Of course, many of you will also fondly remember Bunyap Sim’s various A-10 tutorials and gameplay videos too and while I did watch some of them, these were mostly created in 2015. Ralfidude’s DCS A-10C Tutorials – From 0 to Hero.Next, I start to get serious and I spend quite a bit of time with two sources of information: Its fun because this is a simulation and not the real thing and there are very real learning opportunities and benefits to pushing the aircraft like this. I try and not be too serious at this stage and I’ll crash it, burst tires, and generally make a ton of mistakes. Start by just flying it and get a feel for the cockpit, the aircraft, where some of the buttons and switches are and then just push the limits and see what happens. My learning process with a DCS aircraft is this. Armed with videos and guides Over the practice range on my own DCS Marianas training scenario. I shot the cannon a bunch and I flew the jet around but really getting into it fully was always on the back burner. But aside from the simple operations with the A-10A, I never really spent the time to fully learn the systems.

Much more recently, I’ve done a bunch of flying with the A-10 in Lock On: Modern Air Combat, in Flaming Cliffs 3 with the A-10A, and with the DCS: A-10C and then A-10C II. All of the basic elements were there and the developers made smart decisions on how to best represent the operation of this jet.

Given the limitations of the day, it’s impressive to me how well it holds up 32-years later. Check out this gameplay video of the 1989 A-10 Tank Killer by Dynamix

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