The DCS beginner experience is true horror 

They need to make one of the multiseat training jets cheap or free. I'd happily hop in and teach people if I could but not being able to put somone in a calm platform that I can take controls back from is a nightmare. The new mb339 being literally 60 bucks is a joke.

DCS is a horror game through and through. The learning curve is steep but it is 100% worth it.

Downloaded game, some minutes later manage to take off, fly in straight line for about 2 minutes, try to bank right to turn, stall into flat spin and crash. 11/10 would do again.

Quick tip: You don't actually need rudders when landing unless there's crosswind. So as long as you line yourself up right you'll be golden :)

3:33 when you hear the audible missile warning ("whoop whoop whoop") and you look at the RWR (Radar warning receiver) and see the missile tagged M at your 3 o'clock. I honestly wanted to shove you aside, take your joystick and break left and dive. Why you do this to me? LOL

'Pull it then dickhead' smashes into the ocean fucken priceless need more

After spending so much time learning the F-14 and apache I will say that y'all did really well given the circumstances. Left Control + E three times for eject by default for anyone else wondering.

My grandpa was a F4 pilot in the USNAF. He told me learning to fly was the most idiotic experience of his life as his instructor basically told him “you know how to fly a crop duster you can fly a fighter jet”. Surprisingly he didn’t crash it.

Boi this brings me back to my early days in DCS

super underrated man, this was awesome

I was lucky I had a mate who was quite experienced and taught me the F 15 I've got a firm grasp of the basics from his teaching. I can't do any fancy monevers but I can fire missiles, navigate and can land/take off from carriers(Su-33). Only took like a mear 25 hours. Thou jumping into a full fidelity is still daunting and another learning curve

The landings were painful to watch :D Your problems isn't the rudder, it's that you're landing while controlling the aircraft in the same way you would as if you were fast. You may have dropped gear and flaps but you're still pulling and pushing on the stick to go up and down - that's not how you land. You should trim on a particular value of AOA called "onspeed AOA", then use the throttle to go up/down and pulling/pushing on stick or trim to get slower or faster. Yes, your controls are reversed in this slow-flying regime. Throttle controls mostly your climb/descend while stick forward/aft mostly controls your speed. If you pull hard on the stick while in this slow flying regime, you won't go up, you'll slow down and stall. Note that "Onspeed AOA" is possibly the worst name they could have chosen for this, since it has nothing to do with speed and everything to do with AOA. You should ignore speed on landings from the moment you drop flaps and only follow the AOA indicator, pulling up and trimming to put it in the correct value while slowing down to prevent climbing. I didn't see the HUD but you were probably going about 50 knots too fast on touchdown which is why the plane bounced, and also you didn't flare - which is expected, because it's impossible to flare at this speed without making the airplane climb again. Look up some "onspeed landing" tutorials.

Weird hearing other welshies on DCS lol

Good to hear welsh voices in a game filled with yanks 😂 Safe flights gent's hopefully see you in the Air on a server soon 🐉

I started 11 + years ago and its never easy. Still love it 100%

Take this expertise and slap it into an Apache. I've been flying it around for about an hour trying to find out how to fly decently stable. And the end result is... well. Im gonna go to bed and try again in the morning.

Always glad to see more peeps getting into DCS! it can certainly be quite daunting but so very awesome if you stick through with it too. I've been playing DCS and other sims (both combat and civil aviation) for yearrrrrs and I still am learning new things all the time. Some of my absolute favorite memories in video games have come from flight sims, the steep learning curve makes things that much sweeter once you do something right and blast your first mig or gun down your first fw190. Best advice I can give you is to keep trying and learn what works and what doesn't work, use your resources, there's soooo many good youtube tutorials and manuals and such out there. Also I hate to say it, but take random bits of advice with a grain of salt, I'm sure everyone means well, but even just in the comments section, some people are giving good advice and some others not so much if that makes sense. Good luck and clear skies!

-Who are you and what are you doing on this airbase? -I watched Indian guide from RU-vid. -Here is your F-15s and F-18s sir!

Lmao, “missile 5 o’clock!” Pulls into the missile after becoming spatially disoriented

Learning to land with the F-15 as your first plane is not the easiest, she's got terribly flimsy landing gear. But if you can land her well, you can land anything!

>Well let's see how you're doing in this other tab >F-14 departing >oh Really sets the tone

Nice to hear some Welsh boys in the skies. You should join the Iron Steeds in Neath 😉

ahh yes the ol' taxi fire. Alittle bit warm but that's what the fire extinguishers for.

I drove into a tree first time and i didnt now how to close the little glass clap over your head so i flew with it being open xD

I'm new but for your landings you're going EXTREMELY fast, so try slowing down :) use flaps and airbrake as well

hahaha oh man, fun times Would you believe just flying the plane is still the easiest part of DCS? If you really want to enjoy study sims like this (i.e. feel like you're kicking ass & avoid frustration), I think a good trick is to take a couple evenings to put a podcast or an audiobook or a new album or something on in the background you wanted to listen to anyway, and then just fly around by yourself doing maneuvers and touch & gos on the runway, etc. until the flying enters your muscle memory, just like how you might grind early enemies in a normal-people game to get a handle on the controls (not a perfect analogy since those usually have a carefully calculated difficulty curve to make that unnecessary, but you know what I mean).

Well done Gentlemen? I needed a good laugh today(It's CHRISTMAS)

a horror game but worth it every step of the way

Tip. When landing u should be almost stalling on touchdown. Just glide down... not going 200+ knts 😂

Exact reason I try to get on the forums and teach new people. Dont take knowledge for granted.

I’m about 600 hours in and I’m still learning stuff. But recently, I realized I could use my left and right brakes instead of my rudder to control my airplane while going down the runway during takeoffs and landings. So much better and more stable

sounds about DCS to me

Can't wait for the Mudhen to come out and Jack can be in the jet with you.

I remember these days... No rudder pedals... Hehe😂 Stick with it gents!

nah, i struguled a lot on my begining, but that's what i like, i like getting good because of knowledge acumulation instead of skills, that's what mke dcs so cool

it wouldn't be half bad if the startup procedure didn't take like 10 minutes. also idk if you experienced them but the lags aghhhhhhh

I had DCS for 30 minutes. I spawned over some fucking Forrest and slowly crash. Then It happens 3 more times and I uninstall the shit

Alright first thing we need to practice is go arounds...

Basic flying is something you can learn in almost every sim... DCS, IL2, MSFS, XPLANE... Name it. Problem with DCS is that every module is like a sim itself, you have to learn how the plane you get works, the speeds, the weights, maneuvers you should do or avoid, it's strong points and all that stuff. Also, combat is different if you are flying a post WW2 plane like the mig 15 of you are flying a f18. Getting hit from a missile you don't know where it comes from is so frustrating, that's why you have to learn the weapons systems and how they and the countermeasures works. Plenty of stuff, that's why it gets frustrating, but go baby steps and practice. There's tons of tutorials on RU-vid.

Last words: HOW DO I FSCKIN EJECT

This game has quiet the learning curve. Took me many hours to learn the f-16. And honestly it the only dlc i got but its so fun. If anyone thought about playing the game id say give it a try but being completely new to the game is HARD. Had the game over 2 years before i really got into it and tried learning it

no track ir no way. and yeah its a looong road but so worth it if you are really into aviation.

You fly better than me! Lol

NOT JACK Fantastic editing.

Spent 6 hours getting the game to work. Got it working encoutured millions of bugs 11/10 would do again

I was waiting for him to get smoked

1. Dont dive into the runway 2. You can always go around

For a beginner, this is the most cursed game.

Well holy shit this video blew up...good job my guy.

DCS could get around this problem with an Arcade mode that plays like a real arcade flight combat game you would find in the arcades. Points and just easy flight etc. This while providing some basic controls in the cockpit.. Kinda a step of difficulty below flaming cliffs to also provide action packed fun. From there provide a pathway to more increasingly complex and realistic simulation...., as in perhaps a step between flaming cliffs and DCS as well?

Eject: Hold control and spam E

i have finally fixed the 403 error problem and now i have to beg for a 7 dollar jet

I realized something. DCS planes are really old. There is no F-35, F-22 or new Rafale for sale. If they are in a game it probably all mods, that we see on youtube. New planes probably much easier to fly, like in Ace Combat.

This looks really god damm fun. I got into DCS recently i was actually trying to get onto it about in 2020 but i was poor. Retarded. And in general i did not had the atitude to do it. LoL It is super fun with friends from what i have been seeing but sadly i have no interested friends and i do not now anybody whos willing to spend time with a dumbass like me. but hey, i have fun times crashing the SU-25T in to warships. Makes me remember of a plane in the pacific every time i do it.

courage

The video is from 5 months ago so you have probably improved but anyways I just wanted to say that yes, DCS is hard because flying military high performance aircraft is fucking hard. You have to study to a certain degree how stuff works and what they mean regarding avionics, aerodynamics, sensors, sounds and beeps, etc etc. So as a general advice, inform yourself about how to do stuff and then trying it out and practicing. You were trying to land a F-15 at 300 knots when their landing speed is around 150 knots. Just by googling about a DCS guide you could have found out and it would have saved a lot of attempts since it's not really trial and error. So a big advice is just to watch the tutorials, try them yourself and practice on what you've learnt. Do it enough on enough different aspects of a certain aircraft and you'll slowly master it.

Everyone talks about how horrible their airfeild landings are... but no one mentions the carrier landing with an F-18......

saw u on tt and u r fr funny

Question how do you play together. In a public server? Couldn’t quite figure that out with a friend

Next up: TrackIR :D

I have installed DCS twice after watching the epic videos (once today and once about 4 years ago) and the controls are absolutely horrendous. I'm not sure you could come up with a worse set if you made that your goal. The VR experience is silly. Trying to use your vr headset and keys and then trying to use the controllers to push the buttons with their completely unintuitive seeming random controls, I had to quit after 30 minutes of attempting to get through the tutorials. Which is a shame, because it looks like so much fun. If it had MSFS controls it would be great. Alas, it is unplayable for me

How do you fuckn eject is definitely something you don’t want to be ask as ur hurling towards the ocean and hundreds of miles per hours

How not to land tutorial.

fun times, what servers you usually play on?

Yeah well you flew upside down wrong direction climbed and rolled instead of turning away and diving. I mean :D

Your braking a little too hard at the start of the runway and need to put the plane down on the runway sooner, hopefully that helps!

guis, do a lot of patient flight training first, bevor you go to war ;)

Cymru am byth???

"Thro'lle" No offence.

u gotta play GS, best way to learn PVP

Do you guys have a dcs discord server?

see u guys seem fun to play with but get a head tracker

don't use the ATC, it's broken

honestly wasnt that hard to get into. within 2 hrs i had my hotas set up, and was killin ppl in pvp with f18.

This is a technical simulation champ. Not really meant for you 3rd worlders. Stick to Ace Combat.

Ralfiedude on youtube has awesome tutorial videos btw, highly recommend!(also don't bother with the AI ATC stuff its broken) Also look up 'Chucks Guides' super useful!

i dont understand how you can be this bad without it being intentional. so many of those approaches were just so bad idk why you didnt just go back around