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Flight Sim reccomendations
- Thread starter Jublov
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What kind of sim are you interested in? Modern civil flight, WWI or WWII combat sim, modern jet combat sim? Not sure there's a single product that covers the spectrum of interests…and all are compromises on flight modeling, weapons effects, visual modeling, terrain, etc.
darrylcn
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DCS is probably your best bet. Apparently the Hog in it is very realistic regarding switchology (seems complex to me at least, loads of stuff to press and flick buttons on before you even get a chance to taxi), but don't try doing any A2A work in it. Supposedly there's a faithfully (like the A-10 is) modeled Legacy Hornet coming eventually. There's an F-15C for BVR fun but it's not modeled as completely as the Hog. Finally, MiG-29s and Su-27/33 are also present in game and flyable. You may enjoy the Russian jets in DCS.
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DCS is amazing. I have the Hog and the Flaming Cliffs package (F-15, Su-27, MiG-29, etc.)
The A-10 is basically fully modeled and it's sick. It's so high fidelity you can even change your lase codes to deconflict with other flights and tweak details on the release profiles of the weapons (burst height for CBUs for example).
Unfortunately there is no high fidelity modern A2A platform yet. All of the Flaming Cliffs aircraft have advanced flight models but next to no systems simulation, and the missile profiles are not very realistic (i.e you have to be basically inside 10nm to get a kill with a -120C).
The F-18 is coming, but if I had to wager there are probably some current applicants on here who will fly a Hornet for real before the DCS one is released.
But fear not, Leatherneck is developing a F-14A/B and it looks awesome: http://www.leatherneck-sim.com/f14/
The A-10 is basically fully modeled and it's sick. It's so high fidelity you can even change your lase codes to deconflict with other flights and tweak details on the release profiles of the weapons (burst height for CBUs for example).
Unfortunately there is no high fidelity modern A2A platform yet. All of the Flaming Cliffs aircraft have advanced flight models but next to no systems simulation, and the missile profiles are not very realistic (i.e you have to be basically inside 10nm to get a kill with a -120C).
The F-18 is coming, but if I had to wager there are probably some current applicants on here who will fly a Hornet for real before the DCS one is released.
But fear not, Leatherneck is developing a F-14A/B and it looks awesome: http://www.leatherneck-sim.com/f14/
Jublov
Play Top Gun Til' the VHS breaks
I always preferred a good MiG-29 and or SU-30
No Mig-28?
I'm kidding, this is gonna be great, nothing beats a good Tomcat.