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improvements on the DCS: W 1.5.4 Beta

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Dear All,

With 1.5.4, we will be launching two major improvements to the MiG-21.

We have more improvements lined up for the MiG-21, including bugfixes and visual improvements.
These will be detailed at a later time.

Flight Model

In order to ensure accurate and realistic flight performance, we've spent a lot of time and focus on tweaking the MiG-21s' flight model in all flight regimes.

With the unique position of our lead FM programmer being an active duty MiG-21bis pilot; we were able to take more real-time telemetry and video data from several recent training flights.
Such data is invaluable to us, and serves to further help with verifying subjective pilot/programmer feeling.

More overt changes will likely be most easily recognized in the critical and supercritical flight regimes,
where the aircraft now performs more to what you'd expect (and also more reminiscent of one of our earlier revisions).

There are, however, significant changes across all performance and flight parameters.
We look forward to you flying the MiG-21 and providing feedback where applicable!

Cockpit Night Lighting
While we have several more, significant, visual improvements pending implementation (and backporting) to the MiG-21bis; we will begin by re-implementing the night flood lighting.
These lights will have a performance impact pending upgrades to the core engine.

The lights will not be available in 1.5.4 Open BETA. They will be made available in 1.5.4 Release.







Full changelog:

MiG-21 Changelog 1.5.4

• Added red cockpit lighting*
• Added right side white panel spotlight*
• Corrected several Z-Fighting issues in cockpit artwork*
• Added missing glow on several switches and levers*
  
  
• New major Flight Model update & revision
  Adjusted critical & supercritical flight envelope
  Adjusted acceleration
  FM now more closely matches performance data
  
  
• Corrected several SAU stabilization issues
• Tweaked SAU for FM changes
  
  
• Fixed intermittent cockpit shake (2.0.X & 1.5.4 bug)
• Completely overhauled RP-22 Sapphire radar logic and raycasting
• Corrected several issues with radar indication and targeting
• Corrected erroneously wide IR missile FoV

*Will be available in 1.5.4 Release


Thanks for your support!

LS