So what are we thinking, another month of getting the Viggens out of the hanger? 
Or are we moving to something new.
I hardly flew my viggen at all. Stupid virus. In two weeks our schools are partially opening up again, so I might get to fly some more.
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Amen to that. I’ve hardly had any time to sim the last few months, and most of it was spent in the very familiar F-16. I’d be happy to un-hangar my AJS-37 if the Viggen gets continued but I would be interested in other aircraft as well.
I started the month with great intentions. I was going to focus on both the Viggen and the Air Mail trek… and then @smokinhole dangled Condor 2 in front of my nose. 
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Well I’ve split my month between the mighty Viggen in (mostly) single player and the Bug online.
I definitely wouldn’t say no to another month in the SAAB as I’ve barely scratched the surface yet.
I’m pretty comfortable in the pattern and en route flight but I need to spend more time with the weapons and some ships definitely need to die soon. I’m hoping tommorow night will be the night…
I flew my Viggen’s wings off - both figuratively and literally. I really worked hard on some ideas – ELINT and SEAD mostly, with some good success on the former and limited success on the latter.
I think I have been taking some features of the DCS Viggen too literally; trying to push them beyond what the sim and/or mod can actually do.
I must’ve flown upwards of 50+ missions - many repeating the same mission with changes to see if I could get better ELINT, get ECM t world or justfgure out how to get an AI Viggen not to “drop its load” (again both figuratively and literally) every time a SAM launches, etc. After a while the fun quotient started to drop. I’m taking a short Viggen sabbatical but am open to continuing in May.
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I learned the cockpit, cold start and handling fairly well and I’ve launched most of the importantly a/g weapons a few times.
When it came to the crunch of repetition to really iron in the CK37 usage, I jumped the gun a bit and tried to go use the bird online instead…and I just didn’t have the chops to be able to get the computer to play ball in the heat of the situation. Sadly, I let myself get a little frustrated and I’m on a little Viggen holiday as a result, haha.
I went back to flying Mi-8, specifically the Oilfields campaign, and some garage projects, for a bit. Funnily enough that feels like coming home now, the Hip month was a massive eye opener to me about that bird!
I’m relaxed as to what we’re getting out of the hangar next…my sights are potentially a little bit in the AH2XP fun at the moment, but I’ll tag along through the cold starts and pattern work of any bird we pick, at a minimum.
Could aim for the next bird for start of June, if people are still at the Viggen a bit.
Thats the pesky thing about the CK37…its not really a “heat of battle” toy. You really need to have stuff set up ahead of time. My rule of thumb procedure:
- In ME: Reece points and Rb-15 points
- On the ground/ before taxi, when the computer “wakes up”: Boot it (9099 code), select the target WP (90000 + B key) and set up a TOT (TID, enter a time).
- Initial leg(s): Pop up point (if required; bearing & Km + B key); specific munitions entries (Bk codes, Rocket codes, etc.)
- After target: TILS for alternate afield if required.
That way I was never rushed.
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Sure, knowing the CK37 is important but I think understanding the weapon release profiles and what the HUD is telling you is equally important. The NAV/ANF modes often times can be both used depending on weapon selection and attack profile.
Chuck’s guide is excellent to understand the weapons. 90% of what you need to do transfers between all of them!
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Maybe a little poll to see where our interests lie? For the plane we’ll fly in May.
Generation I-III Jets and jet trainers
- More Viggen!
- MiG-15
- MiG-19
- MiG-21
- F-86
- F-5E
- L-39
- C-101
0 voters
Warbirds, props and helicopters
- FW190A
- FW190D
- BF109K
- P-51D
- Spitfire Mk. IX
- Christen Eagle II
- Yak-52
- UH-1H
- Mi-8MTV
- Ka-50
- SA-342
0 voters
Generation IV jets and modern CAS
- JF-17
- F-16
- F-14B
- F/A-18C
- A-10C
- AV-8B
0 voters
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Voted 
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Same!
For those of you looking for a final viggen challenge, I suggest you try and successfully fly a sortie on a server like Blue Flag or 104th!
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Be good to team up and have a mudspike strike package 
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I am totally up for that! Getting better at flying the viggen in BF recently. Though the PG map usually has DCS hang at some point during the flight. In the Caucasus I’ve been quite successful at harrassing little FOB’s.
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They did that to 3 early production Viggens too. Grounded the whole fleet until they discovered a hole in the wingspar that wasn’t where they had calculated it to be…
The pilots survived the accidents by proving that the escape system worked as advertised.
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Quite a few have voted already! Many people want to continue flying the Viggen, but not as many as who want to give the Harrier a spin! Maybe we can leave the voting open until 2020-05-04T07:00:00Z and then open a new thread for the Harrier unless the popular consensus changes, while leaving this thread open for those who want to continue flying the viggen?
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2.5.6 beta isn’t kind on the Harrier currently, a few MPCD functions are bugged as is the display brightness. Perhaps wait out another month for the Harrier, as much as it pains my heart, that aircraft deserves a proper go!
Though this fits the Harrier well though:
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I discovered an interesting niche for the use of the Rb-05: Attacking point targets at night under flare illumination. Granted, the TV Maverick also works at night but this is a DCS-ism. I doubt that the real Maverick could lock up targets at night even under flare illumination, considering it was troublesome to do so even at day under difficult lighting conditions. So the Rb-05 would probably still have been an essential weapon to attack certain targets at night.
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I closed the polls! It looks like the Viggen won again! I do hope we can pick up the AV-8B in June, then 
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I’m ecstatic over this news. I cant wait to delve deeper into the Viggen and murder some shipping
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