boats editionPrevious Thread: >>545859262A thread for all vehicle simulation games: racing sims, flight sims, train sims, submarine sims, tank sims, anything else sims which do not have enough traffic to sustain their own independent generals.>Extra attention grabbing search terms for example welcome sims/fsg/ /dcsg/ /fsxg/ /bmsg/ /shg/ /rofg/ /etsg/ /il2g/ /lfsg/ /tsg/>OP Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/TxxE74ja >Planefag pastebin:https://rentry.co/simg>Tankfag pastebin:http://pastebin.com/EbdtnyPX >Boat- and subfag pastebinhttp://pastebin.com/JqTQWFFE >Repository of various aviation related material:https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3EQDvufMNdeTUh4SE9WV0txa0E&usp=drive_web>Example of welcome simsFalcon BMS, DCS World, Rise of Flight, IL-2, Combat Helo, Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, Euro truck sim, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Live for Speed, SAM Simulator, Steel Beasts Pro, Steel Armor: Blaze of War, Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942, Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum, Silent Hunter, Dangerous Waters, Train Simulator, Farming Simulator 201X, OMSI 2, DiRT: Rally, Ship Simulator>Example of non-welcome games:Arm*, Ac* C*mbat, W*r Th*nder, W*rld of _____, The S*ms, S*m C*ty, G*at S*mulat*r
>>546516375Thank you for your service
>>546518056
>two /simg/ news made less than 30 seconds apartWhat were the chances of that?
>>546518056I made one 27 seconds eatlier
>>546518210Another piece of evidence that it's only one guy here>>546518383Yes I know, me.
>>546518383Sorry mate, we appreciate that you made a thread regardless
>>546518750Yeah, lets stay here.
>>546518861>>546518750https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzol_V-Evqwit feels like having to put a puppy down.
Oh gee, another DCS sale.It seems pointless to sink more money into this sim. Too many modules, not enough time.
>>546522610>on sale>still expensive
Boatplane or floatplane: which do you prefer?
>>546523872Bloatpane
>>546524492Took the hull pill, nice.
>>546524825Absolute madman plane
>>546525203What's really wild is that, at least for the MSFS version, the flight ceiling is rather high. This is supposed to be Lake Granby, Colorado at about 8,300 ft, but you have to clear like 13,000 ft ridgelines.>Also, that fasces lmao.
>>546525769Interesting, is it well done? I just looked it up and the dev is Mike Johnson and he did a good job on the HU-16.>lone autistic devs produce better products than large teams
>>546531129I'm scared, is that the s55?
>>546531440Taog's SH-3
>>546518383Yes, and it's on page 10 now. I tried to make one when I woke up, but the span filters must have been picking up the fact that it wasn't yet another faggy gacha game thread for future child molesters.
>>546523872>Boatplane or floatplane: which do you prefer?If your plane doesn't have a reasturant and engine room don't even talk to me.
>>546534458
>>546534458>No theatre/symphony hallHow plebian and crass.
>>546534458>engine room>it's realMan that's rad, kinda makes me wish there were co-op games with massive airships and shit that people can crew together.
>>546535401Having that in a plane is ridiculous
>>546534458>>546534703>>546535401>People fuckin flew these things back in the day
>>546535560>Having that in a plane is ridiculousOh oh cranky, someone hasn't had their coffee, but we can fix that!>>54653570656 tonnes of pure German autism.
>>546535706Imagine being an engineer managing 12 (twelve) engines
>>546535706People crossed the Atlantic in a Zeppelin
>>546536321
>>546536465Yeah, but lighter than air travel is bullshit.
>>546529852nice
>>546536321With that many, you can afford to have a few quit. Might as well just have a drink at the bar.
>>546547951What is this?
>>546545052Does the Dornier have a bar? I’m pretty sure the Latecoere does
>>546545052>Might as well just have a drink at the bar.That's the best part of simming.
>>546549560a silkworm and a sardine
Wait, how fucking many times has classified info been leaked on DCS forums?
>>546558325None so far. It's like when they meme about "classified" stuff being leaked on warthunder and it's always some old manual that's already in the public domain.
>>546522780Small family owned company please understand.
>>546570472bratva are family, da?
>>546560483>warthunderYeah, that's the one I meant lmao.
This is allegedly Burning Man.
>>546529852what is this videogame called, and where can I watch planes fly in this specific beach destination? Its so pretty
>>546587615It's called Digital Combat Simulator, and the vacation beach map is free* to play.
>>546597423Any idea if Taog are making this for 2020 as well as 2024? Or will it just be for 2024?I have their Huey, Lama and Alouette for 2020 which I fucking love, but I can't make the jump to 2024 because lolaussieoutbackinternet can't handle all the shit they now stream.
>>546587615Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean
>>546578689Imagine the smell
>>546578689I had no idea that was in the game
>>546587615Mediterranean Fun Simulator 2024
>>546597423I wonder what it'll be like, isn't Taog a small one man dev? I wonder if he's even been able to access the real helicopter.>>546600723Probably, it seems like addons that have come out this year are being made for both, but I've seen signs that they're moving to 2024-only from next year. >lolaussieoutbackinternet Aussie internet speeds are still shit? Grim. What's your bandwidth? You can pre-download in 2024 which could help, but honestly unless you're on absolute shite broadband you should be able to cope, it might just mean waiting longer at the start of flights to load up.
>>546613246Is the gear down for drag or safety?
>>546613646No idea honestly.
>>546613919and you call yourself a fusilli tricolori fan?
>>546587615GTA 6you can land anywhere, get out, and start swimming or fishing or hijacking boats or shooting at random beachgoers
>>546616901For me it's Just Cause 2 where you could surf planes
>>546614967I'm ashamed.
>>546617282you can do that in GTA, too
>>546614967>fusilli tricolori
I'll sim eventually. Next BAT update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPK_sl7h44
>>546628628napalm?
>https://theaviationist.com/2025/11/15/exercise-falcon-strike-2025/>multinational exercise>M-346 present and partecipatedI wonder if they operated as aggressors like usual or what.
>>546632718Zero momentum fuel tanks
>>546634143I need to finish reading an article before posting.
>>546634353>simulates an Apache helicopter>starts spinning around
>>546634420>simulating an apacheeasy peasy.
>>546634563>ENVELOPEOh shit you forgot to go to the post office
>>546634661postage stamps are too expensive.
>>546634910I know that feel fucking hell, they cost a ridiculous amount in the UK now, the only letter I send a year is a Christmas card to my grandmother.
>>546600723>lolaussieoutbackinternet can't handle all the shit You can download everything locally now, works well if you have frequent flying areas, ~400-500 gig one-time download if you install it all on a hard drive. Rotary physics are miles better in 24, it's worth the jump.>>546610243Hopefully he can access the real thing, but he seems confident per picrel. It's a 1950's design, how complex can it really be?
>>546634975same, the cheapest, slowest and untracked letter is 1,30€.
>>546634563Is it really that easy to go into a death spin?
>>546628628CCR only had a 65-song discography, ~4 hours of music over 4 years.
>>546635129Fingers crossed he can talk to some pilots and get feedback, interestingly pilots often want to do this and will contact devs directly offering assistance.>>546635659Just fuck my post up senpai
>>546636027In the real M-346 no, the webm is from a previous update that didn't have direct link. IRL the jet has a lot of safety features like disabling the rudder imputs if you're above 15° aoa, lowering your G and aoa limits if you cut the throttle etc. In the case that you manage to get the real M-346 in a spin then the plane reverts to direct link mode, where you have full authority over the flight surfaces, making recovery from a spin possible. >>546636308damn
FUCK gacha
Bump
been hooked on this shit for weeks now, sorry for not bumping /simg/
>>546654475Lmao wtf
>>546654475Is there a magic carpet?
>>546654475Can you shoot from that?
>>546610243>Aussie internet speeds are still shit?If you're using anything other than starlink the speeds are either shit or non-existent. I live and work exclusively in the white of pic related (green is coverage, orange is fucked coverage, white is fafo) and even where it claims there is rural coverage, there often isn't, it's 10x slower than it ought to be, the telco has just turned it off or abos have stripped it for parts. So it's like an hours drive to maybe get 5-10mbps on mobile (so on a good day 1.5mb/s download on steam kek). Sometimes the properties I work at will have starlink, or we can butter up a miner up at the local pub with a few beers for a wifi password and mooch it off a nearby mine site, but for the most part I dip into civilization, download what I need, then back to the wasteland for work.>>546635129>You can download everything locally now, works well if you have frequent flying areas, ~400-500 gig one-time download if you install it all on a hard drive.Rotary physics are miles better in 24, it's worth the jump.Nice, the physics weren't shithot in 2020, XP11 honestly still feels the best for rotary stuff, but it's hard to beat 2020's fidelity for vfr. 2024 looked to have some nice campaign-ish type stuff as well with some job variety. If I can grab it all and run the majority of it locally though that's awesome. I saw they were streaming tons of shit at release and just noped the fuck out.
>>546658496I've got a mate who used to work for a gold mine in the arse end of nowhere, used to do two weeks on two weeks off or whatever the shift was, works in Perth now. Starlink is probably your only option then
>>546613646Yes.
>>546656005sadly no. we need a modern remake of magic carpet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7umaSjvoBRI
>>546665903I had that on ps1 and it was really spooky
>>546658496Haha the struggle is fucking real. What you want mate is the new starlink mini. The old starlink setups didn't like being moved around so fucking useless if you're all over the place mustering, culling etc (which i'm guessing you are), but you can mount the mini on your truck, 4wd, whirlybird, dingy, stick it in your backpack, fucking whatever and she's golden. 12v so you can run it off fucking anything as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEErYTdGUE
bmp
>>546613246I used to fly like this when I was a 8 years old on mouse and kb
Anyone know which mod this MB Trac forestry crane is from?
>>546693668Most likely a private or WIP mod from Forbidden Mods or Modding Welt, Germans always do lots of forestry equipment for the Unimogs and MB Tracs but they don't always release them to the public. But HR Forst und Fahrzeugbau always do a selection of high quality forestry related mods and they're all available on the Giants ModHub and they have a few three point forestry cranes, not as neat looking as the frame mounted crane, but they'll do the job.The long frame "Unimog U1250, U1450, U1650" mod available on the Giants Modhub also comes with frame mounted cranes. You *might* be able to edit the XML for those and mount it to the MB Trac.
>>546697731>muh sekret club *cough donate on patreon* >muh invite only discord>muh you must post 100 times in the noob lounge which is a ghost town on our 100 year old forum run by cranky boomers before you get access to anything>muh slav mod site where every second mod is an .exe with hidden features and it's run by some gopnik living on adclick revenueMan why is modding like this now. Thanks anyway though. If I can't get that Unimog crane to work i'll see if I can convert this Valtra one from 22.
>>546703804>Man why is modding like this now. Kek the worst I know of is Steel Fury, the best mod for that is gate kept by an angry slav (who didn't even make the original mod, he stole it from the original author who died) who routinely just stops letting anyone have the mod for months, sometimes years at a time and then when he's really broke he starts charging people €40 on paypal for the latest version and you have to pay for *every* update.
>>546713558Damn that is an insane level of fidelity.
>>546716175too bad you won't be able to click any of it
>>546693668>Anyone know which mod this MB Trac forestry crane is from?kek that is unironically a Farming Simulator 13 mod (forestry started as a mod in 13 before Giants implemented it in FS15) that has been converted to 15 to 17 to 19 to 22 and now it looks like 25 with a little spit and polish along the way. As the other anon said it's a Modding Welt mod so it's probably private.
Just got my Bigscreen Beyond 2e in today, so I'll give some initial warnings:>All the youtubers talking about the glare being greatly reduced were either full of shit, or the BSB was just awful. It has a lot of glare for simming, so much so that if you are flying at sunset you will have trouble making out your gages and MFDs through the milky cum bath filling your eyes (average BSB Discord user will like this though).>Comfort with the silicone facial interface is ok, not that clammy for an hour flight at least, and the light weight is fantastic. My crystal super with a Studioform facial interface, wedges, and top strap is actually a lot more comfortable though, just noticeably heavier.>FOV in the BSB2 is actually a bit higher for me than with the Crystal Super 50ppd because I can't quite get my eyes close enough to the lenses on the Super do to my European face shape. >Colors are good, black levels are great, but it's completely overshadowed by the glare. It's definitely a workable image quality, but I'd rather have QLED with glass aspheric lenses and a tiny bit of mura, than OLED with no mura and pancake lenses that ruin the fuck out of the image. Edge to edge clarity is slightly better on the BSB2 compared to the Super 50ppd, but they are both pretty good. >Bigscreen spent these past several months getting the eye tracking on the BSB2 to register blinking and pupil dilation for maximum fidelity anime girl (male) on anime girl (male) VRCHat mutual gooning sessions, instead of getting Quadviews or even really some ancient OpenXR DFR working. This is what their faggy Discord Troon customers demanded, and if you buy a Bigscreen Beyond it will probably turn you gay. >My Audio strap so far is DOA, not being detected by my computer, so I can't comment on the audio, but I'm leaning on returning the whole HMD instead of just the strap if I can't get used to the glare.
Pity Bump
Bumpity
It's time to fackin SIM lads. Long flight to Scotland in the turbo arrow, will be flying IFR at 18,000ft with supplementary oxygen, hopefully it works. Also latest SU4 beta build seems smooth so far with camera panning.
>>546748719Also I had the transponder set to TEST rather than ALT, and I got told off my the ATC and told it was inoperative and to set it to the right code, I've never had that before, I didn't know it was in the game.
anyone played Reentry? my understanding is I can learn the technologies of the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo missions by playing this game? that sounds neat
>>546749867It's apparently very good and 1.0 came out the other week
This is like flying over snow. I wish I had an altitude hold though, it just has a hdg/nav hold, and the smallest throttle adjustment up here makes a big difference and the t160000 throttle isn't great for precision.
Finally found a throttle setting to keep it around 18,000ft
>traffic alert>tell them I can't see it>no responseNot my problem
>>546764831
Long flight, crap landing, I need to tweak the sensitivity settings for my joystick and this plane, it felt very dodgy, also it was a headwind at 11kts but I was getting blown all over the place>>546768250It wasn't an F-104 sadly, just some ERJ, I did see it eventually, it had overtaken me.
>>546768903night approaches are pretty.
>>546730267What's the go to simfag headset? Pimax?
>>546772430Quest 3, it's just cheap and well rounded
>>546769586They are, but I always find they require a bit more concentration. There was a big spooky blob of cloud on the way so I expected the visibility to be shit but it was fine.
>>546772430Yeah, probably Quest 3 is the best for the money, or Reverb G2 if you are really strapped for cash since it has been resurrected with Oasis firmware. For high end, I really do think the Crystal Super 50ppd is the way to go, although it's not without flaws either. The Pimax Dream Air looked interesting, but it has pancake lenses instead of aspheric, so I'm not sure if they are going to have too much glare.
>>546772430Pimax seems to be shilled to death in the simming community but they're apparently shit.
>>546748719>turbo arrow>IFR FL180>supplementary oxygenunfathomably based
>>546772430I have a Quest 3. I hope the new valve vr headset will be good tho since they showed it being a lot more open and repairable.
>>546784676I wonder how HUDs actually get used irl
>>546797731comfy
>>546785127Playing Snake and Tetris on 36 hour flights, I'd imagine.
polychop is dead to absolutely nobody's surprise
>>546825159something happen with them today? or you just referring to their general situation after releasing the kiowa?
>>546825159but you can still buy their t-shirt
>>546829686
>>546834029LMFAO what the fuck is it about the games industry that attracts the most scummy of CEO's.Are they just vultures that think sim shit will be an easy pathway to lucrative government contracts only to find out it's niche shit with a tiny market that barely generates enough revenue to sustain a business?
>>546833702Damn, look at that PUSSY MAGNET!
>>546846328There is just something magical about flying the SA342 low and fast. It usually does end up like that for me though.
>>546846328Nice landing
>>546863086She's curvy
>>546863505https://youtu.be/zDnPFxnALBg
>>546863935JANNY
>>546864069>>546863935single engine fighters are males since they only have one hole behind. twin engines are female due to the twin holes.
>>546867591*winks at you*
>>546868639
I forgot to check my fuel quantity and had attempt an emergency landing with no engine.
346lad you might be interested to know that apparently Aeralis are really ramping up recruitment, creating 4000+ jobs, it sounds like the babby plane might be the future RAF trainer after all.>Up to 6,000 jets could be manufactured over the next 30-40 yearsSounds a bit optimistic >with the UK, France and Qatar as a "viable launch market".
>>546874048That's too bad but not surprising. I hoped at least the GCAP partners would use a single trainer, but trying to pitch a foreign trainer to the UK who will have to give it to the Red Arrows was probably impossible from the beginning. >Up to 6,000 jetsYeah I highly doubt any future advanced trainer will ever be produced in such high quantities.I would be more interested to know what France will actually do. They are already a very prideful country, so buying a foreign trainer, be it from Italy or from the UK seemed to me always weird. One solution would be to accept Aeralis proposal to jointly develop it... But it could also be a recipe for delays/disasters and both the UK and France need a replacement soon.>tfw the USN will not buy the 346>tfw the UK will not buy the 346>tfw the 11s will build their own trainer based on the 346Feels bad.
Anon who's interviewing at Boeing here.Got the offer, 120k, will be working with F-18 software
>>546875353Congrats!
>>546875310>discussions are taking place with the United Kingdom and Spain for a joint program to replace the jet trainerWhy are they having discussions with Spain? Spain are replacing their F-5s with the Hurjet.
>>546873781the right bank at :14 killed you
>>546875353That's great news, congratulations
>>546875795>>546875494thanks. Never thought I would work on my main jet DCS
>>546875652Either it's old news coming out now or everyone in this field doesn't know when to quit. Leonardo the day after Spain signed the MOU with Turkey still flew there to try and convince them to buy the 346. ( https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/5120010/italiana-leonardo-no-tira-toalla-viaja-madrid-vender-entrenador-m-345-jefe-ejercito-aire )The deal with Spain and Turkey is obviously bigger than the Hurjet since Airbus already signed a deal that they are basically taking control of the project for the internal systems, so trying to force the door open is just a waste of time. Military procurements are always 70% politics and 20% geo returns and 10% actual merit of the system.Kinda like when we bagged the deal with Austria for the 346FA variant, if you look at their situation they really had no other options. >>546875785Yep, without the engine running the BLC wasn't blowing air over the flaps so it caused the right wing to drop.It's explained better here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbG8nqWotA>>546876178You should feel proud
>>546876467And it hurts when considering even their own universities did a study and proved the M-346 would've been the perfect choice.
>>546876467>so it caused the right wing to dropyou were too slow then
>>546876647Talk about desperate >Hi it's Luigi from Leonardo, did you see my email about the 346? Please respond
>>546876746Yes, the F-104 has an abysmal glide ratio so by the time I reached the airport I was struggling to stay airborne as I didn't have any more altitude to trade.>>546876751Had the AEPTJ not died we would now have almost all EU countries flying the M-346 or a local variant of it.
>>546876751>Hi it's Luigi
>>546880546I'm going to do a night VFR flight, high chance of death but a high chance of fun.
>>546883141Wow this is comfy already
>Qatari Hawk flying overBased, no idea what they're doing here though
>>546875785I think it was the ground that did it.
>>546877832Funny story: my mom wanted me to help her come up with a name for this kitten that she found, so I suggested Ted (Kaczynski). She liked it until I told her who it was named after, and said she didn't want her innocent little kitten to be named after a MURDERER, even after I told her that Ted actually wrote some very good stuff. Well, a few days later, she decided Luigi would be a good name. I think it's a good name too.
>>546884979I changed my mind, scud running at night isn't comfy, I thought the ceiling was higher.
>>546885169Qatar sends their pilots abroad for training. They also keep their aircrafts there.
Ukraine signed a MOU for 100 Rafales. Now we have some use for the upcoming rafale in DCS.
>>546886650The comfiness has returned
what are some solid fifth and sixth gen (PS1-PS2) console sims
>>546893004https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IVcGBZYZsJet De Go! looks kino
Guess the cockpit
>>546902352Mirage 2000 D
>>546902490no
>>546893004https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRaj9CkX_Q4
>>546902352M-346's cockbussy(bitch seat).
>>546904374Nope
>>546904475Damn, I was willing to bet on that. >fuck huge refuleing probe>F-16 style angled console>rear seat with HUD like a trainer>MDFs look like M-346's>information on MDF look like M-346>Roska in the waypoint(Greece operates them)Now that I'm looking at pictures I can see where I was wrong. I thought it was just the M-346fag being cheeky.
>>546906954MFD*
>>546892695Awful landing, I got really disorientated and turned onto final far too early and fucked it. I seem to be shit at flying in the dark.
>>546906954I am the M-346fag. >ROSKAThats not near greece. If you look on the TSD you can see they are south-east of Aviano and north-east of Cervia. The refuel probe and hud should be the key pieces of evidence to ID the jet.
>>546906954>rear seat with HUD like a trainerIt's actually quite rare to have a trainer with a real hud in the rear seat. I can't even think of one beside this one and the M-346.
>>546907513JUST
>>546908456The Fouga Magister has a periscope
>>546907818L-39
>>546910081cut my life into pieces
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuwnhYzc8WEThe Al Fursan have flown their first demo with the Temu M-346.>>546910304Perfect for submarine training>>546910321no
>>546911131>3:02Their formation transitions are quite sloppy. Probably because they are not used to the new plane. And there is already smoke oil leaking.
>>546911131The move at 6:24 is cool. Makes me hope they'll also do it on the 346.
>>546911515jeez
>>546912565me on the right
>>546911515it's a straight up copy and it's already falling apart.
Bump. I feel like the thread will die tonight.
They really need to make a board just for ghachashit
>>546922336Just need someone to throw another log on the fire every hour or so.
>>546911131>Temu M-346You think it, they chink it. >>546922336Gacha fags are in An All Out War™ so they're trolling, samefagging, and eating a lot of bait in each other's thread. We never stood a chance. t. knower
>>546902352>two seater>refueling probe>near italyMB-339
>>546928693I don't think it's that, I have it in DCS and it has no HUD
Good night, gentlemen.
Wave off! Wave off! GO AROUND.
>>546951856Good morning
>>546929383>>546928693Yep. MB-339CD
>>546951856Good afternoon
Another round. Guess the cockpit. This time it's really easy.
>>546984479Yak 130, only because>has the radio thing in the middle>but has rectangular MFDs rather than the square ones of the m346>blue cockpit
>>546984646Nope
>started doing more long flights, 2-3 hoursFucks sake, am I going to turn into a long haul tubeliner twat?
Has anyone tried pat wilsons campaign generator fc since the il-2 update? I tried it and it loaded but my mission didn't have the correct plane and I had no squadron with me. Didn't have time to test anything out but I will tonight.
these things are tanks
>>546996451I though you were going to land on the top of it kek
>>546996731I tried a while back but the wheels clipped through.
Sorry bongs, you're getting BOEING'D
>>547008658Fucks sake no, we've already got a tonne of F-35s on order that we won't see for ages. Also what have BAE got to do with the T-7?
>>547011493>Also what have BAE got to do with the T-7?Collecting government contract stimmys as the licensed manufacturer.
>>547011493They are the foot in the door. Buy our trainer and we'll let you integrate some software in the UK.
>>547014604
>>547018071oi mate, you got a loicence for that gun?
>>547018170A dodgy Italian man sold it to me
>>547018239carry on then
>>547018317Off topic but gun laws in the UK are not actually as bad as people think you just need a reason, you can own a 50 calibre sniper rifle if you're in a gun club for instance. They banned handguns after a school shooting in the 90s though, but you can get around it by sticking a piece of metal to the end of the handle so it counts as a longer gun, really stupid.
>>547019293that barrel is preposterous I love it
>>546986578What is the plane then?
>>547030365M-345
>>547032446Are you fucking joking, I was genuinely going to say that as a joke when you said nope, I didn't even know it existed.
>>547032446fucking kek
>>547032949Lmao, wait till you hear about the M-347
>>546984479>>547033336Europoorfighter shares a lot of its Italian cockpit DNA
>>547033336What about the N-346?
simulated bump
razbump
Nothin' better than just kickin' back with your own 'stick in your hand.
>>547080507You're really starting to get the hang of that thing!
And now we turn.
>>547089887what map?
>>547008658Please let it happen again, it'd be so damn funny if they fell for it a 3rd time, let them turn the Bae Hawk production lines cold, just for the prices of the T-7 to balloon, just for them, like with the F-111K/ BAC TSR-2, and the Black arrow.
>>547072213love beavers me
>>547095452>BAC TSR-2delete this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGBBMZc9ZQ
>>547115540Nice M-345
>>547119676I kinda hate/like the M-345.
>>547092789Kola Penisula
>>546768903>>546774024Steam gauges are freaking cool at night
>>547126623They look great, I'm doing another night flight, IFR this time at FL180, I'm flying near some thunderstorms and the flashes of lighting are kino, I can't screenshot it unfortunately as they're sporadic.
>>547128165Just caught one! Not the best angle, looks a bit weird here, I saw a bolt a minute ago hit the sea and it looked amazing.
>>547128472I tried to do a night flight recently with the a330-300 in 24, but when I opened the windows, they wouldn't close :(
>>547129074It's actually a year today since MSFS 2024 launched, sad there are still bugs but it's in a better place than it was I suppose.It really isn't safe to fly a PA-28 through a thunderstorm, even at 18,000ft, it's getting thrown around a bit. Taking screenshots of the lightning flashes is a good reaction time test though.
>>546834029sucks but the prospect of HB doing helos is intriguing
>>547130195it's a great plane, and probably my favorite GA aircraft currentlythe local flight school where I live uses those and the twin piper for multi engine certs
>194 knots ground speedGOTTA GO FAST>>547130409My local one flies warriors which aren't as nice as the Arrow but still decent
Virtual Fighter Maneuvers (dogfight game by VTOL devs) is entering public beta next week.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3952640/Virtual_Fighter_Maneuvers/
err, what?
>>547135925it's prepping you to visit allah
>>547136352I have no idea why it said that, it's correctly telling me to descend for the approach, albeit a bit late.
>>547143404it's funky sometimes it'll tell me to ascend to like 16k ft. max and maintain when i'm in the a320, even tho i requested a higher altitude and set my flight plan for 32k ft.and on the other hand it'll tell my to take the piper up to 40k ft.
>>547143778>on the other hand it'll tell my to take the piper up to 40k ft.That's an ORDER, now start climbing!
>>547143778As expected, it told me to descend far too late, I'm at 10k over the runway. I wonder if it's because the aircraft performance didn't seem to be set properly in the planner, it had the rate of descent right at -1000fpm, but the descent TAS was 0. I've had these issues before, although they've been worse in the past and only tell you to descend when you practically on top of the airport.>>547143778I can never tell if it's to do with the route planning, or if the ATC itself is just bugged, telling me to descend to 0ft randomly but then never following up on it was definitely a bug.
The police is raiding my hangars
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>>547144512i've thought about giving up with the built in atc, and using one of those AI atcs or>Vatsim...
N-NANI?
>>547149130Well that was a pointlessly long flight thanks to the ATC. They also don't help you, even if you do missed approach they just tell you to land without giving you headings. I'll do another flight tomorrow and input all the aircraft performance information to see if it makes a difference.
>>547151487Forgot to add, I was told to go around after that jet overtook me on approach, but I was only told to go around once it landed. You can see on lnm that the top of descent was a lot further back than where the ATC actually told me to descend. The rest of the trail is a shitshow because I didn't know what I was doing and had to go around.
Bed time
>>547149130I like taking off from Santa Monica, and then doing a few touch and go's at LAX, even as the big ass jets lands.
I really wish I could take nice screenshots but my poorfag PC runs everything on low.
>>547176032If you want a good screenshot bad enough, you can save a track flown on potato settings, and then replay it at 12 FPS Ultra settings for screenshatting purposes. Pic related was flown with an old HP Reverb with massive amounts of foveated rendering, than replayed on a nice 1440p 21:9 monitor.
>>547180526What game is this? Been setting up old Microprose sims on dosbox-staging and after playing F-15 Strike Eagle II ('89) for a while even this screenshot looks bit like magic.
>>547185965That's the Syria map in Digital Coombat Stimulator.
>>547186856Oh, DCS... never played it during all these years.
>>547187359It's a free download to fly the (admittedly shitty) Su-25 or the trainer version of a P-51 on the Caucuses map or the more resource demanding Mairanas map. All you have to lose is hard drive space, plus there are some very good free mods like the A-4 Skyhooker and the OH-6 Caboose.
>>547176032You'll have to return to sovl
>>547176032>mom said it's our turn on the blackbirb
>>547209073Is that the Seastar? I haven't got round to flying it yet, just had a look in the cockpit, it's really nice.
>>547213718>Seastar?yes
Maledives should be somewhere around here
>>547130195I've been waiting for a discount but that will never happen, most likely.
>>547234325That looks fucking great
>>547234646Yep, in certain light conditions XPlane with ortho is the best looking sim I've ever used. Sometimes tho you get tiddie clouds.
>>547235098I agree, it seems to look worse than MSFS most of the time but every now and then the clouds and lighting make it look fantastic. I still think the clouds in MSFS 24 could do with more work, no idea if we'll see that in the future, they're all too blobby and lack definition.
>>547235387Yes, especially up close. I hope they will improve them but they are also fucking performance hogs for very little improvement sometimes. Sometimes I prefer BMS' clouds over volumetric ones. Here's a bumpy landing.>>547235960I wish Uberti made their 1873 Cattleman in that barrel lenght. I would buy one just for shits and giggles.
>>547236708On the ground it looks like FSX kek
>>547223871Same here, $70 is nothing to me, but I absolutely refuse to give that dirty pajeet in charge of ruining Microsoft the full price.
>>547235960>Under the Firearms Act 1968 (as amended), prohibited weapons include “small firearms” with:>a barrel less than 30 cm, or>an overall length less than 60 cm.No idea if that fits the requirements, sounds like .22 pistols are allowed, the law sounds confusing.
>>547237414That's my sentiment too, lol.
>>547237414>the money either goes to a jeet or it goes to the frogsIt's a lose-lose situation
>>547237121Xplane for high altitude flightMSFS for GA altitude DCS for down in the weeds
>>547237725>DCS for down in the weeds2024>DCS>2020. 24 wins that now by quite a bit outside photogrammetry areas I would say.
>>547237483barrel is 12 inches, overall gun length is probably around 17-18. dunno what that'd be in communist units
>>547238135You guys post stuff like that, and then when I fly in a photogrammetry area (i.e any populated area that is not known worldwide for having a large amount of homosexuals) just looks like a neutron bomb went off and melted all the buildings slightly. I like realistic, consistent proportions on buildings more than details and textures.
>>547242535Photogrammetry looks great until you're too low and then it looks like everything is made of plastic has been melted. If you go on the ground in a photogrammetry city it's like being in a bad dream.
>brought up Jack Parsons a while ago, how he was a Thelemite, and there are rumours he was assassinated by Howard Hughes because he stole documents>just seen that apparently L Ron Hubbard defrauded him out of his life's savingsHELICOPTERS AREN'T REALAEROPLANES ARE OCCULT TECHNOLOGYTHE F-35 IS SATANIC
>>547244414>https://theaviationist.com/2025/11/20/usaf-pilot-training-progresses-in-italy/>This initiative is expected to provide valuable data for optimizing pilot training methods as we prepare to ramp up the T-7A,” said Col. Corey Hogue, Capability Requirements Division Chief, Air Education and Training Command. “Not only will we gather data on the effectiveness of our proposed syllabus, but we can also validate the feasibility of sending trainees directly from IPT to train in a modern training aircraft, like the T-7A Redhawk.”lol
>>547244684>the first T-7A Red Hawk aircraft is set to arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, in early December
>>547244414did not mean to quote you, my bad.
>>547244807If the F-35 is Lucifer, then the T-7A is Beelzebub
>>547244684Why are they bukkakeing each others? I tought it was just something for your last flight.>>547244792Hey, 6 years behind schedule isn't that bad for nu-Boeing. It's just funny how brazen they are in admitting they are there to basically copy someone else's homework.
>>547245126I can wholly agree on that. It has no soul and it's ugly. I seriously can't believe SAAB co-developed it.
>>547245642I actually like the look of it, but it's clearly a meme
>>547245642The tought alone that the T-7 is most likely going to win both the USN and RAF bid makes my heart sink. >>547246236From some angles it's cool, from others not so much. Kinda like the F-35.
>>547246842I don't think it'll win the RAF bid, Aeralis seems to be growing rapidly as a company, and it'll create a lot of jobs here if they get the bid, we also want to move away from buying stuff from the yanks.
>>547244684>Following graduation, the students selected for fighter roles will stay at Decimomannu for an additional 135-day T-346 advanced training course before progressing to U.S. fighter formal training units. The remaining students will train stateside in mobility, special operations, or command and control platforms.What is the point in training someone on a fast jet if they're not going to fly a fighter at the end of their training?
>>547247161Ah, just saw that it'd be UK final assembly if they do win the big for the RAF, who knows, I really can't see us using non-British planes for the Red Arrows.
>>547247301Can't the M-346 emulate the flight characteristics of other planes? Maybe there's a T-7A module for it.
>>547247161I honestly can't wait to see their first flying prototype they'll use as an actual entry in the RAF replacement. I still don't understand if they're going with the modular 346 lookalike or if they settled on the modular hawk that they showed in Dubai. >>547247320Both Boeing and Leonardo offered a final assembly line in the UK. If Aeralis wasn't such a new company they would've already won hands down.>>547247301Here in Italy everyone does up to phase III IIRC, with only frontline fighters drivers doing phase IV. It's probably different in the USA.>>547247457>select T-7 module>aircraft turns off>ejection seats get disabled.
>>547248061>Reports suggest the UK is studying the purchase of a first batch of new trainers over the next five years for the Red Arrows, followed by a second batch in the late 2030s. Analysts also point out that the Red Arrows' replacement could be expected to be British-designed or at least British-assembled, adding another layer to the selection process. For Boeing and Saab, a UK foothold might position them closer to training requirements tied to the Global Combat Air Programme with Japan and Italy, while BAE could gain an extra marketing edge for its future combat-jet systemDo you think it's possible we could have both? Seems a bit silly, but I wonder if we had Aeralis Red Arrows and T-7A trainers for the RAF.
>>547248061shouldn't you root for the 346 to win the raf one?
>>547249009For their general trainers yes, for the Red Arrows no since it would mean 2 display teams in Europe flying the same aircraft. I don't really like that. >>547248662That's the best possible scenario I could think of but with the M-346 instead of the T-7. I also highly doubt the UK would go for it due to the cost it would have.Let's say you tell Aeralis they will only make the Reds jet, all of a sudden the unit price would balloon out of control due to the economies of scale. Not to mention what it would cause to their possible future investment in Scotland if not big exports are secured. And why would any other country buy the Aeralis jet if the UK itself decided to buy the M-346 or the T-7? You would end up in a situation where you'd have to explain to potential customers that it's totally not inferior and it was just a timeline issue, just like we have to constantly remind people the Yak-130 is more italian than the M-346 is russian. And if the M-346/T-7 are going to be temporary then they would become an superflous expence that. If I take my M-346 bias out of the equation, imho the solution that would allow the UK to save face the most would be to invest heavily into Aeralis and let them have more time to cook up something. Meanwhile if the T-2s end up kaput they could fully face the cost of sending all their pilots to be trained at the IFTS or at the greek copycat that uses M-346s as well once it launches. Then when Aeralis is ready have both the RAF and Reds fly the same jet. Another wild and retarded idea would be to ask japan to join their TX program if it exist, rope in Leonardo since it's already based on the M-346 and develop a successor to the M-346 that for the UK and JP becomes their main trainer, and for Italy an improved M-346FA. This last idea sounds more and more retarded as I write it.
>>547251346I hope Aeralis wins because I want a British company to make it, but also the modular jet idea sounds interesting.
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>>547260961I don't know what it is about I-77 but I can spot it right away. Apparently, this F-15 was a static trainer in Pensacola for awhile. Don't know where it is now. I can't seem to find anything about it since a year ago when this video was floating around. At least I'm too lay to dig around because I don't care that much.
>>547251993Modular stuff is interesting but usually it ends up being a gimmick with a worse economy of scale than doing 1 or 2 proprietary things.
>>547251993BTW, have you heard any news about the RAF top brass actually wanting the M-346? Prowling the internet and socials I've started to see some accounts of people who seems to be either RAF personnel or simply in the know claim that, but when I DM them for the source they usually don't really have any or they just go "it's what a bloke told me".
>>547264886Nothing beyond 'it's an option' and that it could be expensive to buy and maintain.
>>547265496Thanks. Pass up the chain that if you buy them there's a limited time offer where you get a 1kg of homemade Tiramisù per airframe. Get the FA version and on the hardpoints there will be some GBU32 shaped salami al cioccolato.
>>547266141>salami al cioccolatoBased, my mum has made that a few times, she's not Italian though. There's a rumour in my family that my great great grandmother had an affair with an Italian opera singer, so I might be part luigi.
>>547266478>There's a rumour in my family that my great great grandmother had an affair with an Italian opera singerThat's good enough. Welcome home fratello. Let's complain about the state of our country but ultimately do nothing to change it.
FUCK bears
>>547176032nice screenshots are mostly about composition desu, show us that potato
>>547277329No, I understand that. I just want better grafx. Maybe I'll play around with screenshots in DCS. It just looks pretty grainy on low settings.
>just jumped from an AMD Athlon X4 645, 8GB RAM and 1050ti to an Intel i5-14400F, 32GB and RX 9060 XT 16GBfuck yeah, time to install ETS2 and FINALLY use some giga density traffic mod, broskis
