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That's a very good point. Kudos!

Yes, condolences about the loss of Bill. Sierra Hotel videos! Since you built it, I'm curious as to why you haven't subsequently incorporated aileron differential throw to alleviate the adverse yaw.

Yeah, I see why the adverse yaw... Yes but I always understood that the principle reason for taildragger's propensity for ground looping is due to the main wheels being forward of the CG... like rolling a shopping cart backwards or a tricycle in reverse. BTW, have you ever flown a Pitts? That is the most skittish landing plane that I've flown and add that you have Zero fwd visibility in the flare. How is your's in the vis department? Anyway, very impressive and I do hope to (virtually) fly with you.

"traffic no longer a factor... my bad"!!! m2-res_240p.mp4

In optionsData.lua located here: DCS-ROLEX\Mods\Services\DCS-ROLEX\Options. TITLE = _("DCS-ROLEX"), STOPWATCH_CHECKBOX = _("SW - Stopwatch"), GAMETIME_CHECKBOX = _("GT - Game Time"), REAL_LOCAL_CHECKBOX = _("RL - Real Local"), REAL_ZULU_CHECKBOX = _("RZ - Real Zulu"), GAME_LOCAL_CHECKBOX = _("GL - Game Local"), GAME_ZULU_CHECKBOX = _("GZ - Game Zulu"), MINUTES_HELP = _("* Warning minutes should be more than Caution minutes"), DEFAULT_HELP = _("* Hide/show/compact default hotkey: 'CTRL+SHIFT+F8'"), DEFAULT_HELP3 = _("* Reset the stopwatch default hotkey: 'CTRL+SHIFT+Space'"), DEFAULT_HELP2 = _(" * Hotkeys can be changed by editing 'Saved Games/DCS/Config/ROLEXConfig.lua'"),

So, this is the best I can do with selectable Bort numbers for post unification MiG-21. The numbers have to be this large due to the kerning (horizontal spacing) of the Bort numbers being fixed. I can make the font smaller but they would be spaced too far apart and would look strange. Even though they're slightly larger than historical, I think they look pretty good. Should I proceed?

Absolutely! They've apparently been hitting the DCS forum as well.

Sorry, I thought I had announced it here. There will be one more showing that airframe as it is now in the Hungarian Air Force. I wanted to show one airframe's lifespan.

Always helpful! This is why I try to find aircraft with at least several photos from different views. Of course the ones with lots of photos are the first ones skinned / modeled making it difficult to go for the lesser known (and often more interesting) ones. The thing that I struggle most with is color rendering due to the wild variation in published photos. I keep posting in the skinners threads to try and get the Devs and everyone to agree on which #hex code to use for specific colors. That way at least the appearance in game would be homogeneous from one skin to the next. Not getting much traction though.

Affirmative Thank you!

@Klaiber please note, the two recent Hind skins have been revised. Links are the same. https://forum.dcs.world/topic/358936-mi-24p-hind-livery-competition-2024/page/2/#findComment-5556206 Two more (Luftwaffe) to be published within the next couple of days.

Nightmare on final... Spider.mp4

Three (well, actually six) new Fishbed skins. Just uploaded to User Files. Links: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342236/ https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342237/ https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342238/ This is from the blurb: This livery is one of three total (JG1_MiG-21Bis_=Q=Green 511, JG1_MiG-21Bis_Tan 478 and MiG-21Bis_Silver 737) that I made for our squad use but I thought that others might enjoy them. All of the three are based on historical aircraft. I have included a second livery for each that has selectable Bort numbers and you can see several different Borts in the screenshots. Some special features of these skins: 1) I mimicked the East German helmet of orange with a white stripe and three ventilation holes. Also made the visor more transparent. East German flight suit also included. 2) For the camo planes I simulated the dullness of the paint along the overspray edges. 3) I did my best to simulate the "Silver" (aluminum) paint that was applied to Soviet aircraft. There were generally no bare metal aircraft in service AFAIK. Due to in game lighting it sometimes appears too metallic but that's a game rendering limitation. 4) Exhaust cone darkened and slight bluing. 5) Wheels darkened to match photos. They were probably heavily covered in brake dust. 6) I applied German placards / stencils. They're likely not accurate since I used Google Translate from the Russian. I searched long to find official references but found nothing. I also discovered that the default roughmets had the Russian placards in the green channel so I had to erase them to remove the "ghost" placards. I made default roughmets with the placards removed and am posting them on User Files. Look for "MiG-21Bis Roughmet Placards Deleted".

Ummm...???

https://il2sturmovik.com/news/867/update-5504/?_gl=1*cnefyv*_ga*Nzk0NjEyOTc5LjE3MjY1MTA0OTU.*_ga_M3ND9NY3EC*MTczMjA0NTE1OC45Mi4xLjE3MzIwNDUxODMuMC4wLjA.

Christoph Berg's YouTube channel is great... https://www.youtube.com/@MilitaryAviationHistory

D'ya think that the guy in back could have hauled him back in if he'd slipped? m2-res_1280p.mp4

"Knowing oil pressure is like knowing Stasi watching you. Nichts you can do about and only makes you nervös."

Hubba, hubba

This is Fascinating / Terrifying / Funny and oh so true

I went through this procedure for both the add and delete VBscript. It was not on my installed apps list nor would it show up on the list of apps available to install. However, a search in windows explorer for .vbs found it based in C:\Windows\WinSxS with lots of hits in amd64. Looks like it's used in Pimax as well as my Virpil programming software (and potentially other stuff considering the large number of hits shown in windows explorer). Fckin Windoze! Why are they deprecating stuff that impacts users use of hardware. Why can't they leave well enough alone. If this actually does fix your issue (and I really hope that it does) you should post in applicable places as a Public Service. Nice work!