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[BOO]

3 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

I’ve never experienced any problems with my Warthog Throttle, except for one that apparently got bricked during an electrical storm and the power went on and off about 10 times. Well, i don’t understand that, but it never worked after that.  So other than a fluke like that, I’d say you could easily have a 10 year lifespan out of it, but that’s just my own experience with my own hardware.  I had no qualms about buying another one.

 

As above so below,

 

Had mine for 7 years. Save for a slightly worn pinkie switch and it’s designator pip thing ( which I’ve not found too bad) it’s been reliable. 
 

it’s has a lot of abuse also. Moved, plugged in and disconnected daily when I’m simming and In the past two years stored for long periods when I’m not. 

 

Not that I’m trying to keep on topic but it’s a very useful tool for DCS jets.  whilst newer and more costly throttles offer more, when combined with a decent stick and the ability in DCS to use modifiers I don’t find it lacking. 

[Lusekofte]

I got a Virpil cm3 throttle I read winwigs got issue with broken handles and some buttons pretty much a transport issue I guess. 
most love them a few is very angry. 
I flew some time with Thrustmaster warthog 

I like virpil better because of the axis on the left  of throttle a neat single engine pitch level pretty well made and mode switch making 6 buttons to 24. And it feels very solid. But I have no issue with warthog throttle and not calling it bad. 
I probably sell my CM 3 Virpil, not decided yet. It is in my island house and I fly seldomly and keep forgetting all the buttons on the handles. It is simply too many of them. 4 or 5 hatswitches and sliders and buttons wherever you set your fingers

Edited March 24, 2023 by Lusekofte

[BladeMeister]

6  x 5 = 30 my friend, turns 6 buttons into 30 buttons. I have the Sharka panel also and have 5 modes x 10 buttons for a whapping 50 buttons. Is it necessary, no, but I have every button mapped for the Mossie except the rear radio, and I probably can map that to if I decide to. Cold starts, comms, all lighting weapons and trims, fuel management is done from Hotas. I almost have all committed to memory and yes my little brain hurts as a result, but oh what fun I am having.?

 

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[BOO]

I take the opposite route to mapping DCS now. My brain is getting old so i can’t remember what’s what so I tend to rely more on the click pit sight memory and keep only the essentials/ most convenient/inconvenient on the hotas. 
 

I know a flyer who’s mapped the eject sequence to the voice command “ for (Pete’s) sake” in BoS. But this is DCS so I’ll stay in topic. 
 

 

Edited March 24, 2023 by BOO

[Lusekofte]

1 hour ago, BladeMeister said:

6  x 5 = 30 my friend, turns 6 buttons into 30 buttons. I have the Sharka panel also and have 5 modes x 10 buttons for a whapping 50 buttons.

I have that Sharla panel too. With 4 extra hot as I love that one

[BladeMeister]

Love the click pit in DCS and CLOD, but I hate having to switch hands with the stick to use the mouse, plus I am trying to lessen the aggravation of carpal tunnel syndrome in my right arm and wrist. Just turned 59, so I can relate with getting older.

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Edited March 24, 2023 by BladeMeister

[BOO]

20 minutes ago, BladeMeister said:

Love the click pit in DCS and CLOD, but I hate having to switch hands with the stick to use the mouse, plus I am trying to lessen the aggravation of carpal tunnel syndrome in my right arm and wrist. Just turned 59, so I can relate with getting older.

S!Blade<><

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There are few advantages to being left handed ( speaking as a guitar player) but flight simming is definitely one of them! 

[AndyJWest]

I'm thinking of getting an octopus as a copilot.

[DD_fruitbat]

15 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

I think they’re going to wish they had learned the Hornet.

 

It's a good job I'd pretty much completely learnt the Hornet before I got the Viper, otherwise I don't know if I'd of bothered the other way around. 

 

I suspect the Mudhen will have the same type of logic as the Hornet of weapon designating everything the same as the Hornet (same company), as opposed to SPI driven logic that you find in the Viper and Warthog (again same company). 

 

After flying both types of logic, I much prefer SPI driven logic, its much more streamlined. There are advantages to the Hornet system however, such as preplanning and loading different sets of co-ordinates to specific bombs whilst on the rack, but its a process!!!

Edited March 24, 2023 by DD_fruitbat

[[CPT]Crunch]

The best is the way clickable pits give you the associated key commands for assigning everything to hardware in a physical pit.  Don't use much by way of a mouse, if I'm going to spend on the hardware end I want to make good use of it.

[Guest deleted@83466]

I had previously posted this in the Cat thread, but it also shows my own control setup very well.  I use iPads with the labeled controls sending keyboard combos to the PC.

Edited March 24, 2023 by SeaSerpent

[DD_fruitbat]

 

 

After flying the i-16, this will be a day one purchase for me as being done by the same team.

[Trooper117]

1 hour ago, DD_fruitbat said:

this will be a day one purchase for me

 

Hmm, I've got all the WWII stuff from DCS so far, but I'm not sure about this one...

[Alexmarine]

2 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

 

After flying the i-16, this will be a day one purchase for me as being done by the same team.

Skipped on the I-16 but eviscerating 109s and 190s with the La-7 (and kinda also supporting their next project) is an interesting prospect ?

[Gambit21]

Seems like it would be a rewarding aircraft to fly - managing that engine etc. I’m in for sure.I’d rather have a MiG 3 and an Emil, but I’ll happily take this one.

 

 

[MiGCap]

I would be glad if they could do a G-6 in at least the same quality as the Anton, perhaps better. I admit I would buy ervery 109 model, in DCS or in IL-2 ... Don't punsh me!!

[Gambit21]

9 minutes ago, MiGCap said:

I would be glad if they could do a G-6 in at least the same quality as the Anton, perhaps better. I admit I would buy ervery 109 model, in DCS or in IL-2 ... Don't punsh me!!

Need an Emil to go with the I-16.

But yes a no-brainer on the G-6.

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

I would really be surprised if more third parties didn’t enter the WW2 arena, since it does seem to be building up some steam. 
 

[Trooper117]

1 hour ago, Alexmarine said:

and kinda also supporting their next project)

 

What's the next project?...

[Lusekofte]

They are building the Lancaster that is when I take DCs ww2 seriously. 
 

[Alexmarine]

On 3/3/2023 at 6:17 AM, Alexmarine said:

Posted last June on their FB

 

 

2 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

 

What's the next project?...

 

[Lusekofte]

I wish that is a Sam simulator integrated into DCs. 

[Gambit21]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

They are building the Lancaster that is when I take DCs ww2 seriously. 
 

 

 

So you can do what with it exactly? Fly to France and bomb Paris?

I'm hard pressed to think of a more useless aircraft at this juncture. At least with the La-7 you can use the Caucus map as a stand in...sort of.

 

 

 

 

[Trooper117]

Ok... I believe those images were for an Su-17 according to the hype on their forums.

[Lusekofte]

56 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

 

So you can do what with it exactly? Fly to France and bomb Paris?

I'm hard pressed to think of a more useless aircraft at this juncture. At least with the La-7 you can use the Caucus map as a stand in...sort of.

 

 

 

 

I gonna fly bomb London if I must. I care less. I gonna fly it anywhere and bomb everything. 
 

[SCG_motoadve]

Older video but a great one.

Actually the owner of DCS owns and flies many of the warbirds in DCS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighter_Collection#:~:text=The Fighter Collection is owned,of the Imperial War Museum.

 

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

He signs off with “and that’s the way it is,” like Walter Cronkite.  Very interesting video.

[DD_fruitbat]

13 hours ago, SCG_motoadve said:

Older video but a great one.

Actually the owner of DCS owns and flies many of the warbirds in DCS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighter_Collection#:~:text=The Fighter Collection is owned,of the Imperial War Museum.

 

 

 

I've watched Nick Grey fly many times, and in many different types of warbirds.

 

He often used to do the 'joker routine' at flying legends, whilst all the other warbirds assembled for the final flyby or 'balbo' as it's known.

 

Always a good display. 

 

Nick Grey in a Sea Fury,

 

 

 

Edited March 25, 2023 by DD_fruitbat

[Monostripezebra]

Just some random Sgt. Fuller Memorial Double Landing

 

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

About to become a POW in a field outside of Calais.

 

[ZachariasX]

7 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

Nick Grey in a Sea Fury,

I wanted to fly that Sea Fury but sadly enough, they crashed it right before I got a chance. They just had sold the aircraft and on a next flight, the engine went silent after takeoff. Belly landing a Sea Fury can really, really hurt you. Both occupants survived AFAIK, but barely. Flying warbirds is not like flying your average Cessna.

[SCG_motoadve]

56 minutes ago, ZachariasX said:

I wanted to fly that Sea Fury but sadly enough, they crashed it right before I got a chance. They just had sold the aircraft and on a next flight, the engine went silent after takeoff. Belly landing a Sea Fury can really, really hurt you. Both occupants survived AFAIK, but barely. Flying warbirds is not like flying your average Cessna.

Absolutely, a warbird is a different animal than a Cessna, I fly both , this is my next goal in aviation.

https://www.stallion51.com/mustang-flight-ops/check-out-training/

[ZachariasX]

11 hours ago, SCG_motoadve said:

Absolutely, a warbird is a different animal than a Cessna, I fly both , this is my next goal in aviation.

https://www.stallion51.com/mustang-flight-ops/check-out-training/

Yeah, they are great! They are a pricy bunch, but they offer a lot. But since you are in the US, they are definitely a convenient choice.

 

A warning though, many aircraft might come across as rather bland after you get the knack of the Stang... But if one maintains a sense for the quirkiness of certain aircraft, I find it not really being an issue. Even after a Spit and a Mustang, the Bücker still gives me that smile.

[Guest deleted@83466]

I’m not quite understanding the overlap between the existing Channel map, and what is to be in the Normandy 2 map.  From the FAQ, it looks like areas already covered by the Channel map in Normandy 2 (upper right corner) will be in lower def than the rest.  Therefore, the Channel map will still have some use, but the existing Normandy (ver 1) map will be rendered totally obsolete.  Correct?

 

 

Edited March 26, 2023 by SeaSerpent

[Trooper117]

There are campaigns that run on the original Normandy map... Reflected who made some of them was unsure if they would be compatible with the new map.

However, regardless of that, if people don't want to buy the new map they will still be able to play it on the old one.

[SCG_motoadve]

1 hour ago, Trooper117 said:

There are campaigns that run on the original Normandy map... Reflected who made some of them was unsure if they would be compatible with the new map.

Reflected confirmed he will update those campaigns to the Normandy 2.0 map, The Channel map campaigns will stay the way they are

[Guest deleted@83466]

I’ve started taking a liking to the Mosquito lately.  It’s so simple, and to co-opt the term that is being thrown around here for 4th Gen Jets, “intuitive”.  Everything is pretty well labeled, right there before you, like how to arm the bombs, how to get the cannons firing, you really don’t need to even look at the manual to get up and running.  Of course, you need the manual to get good.  It’s a tiny bit quirky on the takeoff, but it seems really easy to fly and land.  Very stable when trimmed (and suggested joystick curves).  And good sounds, can sync the props by the sine wave sound.  I do like it.  I’m afraid that compared to a Hornet, Mosquitos are very wimpy, and have a limited amount of weapons at their disposal, so that’s the only downside to it.

 

We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way, baa baa baa, but with a Mosquito.  Japanese airfield strike in the Mariannas, for the heck of it.

Edited March 27, 2023 by SeaSerpent
added screenshot.

[Art-J]

SeaSerpent, are you a Brit by any chance? Only a Brit would call this unergonomic clusterfeck of things stuffed wherever engineer felt like it an "intuitive" cockpit ;). But that's the way things were done on that side of the Channel back then before they finally started learning how to design cockpits in '60s. 

Not dissing the airplane though, I love flying it despite its "underperforming" compared to GB rendition.

Edited March 28, 2023 by Art-J

[Lusekofte]

20 minutes ago, Art-J said:

SeaSerpent, are you a Brit by any chance? Only a Brit would call this unergonomic clusterfeck of things stuffed wherever engineer felt like it an "intuitive" cockpit ;). But that's the way things were done on that side of the Channel back then before they finally started learning how to design cockpits in '60s. 

Not dissing the airplane though, I love flying it despite its "underperforming" compared to GB rendition.

Yes, I do not say who is wrong. But I prefer P 47 in DCS and Mosquito in GB 

At the same time P 47 got a high altitude performance in GB that make it somehow more complex than I original believed

Edited March 28, 2023 by Lusekofte

[Lusekofte]

 

JF-17 is an underrepresented gem. I bought it on sale about a year ago and it's been collecting dust ever since. I got tired of waiting around for the F-15 so I picked up the JF-17 randomly and started learning it. The Jeff is quickly becoming one of my favorites jets in DCS. 

It's not the fastest, doesn't have the longest legs, and can't carry the most munitions but it's an absolute pleasure to fly and one of the most polished modules hands-down. It has the most modern cockpit/systems in DCS, a fantastic TGP, great ground radar, functioning data cartridge, a huge suit of different weapons for any scenario, and tons of small details absent from other modules like glass fogging, hypoxia effects, system malfunctions, and stores that you can over-g. 

Deka Ironworks did a fantastic job and delivered one of the most, if not the most, polished and feature-complete modules in all of DCS. I highly recommend trialing it if you have the time.

quote from FB

 

Sea serpent probably right. Everyone taking time on it say the same. It seems like a real good module