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New cockpit update

After a lot of fiddling and cursing, my buddy introduced me to multiplayer this weekend. Flying the Harrier in the Caucasus map, using Discord for comms, all I can say is wow! What a fantastic experience. It's the first time, for a long time, that I have experienced some real excitement in 12 years of simming! This is certainly a steep learning curve for me, but it's proving very worthwhile 😃

Mirage 2000 cockpit, expected official new (From Metal2Mesh Facebook) Confirmed by Ronald Zambrano

Forgive me if this is a known issue, as I suspect it may be, but I have failed to find anything truly helpful in my searches. As a newbie to DCS, I am rather perplexed at the trees that seem to pop into place while flying. This happens even beneath the aircraft. My rig is more than capable of driving DCS, or any other sim TBH, with perfectly acceptable performance. But it looks like the old problem of slow loading autogen. My settings are all set to iintermediate, graphics set inside DCS, with shadows switched off. Playing around with MSAA has no effect, neither does reducing sliders in the control panel. Is this a known issue and if so, is there any talk about it being r…

Born on May 2012, Situational Awareness at www.sa-sim.com is the first organization focusing on the online action of the top-notch PC-based combat flight simulators. One of the initial acts of the organization was the establishment of a computer ranking system that provided fair analysis of a player’s performance. The SA Rankings began with Eagle Dynamics’s Flaming Cliffs simulator on 1st of January 2012 and has continued through today as the official ranking system for virtual combat pilots flying and fighting in DCS World simulator. DCS stands for Digital Combat Simulator and is a free-to-play digital battlefield game, focusing on military aircraft, ground and naval …

So many questions, hard to be a newbie after decades of knowing my FS world inside out 😁 ! 1/ How to easily select the airport you want to fly ? Instant action and fast mission choose one for me, not necesseraly the one I want to fly from. I want to do TnG in Sir Abbu Nuayr for instance. 2/ Is there a way to know the prevailing wind ? No ATC option that I can see when starting ready to go on a runway ? 3/ I saw on some screenshots or YT clip, some simmers had a red transparent window on the bottom left showing the position of alll the HOTAS and pedals axes ? Where is the option for that ? 4/ IIs there a way to tune the elevator trimmer button wh…

Ron kindly asked me what I thought of my brand new Albatros on the bargain channel forum. Download and installation went well. Still in the process of mapping my Warthog (I hate that). One thing that may help others. My throttle was inactive because the axis was assigned somewhere else in the game. Found the conflct after 45 minutes. I was in excellent mood then 😠. I've had countless hours in the Lotus Simulations bird that I love. So I did make of fool of myself in the small Caucasus airfield where I flew two circuits but, at least, I didn't kill myself. Landed right in the middle with a moderate to loud thump but nothing broken, either me or the Albat…

Any rumor about one ?

I've been doing my training until now with the manual which is fine for me. I found today that there is a training module but the coach speaks Russian and the subtitles are too small for me. I didn't find a way to switch to a coach speaking English . Is there one that I didn't find ? Also is the Kursant campaign spoken in Russian too ?

DCS I-16.mp4 (video)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZy17ufN9c&t=938s This Is A Tribute To The F/A-18 Hornet (A-D). The Hornet Was Officially Retired On February 1st, 2019. It Was The Navy's Premier All Weather Strike Fighter For Nearly 40 Years And Now It's Time To Hand The Torch To The Super Hornet and The F-35. So The End Of An Era For This Amazing Aircraft, We Salute You And May Your Legacy Live On Forever.

Could I run the Persian Gulf map, along with the F-18 on my system of: i3 3.4 GHz GTX 1050 2GB 8GB RAM

By Phil, always nice to watch!

Ugra Media has made some info available on next map http://ugra-media.ru/2018/proekt-blizhnij-vostok/ "The “Middle East” project is a unique theater of operations, which includes missions and companies of military confrontation in the Middle East from the mid-1970s to the present. This project allows users to use virtually the entire arsenal of military equipment and DCS aircraft and includes the reproduction of the events of one of the largest military conflicts of our time: The War of the Doomsday of 1973; Lebanon war of 1982; The release of Syria from the terrorists in 2017. The project will present a map of 610…

*****DCS**Fw 190A-8**** ***PRE**ORDER**NOW*AVAILABLE*** https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.c...oducts/planes/ "Designed for the German Luftwaffe by famed aircraft designer Kurt Tank in the late-1930s, the Fw 190 was the backbone of the Luftwaffe in both fighter and attack bomber roles. Powered by a large radial engine, the A version of the Focke-Wulf 190 was superior in many ways to the Bf 109s and Spitfires at the time of its introduction. In fact, this led to the development of the Mk.IX version of the Spitfire. The Spitfire LF Mk.IX and the Fw 190 A-8 make excellent counterparts for DCS World. The Fw 190 later evolved into the Fw 190 D-9, also available on DCS Worl…

Leatherneck-Simulator Update: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2056840&postcount=1

download link: http://www.lockonfiles.com/files/file/3653-bartheks-caucasus-redone/ 🙂

Well, I've been simming for the past 10 years, first FSX, then SE and for the past few years P3D. I have to say I love my NGX in P3Dv4, but I am at a cross roads and want to explore some different flying. After my buddy exposed me to his Harrier in DCS and held my hand on a mission, I am hooked! I now have DCS well and truly installed on my 1Tb drive alongside a newly acquired Harrier 2! So I just wanted to drop by and introduce myself and say hi 😊

Some DCS Strait of Hormuz FB Pics

I found some old posts in various flight sim threads discussing GoFlight modules using GoFlight's GF Keys software. It's a 32 bit app that ran under previous Windows versions, but no mention of Windows 10 or 64 bit software. People were successful using GoFlight modules to send key presses to DCS aircraft. Anyone have any familiarity with the software? Thanks! Bob

Teaser Trailer #1.... Stay Tuned :)

***Major Announcement from Heatblur*** https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3835473#post3835473 Dear All, Today, we’ve released the F-14 into early access after years of intensive development. We truly hope you’re enjoying it! We’re monitoring all of the forums, hoggit and e-mails and are moving quickly and assertively to correct any critical issues and mistakes. This module represents the culmination of exhaustive research and intensive development, where we attempted to push the boundaries of what was possible with a desktop flight simulation. The…

OK, maybe I'm a numpty. It would be nice if when you're trying to set up your HOTAS for the sim, that you could actually click the button you want to add rather than having to guess or refer to a drawing of the joystick buttons every time. Your thoughts? Plus why is ED forums such a word not allowed at letting you reset passwords. I am a human, yet it refuses to let me in!

Magnitude III, LLC just released the Christen Eagle II for DCS. While I prefer combat flight sims, hence DCS being my sim of choice, I do appreciate a well developed module and have plenty of experience in both FSX and X-Plane. I'm a professional pilot by trade, so flying around on autopilot in my spare time isn't really my go-to anymore. That said, $30 for a fully-developed CE2 that works great in VR, is way cheaper than the $300/hr it would be to go get a few hours IRL. The only thing missing is the G's. Hope you guys enjoy and I'm looking forward to being a part of the community!