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7/8/2025, 3:52:32 PM
>>63955884
I adore the F1, it's my favourite plane in DCS by far, and they've done such a fucking good job of it. It's dead sexy, carries an unholy amount of bombs, fast as fuck, and totally has a personality. I'm lucky enough to have a FFB stick and it absolutely feels alive. And as you say, out of nowhere, it'll occasionally decide to have a try at killing you which is a trait it shares with another (much slower) French aircraft I used to fly years ago.
It's not the greatest thing air to air but it can get the job done if you're lucky but it's just so fucking goddamned enjoyable to fly that I can't bring myself to choose anything more suitable most of the time. I love it.
>even though it's ridiculously cumbersome to actually hit something with it, whether air or ground.
SAMP 250s or 400s, 150 on the depression dial, come in at 15,000ft, about 30 degress offset to your target. Roll inverted and pull through and aim to have the aircraft pointed about 40 degrees nose down, fly along that 40 degree line on your HUD until you're lined up with your target and then raise the nose to 30 degrees and chop the throttle, hopefully by this point you're at about 9,000ft and about 3NM away, 30 degrees dive and the aircraft marker in the HUD "flying" toward the target at around 350-400kts. Drop as the reticle passes through the target, pull up and full power, and roll away from the target area. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I adore the F1, it's my favourite plane in DCS by far, and they've done such a fucking good job of it. It's dead sexy, carries an unholy amount of bombs, fast as fuck, and totally has a personality. I'm lucky enough to have a FFB stick and it absolutely feels alive. And as you say, out of nowhere, it'll occasionally decide to have a try at killing you which is a trait it shares with another (much slower) French aircraft I used to fly years ago.
It's not the greatest thing air to air but it can get the job done if you're lucky but it's just so fucking goddamned enjoyable to fly that I can't bring myself to choose anything more suitable most of the time. I love it.
>even though it's ridiculously cumbersome to actually hit something with it, whether air or ground.
SAMP 250s or 400s, 150 on the depression dial, come in at 15,000ft, about 30 degress offset to your target. Roll inverted and pull through and aim to have the aircraft pointed about 40 degrees nose down, fly along that 40 degree line on your HUD until you're lined up with your target and then raise the nose to 30 degrees and chop the throttle, hopefully by this point you're at about 9,000ft and about 3NM away, 30 degrees dive and the aircraft marker in the HUD "flying" toward the target at around 350-400kts. Drop as the reticle passes through the target, pull up and full power, and roll away from the target area. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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