09-03-2014, 10:26 PM
(09-03-2014, 06:27 PM)Misha link Wrote:If needed we can organize "pilot school", covering everything, take off, landing, navigation, communications, weapon systems, defense systems, and so on.
Yeah, I think that would be good as a lot of people might worry that they'll be expected to be able to do everything already and thus not join, so it would be good to start with some non-combat training to give us all a chance to get to grips with things. Maybe the free aircraft are good to learn the basics of take off, landing, navigation, as everyone will have them and there's less systems to confuse and intimidate people. The skills learnt will serve us well in the other aircraft.
Whilst it's good to learn the proper start-up sequence to get to know how the plane works, obviously no-one wants to have to keep doing that every time they crash and re-spawn, at least whilst learning but luckily there's the Autostart key to skip all that I imagine we can even have planes spawn in the air for practicising landings.
So we need to work out how one of us can run a server with suitable missions for learning. I don't think the server needs to use the graphics card at all and I believe DCS only uses two cores, so perhaps with a quad core it would be possible to run the server and play on one machine. I'm upgrading my Phenom II X4 955 to an i5 4670k once I receive the CPU heatsink I ordered (and I find the time) and I'll probably make the Phenom II X4 and motherboard my spare/backup system, so I could run the server on that, which might be better.
I printed out pretty much the entire KA-50 manual to read last year when I had to stay elsewhere (with no TV or Internet :o ) whilst my flat was having some work done to it but I need to print out those charts and checklists I posted. Then I need to do something with my desk, so I've got somewhere I can actually put the folder and look at it whilst flying
Quote:It's good to have Track IR or similar, but I fly without it and improvise, it's not really 100% necessary but it helps a lot.
I've seen other people say the same. I guess it depends what you're flying and the mission type, as if you're in combat with other planes it's quite important to be able to stay aware of where they are in relation to you but when you're attacking ground targets it's not so important.