homepage Forums Air Combat & Civil Aviation DCS World DCS WWII: Europe 1944 Luthier out. ED is in.

You know, it makes sense to have such aircraft.

Stats tracking has been in for a while now and with the increasing effort to logistics and supply, it makes sense that people who don't fancy learning BVR or getting blown up every five seconds can fly a well modelled aircraft in a dynamic environment that has a real impact on their teams ability to continue the battle.

I could easily fly a transport aircraft from a relatively safe environment to a forward base. Or when a pilot is downed, that triggers a huey pick up mission at the downed location and with stat tracking maybe you can keep a tally of usable pilots. Alternatively flying a transport aircraft to take over a new airfield and with supporting CAP flights you have to run the gauntlet of getting into that base to take it over,

Plenty of reason for non combat aircraft in this game and (if and when) we see edge and the ability to have a diversity of maps then many things can be a possibility with a host of different era craft or different categories.

The only problem I see with this at the moment is the slow development time. Hopefully set backs as the topic of this post will no dissuade others to join the party. For if DCS can have even 30% of the add-on aircraft that FSX, this game will be amazing and have the ability to cater to a lot more people of different wants and abilities.