No kidding on that. The Tomcat is hard to employ effectively, but it's definitely worth trying out even if there's only a few days to do it for free.

Beware though, this addiction leads to things like buying entire hotas setups from companies like Virpil and VKB and that's a very pricey proposition.

I have a small room in my apartment where I'm dreaming of installing such a setup. One day... :o)

I have a walk in closet I used to store work equipment in. I turned all that back in last week so it's getting turned into my flight sim room next week.

I'd love it if you'd reply here with a link to some inspirational photos when you're done!!

I will -- I'm also working on building some specialized displays -- it's a huge project to get right.

Now I'm curious. How does DCS handle IFF? Does it just abstract it to some general concept of IFF, or do you actually have to deal with the various modes and such? How does it handle different incompatible countries/generations of IFF?

https://youtu.be/RVthPAIYZlU Better 2 minutes than a wall of text.

In short, increasingly well modelled but ultimately only an abstraction due to some fairly obvious reasons. The JF-17 apparently has the best IFF model in the game but I only started flying it yesterday.

Study level airplane. Not sure 1 week is enough ... sadly miss the 50% discount.

When I was in VF-302 sometimes a reward for enlisted guys who did really well was a little simulator time. They all said just maintaining flight was very difficult and the minute adversaries were added, they were dead.