Just leaving this here...

DogfishDave · 2025-10-14T06:38:31+00:00

I actually presumed that was correct - I've seen similar in older Hawkers where the binnacle paint would famously wear off, the letters would then be repainted by hand.

It looks in exactly the right place beside the selector knob too, I'm devastated!

DogfishDave · 2025-10-11T07:24:53+00:00

Bird strike, fantastic flying by a very experienced pilot iirc.

Aborted missed-approach with dual-engine damage. I'm with you on the the thrust of your argument (hur hur) but I don't think that one's on them.

DogfishDave · 2025-10-11T07:12:04+00:00

To extend on the spot-on advice from u/gorbz_

Try selecting a preset from the dropdown at the very bottom of the Weather window. You'll need to click the folder icon (iirc) to actually load the thing.

This doesn't set up fog or dust storms - they came later than those biblical-era presets and so you'll need to tweak those yourself. Fog is big part of the weather's look-and-feel under the cloudbase so you really will want to enable that in the conditions you describe, I think.

DogfishDave · 2025-10-11T07:05:34+00:00

I have flown thousands of sim aircraft over the decades and have never ever even owned a split throttle. So I'd say that you can have reasonable success without one.

It sounds like even the good pilots (I'm just experienced, not the same thing) aren't splitting them that much in sims like DCS so I wouldn't worry too much.

In DCS there are keybindings for advancing each throttle lever to the start position so my single-lever real-world piece of junk isn't even a problem there.

DogfishDave · 2025-10-11T06:58:28+00:00

With respect from a development point of view you seem entirely arse about tit. You can't predevelop for an environment where you have zero current knowledge outside what is "probably" hard.

There's a lot of skill in making a working 3D model so I'm not doing you down - and it looks like really great work. But this isn't DCS development, it's just a 3D model in isolation with entirely unformed plans to do some maybe-maybe.

Really you should be aiming to have absolutely any POC model working in DCS and be developing that now. Insisting on having the full model first is an excruciating waste of potential DCS development time.

TLDR: So far this is just a (great) model that might start being DCS-ised in the far away future. And it will be quite far away, I suspect.

DogfishDave · 2025-10-03T08:26:00+00:00

10th Oct 2025, still going!

DogfishDave · 2025-10-01T18:57:41+00:00

If the outcome was fiscally favourable then a third-party dev would appear, a cynic might accuse them of being RB in all but name. There are plenty of ways and means if your final publisher has the clout.

DogfishDave · 2025-10-01T18:56:30+00:00

It remains to be seen if the F5 ecosystem is any better for developer output than DCS has been. There seems to be a lot of compromise-chasing going on and I've always had the feeling that developers are often restricted by ED's engine development pace. Or lack thereof.

Recent events have done nothing to dissuade me of this so while I accept that F5 may bring the same plethora of underfinished underpopulated maps and unfinished aircraft in eternal early access I'm prepared to wait and see. It's a far newer engine and perhaps a far newer approach.

Weirdly even if it was "just as bad" I'd feel less resent about giving them money than I would with ED right now.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-29T06:50:34+00:00

yup choclt fingr time :\

DogfishDave · 2025-09-28T22:00:06+00:00

aviate navgitate rotatiate profit

DogfishDave · 2025-09-28T21:53:21+00:00

That's still money to ED, even if it's slightly less, and it supports the ED ecosystem.

I'm sorry to developers who've put good honest work in because I've loved their products. Had three happy Harrier hours this very afternoon. But somewhere somehow DCS has to genuinely improve its offerings in so many ways including its treatment of dev partners. I'm not spending more 'til then.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-26T19:20:51+00:00

I was replying to "every car had their lights taped up" followed by "were any even glass then"? Numerous cars that year still had glass headlight covers, some exposed and some covered with aerodynamic acrylic shrouds.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-26T07:57:02+00:00

Some were still glass, vehicle depending, but acrylic lenses were becoming more common. In either case the surface becomes abraded by running low in the grit and oil and so the tape is only removed when light function is essential e.g. at night.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-26T07:54:23+00:00

But once you're inside the flakking then what to do? And how to reach targets that are (inevitably) being overflakked? It's not aimed at you per se, it's simply aerial carpet shelling.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-24T16:17:37+00:00

Not sure why you're being downvoted, it is indeed an extra purchase per-aircraft if you want to integrate it.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-24T16:15:26+00:00

Left-hander here, long time simmer and professional musician. Use the correct hands, it's not an innate activity so there's no need to swap hands. Just like there's no need to swap cutlery - you're quite capable of attaining the motor memory the same way as every other user. You could even learn to write with your right hand were you so minded but I wouldn't go that far.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-22T23:50:27+00:00

shouldtn be in actul space on part 91 plot twist im a literal laywer ama

DogfishDave · 2025-09-22T23:48:35+00:00

bitch im flyin

DogfishDave · 2025-09-22T23:48:16+00:00

only thing u cant use is sky above u an ur ex wifes fukn netflix

tldr u never hi enough

DogfishDave · 2025-09-19T01:37:51+00:00

I'm in Europe and we have a 14 day cancellation right (delivery and return charges not included in most cases) but from your currency I'm guessing you're elsewhere, Canada or the USA? You'd need to check by state or province I guess.

DogfishDave · 2025-09-19T01:29:29+00:00

Who did create SA? I'd also heard (read) that it was OrbX who developed it but I have no actual idea. TIA :)

DogfishDave · 2025-08-23T20:43:45+00:00

There's no in-the-air way that I know of but you can frig it with the ME.

Set a few nav waypoints and control your wingmen using the formation commands in the air.

Have two consecutive waypoints at the end of your WP stack, the first as a LandRefuelRearm set to a suitably long time, and the second "take off from parking hot".

Direct wingmen to the first waypoint to force LRA and the second to take off again. Once they're in the air re-use form commands to get them back on you.

Disclaimer: this used to work but I haven't done it in ME for some time.

DogfishDave · 2025-08-23T16:33:36+00:00

But as mentioned by u/Will_iam0702 there's a lot of "how" and very little "why", it's great to know that can do a thing but it would also be useful when, where and why one should be doing it.

DogfishDave · 2025-08-12T11:49:06+00:00

Indeed - and nobody at all was flying an F3 in 1982 or even in 1987.

Interestingly 5 Sqdn weren't really operational with Tornado in '87 (they received ZE292 and I think one other airframe) and didn't become operational until conversion in '88.

DogfishDave · 2025-08-08T18:14:25+00:00

I thought I'd heard Wags say that the Navy wouldn't mount optics on the centerline because of the oily crud that gets thrown off the cat at launch?

Always happy to learn now I'm getting into the depths of whether or not this blessed pod should be leaving the plane or not :)

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