It’s here finally! The new patch brings a bunch of fixes and improvements, most notably, multiplayer stability. There’s also some nice additions to the Combined Arms module, allowing you to control air assets from the ground. Patch notes: New Features:… Read More ›
Digital Combat Simulation
DCS Funnel flying
Another unique feature of the Shark is it’s ability to fly sideways almost as nicely as forwards since the lack anti-torque rotor takes away the threat of vortex ring state.
DCS Naval Operations: Sharks like to swim
Aside from a small issue of the aircraft sliding off the deck when the ship is moving, naval operations are great fun in the Black Shark. Let’s hope the next DCS airframe includes carrier operations! Here’s my first take off… Read More ›
Do not anger the Black Shark…
A quick video I put together on the black shark of working from a fixed battle position. Hot tip: leave enough room in front of you to dive and bank away from incoming missiles!
DCS Combined Arms
A first little look at DCS Combined Arms. I can’t wait for this to get some serious development time. For multi-player it really gives you the ability to no longer heavily script the ground forces.
Overhead Break / Combat Landing
Here’s a quick video of the overhead break landing I recorded last night. I didn’t really follow any particular ‘numbers’ in performing this, it was basically just a VFR approach with a bunch of tight turns to bleed energy.
DCS: Mustang beta arrives!
I’ve just pre-purchased my copy of DCS: Mustang – can’t wait to download and get it going! “DUXFORD, UK, April 29, 2012 – The Fighter Collection and Eagle Dynamics now offer “DCS: P-51D Mustang” as a digital download pre-purchase for… Read More ›
DCS Dedicated Server
Online Combat Battalion have been organising a dedicated server for DCS A-10C. Check out a quick test mission we ran yesterday: http://www.ocb.net.au
DCS: Manpads, when you least expect it…
Recently I flew a mission and just as I was cleaning up the last targets I got a missile warning at 3 o’clock low. Check out the results: Manpads are MAN Portable Air Defence Systems, meaning basically a guy with… Read More ›
Landing in the soup
I’ve had a lot of fun over the past few days practicing instrument landings. Some of these have been down right scary but a bit like air to air refueling it’s really quite rewarding. You can see in this example… Read More ›