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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMK6GRrMCdI

>>565806339
Yeah I can't find anything and there's no demo, looking at videos, it looks alright, just dated. The planning aspect is good and you can make routes and races easily.

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>get in the Wilga
>become a woman
???

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>>565798380
Price and weather aside, the downsides aren't that bad.
>>565798497
>yeah that would not get modeled
I wonder if they couldn't just spawn the relative assets for real within the mission but make them invisible to anything but the plane systems. At the end of the day in DCS what is the difference between showing a target on a FCR and it being actually in the sky, and it being only in the FCR itself?
I guess that would make it laggy maybe, considering you'd have stuff constantly spawing in when necessary. (instructor pilot or ground control can spawn various missions and threads unbeknownst to the trainee)

>>565807213
my understanding is that if you have ROF and the DLCs you can skip FC because it's an inferior moneygrab

>>565808396
>>565809446
seems to have been captured by racers, especially with the different versions which just charge you for racing qol features... guess everybody else got bored
i might still pick it up screw it

>>565809446
>At the end of the day in DCS what is the difference between showing a target on a FCR and it being actually in the sky, and it being only in the FCR itself?
The difference is dev time vs perceived benefit.
It's the same thing with training bombs. The few of use that want them get met with the barrage of
>well it's a simulator, just use a real bomb instead

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>>565809318

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>didn't upload my pic
thanks

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Rain is coming at last.

>>565809882
yes I'm still skewing towards that. €50 isn't exactly cheap for what is essentially a new coat of paint. If it actually had more unique aircraft I'd possibly do it.

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Hello I hate twist rudder

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Save stating is still bugged in SU5, so workaround with replay flight has to be used. Enjoying the caravan so far, flying low, landing on airstrips. Larping as a delivery pilot.

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>>565817594
Meant to post different picture.

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>>565817594
I only tried saving a flight once in 2020 and trying to load would immediately crash the game, haven't bothered since.

>>565818486

>>565817594 is talking about post-flight saving of stuff like fuel quantity, cockpit switch positions, wear/failure sytems

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>>565818664
I can't comment on that, it seems a bit iffy but it's not something I really use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkDQBXH02fE
Me flying taildraggers

What would have anon done?: https://u.pone.rs/nplfhknr.mp4

>>565826006
board up the hole in the wall and return to simming

>>565826006
Slewed up

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>>565820131
Certain 3rd party planes have option to enable persistence (i.e A2A and Black Square). It enables engine/airframe wear, chance of random failures happening and visible weathering (in case of A2A). Black Square had a bug, that this persistence hasn't been saved after flight so you had to use a workaround and restart the flight. Only then the state of the plane would be saved. It's a fun little feature wich I enjoy.

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Might fall for the DCS WW2 meme, do you really need the WW2 maps in addition to the aircraft and assets to be able to do anything worthwhile?

>>565831074
Depends on your definition of anything worthwhile

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>>565838368
It seems like its niche is Spitfire vs Dora over the Channel with barely anything outside of it, and only if you squint very hard.
Mostly want to fuck around in a prop that's beefier than the Yak and occasionally make ground targets explode, love the flight model but am absolute shit at dogfighting.

>>565839337
Why not just play IL2?

>>565839696
I do, but DCS feels better to fly in and remembering a cockpit layout is easier than keybinds.

>>565809318
The Wilga-Tranny wind tunnel is real and you're on it.

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>TERRAIN

>>565809882
>>565816876
FC is trash and RoF ironically still has more advanced physics and modeling than nuIL2, because it was made by a better team before getting sold to 777 studios

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any plane suggestions

>>565859503
How do you not have the BF-109 already? At least in DCS, that thing is a blast, especially in VR since the cockpit is so cramped and wooden.

>>565862623
Normandy and Bodenplatte already gave me the G-6 Late and G-14, along with the G-2 from Kuban(?) I'm alright not getting another Gustav model lol

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>>565864065
Fun fact; the BF-109 is named after how many countries the jews had been expelled from, and the BF-110 was named in celebration of adding Deutschland to that esteemed list.

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>>565859503
Yak-9T big boolet edition

I ended up buying the Soviet bundle with the La-5s, Yaks, Li-2 etc. Haven't actually flown much Russian stuff outside of the IL-2, in my 350 hours in this game. I think I'll sell some tf2 shit and pick up the regular C-47 as well. Transport flying is always comfy

>>565859503
>any plane suggestions
Stop being a steamcuck

>>565859503
Ta 152 is just a slower D9 with lower roll rate. The altitude advantage is negligible in vanilla career since fights rarely take place in altitudes where it would matter. It looks freaky tho and has great armament.

Can't speak to the IARs since I haven't bought them yet but I might.

Skip the glider since transport missions are just boring in IL-2

La-5F is a good plane but doesn't really bring anything different compared to the other La-5.

Li-2 see above.

Can't speak to FC content.

Teardrop Spit is a complete waste of money, literally the same as the non teardrop version and you only get like an afternoon of flying in career.

Ar 234 is great imo. Don't forget opening the camera cover on intel missions kek.

C-47 see Li-2

Yak-9s are good with a nasty cannon that's fun to snipe with.

U-2VS if you're a tranny, lets you fly as a women.

La-5FN see above.
G6, its a 109..very capable in its career timeframe though.

Yak-1b is fine but nothing special.

MC 202 is pretty interesting imo, gorgeous plane but it's guns take some getting used to. Very similar flight characteristics to the 109s of its theater.

La-5 see above.

>>565859503
Something about charging double digit prices for planes that don't even have clickable cockpits seems insane to me.

>>565875695
Anyone with above a 70IQ quit playing nuIL2 decade ago

>>565879548
There's no real alternative for modern WW2 sims, 1946 has all of the issues of its era plus added mod jank.

>>565881218
NuIl2 doesn't even model separate fuel tanks, fuck off. It's a huge down grade in every way from the original series.

Get a grip, and do some research, kiddo

>>565870296
>complains about customer protection
y tho

>>565887080
>NuIl2 doesn't even model separate fuel tanks

That's just straight up not true, punk.

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>>565867945
Really makes you think

ATS 1.59 is out, the main addition being the 'tow to road' function.

>>565887080
1946 flight models are FSX-tier at best, and most aircraft are cobbled together from the hopes and dreams of boomer modders rather than any proper primary sources. The AI is also dogshit.

>>565906965
X plane clouds either look decent or shit

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>>565907128
Yeah, it's very hit or miss.

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>>565907205
The clouds in msfs 20/24 are too blobby imo, they need more definition.

>>565907540
The problem is that they are massive resources sinks with an early peak in terms of cost/benefits. It's sad that no simulator has even gotten remotely close to capturing just how sharp and defined clouds can be even when you're a few meters from them.

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>>565909220
I have no idea what determines their definition and sharpness in the game, but sometimes they look alright.

I don't even know what the fuck is going on here though
>>565906965

>>565901051
Did they fix the buttfuck retarded UI?

>>565911750
Depends on what you find retarded, there are more UI improvements in the update

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Gliding practice today

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>>565917943
Who needs runways?

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>>565907128
>>565907540
>>565909220
>>565909460
It would take a supercomputer to do it right.

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World Update 21: Australia is out for MSFS 2020/2024

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>>565920935
and with it Local Legend 24: The CAC Boomerang

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Since when was this free?

>>565921507
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9fjU5Y5ixU

>>565921573
Fair enough I didn't even see that

>>565921889
>Parallel 42 is proud to announce our latest addon for Microsoft Flight Simulator: Cockpit Combat™!

>>565922715
>The clickable cockpit now includes the crash axe

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>>565922715
>flying a C152
>the passenger starts attacking and you have to fight them off
>open the door and throw them out to survive

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>>565922715

>>565924000
What the fuck is this? It looks like a music video.

>>565925214
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s1Z7cfGeVM

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>>565925214
Mentour pilot's video on this incident

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If you ever feel down about razbam stealing your planes, or ED protecting Russian state secrets, just remember how good simulation enthusiasts have it (not you though, assoboe cucks).

>>565922998
>wilhelm scream plays

>Fire up the caravan
>Forgot to take the engine covers
>ITT immediately goes above the scale
>Loud bang
>Engine condition: 0%

>>565932190
>Black Square King Air
>had to land in the desert at night
>it's nearly 50C in the day
>too hot to start the turboprops
>condition races to 0% during starting and breaks the engines
>cheat to get around this by spamming repair as I start the engines

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93d5aVYOpfo
simwave

>>565900436
>That's just straight up not true, punk.
The devs themselves said the code can't handle drop tanks, lmao

>>565934838
Kek. Never thought that would've work.

>>565940805
Then learn to fucking express yourself properly you mong. Separate tanks doesn't mean drop tanks. Most aircraft in IL-2 have separate tanks and their fuel usage and leakage are modeled.

>>565925819
Wrong board

>>565944126
You're on the wrong website.

>>565950170
Sentenced to isolation in a capsule dropped on the ocean

>>565941346
>Most aircraft in IL-2 have separate tanks and their fuel usage and leakage are modeled.
They're not.
You can look this up on the official forums. The engine is incapable of modeling that. It's one of the reasons why Jason (of 777) studios left the company

>>565953886
what the fuck are you on about? If your wing tank gets shot and your aircraft has gauges for that tank you can easily watch it drain.

>>565953886
>>565954969
Please keep arguing for the next 10 hours or so to keep the thread alive overnight.

>>565955161
There is nothing to argue about here. First he moves the goalposts under the guise of not knowing the difference only to then move on to straight up fabricating stuff.

>>565956257
>>565954969
There's a flight sim called "Rise of Flight" maybe you've heard of it? Anyways, it's a WW1 sim, and since it was a WW1 sim primary single engine based, it didn't model separate fuel tanks. The new version of IL-2 based off the same engine, doesn't either.

Have a nice day

IL-2 Korea has drop tanks so I guess that is fixed

>>565958383
Skyraider in the first DLC, i believe.

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>>56595810
Nu-IL2 does have physical modeled fuel tanks, they're just modeled as two big blobs along the centerline and don't correspond to any real aircraft at all. Korea should fix that.
The new warbird damage model in DCS is pretty good, too.

>>565961902
>correspond to any real aircraft at all
They also function as one big tank, on a timer. All systems just run on a timer as soon as the mission starts

>>565965683
>All systems just run on a timer as soon as the mission starts
This is what i dislike with Il-2. Everything is arcadey and made up. And yet its still the only game that will provide an adequate WW2 experience.

>>565920935
I've been lucky enough to fly around Lord Howe IRL, it's beautiful - hopefully they've done a good job.

>>565958103
Have you ever played IL-2 BoX? I don't understand how you could play it for more than 5h and not notice that. How come if you stream fuel from your right wing, the gauge for that tank drops faster than the others?

Is this some weird semantics game you're playing?

Wings Over Flanders Fieldbros...

>>565970791
Il2 (new) doesn't model separate fuel tanks, it can only model a fixed internal fuel amount that's set on a timer. This is why drop tanks have not been in the game for the past 13 years. They are not capable of being modeled in the current engine. You're more than welcome to visit the official IL2 forum instead of posting here to gain further knowledge and history of the games engine development and limitations.

In fact, PM LukeFF, I'm sure he'll help you out

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lol, lmao even
https://steamcommunity.com/app/307960/discussions/0/4416424085347929594/?tscn=1719640895

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>>565980235
All of the autists who were old enough to fly real WW2 planes (or to have dads who did) peaked in their technical competence in the late-90s / early-00s and then either died or ended up in a retirement home.
The conflict has passed out of living memory, a majority of potential reference airframes have crumbled into dust, and, barring some new pop-culture phenomenon, mainstream interest in the era is effectively dead.

>>565986374
>using steam for player numbers

I'm going to sleep. You fags better behave.

>>565987681
It's a consistent percentage of the players, which is useful enough to analyze a trend.

>>565994193
Less than 5% of all old IL2 players bought the game through steam though. Steam analytics only works for pure steam releases

And helll, half of nu Il2 players didn't buy it through steam either

>>565995108
Half of them probably didn't buy it at all.

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>>565994419
Steam is a representative sample.

I've been giving out direct down load links to sims that for all intents and purposes should be abandonedware on the steam forums, so far I haven't had any posts deleted

up

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I like planes.

>>565925819
>razbam stealing your planes
>ignores literal video evidence of Nick Gray admitting they withheld Razbam money despite them acting within their contract just because MCS/DCS wanted to be able to milk Tucano gig.
>still believing the muh russian state secrets lie
I am tired of retards like you. Are you the "F-35 is open source!" meltdown schizo?

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Doing VFR trip around the country, landing on various grass airstrips. Plane is getting dirtier with each start and landing.

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>>566012563
Gonna wash it on the next airstrip that has some infrastructure.

>>565969321
Very nice, how did you get that opportunity?

>>566023071
The Piper Cub is all you need from an aeroplane, anything else is excessive.

>>566023794
Agreed. It could use twenty or so more horsepower though

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI

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>>566024080
*teleports behind you*

>>566024276
I presume there's no real need for a supersonic trainer if they're replacing the T-38 with it?

>>566024354
>Jet engine
>Fabric-covered taildragger
Now that looks exciting.

>>566024665
If it stays purely as a trainer then it's not that useful, trainers nowadays need to teach SA and SYS management more than flying, and flying supersonic is not something that has to be taught. Aside from the fact that it uses the F-18 engine so you already have part commonality and economy of scale there are no real benefits.
If you're already aiming for an armed variant of your trainer for future sales pitches then it's a different story and it can really help, especially with poorer nations that can't afford both an advanced trainer and a real fighter.

IMHO in the future armed trainers are going to play a key role in anti drone operations when paired with APWKSII etc, due to their lower operational costs compared to frontline fighters, so it becomes a difference in philosophy between wanting a supersonic afterburning trainer for faster intercepts, or the safety from redundancy with 2 engines in the case of the M-346.

>>566008773
>muh russian state secrets
Believe it or not, every ruble you spend in the sim goes to supporting the creation of even more russian state secrets

>>566026118
You should get a job at Leonardo in the sales department, have you considering applying? Unironically.

>>566008773
>Are you the "F-35 is open source!" meltdown schizo?
No, BUT this is not the first time you have accused me of being him. Perhaps you are the schizo one here.

>>566027539
I think they only hire the crème de la crème of recent graduates even for those roles. I'm wholly unqualified.

Currently getting downloading of planes and airports off flightsim.to which I'll probably never use. It's impressive how detailed some of this freeware is, it could easily be sold as payware.

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Bit cloudy today innit ?

>>566038806
Whoop whoop, pull up

Does Il-2 AI ever dive bomb correctly or will they always level bomb?

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The clouds are looking alright today.

>>566034589
Make your own company get popular and get bought out. "My qualifications? NDA"

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>>566043291
M-346 enterprises, we make your dreams into M-346s.

>>566034589
You think they'd rather hire some broccoli headed rap music enthusiast who doesn't know how to use a mouse over you?

>>566046403
Engineering jobs only care about experience, if the broccoli headed rap enthusiast has even the slightest bit of relevant experience he'll get the position.

>>566046578
Not a sales position. Just tell them how you learned every system on the plane inside and out, and how it fills you with national pride.

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>they finally released benelux rework
I've waited to long for this

>>566047508
Finally, it was awful in the game.

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>>566047054
>Not a sales position
Sales positions for those kind of systems at Leonardo are often given to ex Engineering dep heads and other big shots who already have clearances and dealt with foreign AFs.
At most I would be able to get a job as a social media donkey, my current job is soulless but at least it pays somewhat good.

>>566048184
Just send Luigi Leonardo an email with webms of your landings in sims and he'll be impressed.

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>>566054128
Great idea

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>>565859503
Should I get flying circus? If yes, which volume to start with.
Or just don't bother and download rise of flight

I am currently larping as Snowman in ATS.
Kenworth W900, Trailer with specific paintjob, etc., however, what is missing is the sleeper cabin.
Now the problem is that the Smokey and the Bandit trucks was a short-framed one, and you can't get a short frame with a cabin in the vanilla game.
My workshop-fu is really weak, and now matter how hard I look I can't find a short-frame sleeper cabin W900.
Does such a mod even exist or am out of luck?

>>566065167
Not sure what to suggest beyond look around online, there might be one on an obscure site.

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>>565900436
>That's just straight up not true, punk.
it's straight up true
>>565941346
>>565954969
>>565970791
the other anon is right
>>565887080
>>565940805
>>565953886
>>565980235

>>566076290
>2018

then why does the punctured tank drain first? if they were all connected you couldn't see a difference in fuel level

>>566078341
>then why does the punctured tank drain first?
let it drain completely and see if the other tanks remain at their levels, or if they drain out the leak through the crossfeed system

>>566076290
We need more autism in simulation game design.

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>>566091570
I love the HIP.

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>>566091570
>>566093508
I love fat ass soviet helicopters.

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>>566091570
>>566093508
Mindless CTLD logistics with the Hip is one of my favorite ways to relax.

>>566078341
It's all smoke and mirrors m8
Even LukeFF there acknowledged IL2 is based off the rof one tank system >>565983072

>>565879548
IL-2 is still the best for WW1 aircraft. For WW2 or Korea I don't really care.

>>566008773
> "F-35 is open source!"
kek that was a blast

>>566100685
>IL-2 is still the best for WW1 aircraft.
kek no it isnt

>>566100685
>IL-2 is still the best for WW1 aircraft
Not even close, RoF >>566100685
beats it by a mile

Sank my own uboat with torpedoes

>>566102296
> sank my own uboat
How does that work?

apparently Condor 3 doesn't have clickable cockpits
wat

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>>566102382

>>566017946
Spent some time earlier in my life in Dash 8s that did border patrol flights, got to fly around Norfolk, Christmas and Cocos Islands too. I've had a little bit of a look in MSFS, looks like they've done a reasonable job with all of them, even with Christmas and Norfolk generating their own weather down to the runway on a lot of days haha

>>566102434
What do you need to click on a glider though? Just sit back, grip your stick, and listen to the siren song of the variometer. Maybe do some drugs while you're at it, you fuckin hippie.

>>566008773
> No Tucano ever
The only loser in that shitshow, was me: The player

Bit of 1946 tonight
Still having some issues getting my full STECS throttle working with it.
I can use the main bit just fine, but the extra buttons on the STEM module don't register, from what I assume is a button limit in the game itself. (The slider works weirdly enough) Haven't had any luck with vjoy and joystick gremlin.
The only other idea I can think of might be to create another vjoy device and bind all the STEM buttons to that one, but I'm already at the 4 device limit (stick, throttle, pedals, and throttle quadrant) so I don't know if it will actually work

>>566121591
kek

My anus is trimmed for speed.

>>566130510
I also want to get a simracing buttplug for haptics

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>>566134881
Currently doing flight around the country, landing mainly on grass runways.Thinking about doing next one around Europe with caravan or aerostar.

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>>566135691
Nice.

>>566135691
But did you invest in Eastern Poland?

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>>566138143
Never in my life I've been in the east of my country. However we will see how flying in the msfs goes there.

>>566138679
Doing country tours is fun, and you see more when you're not in a fast plane. Poland has nice mountains doesn't it?

>>566141340

There are some nice views on the souths in the mountains.I also like the sea coast. Middle however is just flatlands.Flying that way is relaxing though. Gives a sense of progress other than doing only some random airfield to airfield routes.

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>>566130953

>>566103070
I was massively raping a Japanese fleet in SH IV but randomly exploded, instantly sinking me with all hands lost. Presumably a torpedo turned around on me because I doubt the game models catastrophic torpedo failures in the tube.

>>566143092
Good enough for USS Tang, good enough for you

>>566143092
Maybe the torpedo was in the wrong way round

>>566142649
logitech spotted

>>566142649
The keyboard is the faggiest thing in than video.

>>566147673
It was definitely filmed by a tranny

>AAU4 misses its own deadline: four of five aircraft still not released, including the updated ATR
>The MSFS team confirmed on the official forums that the ATR 42/72-600, Antonov An-2, Latécoère 631, and Savoia-Marchetti S.55 and S.55X are “still in the final stages of polish” and will release “as soon as they are ready.”

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>>566149087
An-2 is comfy

Found this while looking up sub wrecks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHlySgpCEso
It's apparently uploaded to Oculus at a better resolution.

>>566151285
Look at the stains on the paneling, this is why you wear a shirt

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Pissing it down with rain, perfect gliding weather.

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>>566157279
You what, there are thermals here

Does anyone has the .webm of that VR anon who didnt know how to properly make reduced size .webms so they ended up looking like lost footage? I'm talking about the 9/11 ones. I think Im having the same issue so I understand him perfectly now lmao.

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There's me saying the weather needs work, I'm impressed.

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>>566157484
I read somewhere that you could have rain front thermals : if ground air is warm it will be pushed in front and above of the cloud line by the colder rain.

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>>566160348
Yeah looking into it and it's a real thing, on the edge of rainclouds you can get updrafts, but in the centre of the cloud you get bad sink which is what I experienced. I unfortunately lost it and had to come back to land, but was up there long enough. It was hard to tell where the 'edges' were visually.

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Any field is a runway for gliders

>>566172648
I love ultralights so much lads

>>566174775
Honestly I'd rather fly anything over a tubeliner. Weird little GA planes and helis are what does it for me, basically anything that doesn't have a yoke to break my VR immersion.

>>566175673
I fly everything, and still do enjoy tubelinery stuff from time to time, but actually flying a little plane and being able to feel it and see everything is so much fun. If I want to scratch the tubeliner itch I'll fly a bizjet, and the older airliners are more interesting at least.

Does anyone know what the 'Dive recovery on/off' keybind in IL-2 does? I can manually extend the JU dive brakes, then manually turn on the siren, but the dive recovery on doesn't seem to do anything.

>>566178104
Maybe it's plane-specific

>>566142649
women play DCS?

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>>566179809
>women

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>>566142649

>>566179268
I thought it might be, but apparently the Ju-87 dive recovery system is supposed to auto turn on the siren, then turn it off as a way to signal when to drop the bomb. That doesn't seem to be happening for me.

>>566180198
I had a crush on her when I was a kid.

>>566180875
I think there is some confusion here.
There are two sirens. The B has a siren (noisemaker) that is turned on when you extend the dive brakes.
That one also has an automatic bomb release as per the contact altimeter setting.
The D variant has no diving siren, but a signal siren that tells you when your desired release height is reached, and then you have to release manually.
However, in BAT, the bomb release siren never stops for me. Which IL-2 are you playing, anyway?

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Trying my hand at helicopter in anticipation of TAOG's Dolphin.

Shit's flying like the worst possibly designed airplane and is a terrible hazard. But I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

>>566187336
Don't worry, it gets better after a few hundred hours.

>>566187336
I'm still shit with helis, when I get a few metres off the ground I swing around like an absolute madman and panic.

>>566187336
>>566191260
Why are the trees still so shit? You'd think it be pretty easy to fix that and not make them look like green fuzzballs.

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>>566187336
>>566190216
There are maybe half a dozen specific drills to work through to help with coordination, but IMO the most helpful is just keeping your nose fixed on the ATC tower and doing left/right orbits around it without losing any altitude. Keep going until you can do it around a flagpole without thinking too hard.
Pirouettes are fun, too.

>>566205072
so fs24 night still looks like vomit eh?

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>Studio 397 actually added KERS to the 2012 car
one of the first cars in the game is the last to get completed.

>>566218124
My little torpedophile

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>>566197840
Will try. I can see myself enjoying the challenge, there is something very satisfying when you manage to fly those god-forsaken creations the way you want.

>>566190216
For now the most important things I found are :
- be gentle on the commands. Since you always need to react better go slower. Except for liftoff where if you take too long to raise the collective you risk to slide or spin because of point ground contact.
- When things are getting out of hand just let the cyclic go and let the machine stabilize for itself.
- if you use some rudder input you may want to lower the sensibility.
- When coming down ALWAYS keep vertical speed in check. If you're above -500fpm you're going to have a hard time managing the power up/power down changes as you get closer to the ground.
- When you get closer to the ground the copter will shake and go down and you need to give a solid cyclic pull, and the opposite will happen when you get into ground effect.
-This video around the 3:30 marks gives a very good visual explanation of the complex input balance needed to keep your ride in check : https://youtu.be/4R9e7rrB7Ko

And I don't have much experience so if anyone knows better please correct me.

>>566242553
When I was learning to fly helicopters in DCS I've found that staying patient and not overcorrecting was the key for me. This and watching out for VRS and retreating blade stall. I would often practice via taking the copter up on the runway and taxi hover around the taxi ways.

Arado jet bomber is fun
Once I figured how to start the thing at least

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Okay now this is just crazy work!

>>566242776
Hover taxiing is surprisingly difficult, tweaking my throttle/collective curve helped, but it's still awkward on a t16000m

>>566258457
Yeah, T16000M is not ideal for helis. Doing it with paddles on the throttle is better than twisting the stick, but still not ideal. When I've bought rudder pedals it became easy then. Don't buy cheap pedals from thrustmaster though, they are a nightmare.

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>>566259105
When I have the money I'll probably get vkb stick + throttle and maybe winwing pedals...when I have the money.

>>566259716
WHen I've flown with thrustmaster, the heavy helis like Hind and MI-17 were pretty easy to handle with paddles. However, the twitchy, small OH-6 was a pain in the ass. When I've bought the small VKB pedals it was a world changing experience though. Good luck with your learning, helis are so much fun. I'm waiting for MI-2 now.

>>566260756
It sounds like DCS is much better for helis but you're restricted on where you can go.

>>566242553
>>566242776
>>VRS
practice vuichard recoveries, VRS is simulated as a trigger condition in most sims so you can get out of it at pretty unrealistic altitudes if you're quick enough to react

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On today's stupid challenge : crossing the Channel in the Mozzie (was not particularly challengefull to be honest).

>>566262920
>VRS
Interesting. Is that what is happening in MSFS when the aircraft starts to vibrate and lose altitude ? I thought this was the normal way of landing...

>>566268351
Cross the Alps next

>>566269974
Will do.

>>566269974
calm your horses napoleon hannibal

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>ordered wheel online
>anxiety kicks in as the wait begins
It's a long way to Gallipoli friends.

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>>566269515
Yeah, the shake is a warning sign that your rotor is starting to ingest its own downwash. Don't let it do that.
The collective isn't really a thrust control, it's a lift control. You can't make more lift if your airfoil is stuck in the middle of a low-pressure vortex no matter how hard you pull on the lever, so you need to move it out of that zone and into stable air it can push against.
VRS is basically a stall across the whole rotor disc, aka your "wing", and you get out of it in almost the same way as any other stall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8gCfBcIW0

>>566269515
2024 supposedly has VRS in it but it seems relatively tame from the last time I tried to force it. You get it from low forward airspeed and you're descending don't you? Where you fall through your own vortex?

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The journey continues.

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Near the mountains, through some light weather. Avoiding some heavier precipitation.

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And ending that leg on some up-sloped airstrip in the eastern side of the mountains. Take off should be fun there.

>>566272653
Yeah, or when trying to hover.

>>566273491
That just looks like a field mate

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Thermals

>>566246973
Don't forget the observation camera has a cover that has it's own keybind.

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>the tow plane actually returns to the airfield afterwards
I didn't know that, nice touch, it's down in the bottom right.

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helicopters aren't real

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This is a McDonald's irl, how the hell did the game know it was a restaurant?

>>566290107
Maybe the two drive through ordering kiosks were a clue? I think it's only a semiautomatic process where they use AI to outline the shape of the building, and then someone actually goes in and tags it with building type at some point.

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>>566278784
It does look like one but the game and little navmap insisted that this thing here is a an airstrip. I had to have a really good look circling up to make sure. But hey, landing went smoothly.

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>>566297386
And here how it looks IRL

>>566297386
>>566297635
Fair enough, I've had MSFS go
>Look it's an airfield!
and it's literally just a field before, not even a runway, just a fucking field.

DCS Eurofighter preorders are up!

>>566290107
Bing Maps flight simulator

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>>566300041

>>566299831
Real tired of getting your sloppy seconds on Steam.

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>the artist formerly known as Bing

did microshart update the default atc yet?

>>566290107
most businesses are location tagged on maps

>>566312575
Nice fuel gauge

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This thing is weird but fun

>>566318719
G-6?

>>566325231
sippin sizzurp

>>566332765
https://youtu.be/qF2U-htxTT0?si=nwJ4NVcpVbEJWSkL&t=59

>>566300326
> a sheep farm in the middle of the downtown
Based, become ungovernable.

>virpil teased their FFB base for 2026
Praise the lord

>>566360489
Sexy. A mashup between the M-346 and an alpha jet.

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>>566325231
Yup

>>566357584
>2 grand plus tip

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346lad a Frati Falco F8L is in development for MSFS, I've never heard of it but it looks nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT7ueqWoNn8

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I think I'm starting to enjoy that whole helicopter things. Just managed to do a crosswind landing in the Huey.

do you personally read USAF as U.S.A.F. or Yousaf (Scottish name) or U.S. As Fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKj4FyCaHXs

>>566380325
Looks like a cozy plane. The shot at 1:26 over Rome is gorgeous.

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It's a shame the MiG-17F won't have air-to-air missiles.