victorlima01

Would personally love to see it, although it's unlikely to happen. They've been quiet for the past few weeks trying to eliminate 2500 bugs without creating another 25K

Please do not get into get into the habit of using the paddle switch. No real F/A-18 pilot ever used it unless they were desperately trying to avoid becoming one with planet Earth. Like mentioned above, if you overgee your acft best case scenario your jet is down for a couple of weeks while they try to figure out if anything is broken. Worst case somehing comes loose right after your maneuver and you're a sitting duck for your opponent. Otherwise congrats on beating the Fishbed. Took me a long time and lots of effort.

Always learning. I'd never looked at the standby and did not know about the needles. I'lltry to fly off of that on my next 4 min circles. Thanks! Also, I think I said 1 min per 45* on my post above when I meant 1 min per 90*

What Razor said. What I think really changed things for me was holding at 300kt GS (another GB hint). So that's my single greatest recommendation. At 300kts GS, you'll always be covering 5 nm in a minute, no matter the wind. This precludes the use of ATC during your holdings, since you have to constantly account for wind speed/direction. What I've been doing as of late is flying 4 min circles 5 nm (or 1 min) behind assigned marshall fix. That way I have a 1 min buffer to compensate deviations in my holding pattern and arrive at the fix on time. Finally, to fly a 4 min circle use the ADI to help you fly a half standard rate turn: in other words you'll cover 45 degrees every minute. PS: oh, and draw everything out in a piece of paper. That way you know where your're supposed to be at every minute before your push time and adjust accordingly.

Considering the amount of problems as of late I'd be surprised if they had the time to work on anything at all other than fixing bugs for the forseeable future. Sad to say a lot of people I fly with have given up on DCS and are looking elsewhere. I'm not a fanboy but I sure wish they got their s@#t together and made this enjoyable once again. Nothing beats a functional Hornet on a Supercarrier with your buddies.

Swift is right. Sometimes the light works (which seems waaaaay too bright btw) and sometimes it doesn't. In all instances the pinky switch is all the way fwd.

Same here. Feels that after I land on the deck the vapour lights are really bright but the LA lights I can only make out roughly when I'm at 1 nm or less, as opposed to the alignment light which I can see from outer space.

Thank you both Jackjack and Hobbytech. This is what I was looking for!

Indeed I have thank you. I was trying to build my own though

Hey guys, I know Google has some images, but I'd like to know if anyone here knows a repository of images from different carriers in different flight deck conditions to be able to create realistic templates for my missions. I know the deck is a fluid thing that changes many times a day during cyclic ops, but I'd like to get a feeling of what it might look like in different situations. Does anyone have a document or some such thing that teaches us how they plan the Ouija board for the day's events as well? This way, I'd be able to mix and match and not resort to repetitive images. Thanks

5MC would be so simple to implement and add so much to immersion... Imagine hearing it with the canopy open and hearing the whine of a bunch of jet engines starting up to make an on-time launch. I'd love to see that And to be fair, there's room for much improvement but all in all we've never seen anything like. It's amazing. Try using good ol' Stennis for a change and you'll see how awesome it is.

Could anybody please refer me to the documentation where this is explained. They changed the TGP hotas mapping completely and didn’t tell us about it except for Wag’s vídeo which doesn’t go in depth enough. Is this how the Litening is mapped to the real acft?

If I undestand it correctly there's no such thing as being "forced to land" when you're waved off. a WO is always a WO, and paddles alweays has the last word. And I think it's context related. Are you a well-liked and earnest nugget who was trying to get aboard after the 3rd straight bolter in blue water ops in a rough night at the boat? You'll probably get chewed down but your career is preserved. Are you the air wing's most detested pilot in the ready rooms and in the air? Things might change... I'm sure GB can fuirther clarify

I'm not one to complain, but what a wonderful thing it would be to have just a little documentation on the massive changes occuring to the pod. As it stands a totally new targeting pod was dropped on us with almost no explanation and no references. I've no idea which one is the closer to the real deal.

aaaaaaaand here we go again. (grabs popcorn in anticipation of air-quakers' response)