AndyJWest

If all else fails, you can always resort to armchair test-pilot stuff. It shouldn't be too difficult to get a ballpark figure for the best glide speed for a given configuration by careful observation of airspeed to rate of sink ratios, and a little maths. And if you have AoA information available, use that instead of airspeed.

We can't pull 9G while sitting in an office chair in front of a monitor either...

RAF early access Lancaster release.

I think this fix for the suspension may still be relevant too, though it is cosmetic rather than functional:

I doubt we are going to hear anything much until the next patch is due. Too many downsides to commenting publicly until they have something concrete to offer. And I suspect that relatively few people who are holding off making new purchases will change their mind on the basis of anything said now. What is going to matter is how quickly they can show concrete results: bug fixes, and the new features we have been promised. Getting back on track is far more important than providing statements that end up producing another round of speculation.

Regardless of who is in the right or wrong here, this is clearly going to put a severe dent in the confidence of anyone contemplating making further purchases.

You'll need a rather big helicopter to airlift a CVN there...

Given that the nearest open sea is around 300 miles from the southern Afghanistan border, the map clearly isn't going to support carrier ops.

Shouldn't that be 'users end' requirements?

I assume the reason they don't have fluffy dice to go with the seat is because there's nothing to hang them from?

Yeah, we're discussing coolness here, not what should be in DCS (i.e. both, obviously). The names alone are enough to determine the winner. One's named after the God of Fire, and the other's named after something that eats ants...

Vulcan. Nobody ever put an Aardvark into a Bond movie.

You may have missed the prime characteristic of a HUD - it's 'focussed at infinity' aspect. Which needs fancy optics to achieve, and won't work satisfactorily if emulated with just a reflection of an ordinary display on a glass panel.

Ah, a fine aviation tradition. Lois Bleriot, of Channel Crossing fame. Hard to beat: Sadly this proposal seems to discriminate against female sim-pilots. Accordingly, I suggest we run a parallel competition for the best-dressed aviatrix. They might like to draw inspiration from Harriet Quimby's magnificent purple flight-suit-hoody and lace-up boots combination: For those who don't know her, Quimby was a noted aviation pioneer, and the first woman to cross the English Channel, three years after Bleriot. She met an early demise a couple of months later, as a result of seat belts in aircraft not being invented yet...

Not a vertical climb.

They fill them with helium to improve accessibility during maintenance. The tailhook is being used as a mooring line.

Whether something is 'free to play' or not has no direct relevance under copyright law. The reason that creators of free mods don't get sued for copyright breaches and related intellectual property concerns more often is because it isn't generally worth the expense of doing so. If ED were to incorporate such material into their product, they'd be making themselves legally liable for any infringements. I won't go into details here, since it concerns another sim, but there have been circumstances in the past where just using the name of an aircraft and/or manufacturer without permission has resulted in a developer having to cancel product development.

Yup, I had the same thing happen in multiplayer yesterday. A/G on left MFD, castle left long caused an immediate crash.

'Cost free'? ROFL. In your dreams: (1) Licensing from the relevant manufacturers. (2) Adding it all to the relevant packages. (3) Testing. (4) Fixing all the interoperability bugs. (5) Maintenance: fixing all the new bugs that appear whenever anything changes. Bugs in what may well be poorly-documented software. That's assuming you can get the permission of the mod creators required, and after you've paid a copyright lawyer to check over everything to ensure you don't get sued to oblivion...

More bombs!

You need the latest beta., like it says...

Has anyone found a solution for this? I'm seriously struggling with AAR in the F-15E, as the F/A light in particular is practically invisible.

Variety is the spice of life. And adds a bit of spice to flying death-dealing kaboom machines too...

Are you setting takeoff trim after rearming?

NATOPS = 'Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization'. Don't think the US Navy ever operated F-15s.