10-06-2014, 06:12 PM
Sadly I'm going to have to hang up my pilot wings for now. My Sciatica/Back problems severely limit how long I can sit at my PC at the moment and with my poor layout (forced on me by my current desk), using the joystick just makes it worse, so I can't spend the time needed to practice and learn the aircraft and I want to save my strength for our Thursday ArmA sessions.
I'm planning to build myself a sort of mini cockpit that will hold my equipment in a more ergonomic position and allow me to fly from the comfort of my sofa, as I really like flying and it's frustrating as hell not to be able to. I can't say how long that's going to take at the moment though, as I'll have to design it all and buy the materials, etc and I always seem to have a never-ending list of things to do as it is.
I think I prefer the F-15C to the SU-25T, as with the latter I can never find the targets on the Shvkal, even with labels on showing me where they are, before I'm too close and have to turn away to avoid them shooting me down. I have similar difficulty with the KA-50 but as least with that I can hover and take my time. With the F-15C though, you've got the radar which shows you targets and it's a lot easier to spot them in the sky than picking out ground targets on the Shvkal anyway. Hopefully EDGE/DCS 2 will improve things as far as ground spotting is concerned, with better contrast or something (everyone seems to be obsessed with more pixels but I just have to watch real-life material on my 720P TV to know that it's not lack of pixels that makes computer graphics look unrealistic), so I'll probably try again when that's released.
Anyway, in the meantime I'll print out some manuals to study and hopefully some of it will have sunk in by the time I get back to actually flying
Been a pleasure flying with you comrades, may we meet in the skies again sometime
I'm planning to build myself a sort of mini cockpit that will hold my equipment in a more ergonomic position and allow me to fly from the comfort of my sofa, as I really like flying and it's frustrating as hell not to be able to. I can't say how long that's going to take at the moment though, as I'll have to design it all and buy the materials, etc and I always seem to have a never-ending list of things to do as it is.
I think I prefer the F-15C to the SU-25T, as with the latter I can never find the targets on the Shvkal, even with labels on showing me where they are, before I'm too close and have to turn away to avoid them shooting me down. I have similar difficulty with the KA-50 but as least with that I can hover and take my time. With the F-15C though, you've got the radar which shows you targets and it's a lot easier to spot them in the sky than picking out ground targets on the Shvkal anyway. Hopefully EDGE/DCS 2 will improve things as far as ground spotting is concerned, with better contrast or something (everyone seems to be obsessed with more pixels but I just have to watch real-life material on my 720P TV to know that it's not lack of pixels that makes computer graphics look unrealistic), so I'll probably try again when that's released.
Anyway, in the meantime I'll print out some manuals to study and hopefully some of it will have sunk in by the time I get back to actually flying
Been a pleasure flying with you comrades, may we meet in the skies again sometime