I put off learning to fly the DCS: Ka-50 for myself because I was intimidated by helicopters and I was intimidated by the systems in the Ka-50 and how difficult it may be to learn some of them. Turns out, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I had made it in my mind and so…
Category: Flight Journal
Flight Journal: Half a kill on The Korean War server
Last night I hopped onto a new DCS World server and a new experience for me that I wanted to write about. This time it was into the cockpit of the DCS: F-86, an aircraft I had purchased only recently, and onto the player versus enemy AI (PvE) experience of The Korean War server. Read…
Flight Journal: The Ju 52 paratrooper raid!
I’ve been meaning to take the Ju52 onto a multiplayer server and do a paratrooper raid and finally last night I had the opportunity to take a crack at it in a group of pilots including Requiem from the Air Combat Tutorial Library. This is what happened! To the frontlines Finnish Virtual Pilots Dynamic War’s…
Flight Journal: I’m getting myself ready for DCS: Mi-24 with the Mi-8
I’ve been doing conventional aircraft flight simming for 30 years (that’s a scary thought) but it’s only in the fall of 2019 that I started on the challenge of flying virtual helicopters. This flight journal isn’t so much about a specific aircraft journey as it is about a journey of learning helicopters and slowly gaining…
Flight Journal: Successful sortie on Hoggit’s ‘Syria at War’ server
Hoggit, one of the many DCS World server communities, has been running a new server recently making use of the new DCS: Syria map that released last year. The server itself has been up for a few months now but only recently have I ventured online to see what it was like. After a few…
Flight Journal: Busting up ships and other things on the Hoggit servers
It’s been a while since I did a Flight Journal about DCS World but I’ve had a few good flights recently that I wanted to share against the backdrop of DCS World 2.7. I’ve been flying with some of my regular group on the DCS: F/A-18C on two Hoggit servers and we’ve had some fun,…
Flight Journal: A-20 attack on the cheese factory
Sometimes it’s important to be a bit more lighthearted and when Combat Box’s newest multiplayer involves attacking a factory located within the Dutch city of Gouda. We designated it a cheese factory (a strategic target I’m sure) and made a whole mission of it. Here’s what happened! Back on the Combat Box server It’s been…
Does MSFS live weather do volcanic eruptions?
There’s been a few significant volcanic eruptions in the world recently but none appear more dramatic than the one currently underway on the island of St. Vincent. The La Soufrière volcano first erupted a couple of weeks ago and has since had several explosive events. Many people are being evacuated and whole villages on the…
Tank Journal: Pushing back the enemy on Finnish Virtual Pilots server
The recent flash sale for IL-2: Great Battles included a substantial discount on Tank Crew and that prompted a few more friends to hop in and start playing the sim. And of course we decided we wanted to take that experience online as quickly as possible and on to the Finnish Virtual Pilots – Dynamic…
Flight Journal: First mission on DCS Liberation Persian Gulf
It’s been on my todo list for a long time now to try out the Liberation Campaign mission generator for DCS World and now that I have, I’m kind of hooked on the idea. What is it anyways? Created by ‘DaKhopa,’ Liberation is a turn-based dynamic campaign generator that exists outside of DCS World. It…
