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Calm down, son. Catch a deep breath rather than going full reheat against someone who started with "Apologies". Also, it is a legit question since this has been done for what, 17 years? You know, copy coordinates either directly from the game or to a piece of paper, plan before the mission itself on the F10 map, Google Maps, CFlite, and make your own spreadsheet. But you want something in-game, right? Is the ruler not enough? Drag a line and call it day. Why does that not work? You can also write the results on the canopy itself, instead of using openkneeboard. Actually, I will record a brief video to show you how you can open a map, drag a line, write two numbers. Already in-game, already in VR, takes a minute. This would be so much more coherent with your statement. Ad verbatim: > It would be most beneficial for just about every single phantom player that really wants to play with the module in the spirit of true gen 3 aviation. But I doubt you want that. In fact: > This is about getting basic information calculations into the kneeboard from the off, which is easy for a PC to do if you have known GPS positions. Having the bearing and distance to the next waypoint as part of the kneeboard would be invaluable. These are not really basic, but OK. If I understand correctly (my English is not great - "from the off"? Off mission, off track, off what?), you want something that knows your position as well. I thought we wanted a "true gen 3 aviation" experience here. Anyhow, since you want a GPS, the NS430 works perfectly (it also lets you cheat when updating the INS Fix, but don't tell any real pilot, they get mad because they never thought about it /s ). I have an F-4E/G EWO/WSO and a F-4F pilot who mentions that they used actual GPS in the Phantom in their career. If you want no GPS, then the solution is simple: INS, pilotage and DR. But I see it's not over: > It was then a logical progression to have a speed table to calculate times on the fly in a vertical column, or even two columns would make sense. Ok, now you want multiple speeds. So, to recap the necessary parameters to do what you want, we need: TAS for each turn/leg; Course for each turn/leg; AoB/G for each turn/leg; Altitude for each turn/leg; MagVar for each turn/leg; Wind direction/speed for each turn/leg. I can think of more parameters, but this should give a general idea. The first 4, besides the course, require manual input. Wind is interesting because it is a big factor that should be accounted for IRL. But wind changes. So, do you want it fetched in real time in DCS? What happens when the dynamic weather arrives? Anyway, the input part is getting crowded already. But then you want fuel as well. OK, easy to do. Should DI and weight be calculated in real time and fetched in DCS? Or at the beginning of the mission? Or at the first WP? Is the first IP the ingress/reference or just a turn? What if there is an AAR scheduled before or after? What if you are delayed? How do you plan for a dogleg/trombone fuel-wise? All these variables should be specified somewhere. This kneeboard is getting a tad tiny for the purpose. However, up to here, it's all easy. But then the problems start: DCS players. Imagine you build your mission and flight plan from the mission editor and share it. Altitude is 10,000ft, speed 360, 2000 ft 420 kts at the ingress, 540 kts at IP and delivery. Player A flies instead at 6,000 ft the whole mission and at 450 kts. The plan says he can make it fuel-wise, but he uses reheat for too long at departure, or perhaps loads a couple bombs more, and he runs out of fuel. The next thing he does is go and complain because the kneeboard doesn't work. I know because, throughout the years, I answered so many complaining about the AIM-54's crappy performance, when the fault was all theirs. The alternative would be to recalculate everything in real time: positions, timing, fuel, speeds, DI, wind, magvar, et cetera. Feasible for sure, but then you are asking for functions present in the modern Hornet and a GPS. Not really "gen 3 aviation" vibes here. Why not use the NS430 at this point? It is actually realistic past a certain time frame. The point I'm trying to make is quite simple: either devs make something very basic, like course and distance from the specified points and leave out player-influenced parameters, or you make a thorough tool. The former can be done already with no additional tools, both in VR and pancake, and takes a minute. Seriously, I'll put a video together when I have time. The latter requires more work, but this must not be on HB's shoulders. It should be a concerted effort driven by ED. There should be a proper planning tool before pressing "Fly", opening a mission editor-like page, where all the parameters can be set. A nice, full-screen tool, with all the appropriate parameters, where the members of the package can be specified and the plan shared (not only across groups, as on casual servers, this does not work), and so on. Something that works across modules, with the option of having Jester ready to input coordinates right after startup, and creates a series of reference kneeboard pages. Ideally, something that spits out something like this: https://flyandwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/low-level-planning-tool-launch-example-map.jpeg It is quite simple to do, in my opinion (but of course, I don't know what's under the DCS hood, so it may be very complicated instead). It's all a matter of resources, priorities, and time. ED already has a lot to do in this regard. Nevertheless, a planning tool, a TacView and LotATC equivalents should be part of DCS already. The in-game VoIP is a good first step, but it'd be great to see more basic functionalities "returning to DCS". Again, this is not a 3rd party's job to do, no matter how cool and sexy they are So, if you want something like that, I'm all aboard for it, just tell me where to sign. A kneeboard page instead is good to present an output, but there are too many parameters to be considered if you want to do a thorough job, and, imo, it is not worth the dev's time. What do you think?

Hmm, i don't have those problems on my end. George announces that he has found targets (naval, ground, aircraft, helo, or fast mover), and i get the list of detected units (The list will only appear while the AI Context menu is open). My FWD Area search also continues forever until i command George to stop, or my pitch or roll gets out of a certain threshold. Not sure about PHS Area mode, but I'd guess it's the same.

So I interpret that as "I think it's wrong, but clearly can't prove it and leave it at that"...

Count me in! We've seen the videos of crew members climbing out of the Apache. Hopefully all the groundwork has been laid to make these animations work throughout the sim, especially for soldiers and helicopters/transports.

*I don't speak English, this article was written using translation software, please understand if there is a misunderstanding.* I wanted to watch the replay while playing the DCS server, but it had a problem with its content logging. (Not how many minutes of delay is not recorded) I obviously played for a long time, and what I saw in the file was an abnormal file size. This issue is complicated and I can't explain it in the article, please download the accompanying logging file. This may be a problem that arises on my own, I want to know how to fix it, I have tried to remove all community mods, but it is not available. This file is client-side, and everything is fine with the file in the server. Tacview-20250728-015731-DCS-Client-简易多人-高加索训练任务+动态战役v4 Beta.zip.acmi

We have always had lots of sales, you are reading to much into it or to much reddit. DCS continues to grow and we continue to develop. thanks

Yea I also thought the number of sales is getting excessive. At this point they may as well just make the sale price the actual price of their products and not have sales. It's a bit suss.

I also think that the reason there is no information at all is most likely because they cannot afford to pay them. The fact that they had to extend the summer sale also leads me to believe that this may not just be the end of the Razbam modules.

Hi, I have absolutely the same problem. I checked whether other mods affect this behavior of the sighting system. I determined that they do not affect. This is a problem of this version and the developers should solve it.

You'd potentially have no licence servers though if they went under. So it'd be dead to everyone in a week or whatever the maximum offline period is.

Thank you very much for DML and your support using it. Your experience and knowledge is unvaluable and a true loss for DCS Community. @BIGNEWY and @NineLine This is an example of how you should not act with the community.

I'm glad it finally worked out. As one of the lucky ones who has been able to test the Super for a few weeks now, I can only say that it was worth the wait. Have fun unpacking and enjoy!

Hello everyone. I've been using Virtual Destop in Quest3 VR for DCS for five days now and I'm having a problem where something is restricting me from moving the cursor around the menu, and I don't know how to fix it. Could someone help me Please? I've attached a picture of the parts I can move the cursor around, and I'll cut out where something is preventing me from moving.

I think it's a common thing that the more the aircraft moves around the more alive it feels. It's also easy to feel that the more difficult the aircraft is to fly the more realistic it is. While both assumptions are somewhat true sometimes the developers overdo it. This is what I think happened with the Corsair on release. And yeah, if you already got used to the original behaviour the new one might feel like it's on rails.

Thanks and no rush, hope you have a good day at work.

Honestly, if that happened, the sim would simply be frozen at a given point in development, with no further official updates. It'd be a highly flawed, but still enjoyable experience, which is what it is right now. I suspect the community would attempt to fix some issues by modding, and eventually means of dubious legality would be applied to patch the underlying engine. The problem here is 3rd party modules being left behind as the sim develops. This is a very different thing from sim development itself stopping. ED has been quite clear they have a settlement of some nature, and that they're adhering to it in good faith. While we don't know the terms, I don't think it's ED dragging their feet.

Thank you M3

He's probably using Steam, and as this is his first post, he was probably not allowed to post at the correct place. Funny this way this forum. Probably the best way is to have new users post a "hello" in a "this is me" welcome thread.

My apologies @BIGNEWY I will re-do after work

I think I never mentioned blame here and I feel many believe my comments were anti F-35. It's not the hate, its more of an a critique on how the ED's DCS ecosystem is built. To understand this better lets consider how the MP servers work. To play this in MP with reasonable level of authenticity, you need both sides if the server/mission intends to have healthy population. In PvE this does not have worry about this. You can happily have 60 F-35 racing each other to kill more Mig-21s and other lower aircraft, as long as you spawn enough of opponents to keep them happy. There is certainly a customer base exactly for this kind of level of commitment. In case of PvP this assumes that both sides have equal chances of winning the game. F-35 will not have the counterpart which means that the server will have unhealthy and unbalanced population, unless server owners bring F-35 on both sides. Historically even the most famous servers did struggle with maintaining the healthy populations. After a while one side would simply stop playing, and almost always the server owners go for introduction of PvE elements. At the end these servers stay with low count of players only to deplete completely when a new server with healthier and larger population arrives. This is how practically most of famous servers died over the years. Now some may mention the skilled players may try their luck with low tier aircraft. In the wast majority of cases they will not do this, keep in mind that they are actually the smartest players around.

I've installed The Way before and it worked but have recently reinstalled DCS 2.9. Here is the export.lua code I'm trying to fix.. pcall(function() local dcsSr=require('lfs');dofile(dcsSr.writedir()..[[Mods\Services\DCS-SRS\Scripts\DCS-SimpleRadioStandalone.lua]]); end,nil); pcall(function() local TheWayLfs=require('lfs');dofile(TheWayLfs.writedir()..'Scripts/TheWay/TheWay.lua'); end) any help would be great The Way opens but after selecting point the error comes up 'cannot connect to DCS'

Guys, I just tested the Sniper TGP and I have to say that you did a wonderful job with the video filtering. The digital zoom feels like a digital zoom, the video processing of the XR feature is top notch. You really feel like you are using a real TGP with flir instead of a reskin of the F2 camera on the MFD. Now my question is, are you planning in updating all the older TGP, mainly all the different litening implementations on ED modules as well? Or will the litening remain as a superior pod just because you have unrealistic focused and sharp digital zoom and sniper will be just for SIM hardcores and campaign developers? Because as it is now, the Sniper is inferior to the litening (and don't start me with the litening v4 of the razbam harrier) because on those the "digital zoom" is sharp and the flir cam is just a reskin of the TV cam, all sharp with no halo or smudges. The lantirn is ok in both implementations (tomcat and eagle) I'd say the FC4 images can stay because that's legacy code and should be a nightmare.

Alibaba is a B2B shop, so the intent is that you buy in bulk and then sell in low quantity to the end user. For example, here someone is doing so on Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/INSTAWOW-Bluetooth-Touchpad-Control-Compatible/dp/B0DWKY3QGF And on the German Amazon someone is trying to scam people with absurd prices: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/D06PRO/dp/B0DYCN3G9W @big_fun How did you actually buy it? Did you buy a sample through Alibaba or did you buy it elsewhere?

Pakistan has no planned to add to Afganistan map.

great job!!! Would it be possible to get the kneeboard from you for masking the cockpit?