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And the KC-135s aren’t. One missing thing is the lighting on the tanker. Underbody, underwing, and floodlight brighten things up irl.

Am I missing something or are lights not exporting yet on the Apache? For example, I can't get the master warning light to export like I can on the F-18.

Visual backed up by ILS is a pretty common practice.

The real ones are finally going to. It’s a long time until we’ll see it in game.

Snow removal is a civil engineering task.

For the receiver the AR floodlight and nozzle light are less important than the underbody and under wing illumination lights.

There are birds on Guam, just not native songbirds. There are some very territorial birds that will dive bomb you when you go for a run during their nesting season.

ED just needs a way to NOTAM it as inoperable for being clogged with frogs again.

I use a number pad as my UFC and just mapped the number keys as they are natively. I lose them as separate keys on the keyboard but it’s not been an issue.

And for what it’s worth they are USB 2 devices.

Aux should stay on inter flight for the sortie. Primary would be what changes. More from the AF side but should follow.

They have a tool that I would call as being in open testing. So far I’ve had zero luck getting it to work. https://forum.virpil.com/index.php?/topic/2561-vpc-link-tool/

They do have a tool that’s in it’s early stages. So far it’s hit or miss if it works for people and I’m unfortunately in the miss column. https://forum.virpil.com/index.php?/topic/2561-vpc-link-tool/

You’re not kidding. I recently gave a tour of my jet to some F-35 mechanics and they were astonished at how large our brakes were in relation. Everything in aviation is a trade off, so why you would haul extra heavy brakes along when you operate from runways a couple miles long seems a poor choice.

Dumb question, but do you have your AWACS set to perform the AWACS task in the mission you made?

I ordered a panel two. Looking forward to seeing how the gear lights works.

You can also fiddle with the curves on the throttles for the other jets to make 80% (or where ever you make the detent for your setup) the mil power for the jet even if it is 87% by design.

As others have eluded to, English is the common language of aviation. But it's not required to use. It is common to hear the local language used on all sorts of military and civil ATC channels for "local" traffic with English used for foreign aircraft.

Hand signals are still used today. See the linked video for an example. Now, how to see them in game is another story.

I'm not even sure the throttle has an intermediate setting. :)

Fixing IR so that it's not just a filter on top of the visual layer is on the roadmap and was supposed to be before the F-18's TPOD but the people spoke and we get this for a while longer.

Since we don't really have data cartridge functionality I don't find that surprising. It's not like we are loading our settings into the system.

Is the gateway work in progress? The only thing I've read from ED sources says it's in. If what is in the game is their end state then it is what it is, but it's sorely lacking.

One thing to remember is that the nozzle should have an articulation point just forward of the dark grey area which would let it lay more level when connected.

For what it's worth, the canopy not working right on ejection when open isn't a problem that should exist IRL since you don't arm your seat until the EOR inspection and disarm it when you are at the landing EOR. By the time the canopy is open the seat has been safed for a while.