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 works pretty welle: beaten. But yeah rudder pedals were at first kind of a "can't believe I'm this spergy" thing but now it's a big duh. Especially if you're flying things with piston engines. I have had a couple of different models and I think the TFRP pedals hit the best balance of cost and quality.
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Yeah I knew about that one, but it doesn't have the necessary sense of grim fatalism about it. Also yeah I've held out for ages, but since I do more old prop plane stuff and also do civilian glider simming a bit as practice for real gliding, using actual rudder pedals doesn't seem so excessive now.
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Oct 16, 2019 01:40
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Carth Dookie posted:Finally caved and bought some rudder pedals. Nice, what model? I love my MFG Crosswinds
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smiley but instead of blood splatter, money flies out.
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Just some Thrustmaster T flight pedals. I'm happy enough with the T16000M hotas to give their pedals a go, and I'm not yet prepared to spend double that on crosswinds, even if they're obviously better made. Only gripe I have with the 16000M is the throttle sticks and needs lube occasionally. Way better quality than my old X52 though. Probably the best pick of the "cheap" hotas IMO. Carth Dookie fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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re: 90s sim chat Man I miss Longbow. Muddled through them as a kid but grokked it surprisingly well. IL-2 DLC is on sale. Any must gets? I'm tempted by Kuban if only for the A-20.
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Kuban has a nice map and the a20 is cool. Also has some weird (interesting) stuff like the air cobra and the special edition duck. Imo $20 is really good for the lot, and trivial to the $12.50 standard. I'd get the premium for that. Could be wrong, but $60 for all content except the ju52 might be the lowest I've ever seen. Wild price since if you bought it back in the day, it would've been about $240 total. Also: Cliffs of Dover: blitz is going for $6.24 right now. Neat. Carth Dookie fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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My rudder pedals came today and I tested them out and got my first air kill in Il2 with them. 
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I have the VKB pedals--I love them! I got them for helicopters, where you absolutely need decent pedals, so the lack of toe brakes is not a big deal for me. I have the Mk. III, sounds like the new Mk. IV is even better.
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I took the spring out of my TM pedals and it made a huge difference for helicopters. When I got the F16, I put a weak elastic band, which will just about center it. I should probably also clean and lube the rails.
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my kinda ape posted:Nice, what model? I love my MFG Crosswinds Crosswinds are so goddamn nice. Night and day difference from my old CH pedals, especially in the goddamn Huey.
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Oct 18, 2019 19:34
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Autumn sale is on now. 50% off most modules. Just snagged the Harrier for $35. Not bad. 
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Today I learned that high altitude intercept missions in an e-7 are surprisingly difficult. Also I'm really starting to like the P-40. Definitely going to be my next campaign.
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Wags did an interview with Mudspike that had some good info: https://www.mudspike.com/mudspike-ama-with-eagle-dynamics-senior-producer-matt-wagner/ Lots of news about the dynamic campaign in particular. The worst news (for me) is that the F-4 isn't up next after the F-16 anymore; some other "eagerly awaited" aircraft is.
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In that same thing he says P47, hind and mosquito as the next aircraft from ED after the F16. I wonder what this other eagerly awaited thing would be.
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Oct 19, 2019 17:49
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Me having sex with Ninelines wife!!!
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Wags can take a long roll off a short pier!!!
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lmao @ "we expect to have the dynamic campaign system in beta in 2021" get hosed guys. microsoft please buy eagle dynamics and port all the planes to the new flight sim world engine, tia
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PenisMonkey posted:Wags can take a long roll off a short pier!!! Why? Did he run over your dog?
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In the meantime we can play all those other high fidelity jet combat sims. 
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Bf109 e-7 career has ended it seems. My pilot set down due to damage behind enemy lines and was captured. Enjoying Russian hospitality during WW2? RIP. So I started my P-40 campaign and got a kill in the first flight. Plane agrees with me in a way the 109 didn't, which is curious. Hopefully this one lasts longer, since I didn't even make it to snow season in battle of Moscow as a 109.
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US fiddies are basically the best aerial weapon of WWII
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Carth Dookie posted:Bf109 e-7 career has ended it seems. My pilot set down due to damage behind enemy lines and was captured. Enjoying Russian hospitality during WW2? RIP. I'm enjoying your campaign updates and I encourage you to post more. However, you know there is a dedicated Il2 BoX thread, right? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3670413. It's slow, but if you post, it'll pick up.
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Recoome posted:US fiddies are basically the best aerial weapon of WWII No, not really. I'd argue that the Hispano Suize and MG 151 were both far superior weapons. The MG-FF on the 109E variants was not very good, though.
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Recoome posted:US fiddies are basically the best aerial weapon of WWII And the P-47 has eight of them 
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Gewehr 43 posted:I'm enjoying your campaign updates and I encourage you to post more. However, you know there is a dedicated Il2 BoX thread, right? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3670413. It's slow, but if you post, it'll pick up. "Specified thread was not found in the live forums" Can't even open it. Edit: Curiously, I already have a Il2 thread bookmarked that does work. Weird. Carth Dookie fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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ImplicitAssembler posted:No, not really. I'd argue that the Hispano Suize and MG 151 were both far superior weapons. The MG-FF on the 109E variants was not very good, though. Smh Ya got me s'in my h over here.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:No, not really. I'd argue that the Hispano Suize and MG 151 were both far superior weapons. The MG-FF on the 109E variants was not very good, though. hispano yes, mg 151 ehh
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I mean sure there are cannons which pack a bigger punch, but the fiddies usually come with shitloads of ammo which means a good amount of trigger time, which is why you can't go wrong with the fiddies. The P-47 is a great example of this,
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ImplicitAssembler posted:No, not really. I'd argue that the Hispano Suize and MG 151 were both far superior weapons. The MG-FF on the 109E variants was not very good, though. The MG151/15 was a fine weapon, if a bit of a heavy bitch, but soon after entering service, the Luftwaffe had a pressing need to shoot down large, durable 4-engine heavy bombers. They retrofitted it to the 151/20 configuration, which was a compromise to allow more bursting power in the (now larger) projectile. Muzzle velocity fell, and accuracy deteriorated slightly. To cal it “far superior” to the AN/M2 is... Questionable.
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MrYenko posted:The MG151/15 was a fine weapon, if a bit of a heavy bitch, but soon after entering service, the Luftwaffe had a pressing need to shoot down large, durable 4-engine heavy bombers. They retrofitted it to the 151/20 configuration, which was a compromise to allow more bursting power in the (now larger) projectile. Muzzle velocity fell, and accuracy deteriorated slightly. The high velocity 20mm guns were absolutely superior to the M2. The only reasons the USAAF/USN didn't switch over wholesale was because they didn't have to shoot down much of anything that wasn't a fighter and they had such a roaringly successful logistics chain with the 50s. There's a really good reason why the USN covered its ships with 20mm guns and not .50s, and why modern planes still use that caliber. What are yalls thoughts on "Growling Sidewinders" videos? They seem very popular but they also seem very...repetitive?
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Personally, I hate machineguns. I hated machineguns since I was a kid. I have enough sim time that I can aim okay, and I want to be able to blow poo poo up quick, rather than take 1-2 second bursts. I'll take a 37mm cannon with 40 rounds over a bunch of lovely machineguns any day  Now what really makes a big difference for me is nose mounted guns. They're so much easier to use at any range against any target, since you don't have to worry about convergence.
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mashed_penguin posted:I wonder what this other eagerly awaited thing would be. DCS: Macchi M.B.308
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Awww, it's like a gawky Cessna 150
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bewbies posted:The high velocity 20mm guns were absolutely superior to the M2. The only reasons the USAAF/USN didn't switch over wholesale was because they didn't have to shoot down much of anything that wasn't a fighter and they had such a roaringly successful logistics chain with the 50s. There's a really good reason why the USN covered its ships with 20mm guns and not .50s, and why modern planes still use that caliber. It's not that USAF/USN weren't looking at it. They fitted the F4U-F4 with 4x20mm cannons and the P-61 also had 4 20mm cannons. The British certainly preferred the Hispano (although as their alternative was the .303, it wasn't a hard choice).
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The US didn't really get into 20mm cannons until the Vulcan because they couldn't for whatever reason make one that worked in any way consistently, like from the early 40s right up to the late 50s every single design jammed like crazy
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Forums Terrorist posted:The US didn't really get into 20mm cannons until the Vulcan because they couldn't for whatever reason make one that worked in any way consistently, like from the early 40s right up to the late 50s every single design jammed like crazy That's not really true. A whole bunch of planes had non-vulcan 20mms. The Crusader, the Skyhawk, the Super Sabre, F-11 Tiger, F3H Demon...the list goes on.
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I'd say I'm above average at aerial gunnery and I'd take a pair of 303s with a mountain of ammo over a 20mm with less than 120 rounds any day. More bullets = better IMO.
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An update was released today to unfuck A/G munitions in the Hornet. Seems that while building the Walleye, they forgot to test dropping bombs from anything other than an airstart, so if you ground started the jet, your bombs would hang on the rails ad infinitum. 
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