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Latest posts made by serolrom
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RE: TE mission debrief
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I can finally fly BMS (to some extent)
Hi all.
I bet it seems weird that I write this in a place where everyone (or nearly at least) have gone through this and didn’t have the need to tell, but dear all, you know when you achieve something and just want to tell your friends? Well, none of my friends like simulation and most wouldn’t even understand what I do if I tried to explain, so forgive me to tell here.
The thing is that, after all the weekend spent trying to get a fire solution for a Maverick, today I finally made to the point in BMS where I could only dream some time ago. That is, I can do the basics and I can deliver bombs and Mavericks. Heck, sometimes they even hit the target!
I’m not sure how to call the point I’m at, but I’m sure you all know what I’m talking about. I can now start the sim and I can either practice a TE or get into a campaign. I master nothing (and possibly never will), but I can do mostly anything, and BMS is taking me to a new dimension in simulation.
I have something to say to fellow beginners in their very first days: if you are like me, passionate about simming but just an average learner with not much time and willing to enjoy my free time, BMS may seem overwhelming at first, too complex at times. If you keep at it, you will reach this point, look back an realize that at the end it’s not as hard as you thought it was. You may realize also that mastering the thing may be even harder that you expected, but you can enjoy almost the complete BMS experience much sooner than you think.
Quick hint: the great training manual will put you in the air, and shortly after that, you will be firing weapons. Then you have all the rest of your life to read and learn all the rest, at your own pace.See you up there.
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RE: This Sucks
Your right I don’t think it could be any simpler.
Mouse left click on function, it turns blue.
Activate the joystick/throttle input you want it to be assassinated with.
Click save.
Next function……ect
Click save.
After you have done a few restart Falcon and check.
Tomorrows lesson will will be how to pedal a bicycle. With training wheels
Always sus on people who have an account over 2 years old and only made 3 posts.
That was my feeling, thank you!
Regarding “Always sus on people who have an account over 2 years old and only made 3 posts”, I am not sure I get the meaning, but I would comment on that: not that I have only 3 posts, but I am not going to break any writing record either
The point here is: I read the forum, but very few times I feel like I have something constructive to say or to ask. Maybe only after 2 years (to say something) I will be really prepared to help to an extent and write something worth reading. Until then, I don’t think I am posting much besides side coments like this one -
RE: This Sucks
But in what way is BMS harder to configure than other sims? I found it easier to configure than FSX, way easier than X-Plane and equal to DCS. Click on the control in the list and move the joystick command acordingly. I must be missing something because this seems to be a recurring topic.
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RE: Easiest way to learn BMS?
My 2 cents:
Enjoy.
Today you feel like flying? Follow some YouTube quick tutorial.
Feeling like learning the right way to start up? Training manual.
On the coach up to a good read? Enjoy the dash-1
Etc…
Eventually you’ll get familiar with the stuff and you will know where to go find what you need and will be learning.Frustrated at some point? Feeling like it is too much? Quitting? Well… I don’t try think having a holiday is bad, you will miss it and come back and things will seem more affordable.
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RE: "Read The Manual" replies
“I only know that I don’t know anything” looks like a stupid statement to make. It excludes its own validity.
Are you shore you translated it correctly ?
He did.
I invite you to read the context in which this sentence was said, the line of thought and the base it built for the next generations of thinking. Then you tell if it’s a stupid statement -
RE: Harrier Loadout Love?
It would indeed be great to have a targeting device in the belly and free up the wing for symmetrical weapon loads.
I guess it’s about modelling this device, which if I understand the landscape, if it is not F-16ish, there isn’t much chance for it. It doesn’t help either that the Harrier doesnt seem oftenly mentioned, as if it is not the favorite plane out there.
Bad loadout -> low usage -> low priority -> bad loadout…Only opinion here, not that I know anything about the development priorities. But even if it’s only for the numbers, count me in, I love the Harrier cockpit. If we want love put into this model, we should start by make our love for it evident first, so glad to see a post for this machine.
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RE: "Read The Manual" replies
This is a point that has been said many times in this thread (I woner how many forum-wide), yet it seems mislooked quite often, and that’s sad: the difference between ‘RTFM’ and ‘RTFM @page xx’ may seem small but it does all the ‘F’ing’ difference (‘F’ing’ as in ‘Read The Flight Manual’).
OP’s point is to find a solution to avoid the ‘RTFM’ answer, which is great. Just let me point out that I’m quite new here and so far every answer that I’ve seen has been ‘RTFM @page xx’-like, which is an answer with more quality than any of the alternatives we (myself included) have suggested. -
RE: "Read The Manual" replies
@Red:
I guess you will never forget how to do it from now on. If somebody just told you, then you would forget within a week
that’s the interest of doing it straight with the hard way and go look for it yourself rather than relying on somebody else to simplify it for you.This was said in response to me when explaining it took me some time to drop my first bomb going through the manuals. I have to say Red Dog is plain right with this. Whatever I have learned by going through the manuals, took me an effort that would have been easier if someone told me ‘the easy way’, and that effort paying attention to learn the topic has paid.
Still, I agree with some ideas in this thread, such as a FAQ created by simmers not in Falcon for some years, and a forum targeted for newcommers where no question is dumb, for real.
Again in defense of the “read the manual” thing, I also have to say that I have seen no answer of this kind without a reference to the manual, and that is something to be really appreciated.Personally, I don’t ask much in the forum because I don’t have the patience to wait for an answer, and I end up in the manual. By the time I get an answer, I have found it. That’s probably because my questions are still quite basic.
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RE: "Read The Manual" replies
Maybe a bit recursive, but here goe my very modest 2 cents:
A dedicated forum in which:- Basic questions would be asked AND moved to if asked in the general forum.
- This is the place where the newcommer would be invited to ask, knowing beforehand that the question is very basic but hard for them to find among the tons of documentation as it seems to feel the first days.
- This is the place where people willing to answer would go with the assumption that the questions will be basic. Still applicable the idea to refer to the manuals, etc. But at least no one would be bothered in the general forums by questions answered over and over, not subject to ‘RTFM’ answer.
I dropped my first Paveway yesterday after quite a few days of messing around, reading, watching tutorials etc. I am not specially afraid to ask, but I felt like I didn’t want to bother anyone because I know the answer is somewhere in the manuals. Is there really anything not in the manuals? But hey, info becomes clear only overtime. The first days are a bit hard…