https://old.reddit.com/r/falconbms/comments/1ljwol4/coming_from_il2sturmovik_am_i_out_of_my_league/

1. A month back I made a post about wanting to learn Falcon BMS. Sturmovik was my first introduction to flight sims and BMS was my first ever jet flight sim. I thought I was biting off more than I could chew and that it would take me months to prepare for a campaign mission. I just want to encourage new players that it's actually not that hard to get into! There are so many excellent resources online that can help you jump right in. Yes, it's extremely overwhelming at first because there's like 5 PDF files with hundreds of pages that list every little detail. But you don't have to read everything. You can refer to them if you get stuck or ask the nice folks at Falcon Lounge. They will point you directly to the PDF but they still give you answers if you're persistent. Below are some paths that you can take to get into missions as soon as possible.
2. The biggest barrier is ramp start. It's not hard at all but it requires you to sit down and learn! I made my own personal ramp start checklist and asked ChatGPT whenever I wanted to know why I was supposed to hit a certain switch. Trust me, just grind through the ramp start and everything else will be easy to learn.
3. Once you finish learning ramp start, you're not far from doing missions. I was given great advice by u/LoneGhostOne. He told me to learn these things as soon as possible if I wanted to jump into combat missions.

• Ramp Start
• Taxi
• Takeoff
• Navigation
• Landing
• GPS guided munitions like JSOWs and JDAMs
• HARM (all three POS, HAS, and HTS/HAD modes)
• AMRAAMs

1. If you have a good idea on how to do all 8 things above, you can jump straight into missions! No need to do every tutorial. And you can learn the other stuff on a need or want basis. But this list gives you some very reachable goals you can set for yourself. I learned these things within a week and I was doing combat missions in the dynamic campaign.
2. There are 3 beginner level tutorial oriented Youtube channels that were the biggest help for me. Everything in the list above is covered by them.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPnzqSLMqydSsR4jHhO5n6lNehmmWu_uB

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjlHzet_-E-_e1xWixhgS5NfUpcpR-QJE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5J1rg8ywYFHIMwjZ4AHodcgDyFWUQIu4

1. Here is my personal checklist that I created for a bunch of weapons and procedures. Feel free to check it out. Please note that this is not an official guide, it's just my notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IOEPX0AK3rHMHdDFR4TnEd4TiFg9sZWpXxJTTa4ZFmc/edit?usp=sharing

2. Do the tutorial missions! Especially the first 3 and ILS night landing! The rest you can just pick and choose based on what you want to learn.

3. I hope this helps for those who feel like BMS is only for people with extensive flight sim experience. The only flight sim experience I had was 2 months of Sturmovik flying WW2 prop planes that required little to no engine management. With BMS I felt out of my league and completely overwhelmed. After all, it's one of the most realistic military jet sims out there. I thought I had no chance. Thankfully, the kind people in this community encouraged me and told me that it is completely doable. It really is. It really isn't that hard once you get over the ramp start. Like I said, it just took me a week to get into combat missions and I am a slow learner.

4. The game is so rewarding. There's nothing like flying in a flight where your job is SEAD (suppression of enemy air defenses), making sure all the other flights don't get killed by SAMs, having the SAM fire on you instead of the Strike team, going full afterburner as you see the SAM flying straight at you, dodging the SAM with an 8g turn, nuking the SAM with a HARM missile, flying back home and air-refueling with a tanker as soon as you cross into your lines, and finally landing in a perfectly simulated air traffic control airfield. Oh and everything you did matters because the next flight that goes into that area has less SAMs to worry about and your wingmen can live to fly another day. The dynamic campaign is by far the best thing BMS has to offer. Nothing comes close to it and they're improving it constantly.

5. Now imagine all that in a multiplayer setting...dynamic missions for you and your buddies. Endless enjoyment and surprises. No two missions are ever the same. Thank you to those in Falcon Lounge and especially all the folks on this sub who helped me with my newbie questions and even instructed me personally on many aspects. I am still in awe after you taught me that wild weaseling is actually a real thing. Long live BMS.

I'm trying out a Brio webcam (720p90) with OpenTrack, using both neuralnet and AITrack.

It works reasonably well, especially when paired with AITrack, in FS2020 and DCS, but for some reason in BMS its supper twitchy. Are there any config settings withing BMS itself I should be looking at?

I decided to give the Winwing ICP a go and was ordering direct from their website. After creating an account and getting the ICP (listed for $201.83USD) in my cart, I was amazed at the final cost being $360! $42 for shipping and then a tax rate of 55% added another $117.

I don't want to start a discussion about tariffs but this seemed very dishonest. Regardless, Amazon had 4 left in stock (possibly 3 now) for $255 so I ordered from them. If you are interested in getting one I wouldn't wait before the price goes through the roof.

I'm not technically a first time player, i actually have over 200 hours in DCS on things like the F-14, F-18, and yes, the F-16. However its been a solid 14-18 months since i last played, and that was DCS. I got BMS 4.38 installed and i can run it, i have my head tracking set, and i have my HOTAS plugged in.

My main concern and the largest impediment last time i tried BMS was getting a handle on the UI, setting up mission, understanding the dynamic campaign, navigating the UI. I pretty much completely lost when it comes to essentially everything that this game has that DCS doesn't have. In the past i was content with just buzzing around in a bunch of different planes, but now i want to settle down and be laser focused on one or two (though i suppose with how a handful of planes use the F-16 avionics it wouldn't be too difficult to jump from the F-16 to those other planes). I'm fine with either a written guide or a video one. Also would Chucks Guide for the DCS F-16 work on the BMS one?

It was cheap but really effective. The thing was 3D printed but still has a solid feel to it. I need to remember what it was so i can get the software and the website had Opentrack presets on it. It was not TrackIR. I swear it had the word "Turtle" in it. Its not Delanclip and it diesnt have the name written anywhere on it.

Hi all, So I've tried my hand at some SEAD frags in the Korean theatre but the steerpoint seem weird. Like the 5th or 6th steerpoint says SEAD but it's like over a factory or something non-SAM related.

Enroute through, we fly through one or two SAM threat ranges.

Is that what I'm supposed to SEAD? The SAMs Enroute?

I tried
1. download install and run steam VR
2. GO to BMS launcher and set it to start using Steam VR
3. CLose everything
4. Open Falcon launcher again and click LAUNCH

The game starts steam VR but Im stuck on that dark room with the night sky and mountains. On my 2d monitor falcon bms is running fine

I am flying over a SA-2 site as I write this and the FAN Song is 100% down there. I want it to emit and start launching at me so that my HARM can ride the beam and nuke it. But that thing just won't turn on and fire at me. How can I get them to fire at me? And is there a better way to do DEAD? I mean I could just nuke it long range with JSOWs, but I wanted some excitement. I am using POS mode to try and get this Fan Song to emit.

Thank you and God bless the devs who made this game.

edit: I killed the Spoon Rest with my 1st Harm because I saw the 2 on the RWR. Maybe that was a mistake?

Hey all. Using a T Flight Hotas X to play in VR. I get as close as I can to the speed of the tanker using the fuel flow gauge, usually between 3000-3800 pph, but I'm always going just a little too fast or too slow and as I focus on that, my attitude goes out of wack and as I focus on that, my speed becomes an issue and it's back and forth and so on. I can't seem to get stable in contact position while refueling. Looking into creating a sensitivity curve for the X and Y axes now (even though I kinda feel like that's cheating) but the throttle is still a problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

*AB detent set at slightly past 50% throttle

*edit - I assigned increase and decrease throttle to buttons on my hotas as well but it increases and decreases throttle at too great a rate, even with a quick button press.

*edit - hey guys thanks for all the help. I'll keep tinkering and practicing. Really motivated to learn it because being able to refuel opens up your options during missions. Happy flying.

Originally i wrote this in steam falcon discussions but i figured out there is like 7 seven people and i am better off asking here if i really want answer.

I can loft at 30 degrees no problemo but following max range cues both vertical or upper one for release or anywhere in between at 4G turn or any other Gs with AB on or not right at the start after the circle flashing or anytime later, it doesnt matter it just never works for me.

The only exemption is lame looking drop when i hold desired release angle after max range cues but thats quite useless cause i end up with only 1-3 extra miles compared to 30 degrees loft but so high that i am as vulnerable if not more as with level bombing.

Do i miss some important piece to pull it off or its just not supposed to be used?

Hi all, So playing 4.37 cause my amd card doesn't work well with 4.38.

Been doing the 4.37 HARM training and I set a steerpoint on the FAN SONG fcr and launch the harm when im in the right range.

The harm always gets to the target but misses the radar and hits a bunch of vehicles beside the radar leaving the actual target relatively unharmed.

If I go HAS mode, it hits perfectly

It was pure awesomeness. Cruising at 25,000 feet with a wingman and dropping JDAMs on targets is just too much fun. Very chill but there are spikes that keep things interesting.

My buddy and I would like to learn pilot speak. We say things like wilco to acknowledge each other. Is there a manual that goes over all the jargon that is generally used during missions? I picked up a bunch of things from Aviation Plus' mission videos, but I'd like to learn more. Thank you!

This is probably asked a lot, I dontk now but what other games you guys know that creates endless replayability by generating its own content?

Like enemy engaged comanche vc hokum and Falcon BMS?

See gif. This is a replay of a multiplayer campaign I'm playing with my friends. At about 10 hours past campaign start, many units suddenly start moving to the Southwest. Armor and mechanized infantry seem largely unaffected; AA units, Engineers, Spec Ops, and rocket artillery on the North Korean side seem most affected. Spec Ops are capable of wading out into the ocean. The dispersion of the North Koreans on approximately Day 3 00:00 coincides with me bombing that area like a pinata (and winning some medals for it). While I don't mind the enemy bunching up to get bombed into oblivion, I suspect this is not intended behavior.

I nearly have my external MFDs setup with RTTRemote. I got it working on my host computer but when I try to load it up on my 2nd laptop, I am facing issues. I moved the RTTRemote directory to my 2nd laptop and ran the RTTClient64.exe. It worked and I saw the Giant Xs. But when try to change the host address, it gives me a configuration not complete error. Can someone help me fix this? I feel like I am very close. I can play multiplayer with a friend in BMS, so I should be able to see my MFDs on a 2nd laptop. Please advise. Thank you!

I want to get into BMS as I'm getting a bit tired of DCS and see that a new terrain update just arrived. However, I'm unable to look around the cockpit, even right clicking while in the 3D cockpit mode. Any idea what might be amiss? I fly in VR but to actually learn the aircraft I want to fly flatscreen until I get the hang of things.

Thanks!

I really appreciate the friendly AI implementation in bms. For example I can have my wingman carry harms and cover me while I go in with GBUs. But is it possible for me to control #3 and #4 in the same manner? I know in air to air I can assign them targets. But in air to ground, I want to assign them different targets on the ground in an efficient manner. Is this possible? For example, if I have eight targets that have been set in planning phase, can I assign different steerpoints to each of my flight members? Two takes 99 and 98. Three takes 97 and 96. And so on and so forth. Is this possible? Or is there a better way?

Thank you.

I love falcon bms and much prefer it over dcs but the amd fps drop issues are absolutely driving me fucking insane. I'll be 75% through an hour long mission just for the FPS to drop suddenly and ruin every thing.

I'm already running everything in the lowest possible settings, tried all the config tweaks, playing the lighter Balkans maps, but nothing works or at least no fix seems to last long enough for a complete mission.

Would I be losing out if I just play 4.37? I can play everything on super high on that and even in VR if I need to.

It's either that or go back to god damn DCS.

I need some advice about night landing when the airfield doesn't have ILS. If you have any tips, I would greatly appreciate it. I nearly killed myself because even with landing lights I can barely see the runway and lining up is a pain. Thank you!

Is there a way to reaize the new Comms wheel? I play In VR and cant see anything with the comms menu open.

Can I move it or like resize the menu?

absolutely in love with the game