How?
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BMS is obviously NOT a “jump in the cockpit and shoot things” game. To me that’s the beauty of it. Like many of us I have a lot of years in F4AF and Jane’s f/a-18. I’d go through phases where I’d do one, then the other. A couple of years ago I discovered FSX Super Bug and liked the cockpit interaction but was not really “fed” by the game. Shooting airliners and bombing LAX got old.
Then I found BMS, and as they say the rest is history.
Some people express interest in DCS or some such, I never feel interest in doing so. I have never been so satisfied with a sim as this, and it’s not just the flying. There are nights where I won’t even fly. I’ll just pull out a manual and study something. My Reading Room, aka bathroom, looks like a BMS reference library.:p
So, Methos, my answer to your question is to decide if you have the desire “for more”. If you do, then this is the place, and the journey counts more then the destination. -
BMS is obviously NOT a “jump in the cockpit and shoot things” game. To me that’s the beauty of it. Like many of us I have a lot of years in F4AF and Jane’s f/a-18. I’d go through phases where I’d do one, then the other. A couple of years ago I discovered FSX Super Bug and liked the cockpit interaction but was not really “fed” by the game. Shooting airliners and bombing LAX got old.
Then I found BMS, and as they say the rest is history.
Some people express interest in DCS or some such, I never feel interest in doing so. I have never been so satisfied with a sim as this, and it’s not just the flying. There are nights where I won’t even fly. I’ll just pull out a manual and study something. My Reading Room, aka bathroom, looks like a BMS reference library.:p
So, Methos, my answer to your question is to decide if you have the desire “for more”. If you do, then this is the place, and the journey counts more then the destination.Agree with what yourself and others are saying. I too spent a good part of last night not playing Falcon but reading the Dash 1 and Dash 34 manuals. In doing so i learned more about the AMRAAM DLZ, A/M/F poles, DMC and the two types of active guidance that an AMRAAM’s seeker has HPRF and MPRF. Also about FCR contacts. Also someone kindly told me how i have the IP and TGT steerpoints show on the DED as IP and TGT. Still so much to learn especially in 4.33 compared to 4.32.
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Agree with what yourself and others are saying. I too spent a good part of last night not playing Falcon but reading the Dash 1 and Dash 34 manuals. In doing so i learned more about the AMRAAM DLZ, A/M/F poles, DMC and the two types of active guidance that an AMRAAM’s seeker has HPRF and MPRF. Also about FCR contacts. Also someone kindly told me how i have the IP and TGT steerpoints show on the DED as IP and TGT. Still so much to learn especially in 4.33 compared to 4.32.
and that’s just FCR systems and a smattering of the DED, after that you need to learn how to fly as well.
sometimes it’s good to get away from the manual and just do some ****ed up and crazy shit in that jet to learn where the limits are… how high and how fast do i need to be to do a split s and not lawndart (3000 ft AGL and 350 kts using AB btw)
how do i recover from deep stalls… how do i get into deep stalls so i can avoid getting in one… i could go on and on -
and that’s just FCR systems and a smattering of the DED, after that you need to learn how to fly as well.
sometimes it’s good to get away from the manual and just do some ****ed up and crazy shit in that jet to learn where the limits are… how high and how fast do i need to be to do a split s and not lawndart (3000 ft AGL and 350 kts using AB btw)
how do i recover from deep stalls… how do i get into deep stalls so i can avoid getting in one… i could go on and onManuals can tell you a lot of that you know. Its good to practice, but its good to practice with an aim in mind - something specific.
@Habu_:USAF takes about 3 years to train a fighter pilot to the point he is ready to join an operational squadron. I would not compare flying real jets to high fidelity combat flight sims, but mastering the weapons systems and avionics is similar. Takes time, practice and passion, especially the latter.
I would. If you want to fly BMS seriously, its going to take a comparable amount of time to learn its intricacies as it would to learn to fly a real jet. You miss out on as capable an IP, and you dont get as many aircraft to fly in that time, and half the systems on the jet dont work, so you can do it in less time, or more time, depending how things go.
While its never going to be the same as flying the real jet, you can always compare it, and identify the things that are different, and those things that are not.
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How do you guys get so good at this sim? Thinking about giving up this since it seems so much to learn.
Methos,
Here’s what worked for me. I first read the manuals, taking some time to do so, while looking at this forum constantly to see what others were discussing and asking. In addition, I started slowly just playing around with instant action at low levels. Obviously I also was figuring out how I wanted to configure my hotas during this time. At first much of what I read was greek to me (no offense to my fellow Greek pilots) and I constantly got killed. But eventually I got my controls on the Hotas the way I wanted and started actually surviving some instant actions as I started to advance through various levels. As I did this I also started looking at the wide variety of you tube videos available to show me how to actually do something in the jet which then started to make all that I read gel. Then I started a rookie level campaign. Etc etc, just keep building up your skills and eventually it comes together to make it very enjoyable. Good luck.
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
There are many, many reasons why Falcon has survived up to now.
And one of the many reasons is the community. I was afraid to fly online, but once I did it was a whole new world.
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I’m in the same boat, new to BMS and feeling like I will never be proficient. But there’s something else, OP, that I found in some other areas in general: complicated things seem overwhelming at first. Then you go to easier ones. The easy things come to an end quite sooner, and then you go back to the complicated, which has a challenge that keeps you at it for longer.
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Step by Step, asking questions (there is no stupid question, only stupid people telling you it is a stupid question), read, make mistake, and most of all, have fun learning and flying the sim.
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Simple.
We just call you chicken.
I believe this will do the trick. :lol:Here from day one. Still newb but none can call me chicken…
Except Archer Molny Lazy Whole BMS team, my squad… Hey enough the rest are toast. :rofl:sent from my Xperia Z3 compact via TapaTalk
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Becoming a real F-16 pilot would probably help with getting to grips with BMS
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Here from day one. Still newb but none can call me chicken…
Except Archer Molny Lazy Whole BMS team, my squad… Hey enough the rest are toast. :rofl: -
Simple.
We just call you chicken.
I believe this will do the trick. :lol:Here from day one. Still newb but none can call me chicken…
Except Archer Molny Lazy Whole BMS team, my squad… Hey enough the rest are toast. :rofl:sent from my Xperia Z3 compact via TapaTalk
That’s how I would never call you.Cheers,
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Oh and Dj and not Lazy…
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You are correct on practice. One of the biggest things that was frustrating me and making me want to give up was the bombing runs. Watched tons of Krause’s videos, did everything perfect and nothing would happen. Finally realized that my bombs were set to training mode and not combat. Bombing the hell outta everything now…lol.
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Well, the TGP laser can be set to training or combat mode. The bombs, not so much.
If you were using LGBs, likely what happened was that you missed and thus saw no explosion, until turning the laser to the combat mode (required for guiding LGBs).
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Try to find interest in the sim and fly with guys,you should learn more skills and others.