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Was a lot of fun,

Woah missed this, I hope you had a great birthday FT, and had a thoroughly enjoyable day

True, but the Hook ain't free! Sure looks better though,

The Blackhawk mod is a very good helicopter mod as well, very different as is much more modern, and probably the easiest helicopter top learn to fly helicopters with, UH-60L Black Hawk Mod ("Official" Thread) - Page 19 - Flyable/Drivable Mods for DCS World - ED Forums

I really like the OH-6A mod, it's come a long way since its first release. Since v1.4 its massively improved really nice fm, and we're currently on v1.51 now

Flying around en-route to protect ground troops with Colin earlier tonight,

Using the Laydown mode in the F-4E with Snake eyes,

Somebody's learned how to use the Pave Spike and GBU's in the F-4E!!! Somewhat harder than in other platforms, but very doable once you get used to the Pave Spikes foibles. Bombing an airfield from @15,000 feet.

After learning a few lessons along the way, like after jettisoning bags make sure you set the switch to fuel transfer off so it will then drain your wing tanks and not leave your Phantom flying like a brick, turning roll augmentation to off when dogfighting so you have full control over the rudder, and that generally Sparrows are great for making the enemy go defensive, and ever so occasionally may get you a kill, I'm starting to get some success and enjoy the challenge!

More Helicopter shenanigans,

Some sight seeing up north,

This thread has some good info re the F4 radar and realistic expectations. Jester useless. - DCS: F-4E Phantom - ED Forums

If its the same as the Tomcat, you still have to tell where jester to look sometimes with the jester wheel, to specifically focus the search on to a certain piece of sky. Also, if you were chasing and there was relatively little speed difference, you won't be able to get a lock, no matter what radar you have in DCS, due to how these radars work, as they will be in the notch. In that situation you either need to slow down or speed up to create a positive/negative closure rate, and get the targets out of the notch. Most radars have different settings used depending whether the target is hot or cold as well, and being in the wrong prf greatly reduces detection chance, if your radar is set for hot targets and they're cold for example (hot target is coming towards you, cold target is flying away from you). Jester can need a prod in the right direction with this sometimes. Re sidewinder, no idea....

DCS forums would be probably a good place to start, try here, Winwing - ED Forums (dcs.world) And yes, DCS is pretty beautiful these days!!!