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This Book describes F-15E strikes on night 1 of the Desert Storm air campaign. Strike packages of F-15E's were escorted by a MIGCAP of F-15C's on at least night 1. So to everyone saying that F-15E's don't get escorts you are wrong in at least one occasion.

If anyone out there does not understand how important this is, go read Black Aces High right this minute. If you're in the states you're probably snowed in anyway.

These guys are really doing everything they can to rake in that Kickstarter money before the campaign ends.

Be careful, folks.

I would at least read through the Pimax 4K reviews on Amazon before donating $500+ with no recourse if things don't end well.

>Although you’ll be starting the Hornet using battery power almost all the time, the ground power electrical bus panel will also functional. However, you’d only really use this during systems tests when you do not want to start up the jet. After requesting external electrical power from the ground crew, you will enable the main external electrical power switch. With external electrical power enabled, you can use the four ground power switches that each controls a separate group of systems/instruments. The control bus for each switch is listed on placard below the DISP button. I’m discussing this now because I probably won’t touch on this during the Hornet Start Up video. Work continues on the caution and advisory system.

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Or you could just get these

https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Office-Chair-Stool-Glides/dp/B00CF0265A/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?keywords=office+chair+glides&qid=1562502993&s=gateway&sprefix=office+chair+gl&sr=8-9

This book was a good read. These are the same tactics that have basically applied to fighter combat since forever, up to all aspect missiles, but excluding HOB missiles. There are great chapters on 2v1 and 2v2.

This might get me tar and feathered but there is really no good reason to invest anything past perhaps $150 into rudder pedals until you are pretty satisfied in the rest of your setup and have had some time to make sure that this hobby is really something you will want to invest significantly into in the long term. Unlike HOTAS setups, rudder pedals don't have a huge raw functionality boost as you go up the price scale. They get more precise for sure and the more expensive ones will feel better or offer more specialized movement options but as a whole, a basic set of rudder pedals really is about as much as you will actually need. Anything beyond that comes down to personal preference.

One good rudder pedal option to look into is the CH Pro Pedals. They may not be fancy but they are reliable, practically bulletproof, and have a good reputation among long-term owners. I own a set myself and I have yet to have any issue with them even after a lot of heavy use. They won't be as fancy or perhaps as precise as the high-end stuff but after flying the Huey, Mi-8, the various WWII birds in DCS, and all the planes in Rise of flight (a very rudder heavy sim), I can't say that there is any real drawback or handicap induced by them.

If you get the CH pedals, you will have enough money to get a good HOTAS that you really want and will have rudder pedals that will easily last you until you feel the need to upgrade to something more expensive down the line. Spending $500+ on rudder pedals when you are not happy with your current HOTAS is not going to make things much better for you.

This one

Good info by Latvian-based online newspaper <em>Meduza</em>.

I MIGHT have found the carrier!

https://www.amazon.com/Toy-Essentials-Aircraft-Vehicles-Soldiers/dp/B07PPVB6R9

There is more weird then you expect. This carrier has a special forces team, a crane, a Humvee, and multiple F-16s.

Shaw's Fighter Combat, the irl textbook on air-to-air combat, has five chapters on this: two on one, two on two, division-level tactics, unlimited aircraft tactics, fighter missions, and tactical intercepts.

you can find a PDF fairly easy if you google at all, but i included the legal amazon link.

I highly recommend reading this book on the Skunk Works. It goes really in depth into how the F117, U2, and SR-71/A-12 programs came about. There are a few short sections in it by people associated with the skunk works, and IIRC Dyson wrote one.

https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed-ebook/dp/B00A2DIW3C

&gt;inb4 removed/downvoted to hell by the squadron of butthurt boys

edit: the downvotes are already coming, struck a nerve ;) ???

edit 2: A link to help those with thin skin

edit 3: I'm just poking fun, responding with downvotes only proves my point.

According to our resident ED tester Grimes:

>they did an initial build to test assorted things, mainly that the build worked

>now gotta test if the auto-updater is able to convert from 1.2.16 to 1.5 without breaking

Edit

>https://steamdb.info/app/223750/history/

>update just got pushed to steam beta

>no. sorry the BETA on steam, not the openbeta

I have one, it's not hard if your stick doesn't have a latch button. I also have a 3D printed eject handle on my passenger seat and a HUD.

https://www.youmagine.com/designs/car-ejection-seat-handle

https://eleccelerator.com/car-heads-up-display-using-led-strip/

I think this was a promo video made by peter bonani for his book art of the kill which oddly enough is still available on amazon. If u go check it out youll notice more nostalgia. The book includes a free instructional floppy diskette for use on pc :/

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Kill-Comprehensive-Modern-Combat/dp/B0006F3GZA

For the people that have a "decent" phone (thinking about screen resolution, for instance the older Galaxy S7's QHD screen is more than enough), do yourselft a favor and get a $5 Google cardboard or spend $20 on a Gear VR headset, install a game streaming app like Monlight Game Streaming and try air refueling in DCS. It uses your Wifi so you'll either need a super good connection (idealy 5GHz) or you'll just have a small amount of lag, so you probably won't be able to do real work or dogfights or anything where reactivity is key, but try AAR.

You'll be amazed how much depth perception adds to your experience. I'm pretty good at basket AAR now because I've been refueling almost every sortie for two years, so i'm kinda ok now, but with VR it's unbelievably easy, I found it to be so much easier.

I can not recomment you try this enough. It's a little pain to set up, eats your battery pretty quick so you won't be doing this hours on end, but it's eye opening. It's really good.

On the left side, it's a $10 USB joystick board:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C5J5AJO/

On the right side, it's actually the board from an old Saitek AV8R joystick. Turns out that thing has like 20 buttons. Plus when you take apart the pitch/yaw/rudder and throttle pots, you end up with 5 knobs for external/internal lights :)

WD40 is not a lubricant. It does work but it's primary purpose is "water displacement" (yes, that's what the WD in WD40 stand for).

(https://lifehacker.com/when-should-i-not-use-wd-40-5891936)

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Lubrican't to avoid is anything conductive and many lubricant's can't be used with plastics.

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Recommended lubricant is most often Nyogel 767a but that isn't available in my country. It's a dampening grease so designed to move smoothly but also stop where you place it (used in things like musical instruments or cameral lenses that need to turn smoothly but also not freewheel when you let go).

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I ended going with Liqui Moly Silicone Grease, it is safe to use with plastics and works great. There are a few videos online on how to open up the throttle and grease it. I'm useless with things like that and even I managed so should be easy enough. I was too afraid to open up my joystick though (the throttle is easy, Joystick, not so much) so I just squeesed some into the gimbal, helped loads.

It could have been worse. In 1980, a 7-year-old was killed presumably fumbling around in the cockpit of an S-3 Viking when the ejection sequence was activated (apparently the flight crew didn't "safe" the seats prior to letting people sit in the cockpit).

Downvotes being on point today /s

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Racefuel85 is correct:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/plug-away

The UI is about on par with DCS. For binding controls, most people nowadays use the BMS Alternative Launcher, which has a controls binding UI similar to DCS. It also allows controls to be bound to button release, which is really helpful for binding latching switches like the ones on the Warthog throttle, and is something that can't be done directly in DCS without editing the input lua files.

As for the game itself, the main menu is similar to DCS, just laid out horizontally instead of vertically. On the campaign map, it's usually a matter of selecting a mission, clicking on the role (wingman or flight lead), then clicking on Takeoff and then selecting where to start from (ramp, taxiway, or runway). This isn't too different than creating a fast mission in DCS.

As for graphics, DCS has the edge here, but I find that people place way too much priority on this point. I understand that no VR support in BMS is a deal breaker for some people, but on a monitor, it's not like the difference between F117-A and DCS. The terrain is noticeably blockier, cities are only ground textures with a few buildings rendered, and the ~30 nautical mile rendering distance limit in BMS is annoying, especially when employing standoff weapons that have a longer range than that. However, all the crucial elements are there, such as a 3D cockpit, model scaling, and a working A2G radar. When people overwhelmingly use BVR missiles and can't spot in DCS anyway, I have to wonder just how important graphics really are when there are so many more fundamental issues that hold back DCS.

I'm working on a free head tracking app that communicates with opentrack, but I'd like to have some feedback. There are some crashes that I can´t reproduce. If you encounter them please send a dm or rate the app. Feature requests are also welcome.

You can find the app here and the instructions here. It´s still under development, sensitivity profile customization will be added for example.

oh wait, maybe I didn't understand well what you wanted. To export MFD on a tablet, you can do that :

install https://www.spacedesk.net/ on your PC and Android to use your tablet as a second monitor, then you can export panels you want :)

Neat!
I did only a software solution of the INS, with Cockpit++ for DCS

(For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.astazou.cockpitplusplus&amp;hl=fr )
I don't have tools to do hard :'(

You need to make sure you tune tacan and radios to the tank, then form up about 1nm behind him. In the radio menu, declare your intent to refuel and he will clear you pre-contact. Make your way to the pre-contact position (about 40 ft below and 150 ft behind) and signal ready pre-contact. He will clear you for contact if you are in the correct pre-contact position and lower the probe. You can then fly to the probe. The most important thing is to not fly formation with the probe. the probe is always moving and it will ruin your attempt. Pick a spot on the tank and fly formation with it. I use the left engine mostly. There are also lights below the tank for reference but those are mostly for aircraft with dorsal refueling hatches. If you do all this it should work fine.

I used to fly with the 25th VFW and I still have some checklists. Heres a dropbox link to the checklist .pdf, it has the aerial refueling checklist in it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1b2ugeftpm5464k/25th_VFS_Checklists%202.5%20With%20PNL%20Ref.pdf

yes and they provide 0 sources in the article. The only sources I can find are saying that the gun drum isn't even scheduled to be put in until 2019, HYPERBOLE.

From your link- "To be fair, the Pentagon routinely grounds warplanes on a temporary basis following accidents and malfunctions to buy investigators time to identify problems and to give engineers time to fix them."

Know how long the F22 was grounded because of its OBOGS system?

Know how long the F22 was grounded by random shit and you never heard about it?

Know how long the F15 was grounded when they started falling apart in flight?

Know how many times the F-16 has been grounded?

Just google it.

Check out the sources on that Reuters article, they link to medium.com articles and some how I ended up here

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-disastrous-movie-career-of-americas-new-stealth-fighter-98aaaa1eed4a

They are linking their own articles about it's disatrous movie career as a basis for it sucking, I clicked a linked section saying its outclassed by russian and chinese aircraft and this is what they linked, an article about its horrible movie career lol.

REALLY?

You could create a virtual joystick axis and use the hotas buttons to change the axis output with x-degrees on every button depress. You could use Universal Control Remapper for this in combination with vjoy.

UCR

Ignore any typos or lorem ipsum if it's still there, minor things. These are my super quick redesigns of the DCS homepage. Moved some things around, prioritised some other items. Increased contrast on a few colours including that Yellow they use. Idea is to have some hero sliders that really show off some of the planes and scenery.

This was a little over 2hrs work/play using Figma which is free and a game changer for UI design.

Crit away kids!

That was a good summary. Here's the FLIR footage with a commentary by the co-author of the book about it - Alone At Dawn

I'm 100% a shill, being an ex-USAF guy with Chapman as a personal hero - but it's absolutely a story anyone in hoggit would appreciate - especially knowing the value of those sweet sweet 9-lines and lasers deep in the shit.

A book written by Dave Baranek. This might work for you.
I have not read this, but for 1.99 i'll probably pick it up. Not specifically DCS related, but tangential since people around these parts like reading about their planes :P

Youtube is a very good tool for learning many things about the A-10C. Personally, I jumped strait into the A-10C when I picked up DCS and I do not regret it at all. For the hog, the learning curve is steep but once you get the basics down everything else seems to always be logical and therefore will be easy to grasp with practice.

As far as groups go that isn't the TNN, I personally recommend TAW (The Art of Warfare). The TAW group has been around for about 20 months and they are well established in the community. I know most of the guys there and I am very experienced with how the group works- it is very noob friendly.

A tip from me is to not worry about weapons your first hours that you are flying the hog. There are so many basic things that must be learned like taxiing, takeoffs, landings, navigation, and aircraft handling. If you introduce weapons to the mix it may seem overwhelming on your own. Also, practice, practice, and practice. I have been flying the hog for almost two years now and I feel very competent on how the hog runs, but i still go on private servers and fly crosswind landings, ILS approaches, target practice, and more to make sure that i am still competent in the myriad of skills necessary to take full advantage of what the hog has to offer.

As far as the Thrustmaster Warthog goes, I say it is not necessary as i have been using an X52 for 2 years, but if you can afford it, and are willing, i say go for it and order it. The advantages and features of the Thrustmaster are worth the 400+ price tag in my opinion.

Also, GET TRACKIR 5 PRO. Until you have it, you have no idea how much this investment will change the way you play this game. BEST INVESTMENT EVERRRR

Best of luck!

The amazon page for the book says this.

>The book "Art of the Kill" is written by Pete Bonanni, a Weapons Officer and Instructor Pilot in the Air National Guard.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Kill-Comprehensive-Modern-Combat/dp/B0006F3GZA

I'm pretty sure the instructor is/was a real life BFM instructor.

Not to mention ED had to deal with a dev that ended up getting in hot water for trying to import manuals. Allegedly it wasn't officially sanctioned by ED, but as you can imagine it still caused headaches for a company whose client base also includes the US military (the A-10C contracts for example). The US does not fuck around with that kind of thing and basically had him arrested when he went to Georgia years after the import took place.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/06/26/i-was-a-celebrity-in-jail

Why the downvotes? Discord 100% does NOT hold up to 2020 privacy standards. No end to end encryption, app is propietary and closed source. All data goes through Discord's servers which they can freely inspect. Discord has exclusive access to all their infrastructure, which means that compared to other federated alternatives (like Riot.im), your account, your contacts, your chat history, and your chat server is in Discord HQ's hands.

If anyone wants to have a peek at their privacy policy: https://discord.com/privacy

Likely extensive tracking and metadata collection makes discord problematic imo. Let's ask ourselfs the money question: Discord is free to use, and not in an open source sense. Where do they make money? Discord Nitro? I don't think that would even cover a percent of their infrastructure and employee costs.

Really big waves without a hefty storm really only happen on the big oceans, e.g. when there's a storm on the US coast and the waves arrive in Portugal a few days later. In small seas like the black sea and especially the straight of Hormuz, it's very unlikely to happen. In these kinds of waters you get many small waves as they don't have enough area to build really big waves.

Looking at the waves in this clip, this could be a 7-8bft, so around 33-40 kts of wind. It's hard to tell though because you mostly see the ship's foam. And from the frequency of the waves I feel like It's on the north sea that, while protected a bit from the GB island, is pretty open but the wave frequency is higher than on the Atlantic where you get a big wave every 10 seconds rolling in.

The weater at the moment is too nice to have really big waves, but here you go, waves and weather on the atlantic right now https://www.windy.com/?waves,45.829,-11.602,3,m:eUjafFz

This is the first time I have made a custom panel, but have been messing with the idea of some custom cockpit building for a while.

The panel is designed to replace the top of a project box off of Amazon. The smaller holes are for push buttons and the larger holes are 2 or 3 position toggles.

The idea started with building exclusively a Hornet Left Quarter Panel, but I threw in some functionality with other aircraft. (Wingtip Selectors/Engine Crank from F-5, Gun Pac and 3 Position Landing Lights from A-10 and F-16.)

This is my first button box. I really hope all the measurements worked out.

How to loft (in this case) a GBU-38. This technique will work with with any bomb except the mk-82 air. Although the A-10 isn't a good platform for lofting bombs (due to the low speed) this will save you from over flying the target, it is however less accurate.

Track if you'd like a quick try.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsryib0r23h71w2/lofting.trk

Nice. Gunship 2000 was my second favourite.

first fave is the good ole SWOTL

If you guys are into these games, that one's really great.

The upload and release of files to Steam is automated from ED, as in whenever they do an update then essentially both platforms get the update at the same time. This time around has quite a few bits changed, so not sure if this is still the case. You can see the change logs here if you want to 'Steam DCS F5 F5 F5' :)

https://steamdb.info/app/223750/history/

Give this a shot, sir. Use the "X52 NoHT" zip. Pictures and instructions for how to install and use the file included.

That setup includes one example use of the rotaries: it puts speedbrakes on one of the rotaries as "bands" in the saitek software which sends keypresses to the game. Another option is to bind them directly to any axes in-game. I'd recommend the former as X52 rotaries tend to be rather jittery.

As a matter of fact, I do! While none of the included lua files will you do any good (they're all for X52 variants), there are pictures for my setup for the Ka-50 on the X52. They'll give you some idea of which functions are more important than others and some suggestions on where to stick stuff.

Why wait for ED? Let's make our own bug tracker with blackjack and hookers.

On a serious note, GitHub is a great place for this. For example https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1722#issuecomment-821958351

I had this issue with a couple words and added them to the Windows Speech dictionary (even though they're obviously already there) to resolve it. It's just a way to fine tune the program to recognize your style of speech.

https://winaero.com/manage-speech-dictionary-words-windows-10/

While i have your attention and we're on Bacria. Here is a fixed version of it with the tankers at a decent speed and any member of the flight entering the area can start the event.

I know Falcon BMS is great but the problem for many is setting up the controls. I use a modified key file based on Iron's X52 profile.

Previously my attempts with making a new key file were with the Keyfile Editor by ragnar_darude but it just wasn't working right, probably due to not being updated.

I tried using the included BMS Key File Editor.xls with the mod but found it too complicated (out of pure laziness) until I watched this video.

Well, according to my 30 seconds of google-fu Strike eagle III is available for free from here and should run on DOSBox with a bit of tweaking. So, pretty good actually

Yes! Check out Orbiter. It's a free space flight simulation with countless mods that enable you to fly anything into space, from the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Starship Enterprise.

It's got a high learning curve at first (think a more realistic Kerbal Space Program), but it's very rewarding the first time you successfully get into Low Earth orbit, or rendezvous with a satellite :-)

I last played the game on the 2010 version, but apparently Orbiter 2016 has come out:

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

Nope. KSP is a wonderful space sandbox, engineering toy, and the dream game of anyone who has ever played with legos.

It is not a high fidelity simulation of anything.

This old free game has better orbital mechanics simulation than KSP.

Okay, I see, you are just interested in multi-core programming and the complexities, overhead, etc involved. You won't get any experience with the DCS code base unless you get a job at ED, but here are some great links.

I really like this resource (Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?):

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.html

You may also be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

There's with out a doubt some color grading and compositing going on here. Also the golden hour lighting in most of the video is definitely doing it some favors.

As for expensive software, you could probably do it all in free software (that not too long ago was only available as a software/hardware bundle costing tens of thousands of dolla dolla billz yo).

I'm continually baffled by the way Netflix seem to deliberately hide their actual selection, and the way no-one ever seems to talk about this. It's incredibly shady.

I mean really: how am I supposed to see what their UK selection is?

(That's a serious question, btw. As far as I can tell, there is no way to see the seletion without a subscription.)

Haha i thought the same thing. I made a mod. Its pretty bad and doesn't help the game in anyway but i thought it had to be done. https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=d8c54355cd2b75cf&amp;id=D8C54355CD2B75CF%213812&amp;ithint=file,zip&amp;authkey=!AKrp-ry87_owwwc

Thank you and I do. It's here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08BX3JFWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

FYI, for US buyers, it is currently $99.49 + 5% off with coupon clipped. Still comes out to a little over $100. Supposedly this hit $89.99 as well recently, so the price might fluctuate.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07THMZZVX/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_1?smid=A2L2IBCOJNQSLR&amp;psc=1

I know it sounds crazy, but Sea Bands work. I told my boss about getting sick in VR when I first got it and he recommended Sea Bands...they're like sweat bands for your wrist that put pressure on some magical pressure point. I absolutely did not believe him, but really wanted to enjoy VR and was out of ideas so I tried them and they seriously do the trick. Check em out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J6P9U2Y/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_2A.3FbFK68PGY

Also, if you get motion sick during VR *DO NOT* try to "push through it". Motion sickness doesn't work that way. Take a break immediately and also have lots of water on hand. I read something that your body's response to motion sickness is thinking that it's poisoned so all these biological safeguard triggers go off and it wants water to help the process.

I have this mount frame. Works pretty good. Used to have my stick and throttle mounted to my chair, but that got annoying. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T83W1DH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_IHu3Fb50CZY4E?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

Not sure if they still make them, but some 15-20 years ago there were these cool Transformers rip-offs, one of which went from robot to F-14.

You could get her this bomber jacket modelled after Maverick's, or get either a bomber or a green army jacket her size and sew some F-14 and Navy patches on it, it'd look cool.

I can take pictures later, but there are none on the device, nor the stand it comes with. Nothing's stopping you from drilling holes in the stand and mounting it that way, but I bought some midget clamps off Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/5pc-Midget-Panel-Clamp-Set/dp/B00AZA5C7Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497614832&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=midget+clamps

and clamped down the stand that way. Without the clamps, it's not heavy enough to stay immobile on a table, particularly if you push the buttons with any kind of force.

Although this is definitely not a soviet pilot's account, I thought it might be interesting to you since it involves the Mi-8, and operations in Afghanistan, as well as Africa and Asia. The book has 34 reviews on Amazon averaging 4.5/5 stars. It's about a mercenary (south african guy I think) who, in addition to the Mi-8, also flew Mi-24 hinds in mercenary combat operations.

Although he isn't soviet, he might actually have more expertise on the airframe than most soviet pilots did. I only say this because he may have had a lot more cumulative time with it, and likely had to really know his stuff beyond operator level to operate them alone as a merc with success. Additionally, he might also be able to better reflect on the helicopter as it relates to usage in Afghanistan; it mentions in the book description he's had more close calls there than in all his previous decades as a merc.

Also, have you considered trying to contact a former soviet Mi-8 pilot irl, who speaks english? As you said, there are probably lots of them. Perhaps through interviews you could put together a book which might interest many and make a few dollars as well.

Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary https://www.amazon.com/Gunship-Ace-Neall-Helicopter-Mercenary/dp/1612000703

Don’t forget to re-grease the warthog with Nyogel 767a. I did it yesterday and I cannot stress enough, it makes the stick feel like a thousand bucks. Will be butter smooth and accurate as hell.

Make sure to follow the tutorials on YouTube. It is so worth it.

It’s on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Lubricant-Grease-Nyogel-50g-Tube/dp/B00W6KWK1Y

Ahh, I wish I could get good VR, as I can't use any of track IR, track view, etc do to a neck injury from a drunk driver, my cervical spine is fused and won't turn left at all, and only turns right a degree or so. I saw awhile back an eye tracker on Amazon, but no one I could find has/uses it: Here it is

My monitors are 2x Dell S2716DG 27 LED. I've had them a couple years. Fantastic monitors that i would recommend.

Well the hardware used for the MFD's are two cheap monitors(cheapest I could find that fit the bill) and thrustmaster MFD buttons

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FHDL1DE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1 + https://www.amazon.com/Thrustmaster-Cougar-Flight-Control-Panels/dp/B002HH9TRY

So it was pretty much just a matter of fixing the thrustmaster buttons over the monitors. Literally held on by double sided tape. The mount you see in the picture was constructed primarily to clean everything up and hide wires and the excess monitor that's not being used, as the monitor is bigger then the 700x700 image being displayed on it and subsequently the MFD buttons. As far as the technical bits to getting it working, it really wasnt that hard. there are resources pretty easily found on google that will give you a better explanation of how it actually works. Simply put though, DCS is already equipt to "export" the 2 screens you see as MFDs. It's a matter of locating the "monitor config" file you are using and editing it to suit your needs. Essentially what needs to be done is that you need to add some verbage to this monitor config file that tells DCS where to send these exported images. DCS views all 4 of my monitors as 1 giant monitor basically. Once you can wrap your head around that, you just need to figure out where exactly you want your exported displays to wind up(on this one giant monitor), which is based off of how many pixels away from the far left of your first monitor you want to start that image. Examples of the monitor config file can be provided if you want to get that in depth. Hope this helps!

That looks way better than I ever found. I found a app that turns an android device into a extra screen so I could display the MFCD's on it but there are no buttons. If the app you found actually displays buttons to press then that's awesome and I might have to try it out.

This is the app I have used.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devguru.eltwomonusb

It works good for what it does but isn't DCS specific at all.

I have these bookmarked but haven't used either:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitshift.dcsvirtualcockpit&amp;hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ihopiworks.hornetdevice&amp;hl=en

To manage the INS easely, if you have an Android, you can use that: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.astazou.cockpitplusplus&amp;hl=fr ;)

Well you can get the Pocket Cast app. It costs a few dollars but it's the best podcast app I've ever had. Let's you subscribe to podcasts you listen regularly or let's you find new ones by genre, language, region, etc, has notifications on new episodes (if you want), it can also pre-download your podcast as soon as it's available (if you want), or you can download it by hand. Or stream it. You can have it automatically delete downloaded podcasts when you've listened to it entirely, to save space. You can tell it where you want it to download (phone or SD card). You can skip ahead or back by a customizable amount of time (10, 20, 30 seconds, whatever). It's great for skipping long intros or mid-podcast music you don't care for. Also rollback 5-10 seconds because you missed a joke, etc.

It also lets you create an account. Highly recommended because it then synchronises where you were when you stopped listening, so you can continue streaming/listening on another device, like the tablet at home or on PC. And if your phone dies, no biggie, you just put your account back in on the new phone and it'll tell you where you last stopped listening. Really nice stuff.

On Android.

On iPhone

If you want some good historical background on why certain members of the Air Force would want to kill this program, I suggest you read the following.

"Boyd - The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War" by Robert Coram (available on Kindle)

Amazing book about an AMAZING GUY (could beat anyone in a 1v1 dogfight in 30 seconds or less) who brought us the F-16 and the A-10 and pissed off a LOT of folks in the Air Force hierarchy that still bear grudges to this day.

Here is a pic I took with my phone before putting the stuff back away and heading into work:

256 k Memory Lane

I think its TCMC pack that he left me

Check it out

if that doesn't work try using this link

http://www.lockonfiles.com/files/file/3004-p-51d-tf-51d-audio-production-30-p-51d-weapons/

The F-15 should be as it's older but I don't think Nevada is unfortunately. Modules that still have Starforce DRM (see the warning on the right on the Steam page for the F-15) are transferrable but if it doesn't have that warning (Nevada...) they are not. To my knowledge at least.

It actually was one guy who made the dynamic campaign for Falcon 4.0. At the end he said it was awesome bu that he would never want to do it again.

Link here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120822215759/http://www.cleared-to-engage.com/2011/03/12/interview-with-kevin-klemmick-lead-software-engineer-for-falcon-4-0/

Here is the interview with Kevin Klemmick, the developer of the Falcon 4.0 dynamic campaign.

Is supposedly a sequel to this: http://www.mobygames.com/game/combat-air-patrol

They are aiming to make it a light sim, so DCS might not be the best environment, but we'll see how it develops. I really hope they manage to pull this off. The old CAP was a great game back in the day.

That's a good question for now, hopefully the DCS WW2: Europe 1944 module will progress quickly for guys like you who have that WW2 flying itch.

Check this link out for progress and updates:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/508681281/dcs-wwii-europe-1944

If you pledge early on (before Oct 8th I think), you can get some pretty good deals for when it's released.

If anybody wishes for simpler instructions:

1. Grab "grab15.ps1" from here. If you wish to verify it's contents, open it with Notepad and take a look.

2. Put it on your Desktop.

   If you wish for the updater to check more often (than the default 10 minutes), set the time, in seconds, in $stime (i.e. $stime = 300; for five-minute intervals).

3. Hold shift and right-click on your Desktop, then "Open Command Window Here".

4. Copy-paste this code into your Command Window:

   powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File .\grab15.ps1

   And press enter/execute it.

5. Let it sit, don't touch the Command Window or the DCS Updater.

For nostalgia kicks, here are the F/A-18 Hornet Series.

I remember playing some Hornet game all those years ago, but none of these really ring a bell. In terms of graphics if was similar to F/A-18 Hornet 2.0 - everything was flat, no textures at all, no ordinance rendered under wings, and when gear down, the gear struts were just lines always 1 pixel in width. The demo mission had you intercept two flankers. I can't remember if the HUD was drawn out or if it was actually a photograph, but I distinctly remember that when in aft view, there was a real photograph of aircraft tail.

Also when you ejected you got to see this green stickman parachuting down, and when you landed you got a message in the lines of: "After X days of rain and ants, you were picked up and returned to base". Well, the search continues..

People will debate and pull you a lot of different directions on PC builds. fanboys everywhere. I'll just let you know my build ~what it cost and let you know it runs all those games and does more very well.

• CPU: AMD FX8320

• Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46

• RAM: 16 gig XMS3 DDR3 (8 gigs is more than enough really)

• Graphics Card: EVGA GTX780 SC (3gig) If building new I would buy a 970, I found that 780 on craigslist stupid cheap and had to buy it on principal and it was a huge upgrade from what I had at the time

• HDD: I'd run an SSD for your OS and main games. I still don't have one so I won't throw a recommendation but any big company should be good at this point, also they've come way down in price.

• Case: Whatever you want, I have heard good things about the HAF cases. Mine is a really old one currently.

• PSU: I think I have a Corsair CX600 or something, the Corsair CX series ones are good, but...it's a power supply..who cares.

• Aprox total: $700-800

If you go Intel, get an i5 (whatever gen you can afford/want that isn't super old) i7's don't future proof you much and give you negligable performance gain (IMO not real world noticable/usable).

Still do your own research online (Anandtech, Passmark etc..) also, the links and advice posted by flankerdk is good too!

source: been building computers since I was 13. (28 now) Let me know if you have any other questions.

EDIT: I don't format good.

Amazon had it on sale around thanksgiving/christmas time. It went from 300, to 250, to 230, to 215 to 200? I think was the final price at once point.. I held out til it was 215, didn't regret it one bit.

WOW Evidentally it went all the way down to 160 at one point last year on Amazon:

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Thrustmaster-HOTAS-Warthog-Flight-Stick-PC/product/B00CBVHJ00?context=browse

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Thanks for this, you inspired me to have a go myself. I found this 3D model of a 3 point rig so I'll be printing this off over the weekend. I've also bought the LEDs and resistor and a PS3 Eye webcam so hopefully I can get this up and running soon.

My favorite is 'a piece of cake' by Derek Robinson, about the reality of Battle of Britain. Picked it up while flying through London heathrow, just cuz the cover had a painting of a crashed hurricane. Couldn't put it down and finished it in three days.

Edit: that's the version I have http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=15444777141&amp;searchurl=isbn%3D0006473334

My fighter pilot dad introduced me to Richard Bach as a kid, love love love that guy, although I don't know anyone who has not read him. But if u haven't I,d highly recommend anything by him.

100% agree. I started with Flight Lite 20 years ago and have spent wayyy too much time with this stuff. Your real-life stick and rudder skills are terrible. You can't judge your speed and distance. Dear God, the landings... Bottom line, nothing prepares you for bouncing around in the air when you're used to a chair that doesn't move.

That said, I think sims do help you to understand the gauges and systems provided that they are properly modeled. And that's fun for some reason.

I can easily navigate with VORs, but can I land in a gusty crosswind?

There might be a way to do this by editing the keybinding file manually but I am not sure.

What you could use is other software like Joy2Key. With that you can for example map the axis to the mouswheel

Comparing the 9P with the 9X seems a bit odd. I was doing research on kinetic flares and found a document showing how the IIR seeker in the 9X rejects flares. https://tinyurl.com/yaeffowh

From my understanding the 9X IIR seeker has a rejection sector and Spectral Discrimination methods to reject flares. Rejection sector would highly dependent on aspect but it looks like this was chase shot from the sound of it. Man this is some interesting stuff would love to know what happened, my prediction is a missile failure of some sort over the fact that it worked but got spoofed. considering the number of mechanical/software failures on missiles is quite high historically speaking. The other possibility is that Russians gave the Syrians advanced flare systems "document covers plenty of new IR counter measures"

Regardless here is a clip showing "what is claimed to be an Aim9x chasing flares" in training shots https://youtu.be/YGFUYUAeReo?t=247

You can do it for free with Orbiter. I believe it has a default space shuttle included, but there are also countless mods you can download that provide a much higher-fidelity shuttle too (or the Buran, or a Borg Cube, whatever).

If you so wished you could even spawn a space shuttle on the moon and try to fly it back to Earth.

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

https://shadow.tech

Not sure if it counts as a "cloud gaming service" but basicly you rent a remote PC

I was looking into it before buying my new PC. Interesting idea but doesn't really work for DCS

Might not be a bad idea to invest in a cloud storage and backup solution such as this at least until you finish your master’s program.

One I liked above is just $2 per month for 200GB and $10 a month for 2TB. Cheaper if you sign up for annual subscription. It even keeps track of version history and supports sharing with family members.

Heck no. The default labels are awful. I've never played around with the Steam version, so some things might be different, like how/where it pulls Labels.lua from (I imagine it's your Saved Games folder.)

What program are you using to edit Labels.lua? I hope it's not Notepad, or maybe I do hope it's Notepad, because that could be your problem. Something something when you save a file with Notepad it'll mess up the encoding format. You should use "Notepad++"

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Do me a favor and try my &quot;dot&quot; labels. Just stick that in your "\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\View" folder and overwrite your current Labels.lua ("DCS.openbeta" might be a little different, also make a backup first, if you wish.)

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Also for what it's worth, I make all my label edits to my "Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\View" Labels.lua, so that's where my non-Steam install is definitely pulling from.

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**edit: I should mention my labels are really small dots when viewed outside of VR. The resolution scale makes them appear much larger in VR.

If by "power hub" you mean a USB hub that has an external power adapter, then it won't work. The hub will still receive power from the computer and the external power adapter is only to provide additional power if needed, so you'll have to unplug and replug the USB hub as you switch games, which can get really tedious.

Instead, pick up a USB hub that has on/off switches for the ports:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=usb+hub+switches&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_1

This way you can keep the hub connected to the PC, then turn on/off the ports as needed. I use this 13-port hub that has 2 buttons that controls 6 ports each. It's a little more convenient than the ones with a switch per port:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HL7Z46K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

I just got mine all setup. I used 1 screen that fit both perfectly. Makes viper flying easier. I never want to use the mouse so theyre great.

Setup is not that hard.

Make sure you don't get a low res screen for them that way when you're using tpods it's clear.

I wouldn't bother with the cubesim screens for how much they cost.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PY6SS73/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_5Q4M7497X6N7FH8FHP23?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

That's what I used and the MFDs line up perfectly to use them both on the same screen. I can't believe I went all these years without them. The harrier as well is SUPER useful since you have to lean so far to see the inner set of buttons. It's a no brainer. $80USD for MFDs +$100 for the screen is totally worth it

There's this tape that's the fucking go to, just 3m command strips, like you'd use for walls/painters/etc. Buy the 20 lb hooks, apply to bottom of MFGs, then to hardwood.

Already had to move mine, had no issues with it. Never came lose while flying/normal use.

https://www.amazon.com/Command-Poster-Hanging-60-Pairs-17024-60ES/dp/B00BT0MW4W/

Rubbing alcohol (Isopropyl). Preferably 90+ percent. Commonly used as a cleaner for electrical connections and you can get it at pretty much any grocery store or pharmacy. This stuff works fine too, typically found near the automotive isles: https://www.amazon.com/CRC-05103-Electronic-Cleaner-11/dp/B000BXOGNI?ref_=fspcr_pl_dp_2_15719001

Picked it up from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.ca/AIDATA-Platform-Ergonomic-Tool-Free-Installation/dp/B00HQQTRSW/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=mouse+pad+mount&amp;qid=1615855390&amp;sr=8-6

I use a 55” Samsung 4K tv with TrackIR. I used to fly VR only, but I’m now absolutely loving the 4K high res DCS experience :) Especially the Tomcat looks amazing and I really dig looking at the gauges and cockpit in 4K while using the TrackIR.

SAMSUNG 55-Inch Class Crystal UHD TU-8000 Series - 4K UHD HDR Smart TV with Alexa Built-in (UN55TU8000FXZA, 2020 Model) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084JH43DJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_KDPPQWJYMVKAEQJ95AXC?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

I have not tried these on my PS3 but I do use them on alarm clocks and they are fantastic. They just self adhere onto a smooth surface with no glue at all. Peel and stick, layer them if you want, they do a great job and I would think they would work. And yes, the filter helps immensely. You will see the difference in the Opentrack window. Instead of looking at your head, you will see only the led’s. It helps keep from losing track. https://www.amazon.com/Dim-It-Light-Dimming-Sheets/dp/B006R0VWSG/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3NYZZK5D67O4K&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=tint+film+for+lights&amp;qid=1610583325&amp;sprefix=tint+%2Caps%2C243&amp;sr=8-3

Funny enough last night I started reading A Nightmare's Prayer which is about a Marine Harrier pilot in Afghanistan. He writes about working with A-10s.

That game left me with a lasting love of the F-15E. For anyone who also played it, I highly recommend Strike Eagle: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War by William Smallwood. It's mostly told in the pilots' own words from interviews after the war; you'll immediately recognize tactics, procedures, delivery methods, etc. from the game. If there's ever an F-15E module for DCS, I might never fly anything else.

This is the seat/base of my pit. You can customize it to suit your needs and swap out equipment pretty easily. Great customer service and quality kit. Highly recommend OpenWheeler

That's just about every sim related part right now. I built my MFDs with these https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SBYR523/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_acL0Fb7A4CM8F?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1. Sort of cheap, so not the best color reproduction, and I'm not sure if it's a problem with DCS or the screens, but using the TGP in some aircraft the resolution seems off. But it works lol.