Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 14 April 2024.
Topics include the developer diaries from IL-2 Great Battles and DCS, news from the BMS team regarding 4.37 Update 4 and screenshots from 4.38, a new patch (and campaign) for DCS, Virpil's updated collective product line and spring sale (10%) off, Enigma's interview of Falcon 4.0's dynamic campaign designer, the results of Spudknocker's 2024 DCS community survey and a ton of community news!
Timestamps:
00:00 The Hangar Bay: Episode 12
01:30 The Fly-By
- The Week's Military Flight Sims News in 60 seconds or less
02:57 Developer News
- IL-2 Great Battles Dev Blog #361 (https://il2sturmovik.com/news/849/dev-blog-361/)
- BMS News Update about 4.37 U4 (https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/27051/news-from-the-frontlines-4-37-u4/50) and 4.38 screenshots (https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/25373/4-38-screenshots/19)
- DCS Weekly Newsletter for 12 April 2024 (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/newsletters/3e2c6ae21fe805af8068071a88112ae1/)
- DCS Patch Notes for version 2.9.4.53627 (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/)
- BogeyDope's video showing off version 2.9.4.53627 changes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGQrm-5BYfs)
- Stone Sky releases a new campaign: DCS Mi-24P Outpost Campaign (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/campaigns/mi-24p_outpost_campaign/)
14:53 Hardware News
- Virpil Spring Sale with 10% off all products through the end of April (Code: SPRING10)
- Virpil updated its collective product lineup (Counter-Balance kit comes pre-installed!)
16:33 Community News
- Flight Sim Expo 2024 Activities Registration is Live (https://www.flightsimexpo.com)
- Enigma interviews Kevin Klemick, the developer of Falcon 4.0's campaign (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTG4n233aq0)
- A vJoy Plugin for your Streamdeck (https://github.com/bastianh/streamdeck-vjoy-w4rl0ck)
- DCS Liberation updates to v11.0 (https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/1c09t70/liberation_110_released/)
- Ground Pounder Sims shows off "Last Out Weasels over Syria II" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA9h7LcyzNs)
- - The Project Lancaster mod team updates progress on their DCS Lancaster Bomber mod
- Dynamic flight decks for the LHA-1 USS Tarawa in DCS (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3336674/)
- Detailed F10 / Mission Editor Map Symbols (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322523/)
- Practice and Proficiency missions for DCS by =617.Evil= (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3328191/)
- SkywardFM has a new entry in their DCS Mission Editor series (https://www.skywardfm.com/content/tags/dcs-world-mission-editor) and congrats to the team over there on their 4th anniversary
- Spudknocker unveils his 2024 DCS player survey results (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZSzb8jkCo)
46:33 User Content of the Week
- What DCS module was your biggest surprise or most unexpected disappointment (https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/1bu2nbm/most_pleasant_surprise_and_most_unexpected/)
50:27 Simpit Spotlight
- u/Scorpiux on r/hotas
- (https://www.reddit.com/r/hotas/comments/1bwc9t6/my_hybrid_cockpit)
Episode notes:
- https://thehangarbay.notion.site/Episode-12-Screenshots-Surveys-96ee3799bcff483093a36f51205b6f89?pvs=4
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