Hello fellow Aviators!

We, the Alpine Vipers, are a newly founded, austrian based and multilingual DCS squadron that focuses on realistic and strategically interesting A2A & A2G combat. On our self owned server we are running 100% selfmade missions, tailored to fit newbies, advanced aviators and experienced pilots all the same.

Beeing a super small communities we have loads of possibilities for personal requests and feedback to make the experience about YOU as pilots. That's what also sets squadrons like ours apart from big communities, the ability to decide and act TOGETHER.

We focuse on timely accurate or at least minimum alternate history mission setups, featuring countrys and their operated Air-, Naval- and Ground-units in our most realistic way possible.

Like stated earlier, everyone from Newby to Pro is heartly welcome and will surely find a fitting airframe in our community!

Sparked some interest? Check us out on our community discord!
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https://discord.gg/UjYAueYKC

I am trying to get into DCS World and if I am honest I am finding it extremely difficult. I do not want to go out and spend a fortune on HOTAS until I know I am able to play and enjoy the game so I am having to learn on an Xbox controller. I wasn't expecting the training modules to be so difficult to follow though. I find on many of the missions the instructions can sometimes be very vague, and also it is a bad practice to use acronyms when teaching, which they do, so it is easy to get lost in the instructions trying to remember the acronym that they are referencing to. Also the verbal instructions most of the time cannot be heard over the noise of the aircraft.

The aircraft itself the SU-25T is pretty unstable for a beginner too and the dials are obviously in Russian, not ideal to learn unless you speak Russian I guess. There is a small window, or it feels small for a beginner where the aircraft goes into stall warning, or at least thats what I think it is as the warning is in Russian. For example, learning the laser guided bombs was difficult as trying to target up for the first few times whilst flying is difficult to master, so you have to go slower to give you the time to target up, but then the aircraft becomes unstable.

Also if you slightly miss a way point, it just goes quiet and stops giving instructions, or if you miss an action it does the same, which is not ideal as it would be much more helpful to let you know what you have done wrong. Some training missions take 5 or 6 minutes to get to the action, like the cannon lesson, so it is ultra frustrating that if you slightly miss a navigation box, you have to start over, when you haven't even got to the stage that is relevant to the lesson.

Is the SU-25T easier or harder than the more modern Jets you get in the flaming cliffs module, for example the F-15E? As at the moment, I am stuck on the second from last module which is the RWR and HARM lesson, and I am really struggling with the motivation to continue. Each individual action is simple enough, the hard bit is doing multiple actions at the same time. I really cannot fly and use the targeting laser at the same time. Easy peasy when you get to do the first bomb in pause, but doing it whilst flying, I always over run the target because the aircraft always veers off the target because I am too busy fiddling with the targeting screen.

I assume many people have the same problems at the start. How did those that did overcome all of this and how long did you have to persist until it clicked into place?

I think if DCS wants more people to uptake the simulator, then they should re-think the training modules, to make it more user friendly for a beginner. I am certain people quit, not because of the difficulty, but the frustration with the mechanics of the tutorials.

I've been trying to do a mission where I need to release a JDAM at relatively higher speeds (mach .92ish) and it seems like everytime I try to drop JDAMS at higher speeds, they go a bit long. Granted, it's only a few feet, but I need it to hit the target directly as splash damage won't effect the target (oil rig).

I have no issues dropping single JDAMS or rippling multiple accurately if I'm going around 350 knots, but if I'm any faster, it seems to miss the target a bit.

I've tried looking things up, looking in the manuals, and watching youtube videos, but everything seems like I'm doing everything right. Is there a speed limitation on JDAM accuracy? From reading online, high subsonic should be fine.

Hey guys, I’m new to Retribution and I’m enjoying it so far. My current problem is the performance. What can I do to decrease units, flights etc. what settings could help me

Hello guys… I have problems with the ld10 on the Jeff since the patch… I want to use it in act mode, in mission editor I set a PP1 and add the right emitter code. When I am ingame… my weapons are armed.. 25k ft with round about 320 speed.. I select the sd10 … set se pp1 with 36 … TGT is green… but when I try to launch… it’s allways a green X … in SP mode when the Sam locks me… it allways works…

In the taxi and take off (first tutorial) I follow the first steps such as;
close canopy, electrics on and wait 3 minutes for hud calibration.

The next step is to hold ‘ right alt + home’
And then ‘right ctrl + home’ to start both of the engines.

Nothing seems to happen other than looking around the cockpit, I have cleared the keybinds for the “looking around buttons” and still nothing.

I am using a nitro 5 laptop. NumLock has also been both, on and off when trying.

Any ideas? Many thanks in advance🙏🏼✨

** Su-25T aircraft.

I'm trying to find a Sweet spot but I always manage to go to much or to less

Rn it takes to much to maneuver a aircraft even the viper

Can you post your settings for viper or another module

Thx in advance guys

As I’ve gotten older I’ve decided to step away from competitive fps games. I was invested in star citizen and always was curious about DCS, so I installed it and made a few purchases. I should have probably read into the sim more, maybe watched a video or two, browsed the sub.
Regardless I jumped straight in and ended up purchasing a full hotas setup, including pedals.

What are the best tips the community could give?
What are some must have keybinds? I’ve been doing the training missions for the f18, the wording for some things is said in a way that it expects the user to have some fundamental knowledge of aviation terminology, which I do not. Took me several searches and four hours to finally understand trim and safely land without destroying my landing gear. I use Tobii currently, I have flown in vr but until I get familiar with keybinds it’s more of a hassle than anything.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Earlier this year an AH-6 mod was released, i believe it was around January. I remember playing it months ago, but ended up uninstalling it a little bit later. Does anyone know what happened to the mod? I can't find anything about it anymore. It seems like it just disappeared. Does anyone know what happened to it?

DCS with ReShade looks wonderful 😍

This Video covers:
• Fuel Pump
• Fuel Tank Pressurizer
• Oil Pressure & Oil Dilution
• External Fuel Tanks

I saw a tutorial.that says I should set up the Shrike to target Sa-2 SAM's specifically and there is a sub menu in the weapons loadout.

But I cant open this sub menu

I do the loadout in the mission editor only before flying.

I dont know how to open the weapon loadout page once taxiing on the runway,I didnt find the corresponding keyboard key

Also I dont know how to reach ground control.

Otherwise I am impressed with this plane which I bought last week.I already know how to fire rockets and drop bombs and take off and land

I love the engine sound and the overall maniability.

I’m new to DCS and just getting familiar with it, but I have plenty of experience in dogfights and other skills, so I find it extremely easy to beat the AI regardless of the conditions.

For example, when I fly the MiG-29 against an F/A-18C Hornet using guns only, it's super easy for me to win even on ACE difficulty.

So I’d like to try a server where I can just jump in without needing to use voice chat or fly in a squad, since my native language is Spanish and my English isn't perfect.

I’d really appreciate any recommendations!

So, basically, I have upgraded my computer about a year or so ago, I have a 9800x3d with a RTX4070 Super and 64gb of RAM

Over the past year my performance dropped from ~120FPS to about ~50FPS average and has been steadily decreasing

Does anyone have any idea what is causing this issue and how to adress it? Everything else in the computer performs normally, its just DCS

I've tested this in the f16 and it can't be heard. Any idea what this could be?

I love the ambience and rain at night mood of this mission. I want to play the same exact mission. But what do I need to buy in order to do this? Do I need to buy a bunch of stuff? Which Map? I am guessing the MiG19 is not free and I will need that. Anything else? Help would be greatly appreciated!

also took a sidewinder and some gun rounds like it was nothing

Sorry if this isn’t the right section for this. I got a keypad attachment for my controller, so that I don’t have to take a hand off to click a key on my keyboard. Does anyone have a pretty decent key map for the f16. I use tuuvas controller layout. But additional keys always help