Announcement: DCS Warbirds Collection

2014/2015 will be great!

Just for Sith, we have decided to do all aircraft in the manner of Skytoons... ;)

http://skytoons.co.uk/?product=lancaster-dambusters

This is unexpected and fantastic news, Chris and team! I wish you a smooth project journey. This is huge for DCS, I am very excited at the way this has evolved!

A MkXIV spit eh? My prayers have been answered!

Hip hip, hurray, hip hip, hurray for team VEAO. Without doubt the most proactive 3rd party devs here, the most informative and what sounds like the most excited people on the planet bringing us what we most desire. And what sounds like bring us hardware (if I read correctly) as well as software. Cheers VEAO I for one am well looking forward to everything you've got.

There is only one acceptable aircraft to model after these ones and that is the Mosquito.

Very exciting news, looking forward to geting my hands on them and taking them for a spin.

Hip hip, hurray, hip hip, hurray for team VEAO. Without doubt the most proactive 3rd party devs here, the most informative and what sounds like the most excited people on the planet bringing us what we most desire. And what sounds like bring us hardware (if I read correctly) as well as software. Cheers VEAO I for one am well looking forward to everything you've got.

Oh did I also mention we're looking at motion platforms soon as well :music_whistling:

Well, there always has to be at least one pessimist, right?

With all the delays we've been seeing lately, and the time it's taken VEAO just to complete the Hawk (with only SFM,) how am I to believe you'll have a separate, fully fleshed out AFM aircraft in just 8 months?

I've also heard before that projects like this wont effect current work because of separate teams working on them. This was supposed to be the case for ED's (P-51D) - but we've had no updates or progress at all on any new aircraft from ED since. (F-18C)

Anyway, I hope I'm proven wrong. Time will tell I suppose. Good luck with your projects!

Hawk T.M1 has delayed by Bae Legal Issues.

Thanks Kasper, I respect your point.

The thing also to think about is that we've learnt a whole heap of lessons from doing the Hawk that make the next aircraft quicker. A lot of the code we have for Hawk instruments can be used in these aircraft, effectively shortening the learning time to figure stuff out as with the first aircraft being developed for DCS.

You'll find that with most of the 3rd party devs going forward now I'd expect.

Also simpler aircraft take shorter time to develop. If we had started with Typhoon as a complicated aircraft we'd probably still be scratching our heads. Hence starting with the Hawk which is relatively simple.

Cheers,

Chris.

Well, there always has to be at least one pessimist, right?

 

With all the delays we've been seeing lately, and the time it's taken VEAO just to complete the Hawk (with only SFM,) how am I to believe you'll have a separate, fully fleshed out AFM aircraft in just 8 months?

 

I've also heard before that projects like this wont effect current work because of separate teams working on them. This was supposed to be the case for ED's (P-51D) - but we've had no updates or progress at all on any new aircraft from ED since. (F-18C)

 

Anyway, I hope I'm proven wrong. Time will tell I suppose. Good luck with your projects!

I'll take this one :thumbup:

The EFM work is ongoing and will be in development up and beyond the release date of the products. We do not expect (not should anyone with any software) the EFM to be perfect from the initial release, it will be something that is continually worked on, one of the major benefits we have is access to pilots and engineers who work on these aircraft and have spend hundreds of hours in control of them.

I'm not going to go into the AFM development plan in public but I am confident that we will have at least a starting point of the AFM out with the first aircraft release which is pegged at the end of the year.

As with anything this may change if we come across something that throws us off plan. But I dont foresee that happening at the moment.

One of the reasons I came aboard with VEAO was to manage the consumer variants of several products, I wouldnt be needed if the same team worked on all the products ;) I am not saying there wont be input from other personel but for the most part there will be seperate teams working on each project so that we dont delay Hawk/Typhoon/Secret squirrel :)

Pman

Edit: Pipped again! Darn it!

What, 6dof motion platforms? Oh deary me, I will have to let my bank manager know that my new kitchen needs to be updated sooner than expected!!

What, 6dof motion platforms? Oh deary me, I will have to let my bank manager know that my new kitchen needs to be updated sooner than expected!!

oops...

Did we let that cat out of the bag already... :music_whistling:

Didn't want to derail the announcement into a conversation but I didn't see the HA-112 Hispano Buchon in TFC's list of aircraft whereas the rest did appear which made sense from an availability and research perspective. Since it's been specifically picked over the more common 109 then it makes sense it exists somewhere, but where?

What a great group of airframes, something for every nation!

Any ideas which is first?

Didn't want to derail the announcement into a conversation but I didn't see the HA-112 Hispano Buchon in TFC's list of aircraft whereas the rest did appear which made sense from an availability and research perspective. Since it's been specifically picked over the more common 109 then it makes sense it exists somewhere, but where?

 

What a great group of airframes, something for every nation!

 

Any ideas which is first?

I have a release plan which I will confirm at a later date ;)

As for the Buchon there are several airworthy ones in the UK that we can gain access to for reference

Pman

...there will be seperate teams working on each project so that we dont delay Hawk/Typhoon/Secret squirrel :)

 

Pman

Shhhhhhhh...

I'll send Balvenie for the Lysander!

Hey Chris, can you comment on the size of your team right now? I want to send donuts to the office to smooth along the Lancaster :P

Depends which team you are talking about.

I prefer Nandos Chicken :D

Pman

Shit, are you guys skipping DCS: Eurofighter Typhoon development? Sorry if this has bean asked and answered already.

Well I suppose I meant total for all of VEAO... as for Nandos, there is one down the street, stop buy and I'll buy you lunch :P

7 on Hawk

7 on Typhoon

7 on Warbirds (which will increase as time goes on likely)

2 on non-flight related solutions

Nando's all around it is then :thumbup:

Sh*t, are you guys skipping DCS: Eurofighter Typhoon development? Sorry if this has bean asked and answered already.

RTFT ;)

Nope, see above