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Job Done, Id say!😁 Here's a couple of videos to enjoy; and from Zurich to Innsbruck; ❤️

I just returned to the Fenix after "update"?? (The Airbus not myself!) The Air Speed Dialing doesnt work so I guess I need an updated MCE? The .4 version on the website is stated as a "Demo"? Can we have an updated version please? Cheers!

Vox key is similar to Voice Attack. You type in a verbal command and then assign a keypress. It doesn't recognise key States. Vox Script is the master! It can work through entire flows....see my Avsim Library flows for the 737....they all work! Also you can edit them to your liking😁

Check AC meter for sticky "test" function. Check IRS for "align" function. For some reason I can't get align from MCE yet can if I do manually? Otherwise it's a spot on first officer! In a spot on simulation of the 737. PMDG and MCE are to be congratulated on creating a wonderful introduction to realistic company flying! Well done both! No other companies have this level of accuracy!

Just my twopenneth after reading your post. I sometimes don't see the GSX window after calling a boarding flow, first, which doesn't include the contact with ground mechanic. Seems like GSX has got a bit slower, in this case? Re your NGXu (which I don't own but had PMDG NGX in the past) are you using the save panel state in the CDU? I would save cold and dark for the preferred start state. Then what I'd do is run the connect GPU routine first. Call ground mechanic and ask for GPU to be connected. MCE will open correct CDU menu and load that for you. After that routine, GSX has woken up and the GSX menu is unfailingly available. Cheers.

I can't find any recent videos of the JF VC10? But this 2 year old one shows some promise. JF released a "pro" version after this. The engineer panel looks nice and the sound from the Rolls Royce engines! 😉

One of the most beautiful jet aircraft ever made, the VC 10!😁 For P3dv4.5! I Itread warily here, it's a Just Flight model. Looks a nice simulation, but reports of faults in the autopilot are disconcerting? If anyone out there has bought this sim and found it works well, then it would be really nice to get two MCE crew in the flight deck and me as Captain of course! The flight engineers station could be handled quite nicely by our MCE crew, just like the CS 727/707! Cheers!

Already supported by MCE, but alas only for FSX, the magnificent CS 707! So it's a plea really, to Captain Sim to re do their FSX 707 for P3dv4.5! There is a huge gap in the simulator market for this magnificent historic icon. CS do have their 737-100 for P3D 4, but sadly the 707 isn't for 64 bit. If anyone takes a look at my video on You Tube from 2014, you can see the FSX 707 and a MCE crew of three! William and Clive as first officer and flight engineer, RC4, with Australian ATC. The flight uses the fully working "Doppler" navigation on the 707. I think we need this aircraft back in 64 bit, after all, our MCE has a crew that can fly it!😉 Best regards David If you FF to the end of the movie, I give a brief explanation of Doppler navigation in the 707. For a reminder I'm "David herky" still alive on You Tube, but only just, after having to reinstall the sim! 🙃

Hi Patrick. No I'll stick to the release version, thanks. I started with the Acorn Electron, then C64, Amiga and then the early PC's. I remember Tornado by Digital Integration. That sim showed me what was possible in the future! With P3d, in 64 bit, the Simdirector utility is reasonably stable and together with FSX@War, and TACPAC, permits a world wide theatre, in which to plan scenarios. It's very labor intensive and no doubt puts many simmers off! Hopefully DCS will eventually cover the globe and then similar missions can be planned. Extending the Normandy map would be nice. Then add a Lancaster with Upkeeps and a nice map of the Dambusters dams and I will be a very happy chap!😉 Hopefully the Hornet will be complete soon. Up to the level of the Hog! Then the F16 will be on the beta route. I had BMS Falcon 4.0 on my last PC, so I will inevitably be comparing that with the DCS F16.....! Some simmers still don't realize the Hog was used by the National Guard units to train. The Mirage 2000c by the French air Force. These simulations have the systems, particularly weapons,that permit realistic planning and execution of scenarios. Best regards. David

Hi Patrick. Hope your feeling better. Appreciate the work that's going into the Hornet. I only fly the release DCS, so the incremental updates are a bit slow for me. I found myself taking the Superbug up for a while recently. That's in P3d v4. Since I have been flying the Superbug for a while longer than the DCS Hornet, I am always comparing the two Sims. That way I can torture myself better! I know how complex the code may get to fully implement the HARM! But sure it will be worthwhile. My Simdirector missions, together with FSX@War, CCP planner and FSCAI, are a real pain to program in P3d, (they'd be easier in DCS Mission planner!) but give you a decent work out, in the Hornet. You may have seen my videos of the Caucuses, Operation Deliberate Force (Serbia) and the Hormuz mission, not to mention my Dambusters recreation, using the Bug and modern weapons! Each utilises the HARM in Pre Planned mode, then TOO and SP. PP needs accurate Lat/Long coords, via UFC or MU mission planner. Then launch and let the HARM do it's thing. They really got their code right. I know they didn't implement the HARM's "loiter" mode, but since the AI SAM in the TACPAC, system don't go silent, it doesn't really matter. The weapon always kills the radar, because it's always on. It may be going a bit too deep to have radars going silent, as we approach? The code must be busy enough! My point is really to say what a powerful aircraft the Hornet can be. With fully functioning HARM, JSOW, JDAM or even that superb ALCM and the Harpoon ASM, you can attack a defended target with just one aircraft! Well, there is only "the player", in P3d. The Targeting pod must be worth waiting for. The FLIR that locks to radar and HUD designated targets would be really nice.😀 Finally, glad the carrier radio is getting done! Only SSW had anything like a AI radio system and that didn't always work in P3d. They had some realistic radio sounds for CASE and the trap, but they didn't always "know" where you were? Javier's carriers may now look a bit FSX, but the ability to populate the decks with any level of aircraft is cool. That would be great in DCS. 😉 I am an old Falcon 4.0 flyer, so the new DCS Falcon is a future must have! But please bash on and finish the Hornet. She's a peach of an aircraft. Then I can stop flying the Superbug and moaning! Best regards David.

Will do! I want the Hornet to be as good as it can be. It's my own fault for comparing it to the VRS Superbug 🙄 I recently swapped the Mirage for the Hornet, in Baltic Dragon's campaign mission #12. That's the free campaign comming with the Mirage. In that mission you are up against two Mig-31s and two Su-27s at low level in the mountains, ambush tactics for the Su-27. All use the longest radar missiles first and then go down the list through the 73 Archer to the 60 Aphids. You are close escort to four GR1s! The AI go for the Tonkas first, so you are racing to stop them. It's a great challenge for any fighter and a superbly crafted mission, typical of Baltic Dragon. The radar in the Mirage is superior to the Hornet (currently!), both in aquisition and maintaining lock. The Amram is superior to the 530 on the Mirage, but I lost lock on the Su-27s, in the Hornet, so lost any advantage. If you are lucky and get to a one v one close in, you can use the 9x and the helmet sight😋 Bottom line is that the TWS mode needs implementing in the Hornet so we can ripple launch the Amrams. That would give a real sting to the Hornet. Maybe balance up the odds against the super AI. Anyway, I am sure it will get there. It took 2 years for the Mirage to get to where it is currently, which is a very fine simulation indeed! Cheers.😁

Looking forward to the carrier development. Comming from Javier's Nimitz, freeware! (or SWS Carriers)to the somewhat barren Stennis is disappointing. Using the latest update today, in the release version DCS World, the HARM looks a bit wrong. The TOO, target of opportunity has seemingly no means to select a target. It may be the way it's been implemented by DCS. Looking at the HARM in the VRS Superbug, the TOO can be selected from the EW (RWR) by steerable cursor, but in the DCS Hornet there is no selectable target cursor. I set up two Sam's, an SA8 and a SA6. Flew in at FL260, got the RWR indications, but couldn't select a target or lock on? The Sam's launched and got me every attempt. The SP (Self Protect) mode works but that's a reflex shot anyway. With an Ew, RWR, target, you can approach outside the SAM envelope, pull up and launch, after selecting the target and then dive away and notch before the SAM gets one up! The EW threats should also be visible on the HUD. Then there are the HARM modes, HARM pull up or aircraft pull up. I wish DCS would take a long look at the VRS Superbug. I know it's an E, but the HARM function is the same. My problem is going from the VRS in P3d, to the C in DCS, I am expecting too much too soon, perhaps? Since the VRS simulation has been out for years now. I hope the DCS Hornet gets finished. All the plaudits are going on the new Tomcat! Or should I say "old" Tomcat, since it's 30 year old + technology now. But it does have "Goose" yelling at you! A pretty impressive AI RIO or WSO!😁