Thanks! Youtube recommended some DCS videos and got me hooked! To survive in that sim you really need to know the weapon systems you have to employ and to defend against.
Learned how to "notch" from Growling Sidewinder, his videos are awesome!
Yes, just the difference between different versions of AMRAAMs is critical to getting reliable splashes. I was doing it all wrong and getting my butt handed to me until I learned to fire at high altitude and then immediately start downhill to drag any missiles the opponent had fired down into denser air to then maneuver to shake the lock it may or may not have.
Sometimes you get no RWR alarm, just like in real life, based on the detection angle of the sensors on your own aircraft. I've also learned to put my lift vector onto the bandit in close quarters fighting so that I can finally start to master rolling or vertical scissors... that and learning to lead with the gun and squirt rather than hose the target. You have only seconds of ammo and none to waste.
Learned real quick what the A-10 cannot do, defend itself against air superiority fighters that have been freed to hunt them down. It becomes a blood bath. Like P-51's going after Stuka's in WWII. The last thing you want to be is the lowest and slowest in a battlefield where air superiority has not been decided yet.
I do want to get into VR, all the really good DCS guys use it, but can't imagine justifying the expense unless I started my own channel and with the way Youtube is going these days, it might be hundreds of hours wasted for no return on the investment. Anything pro guns/U.S. military/USA they are de-monitizing and even deleting whole channels with little warning.
Maybe I will get a fitted flight suit and get a cool pilot/aviator call sign if their people could convince me they won't shoot "Bond Girl" down in flames as soon as they notice me on their 'radar scopes' at Youtube.
Nice chat! TTL!
Edit : If you want a deep dive into DCS and have some fun while you are at it, look up a Youtube channel named : Grim Reapers
You will know you have the right one if you hear an English accent from the narrator, he is the commander of their virtual combat squadron, kind of an aerial version of the "A Team". Lots of different aircraft in the unit and varying skill levels too. Some of the take offs are downright sketchy! Especially with the Saab Viggens, the UK's answer to the USA's F-111 Ardvaark. Medium bomber with some fighter capabilities, terrain following radar, etc.
Well thank you Bill Nye The Science Guy.
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It was just a movie quote
Thanks! Youtube recommended some DCS videos and got me hooked! To survive in that sim you really need to know the weapon systems you have to employ and to defend against.
Learned how to "notch" from Growling Sidewinder, his videos are awesome!
Yes, just the difference between different versions of AMRAAMs is critical to getting reliable splashes. I was doing it all wrong and getting my butt handed to me until I learned to fire at high altitude and then immediately start downhill to drag any missiles the opponent had fired down into denser air to then maneuver to shake the lock it may or may not have.
Sometimes you get no RWR alarm, just like in real life, based on the detection angle of the sensors on your own aircraft. I've also learned to put my lift vector onto the bandit in close quarters fighting so that I can finally start to master rolling or vertical scissors... that and learning to lead with the gun and squirt rather than hose the target. You have only seconds of ammo and none to waste.
Learned real quick what the A-10 cannot do, defend itself against air superiority fighters that have been freed to hunt them down. It becomes a blood bath. Like P-51's going after Stuka's in WWII. The last thing you want to be is the lowest and slowest in a battlefield where air superiority has not been decided yet.
I do want to get into VR, all the really good DCS guys use it, but can't imagine justifying the expense unless I started my own channel and with the way Youtube is going these days, it might be hundreds of hours wasted for no return on the investment. Anything pro guns/U.S. military/USA they are de-monitizing and even deleting whole channels with little warning.
Maybe I will get a fitted flight suit and get a cool pilot/aviator call sign if their people could convince me they won't shoot "Bond Girl" down in flames as soon as they notice me on their 'radar scopes' at Youtube.
Nice chat! TTL!
Edit : If you want a deep dive into DCS and have some fun while you are at it, look up a Youtube channel named : Grim Reapers
You will know you have the right one if you hear an English accent from the narrator, he is the commander of their virtual combat squadron, kind of an aerial version of the "A Team". Lots of different aircraft in the unit and varying skill levels too. Some of the take offs are downright sketchy! Especially with the Saab Viggens, the UK's answer to the USA's F-111 Ardvaark. Medium bomber with some fighter capabilities, terrain following radar, etc.