Honestly, this is probably my favorite DCS video that you've done yet. All the reminiscing and little tidbits of Mover trivia, along with the really nice map just kinda set the whole thing off.
As a young paratrooper I went into Iraq on day one of the ground invasion in 2003. It was chaotic to put it lightly. We could always count on the people in the air to help us out when we needed it though. Thanks Mover.
I love that military pilots are able to share their experiences like this with DCS. Gaming creates a whole new genre of social psychology within the veteran community. Also, IDK why but my cat watched this entire video with me so you got his approval! Thank you for your service!
Great video sir. And I thought I recognized that bird. 85-1549, former 13th FS bird when I was at Misawa in the 14th FS, "91-"93. It's a shame she's no longer with us after that fubar mishap at Nellis. Keep up the great videos sir and Code 1 for life!
Brilliant mover, especially love the real footage that’s included in this video. Looking forward to seeing typical sorties you would carry out. Love the content and podcast, say hi to Gonky and wombat too. Love from the UK
2:30 “15 Aug 2015 #85-1549 Collided with #85-1546 shortly after landing at Nellis AFB around 1120h local. The mishap was caused by pilot error of both landing aircraft. The aircraft came in too hard and landed long on the runway without applying proper braking and aerobrake procedures. This in combination with the other aircraft not vacating the runway in the right manner caused this mishap. The pilot suffered life threatening injuries. The airframe was considered a complete write-off due to extensive fire damage.”
As of Oct 11, 2016 85-1549 lives on Tail number 85-549 was placed on another F-16 air frame and is currently on display at the Houma Terrebonne Airport in Houma, LA.
i really enjoy authentic videos like this. When i meet someone who had experiences like this, of course i want to ask questions about it.. but i also dont want to annoy the person... So thank you for sharing.
Brings back a lot of memories, ive been holding off getting this map just because of that. Hopefully 4ya, rotorheads etc. will start making missions on other maps cuz caucus is getting old AF.
It is so cool to see this, and hear these stories, about what it's like, and also crazy to think as a DCS pilot that it is pretty realistic and that the views are similar to what real pilots viewed as well. It was a little bit sad you didn't set up a sandstorm and then do an ILS landing, I know they've been improving dcs's weather heavily (plus there's the bandit Weather mod also) I have practiced a lot of ILS landings in different aircraft and had heard that if you can't see the runway you are supposed to divert if the is visibility is ultra bad , so it's cool to hear one option in real life was use the ils all the way down.
As someone who will probably only ever fly planes in sims, it's really cool to see just how close these sims have come to the real thing. Like, it's insane that Mover can just take off and explain where what happened when he deployed there not too long ago. Crazy.
Map looks really great, especially in these lighting conditions. Would be awesome seeing you and Casmo doing some heli action. "alien roof structure" - Wombat's tic tac confirmed landed and transformed in Baghdad. 😅
@@CWLemoinethis map truly looks amazing, thanks very much for this video and putting the map in proper context for us. Map *is* heavy; DCS VR must be one of those real actual use cases for the 5090 (w/9800x3d+64) coming out, but even the 4090 (w/7800x3d+64) renders it well on my triple qhd 32s. (I also have a combined racing/flight rig, love it).
Thank u for your service. My dad was Vietnam (us army) I always wanted to be a pilot. Never tried. I watch alot of your videos. Im a content creator myself I cover more paranormal and fringe topics. I really appreciate your channel. Its always something interesting
I was deployed for tcn duty to Balad in 06. I watched them upgrade the airfield lighting and build a new pad on the fingers down on y'all's end. Green Mountain Boys were there at the time, and I remember standing just short of the hold line watching them takeoff. Great memories... As for the new map, I didn't see any mortar craters in the taxiway while you were taxiing out. 😂
I spent 15 months there (Sep 07’- Dec 08’. We would do convoy escorts from VBC, north up to, Taji, JBB , Speicher and Diamondback. We typically would stage at Camp Striker or Seitz Annex. We always had the best view of the F16’s departing VBC into the night from the convoy staging lanes
Thanks for the tour of the base. I flew Guardrail in 2003 when our hangar and runway were still cratered. It's nice to see that the hole in the hangar has been repaired. 😁
I’ve been to “Mortoritaville” almost a half dozen times while providing convoy security. It was during the draw down during Operation New Dawn in 2011. For me, just looking at the map in mission editor brought back memories and feelings. Our second mission, about a click or two outside the gate at Balad and our lead truck got hit with an IRL (Improvised Rocket Launcher). Basically 2 RPG warheads attached to rockets. No one as hurt, it hit the back of the Caiman MRAP, and went right through it.
I was at Anaconda from 04-05. Mostly happy with it, but the buildings are a lot different than when I was there with none of the trailers or T barriers set up where are housing was. Also, the covered motorpool on Texas Ave is just a building. Tried to fix it and add all the helicopters, fencing, buildings, etc but my framerates drop to 30 when I look at them.
I remember watching F16 take off at night and once they got to altitude and shut the burner off and the lights off...they were just gone. i always felt better being able to just hear them above us.
That’s funny you mentioned the mortars on washer machine timers. Because it was 4 120mm RPG’s. One went right over my billets next to the launder facility. Then two next to our compound which was right next to the strip. Where they would pull at test the jet engines.
After a certain point they started carrying AMRAAM on the wingtips instead of Winders as it reduces flutter apparently and thus extends the lifetime of the wings.
@@agidotexe7167 And beyond looking cool somehow to me a Viper with Winders on the tips now just looks wrong, even worse are loadouts where people put Winders on the tips and AMRAAM underwing.
In 1985 while serving in VA-174 Hellrazors we had a maintainer arm the seat and ejected himself into the hangar, he had a suicide note in his room in the barracks.
They usually set rockets on timers, not mortars. We whacked a few guys who were dumb enough to shoot mortars at us. If you got more than one or two rockets from the same point, they were generally 57mm rockets laid out on corrugated roofing material. If you only got one or two, it was probably a 107mm.
Is the flight model fixed? I'm still noticing some yaw at low speed, or is that how it should be? Or perhaps I had winds a bit high? Admittedly, I've been away from it ever since the Mudhen has been out.
Could you do a review of Reflected Simulations' Artic Thunder campaign? Supposedly, it is highly realistic in terms of procedures and I would be interested in hearing your thoughts!
The Argonaut campaign for the DCS UH-1H Huey has you land on the helo spot of an FFG if I recall correctly, and DCS Supercarrier has the Nimitz-class deck and some rooms modeled.
@@erikallder8199 I don't think they will as DCS is focused on high fidelity combat aircraft and Cold Waters, Sea Power and most importantly Command: Modern Operations (short CMANO) do naval stuff better.
It's Foveated Rendering in VR that makes the peripheries look pixelated. It's a way to get more performance by rendering the outer edges of the VR space at a lower resolution.
@@CWLemoine Awesome. Would love to try out a tuned SRS profile for it from a pilot that actually flew one. Looking forward to it if you choose to share with the community.
@@CWLemoine TIP: If you press and hold the menu/settings button on your Pimax crystal controller while in VR, you can switch to Desktop view and can alt-tab into SRS to adjust settings without having to leave VR. Then just alt-tab back to DCS.
I was in Balad in 2009 but in the summer I was also there in 2004 and 2008. I was AIS, in 2009 the base looked like an old junky Army base, near the alert Has the pilots had a trailer and I had to take a restroom brake and saw the anti Hanoi Jane sticker in one of the urinals (I thought that was pretty funny), I got kicked out of Al Udeid on the way in (never found out why) Finish with ANG in 2013 with 33.5 year
awesome video man, may I ask why you never flew with the HMD, I would have thought the jhmcs would have been super useful for the viper pilots especially during A-G missions!
Did you use AI upscaling on the real life footage? Wondering why the smaller letters below the cockpit and the FY on the tail look gibberish. Sadly apparently F-16C Block 30 tail 85549 was lost during a mishap in 2015.
I have a question on the H6 and Pimax. With the Pimax how do you feel the graphics are compared to the Quest 3? I’m considering a higher resolution headset for playing Dcs. I felt the I get a bit of motion blur on dots and objects outside the cockpit when flying. I’m running rtx 4090 and rayzen 9 so the bottle neck is the quest 3. I’m just wanting to know if you feel the Pimax is worth it? On the H6, what did you do for motion compensation to keep the headset image aligned with the chair? Thanks
I've never tired the Quest 3 but I am pleased with the graphics and performance of the Crystal Light. For motion compensation, I use the Wit Motion module. It was easy to setup and install and I've had no issues so far.
This video is FAKE
Umm.. It’s DCS.
Someone can't read video titles
@@CWLemoine I think he was being sarcastic :)
Lol now you're pinned buddy
😂🤦♂️
I like how you intersperse your real footage.
Dude you looked so damn cool sitting in that F-16.
2009 was 16 years ago! Damn I'm getting old.
Me too. Me. Too.
Spent time in that double HAS you taxied past about a year later....not simulated and not winter. Very cool Map. Thanks for the demo.
Honestly, this is probably my favorite DCS video that you've done yet. All the reminiscing and little tidbits of Mover trivia, along with the really nice map just kinda set the whole thing off.
Agreed. Would love to see more throwbacks to his real service.
As a young paratrooper I went into Iraq on day one of the ground invasion in 2003. It was chaotic to put it lightly. We could always count on the people in the air to help us out when we needed it though. Thanks Mover.
"We'd play a game of I-spy"
"And then we'd put our targetting pod on it" Hahaha from wholesome to operator real quick
WoW omg i love it.
Thank a lot CWL for what u share !
I love that military pilots are able to share their experiences like this with DCS. Gaming creates a whole new genre of social psychology within the veteran community. Also, IDK why but my cat watched this entire video with me so you got his approval! Thank you for your service!
Great video sir. And I thought I recognized that bird. 85-1549, former 13th FS bird when I was at Misawa in the 14th FS, "91-"93. It's a shame she's no longer with us after that fubar mishap at Nellis. Keep up the great videos sir and Code 1 for life!
Watching you fly over Baghdad International (BIAP) brings me back memories too (deployed 2006-2007, US Army)
The Viper is such a beautiful machine. Our Dutch air force fully retired her last year. Now our only fighter is Fat Amy. It brought a tear to my eye.
Not fully retired - 24 of them are headed to Ukraine for a 2nd career
Love nostalgic experiences. Great upload!
Very cool, thanks Mover!
Brilliant mover, especially love the real footage that’s included in this video. Looking forward to seeing typical sorties you would carry out.
Love the content and podcast, say hi to Gonky and wombat too.
Love from the UK
I’d imagine you count yourself lucky to have something like dcs to be able to relive your career. Thanks for sharing man. Love your channel
I was there in 09 as well with the 301st. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, we are lucky to have you in DCS
2:30 “15 Aug 2015 #85-1549 Collided with #85-1546 shortly after landing at Nellis AFB around 1120h local. The mishap was caused by pilot error of both landing aircraft. The aircraft came in too hard and landed long on the runway without applying proper braking and aerobrake procedures. This in combination with the other aircraft not vacating the runway in the right manner caused this mishap. The pilot suffered life threatening injuries. The airframe was considered a complete write-off due to extensive fire damage.”
Movers Viper got destroyed! 😢
FYI Mover took good care of her, he was NOT the pilot flying during the mishap.
As of Oct 11, 2016
85-1549 lives on
Tail number 85-549 was placed on another F-16 air frame and is currently on display at the Houma Terrebonne Airport in Houma, LA.
the way you make that approach, the angle, is so perfect i always think you will overshoot but im always wrong.
i really enjoy authentic videos like this. When i meet someone who had experiences like this, of course i want to ask questions about it.. but i also dont want to annoy the person... So thank you for sharing.
Brings back a lot of memories, ive been holding off getting this map just because of that. Hopefully 4ya, rotorheads etc. will start making missions on other maps cuz caucus is getting old AF.
Thanks for sharing your real life experience with us virtual pilots
Really enjoyed that! Best Viper landing I've seen! Great Job!
8:56 is so real
Now…..just to get you back in a REAL Viper. And don’t ever say “Those days are over!” 😂
There’s a lot of us that have faith!
I love your enthusiasm, but sadly, probably not.
@CWLemoine Just remember…..there ARE privately-owned Vipers out there……lol
It is so cool to see this, and hear these stories, about what it's like, and also crazy to think as a DCS pilot that it is pretty realistic and that the views are similar to what real pilots viewed as well. It was a little bit sad you didn't set up a sandstorm and then do an ILS landing, I know they've been improving dcs's weather heavily (plus there's the bandit Weather mod also)
I have practiced a lot of ILS landings in different aircraft and had heard that if you can't see the runway you are supposed to divert if the is visibility is ultra bad , so it's cool to hear one option in real life was use the ils all the way down.
As someone who will probably only ever fly planes in sims, it's really cool to see just how close these sims have come to the real thing.
Like, it's insane that Mover can just take off and explain where what happened when he deployed there not too long ago. Crazy.
Map looks really great, especially in these lighting conditions. Would be awesome seeing you and Casmo doing some heli action.
"alien roof structure" - Wombat's tic tac confirmed landed and transformed in Baghdad. 😅
Thanks for sharing the past deployment and service.
The Iraq map is a huge step up in quality compared to all the others. You should see it in 4k res.
OBS downscaled it during recording. It’s 4K native on my screen.
@@CWLemoinethis map truly looks amazing, thanks very much for this video and putting the map in proper context for us. Map *is* heavy; DCS VR must be one of those real actual use cases for the 5090 (w/9800x3d+64) coming out, but even the 4090 (w/7800x3d+64) renders it well on my triple qhd 32s. (I also have a combined racing/flight rig, love it).
Thank u for your service. My dad was Vietnam (us army) I always wanted to be a pilot. Never tried. I watch alot of your videos. Im a content creator myself I cover more paranormal and fringe topics. I really appreciate your channel. Its always something interesting
I was deployed for tcn duty to Balad in 06. I watched them upgrade the airfield lighting and build a new pad on the fingers down on y'all's end. Green Mountain Boys were there at the time, and I remember standing just short of the hold line watching them takeoff. Great memories... As for the new map, I didn't see any mortar craters in the taxiway while you were taxiing out. 😂
I spent 15 months there (Sep 07’- Dec 08’. We would do convoy escorts from VBC, north up to, Taji, JBB , Speicher and Diamondback. We typically would stage at Camp Striker or Seitz Annex. We always had the best view of the F16’s departing VBC into the night from the convoy staging lanes
Great vid Mover. Really cool to see the irl clip in the Spad bird.
Love the Viper. Brought back nostalgic memories of playing Falcon 4.0 on my Windows 98 machine.
Mover buzzing the tower at Baghdad International. Go arounds are free. Lol 👍🇺🇸🫡🥰
Thanks for the tour of the base. I flew Guardrail in 2003 when our hangar and runway were still cratered. It's nice to see that the hole in the hangar has been repaired. 😁
I’ve been to “Mortoritaville” almost a half dozen times while providing convoy security. It was during the draw down during Operation New Dawn in 2011. For me, just looking at the map in mission editor brought back memories and feelings. Our second mission, about a click or two outside the gate at Balad and our lead truck got hit with an IRL (Improvised Rocket Launcher). Basically 2 RPG warheads attached to rockets. No one as hurt, it hit the back of the Caiman MRAP, and went right through it.
The thing that’s missing from the map?
The trash everywhere. If the trash was in the map it would be perfect.
@ lol so true, plus water bottles and chem sticks
I did the same thing with Afghanistan in KAF and Farah. It was cool showing the family where I was.
Wow, that was great to see. Thanks Mover
loved the splicing of your real world footage at the start.
Wow that was super interesting 😊Thank you Sir
I was at Balad at the same time as you. The new map brought back memories. I was a little disappointed they don’t have the pool in the sim.
I worked in the motorpool off to the left that you passed on takeoff. It is absolutely surreal.
I was at Anaconda from 04-05. Mostly happy with it, but the buildings are a lot different than when I was there with none of the trailers or T barriers set up where are housing was. Also, the covered motorpool on Texas Ave is just a building.
Tried to fix it and add all the helicopters, fencing, buildings, etc but my framerates drop to 30 when I look at them.
I was in Mosul in 09-10. Recently got this map as well. Man the memories.
This has me wanting to get back into DCS
"Everything reminds me of her" caught me off-guard and had me laughing.
I remember watching F16 take off at night and once they got to altitude and shut the burner off and the lights off...they were just gone. i always felt better being able to just hear them above us.
That’s funny you mentioned the mortars on washer machine timers. Because it was 4 120mm RPG’s. One went right over my billets next to the launder facility. Then two next to our compound which was right next to the strip. Where they would pull at test the jet engines.
Pimax looks stunning.
I just wanted to thank your F-16 for its service
love the look of the f16 when its carrying bombs but no winders, only having the 120s looks very cool
After a certain point they started carrying AMRAAM on the wingtips instead of Winders as it reduces flutter apparently and thus extends the lifetime of the wings.
@@FirstDagger yep that is correct
@@agidotexe7167 And beyond looking cool somehow to me a Viper with Winders on the tips now just looks wrong, even worse are loadouts where people put Winders on the tips and AMRAAM underwing.
@@FirstDagger yea wingtip winders with underwing amraams is actually cursed
In 1985 while serving in VA-174 Hellrazors we had a maintainer arm the seat and ejected himself into the hangar, he had a suicide note in his room in the barracks.
There are days I regret never being able to be a pilot. Then I see all the procedures and switchology...
20 years Iraq, Afghanistan.
And in a few years it will be a footnote in history, largely forgotten.
And Vietnam will remain on top.
How bad of a situation would you have to face to take off from a taxiway or apron?
Aliens attacking. Base being overrun.
Mover…..was hoping for a gun run to see if it “snowed” in the cockpit like you told us would happen on occasion : ) 🇺🇸
Watch it again, turn off the video volume and blast Danger Zone on your stereo. Exciting with no copyright infringement.
And the rest of when we're down on the lake fishing, we look up and think about zooming around the sky in an F-16 🙂
I did Balad in 2007. I was in charge of the intel cell at the JDOC.
They usually set rockets on timers, not mortars. We whacked a few guys who were dumb enough to shoot mortars at us. If you got more than one or two rockets from the same point, they were generally 57mm rockets laid out on corrugated roofing material. If you only got one or two, it was probably a 107mm.
Movers virtual travel vlog... "Places I've been shot at"
You should install the dark cockpit mod. 12/10 looks fantastic
I was there as well in 2009!! As a crew chief with the WIANG.
I remember those HAS’s and the alert area!
Would love to see you team up with longshot and growling sidewinder for a sortie.
ok im buying it then, i believe you, Tx Mover for this.
...they should add T- walls and hesco barriers, they were put all around for a full experience 😂
Simwise, we've come along a bit since Falcon 1.0.
I was at Balad 2010 on project Matrix, nice gym.💪😄
Hey Mover, interesting idea for the campaign, reposition the aircraft in the night and miss the spot... I'm wandering how to script it already :D
Is the flight model fixed? I'm still noticing some yaw at low speed, or is that how it should be? Or perhaps I had winds a bit high? Admittedly, I've been away from it ever since the Mudhen has been out.
Could you do a review of Reflected Simulations' Artic Thunder campaign? Supposedly, it is highly realistic in terms of procedures and I would be interested in hearing your thoughts!
Can you be on the deck of a DDG in DCS? If not, it would be super easy to simulate....just water and clouds, "livin' life at 10 knots." 😆
The Argonaut campaign for the DCS UH-1H Huey has you land on the helo spot of an FFG if I recall correctly, and DCS Supercarrier has the Nimitz-class deck and some rooms modeled.
@@FirstDagger If they ever need help modeling the sonar spaces on an Arleigh-Burke, I can help with that! 😜
😁
@@erikallder8199 I don't think they will as DCS is focused on high fidelity combat aircraft and Cold Waters, Sea Power and most importantly Command: Modern Operations (short CMANO) do naval stuff better.
You should do a DCS video with growling Sidewinder
I was at Balad in 2003 from June to August and again in January to February 2004
Very cool setup
I like watching my own Cessna footage... But Viper footage is bad-ass!
great video!
Is that footage AI upscaled? The hands and the writing seems weirdly AI
The real footage? Yeah. It’s really old 480P footage.
It's Foveated Rendering in VR that makes the peripheries look pixelated. It's a way to get more performance by rendering the outer edges of the VR space at a lower resolution.
CWL, have you fully dialed in your F-16 SRS motion settings profile for your H6 for realism? I would love to download an export of it for my own H6.
Not quite. I just got academics on it yesterday and there was a lot I was missing. Will continue to fine tune it.
@@CWLemoine Awesome. Would love to try out a tuned SRS profile for it from a pilot that actually flew one. Looking forward to it if you choose to share with the community.
I upload all my profiles to the cloud as a backup, so you should be able to see them. Under “mover”
But I’d give it a few months. I’m still fine tuning and figuring things out.
@@CWLemoine TIP: If you press and hold the menu/settings button on your Pimax crystal controller while in VR, you can switch to Desktop view and can alt-tab into SRS to adjust settings without having to leave VR. Then just alt-tab back to DCS.
"Everything reminds me of her." @8:56 😅😅😅
I was in Balad in 2009 but in the summer I was also there in 2004 and 2008. I was AIS, in 2009 the base looked like an old junky Army base, near the alert Has the pilots had a trailer and I had to take a restroom brake and saw the anti Hanoi Jane sticker in one of the urinals (I thought that was pretty funny), I got kicked out of Al Udeid on the way in (never found out why)
Finish with ANG in 2013 with 33.5 year
when i was in afghanistan i use to think it would be a cool place to ride my motorcycle through. now i never want to see it again.
Pro tip: if you fly through the clouds you'll lose missile locks. Oh wait...
they did pretty well on Iraq
How are we gonna check the roof.
You: I have an idea. 🤔
Everything reminds me of her PMSL
I chuckled.😂
awesome video man, may I ask why you never flew with the HMD, I would have thought the jhmcs would have been super useful for the viper pilots especially during A-G missions!
Because I’m old and it didn’t exist in the Block 30 when I flew it.
We were there at the same time. I was there with the 14th
I guess now we know why your callsign is mover.
Great video. What are you using to interact with the cockpit? Can’t tell if you’re using a mouse or some other solution.. Thanks in advance
Mouse.
May I ask what your control setup is? I’m looking to eventually run DCS myself but I doubt a simple Xbox controller will suffice 😅
Win wing F-16EX FSSB and Orion 2 throttle. Orion (Skywalker) Rudder pedals
@ Thanks!
Did you use AI upscaling on the real life footage? Wondering why the smaller letters below the cockpit and the FY on the tail look gibberish.
Sadly apparently F-16C Block 30 tail 85549 was lost during a mishap in 2015.
Yes. It was old footage.
I have a question on the H6 and Pimax. With the Pimax how do you feel the graphics are compared to the Quest 3? I’m considering a higher resolution headset for playing Dcs. I felt the I get a bit of motion blur on dots and objects outside the cockpit when flying. I’m running rtx 4090 and rayzen 9 so the bottle neck is the quest 3. I’m just wanting to know if you feel the Pimax is worth it? On the H6, what did you do for motion compensation to keep the headset image aligned with the chair? Thanks
I've never tired the Quest 3 but I am pleased with the graphics and performance of the Crystal Light.
For motion compensation, I use the Wit Motion module. It was easy to setup and install and I've had no issues so far.
Thank you! Do you see any ghosting or blue on stuff?
Typo I meant blur
I was in Tallil/Adder in 09
cleared to go hot.. buster
Haha Naked Gun reference
Everything reminds me of her haha! I saw that.
Was DCS' Iraq map fun?
Yep.