DCS 2023 and Beyond.

[Tinkicker]

Just spent an enjoyable hour or so this afternoon, piloting a Spitfire mk9 on patrol over Northern France in 1944.  It did not go well.  I lost sight of my flight lead, ended up chasing a Focke Wulf 190 down to the deck and started knocking chunks off him.

I failed to spot his wingman get into position behind me and procede to dismantle my aircraft with extreme prejudice.  Glycol spewing from my radiator, had no choice but to point the nose into the sky and bail out.  No way of making it back over the Channel before it started overheating and staying with a sick aircraft was suicide with the wingman around.

It was nice floating down under the chute though, lovely sunny summer day, wind in the trees and birds singing in the hedgerows....  Outskirts of Amiens a mile or so away.

 

 

 Some new things for 2023.  Multithreading and DLSS will help hugely with framerates in VR.

 

 

Edited January 8, 2023 by Tinkicker

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 long time since I had a play on any flight sim type thing, it was on 2 atari st's joined with midi cable, couldn't keep other plane in sight so got bored and started flying into 2 very large landmarks in NYC  

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All changed now.  VR actually puts you in the cockpit.   Very hard to tell if it is real or not.  You are so immersed in the mission your brain suspends its grip on reality.  You are not sat in your mancave.  You are actually over Northern France in a Spitfire, taking off from Akrotiri in Cyprus in an A10 warthog, or getting shot off the bow of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier in an F14 Tomcat/ F18 Hornet.

 

F14, F18, Bell UH1H Huey chopper, and Spitfire are what I am current on. 

DH Mosquito, I can get by with.  Totally forgotten how to fly the F5 and the F86 sabre.

 

My home cockpit laid out for the A10 warthog.  In VR you see the real cockpit around you, not the desk ect. All the switches operate the aircraft and are in exactly the same location as you see them in VR.  Just reach out and flip them on and the aircraft systems come to life.

 

Black box with single switch at left front actually raises and lowers the ejection seat in the sim aircraft!  Its counterpart on the right in white box raises and lowers the cockpit canopy...

 

Simming has come a long way from the Atari days.

 

 

Edited January 8, 2023 by Tinkicker

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1 hour ago, Tinkicker said:

All changed now.  VR actually puts you in the cockpit.   Very hard to tell if it is real or not.  You are so immersed in the mission your brain suspends its grip on reality.  You are not sat in your mancave.  You are actually over Northern France in a Spitfire, taking off from Akrotiri in Cyprus in an A10 warthog, or getting shot off the bow of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier in an F14 Tomcat/ F18 Hornet.

 

F14, F18, Bell UH1H Huey chopper, and Spitfire are what I am current on. 

DH Mosquito, I can get by with.  Totally forgotten how to fly the F5 and the F86 sabre.

 

My home cockpit laid out for the A10 warthog.  In VR you see the real cockpit around you, not the desk ect. All the switches operate the aircraft and are in exactly the same location as you see them in VR.  Just reach out and flip them on and the aircraft systems come to life.

 

Black box with single switch at left front actually raises and lowers the ejection seat in the sim aircraft!  Its counterpart on the right in white box raises and lowers the cockpit canopy...

 

Simming has come a long way from the Atari days.

 

 

I thought the midi cable was complicated hao

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So if you ever wanted to know how to fire up a Hog?

This is quite a fast startup with a lot of tests and steps missed out, so you dont get bored.  A full start anc alignment takes far longer and is more involved.

It took me 12 hours just to learn how to start it confidently.

 

Pretty much all the control binds and keyboard combos he mentions, I do by flipping my real switches.  Remember I mentioned the canopy switch?  Easily the most identifiable one in the vid, take a look at my white box with the white switch on the front right of my pit.  Electrical panel including battery switch  and APU generator switch just below and to the rear of it as shown on the vid.

Also, my throttle panel and stick are true replicas of the real thing.

 

 

Edited January 13, 2023 by Tinkicker

[Tinkicker]

And a pleasing hog short movie with an epic soundtrack.  Motley Crue at their best.  

 

 

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DCS meets Apocalypse Now.  Brand new and very clever cinematic with an epic soundtrack.

Only thing letting the side down is the quality of the infantry models.  They need bringing up to modern standards, although it might be said that what is the point if you are looking at them from an aircraft at a distance.

 

Features one of my other loves, the huey.  The white lever at the side of my seat  in the pic of my rig above is the collective pitch lever for when I fly the huey.

 

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by Tinkicker