Fighter Pilot Flies DCS: F-5 in VR | F-5 FAM Flight
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Flying the DCS: F-5 module for the first time in Virtual Reality using the Oculus Rift S. I've never a flown the F-5 in real life, but as a current T-38A pilot, I thought I would give it a shot.
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Wife says quote "Now your watching a guy fly a pretend airplane?" I say yep, she says I give up and walks away. I finish watching.
Ron Moore ok...had to share that one with my wife...made both of us lol.
Every day at my house...I'm going up honey....."to play that game?" How many times do I have to tell you...it's a SIMULATION, not a game. LOL. Mover, it was fantastic. I can't wait for the BFM videos and the future announcements. I'd *PAY* money to see you go head to head with Lex in the Hornet! Finally, I was a little said that Fini Flight meant the end of the road for Spectre series. But that doesn't seem to be the case, bub. :) I'll be on the lookout for the next installment.
What is she giving up on? Trying to understand and care about your hobbies and interests?
LOL. I was flying, ugh what was it, it's an old flight SIM, like wings over Vietnam. No were near DCS but it was fun. I was showing my wife at the time how good the graphics were. I was flying a F4 and hit the key to show the outside of the phantom. Then I hit the gear down button because I was getting ready to land. She says in a little girls voice "Oh look, his little wheels came down" ok you can leave now.... She just laughed.
@@hansangb same. I run engineering-based simulations for my job. I say "Sorry honey, can't relax with you tonight... I've got a backlog of simulations to run". She never knows whether it's work or recreational lol.
Good video! Used to be an F-5 instructor, many moons ago. Dont forget to switch to use auto balance on the fuel. Traffic pattern, shoot for 180 kts on downwind rollout, gear, flaps, off the perch. On speed to touchdown. Nosewheel hike is only used for initial takeoff. Drag chute for full stop landings. Really enjoyed your commentary, brought back great memories and chipped a little rust off! :o)
Valid. I like to fly a little fast (and will accept fast) in the T-38 due to the seat / small ejection envelope and poor performance if you lose an engine. I wish we had F-5s. It seems like a fun little jet!
F-5 instructor...Cool. For which side?
@@karlchilders5420 _They had the T-37's back then, which were very durable and had STUPID fast G-onset (5.5G instantaneous!!)_ -- That stupid fast G-lock may be a feature. Reminds me of a story about a Lockheed-Martin engineer who was taking part in some program for an Army APC kind-of-design proposal. The Lockheed engineer submitted his team's work for review by a high-ranking ARMY commander way up in the TRADOC chain (TRADOC guy, I think, was acting as a consultant on this project's development and was not representing the Army in the story iirc). So the Engineer after countless hours of diligent work, going above and beyond to perfect the optimal design for delivering the best fighting vehicle.
The TRADOC man looks at it: _"YOU MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO GET INJURED INSIDE!! Remember you are building a $2 million_ (Made up the number to be big because I don't remember the original value) _machine being driven by a Teenager. WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING STUPID (with the $2million vehicle), THEY NEED IT TO HURT!! Or else, they keep doing stupid things, maintnance costs, breakdowns, and recovery costs will skyrocket through the roof"_
@@czdaniel1 Actually 2 mil is dead right surprisingly!
@@karlchilders5420 oh, I had heard on some website that the F5 itself when produced was $2,000,000. I'm not sure if it was accurate of not tho, anyway good to know.
That's not an F-5. That's a MiG-28...😉
"No one's been this close before!"
did they use f-5s or t-38s for that movie? Ive watched topgun a thousand times and I can never tell
redbit trunks 04 they used F-5’s
@@redjaypictures4528 they´ve used both, but most of the times one could see the F-5
@Brian Daniels technically that's classified. He could tell you, but then he'd have to kill you ;)
I love that Mover has it painted exactly like the movie. Black with the red Soviet star on the tail.
Great video, thanks! You gotta start an F-18/F-16 series, please.
Really excited about future DCS content, thanks a lot!
You could literally just fly around in every video and I would still watch. Don't worry about having to make it exciting. Many in the DCS community fly for the fun and not for the combat.
Especially since the F-5 is great for that... lots of fun just taking her for a ride.
I wish I could fly around the pattern with you in another F-5. But I suppose there are several dozen others here that would want to do that, too. Get about 4 jets in the closed pattern at once, online. Even have someone as a tower controller. May sound dull but I'd enjoy it. What if there was a non-combat server where we can just fly realistic training flights, no horsing around or goofing off. No wild weapon usage. Maybe another mission where we get 4 jets and do a simple bombing pattern on a target range with Mk-82's. Just practice manual bombing, in the F-5. A squadron of F-5's. With some doing cross-country flights, some doing pattern work, some doing BFM and some doing an A/G practice pattern. Flights coming and going from the same base for a few hours, one day a month or so. I haven't done online flying. Maybe you can organize a virtual TFTS. Do they still call them that?
You know the f16 is comming out soon for DCS
True, but like most other modules, it'll probably be another 2 years before the major bugs are ironed out and full functionality is implemented. A year or so after that it'll be "completed".
@@Aeronaut1975 it'll be about 2 years before i can get the game
@@jeandrephilip3738 The game is free! The modules are 50% off for the next few days
@@Aeronaut1975 im not allowed to have it
@@Aeronaut1975 😔😔
Great Vid, The only thing that i can say is i don't know how you recorded it but with oculus inside of the oculus installation folder, under \Support\oculus-diagnostics There is a OculusMirror.exe that replicate what you see. if after that you create a shortcut on desktop and under target you add ' --Size 1920 1080' (without the ' ') it will render with a greater quality.
Nice!
@@AdmiralQuality Using the mirror shouldn't hurt performance - it's just displaying the undistorted images it's already rendered.
@@AdmiralQuality No, the image is rendered at the exact same resolution regardless of the mirror settings.
Think of it like adjusting the resolution of a livestream (ignoring the extra power used to encode the video) - the game is always rendered at the same resolution, it's just resized differently before being shown on the PC screen.
Here's how rendering a frame on the Rift works:
* The game asks the Oculus runtime how large the undistorted screen size is (due to the geometry of the lenses, the game has to render an image larger than the actual screen resolution. users can also increase this value in a process called 'supersampling')
* The game draws the image at that resolution
* The game sends the image to the Oculus runtime
* The Oculus runtime applies ATW, ASW/ASW2 and PTW. These are all techniques to make the game look smoother when it's running slowly. This is a major component in preventing users from getting motion sick.
* If the mirror is running, it sends a copy of this image to the mirror, which then resizes the image depending on the input arguments. This is ridiculously fast, and not worth caring about from a performance standpoint.
* The Oculus runtime applies something call distortion. The lenses concentrate more of the user's vision onto the centre of the screen (making text look shaper there, which is normally where users will be looking), while using less pixels to fill in the peripheries. If the runtime sent the image straight to the screen, everything would be bunched up in the centre. To correct for this, the runtime pulls the centre out and squishes the outsides before sending it to the screen.
> I assume anyway, I don't think VR is quite ready for prime-time yet
For simulator enthusiasts, it absolutely is IMO. I can't imagine dogfighting in DCS without VR - I'd compare it to the difference between flying with a PS4 controller and a proper joystick.
The Rift S is relatively cheap (for headsets at least), is very easy to set up and use, and has good quality optics.
> and even when it is, I'm not sure how I'll keep from knocking my beer off my desk. ;)
You can place it a bit further away, and double-tap a button on the Rift S's controller to go into 'passthough+' mode, where you can see your surroundings without taking the headset off.
@@AdmiralQuality
> I thought everyone recommends not using ASW because it's a post processing pan/tilt effect meant to mitigate unsatisfactory frame rates and doesn't work well with DCS.
Some people do, I personally prefer leaving it on, especially for low-level stuff. Otherwise the terrain will only move every second frame, which I personally dislike more than the artefacts you get from ASW.
> It lets your viewing angle have a higher frame rate than the rest of the world, which is just nutty.
That's ATW.
ATW (asynchronous timewarp) takes the last frame and moves it around inside your headset when the game doesn't have the next frame ready in time. I'm not sure you can turn this off, and you certainly don't want to.
In most VR videos, the view looks really shaky (less so when sitting down for flight sims, but it's still there). It doesn't look shaky in VR because the images are moving around to account for that.
If you then somehow run without ASW, those vibrations will start to feel present in VR, and will quickly cause many people to get motion sick. Every time you move your head, the image will "stick" for a moment before moving, and it looks horrible.
ASW (asynchronous spacewarp) is about capturing movement during these missed frames. Rather than displaying the previous frame as rendered by the game, it will look at the last several frames and guess where the objects are going. If for the last three frames a tree has been moving to the right by around 10 pixels, ASW will move that tree 10 pixels forwards in the generated frame (it does this using the MP4 compression hardware on your GPU, which does something similar to reduce the filesize of videos).
This is of course not perfect, and some people strongly dislike the artefacts and thus turn it off.
> Definitely agree about not ready for prime time!
Have you seen the Oculus Quest? It's probably not *quite* there, but it's closer than any headset before it.
only a small advice, the left fuel tank in the F-5 is bigger than the right. you can select the fuel balance switch to left and it will compansate.
btw nice vid
Seeing the F-16C (Block 50 iirc) coming up for DCS (Soon™) it would be awesome to see you fly it since you have logged stick time in the 16.
Great, now it's time to do some really dumb stuff you'd never do in a T-38 since its just a sim!
lol
No, the Sim you have to take care of do everything by the book, but in the real one you can fly like you stole it.
Great to hear you talk us through the flight. You and Wags? That's great news!
Your DCS videos are the best Mover! Please keep them coming. There is a lot of knowledge you can share with us, especially with the DCS F-16 on its way (unless you wanted to dive into Falcon 4 BMS)
Out of curiosity, what is your joystick and PC setup?
Alienware 15R3 with a 1070 GTX and 32GB RAM. Oculus Rift S. And a Saitek X56 setup with Thrustmaster pedals.
@@CWLemoine wow, it's amazing a real pilot flies dcs world, thanks mover, that's awesome!
Waiting for the video titled "Fighter pilot vs Growling Sidewinder dogfight". Get on that colab C.W. Lemoine..
razorbackblood06 I heard a long time ago that Growling Sidewinder is not a very good DCS pilot, is that actually true or was it just some salty bastard?
Probably got shot out of the air haha
Very nice video. It's always amazing to see fighter pilots find all the little things that are different between reality and simulation but also between different aircraft. Looking forward to your BFM setups. Some DCS pilots have no idea how pilots train. Maybe you can also explain some of the basic concepts of BFM without getting into tactics. E.g. 2C vs 1C.
TY Mover, nice video. Always cool to see folks well trained executing smoothly and by reflex. My days in the T-38 are over a while ago but some of the muscle / vocal memory remains. Its a sign of how good our training was/is.
From the DCS community. Love these vids keep em coming Mover.
Glad to see you dabbling with DCS again and looking forward to your collaborations with Wags as well.
You say its not a tutorial and I get that, but watching you do it -- its EXACTLY that -- you being a real jock. Much appreciated, and thanks for your service.
this was so freaking cool. please do more. was interesting watching a fighter jet work the pattern vs the Cessna 172 I'm used to :D
Great to see the F-5E Tiger getting some love !
Great job! Love these videos from you. Bought your books to support after the F18 vids. Cheers!
Thank you so much for the video, I hope that this is not the last. Eagle Dynamics has announced the DCS F-16C to be released in the fall of 2019.
"100 go for tire" that was a cool callout
Mover, you’re the man I blame for my newly acquired DCS addiction. I watched your F/A-18 review and flight comparison, and I said out loud at that time, “what is this? A fully interactive combat flight sim, with intense graphics, realistic flight modeling, and some of my favorite aircraft?” I immediately had to sign up for counseling at a 12 point rehab clinic for my addiction. You and the Grim Reapers Squadron on DCS, made my wife mad...is okay, she’s a small little firecracker, it’ll only hurt a little bit after she beats all of our butts for it. Great video, great content, awesome flying, thanks so much and my wife says hi.~Mark, aka “Szyzzerz”
Oh man, just wait until the ZR1 hits the channel. 🤣🤷♂️
Despite not being a tutorial, I learned a lot. Just the seat adjustment tip alone was helpful. Do you feel that the nose wheel steering sensitivity is accurate? Thanks C.W. and I'm looking forward to more videos and more of your books.
Kevin Drummond I’ve been wondering about the NWS too, hopefully C.W. can comment on it. It feels like the NWS on the hornet when you engage HI, like on the carrier. Maybe I just need to adjust the curves on the F5 but they are definitely super sensitive, I’ve had many a fatal T/O and landing attempts due to that 🤷🏻♂️
I was referring to just taxing around.
Hello Mover, could we know what your PC specs are? I want to get into DCS VR too but im not sure if my gtx 1060 will be enough
Really enjoyed the video! It's so cool to hear and see a real pilot in a sim, makes it real. That's really what us simmers try to replicate. Thanks for sharing!
I have been dying for a real pilot to get in DCS so I can see rudder coordination. No matter how hard I try, I can never keep the ball centered when doing hard maneuvers. It would be awesome to get a tutorial on that since it's really more complex than simply "step on the ball" when you're doing more than slow 30-degree banks.
The only time you should be using rudders in a jet is single engine or intentional high AOA maneuvering. Stepping on the ball is not really a thing in jets.
@@CWLemoine Oh, I've been doing it wrong haha. I always thought the "no rudder" only applied to FBW jets.
This was great. It's so much more complicated in real life and neat to hear what a real pilot goes through (and this didn't even include the on ground checks). That's so much different then my flight sim check list of 1. Start engine. 2. taxi to runway 3. full throttle.
One little thing, when you are in external view (F2,F3,etc.) you can hit left control+y+y to get rid of the information bar on the bottom
Nice to have input like this from a real fighter pilot. Big fan of your realistic instruction. thanks
Great vid and some nice tips.
DCS with Mover is always content, which I always look out for...
Great vid. Thank You. It would be interesting to see you FAM in other plane(s) (i.e. F15, Mig29, A10 or older jets like the F14, F86). It would be interesting to hear you compare and contrast.
great idea!
Can you make a reaction video for the new Top Gun Maverick trailer?
What a grate vid keep up the awesome work i have a question how fast can you go through the start up procedure when in a scramble situation is it different or can you just go through it a lot faster ?
This was cool. Have the 5, but haven’t flown it much. Definitely nice to see how you approach it from the 38. Thanks for putting this together!
Mig-28 no one’s been this close before!
Thank you Mover, that was an awesome experience watching a real life subject matter expert in DCS. You da man!!
Wait why can't you bring anymore T-38 videos, did I miss a vlog or something?
Yeah - I want to know that also? why can't he do that any more?
Thxs Mover it's just awesome to see the real deal fly even in a sim, great to hear your thoughts on the flight and real world procedures! Really cool!
Thanks Mover I really appreciate a true pilots perspective of the sim.... I loaded bombs bdu-33's and occasional gbu-27 on the F-117 when they were at Holloman AFB New Mexico.... I seen a bunch of T-38's flying around there daily, as well as F-4's ... cool stuff :)
do more of these!
FULLY enjoyed it :))
I have a bunch of guys I fly with who are pretty serious dcs pilots. I would enjoy your company flying with you one of these days
In the Blackhawk? 🤔😂
@@CWLemoine No sir thats just my profile picture lol. We fly anything that has wings or rotors. Pm me or email me of your interested!
Mover on his own DCS setup... Nerdgasm!
I don't know if is doable for you but as a viewer always looking to improve, it would be great if you put the control input overlay up so we can see your stick/rudder movements. Just a suggestion.
Hell yeah Mover. Glad to see you flying DCS again
If you like playing DCS, Thrustmaster is coming out with an F/A-18 grip. Thrustmaster has already made a F-16 HOTAS, you would have to buy them used off Ebay, they stopped making them, they switched to Warthog HOTAS. I'm sure you already knew that but, I only mention it because I have the Warthog HOTAS, but I bought a Virpil throttle and and base. The Virpil base's are compatible with Thrustmaster grips and they make Russian HOTAS grips if you ever wanted a SU-27 or MIG-29 grip. Thrustmaster stick's internals is just a plastic cup sitting on a plastic ball(with a little grease) with a Hall Sensor, if something breaks its not designed for 'user servicing' but Virpil base's for Thrustmasters grip are, and it has cams, springs and bearing the feed back you get from it is better, you can also change the cams and springs. I can't recommend Virpil enough. Thrustmasters makes great products, but Virpil is so much better. Last get 'Voice Attack' its a program that lets you 'talk' to what ever program you set it up for, windows, email, your web browser. There are several Voice Attack profiles on DCS forums, and its not that hard to use. You can request clearance's, turn on the batteries, change TACAN's, radio's etc. I would love to see you making more DCS videos, thanks for these videos.
I bailed on my WARTHOG HOTAS and switched to Virpil completely. HUGE difference in accuracy.
The Thrustmaster Grip was way more comfortable. Will probably mount a F-18 stick on the base in the near future.
@@Bananimal65 I ditched my Warthog for Virpil to. My complaints about the throttle are, I bought it too soon, I want the 'CM' version, and lastly, the range of motion on the throttle is alot shorter than a Warthog. So I made an extension for my Virpil Throttle. If you have access to a 3D printer here is the link www.thingiverse.com/thing:3652489 . As for the F/A-18 grip, I'm just waiting on the 25 of July myself.
That was amazing! Looking forward to this 'Wags and Mover' BFM series. Nearly finished reading "Absolute Vengeance", will certainly need to buy the other titles now too. Thank you for Service!
Growing up I thought this was a Mig28 since that's what they called it on the movie topgun. Lol. Only about 10 years ago I figured out it was a f5
Enquiring minds have to know....are you using your own setup and if so what gear did you acquire? Would you want to fly as an aggressor when my squadron gets to BFM in our Tomcat FAM?
Awesome video! How do you feel about the T-X? Will it be a worthy replacement for the old T-38's?
literally the coolest DCS video ive ever seen....and ive seen alot! So informative thank you so much for this man!
F5....aka: Mig-28 lol.
By far the best DCS instructional/demo I've ever seen.
Any specific reason to not use the auto balance to remove the fuel discrepancy? Super stoked for the BFM videos so thank you in advance :D
@@AdmiralQuality I did think that but he mentioned cross bleed and opting to not use it. The F5 has both cross bleed and auto balance IIRC. The uneven yaw created by splitting the engines is a nightmare, shows the skill he has to be able to fly with just afterburner on one engine lol!
@@AdmiralQuality feed sorry, performs the same function basically tho right, in that it will balance the tanks? Or is one tank smaller than the other, I can't remember, it's been a while since I flew the F5. Yeah I saw that video, makes sense tho being that there is no feel in a SIM.
@@AdmiralQuality yeah I use it and never use the cross feed function, but I'm not sure I do it until i'm in the air. I've only been using the F5 for BFM practice recently and I always start in the air for set pieces so its been a while since I actually did the cold start etc. I'd like to see some DCS pilots fly the real versions of these planes and see how well they do. I wonder if I can get someone to pay for me to do it haha
@@AdmiralQuality agreed! I did fly on a cold war server for awhile but my PC is not a fan of MP these days ha! My three regular planes are C101, F5 and M2K! Trainer, advanced trainer and combat ready!
I was hoping you could have talked about your vr setup pros and cons. etc.
I see them flying over Sacramento Ca probably out of Beale AFB
Hey what’s the time stamp for him forming up w the rest of the squadron, ambushing Hollywood and putting a few holes in Ice Man?
I want to see dogfights in F18 DCS,or in real life
Question, how do the pilots on an alert status scramble quickly? Is a lot of these checklist procedures done ahead of time or how do you get in the air quick if there’s an emergency intercept?
Really nice video on the F-5/Mig 28 looking forward to the sessions you are going to do with wags!
wait... what?
what about wags??
(nvm.. watched it till the end)
:))
please do some dogfighting in DCS
ruclips.net/video/wae9YzQXJAQ/видео.html
would you say the F-5 is the closest in DCS to relating to the T-38 ?
Glad to see this, love the f5
You didn't salute the invisible crew chief man... thats low lol
mover how hard is dcs to get into without knowlege from the game might jump into it
There are training modules and "easy" modes that allow you to jump in without doing all the real world stuff.
You will need a decent pc (gtx 1060, equivalent or higher), a flight stick (i‘m still using an old microsoft force feedback, but i‘m looking for a better one) and a lot of patience. You will first need to reassign several controls and get familiar with all the assignments, which might take you a few hours. Choosing your starter plane is a hard choice and it really depends on which kind of plane you want to fly (older, or more modern planes, dogfighting or air to ground planes etc. ). When i started, i chose the f15c (decent dogfighter, easy to fly, no clickable switcher). At first i‘d recommend just to do some free flights, take offs and landings, to get a feeling for the plane. Now comes the more complicated part. You will need to learn how to use the systems and weapons of the plane. And this (especially the radar) really takes some days to get used to. There are a lot of youtube tutorials about this, and watching these is about the best way of learning it. Later you can learn about dogfighting maneuvers and tactics, and then you‘ve successfully jumped into the game. This whole process takes about 2 weeks, but in the end, its absolutely worth it.
@@maximilianbeyer9268 okey thank you for the info i have a gtx 1050 ti and dont have a flight stick but i might buy one because i like flight simulators anyway and i feel like putting time in the game to learn everything is worth it looks like a great game and i didnt know you could chose between aircrafts to start
DCS is amazing and worth your time if you love doing that pilot stuff, but it's definitely demanding on your PC hardware and it will seriously hamper your enjoyment unless you have a higher end PC that meets the minimum specs on Eagle Dynamics's website. The higher spec you can go, the better the performance and your experience. In addition to Mover's notes, there are also mid-fidelity aircraft like the F-15C and MIG-29 that are not as intimidating to learn but still fun as hell to fly.
Other things that hugely add to the experience but not absolutely necessary (in order of value added):
HOTAS as opposed to just a flight stick (those extra buttons and hat switches beat reaching for the keyboard)
TrackIR / VR / some other version of head tracking (night and day difference in terms of situational awareness and looking in the cockpits of study-sim planes like A-10 and F/A-18)
Rudder pedals (not as important but still very nice, especially for helicopter)
@@dhoase930 It's an awesome sim! None better IMO.
That's not an F-5. It's a Mig 28. I know because I saw Top Gun.
J/k.. Cool to see you flying DCS again. Wasn't sure if you'd do it after the F-18s a few months ago.
Can you paint it black like the Mig28s from Topgun? 👍nice vid
This is an awesome video! As a suggestion, in the next video can you make a mission of you flying an Iranian F-5 on a strike mission and you have UAE ground targets and have to defend against their Mirage 2000s
1:09 Why can't he give us T38 content anymore? Classification concerns?
Hey Mover, I have an odd question. As an author, do you think that simulations such as DSC could be a useful too for writers to create more realistic military fiction?
Found this info on a reddit post - cross bleed airflow from one engine to another starts automatically at 70 percent throttle and upwards. you just need to go ahead and select ignition and power it up, no need for ground crew to connect to second engine..
Is there a way to start the right engine on the F-5 without ground air supply?
So during the cold start tutorial, it mentions you can use air from the left engine to provide the initial spool to start the right engine instead of re-applying ground air, but I can't find a way in-game to do this. I've tried googling it, but with no joy - anyone had any luck with this?
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Crossbleed starts work exactly as described in the real flight manual. Advance left engine RPM to 95% for adequate airflow, hit the right ignition switch, and put the right throttle into IDLE at 10% right engine RPM. There is no bleed air switch, because the crossbleed valve is primed automatically once 70% RPM is reached on the left engine. The right engine start button opens the valve, and away it goes. Very simple.
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Magic, thank you very much!
www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/6fs6q8/is_there_a_way_to_start_the_right_engine_on_the/
Is the paint job on that a nod to the "Russian" jet Mav, and Goose encountered in the movieTOP GUN? Or... was this actually used as an "Opfor" paint scheme.. used in training for the real Fighter Weapons School?
Just Top Gun and the closest to the black T38s I’m flying.
Wow...wow...and ….wow. Thanks for a wonderful video and some great "flying". 84-86 myself and another person put together all the graphics and 35mm slides for the 527th Aggressor Squadron at RAF Alconbury. They would uses these various slide briefs for their home and road show throughout NATO. It was a lot of fun interacting with the USAF F-5 pilots for this work. Nifty aircraft.
Hope this Mig-28 doesn't run into any "TOMCATS!"
Hi Mover, nice video. You brought back sweet memories about flying both the T-38 (Sheppard) and the F5. It hit me when you talked about SETOS + 10 which is a live-safer of course. Watching this it looks very real to me. What's your opinion on that?
Epic video @C.W. Lemoine. Thanks heaps. Given how shit I still am at even basic flying in DCS (forget about BFM!), this was really helpful to see and hear. AND, very excited to hear you are teaming up with Wags to do some future videos! :-) Thanks for your time and effort.
Had this idea for a couple years; large, 6-axis robot with a flight sim chair strapped to it and VR goggles. Not sure why this hasn't been done, but I've seen Carney rides use these robots. You could pull hard Gs for a realistic experience without needing to fly $100,000+/hr Red Air vs Blue training ops. My nephew-in-law is a hornet electronic tech. Go NAVY! ;)
You should fly the zibo 737-800 in X-Plane 11 to also show your experience on the 737. Most of the 737 sim dudes are not real pilots and it would be nice to have real pilot do something. Great Vid!!
I’ve thought about it. But I really hate flying the 737. Can’t imagine doing it on my days off. 😂
Hey C. W! I’ve been binging all your videos lately! I’m headed to Columbus AFB in about 8 months or so for pilot training. I’ve been hearing a bunch of horror stories like all cadets that graduated from Det 835 have never gotten the aircraft they wanted and ultimately weren’t ranked too high in their class.
I’m extremely excited but also pretty nervous as it’s been a wild ride through college. Got any tips, advice, or books you’d recommend that I should look into before EAD? I’m wanting to fly the A-10 which I’m certain is extremely competitive!
Great Synergy DCS and CW. Never was a saying more true than " one door closes and another big one opens" Good timing with the F16 release upcoming. I am a big fan of both and will enjoy upcoming content with Wags and CW. CW way to go with utilizing your talents and abilities to maximize opportunities, not just with DCS but , AF, Navy, Commercial, Author, Gun and Car Videos. Early on with the DCS F18 videos you could see this marriage on the horizon. Thank you DCS for teaming with CW, having him on board was a brilliant move. This should have a positive impact on subscription numbers !! Do I see a Grim Reapers / CW crossover in the future hmmm
Not many people upload videos of the F-5 in DCS. Wish there were more, on account of the F-5 being my favorite fighter -- coupled with the fact that as an Xbox owner, I am forced to play DCS vicariously through RUclipsrs
Thank you for going through the Fam flight. As a long time Sim pilot it was a real treat for me to see someone with real world Navy and Air Force experience go through the procedure. But I do have to ask. How long have you been flying DCS on the down low ????? . You just casually say " Wags and I are working on some stuff ". You must be logging some virtual hours. I think with your background your input is going to add another level to the Sim. Also have to ask does any of the stuff you are working on involve F-16 vs F-18?
I really do like the F-5 module. It's a very easy plane to get into, and take through a canyon, especially in VR. Also, a very capable dogfighter, and very nimble. I can see how In real life it was used as a trainer aircraft for so many years. When i got the F-14, i tried to do the same type of acrobatics as in the F-5, and i flew my plane apart a couple of times until i got used to the limitations of the F-14 lol. I am patiently waiting for an F-4 module....any year now haha. Great video, and it is always awesome to hear what a real life F-18 driver has to say about these DCS modules.
You should start a virtual squadron. Would be honored to join it 👍🏻. I ordered the F16, have the F5, M2000, and a few others. Really looking forward to the Viper. Very familiar to it as a sim gammer. My fav by far!
Now I'm sitting reinstalling DCS and looking at how to get my hands on a Valve Index. Damn it. I tried DCS with the Vive and it was unplayable resolution and similarly can't get on with TrackIR
Really enjoyed your videos, I'll be checking out your book too. Seems like a fair trade.
I was going thru UPT at Willie when the F-5E was introduced. Ran into Bob Hoover in the lunch line at the O'Club. He was there to check out in the E model in preparation to demo it at the Paris Airshow. F-5's were at Willie to train the Vietnamese pilots. The one aircraft I wished I could have flown. Had to settle for an F-4. :-)
Just awesome. More please :) From a couch jockey perspective, about as good as the real thing. Actually, better in a way. In real flight videos, you don't get the play-by-play. Thanks!
how many likes for a free book
Enter one of the weekly giveaways I'm doing on the channel.
Hey Mover got a question for you. Why do the dude bros in every 16 unit do a bunch of go-arounds instead of actual touch and go's? I understand always looking for the perfect landing but myself and the rest of the crew chiefs figure it's to prevent tire degradation and ensure our meal card guys dont get to go to chow 😄
Tires. Touch and go is typically only approved for the family model. It’s called a low approach.
So this video helped me land this beast of a jet. Was having problems with it in dcs. I am using this jet to practice bfm in before moving to the dcs f-16. It's real cool to be able to sim fly aircraft I'll never get to step into. Medical issues held me back though I did get to fly r66 helicopters in branson, mo for a charter service.
Odd question.. but what kind of boots do fighter pilots wear? I've seen some brown, some tan, but mostly black. Just not sure Danner, Bates, Belleville, etc. makes the brown pair I seen a navy pilot wear
I always loved the F5 since I was a kid...made a model of it and also loved 104. But something about the coke bottle curves...magically delicious.
thanks mover !!! these videos have an incalculable value for the community of DCS.Not seen every day a real fighter pilot flying dcs .You blew my Mind!!!
Mover, the quality of the VR has improved from some of the earlier videos you made. What is VR headset are you using nowadays? And of all the VR controls you've used, what are your favorite to get fine control over the virtual instrument panel?
The F-5 is an utterly amazing stick and rudder fighter. I don't know how much you're allowed to show online, but I'd love some more flying tips in that platform.
Just found your channel ! I'm not a pilot, but was a F-15 Crew Chief in Iceland. I might give this game a try.
cool stuff....and i also notice that the sukhoi you use in Fini Flight front cover is the MKM version....export for malaysia.....because i always saw that picture
You don't need to cross feed or split the throttles, it has a fuel tank bias switch right near the cross feed switches and outboard of the fuel pump switches.
Maybe that functionality was ommitted on the T38 for a reason?