DCS F/A-18C (Open Beta) Initial Impressions AAR

I really do recognize in myself a propensity to talk about the flying qualities of planes/helicopters that I have not flown IRL. And maybe it gets old reading the same ole garbage from me time after time. I don’t see myself as a complainer though. Most models I love without complaint and always have. This one, given the effort put in by two teams with input by Boeing along with actual bug pilots, seems very dissimilar to the plane that has been described to me ad nauseum . But unlike my complaints about Polychop, on this I KNOW it will get refined to perfection as it gets closer to release. In its current state it really demonstrates to people like me who don’t write code how hard it is to take so many variables and convert them into a plausible output. Part of the fun of beta (if you have faith in the system) is watching the process on the user end with no concept of what’s happening under the hood.

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