Tiger-II

#2 - engine sound in the cockpit > Mach 1.0 This should not change, as you are hearing the engine through the airframe/air that is travelling with you. Relative velocity between you and the engine is zero, and so the sound waves will not change, and thus the sound of the engine will not change.

I just realized the Mi-8MTV2 for DCS is a little over 10 years old. It is still my favorite module, having had it since early access. Here's to ED for bringing to life a phenomenal simulation of this mighty aircraft.

From what I can find, the Mi-17 has more powerful engines. Do we have those?

Well...there is a small matter of CoG. You lost the tail at very low altitude. It suddenly nosing over doesn't break the laws of physics, as you lost a couple of tons of airframe I would guess, instantaneously. One moment the system is balanced, next moment the rotor system is countering mass that is no longer there, hence the sudden pitch reaction. Had you been higher altitude (= more room to recover), that event was likely survivable. I've broken the tail off on the Ka-50 on multiple occassions (some deliberate), and then proceeded to fly it in combat for fun. It will fly in the sim. As others have said, I'd say the tail breaking off easily is the real problem with the Ka-50 here. As for the loss of the engines, it isn't all about the surrounding armor. The engine ITSELF can absorb a lot of damage and still run. It is part of the design. I have heard stories where upon crashing, as part of destruction of the aircraft before leaving, crews have dumped entire clips into engines to stop them running, and it has taken more than one full clip before they did enough damage (at point blank range) for the engines to shutdown. Take that for what you will. The Apache, and Ka-50, are highly survivable aircraft. Look at the famous event over Iraq (there was even a TV documentary made about it). I think the Ka-50 tail needs greatly strengthening, and the engines made more survivable than they are. Yes, there will always be the "golden BB" event when a single shot gets lucky and takes it out, but reality is they should take more of a beating before completely failing (including loss of power, but not total and absolute failure/destruction). Edit to add: even in cases where commercial airliners lose discs/turbine blades, the engine is still running and producing power (albeit on fire and with severe vibration) and kept running/producing thrust until shutdown by the crew. Even the Mi-8 has great survivability.

It sounds great! I compared it with videos of the real thing and it sounds close.

Seems this may have been tuned? I tried a similar maneuver earlier, and no mast bumping.

Still present.

A rotorcraft like the Ka-50 makes for an awesome lifting platform. Instead of losing power to driving a tail rotor, all the power goes into lifting the aircraft - exactly what you want. Not sure how not having lift capability reduces compatibility issues. There are plenty of other things that can change in the sim to require an update.

I understand you - you can't push the buttons with the keyboard; only the mouse. The keyboard performs the same action on the switch, 3 times.

Curves (not too much!) can help greatly here. In the case of the Mi-8, I find curves to be a problem. In the Huey, it's too sensitive for a normal stick so I add about 20 curve just to reduce the sensitivity around center but keep it as close to linear as possible.

The E bracket should show you're slow during the turn (it's AoA based, and AoA increases during a turn, or any time g load increases).

Not sure why it would be questionable that an aircraft can go supersonic with fuel tanks? Anything can go very fast; it's a question of whether it remains intact. A flaw with many, many flight sims, is they have artificial walls of performance "because an aircraft can't go faster than x with y". That simply isn't true. What is an operational limit isn't an absolute limit.

Hi, When landing, the TVV doesn't match the flight path. It shows a descent of around 2 degrees while the actual vertical velocity is around +50 fpm. The aircraft is actually climbing away from the ground. It may be that the TVV is not correctly responding to ground effect when the aircraft floats very near the runway. I was able to maintain this state to several hundred feet. It makes landing rather "interesting".

The problem with software is it is too easy to update. It made dev houses greedy and developers lazy. How does this work? The accountants realized they can ship 50% of a product for 100% of the price and sell it 2 years earlier than if they waited for the thing to be developed properly. All they need to do is then promise future updates long enough to stop lawsuits. So that summarizes why modern software is the complete steaming pile that it is. There is also the problem that everyone wants everything yesterday. Short attention spans and self-entitlement are at the root of the problem.

That aged well!

I didn't read the entire thread, but being real former military pilots, did you consider that they may actually be flying badly on purpose, so they don't accidentally give anything away? I watch Mover's YT channel quite often, and if I recall correctly he flew Red Air. If you know anything about that, you'll know not just anyone can do that job. IOW, Mover is a damn fine pilot IRL, even if he is very modest about it. I wouldn't rate his skill flying the sim while recording himself for a YT video - he's not going to risk telling you anything, hence the poor handling.

I run DCS at 4K on an i7 9700K and GTX1080. Runs great! I get 55 FPS with the F-18.

PIO is a pilot problem. If you start to experience PIO, let go of the controls, and go-around.

How long before release? Pre-order is IN!

Faster is not always better. My RAM (DDR4) is capable of running at 3600 MHz, but the system is actually measurably SLOWER than if it runs at 3466 MHz. The reason is the interleaving the memory bus frequency with CPU frequency, and at the slightly lower speed the clocks align more frequently, otherwise at the "faster" speed, the CPU is always waiting for memory to become available.

This is why my case has zero fans, and no side on it, either. Also, it is a large case, so lots of internal room for air to move from the only fans in there: the CPU and GPU coolers. The dumbest thing ever in PC building is creating a monster of a heating rig, and putting it in a tiny closed box hoping a few fans will enable the heat to escape. Unless they are pushing cubes per minute (LMAO), they are just utterly pathetic.

Yes... I'm leaning that way, too.

Then you don't know me...

I know Asia is working hard to build more "chips", and I think they opened several new factories to fill the backlog. I won't be building a new gaming rig until either the performance becomes worth it, or my current rig dies. We seem to have hit a plateau regarding performance. 4090 eats electrons for marginal gain, and the 3080/3090 was questionable before that...

Hi, I just ordered a VKB Gunfighter III MCE Ultimate, and wondering if it is worth selling the WH stick on its own? I have had it a long time (nearly 14 years) and I'm unsure if it's worth selling, or keeping it for the stick. It's in full working order, and I refreshed the springs in it last year.