Same Here,Made a Huge difference for me and getting aboard the ship.
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I love how he keeps calling it a game and nobody gets triggered. It’s all a matter of perspective, I guess.
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Is it not?
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NO. This is SERIOUS BUSINESS. It is a flight SIMULATOR… 
I myself read the Dash 1 and then, even if it results in an error because DCS has abstracted something, roll with the error because that’s how seriously I take this. My VFS doesn’t even let people take off until they’ve passed 5 ground roll taxi tests with zero errors. The REAL Navy wouldn’t let them fly if they messed up, so, why would we?
Edit: Not that there’s anything wrong with the stereotype I’ve just perpetuated above, but yeah it is ultimately a game, but I think some people don’t like being reminded they don’t actually have military-level simulations installed on their personal computers. 
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I’ve never understood that mindset.
Of course I don’t understand spectator sports either (most boring thing in the world to me–watching other people play–applies to YT videos of people in BF or CoD or whatever too) so I’m definitely in a minority I guess.
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If it weren’t a game I wouldn’t play it. I’ve been playing since I was 14 (just shy of 50 now). I have been flying since 16 and flying professionally since 18. In all that time I have only mentioned flight simulators to a fellow pilot three times that I can recall. We talk sex, prior substance abuse, death of loved ones, embarrassing genital impairments and just about everything else that discrete people save for their therapists. But flight siming conjures notions of much weirdness to the people who are not exposed to the hobby—some of it unfortunately real. Yet I love this hobby almost as much as I love competitive aerobatics. Why be so secretive? Because I don’t care to be, in the eyes of my peers, lumped in with the sim fans who wear flight suits to conventions. It’s really that simple. Nothing should be taken so seriously unless real lives are at stake.
PS- I wrote the above and then thought deeper about it just now during a run. And on second thought, I talk flight sims all the time—even boring the listener to unconsciousness at times. But never modern combat sims which was specifically on my mind when I posted. I wish I could explain the distinction but I can’t. And I don’t mean to denigrate anyone who finds a way to maximize his enjoyment of a sim. People who own flight suits probably hand me my ass on a daily basis.
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Reminds me of all the flame wars and internet fights that IL2 had over aircraft performance. Usually someone sore over getting a can of WHOOPAZZ opened on them over the net, in a completely unrealistic situation, then coming onto forums to complain about how unrealistic the flight models are because of XYZ, ignoring the fact that the situation they pressed themselves into was unrealistic to begin with.
Can’t wait to see that happening with the F/A-18C. You know it’s coming.
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Oh boy, isn’t meeting those people a ray of sunshine…
I only knew a couple IRL, and i steeeeered way off to avoid them.
Boasting of their INTERNETZ MILITARY RANK in front of actual Military Pilots! 
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It’s just one of those things…
I’ve seen forums conversations where DCS gamers (chose that word for emphasis) are convinced that they could take the real combat aircraft around for a spin and do well in air combat manoeuvring and are really condescending about it to other people…and you just have to sigh and roll your eyes.
I love sims as much as the next guy (well, probably more) but despite my virtual achievements, I have no delusions of grandeur about being able to just jump in and do it in real life.
Sure, the sims have definitely helped with the concept of flying when taking real-life flight lessons but I’m definitely under no illusion that handling a fast jet right now in real life would be within my current ability, despite being quite comfortable in one in DCS.
That said, I think it’s the same with any hobby…there’s always guys who take it too far and go a bit crazy. I did a bit of research on woodworking forums for my workbench and whoa, there’s a rabbit hole if I ever saw one…and you wouldn’t believe the heated arguments people have over the placement of dog holes or whatnot!
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This is true. All of the pilots at my organization know I’m a flight simmer because we are a small group (17 pilots) and they see me working on articles for the magazine all the time. I took my Rift to a pilot meeting last year and they were pretty blown away by the whole experience…you could tell they thought it was really cool. But you could also tell they were pretty baffled at all the gear I brought in (CPU, monitor, Rift, HOTAS, pedals, etc…). None of my friends or acquaintances outside of the online world that I know flight sim. I think there is a specific genetic code or brain interest that makes us this way. (Or illness…haha…)
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I was a simmer long before I started flying for real. My intention is that I will be a simmer for a long time after I choose to stop flying for real If people think I’m a complete nerd with my flight sims, HOTAS, pedals and a Rift stuck to my face, well, they are probably right, and I am good with that. 
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I see a future, in my lifetime unfortunately, where our toys will be the only way to experience flight. The real world will be so automated thet we will all be Ubering solo like the Jetsons but none of us will be actually flying. (Pushing a joystick left and having the quadwhatever you are riding in translate left in response is not flying.) Non-automated flight will be seen as reckless, unnecessary and eventually illegal. That is probably the point where I will stop calling DCS a “game”.
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Single fire rockets didn’t make it in yet, or did they?
didnt.
Yeah so about those fixed rockeyes… How do you use them? I haven’t figured out the correct procedure yet. Anybody care to lay it out for a dumb dutchie?
Set your MFUZ to VT. Drop Bombs like any other. Laugh away the war crimes and revel in the UXO problem you just created for your enemy.
Once you set the fuzing, you can also adjust the height at which they burst by punching the HT option (bottom button, left side row).
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Yay! that did it!
Now all day imma clusterin’ clusterin’… imma goin’ clusterin’ clusterin’ 
Guess I missed the HT button. I <3 CCIP bombing. Put the thing on the thing and if you pickle it just right, pop it goes
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I tried to Rockeyes quickly but frankly didn’t have much success yet. More often than not they landed somewhere else than where I aimed for and even with the 3000ft burst height to footprint didn’t seem particularly big. With 10 weapons dropped, only 2 targets were hit at all (one T-55 suffering minor damage and one T-55 destroyed with a 300ft burst height).
Vs soft targets they do fine. IIRC rockeye is not meant as an anti-armour weapon, is it?
The children of Tunb Island better learn quickly they better not pick these toys up lol.
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