Top 10 F-5 Tips For Beginners From A Beginner | DCS

[@control_the_pet_population]

One slight caveat concerning the F-5E radar: It is totally useless as a search radar against fighter sized targets, but only 80-90% useless against bomber sized targets. I have occasionally gotten lucky finding a Tu-95 beyond visual range.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

I hopped into ECW for the first time yesterday and walked out with two 9B kills on completely oblivious fishbeds. And also a few deaths to mirages and the ol' panic-pull-snap-your-wings-off move. She's a fun little plane. Very simple.

[@dcsheinlein]

very good tips. The F-5 was my first DCS module and it is a great plane for beginners.

[@bruswain9158]

Is great for beginners but also probably one of the most fun jets regardless as its not fly by wire, looks bad ass, less performance hungry, sounds amazing

[@Munky332]

@7:18 -- I believe you can fire missiles in an "over-ride" mode by hitting the "DOGFIGHT MISSILE" (forward) button. I'm not sure if this over-rides the jettison switch, but I'm pretty sure it over-rides the selector switch -- an example would be if you went in for a rocket or bomb drop and immediately had to begin a dogfight, hit the dogfight missile switch and you should be able to rip off the Aim-9's

[@Dr_Jebus]

Very interesting. I'll have to give that a try. Cheers!

[@Munky332]

@@Dr_Jebus Also, this is more for when flying with a wingman/in a group. Use TACAN in air-to-air mode (A-A T/R) Leader sets up one channel, wingmen set channel 63 channels apart. You ever get lost, just refer to your TACAN nav, it'll give you bearing and range. When I fly with my buddy, whoever decides to take the lead usually sets 92, and wings all set 29. Just think 29-92. They're perfectly 63 channels apart. This should apply for any aircraft that has A/A tacan, not just the F-5 as well. I'll be honest though, I don't know if its possible to see tacan between redfor/blufor. Might be an EMCON consideration... Though in the ECW server I don't think thats a problem.

[@Magpie...]

@@Munky332 Wow, didn't know. Why does it have to be 63 apart? (I know little of tacan)

[@Munky332]

@@Magpie... Just the way the radio standard was made IIRC. 962 to 1213 (X) and 1025mhz to 1150mhz (Y), 126 channels each band spaced 1mhz apart, half of 126 == 63. basically works in "stereo", you dial in one freq, and that's the channel your radio is transmitting on (assuming you are in TR or AA-TR), and the channel 63mhz away == your receive freq. little more complicated than that, but operationally all you need to know is dial in +/- 63 channels. Then just make sure you are both on X or Y. X is usually for ground based stations, Y is usually for Air-to-Air.

[@joshkrempp1027]

@@Munky332 Hold on, i knew you got ranging but never noticed a bearing. Did they add this?

[@airline3hum]

Although two years after you made this, I thank you for this superbly informative video!

[@xfire7]

Weight on ground switches on the undercarriage override the missile arm switch .

[@tomaszwota1465]

If you remember to "fence in/out" you don't have to do master arm on the ground. ;)

[@Dr_Jebus]

If I remember!

[@tomaszwota1465]

@@Dr_Jebus yep, takes remembering to do it on the ground too! Lol!

[@Dr_Jebus]

@@tomaszwota1465 haha, true. I find it easier while engines are spooling, than remembering when focusing on flying the aircraft, getting bogey drops, checking the map etc

[@dovaiS]

Good tips, except number 2 is actually apart of startup procedure... I'm sure some people might've skipped it at some point though.

[@user-iu6sd8su3e]

Thanks these are a lot of tips I was looking for

[@elysia5379]

Very useful, thanks.

[@jfiery]

I've found as long as I engage the pitch dampner I dont have an issue. So my yaw dampner can stay off giving me that extra roll

[@CrazyRussianPilot]

nice video👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 !

[@Dr_Jebus]

Thank you!

[@Bullet4MyEnemy]

How do you get the SRS overlay to be in that location?

[@Dr_Jebus]

Crtl+shift+esc cycles the overlay display mode by default. One of those let's you click and drag it where you like in a little window, then repeat to reset it to normal.

[@Bullet4MyEnemy]

@@Dr_Jebus Oh my god I'm an idiot lmao, I always wondered why anyone would want the box around it like that, thanks man

[@Dr_Jebus]

@@Bullet4MyEnemy haha, no worries! Happy flying out there

[@mche7214]

I am from AF,the pitch got to be planned ahead.

[@Dr_Jebus]

Not sure I understand?

[@mche7214]

the speed indicator has a problem before.

[@Tome4kkkk]

So, no more F-5 love on your channel?

[@Dr_Jebus]

It's only been a month since my last F5 video. An got another releasing in about a week. Here's the latest onekzbin.info/www/bejne/qqrVeWuaqMmHb6s

[@Tome4kkkk]

@@Dr_Jebus Nice!

[@mitch_the_-itch]

The single biggest problem with our society today is that the beginners think they have enough expertise to talk.

[@Dr_Jebus]

Rofl. Why thank you very much. Have a wonderful day too

[@user-iu6sd8su3e]

That’s not even close to the biggest problem.