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Guide for DCS A-10A and C models for flight planning purposes: take-off, climb, cruise, descent and landing.

The following checklist is a modified, condensed version of the procedures presented in Section II and III of the F-86F Flight Handbook, as published 10 October 1957.  It is designed to reflect the procedures found and available to the Belsimtek F-86F Sabre and arranged so you may print it and insert it in to a plastic sleeved flip pad for convenient use.

Instructions:  Print two pages per sheet, single sided.  Cut page in half.  Fits entirely in to a Staples 5.5" by 8.5" bound sheet protector (or similar).  Consumes 10 double sided sleeves.

Version 1.00:  Initial release, emphasizing cockpit flow.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

Guide for DCS F-15E for flight planning purposes: take-off, climb, cruise, descent and landing.

This is a modification that alters values of shadow cascade(s) for better performance.

In practice, what happens when using this mod is the terrain shadows (outside-cockpit) being drawn as far as before, but with overall performance improved with quite small visual difference trade-off. The other benefit is that, at the same time, the inside-cockpit shadows maintain high quality in all settings (4096x4096 pixels shadow, though even that can be changed if really desired).

So you have a crappy PC just like me? Worry not. Use those downscaled textures to skyrocket your framerate (or not).
All 4K textures are scaled down to 2K, and "unnecessary" stuff like M4 (forgive me ;-;) and seats are downscaled to 1K. Can be used with "Low" texture setting.

Are you frustrated that your PC is not enough for newest versions of DCS, that the performance is unnaceptable?
Want to run VR and it runs poor even with a capable machine?
Tired of the inconsistent framerate, frametime or the constant micro-stutters, even at lowest settings? Or the slow loading, at the start and on missions loading?
If you are, then reverting to this performance-friendlier version might be the solution, for you to better enjoy DCS.

This package provides the necessary files to easily (and separately) download and install DCS 2.5.6 (its final Stable release 2.5.6.61527.3, March 5th 2021) from ED's official servers. Just follow the instructions provided with the download package.

Useful for calculating the Drag Index, Aircraft weight and position of the Center of Gravity (% MAC).

In order to complete these forms, some data from my SPOC (Stores Page-Ordenance Codes) document are required. You can find it here:
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3304428/

** FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION ONLY **

Standard cockpit textures downscaled from 4K to 2K. I've also removed all mipmaps from them, so those textures should retain quality even on low texture quality setting. I did like zero extra-editing because everything seems to be readable already. Extract "A-10C-2020-CPT" folder into your "Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Liveries\" and then select "Factory_new_reduced" option in A-10C II's special options.

Standard cockpit textures downscaled from 4K to 2K. I've also removed all mipmaps from them, so those textures should retain quality even on low texture quality setting. I did like zero extra-editing because everything seems to be readable already.

This mod works with DCS World 2.5.6, from version 2.5.6.50321 up to 2.5.6.61527.3 (the final release of 2.5.6, before 2.7).

This is a modification to slightly improve performance with little to none image quality loss, and no issues with slow loading of missions.
It works with regular screen monitors, and also with VR.

This mod is also IC compliant for Multiplayer (no issues whatsoever in Online MP, if using DCS 2.5.6).

PLEASE NOTE: this mod will NOT work with the newer versions of DCS (2.7, 2.8 or 2.9).