Preview: First flights in the DCS: F-100D
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ShamrockOneFive from Stormbirds walks through their first structured flight in a preview build of the DCS: F-100D. The author covers the jet's auto-start procedure, nose-wheel steering and taxi handling, and initial flight dynamics around Andersen AFB and Guam. The module is still in active development with bugs being fixed and systems refined. The preview emphasizes learning curve moments (like forgetting afterburner binds) and aims to set up a series of deeper articles as the module approaches release.
Excerpt from Stormbirds
I’ve had the opportunity to get my hands on a preview build of the DCS: F-100D from Grinnelli Designs. The folks at Grinnelli were nice enough to send me over a preview to check out and help set me up with it. I’m going to do a few articles on it as I show off some of its capabilities and then put to record my initial feelings on it as the module closes in on release. For this first article, I’m going to talk through some of the basics and what I stumbled over as I did my first flights in the jet.
The flights before
What follows isn’t my first flight in the DCS: F-100D as I did spend some time prior to this working through the control setup, keybindings, and messing around with the systems and weapons.
On my very first flight, I didn’t have a binding for the afterburner and I nearly didn’t make it for example. In some combat scenarios, I misjudged how quickly the controls lock up at speed and crashed into some trees. All part of the learning process! Those flights I decided not to really document as they aren’t as entertaining… but the Guam tour below is a bit more of a structured and ordered experience of learning to fly the jet. So let’s go there!
The Guam tour
Note: I’m flying a preview build of the DCS: F-100D. Grinnelli are still actively working on the module, crunching bugs, and fixing issues, and bringing things together. Consider everything you see here a work in progress!
This first preview is focused on my initial efforts to become acquainted with the DCS: F-100D. Its not my first flight exactly as I’ve been messing about with the module in different ways but in this one I wanted to kind of walk through a complete flight and how I found things.
For this flight I’ve set myself up with a little tour around Guam. Starting at Andersen Air Force Base, the plan is to start the jet, taxi, takeoff, fly a circuit of the island at low and medium altitudes, and then land again. How did it go? Pretty well actually!
We start on the ramp at Guam and I spent a little bit of time admiring the jet all around before getting things rolling. For this flight I’m testing out the auto-start procedure which takes only a couple of minutes to complete before the aircraft is ready to rock. If you want a relatively simple start-up time, the F-100D can certainly get rolling quickly.
I’ve got keybinds for the nose wheel steering toggle and that plus ample use of differential braking helps keep the F-100D on track through the taxi. I found the jet needs a fair bit…
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