Hi,

 

I mainly enjoy FSX, but also like historic warbirds. Last time I enjoyed same was in European Air War (if you remember that hoary title).

 

How detailed is the actual FDE and systems simulation in DCS planes? Are we talking A2A Sumulations level of detail or quality?

 

I'm generally not a fan of military planes in a civilian sim, but have always wished for an FSX level of actual simulation in this genre.

 

Can those of you intimate with DCS help me with some honest assessment?

 

Thanks!

 

Steve

i have dcs world , it comes freware su25t plane and black sea region with full mission editor. also they provide p-51 mustang, a-10, uh-1h and flaming cliffs3 and this sim has been developing without stopping. i can suggest trying it with no doubt.

 

i have their uh-1h beta and i have too much fun with it. their modules very detailed, i beleive p-51 has as well.

and additionally they have been developing new ww2 aircraft: german fw190d

The systems in DCS, as in all of their aircraft in their dedicated lines (A-10C, KA-50, and P-51) are bar none. Incredibly accurate flight engine. And with the announcement of the FW190, DCS is looking to fill the WW2 niche for a good simulator. DCS is the creme of the crop for simulators. You will be very happy with it if you enjoy military sims. It is not so good of a sim to just fly around with though. There is not much scenery (only a small portion is covered) and it all looks about the same. But that isn't the goal of the sim, its to fight it out and it does that very well. DCS usually has sales going on, and you really would not be disappointed with their P-51D

The P51D in DCS is on a par with A2A's version.

 

The FDE is very accurate (or so I'm told, never having flown a real one!).

 

However, the area that is available to fly in is currently limited to a region of the Georgian / Russian border, although add-ons are apparently on the way.

 

There are currently an FW190 & Me109 available as AI aircraft to fight against, & the FW is going to be converted into a player flyable aircraft.

 

In DCS you can shoot things down & blow things up with bombs. FSX gives (currently) a much wider range of flyable aircraft & add-ons. DCS models aircraft systems with a level of detail & accuracy not found in many FSX add-ons - A2A excepted.

 

You really need to try DCS so that you may make your own mind up. The download is free & I picked the P51D up for just $9.99 in one of their sales.

 

Even if you keep FSX as your main simulator (as I currently have), the P51D in DCS provides a challenging alternative when you're looking for a change of operation.

Well, to make my writing as short as possible, DCS World offers you, with it's detailled FM add-ons A10c, Ka-50, p51d and now Bell UH-1H too, simply the best flight dynamics and systems accuracy available!

 

I have used all versions of MSFS, LM Prepar3d (which I still use), X-Plane (various versions up to last v10), and many other flight simulators. DCS and it's p51d (the reason why I became a fan of it and am not only playing that sim because I miss the airliners...) offers you an incredably realistic flight simulation, and, if just like me you do not like the combat side of the simulation - which happens to be the main reson to use it... - you can still fly around the scenery area. It's limited but good enough and more will come in as far as scenery goes...

 

I also bought the A2A p51d Civil. Just as anything comming from A2A or RealAir, it is top in terms of the MSFS / ESP-based core flight dynamics, but, it is limited to the many restrictions imposed by that FDM, so, although it perfoms great, there are many aspects of flight that it falls short from modelling...

 

You will fight the controls and engine management of the p51d in DCS World before you get acostumed to it's superior flight dynamics model. Forget about your past experience with MSFS...

 

To be honest, after having started using DCS World, it is now very difficult for me to use a prop aircraft, helicopter, and even a jet aircraft... in other flight simulators. I just keep XP10 ( demo, which is promissing for the future) and P3d ( because of some great add-ons I would miss, like A2A's b377, PMDG 737 NGX, RealAir Duke, Aerosoft AXE, and AS2012 SP2 weather injector), but the sensation of being there, the response to even the most extreme flight situations is simply not comparable to what DCS World provides.

 

The new Bell UH-1H, even if still in open beta, is already and by far most realistic (after the ka-50, for a powerful military co-axial model...) simulation of such a type of rotary wing available for the PC. Close to it can come some good X-Plane10 helicopter add-ons, and I believe that carefully designed models for that platform can also be rewarding, but... DCS IS DCS :-)

I do know the devs of DCS made my all-time favorite realistic air combat simulator, SU-27 Flanker, which in its time I considered far better in terms of FDE and cockpit systems simulation than the other leading title in those days, Falcon 4.0.

 

If their current work is in the same league with SU-27 Flanker, I'm interested; though of course the planes they are modeling now are far simpler in terms of control/combat systems.

 

Is the world about as extensive as it was in SU-27 Flanker? It, too, was small but the missions included, as well as mission editor, made that fact pretty irrelevant.

 

Try the free version! It comes with the SU-25T, and you can play with the Mission Editor and have the same scenery area used for all of the modules (well, FC3 I believe, extends that region?)