I just need the 2 FW190 s the mirage and the mig15/19 none of which float my boat so I may pickup some campaigns
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If you pick up the MiG15 and the Museum Relic campaign, I think you will quickly come to like it a lot. Especially in VR. The Mirage is great too, especially in VR and has some excellent campaigns to support it.
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You need a Mig-21…don’t fight it. Embrace it. It is your destiny. 
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Still waiting for the Tomcat to go on sale, but for now I’ve got enough to do with the Hornet.
Just Buy All the Campaigns i did voice overs for, Lol, j/k
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Which ones are that?
i dont remember, just buy all of them to be on the safe side.
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And the Gazelle is in the stable
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Well done. You may like the USMC skins that come with it. 
On a related subject…
He is my “issue” with DCS and their sales. Everything I have purchased is awesome, even the Gazelle. The challenge is getting proficient enough in each aircraft. Currently I have the Gazelle, Hip, Mig-15, Mig-19, Mig-21, Mig-29, Su-33, F-15, A-10C, FA-18, F-5, and of course the Viggen. Those of you who have been on Mudspike for a while, know all about my trials and tribulations with the Viggen. Not as well know is that with over several dozen sorties, I have safely landed the Mig-21 only a handful of times - “safely” meaning without blowing the tires or running off the runway or just causing a great big fire ball. The Mig-19 is about the only jet that I can consistently take off and land safely. (Also the A-10C but needing to solve differential equations to put a GBU on target gets old after a while…but its still a lot of fun) I have a better track record with the helos but no where near a perfect one.
What to do? Just concentrate on one jet and helo? …no way! What’s the fun in that? And then a DCS sale comes along and I get to twining…"You know, that Harrier sounds like a lot of fun…hmmmmm.
Signed, Perplexed in Peoria
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Old man, you need a harrier. You know you do.
Not only can you kill yourself in myriad new and interesting ways due to the properties of the thrust vectoring system, you also get to do third degree differential equations to lob LGB’s at fools, except this time you are not puttering along at 200knots with gas for days…
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You are not alone Will. I have every flyable module except the I-16 and I am currently proficient in exactly none of them. I can fire some of them up from cold and dark, fly around a bit, land (even on the carrier), drop a few bombs and fire off a Sidewinder, but by no stretch of the imagination am I combat ready. And they keep releasing new and shiny rides, which I know I will buy and inevitably not learn to fly them properly. Sigh.
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I own basically everything out side of C101,Hip, Ww2 stuff, MiG 15.
Modules I consider mastery level which to me means cold start, full systems and weapons employment:
F18
Harrier
Mig21
Modules I can fly, use the weapons (mostly) and AUTO START (some of them):
F5
A10C
Viggen
L39
F15
F14
Huey
Modules I don’t know what the hell im doing in:
Mig 19
Sabre
Gazelle
Ka50
As you can see the majority of my modules are in the middle catagory of “hey I can jump online and kill stuff in, but don’t remember the bold text.” I had a harder time than I expected putting that list together. I almost had the A10C in the mastered column, but there are some systems that I aren’t familiar with.
Always fun to go back and do a refresher.
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An idea could be to buy one of the campaigns, and work all the way through it. When finished with the campaign, chances are you will be pretty proficient in that particular ride.
Then: New campaign, new jet, rinse and repeat 
Currently working through the Mustang challenge campaign, and then aim to do the Bodnar campaign as a sort of graduation.
It’s a familiar problem though, in that I bought the P51 when it first came out, and never really used it until now.
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Dear Perplexed in Peoria,
Fear not for you are not alone. I have several jets, planes, and three helos. I rotate so often, I fear I lose muscle memory for specific aircraft. While I’ve flown many of them, I fear I have mastered none. Spent most of my time in the A-10 until the Harrier and Hornet came along.
Of course, despite my vow to not buy another aircraft until the Viper becomes available, I pick up the L-39 Albatros during Summer sale. I was debating between the Albatros and the C101. Of course one of our online colleagues (I will say no names) suggested getting both, so I intend to get the latter after putting in a little more stick time with the Albatros.
The wife used to get mad until she realized I’m not in the club, at the bar, or on the streets doing other things. I suspect I will settle down with the Viper’s release until at least the F-15E comes to town.
Until then I fly on, without guilt, and realize that the struggle is real.
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Being proficient is for professionals. We are good with some virtual death from time to time… or more often 
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We need science. Here’s a graph of DCS Module Interest Over Time:
On buying a new DCS aircraft, the initial blue color represents the stunned disbelief of just sitting in the cockpit playing with the mirrors and making pew pew noises while moving the big stick around.
The orange dip line shows the initial trough of despair as you try to start it up manually for the first time and wonder why the HUD never actually shows a flight path marker.
The green wiggles show various youtube videos being released and watched diligently. As you learn each new feature in early access you get good at it, only to get mesmerized by the upcoming next ‘open beta new feature’ to the extent you will try to use it for everything regardless of its use. I’ve personally tried to open a can of beans with a precision JSOW-B munition, just because I can.
The red line represents the obsession of using the aircraft when it all starts to click. The hours of manual reading, random button pressing and multiplayer sorties where you spend 40 minutes getting to the IP only to now set your mechanical fuse wrong and elegantly loft some $200,000 worth of inert munitions onto a surprised and grateful foe.
The black section at the top is ‘peak DCS nirvana’ where it all feels good.
The fall off with purple is when the next module is released and your gaze is now switched to the next new thing. The slope represents the knowledge you learnt atrophying away, like water from a cheese grater, where only two short weeks later you’ll sit in the cockpit and literally have no idea how to start it.
Ignore that the chart says ‘Use of dietary supplements by children’ on it, that would be as if I just googled ‘chart’ and picked the first convenient image.
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I hoped that you dropped the microphone ff, because you just crushed it.
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Is it weird that I want to set this curve to my Warthog ministick, just to see if it might be the secret for success?
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I can only speak for myself, but when it comes to modules, I’m not really afraid of buying more or owning more. At present, I’ve mostly been focused on the F-14, with occasional jumps into the Harrier, but hopping into something like the Bug is no problem due to the general nature of the aircraft. I’d imagine if I were doing something like the MiG-19 I might feel differently, but that’s why I’m fond of the kneeboard for keeping track of procedures. I use it extensively for the Mirage and the Viggen, even though the Viggen is broken currently (which is why I stick to the basic bombs when I take it up).
You can’t spend money when you’re dead, so if it’s interesting to you, then the 30-40 bucks is a pretty small price to pay.
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