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[5./JG27.Farber]

The canopy flew away like it was on rockets and did you see the pilot dolphin dive out of the plane using only his buttocks?

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Watch the real thing here.It shows the canopy flying up and away clearer in the slowed down replay 1 min 20 onwards.
Watch it all to give you a sense of time involved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xctYW...eature=related

[bongodriver]

Yeah but theres no doubt in DCS the canopy is modelled to blow away like it has explosive devices when in reality it slides back on its rails.

[ParaB]

You guys are debating the modelling of how the canopy flies off the plane? In an early beta version? Seriously?



BTW flew the P-51 online for 3 1/2 hrs last night with my buddies and had a blast. Take-offs and landing, formation flying, ground attacks and dogfighting, good fun!

Really looking forward to more 3rd-party devs starting to create content for DCS world. If the quality is on par with what I've seen so far I'd happily pay 40 bucks for each new plane.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by ParaB

You guys are debating the modelling of how the canopy flies off the plane? In an early beta version? Seriously?



BTW flew the P-51 online for 3 1/2 hrs last night with my buddies and had a blast. Take-offs and landing, formation flying, ground attacks and dogfighting, good fun!

Really looking forward to more 3rd-party devs starting to create content for DCS world. If the quality is on par with what I've seen so far I'd happily pay 40 bucks for each new plane.

At $40.00 a plane People will only buy the ones their attached too. Competitive people will only buy the best to rack up their scores.

If it was the $8.00- $15.00 that RoF charges then you'ld get people collecting them all.

Come to think of it if there were too many people willing to spend $40.00 how long would it take the ROF planes to start increasing in price?????

Downloadable content! You've gota love it!

[Ze-Jamz]

Get used to it beacuse it will be the only way soon

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

Get used to it beacuse it will be the only way soon

You are not wrong!

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

Get used to it beacuse it will be the only way soon

Not only do I think your right..

But I hope your right!

For several reasons.. One selection, Two cash flow for devs to do more, And last but not least.. Charging ~$40/plane has a 'flitering' effect.. And by filter I mean it tends to exclude the kid-os which in turn tends to exclude the brain dead team killing plane ramming types!

[Stublerone]

Common guys, nobody ever critizised the FM of a blackshark or an A10 and compared it to real life behaviour, like we do here on cod. I doubt, that even it all has a "military simulator" in its history, that the ED engine has that powerful and up to date FM integrated.

Think about the requirements of the military to train people? They always say, that simulating flight aspects is always too difficult to simulate. They need it to train the brain of the pilots and to train the systems and what to do in different conditions. The FM is not as important for the military as the fully functional cockpit instruments. It is not a very detailed flight simulator, but is a highly detailed systems simulator.
I doubt, that the FM is taken as serious as it is taken for CloD. CloD with its old rudimentary systems cannot compete by nature with such a grade of clickable procedures. The main topic in ww2 aircraft is to manage flight technical things by ear, eyes, and the few gauges in a cockpit. You need much more flight dynamic accuracy, than u need in a fully autopilot computer controlled aircraft with a bunch of helping mechanisms.

So in my view, dcs will never reach comparable flight dynamics to CloD. But this is also not the intention of such a sim. It has other things to care of.

So i doubt, that the flight feeling of p51 will reach the p51 in clod, as soon as it is there. I have never flown a sim like the il2 series, where you have the same feeling of really having air under the wings.

It is matter of priorities, but I think the classics collection in dcs will not reach il2 series. They will have their enormous potential in newer aircraft with weapon systems to simulate.

Hope, they will get some life into the sims, because it always has a strange dead feeling, when u just flying around! Not to speak about the missions.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Stublerone

They need it to train the brain of the pilots and to train the systems and what to do in different conditions. The FM is not as important for the military as the fully functional cockpit instruments. It is not a very detailed flight simulator, but is a highly detailed systems simulator.

Agreed 100%!

Most military flight simulators don't bother traning ACM.. It is all about the systems.. So there is a chance that the DCS FM may be lacking in realism.. Too soon to tell but I hope we are wrong..

If this P51 goes well for DCS.. Who knows.. They may shift thier focus a little? I hope so because their game engine is top notch!