the language keep me away from modern warfare?

[Gambit21]

I canna stay oot of the Viper laddy!

 

 

 

 

Elephant walk...we're pulling out somewhere back there. At least we're supposed to be...AI taxi bug is stopping my lead...grrrrrr. 

Solved!

 

 

Sort of a "Red Flag" thing happening...

 

 

Edited May 10, 2022 by Gambit21

[DD_fruitbat]

Does an Apache fit under a bridge....

 

Of course it does!

 

 

Messing around last night while the Tom's were grey jetting 

[Dallas88B]

TL;DR

Is this the expected image for a fully applied left brake or should I expect a higher triangle when the brake is fully applied?

 

DETAIL

Learning to fly F/A-18C Hornet.

The DCS controls indicator shows the brake as a triangle bottom left (for left brake) and bottom right (for right brake).

In this picture, the left brake of my Crosswinds is pressed fully.

Does the height of the triangle represent the amplitude /strength of the brake being applied?

 

 

Stopping in 4500 feet is a bit of a challenge and I wondered if my brake setup was sub-optimal.

The cockpit Brake Accumulator Pressure Gauge is a little over 3000 so that is OK.

 

[Bremspropeller]

It looks about right to me.

 

Two things may be of importance:

 

1) Jet fighter brakes suck.

 

2) When landing the Hornet, make sure you don't pull the throttles to idle when airborne, but only retard them on the ground. Failure to do so will have you continue in flight idle, which will cause additional trouble stopping the airplane. Ask me how I know...

 

P.S. Don't flare when the runway is short, but Ryanair her into the runway.

Spoiler

 

 

[Art-J]

1 hour ago, Dallas88B said:

TL;DR

Is this the expected image for a fully applied left brake or should I expect a higher triangle when the brake is fully applied?

 

I don't own Hornet, so can only rely on what Brems wrote above, but from my experience with Crosswinds, whole pedal assemblies tend to rotate in their clamps a little bit after months of heavy usage. When that happens, they get de-calibrated and don't yield full brake force in the sim anymore (although it's usually one of them going a bit off compared to the other). So, you might want to check that as well and if something's off, realign them, tighten the bolts again and re-calibrate using Milan's dedicated software. Been there, done that.

[dburne]

2 hours ago, Dallas88B said:

TL;DR

Is this the expected image for a fully applied left brake or should I expect a higher triangle when the brake is fully applied?

 

DETAIL

Learning to fly F/A-18C Hornet.

The DCS controls indicator shows the brake as a triangle bottom left (for left brake) and bottom right (for right brake).

In this picture, the left brake of my Crosswinds is pressed fully.

Does the height of the triangle represent the amplitude /strength of the brake being applied?

 

 

Stopping in 4500 feet is a bit of a challenge and I wondered if my brake setup was sub-optimal.

The cockpit Brake Accumulator Pressure Gauge is a little over 3000 so that is OK.

 

 

Spoiler is your friend with the Hornet. Depending on touch down speed and weight of aircraft it sometimes can be a challenge to stop without the spoiler deployed.

Edited May 10, 2022 by dburne