HOLY COW, What a MARATHON of a mission, Huge Thanks to Red Crown and Alley Cat for helping to heard the cats, the GCI's are the real Heros of this mission! Hey guys! Check out Leading Edge Supplements, I know I sound like a crazy person pushing supplements but it is honestly a great product that really helps me everyday and its made by pilots and for pilots. Use Code SPUD for 15% off! www.leadingedgesupps.com/
me too dude, me too. my friends cant even hold the Altitude cause "its not important". 200 Hours of playtime now and i never had a formation flight with them cause they dont care. Its a shame.
it's been a while since i played the Microprose flight sims back then on the amiga and commodore 128 .. there is simply no comparison to this, the realism factor is immense. All the details from launching on the carrier with the npc shooter .. amazing.
Absolutely! I walked onto the Tarmac at Miramar for the 2019 airshow right before they sent a bunch of birds to the boneyard and all of the USMC CAG birds were on display and they matched DCS perfectly haha it was very cool!
This kind reminds me playing the Battle of the Coral Sea back in Pacific Fighters. Using pure dead reckoning to fly for what seemed like hours hoping to find the enemy carrier fleet, the excitement and thrill of actually finding the fleet and attempting to put a bomb on target, and then navigating back to your own carrier hoping you had just enough fuel to get home. I sure miss the days before kids where I could take an entire afternoon and run those missions.
@@Wpjgdmtu One thing that really helped get me into was that I was actually in the Navy at the time and was actually doing quite a bit of real dead reckoning/navigating type stuff I was probably more into than I should have been.
I see Spud's mouse movements inside the cockpit and they are similar to mine thinking:"ok, what's next?" Trying to remember the procedures for 30+ different airplanes that we don't fly in a regular basis is complicated.
Yeah, it's better to specialize but after a while I find myself losing interest for a plane and switch to another. But that's the percs of being a gamer and not a pilot, you can get a taste of everything !
So I have to say. I enjoyed the mission, even though it was a bit longer than I expected to be. However, I had some issues. Alley Cat had a bit of an issue coordinating flights initially. We had a push order for a reason and before we were even done aligning, other jets were on the catapults that weren't even supposed to be there yet. (Also there was no stored heading alignment for the tomcats so it took 8 min to align but it could just be an A-model thing, idk) Our flight lead wasn't using their radios at all and we basically just left without them after getting permission because that person was just flying in random directions. After getting permission to go direct to the tanker, we get vectored west because we are about to go to Iranian airspace. Well whose fault is that, you cleared us direct. War Party arrived entirely too late to drop their jsows. Didn't matter overall because all the bandits had been taken care of, but slightly frustrating. Red Crown committed us to a bandit and then committed another flight to the bandit as well, resulting in two AIM-120s being shot over us by 100 feet then maneuvering down to the target. The 14A is a PITA. That is all. Overall, I enjoyed it, and would do it again. Some things to work out but it was fun. Looking forward to the next one! -Sundown 2-2
great constructive feedback! when I get back into flying. I hope to find/fly with ppl like yourself to fly with. even with my car racing days and now flying days. ppl want to do these full on 100% real like events. but when it comes time its all half assed and just falls apart. so I hope to find really good ppl like this to fly with !!
because they did off any Tomcat from Iranian, that means they said in their rules that no Iranian tomcats don't scramble, because their whole mission will be awful and this 3hours will be nothing!!
Hey VMFA-232 was the squadron that I was in. Its funny that you where taking off from the boat considering they are a land based squadron lol. We had a saying about our jets, if they weren't leaking, they had no fuel... God I miss it. Great video.
I'd dearly love to get into this, but by the time you've bought the VR headset, the stick and throttles, and the required massive PC to run it, you're in for a couple of grand to do it well.
I fly with an Xbox 360 gamepad and DelanClip. All in that's like $80 worth of equipment last I checked, not including PC obviously. All things considered you don't actually need the biggest baddest PC to run DCS, just make sure you have a lot of RAM for multiplayer.
@@Andromedon777 Yeah 8 gb is about the bare minimum for single player missions at most. 16 is minimum for most multiplayer servers, but realistically you want 32 for multiplayer. 8gb for vram too. It's crazy.
I was really disappointed. Made it 90 miles from WP2 and then my game crashed. That, after falling asleep twice waiting for the Tomcats and once while in the air enroute to WP 2
relax the ram speed a tiny bit. most crashes are from ram running on the ragged edge. even if its advertised at those speeds. or just old hardware. either way relaxing the speed or timings a little will help system stability soo mcu h
I keep saving money to one day be able to get a true gaming PC to play DCS. This kind of long, detailed gameplay looks amazing. The commitment level seems so fun. Great video.
This is one of the coolest and immersive videos ive ever seen. I wish I had the skill and knowlege to do this. This is so damn cool. Especially at night. Such a beautiful game and awesome gamplay.
@@alteredstate7746 The sim is DCS world. It's free but better modules are mostly paid. Here's the product page: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/stable/
Great watch! Cannot believe you guys flew right past my place of work at Al Bateen Executive (OMAD)! That time of day, I would have been driving through the military gate!
I love how psycho 1-3 was trying to be as respectful as possible with the "fueling mishap" lol Great mission, great comms Love watching these and hopefully I will be able to join some day
I have never played this game. But I need this in my life. I used to play Aces High 3 often. Setting up a long range bomber mission that took hours to complete was always a good time. Looked forward to meeting up with the team after work and discussing the plan. Satisfying when you pull it off. This was awesome!
I'm an Iranian and this mission was attacking my country but still i enjoyed it , specially the usage of f-14s simply love these master pieces. great team work, hope that in reality there is no need for such missions. P.S. shiraz air base is known to be the nest for iranian f-14s but the city is so beautiful please don't miss fire your missiles in city air field
@@Andromedon777 Most of Iranians are pro west nowadays. we don't want to be attacked or go into war, specially with super powers. on the other hand we have no say in what the revolutionary army does :( . it's like taking 50 million people hostage .
@@mtscisage Very sorry to hear this my friend. I suspected you support the west. I do appreciate you taking value of humans over toxic ideas. I always wondered, I know Christianity is outlawed there but does it seem somewhat prevalent or are most secret Christians?
@@Andromedon777Christianity is not banned in Iran but unfortunately there are multiple laws that makes the life of Christians hard. Despite all of these difficulties there re multiple active churches in each major city and Christians hold gatherings quitely and semi secretly ( they don't attract much attention). I totally understand their behavior and am so ashamed of Iran's religious extremists. Christians have difficulty getting into top universities and getting government jobs but other than that we see them as very cultured and well behaved people ... in all these years that i lived never heard an attack or fight that includes churches, very respectable religious minority in Iran's population.
18 minutes in, just caught the launch on rendevous with the tanker. Loving the comms and dedications to procedure here. This is going to be a sick 3 hours!
I've always been interested in doing big missions with people like this but I know I'm not nearly a good enough pilot or know even the surface of what my F18 can do. Would anyone recommend any servers to practice on, where to go to learn things, or any tips for someone still learning?
There are lessons, and honestly downloading and reading the manual for F18 helps a lot. Plus just a lot of in game Instant Action Missions or just Creat your own mission and learn start up, radar, landing.. etc
@@jacepost1356 can happily say that 2 years later I’m comfortable providing air to air support in both the F18 and the F16. Moved to VTOL VR for the time being lately- just faster to jump into with my limited time. For anyone reading in the future, just keep practicing your favorite module and make sure you’re having fun learning what you want to learn!
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Good work. Great demonstration of what a real life mission might entail for younger DCS pilots who might join up and one day be ordered to return their F/A-18 to the ship after a brief layover at Al Dhafra. The Life Accellerator is not just a job, it's an adventure! Today is the day when you stop listening to the tales of other lives lived and begin your own journey. Navy. Let the journey begin!
Definitely agree to why you play DCS. I am the same way. It basically exposes you to the real life world by going on a mission like this one. Plus the realistic aerodynamics, combat, and cockpits.
@@Spudknocker I've a feeling I will. I love watching the tutorials but I've always wanted to see a realistic long strike video. It's the kind of thing I'd hope to be a part of once my DCS skills and confidence are up to scratch. I'll let you know! Haha
@@Spudknocker That was brilliant! Curious though as to how much fuel you burn whilst waiting for the others to refuel and join you? Oh and I loved the way the sunset came up at the end. I'm sure that was well timed on the mission planner Haha I look forward to more like this dude!
Looks like a super cool game. Just tell me something. How the heck do you learn all the on air lingo? Are there specific roles that are assigned? Like when you are taxing on the CAT on the carrier. Is there ATC roles? AS I heard them giving you the call out when to taxi and when to clear CAT launch. Thanks!
you know you can use the mids radio in the hornet, right? it has much better quality and range because it's digital. To use it assign radio 3 and 4 hotkeys in srs. To set it up press D/L, then VOCA/VOCB, hit a number for the channel and then enter. Don't press CLR or it will turn off the radio. If you want to get rid of the ICP display go to another option, like AP and hit CLR twice there to turn off the displays. MIDS radio is very good for intraflight because it's basically a free radio, keeping the standard ones free for common/gci, or even interflight (on VOCB) if it's lots of hornets.
Wow, that fight was intense. But how does an F-18 on an air-to-air mission run out of weapons so fast? Mind you, I'm not done the video. Just genuinely curious... I have so many questions. Subbed right away.
Luke Dodge the jet I was flying was tasked with air to ground, to carry enough fuel, two GBU-24’s and a targeting pod that only leaves room for 1 AIM-120 and 2 AIM-9X’s
The longest DCS video I have EVER watched. Fascinating to see how "real" A-A and A-G missions play out, while handling tanking at night, loss of spatial awareness, radar and radio failures, comms chatter, pilot loses and low fuel states. This video had it all. Could not have scripted a better movie. Should rename this video Top Gun II, copy and paste over the movie release. Click Yes to overwrite. 😎 Great job folks. Once my rig gets here in December, I would love to join up.
Good long mission, much more realistic. Comm discipline was pretty bad, Number 2 needs to open his ears. After frequency change, everyone is SILENT until LEAD announces, "Diablo Flight"...THEN..."2...3...4" "Al Dhafra approach, Diablo 11, flight of four, checking in 251.1" Overall, darn good!
@@Spudknocker Thanks, I will once I've gotten better. I still have to learn how to do aerial refueling, and once I've gotten better at carrier landings. You guys seem like a fun bunch to fly with.
Watch tutorial on the all around basics to know about the enviroment and the various sistems, and then choose a aircraft to learn first and stick with it. Keep using tutorials and practice to master the airplane, going in forums and discord servers about dcs coul help you even more, finding someone who can teach you some stuff and who's free to fly with beginners.
So this was a absolute ClusterF**k almost all of us tomcats went for a drink, actually I think all of us went for a drink. I got ejected after takeoff (thank you jester), then my DCS crashed my second try, so I just hoped in a backseat and we got no fuel so we had to bail, all in all I thought it was cool op just wish it went a little more to plane rather than sh*t with the friendly fire and the tanker accident.
Man I remember hearing fighters were 100miles out on approach to us and had to sprint to the boom to get it ready only to have fighters sitting at precontact by the time my prep for AR checklist was done.
It's so crazy how realistic games have become these days!! Feels like only yesterday that I was in a MW2 lobby waiting for a match to start, and now we have stuff like DCS, Squad, ArmA 3. The future for gaming looks bright, NGL!
Just discovered this game and this whole mission definitely contributed to mindblow me further, great job. What impressed me the most Is the whole voice transmission sound design..is it like that by default ingame or you used some third party software? I think the only turn off is the absolute silence and detachment from immersion when checking out the map, but I'm just splitting the hair in two
Amazing vid..thanks you for sharing. The amount of knowledge and coordination involved in that mission, with that number of aircraft was simply mind blowing...good job to all. Re Olympus...in WHAT IN TARNATION 😱 Little self-awareness goes a long way...what was this dude thinking when he setup his Trucker RoadKing power modulation, echo feedback Mic!! 🤔 ...and couldn’t one of you tell those guys sometime within the 3plus hrs to turn down their mic’s?? Every time those dudes (2 were really bad) keyed his mic, I went into super cringe mode, nails down the chalkboard type of pain. I am sure a great guy...but man, for the love of GOD turn it down a couple decibels.
Fucking love the quotes on that leading edge supplement site haha.: "I hate non alcoholic drinks, but this is pretty damn good. Also does pretty well combating a hangover." - Anthony, Pilot. Hope that guy is never my pilot.
This reminds me of IL-2 night mission when we bombed Berlin. about 1700 Km total distance, less that you guys but it took us many many hours because we were in Lancasters :))
HOLY COW, What a MARATHON of a mission, Huge Thanks to Red Crown and Alley Cat for helping to heard the cats, the GCI's are the real Heros of this mission!
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"All these chemicals that turn the friggin' frogs gay!!!"
-Alex Jones (no relation to _me_ whatsoever)
I felt exhausted after it just watching. The real deal without actually killing anyone. Nice.
Do the ship to the EU? cant seam to find any info
@@DJones476p
Made by pilots eh?
So, that's what the 'relief tube,' is for?
I would go all that way and miss my target
LOL I did, so you're not alone!
I'd fly there and get shot down immediately. 😴😴
At least you'd get out there lmao
I would go all the way there and show up when everyone was leaving already.
@@Canada1Snip3r lol well, I was gave myself a little too much credit there too lol
this is what DCS is made for, i just hoped more of my friends would like that instead of going crazy on a public server
Public servers are BOOOORRRRRINNNNNGGGG
I wish my friends played dcs instead of playing fps shooters all day
@@observantmagic4156 Your friends are playing first person shooter shooters? lmao
If I could learn how to fly those :c
me too dude, me too. my friends cant even hold the Altitude cause "its not important". 200 Hours of playtime now and i never had a formation flight with them cause they dont care. Its a shame.
The Mirage’s had a great sortie - 3 hours of circling the tankers and arguing who had better food, Greece or Lebanon 😂
Is it chaotic evil for me to add hummus to my gyro? lmao
I shall allow it cause both are amazing!
@@KortanaDCS truly a true neutral moment
Lmfao!
Not sure if this is culturally insensitive, or culturally delicious lol.
Can you imagine how bad this would be in VR, I did a 2 hour 400 NM mission in VR and had to quit dcs for a week haha
Oh, this was crazy in VR. I think you can still see the goggle shaped imprint on my face, lol
Oh jeez!
@@KortanaDCS Haha Siri is probably mad at me for messing up your face! LOL
@@Spudknocker pretty sure Kortana has Reverb G2-shaped imprint permanently on her face at this point haha
@@KortanaDCS did you manage to eat in and drink in VR?
this makes tarkov look like angry birds lol
Tarkov never was and never will be anywhere near these levels.
well i dont disagree but they are completly different games
@@Jvha761 Well I would hope it doesnt. Its a fun shooter it would be weird if it turned into a flight sim.
@@sword199723 lmao
WTF does a hardcore survival shooter have to do with a modern aircraft combat simulator. The things one reads on youtube lmao.
Consider a server wide mic check. A lot of ear raping in this video.
that one guy that sounds like he is in a church with the heavy radio filter on top of the echo.
@@Pekins yeah I could not give a flying F if that filter makes it more realistic. but god damn take it off. who cares lol
@@seinfeld11123 But, im-mer-shun! ;-)
The guy screaming into a cheap megaphone? Lol
Is he playing vr
That guy yelling at the mic like he was playing in the bathroom... What a pain
it's been a while since i played the Microprose flight sims back then on the amiga and commodore 128 .. there is simply no comparison to this, the realism factor is immense. All the details from launching on the carrier with the npc shooter .. amazing.
It’s pretty amazing! P
We came a long way from Novalogic's F22 Lightning 2 on MS-DOS.
I should get a stick and join the fun at some point.
@@tatuira93there are some pretty cheap sticks that are alright, or if you have disposable income just get a warthog + its throttle.
14:47 i painted that jet and worked on those birds for that squadron for years wild seeing it in a game like this
Absolutely! I walked onto the Tarmac at Miramar for the 2019 airshow right before they sent a bunch of birds to the boneyard and all of the USMC CAG birds were on display and they matched DCS perfectly haha it was very cool!
RIP Olympus F-16 and Tanker boom
My first time on a mission this long, FANTASTIC experience.
Galipoli 1-2, one or the few to rtb alive XD
Thedoc_tv glad you liked it!
Nice flying with you, 2. 4 here
I would also love to join such missions. Often do 2 hrs sorties with bombing refueling CAP and return to the carrier
Me after spending two hours flying to the target: Okay, so how do I work all of this weaponry stuff again??
@@elessartelcontar9415 certified strike eagle moment right here
This kind reminds me playing the Battle of the Coral Sea back in Pacific Fighters. Using pure dead reckoning to fly for what seemed like hours hoping to find the enemy carrier fleet, the excitement and thrill of actually finding the fleet and attempting to put a bomb on target, and then navigating back to your own carrier hoping you had just enough fuel to get home. I sure miss the days before kids where I could take an entire afternoon and run those missions.
I tried to play Pacific Fighters a couple years ago. Big learning curve but I might try again some day. Seemed like a great sim.
@@Wpjgdmtu One thing that really helped get me into was that I was actually in the Navy at the time and was actually doing quite a bit of real dead reckoning/navigating type stuff I was probably more into than I should have been.
I see Spud's mouse movements inside the cockpit and they are similar to mine thinking:"ok, what's next?" Trying to remember the procedures for 30+ different airplanes that we don't fly in a regular basis is complicated.
Yeah, it's better to specialize but after a while I find myself losing interest for a plane and switch to another. But that's the percs of being a gamer and not a pilot, you can get a taste of everything !
@@thesteaksaignant *losing. Go look up what "loosing" means.
@@QS-si3cq If you understand it then it doesn't matter.
@@thesteaksaignantwdym? Pilots can switch aircrafts too, sadly not exactly at the time they want to
@@QS-si3cq thanks for correction, I fixed it
as quoted from my father:" this is not a game anymore"
So I have to say. I enjoyed the mission, even though it was a bit longer than I expected to be. However, I had some issues.
Alley Cat had a bit of an issue coordinating flights initially. We had a push order for a reason and before we were even done aligning, other jets were on the catapults that weren't even supposed to be there yet. (Also there was no stored heading alignment for the tomcats so it took 8 min to align but it could just be an A-model thing, idk)
Our flight lead wasn't using their radios at all and we basically just left without them after getting permission because that person was just flying in random directions.
After getting permission to go direct to the tanker, we get vectored west because we are about to go to Iranian airspace. Well whose fault is that, you cleared us direct.
War Party arrived entirely too late to drop their jsows. Didn't matter overall because all the bandits had been taken care of, but slightly frustrating.
Red Crown committed us to a bandit and then committed another flight to the bandit as well, resulting in two AIM-120s being shot over us by 100 feet then maneuvering down to the target.
The 14A is a PITA. That is all.
Overall, I enjoyed it, and would do it again. Some things to work out but it was fun. Looking forward to the next one!
-Sundown 2-2
great constructive feedback! when I get back into flying. I hope to find/fly with ppl like yourself to fly with.
even with my car racing days and now flying days. ppl want to do these full on 100% real like events. but when it comes time its all half assed and just falls apart. so I hope to find really good ppl like this to fly with !!
“Don’t rely on the tomcats for escort” that was literally their job, being the ones with air to air configurations
Jester, nuff' said.
because they did off any Tomcat from Iranian, that means they said in their rules that no Iranian tomcats don't scramble, because their whole mission will be awful and this 3hours will be nothing!!
Hey VMFA-232 was the squadron that I was in. Its funny that you where taking off from the boat considering they are a land based squadron lol. We had a saying about our jets, if they weren't leaking, they had no fuel... God I miss it. Great video.
I'd dearly love to get into this, but by the time you've bought the VR headset, the stick and throttles, and the required massive PC to run it, you're in for a couple of grand to do it well.
you could go for Track IR and minimize PC upgrades and VR headset costs.
I fly with an Xbox 360 gamepad and DelanClip. All in that's like $80 worth of equipment last I checked, not including PC obviously. All things considered you don't actually need the biggest baddest PC to run DCS, just make sure you have a lot of RAM for multiplayer.
@@noscopesallowed8128 ah something I need to get more of lol. I only have 8
@@Andromedon777 Yeah 8 gb is about the bare minimum for single player missions at most. 16 is minimum for most multiplayer servers, but realistically you want 32 for multiplayer. 8gb for vram too. It's crazy.
@@noscopesallowed8128 Yikes. My wallet isn't ready for that
I was really disappointed. Made it 90 miles from WP2 and then my game crashed. That, after falling asleep twice waiting for the Tomcats and once while in the air enroute to WP 2
Awww man, sorry about that! DCS attrition!
relax the ram speed a tiny bit. most crashes are from ram running on the ragged edge. even if its advertised at those speeds. or just old hardware. either way relaxing the speed or timings a little will help system stability soo mcu h
This is one of the best things I've seen on RUclips!! Absolutely loved it. Everything was there including comms. Brilliant!! Thanks guys!!! 💯👌
Glad you enjoyed watching! Come join us for the next ine!
Actually,Now we only fly our Tomcats from Isfahan.Nowadays you can find Su24s,Phantoms and C130s in Shiraz.
Haha thanks for the intel! The one my LGB smacked on the ramp after I missed must've stopped in Shiraz on a cross country flight haha
I keep saving money to one day be able to get a true gaming PC to play DCS. This kind of long, detailed gameplay looks amazing. The commitment level seems so fun. Great video.
Fingers crossed! What do you expect to pay for it?
This is one of the coolest and immersive videos ive ever seen. I wish I had the skill and knowlege to do this. This is so damn cool. Especially at night. Such a beautiful game and awesome gamplay.
godamn this is cool, i wish i had a good enough pc for this
Soviet_Salsa we will be here for you to join us when you do!
What are your specs?
i have a music production pc so it's a beast what sim is this?? please
@@alteredstate7746 The sim is DCS world. It's free but better modules are mostly paid.
Here's the product page: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/stable/
@@NorthAvion yeah i am way out of my depth with this haha
Great watch! Cannot believe you guys flew right past my place of work at Al Bateen Executive (OMAD)! That time of day, I would have been driving through the military gate!
The moon on the water is a beautiful visual.
This is top notch DCS . Doesn’t get much better than this!
Holy shit this looks extreemly realistic
I love how psycho 1-3 was trying to be as respectful as possible with the "fueling mishap" lol
Great mission, great comms
Love watching these and hopefully I will be able to join some day
I remember the F117 Nighthawk game, this bring memories. The extraction was the most thrilling part.
I have never played this game. But I need this in my life. I used to play Aces High 3 often. Setting up a long range bomber mission that took hours to complete was always a good time. Looked forward to meeting up with the team after work and discussing the plan. Satisfying when you pull it off.
This was awesome!
Can’t wait to get my Virpil set up and VR so I can practice and be able to join in on these!
Trigger you’re welcome to
Join us when you’re ready!
I'm an Iranian and this mission was attacking my country but still i enjoyed it , specially the usage of f-14s simply love these master pieces.
great team work, hope that in reality there is no need for such missions.
P.S. shiraz air base is known to be the nest for iranian f-14s but the city is so beautiful please don't miss fire your missiles in city air field
Very interesting to think about it from your perspective.
What's your thoughts on this? Do you support the US?
@@Andromedon777 Most of Iranians are pro west nowadays. we don't want to be attacked or go into war, specially with super powers. on the other hand we have no say in what the revolutionary army does :( . it's like taking 50 million people hostage .
@@mtscisage Very sorry to hear this my friend. I suspected you support the west. I do appreciate you taking value of humans over toxic ideas.
I always wondered, I know Christianity is outlawed there but does it seem somewhat prevalent or are most secret Christians?
@@Andromedon777Christianity is not banned in Iran but unfortunately there are multiple laws that makes the life of Christians hard. Despite all of these difficulties there re multiple active churches in each major city and Christians hold gatherings quitely and semi secretly ( they don't attract much attention). I totally understand their behavior and am so ashamed of Iran's religious extremists.
Christians have difficulty getting into top universities and getting government jobs but other than that we see them as very cultured and well behaved people ... in all these years that i lived never heard an attack or fight that includes churches, very respectable religious minority in Iran's population.
@@mtscisage I am fascinated by my fellow Christians under governments who despise them.
So does it seem your freedoms are increasing or decreasing?
18 minutes in, just caught the launch on rendevous with the tanker.
Loving the comms and dedications to procedure here. This is going to be a sick 3 hours!
I couldn’t stop looking at that standby attitude indicator
Now this is hardcore DCSing.
Spuds....when are they gonna give the carrier crew lights batons for night ops ???
Amazing mission. If I had taken part I would have failed at so many points, good work to you Spud and the rest!
Nighttime, goggles, Iron Maiden? Hard core. Sadists!
Cool stuff! Blown away by how realistic this is.
Would absolutely love to see another nighttime strike mission like this with the new FLIR rendering now implemented
Holy shit this was an awesome watch. Can't wait to join in!
I can't imagine how cool it is to do stuff like this, I can't even run dcs lol
imagine your on a mission to drop nukes and one of your team mates says 40:52 😂
LOL Little Immersion Breaking IMO Haha!
I would LOVE to watch marathon flights like this at least once/month!! :D Please?!?!? :D
I've always been interested in doing big missions with people like this but I know I'm not nearly a good enough pilot or know even the surface of what my F18 can do. Would anyone recommend any servers to practice on, where to go to learn things, or any tips for someone still learning?
There are lessons, and honestly downloading and reading the manual for F18 helps a lot. Plus just a lot of in game Instant Action Missions or just Creat your own mission and learn start up, radar, landing.. etc
@@jacepost1356 can happily say that 2 years later I’m comfortable providing air to air support in both the F18 and the F16. Moved to VTOL VR for the time being lately- just faster to jump into with my limited time. For anyone reading in the future, just keep practicing your favorite module and make sure you’re having fun learning what you want to learn!
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Good work. Great demonstration of what a real life mission might entail for younger DCS pilots who might join up and one day be ordered to return their F/A-18 to the ship after a brief layover at Al Dhafra. The Life Accellerator is not just a job, it's an adventure! Today is the day when you stop listening to the tales of other lives lived and begin your own journey. Navy. Let the journey begin!
Watched this with my LEDs in my room in that green to get the full experience on my large TV. Awesome Spud!
OMG! who had the echo on it sounds like a semi CB, lol.
It was long but I watched it all. This is why I play DCS World
Awesome dude!
Definitely agree to why you play DCS. I am the same way. It basically exposes you to the real life world by going on a mission like this one. Plus the realistic aerodynamics, combat, and cockpits.
It would be even more awesome if the excel sheets info is set into kneeboards, more realistic
Damn, 3 hours! I'll have to start watching this tonight in bed haha
Haha I hope you like it!
@@Spudknocker I've a feeling I will. I love watching the tutorials but I've always wanted to see a realistic long strike video. It's the kind of thing I'd hope to be a part of once my DCS skills and confidence are up to scratch. I'll let you know! Haha
@@Spudknocker That was brilliant! Curious though as to how much fuel you burn whilst waiting for the others to refuel and join you? Oh and I loved the way the sunset came up at the end. I'm sure that was well timed on the mission planner Haha I look forward to more like this dude!
That's what I did 😂😂 i finished it at 4am
This game is so immersive i love it. Nicce refueling footage there. around 1:18.
Looks like a super cool game. Just tell me something. How the heck do you learn all the on air lingo? Are there specific roles that are assigned? Like when you are taxing on the CAT on the carrier. Is there ATC roles? AS I heard them giving you the call out when to taxi and when to clear CAT launch. Thanks!
They are a part of the group, they probably have a class teaching the lingo ("read this pdf, etc...") Probably and just years of experience
you know you can use the mids radio in the hornet, right? it has much better quality and range because it's digital. To use it assign radio 3 and 4 hotkeys in srs. To set it up press D/L, then VOCA/VOCB, hit a number for the channel and then enter. Don't press CLR or it will turn off the radio. If you want to get rid of the ICP display go to another option, like AP and hit CLR twice there to turn off the displays.
MIDS radio is very good for intraflight because it's basically a free radio, keeping the standard ones free for common/gci, or even interflight (on VOCB) if it's lots of hornets.
Oh God that sunrise was so beautiful.. I wouldn't even bother landing I'd just stick around till I ran out of fuel
Wow, that fight was intense. But how does an F-18 on an air-to-air mission run out of weapons so fast? Mind you, I'm not done the video. Just genuinely curious... I have so many questions. Subbed right away.
Luke Dodge the jet I was flying was tasked with air to ground, to carry enough fuel, two GBU-24’s and a targeting pod that only leaves room for 1 AIM-120 and 2 AIM-9X’s
@@Spudknocker Thanks for the reply. Are you a Hornet pilot?
So were the F-15s and F-16s covering this Hornet Strike group from other air enemies? Or were they there just to protect the tankers?
The longest DCS video I have EVER watched. Fascinating to see how "real" A-A and A-G missions play out, while handling tanking at night, loss of spatial awareness, radar and radio failures, comms chatter, pilot loses and low fuel states. This video had it all. Could not have scripted a better movie. Should rename this video Top Gun II, copy and paste over the movie release. Click Yes to overwrite. 😎 Great job folks. Once my rig gets here in December, I would love to join up.
Good long mission, much more realistic. Comm discipline was pretty bad, Number 2 needs to open his ears. After frequency change, everyone is SILENT until LEAD announces, "Diablo Flight"...THEN..."2...3...4" "Al Dhafra approach, Diablo 11, flight of four, checking in 251.1" Overall, darn good!
"Dark is before the dawn" :-D Great Video, professionell procedure at its best!
I need more night Battles, these are amazing to watch late at night
I love watching planes take off at night in this game, In VR it is jawdropping.
Oh man I'd love to do something like this but I'm nowhere near skilled enough yet lol.
CaNaDaSnip3r come join us when you feel ready!
@@Spudknocker Thanks, I will once I've gotten better. I still have to learn how to do aerial refueling, and once I've gotten better at carrier landings. You guys seem like a fun bunch to fly with.
@@Spudknocker how do you join?
This is so damn impressive holy shit how is this even possible?
It’s a ton of fun!
money, and time
This was amazing! How on earth did you guys learn all of this. I just bought DCS and dont know where to begin. Any advise?
Watch tutorial on the all around basics to know about the enviroment and the various sistems, and then choose a aircraft to learn first and stick with it. Keep using tutorials and practice to master the airplane, going in forums and discord servers about dcs coul help you even more, finding someone who can teach you some stuff and who's free to fly with beginners.
*advice. Go look up what "advise" means.
Lol love how your seat wasn’t armed until after you were in the air
Nice video Spud, i´m from Brazil and allways watch your videos! Congrat´s!
So this was a absolute ClusterF**k almost all of us tomcats went for a drink, actually I think all of us went for a drink. I got ejected after takeoff (thank you jester), then my DCS crashed my second try, so I just hoped in a backseat and we got no fuel so we had to bail, all in all I thought it was cool op just wish it went a little more to plane rather than sh*t with the friendly fire and the tanker accident.
Kinda puts into perspective the amount of training that has to happen for the real thing, really. Not hard to screw up.l
Man I remember hearing fighters were 100miles out on approach to us and had to sprint to the boom to get it ready only to have fighters sitting at precontact by the time my prep for AR checklist was done.
AWESOME JOB GUYS AND GALS...Something truly to aspire towards as I start my journey in DCS and the F18..
trul epic , i espire to do a mission like this
SIM15 come join us!
1:52:13 That entire A2A coordination was great. Lots of friendly losses though. :(
Ayo how did u learn all of this? Especially bit codes that stuff i always get stuck on
It's so crazy how realistic games have become these days!! Feels like only yesterday that I was in a MW2 lobby waiting for a match to start, and now we have stuff like DCS, Squad, ArmA 3. The future for gaming looks bright, NGL!
Me getting use to the night vision “opens light mode spread sheet” 😂
With all this amazing graphics and handling of light sources, isn't it odd that the jets on the carrier don't cast shadows?
Just discovered this game and this whole mission definitely contributed to mindblow me further, great job. What impressed me the most Is the whole voice transmission sound design..is it like that by default ingame or you used some third party software?
I think the only turn off is the absolute silence and detachment from immersion when checking out the map, but I'm just splitting the hair in two
This was so realistic and I absolutely loved it
Def would like more content like this
Loved this! Sat and watched whole thing while working
yo the game look awesome you can't get more real than that...i just got the F 14 tomcat... now i need to practice ..i love this game
26:19 Aww mate great SA and leadership to call in and inform Olympus 1-1.
Amazing vid..thanks you for sharing. The amount of knowledge and coordination involved in that mission, with that number of aircraft was simply mind blowing...good job to all.
Re Olympus...in WHAT IN TARNATION 😱 Little self-awareness goes a long way...what was this dude thinking when he setup his Trucker RoadKing power modulation, echo feedback Mic!! 🤔 ...and couldn’t one of you tell those guys sometime within the 3plus hrs to turn down their mic’s??
Every time those dudes (2 were really bad) keyed his mic, I went into super cringe mode, nails down the chalkboard type of pain.
I am sure a great guy...but man, for the love of GOD turn it down a couple decibels.
Question: how did you arrange for live air traffic control?
I have been looking for such a channel for a long time and finally found it thanks for the cool video and go to further development
I one day really want to get into simulators like DCS and learn to fly fighters. I dont have a clue where I would start though...
start buy buying a joystick you get a free jet with the game that i would learn first
Yall should be using warp drives by now, scram jet is 50's tech.
Best video I've watched legit in months. Great content.
Fucking love the quotes on that leading edge supplement site haha.: "I hate non alcoholic drinks, but this is pretty damn good. Also does pretty well combating a hangover." -
Anthony, Pilot. Hope that guy is never my pilot.
1:17:17 sooo cool to get that contact on film like that.
For realism while flying at you don't use white lights in the cockpit either red or green lights. white light takes away from your night vision...
Great video! So relaxing when going to sleep.
This reminds me of IL-2 night mission when we bombed Berlin. about 1700 Km total distance, less that you guys but it took us many many hours because we were in Lancasters :))
Great mission helps with my learning.Also enjoyed the experience.Thanks Be Blessed
the COMMs are so loud holy hell
My ears loved this.
Imagine this game with infantry and vehicles that are as detailed as the flying vehicles.
Best. game. Of the Decade 100% for sure
Gonna have to join you guys.. im a competant F14D pilot, also fly the 18 (own the 16, worthog and spitfire but not got around to learning them yet) :D
I want to watch this but the other guys on the radio are just to loud
This looks awfully realistic! How does one learns to operate all the buttons and switches?