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Every single one of those monitors looks like the colour balance/brightness/contrast is hosed up
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Thief posted:I need to buy the Mig-21 already... such a perfectly stylin' performance to difficulty ratio That's the one module I paid full price for, and I don't regret it for a second. 
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Sep 8, 2015 15:31
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I am however jealous of the goflight modules. Can I get a closer look?
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Sep 8, 2015 17:25
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I'm never going to be good at helicopters  
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Sep 8, 2015 20:13
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Megadyptes posted:I'm never going to be good at helicopters It's not upside down, you're already half way there! (Helicopters are hard. Keep at it.)
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Sep 8, 2015 20:31
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loving vortex ring states always get me. That and I can't maintain a hover for poo poo. Once I get going things tend to be pretty decent, landing can be a loving pain though. I was just chasing a train along in DCS ( ) and noticed a bridge coming at me very fast, managed to just somehow scrape under it which felt pretty loving badass. game crashed before I could save the replay or take a screenshot of that though
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Sep 8, 2015 20:41
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Unless bridges don't have collision boxes like half of everything else in the game.
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Sep 8, 2015 20:42
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They do. Ask me how I know!
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Megadyptes posted:That and I can't maintain a hover for poo poo.
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Sep 8, 2015 20:50
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By wildly overcompensating and generally poor rudder controls which leads to sliding all over the shop. Practices makes perfect I guess, that or just load up some FSX chopper with terrible physics
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I think it's tough on sim controls. It's touchy in real life to begin with, but then you reduce the physical travel of your input by orders of magnitude and it's even worse. I've flown with guys who have no issues at all with it, I think I'm just old and not as coordinated as them. The US government trusts me to fly real aircraft and yet I goof up in sims all the time.
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The Ferret King posted:I think it's tough on sim controls. It's touchy in real life to begin with, but then you reduce the physical travel of your input by orders of magnitude and it's even worse. This is extremely relevant. When I extended my warthog, my hovering got better immediately. The peripherals we have do not reproduce actual aircraft controls very well.
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Just take time with the huey, itll come to you and you'll be throwing it around and hot dropping troops in no time.
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MrYenko posted:This is extremely relevant. When I extended my warthog, my hovering got better immediately. The peripherals we have do not reproduce actual aircraft controls very well. Same, except I bought the force sensing stick saitek used to have. Set max force to 50N and I get stupid amount of "travel", it's really great. e: Just make sure when extending the stick to have some sort of hard limit to travel or you'll break it. Extra lever breaks a joystick really really quick. Don't ask me how I know (  logitech wingman)
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Sep 9, 2015 11:36
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X55 is really easy to extend with the right tools/parts. And good news for Saitek peeps on Win10: we finally have beta drivers http://madcatz.kayako.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/604/0/windows-10--saitek-hotas-beta-drivers-and-software-release
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Sep 9, 2015 16:14
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Well I googled a warthog extension and it turns out they are but £40 in the UK.
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Quick question: What's the point of the removable joysticks (HOTAS Warthog, X-55, etc) when the manufacturer doesn't make any other sticks that work with it?
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Daimo posted:Well I googled a warthog extension and it turns out they are but £40 in the UK. That's where I got mine. I got the long one. I was initially just going to make my own, but it turns out that the threads on a warthog are metric, and metric taps and dies in big sizes like that aren't exactly thick on the ground in the states. (My father is a machinist, and laughed when I asked him if he had a metric set that big.) Buying it from that guy was ~$50 cheaper than getting the right tap and die set, and it includes the right extension cable.
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McDeth posted:Quick question: What's the point of the removable joysticks (HOTAS Warthog, X-55, etc) when the manufacturer doesn't make any other sticks that work with it? Either to quickly hide your or murder burglars.
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Daimo posted:Well I googled a warthog extension and it turns out they are but £40 in the UK. I have that extension too (I got the short one) and it's really nice.
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Daimo posted:Well I googled a warthog extension and it turns out they are but £40 in the UK. Way to go genius, you broke them. Edit: site stopped taking orders until sept 12 Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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McDeth posted:Quick question: What's the point of the removable joysticks (HOTAS Warthog, X-55, etc) when the manufacturer doesn't make any other sticks that work with it? With the X55 it lets them ship it in a smaller box. Also makes access to the centering spring (it ships with 4 different ones) a lot easier.
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I bought a 10cm extension 18 months ago of some ED forums guy in Poland for a little over £70. It really is excellent, and was worth every penny,... until I saw this one for £40 :/ Still, at the time it was the only metal one available, so it was that or a PVC pipe DIY job that I'd no doubt cock up.
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Thread size for the Warthog appears to be M36x2.0 from what I can find elsewhere, for if anybody wants to have their local machine shop make them a extension or if you have a machinist friend.
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Hey what holds the record for longest time between pre-order and shipping the pre-order bonus. either it's Star Citizen or..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgSpMzf5-8o (The Nevada test range was a pre-order bonus for DCS:A-10c)
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Jonny Nox posted:Hey what holds the record for longest time between pre-order and shipping the pre-order bonus. either it's Star Citizen or..... I dunno about preorder *bonus*, but I doubt anyone's going to top DNF on preorder-to-game any time soon. They set quite a high bar. 
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Can't wait to JDAM the Hoover dam. Hi NSA!
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Is Nevada still free for those of us that preordered the A10?
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The Nevada map is free If you bought the A-10C before February 21, 2011 apparently.
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The Geoff posted:The Nevada map is free If you bought the A-10C before February 21, 2011 apparently. Bought it in Feb 2010, scary to think that 5 years ago I was flying in Nevada and now its finally out. 
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What's the gold standard of Prepar3D v2.5 mesh files these days?
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Sep 13, 2015 13:36
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Freemeshx probably, not sure how available it is anymore though.
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Daimo posted:Freemeshx probably, not sure how available it is anymore though. FreemeshX is still easy to get by torrent, there are at least 20 seeders including me 
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Thanks grabbing that now.
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immelman posted:FreemeshX is still easy to get by torrent, there are at least 20 seeders including me Top bloke!
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So unless someone here has anything super negative to say about the EagleSoft Citation X I'm thinking of buying it. On the other side of the coin, I'm also looking for itty bitty bush planes. I've heard good things about Flight Replicas Super Cub package except for one thing; off airport taxi behavior is all hosed up. Has anyone used this package recently and know if this is still a problem? I can't find any posts about it more recent than 2012. If any of you have recommendations for other things (prefferably off field capable and / or amphibious) pipe up, I'm looking for planes.
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SibWings AN-2, if you're comfortable with metric instrumentation, no major navigation aids outside of an ADF, and outright comical STOL performance.
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Also if anyone wants my terrible rendition of CMN5 / CSH8 in the middle of nowhere Quebec you can get it here. http://www40.zippyshare.com/v/4fUGNqaO/file.html The entire model is hosted on the CMN5 file, SH8 is just the parking spots at the dock and the water runway. It also has a fuel box with 100LL and JETA. You can get Canadian charts at https://www.fltplan.com (it's like a shittier version of Skyvector)
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EvilJoven posted:So unless someone here has anything super negative to say about the EagleSoft Citation X I'm thinking of buying it. I love the Citation X in general but I had issues getting ES's version to run properly all the time. It has been years but the FMS would gently caress up (possibly my fault but there's precious little documentation for it) and I used to have issues with the throttles returning to idle all on their own and there was nothing I could do about it. It zooms though, I used to fly it quite a bit and just flipped a coin to see if it'd function long enough to make a flight on any given day. Here's a visual approach I did into Waco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQJuSOWTEt8 The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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So many addons have quirks of little things that just don't work which frustrates me so much I always try before I buy now. Anyway in other news yesterday I saw a post in my RSS feed called Introducing Prepar3D v3. It's password protected and doesn't appear on their news page. There is also a thread on the forum which is locked out. Strange things are afoot.
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