And for the carrier model, there’s unlimited steam at an unlimited max flow rate through the steam accumulator fill valves, and there’s no such thing as power excursions or limits if the ship has to supply all the wind across the deck from forward propulsion.
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@Navynuke99… You really want them to model the main spaces, don’t you…admit it. 
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I mean, if they’re going to do the walk-around model that includes other spaces, Central Control should be among those. I mean, they can do MOST of it without getting into the classified stuff. As for modeling the RAR’s and MMR’s, they’d look cool, but I’m sure Big Navy would disagree.
But if they could recreate at least a bit of the physics… That’d be a blast.
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Oh. And the bowling alley. Since it’s right around the corner.
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For us intel types, the mission planing tool built into DCS is, in some ways, actually better than the computer mission planning stuff we use in CVIC…so I’m happy. 
BTW…USS GUAM did actually have a whirlpool tub down in sick bay…just tell an HM that your back hurts and take a 30 minute jacuzzi.…seriously.
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I switched projects in late January, and my current cube neighbor joined our company after working on a number of projects at Boeing. One of them happened to be supporting the operational evaluation for the Growler.
We were shooting the stuff one Friday, and I had mentioned a friend’s misfortune with HAVE QUICK and Rebecca Black. He was telling me how they were testing the communication jamming on the Growler. To screw with the flight crew, the stations they were using as emitters were playing the greatest hit reel from recordings of comments the flight crew had made over the ICS.
Apparently the EWO was an even tempered, polite, demure woman… until she got into the back seat of her jet, at which point she transformed into, well, a naval aviator.
The choicest clips were from off-axis catapult shots at Pax River. They were testing to make sure if someone managed to (inconceivably badly) mess up their taxi, the jet wouldn’t break if it got shot off the deck not perfectly aligned with the cat.
First test was a simple >10 degree off axis shot. They do the cat stroke, and over the intercom comes “JESUS CHRIST I ■■■■■■■ LOVE THIS JOB!”
Second test was a wammy. A greater off axis angle than the first, but they intentionally screwed up the steam settings so they were firing an EA-18 with the pressure fit for a C-2. They fire the catapult (and came uncomfortably close to tearing the jet in half). Over the intercom they hear “GRUNTING AH MOTHER******! My water broke! I’m all wet down there!”
I gave him the same look he probably had when he heard that. Apparently she had been wearing a camel back, and the force which she was shoved back in the seat popped it.
Also this guy used to work with Betty.
Apparently she made brownies that were, well, bitchin’
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You’re sure it was a Naval Aviator and not a civilian test engineer? This sounds a lot like a friend of mine who was in that place during the Growler evaluation. And she definitely has that kind of mouth.
Not entirely sure, I sort of assumed from the context, but I didn’t specifically ask.
How do you know that your date with a Naval Aviator is half over?
When they say, “Well, enough about me. Let’s talk about flying.”
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I know right? Seem a like everyone and their brother has access to this thing now.
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I’m very much a grumpy bear right now because of issues unrelated to DCS, but after the twentieth or so video of people repeating the same lines and making the same mistakes, it’s gone from novel to redundant. I spent the last year transcribing manuals about this thing. You cannot hype me any further, and I already know how it works. I’m not getting any thing out of these videos* except jealousy and frustration.
release the jet already.
they’re not going to releae the jet until I have to travel, I’m calling it now
*yes I understand I’m weird and most people do not categorically study aircraft before they buy them
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I think it will be this Wednesday(DCS Patch Day)
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I hope so - I’m in town all weekend and we’ve got a forecast full of rain.
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Considering the amount of preview videos and livestreams over the last days I hope so too…
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Oh man I hope so! I’m still working from home after my surgery, and Thursday and Friday are looking pretty “flexible”…
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Hope you are feeling better Brother!!
I hope they release it soon as well. I can’t wait to meet you all in the virtual skies and shoot you down with my trusty L-39ZA!
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900 pages is nothing. The 3+ manuals that are required continuous reading for crews driving airliners from points A to B total thousands of pages. And our job is simple. We don’t fly on or off moving, rocking postage stamps nor do we get shot at nor do we blow stuff up. So at 900 pages, I’d say the Navy is being downright Hemingway-esque.
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3+ manuals! Oh, we would’ve dreamed of having only three manuals! The complete set of Reactor Plant Manuals sits about seven feet high when stacked vertically, and then another five or six feet for the Steam Plant Manual. And we’d still have to study the Water Chemistry Manual and the RadCon Mantual, if we were lucky!
(couldn’t resist)
@smokinhole, if that all just avionics and procedures, or is there troubleshooting in there as well?
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You guys are really turning me off. 
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