Real F-14 Pilot Flies the DCS Tomcat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Rear Admiral Mike "Nasty" Manazir, USN (Ret.) returns to the channel to fly the DCS F-14B for the first time, and in the process he reminisces about his years of piloting the Tomcat and offers some exclusive tips.
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NBD, just a Rear Admiral with 3000 hours in the Tomcat flying it in DCS.
Holy moly.
Yea........what does he know about the F14........LOL
@@OW38B A LOT more than we ever will
GOAT Tomcat driver lol
I don't wanna meet him in DCS... if I have a EF-2000 with Meteor ... then Maybe...
Yeah I would never admit to real pilot I fly jets in simulators when they’ve done the real thing
Ward, you should organize a charity fundraiser where you, CW Lemoine, his friend Gonky (both F-16 pilots) and a few other Navy / Air Force Veteran-TH-camrs spend several hours some weekend dogfighting with, and against other DCS TH-camrs & and their TH-cam/Twitch subscribers while the Vets are sharing anecdotes and talking about their experiences. Donations, Superchats, etc. towards a good cause, be it a veterans/families Org, Food bank, etc. The TH-camrs could stream it on YT, the Twitch guys on their channels. As others have commented, Growling Sidewinder has a large DCS following, and would be a great addition.
Awesome idea!
That would be a great event.
Just tell me ahead of time so I have some extra cash to spend lol
Best idea I have seen. That video would generate a huge amount of views no matter what the result.
Great idea! Where do I sign up? Growling Sidewinder knows his stuff and will pose a great challenge to any that fly against him.
holy crap!!! I was in HS-6 On the Nimitz when he was CO of the Nimitz. When he walked around the boat his smile was infectious! He was a perfect CO! One of the best memories I have was his 1000th or 1200th trap whatever it was, but the look on his face jumping out the 18 was pure joy. I don't think I have ever seen someone so happy to fly an airplane. He was and probably still is a true class act!!!!
Agree completely with your assessment of the guy. I was Barbwire staff and he invited us all up to the flag bridge for cigars the night my daughter was born.
He was my CO on the Sacramento. Spot on assessment.
Like I said in the past even tho having never served with the admiral. This guy comes across as a great leader.
I was air Department when he was CO. The best CO I have ever worked for! His smile was truly infectious, and you could tell he loved the crew and just the Navy life in general.
Don't know him and was never a navy man, but my dad was/is a plank owner on the Conny from back in the 60s. He was V6 and on the Captain's flight crew, I believe. An amazing tribute you all are to the service. Thanks so much!
It's not the fancy maneuvers, it's the sheer effortlessness that marks a real professional. He might have we'll have been going for a relaxing bike ride.
This is the F-14 Masterclass - because now we know how it should be done correctly, as taught by one of the great experts in the Tomcat. Hugely appreciated, and thank you !
Indeed!
Love watching "Nasty" fly. He was my XO on CVN-70. I woulda marched into hell behind that man. What a great man to serve under. I don't have enough good words to say about "Nasty". So glad he's enjoying his retirement.
Did you fly?
So theres different doctrines in Navy than army then!? In army we would march to hell before our generals, not after!? :P :D
I am a former officer (non-pilot) of the Italian Air Force, I am 54 years old, and I follow this beautiful channel with interest. When I heard the enormous operational life of Rear Admiral Mike "Nasty" Manazir, I was left to reflect on the thickness and quality of certain men, like this pilot, and the fact that this channel is followed by many guys, will represent ' for them a fantastic example of passion for flying, and love for military life. Excuse my English. Greetings from Rome.
ypu better educate yourself as from your comment i know that you know nothing
Thank you for your great comments my Military brother from another mother, I'm an old 56 US ARMY PARATROOPER WHO SERVED IN THE 12 Special Forces Group as an 43 Echo - Parachute Rigger from 1983-1995 whom did alot of Parachute jumps and always wanted to fly helos and now I can fly on DCS AND LOVE IT. O nice my youngest is done with college in a few years I'm going to get my fixed wing and eventually get my rotary craft license. Yes it's going to be alot but we only live once!
Your English is good I would not have thought you were from Italy
Hey, most American kids these days can't speak English, their native language, as well as you.
Fantastic English brother. Thank you for your service
What a professional. The Admiral made this look simple and his explanation is great. Thank you for a great lesson.
Could you imagine the training sylabus and missions he could write for us if he was so inclined?
My father who just passed last week, Cmdr. John H. Uelses aka "Hammer" was an RIO in F-4s and then F-14 in the VF-1 Wolfpack at NAS Miramar among many other squadrons. I really wish he could have seen this channel! He would have enjoyed these videos very much. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Sorry for your loss! I guess a lot of memory went with him..
Sorry for your loss.
I have to ask you. Given that surname, do your friends call you (or people in your family) "Useless"?
Him walking us through the carrier takeoff was absolutely awesome.
🦅
I've owned the DCS Tomcat for a little over a year & a half and I have never trusted trimming the airplane to be hands-off while onspeed until seeing what nasty did with it. I tried it out earlier and made the smoothest approach I've ever done onto the ship
Loved the episode, I'm really enjoying the DCS / tomcat stuff, keep it up !
flying on/off the deck is all about the trim
Nasty is a legend. Was my Strike Group Admiral when I cruised on the Ike as a Prowler Pilot. For those who don’t know he was the CAG paddles who waved that A-6 aboard with the partially ejected BN. Calm cool, and collected the entire time.
Oh WOW! Was that the night video, with foam & everything?
Help me by deciphering for layman.
@@robertrock8778He assists and controls pilots on their landing descent to the carrier. Tells them if they’re too high or too low, etc, etc.
This is invaluable insight! Walking through achieving an equilibrium state in an on speed glide path and cockpit scan conversation was particularly interesting! Lots more stuff to unpack here. Thank you 👍
Thanks for the support, Ben!
A big shoutout to Nasty for giving us all the most authentic basic maneuvring tutorial, you could really notice how he got back into his old workplace, hopefully we'll see more of you both having a go at DCS and the Tomcat! Cheers, that was really cool.
I rarely comment on TH-cam videos. There’s something so cool about watching professionals do their thing. Love your content, Ward - keep it up!
Seeing skilled people do their skill is almost a specific form of ASMR (not quite though, but tangentially)
I rarely reply
Man regardless of experience, I'm confident it's been a few years he's had to think about any of this. His checklist recall was WILD.
Man the recall he had was awesome, like he never left the seat. Hes going to want one now lol.
Smart business would be to give him a setup…..yo Virpil, Thrustmaster, and Wags; hook Nasty up! 👍🏼🇺🇸
Its really neat to see how accurate DCS is. Even though it cannot fully simulate the real Tomcat I'm sure going through the procedures gives you a real sense of nostalgia. Another great video Mooch! I'd like to see Nasty engage in a dogfight...with you. Cheers! - Hammer
OOOOOO! That would be SO DAMN COOL!
The accurate part recently took hold for me. I got the game a couple weeks ago, and joined a squad a couple weeks ago with other vets doing carrier ops. Having to learn the F-18 is quite a chore, especially simultaneously managing a career and other video projects. Barely have any flight time in the F-18, most has been reading and mapping the insane amount of controls.
@@OldManTenno feel your pain, bro. Feel your pain. I have a job where I’m away from home for weeks/months. Learning the Hornet bit by bit, then going to work and wondering what you’ve lost, then going home getting it back and learning a bit more. Time consuming but worth it
@@OldManTenno Ya if you really want to do it the right way its tough but so fun...ive been away from dcs for a few but im thinking of getting back into it
@@willl7780 same here but just built a new system with 4080 and can't wait to start to refresh myself with the Old Cat !!!! Love the F14 and the F16 in DCS. now to dust of the old HOTA and throttle and fresh install DCS
What a pair of legends. You guys were the hero's of my childhood in the late 80's early 90's!
You guys need to get VR. DCS in VR is a whole different world. From my perspective as a non-aviator, ex-submarine guy, I found flying at the boat to be a lot easier in VR than using a flat screen. You have depth perception, and seeing the boat is easier. You should also try rotor wing in VR. Very cool experience. One of the guys in the crew I fly with online is a current Naval Aviator helicopter pilot, and he got a bunch of us up to speed on rotor ops. Very fun stuff.
I couldn’t agree more
VR is game changing for all flight sims, 100% worth looking in to
Actually, I feel sick to my stomach when I, God forbid, need to load DCS in 2D but for a few minutes.
So it runs at 10fps?
@UC84jYoRkBYQPcgWXVaUgCmg Found the person whos never used VR in DCS
The F-14 Tomcat holds a special place in my heart. My dad was Director of Flight Testing for the F-14 at Grumman. I got to meet Test Pilots, most notably Joe Burke.
This is pure gold. Thank you for flying DCS and give us useful tips (i´m not a Tomcat driver although i have the module in DCS, i´m a Hornet guy :) ). Keep up and be safe Mr. Ward.
It's so nice seeing a pilot get in tune with his aircraft... Watching him search for equilibrium, finding it, and letting the aircraft do what it "wants to do" so to speak.
Best one yet! Having an F-14 pilot validate how realistic the sim is made my day. I fly this plane a lot in DCS. Not a licensed pilot though I've flown a bit. I'll be putting his thoughts on the case 1 landings to good use 😊
Thanks!
I’m thinking this is a unique opportunity. Here we have a top Rio and a top pilot. Please do a flight I dcs together, like you would have in the plane, and record every single detail. A unique opportunity to see a Tomcat crew in action.
You gotta make a part 2, please!
And a Part 3, and a Part 4...its great gouge!
@@infrequentgamer_greg True! Also, Nasty's SHB was supposedly the best there ever was. Would be great to see him doing that in DCS.
So from a real F-14 pilot view point controls are a little to responsive (can be adjusted in game) and bad lighting/bad resolution but other than that "Very Realistic!" That's a fantastic compliment to ED and HeatBlur for the Sim and Module and great news for DCS Tomcat pilots that they are flying a very realistic F-14 simulator.
Great Vid Mooch and Nasty. I'd love to have more vids from you and Nasty on F-14 SOP and tactics.
I'd be interested in their opinion on whether the Forrestal or Stennis et al. have a more appropriate color. The former is darker than the latter.
Well it's "too responsive" because there's no feedback from the control surfaces. The SMEs already discussed that when it was released. It's a hardware limitation you cant do about unless you get into force-feed back sticks.
@@Dyson_Cyberdynesystems Thanks for your reply and clarification. There has been a huge leap forward in Home cockpit tech the last 2 years with regards to realism and the quality of what is available to build your own cockpit at an affordable price but unfortunately Force feedback in the Cockpit flight controls is not one of them. Car Simracers have many choices in this regard when choosing a steering wheel and there are many force feedback systems for them now, but i realise this tech can currently be built and installed into hardware that fits nicely into a steering column sized bit of kit
But it does seem obvious that to have that level of force feedback come through a flight stick and throttle system the technology still has some way to go for us Combat flight simmers, i believe there are some systems out there for civil flight sims that use a yoke control not a flight stick though. But in any case the fact we can get a sim and module with enough accuracy to the real Tomcat to get an approval from a real pilot is still a major plus. Great to see you on this episode Nasty
@@Dyson_Cyberdynesystems You can fine tune to your liking, given an afternoon of time he could go in, tune the curves, and keep tuning them until he got them where he wanted them to be.
It'll never feel the same since sticks don't have FFB anymore, but he can get much closer.
What he did is basically drive without an alignment :P
@@nemisis_wolf Yeah I myself have a 20+ year old MS Sidewinder FF 2 (and would use it if not for the lack of buttons) so it's been around but from what I understand Microsoft patents have kept the other mainstream brands like Saitek and Thrustmaster out of the game. The patents have recently expired so maybe the newer companies that have invested in Flight Sim gear can start producing hardware in the consumer price range.
I like seeing a real pilot who is actually also good at DCS. This is excellent content. I think you should do more with him.
You can tell Nasty was a great RAG Instructor. I could imagine learning to fly the Tomcat with him in the rear seat breaking it all down. His story telling (He and Slammer on the FlipFlop Hop) made my day when I watched "Tomcat Tales"
Thanks for the demonstration. Thanks for the your service. Thanks for being on the ball in everything you tackle. It takes team work all the way through. Having not had the experience that you have, it's great to be able to visualize what it takes to do what is needed to operate the heavy metal safely.
I love this episode! Looks like Nasty was a great Tomcat pilot! 👌
Wow, was that a honest-to-goodness treat to watch Nasty Manazir back in the virtual cockpit and see how a seasoned professional handles the stick and throttle. Even if he has been out of the cockpit for decades, the ol Tomcat muscle memory kicks right back in and he's flying the DCS Tomcat, just like the real Tomcat. Such great hand-to-eye coordination...it never does get rusty!
Nasty's commentary as he was flying, was "golden" as we get to hear what a 3060-hourTomcat pilot really thinks about, when flying the Tomcat..."tucking the wake under his left arm", "walking the throttles", and other assorted phrases gives us in the audience insight as to a Navy pilot's workload.
And Mooch...the excellent RIO that he is, falls back into his muscle memory as well, giving the front-seater, calm, and correct information on how to fly this "virtual Tomcat".
In this video we get to witness how a good pilot-RIO team work together to get the mission at hand, completed.👍😊
Mooch, how does it feel to be "back in the Tomcat" with an excellent pilot?
I know this is too much to ask of you Mooch, but is there anyway you could influence a retired, rear admiral to fly some DCS missions with you? It would be a treat to see how some of our nation's finest work together as a team in DCS, and show how the great training you received decades ago, still works today.😉🙏🙏🙏
Excellent video!
Was that really his first carrier trap in the DCS? If so, impressive at how well he did for a retired pilot.
That was his first, which is why we started with a VFR straight-in instead of coming into the break.
@@WardCarroll Impressive performance given that the sims are never quite like the real McCoy.
@@LTVoyager Tell that to the Sims that professional pilots use ;) they feel like flying.
@@saladien9987 He wasn’t flying a full motion sim in the video. Pay attention next time.
@@LTVoyager I did but DCS is used by military’s so with the right config it is the full simulation deal. Motion is just an extra obviously
Cool vid Ward! It was neat to get an actual Tomcat pilot's perspective on DCS. Loved how Nasty's muscle memory kicked in. Thanks for the great content!
You said it spot on. Pilots can rely on muscle memory for much of their flying career. WSO's have to
continuously prove themselves on every mission that they can solve applied math problems and visualize everything in three dimensions while trying not to blow their lunch all over the place. 😳🤢🤮
Honestly, this video is like an early Christmas present! Thank you so so much to both of you wonderful gentlemen for doing this and sharing your knowledge. Isnt it great that we live in am age when former tomcat pilots can share their tips on how to fly the cat?! For many of us DCS and the f14 module really are dream come true
FC2 Bridge, CIWS Tech. retired. I served with you aboard the GW. The Tomcat is, and always will be, my favorite Aircraft. Loved watching you guys fly. Always dreamed about a ride along. I remember Ghostriders where there. Spent allot of time videotaping. I was even allowed to tape on deck during night ops. Lots of memories. Big storm, Mogas Fire, and a supersonic flyby just feet over my head when testing our radar just to name a few. Gave my blood, sweat, and tears on that ship.
Great show. Respect to the Admiral for still hitting the 3 wire.
Great video guys it's amazing to me that even in the sim you could tell the man was one hell of a pilot
This guy is a wealth of knowledge and great at explaining things. Can definitely tell he loves the plane.
Thanks for the master class! That was incredible to watch.
Hey! Manazir was my XO while I was on the USS Carl Vinson for my first deployment, which ended up turning into Operation Enduring Freedom after the attack on 9/11. I was just a little FC3 at the time, but I remembered him being a fair, professional, and altogether great XO, which the entire crew looked up to. I also remember him riding a bucket between ships during an UNREP. Must have missed being in a seat in the air lol.
I love to see you guys having fun. The gleaming eyes, smiling like children when you enjoy remembering the good old times.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
It’s very cool that you two actual fleet aviators enjoy this DCS! Greta video
Nasty is such a legend. Really cool to have him on doing anything, and for us simulator guys, awesome to have him fly DCS. Thanks Mooch and big thanks Nasty!
As a sort of "wishlist" item, I would LOVE to hear him talk through a triple nickle/SHB. Doesn't necessarily have to do it in DCS (unless he wants to try), but I've always heard he was a wizard around the boat and his sierra hotel bravo's were epic.
that second carrier landing blew my mind. having a hard time seeing where he was and still managed _that?_ awesome!
Thank you so much, Sir, for being here with us mere mortals! The point of view of somebody with such experience and... attributes, is just priceless.
Great video! I love the authenticity of two Tomcat veterans explaining the intricacies of this aircraft and procedures as they do it. Keep these coming please! Maybe a video like this in the attack - air to air or bombing.
Flying it like it was yesterday. THANKS “NASTY”.
Very cool! Put him in VR!
I pray to one day be even half as good at putting the cat down on the deck as this. He made it kook effortless considering it was his first time on the sim, all those hours in the real beast paid off! Great video!
Absolutely incredible the way he just nails everything first time out. That's 3k hours of experience on display, holy moly. Love the channel, and you always have such stellar guests, like Rear Admiral "Nasty" -- hope he's back to fly with you again soon! Thanks for the great content Ward 👍
That’s also a big compliment to those who contributed flight behaviour for the F14 in DCS. If the sim was way out, real world experience would not translate. Very interesting episode.
The moment he spoke, I was like what a commanding man. It's a pity these guys have to retire, we need them.
I met an F-14 pilot that made me laugh and still makes me laugh to this day. I was an air traffic controller stationed at Lakehurst New Jersey. We were doing F-14 carrier landing and launching at the test runway that was set up to mock a carrier deck. The F 14 pilot did numerous cat shots and arrested landings. On one taxi past the small ground level control tower the aircraft stopped and the pilot turned and stared at me. I radioed him and asked if he was experiencing difficulty? He didn’t reply. One of the test engineers inside the control tower told me to ask him again. I asked the pilot if he was experiencing any difficulty he still didn’t answer, but he started to move. Finally up from the cockpit window comes a little Howdy Doody hand puppet, and over the radio I heard in a squeaky voice “No Everything Is Fine “. I laughed so hard and so did the engineers. I think it was just all the high tech multi million dollar equipment and stress but when this pilot came up with a hand puppet. You couldn’t help but laugh and the long day and stress disappeared. Too funny.
Did the puppet request permission to buzz the tower 🤣
@@BHBricksNfigs Ha!!!
DCS is even more fun with a VR headset and PointCTRL finger controllers. You can use your finger to point at a switch and click a button on the controller and the switch clicks. I would love to see some more tutorial videos on your channel with DCS.
Thanks for another great vid Ward. I think I learned more in those 19 minutes than I did my first 2 months trying to learn the tomcat in DCS by myself lol.
Thank you both for your service.
Just the other day I was thinking how cool it would be to have Ward run back seat in DCS with one of his pilot friends in the front.
I remember my main issue with sims was the extremely sensitive flight controls, hearing an actual pilot say "Yea, this isn't as sensitive and quick in reality" makes me feel better about myself lol.
What you need is a floor mounted joystick, like on the actual plane.
Set up curves on your joystick
Great video Ward! Nasty was my favorite CO back on cvn68. Good to see you again, Nasty, and way to make it look easy.... still a rockstar
Very cool nice to watch the professionals
You can tell he loved his airplane. Just from from the hints of subtlety in how he gives the plane the inputs. He was not rough on the plane. Something he no doubt honed over many hours of flying the F-14. He makes it look effortless. Fascinating to know that he approves of the sim. Which is really mind boggling that we live in a world where anyone can experience what it's like to learn and fly a fighter jet from their home. Even if only through the sim.
Brilliant, nothing like this I'm the early AM with my first cup of coffee with chow!
Nasty just proved to us he's not a so-called "HUD cripple" at all. Amazing effort for a first attempt at DCS
Watching the real guys fly DCS gives me great satisfaction. Always love watching you, and Mover fly the jets that you have true real world experience in, and give your feedback, and what the actual procedures were. To get Admiral Nasty here to give his input is nothing short of amazing. The years of training and thousands of flight hours just kicked right back in. In definitely going to try that "wake in the armpit" trick lol. You guys should really try to get all of the fighter plot youtubers together for some sort of tournament for the"Folds of Honor" charity. You guys would raise a ton of dough! Great video Mooch! TOMCATS!
SO calm.. my bpm just watching was upticking. stone cold pro whilst flying & pure human sunshine in his smile once the wheels are on the deck.
One of the coolest videos I have ever seen. Please keep making those type of videos! I think many of us who fly DCS would really like to learn real life procedures and tips from you and nasty!
NATOPS/SOPs are there for life, great to see Nasty pounding the deck like he never left. Capable and professional and doing the IP chatter all the way through....I felt like i was back on DQs
Holy Smokes! A big thanks to Admiral Mike, and of course Ward for this video. Outstanding Gentleman!
that was awesome. I don't even play DCS, but I do like to flight sim, and I was still learning stuff.
That was a real treat thanks Ward for making that happen and Nasty for the masterclass.
Wow, the knowledge from Nasty is pretty incredible. makes it look so easy.
As someone who flies in a completely different flight envelope (gliders and ultralights 😀) , what a fantastic insight by the real pros. Many thanks ❤️
Literally just came over from your video describing your responsibilities as a RIO, which included directing the pilot, and here you are as a veteran RIO doing exactly this - directing the veteran (Menage a) Nasty as a pilot in DCS. It doesn't get more iconic or meta than this. :)
Superb video, thank you so much - I just bought the module and I'll be in the back seat with a mate in front.
This is the best thing that I have seen on DCS world. So much knowledge that transferred flawlessly into the simulator, my mind is blown! I get the feeling that Nasty will be acquiring himself a DCS world set up rather soon, would love to see him doing some traps in VR :)
I thanked my grandfather on Veterans Day recently and he sarcastically mentioned he had over 2000 combat flying hours in Vietnam between the B52 and the o-2 sky master. When you put it into perspective that’s a ton of time flying in a war. I love his stories though, sometimes I can’t get enough of them.
I clicked and as soon as I saw Admiral Mike's face I had to pause and make another Americano! Thank you for this CDR!
Fantastic to see Nasty doing his thing, 3060 hours in one of those machines, that’s incredible, keep em coming Ward👍
Now you need a second cockpit setup Mooch so you can be his RIO while he is actually flying. I've had the chance to be the pilot for a person playing RIO in the same plane, and it is pretty fun!!!
We gotta figure that out and make it happen, no doubt.
@@WardCarrollwhoa! Confirmed 😎
"It's the curse of the gifted to make the difficult look easy and the impossible merely difficult.".
I was reminded of that quote watching this amazing skill!
The Admiral was XO while I was ships company on The USS Carl Vinson. I vividly remember installing a shower head in his state room with my LPO at the time. I also had the pleasure of chatting with him walking to the ship one summer morning in Bremerton as a young 3rd class MM. I often wonder what became of him. I guess for some reason those two encounters were memorable due to the fact that he seemed to be a down to Earth guy who seemed to care. MM1 (SW/AW) 2001 - 2005
What does a MM do in AW?
THX
@@andreweppink4498 Its just a qualification you can receive while on deployment. In a nutshell its just knowing what the whole airwing and ship does with aviation.
@@curtiswilliam8545 - Thx. I ended up in aviation in USCG. I'd been striking EN on USCGC Confidence in Bering Sea Fisheries Patrol. Put in for AD School after that, then C-130 mech & engineer at USCGAS Barber's Pt, HI, Pac Basin SAR.
Quite a lot of useful stuff in there, I love the wake in the armpit analogy, and Eagle Dynamics just increased the wake length too for certain sea states. Thanks for taking the time to make this happen, it was really helpful, and cements the thrill I get from the sim' when real pilots give it a thumbs up.
Nice job, you're a pro in DCS now!
Always a pleasure watching the Admiral on the show. His smile is infectuous
Wow, thank you for your Service Admiral Nasty. From a Submariner!
For Admiral Nasty everything went like second nature to him after several minutes in DCS! Thank you sir @Ward for sharing this with us.
I’ve heard a lot of Tomcat guys talk about Nasty. He must have been an amazing driver
OMG. Best video ever. Just so much knowledge and experience wrapped up in 20 minutes. Thank you for sharing!!!
A lot of fun. Glad to see DCS accurately portrays the Tomcat.
Yeah, I've always wondered just how good the flight physics in DCS world were. Watching him say "XYZ" about the aircraft and then demonstrating it working exactly as expected in DCS definitely gives a lot of credibility to DCS physics, at least for the F-14.
Amazing video. As an armchair pilot I'm glad to see I'm not totally crap when it's hard to spot the centerline and the ball (flying in VR) when I'm thinking IRL it should be easier to see but how would I know? Now I know! :)
As a full time DCS RIO, I love to see the pros do their thing. One day you should do a few back seat videos, Ward!
I will. Thx.
@@WardCarroll Look forward to it.
Awesome !! DCS "pilot" here, love this sim. Nice to see some real pilots flying, you guys make it look easy ;) Thanks from the UK.
Thank you sirs, for your presentation, and your service to our Nation!
I think it's so frigging awesome that software like DCS can give veterans who loved flying some facsimile of that experience again.
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@@ESAPOWER No. Report the spammer.
Love this video! Please make some more with Nasty!
Awesome vid! Nasty is a natural…lol. Mooch, you have to give VR a go…you’ll never look back!
That’s a really good video. One of you guys needs to fly the mid 90’s Tomcat demo. Watched that one a few times at Miramar. Impressive.
I need to get Flats Flatley to do that. He was the east coast demo pilot.
@@WardCarroll oh that’s rad. I really appreciate your video’s about the F-14. As a kid staring up from a cul de sac in San Diego in the 80‘s and early 90’s you answered a lot of questions. Lol.
This is so damn cool, as prior enlisted I really love seeing when general officers (ret) play games. It's so cool to see their insight into stuff, and their humility has always impressed me. This Rear Admiral is NO different. Tyfys!
That was SO cool! Thanks for sharing this! This is actually blowing my mind.
Wow, love this video! So cool having real former f-14 pilot trying DCS and talking through it.
Love that simulator, best experience I can get outside the 172 I occasionally fly...
Mr. Ward i forgot to tell you, there is a texture liverie for a less glossy deck (it helps when the sun is shinning in the deck and deck markings/centerline get difficult to see) in DCS user files, and i use another liverie for a darker deck and whiter runway markings (simulates the clean carrier deck at beginning of a deployment). If you wish i could share my google drive with 2 textures for your carrier deck, just say where i can share the link so you can download and use it. If you want i can share a couple of pics so you can see what i´m talking about. Thanks.
Good info, Bruno. I'll check it out.
@@WardCarroll the darker deck was created by me, i´m will try to post a link here in youtube to my google drive with the pics (i don´t think YT let me post links but i will try).
I see DCS bringing a lot of joy into the later years of the aging fighter pilot...! Its a wonderful thing!