The DCS F4U

[CptTrips]

Not yet because

- it's expensive
- still somewhat buggy to my knowledge
- not sure if all my purchased planes will transfer over, which is a big no no for me

Yeah I've heard all that. 

I thought I read the old assets were supposed to transfer over but I don't know if that changed.  I'm not sure if that applied to all 3rd party venders too.  That might be a vender by vender deal.

[Lusche]

Actually I'd have to sell everything to buy a carrier. Forgot I made it to Elite II.

 

My main has a fleet of 36 ships by now (plus one carrier).
But these days, money ain't much of an issue any more. CG's pay extremely well (this week's CG will give me almost 300 mil without having done much), and exobio payouts are insane.

[Oldman731]

Have you tried the new MSFS?  Seems like those career modes would be interesting.

X-Plane has more accurate flight models, at least for general aviation planes.

- oldman

[CptTrips]

X-Plane has more accurate flight models, at least for general aviation planes.

- oldman

I had bought X-Plane a long long time ago.  It was cool but no bombs or rockets.   But if you had career modes that might be interesting as air ambulance or firefighter.

But the MSFS guys who do 1:1 realtime flights across the Atlantic are a little too much for me.

[AKIron]

I've played with x-plane over the years. A few years ago I had a terabyte of terrain data downloaded for various areas.

[AKIron]

How about a nice air refueling video? I am getting the hang of air refueling the F-15E.

[CptTrips]

How about a nice air refueling video? I am getting the hang of air refueling the F-15E.

I want to see some night time, bad weather, tossing seas, Corsair carrier landing.

There is your excuse to go buy it.  I know you want to.

[AKIron]

I want to see some night time, bad weather, tossing seas, Corsair carrier landing.

There is your excuse to go buy it.  I know you want to.

I will eventually.

[hazmatt]

If I get the I-16, the channel map and the asset pack will I be able to fly on most WWII servers?
Is there something better that I should get?

[AKIron]

If I get the I-16, the channel map and the asset pack will I be able to fly on most WWII servers?
Is there something better that I should get?

The I-16 is one of the few aircraft I don't have. I'm thinking any of the others would be better. You know you can trial all of them right?

[hazmatt]

So then I just have to buy the maps? I thought I had to trial everything at once but from looking at the website it looks like I can trial one plane at a time?

[AKIron]

You can trial the maps too. Two weeks per module. One at time, two at time, all at a time, all consecutively. There are exceptions. The newest stuff, like the F4U, is not available for trial for a while. None of the RAZBAM stuff is available for sale or trial.

Remember to go into the options, special, specific aircraft, and turn off the auto rudder and takeoff assist if you want a better look at what the pilots of those aircraft dealt with.

[CptTrips]

If I get the I-16, the channel map and the asset pack will I be able to fly on most WWII servers?
Is there something better that I should get?

Well I haven't checked.  I don't recall ever seeing those in any of the servers.
I have it, it was fun to play around with for a weekend.  I haven't touched it since. 
I could not recommend that to anyone.  It's amusing to play with but is a curiosity and serves no real purpose that I know of.

If I was going to give you my personal advise and this is just what I would do, nothing else.

If it were me, I'd buy once, cry once.  Get a grain of salt ready....
Buy the Corsair when it is still at EA price.  (It might have some rough edges at first but you get a discount and a new module like that won't go on sale again for a while.)
Get the WWII Asset pack.  Especially if it's on sale atm.

Fly the free WWII Marianas map.  Hold off on Normandy.


Very quickly you are going to start seeing player missions crop up and the Corsair showing up on servers. I expect ED to come out with the F6F later this year so I foresee WWII DCS dev going Pac focus for a while, and not ETO.


$0.02. YMMV. 

[Mayhem]

If I get the I-16, the channel map and the asset pack will I be able to fly on most WWII servers?
Is there something better that I should get?

I would go with Normandy II before the Channel ... The Channel Map was suppose to be folded into Normandy II map. ED offered a discount on the Normandy II map for owners of Normandy 1, and the Channel map for $15 and if you had both $10. But if you do buy Channel you should buy Normandy II at the discount.

Oh and the Corsairs Mirrors start set "OFF" and you have to hit the "M" key to enable. All my other aircraft have their mirrors on by default.

[CptTrips]

I would go with Normandy II before the Channel ... The Channel Map was suppose to be folded into Normandy II map. ED offered a discount on the Normandy II map for owners of Normandy 1, and the Channel map for $15 and if you had both $10. But if you do buy Channel you should buy Normandy II at the discount.

Oh and the Corsairs Mirrors start set "OFF" and you have to hit the "M" key to enable. All my other aircraft have their mirrors on by default.

YEah.  Hardly anyone uses Channel right? 

I bought it to play one of the campaigns.  Haven't touched it since.