Just ordered my first HOTAS

Going to stick to learning the Su-25T for now as it's a "half modeled" aircraft, is free, and as a "half-modeled" aircraft is easier to learn. The manual is 68 pages long.

The F-14 Tomcat manual is 250 MB and is over 400 pages long. :oops:
 
The ones we carried on board (each airframe had it's own set) consisted of five 4" binders. If you weren't sure about the info you had to know where to look for it. I imagine a lot of it is in electronic format today for easy look-up but I'm also willing to bet in a military aircraft where there's space, there's still a paper set.
 
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The learning curve on DCS is very intimidating. But once you get off the ground and into the air it really is quite something. I still have a long, long way to go though. I don't even know how to arm the weapons, let alone use them.
 
Don't go with voice control. Had a pilot friend tell me that. He said, "You set these things up in a calm atmosphere. "Gun", "Missile", "Target", "Lock", "Fire". And then you play and it's like a high pitch scream "Guns, guns, guns" and the frickin computer goes "Invalid input" and you die."

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Here's the real rub:

My wife, about 4 years ago, bought me a really top of the line headset. 200 bucks or something she paid for it thinking I could use it and still answer the phone with it.

I told her it didn't work that way, so I hardly ever used it. A few weeks ago, my daughter's boyfriend (whom I do like a good deal) was looking at really cheap headsets because he needed one for his editing work. (He's actually doing movie work. Mostly lighting and sound, but he also does some light editing on film and sound as well.)

So I gave him that great headset.

And now I need it. I'll have to have one to mount the Head Tracking unit I'll soon order. So now I have to look for a headset as well.

Dumbass says "what".

What?
 
It's always the way. Cleared out the workshop unknown screw box? You can bet your bottom dollar the day after garbage day you'll be looking for that particular screw you used to see in that dammed box all the time.
 
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Flew the A10-A Warthog for the first time last night. It was very, very cool. Much easier to fly than I thought it would be.

I still have to remap and learn all of the weapons systems on both aircraft. That's going to take forever.
 
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Flew the A10-A Warthog for the first time last night. It was very, very cool. Much easier to fly than I thought it would be.

I still have to remap and learn all of the weapons systems on both aircraft. That's going to take forever.

Makes sense since it's meant to take a fair amount of battle damage.

I would imagine you have a few layout save capabilities.
 
I would imagine you have a few layout save capabilities.
I don't think it works that way. I've not really gotten anywhere near that far, but from my reading you have to load out your aircraft from the ground up for any mission you fly.

They have "quick missions" you can fly where it's already outfitted, but I'm not doing any of that yet. I'm just trying to get the flying down first, then I'll worry about advanced navigation (you have to do all that as well), then I'll work on weapons systems.

After I get all of that learned to a decent level, I'll start the weapons training missions and the like. Then I'll tackle some actual missions.

Edit to add: here's the A10-A "quick reference" loadout chart

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