Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable

[AKIron]

Never flown a warbird but I've done spins in a Piper Tomahawk. It'll lose a wing before you expect it.

[Tumor]

Never flown a warbird but I've done spins in a Piper Tomahawk. It'll lose a wing before you expect it.

Funny coincidence.  I deleted part of my previous post where I was going to reference my experience at the controls of a Piper Tomahawk & Cessna Skymaster as "...is so limited it has no bearing on my opinion of Sim flight models."

[Tumor]

This is what I'll be focusing on when I hop into it hopefully next week (waiting on the pro clip for the Track IR I bought).  I'm debating whether or not to buy FC3.  I kinda feel like it takes away from the very challenge I wanted to try.  But, then again, I might get in over my head and wind up buying it anyway lol.

Just so you know, you can buy FC3 planes one at a time for cheap.

I've been using TrackIR for decades.  If my better half could tolerate the noise... I'd use Tobii as I have big ears and hate wearing a headset.  So if I gotta wear one, might as well stick with TrackIR (and, I'm "almost" convinced it's Tobii that causes my random USB overvoltage shutdown BS).  Tried VR but it (at least was) such a toejamte-show I gave up.  I don't have the patience.

[CptTrips]

Funny coincidence.  I deleted part of my previous post where I was going to reference my experience at the controls of a Piper Tomahawk & Cessna Skymaster as "...is so limited it has no bearing on my opinion of Sim flight models."

Well the owner is very involved with warbird restoration and has had extensive stick time in them: https://fighter-collection.com/cft/tfc-aircraft-directory/

A. Types flown: Interesting ones  Gladiator, Hawker Hurricane IV & XII, Nimrod, Sea Fury, Hunter, Supermarine Spitfire Mk I, V, IX, XIV, XIX, Republic P47D, North American T6 Harvard II, Mustang P51C, P51D, B25 Mitchel, Grumman FM2 Wildcat, F5F-3 Hellcat, F8F-2P Bearcat, Boeing PT17, B17, FG1D Corsair, Curtis P36, Hawk 75, P40B, P40C P40M, P40F, Bell P39 Airacobra, P63 Kingcobra, Yak 11, Bucker Jungmann, Jungmeister, Fiesler Storch, Nieuport 17, Beech 17 Staggerwing, Pilatus P2, Mig29 2, Su 27…

https://forums.mudspike.com/t/questions-from-the-community-for-nick-grey-answers/6008


I wish all flightsim exported data out to Tacview.  That would be a good common format with good tools to quantitatively compare flight models.

[AKIron]

Of course even a full motion simulator isn't going to provide sustained g forces from a hard turn. That will give a rl pilot a sense of when wing loading is about to cause a departure from flight.

[AKIron]

Mission creating/editing in DCS. You know you want to.

[RichardDarkwood]

Mission creating/editing in DCS. You know you want to.

I make my own missions, but they are not elaborate as what Cpt Trips does. mine are fight each other missions, or helo jousting, Races. basic instant fun missions.

[RichardDarkwood]

https://youtu.be/_aWzh8MaEyw

[AKIron]

Guns only head on engagements are the most visceral entanglements and I've enjoyed setting many of those up with a cinematographer present. Of course any well trained military pilot will avoid this if their weapons platform has a stand off advantage. We'll assume all missiles have extinguished their foe prior to the up close and personal tryst.   

[Banshee7]

Quick question... are the graphics on the training just terrible, or is that my settings?  I downloaded DCS yesterday and just hoppped in the T51 cockpit familiarization training and looked around.  It looked pretty bad lol

[CptTrips]

Quick question... are the graphics on the training just terrible, or is that my settings?  I downloaded DCS yesterday and just hoppped in the T51 cockpit familiarization training and looked around.  It looked pretty bad lol

Can you post a screenshot?  In cockpit and your  graphic settings page.

Caucuses is the oldest map.  Not quite as good as some of the others. And TF-51 is one of their oldest planes.

Looks OK on my machine.

My current settings.  May be default.  2-D display.

[AKIron]

Try the free Marianas map and do a 2 week free trial of the more recent P-47 or Mosquito.

[AKIron]

Something that causes micro stuttering for many is hot plug usb detection. You can disable it on the controls page or pass it through to the game with an argument on startup like I do. Actually that isn't an argument. It's a setting the autoexec.cfg file. I push an update to that file with the skatezilla launcher which made me misremember it as an argument.

[hazmatt]

Something that causes micro stuttering for many is hot plug usb detection. You can disable it on the controls page or pass it through to the game with an argument on startup like I do.

Can you expand on this? I've heard others complain about such things in other sims.

[AKIron]

This is specific to DCS only. Other sims may or may not have a way to enable/disable this.