08-14-2014, 09:28 PM
(08-14-2014, 07:35 PM)Variable link Wrote:I believe that the classified stuff is not relevant for a high fidelity simulation but I might be wrong.
They can't know more about the black shark than they do about the longbow and still they made a simulator for it but not for the longbow.
I don't know what exactly is classified with the 64D compared to the 64A, so I'm not sure either, I just know that if the documentation for something important isn't freely available, they won't just try and guess how to model it. So I can only assume that all the technical documents they needed to model the Shark are unclassified. Apparently they agreed with the military (who is certainly an important, if not their biggest customer and they rely on them for technical advice, etc, so they don't want to piss them off!) to leave out some vital step in the A-10C startup sequence, so that people who'd used DCS wouldn't be able to startup the real thing and I'm sure they've left out the IFF and encryption protocols, which aren't used in the sim anyway :o
I believe they have done some work on the 64A in the past but it seems to have been put on the backburner. One reason why they might be holding off with the Apache is that it's meant to be a two-man aircraft and they haven't got dual-cockpit working in DCS yet. Maybe the new engine, EDGE, which should be released later this year, will bring this feature. The Huey is meant to be getting multi-seat capability when this feature is ready as well, which will be cool.