A-10C-Operation Pilot Search

I am happy to present you the longest video I have made, and I tried to make it as short as possible

Playing DCS A-10C warthog, we found a very cool mission called Operation Pilot Search. My two friends (experience and Pohl) flew with me and we managed to complete the mission within a couple of days of work. It takes about 4-5 hours to complete with only 2-3 people in a server.

In any case, I wanted to share this with you all as it is an AMAZING mission, with great voice acting, and some of the most AWESOME trigger events for a DCS game.

All songs mentioned at the end credits.

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• ralfi's
• alley
• ralfidude
• dcs
• a10c
• warthog
• A-10C
• GAU-8
• GAU8
• pilot
• search
• rescue
• CAS
• plane
• flying
• air
• simulator
• DCS

[mikepalomino]

Okay, at the risk of sounding like a total flight sim noob (I was very much into flight sims back in the 90s but not so much now): I thought the A-10 Warthog was supposed to fly low? I noticed throughout the video you'd be flying at 13,000ft+. Wouldn't you be at the mercy of SAMs and other potential threats? I'm curious since that was my impression of Warthog combat. Great video though :)

[ralfidude]

@mikepalomino They still do, but since the update of A-10 to the C version (A-10C) the way the warthogs operate has changed, mainly due to their targeting pod. You can locate and target enemies at a great distance, and its best done from a high altitude. We knew that there were only medium range AA's in the area, and those have a max ceiling height of about 12-15,000 feet. We stood above that range to avoid lock, and came down only for gun runs. Low flying for serious SAM sites only.

[CPOSerrano]

hey ralfi what HOTAS buttons do i really need to bind to my logitech extreme 3d pro? i can set the 6 buttons on the base of the stick as modifiers then use the hat switch for forward/back/left/right/etc. i just need to know which HOTAS controls are more frequently/more importantly used

[ralfidude]

@CPOSerrano TMS, DMS, COOLIE, and SLEW. Wouldnt hurt to have TRIM there too. Very important are CHINA HAT keys and helps to have BOAT switch. Not to mention Air Breaks (deploy and close). Set your trigger to two stages if thats possible to be able to use PAC mode if switched on.

[aescobar32]

do you play with unlimited ammo? that seemed like alot for one mission

[ralfidude]

@aescobar32 Not to mention the times we got shot down. Those pesky BMPs have surprising accurate gun fire when trying to gun them down. Plus all the infantry with shoulder mounted AAs that dont show up very well on the TGP... As for ammo, we did RTB quite a few times. Our payload mainly consisted of about 14 laser guided bombs each, so about 28 targets went down on each run, not including all the gun runs. Then we switched payloads to cluster bombs and mavericks here or there.

[nahnah660]

Nice, I use to work on these planes.

[aldjals54423]

Intense.

[Spartan5487]

This is the most amazing video that I have ever seen.

[ZuluSmasher]

How does this not have more views, this is amazing!

[ApeX2411]

Wooow, that was intense... Shocked the Moment the Blackhawk was down... Never been so sucked up by the atmosphere and story of a gameplay video...

[BetrayedFrolic]

This gave me goosebumps when the hawk went down!

[eenigenburger]

Please guys tell me, how to setup a facking server with dcs a-10c...

[RedBravo65]

Very nice gentlemen. Was most interesting to watch. You all work well as a team. Great flying.

[commandosolo2009]

Spectacular team work! Superb radio from real life! Impressive coordination and skills! You guys if you play the blackshark, I'd love to team up with you!

[Dvdlpt]

Awesome video and mission!!

[Tome4kkkk]

Wow!!!

[jank0oo]

Incredible video, and incredible mission! very realistic!