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I thought I would release the beta version of my airfield diagrams for DCSW as the charts are at the point where I need to print a copy and then work my way through the airfields to get the rest of the detail right. The radio frequencies, elevations, directions and measurements should be accurate with the mission editor the F10 view and the A10C's internal MAGVAR. I'll do the release as a separate thread to the design discussion to avoid the release getting lost in that thread. I'm working through tower placement and taxiway labelling in addition to points of interest however a lot of the Russian airfields dont have the taxiways labelled which complicates the matter, I'm thinking it may be worth waiting until the DCS release prior to revisiting this. I've also added references to the ADF's from the BS manual and if the interest is there I will release a Russian air force version with Metric measurements once the maps are finished. If anyone picks a bug or has some reference notes for the airfields let me know. UPDATE: Updated airfield name plus some error corrections For those of you printing this, I recommend printing in color to A5 directly, as the map lines blend better in color then gray-scale, however you can print 2 per page on A4/letter Airfield Diagrams.pdf

Greetings all. The Pre- Purchase release by ED for the A10-C is for some of us, a very early Xmas present! :joystick: The fidelity, thought, research, blood sweat tears and of course time, that has gone into this project so far is incredible. Some are having problems with it; Hardware conflicts, low / poor frame rates and 'bugs' that appear seemingly randomly, but to be fair, ED did not hide this on release. The Open Beta channel has been setup for us to post our thoughts and problems and works alongside ED's closed Beta as a way of gathering appropriate information to be addressed in future patches.:thumbup: Wags recently announced that there will be no more producer notes for the A10C due to ill health (good luck with op!) and there being not enough of a commodity that is valuable in business - time. There will however, be interactive information missions and these (IMHO) will undoubtedly dot the i's and cross the 'T''s. Until the Retail release however, There's some excellent videos on you tube on how to FLY, NAVIGATE and ENGAGE with the A10C and you will want to augment these, on to your own training regime. I would like to offer you my own series of IVS. Currently It is all ENGAGEMENT orientated and may offer some clarity with regards to the employment of some weapon systems. This Series is Ideal if you want continuity of instruction, rather than a million different methods, voices, quality of format and instruction, etc. All videos are available in HD 720p. Please use that and full screen. Pause for 1 minute after selecting 720p if neccessary, for buffering. Annotations are in use. Just doing my part. Please Enjoy them. Thanks. Regards all 'T' Completion Update effective from 13 Nov 2010: Operation 'Dane' - Augmentation Mission File that goes with the complete (to date) IVS - http://www.104thphoenix.com/downloads/bstrain/A10Missions/Op_dane.rar A2G - Part 1 Maverick Preparation - http://www.youtube.com/user/Tigerpwrr?feature=mhum#p/u/0/V1IoF2xKBCI - 3 Mins 08 Seconds A2G - Part 2 Maverick Engagement - http://www.youtube.com/user/Tigerpwrr?feature=mhum#p/u/1/c6b8-omBruE - 3 Mins 42 Seconds A2G - Part 3 A2G & TGP - http://www.youtube.com/user/Tigerpwrr?feature=mhum#p/u/2/25MgpCEe114 - 5 Mins 36 Seconds Direct Fire - Rockets - http://www.youtube.com/user/Tigerpwrr?feature=mhum#p/u/12/NgbmyR2RdaQ - 6 Mins 58 Seconds Direct Fire - GAU-8 Avenger Cannon - http://www.youtube.com/user/Tigerpwrr?feature=mhum#p/u/3/s0UkDmXIiMM - 11 Mins 30 Seconds CCIP - CBU's - Part 1 - Manual Release http://www.youtube.com/user/Tigerpwrr?feature=mhum#p/u/5/ao7aAqRSwSs - 5 Mins 25 Seconds CCIP - CBU's - Part 2 - 5 Mil http://www.youtube.com/user/Tigerpwrr?feature=mhum#p/u/0/C79RN-NoE6E - 8 Mins 33 Seconds CCIP - CBU's - Part 3 - 3/9 - Awaiting CBU97 effect fix from Beta Updates A2A - Aim9x - Not yet released

Oh yes we can. I present to you this girl in all her beauty: http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/5200/legs2.jpg

Redneck aviation :D

"Oo oo miss. What does the E stand for?" "Estimated" "...and the A?" "Arrival" "OOOh. And the T?" "Time" "Aah. What does the E stand for again?"

In general terms, yes, hence the Precision Attitude Control system. Correct. Correct. Keybindings are as follows: Gun Trigger (First Stage) - P Gun Trigger - Space Now 'First-Stage' is PAC-1. What this does is it just 'stabilizes/trims' the aircraft to the point on the ground that your Gun-Pipper is aligned to. Aids in the wobbles so to speak - so if you're running in and stabilize the pipper with PAC-1 and you're off-center, you just take your finger off the trigger, adjust and stabilize again with PAC-1 without firing the cannon. Now when you pull the trigger through the second stage, ie PAC-2, it is doing the same thing, ie Stabilizing in addition to firing, ie PAC-1 with Bullets. The difference with a One-Stage trigger as opposed to a two-stage trigger is that you do not have the luxury of a 'Dry-Run' so to speak. With a single stage, where you are about to put that pipper down is where it's gonna hurt - no second chances. With the two-stage, you've got time to make sure you're on target. That's why the manual states that you can assign it to a single-stage trigger (Space). Works and does the same job at the end of the day - just not as effective/safe. To confirm, look in HUD - assuming you have the PAC system armed (GUN/PAC) it will show PAC-2 when firing on a single-stage trigger. Behaviour in current Open-Beta is however buggy and has since been rectified in our tester's build. You'll no doubt see that reflected in the next Open-Beta update.

open letter to WarriorX..... I got mine yesterday :-) relax and be patience it will come to you and its worth the wait McDan out

With a bit of luck, Amazon will be delivering my TMWH any day now, and I would very much like to donate my MINT Saitek X52PRO to someone who really fancies one, but genuinely can't afford to buy one. I was thinking of allsorts of ideas of how to go about this and in the end, I figured I'd pull a name out of the hat!! To get your name into the "hat", you just need to make a small donation to Martin House Children's Hospice (they looked after my son). When filling in their donation-page, please put "Michael McQuiggan" in the " In Memory Of " field. Delivery to the UK Mainland will be arranged by me and will be completely free. Sadly, delivery overseas must be paid for by the other party (Interparcel are good for this). So, drop me a PM and let me know that you made your donation to the hospice - then your name's in the hat! The winner will be drawn next Sunday (7th Nov) If I've overlooked something, please let me know. Regards, Tom. UPDATE : UPDATE: UPDATE: I'm also going to include my FULL COLOUR Black Shark printed manuals!!!! Go on, take a chance and make a small donation. And don't worry, I won't don't want to know how much you gave - any small amount helps the hospice (they don't get government funding!).

Dear Thrustmaster, I am writing in this forum as there is no contact information for your U.S. customers available on your website. I hope some of your employees read this forum and can get the message back to Corporate. There seems to be a lot of questions going around regarding the release date for the Warthog outside Western Europe. Frustration and anger are building for some, as much of Western Europe have not only their pre-orders filled, but surplus Warthogs on the shelves. This coupled with the revelation of Warthogs arriving in one country with the box marked with a destination of a completely different country, has me and I think many others wondering why they bothered pre-ordering a Warthog. If you made a decision to divert all units to the Western Europe market that were meant for pre-order fulfillment in the U.S. then you should tell us straight up and be honest and forthcoming as to your reasons. Make your case, we will listen. I think a little communication regarding specifics on shipping dates to the US, Canadian, Australian etc. markets would be the professional thing to do. Silence on your part makes for speculation, and frustration. Providing information even if you think it will disappoint, will be be better than stonewalling your customers. Respectfully, WarriorX

Con3para PM’d me asking what I thought of the hog so far. I guess he got more than he asked for...;) (Compared to my un-modded cougar and previous sticks, basic saitek cyborg & cyborg evo ff) I can only compare to my previous experience and would be very interested at others impressions versus their “significant other HOTAS”, especially a modded Cougar, G940 and X65, as well as the CH of course ;). As a high end product it’s not fair to compare this against the X52 IMO as the costs clearly differentiate the market here. STICK: FOR · Even force to extremes. No more herculean effort to get max G’s from stick. Makes landings and take offs a piece of cake compared to the Cougar. · Accurate as hell. Makes gun play a real pleasure. I can now get great accuracy scores over the old stick. When properly trimmed the stick is leagues ahead of anything I have ever tried before, (but that’s not saying much). · No centre play at all. This used to drive me insane on the Cougar, and the Evo, and the Cyborg. In fact every damn joystick I have owned apart from my Atari stick in 1982 has wobbled somehow. I am now liberated from wobble! (Ggrrr apart from the throttle – see below). · Accurate as hell #2, (I can draw pictures on the screen in the cougar joystick analyser!) that speaks volumes. You can go anywhere in the air. If the airframe is capable and you have the finesse, the stick WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. This is a revelation to me and I can now see what all those lucky guys with NXT and FCC modded Cougars were on about. You have it here in the Hog! · Heavy, stays put. Made to last. Potential home defence weapon. Nuff said. AGAINST · Big. This doesn’t bother me but it’s taller than the Cougar was. I’ve got big-ish hands. · Buttons are very stiff. Military grade based on real USAF weightings. You either live with that or don’t. I don’t mind. I’m getting used to it. I will build stronger fingers. · Big footprint. If you have small desk..... Your keyboard can rest on the base plate though as its only a few mm thick. Couldn’t do that with the Cougar! THROTTLE:FOR · Very well built. Its industrial quality. This looks like it was taken from the real hog, (without the dangling wires). Using this for home defence would require more strength than its worth, plus a VERY lenient judge, (“sooooo you intended only to incapacitate the intruder did you?”). · Metal apart from throttle shafts. Switches are really cool and go “clunk” like all proper switches should but seldom do. Think about the ‘death star’ firing sequence. That’s what I'm talking about. · Lots of switches and hats. You simply could not use any more without finger grafting or until future evolved intelligent octopi or millipedes learn how to fly sims. And with A-10c with its hats and boat switches, need I say more? · Out of the box A-10 compatible. No fannying around for weeks just to get the damn thing to take off. Plug in, switch on, and take off. This cannot be understated. What ED/TM has done here just show that the ENTIRE industry has had its head stuck right up its own arse in this regard for decades. Built-in HOTAS profiles please from future sims from now on. I don’t care if the game devs or the HOTAS devs do it, as long as someone does. This is the way forward. The top 3 or 4 HOTAS systems should have this done for them at least. The amount of time we all spend farting around in Foxy, etc.......its geeky fun yes but it’s not why we are here is it? (Rant over, move on...). · Proper lift idle detents. No cougar CLIKCLAK..... CLIKCLAK to wake other half. This is replaced with proper lift detents. Silent, cool as hell and very professional. Did I mention cool as hell? Yes I did. It was worth mentioning twice that. The ‘Cool ‘ part. · Split throttles very sturdy and smooth. Silky smooth. Like warm butter on top of a.....[stop it]. Even pressure, no grinding, like a Cadburys caramel advert. After its been lubricated. · No sticking like the cougar did. As I said above, it takes almost the same amount of pressure to move as it takes to keep moving. Compared to the cougar which was like pushing a stalled tractor over the top of a very large hill. All hard work at first followed by a “oh that just got easier.....oops.....sorry”. AGAINST · No rotaries. I use the right hand side axis for zoom view. TBH this pissed me off at first but I didn’t really use the rotaries much in any case when I came to think about it and radar elev / range can always be mapped to something else in FC2 / Falcon. · Not very ergonomic. The Falcon / Cougar throttle was moulded to a human hand. It was futuristic and sexy as hell. The A-10c / F-15e throttle is a beast. You have to mould your hand TO IT. There’s no middle ground. You will get used to it. After 3 days I am now getting comfortable. This is a Hummer versus a Porsche in terms of design aesthetic. Both have strong points IMO. · Slew hat designed for your middle finger. I don’t know about you but my middle finger isn’t that manoeuvrable ;) It makes target acquisition interesting. Again, another thing to get used to. Real hog pilots must do. · Some centre play in the throttles in split mode, the left on has 3mm side to side and the right one 3mm back and forth play. I just noticed this in the last few hours. About 3mm back and forth with no output. Hmmmmmm. Not sure if it did that yesterday. Annoying. Might just be a “settling in thing”. I will keep an eye on this as it seems like the Hog Achilles heel may well be the plastic throttle uprights. Time will tell and I haven’t compared this slight play to the G940 or X65. Others can comment on this. Overall impression I wrote quite a bit in the ‘against ‘, sections yet overall I am happy with the hog and would buy it again. It’s human nature to nitpick and for £330 I am entitled to expect (semi) perfection IMO. This HOTAS has totally redefined the way I hunt and fly in the A-10c. As it was designed from the real A-10c controls, this probably shouldn’t have surprised me as much, but after 2 days solid playing I have moved on more in terms of proficiency and enjoyment from the sim than I did in 3 weeks with the cougar. It is simply that much of a game changer. This is ‘now’ however. No one knows what ED will do after A-10 and £330 is a lot of money, (more than I have ever spent on anything PC related that didn’t have NVIDIA or ATI stamped on it), and the symbiosis between stick and sim simply won’t be the same with an Apache or F-16 for instance, for obvious reasons. This has been mulled over before in other threads and whether this detracts from the hog in the long term, (it’s hard to compare as no other HOTAS apart from its predecessor were ever 100% based on a real set of controls AFAIK), will only be answered when we start to produce profiles for other sims and see how they get on when released into the wild. Would I buy one today with what I now know? You bet I would ;) Back to some tank plinking. I don’t need guided munitions now. I can drop a mk82 on top of a tank commanders head from 4000ft with my hog! And that’s entertainment.:thumbup: Cheers guys Coolts

Excellent work, Shu! A couple things I noticed: Senaki is no longer a military airbase. It transitioned to civil use last year. I'll try to provide a cite for this. Why is Abkhazia (Apkhazeti) listed as part of Russia in the Gudauta diagram?

ghehehe ;) Rep inbound :)

And yet another Maverick Video. Hope this one will clear up some things for people. KGQX-27-8Mg

@ Keizer - sure, I don't mind sharing. I don't have my panels done in CAD though like some of the others on board. I am designing them in the program that I use to create the code for my CNC. However, I've been designing all my panels from the images in the A10A Flight Manual OCR2.pdf. I don't have the link at the moment, but I believe I got it from one of the other posts on this forum. I just copy the panel image into an image editing program and then proportionally size the image until the width is 5.75". So far, that's worked perfectly. The program I have my designs in does not generate dimensions like you can do in sketchup, but I can *possibly* export them into another program and see if I can do that. I'll follow up with you. @ rocketeer - I have not tried that, but I've heard the same thing. Right now I am welding a .25" piece of clear acrylic to a .0625 piece of white acrylic. With any luck, I'll be testing out lighting a panel tonight. I'll post back with results.

Indeed. To help manage expectations, users should NOT expect the update to turn the beta into a release candidate. There is a lot of work to do that will be spread over several updates. One step at a time.

Remember: It's like eating an Elephant........One Bite at a Time!

^^ don't choke on it ?? :noexpression:

Hi, I believe you need to set your Regional Settings and Language to English. Good luck, Bart

Looks like they are getting the stick !!! here

Mine too. AHCI allows hot plugging. Thats why you see your drives on the tray.

Thank you Sir for your support!

Oh a couple of things really; 1. A comprehensive change log in the new build. TBH the lack of one of these generated so much needless forum traffic. But then, would most of the “nose wheel steering?” lot have read it? grumblrgrumble 2. JTAC voices as heard in Wags awesome vids 3. Proper JTAC documentation added to manual on the whole procedure, (inc how to get him to re-point the target if it moves or you have lost it) 4. Fixes for nerfed cluster munitions 5. LGB bang-bang guidance fix 6. Obvious mav fix, (borked ground stab and double SPI bug) 7. CIP/CCRP fall line craziness when you are about to drop fixed 8. Ability to see terrain elev map, (as you can in F10 map) in mission editor to alow proper mission building 9. MCFD FOV slew rate fix. Currently it doesn’t take into affect your zoom level and makes the slew controls useless necessitating keyboard nudging 10. TGP IR blurriness drastically reduced making nigh time hunting possible This isnt a new list, (all these points have been talked over and acknowledged in-forum), this is my, “it would be awesome if..” top ten list of the things that make me less effective in day to day flying, (all have workarounds ATM), but we are at an early BETA stage and the ED guys aren’t exactly sitting around on their hands, so it depends on how many NEW bugs have been thrown up by the testing process versus the sort of thing I’ve listed above. To be honest, and given the whole point of the BETA which was to test for hardware compatibility, (something we all seem to have forgotten in the excitement), they may concentrate on engine fixes, etc. My list is more selfish than that. I want to fly, fight and get back to base!

I did a new image first but the installation of the AHCI driver worked just as described and I don't think there is any problem going back if you run Windows 7 and have the original installation media if trouble should arise. Worked great for me :D EDIT: I'm on Windows 7 64 bit

http://forum.aeropress-bg.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=533 P.S. In bulgarian.

Антон, спасибо за комментарий. Данный скин (на скриншотах) был нарисован за два часа с постоянными перезаходами в ЛО. Самим ФШ я пользовался тоже 2 часа. Что касается оригинальности, то посттараюсь найти какой-нибудь интересный борт из СМок - уж очень они мне нравятся :). Я теперь на каникулах, поэтому во времени не ограничен. P.S. надписи с рекламой ТВ каналов лепить не буду :D.

Yes I would be furious. Good luck with the complaint WarriorX ;)

I understand the frustration. Then you know the other side of the stick now. Be haapy couse it could br worse it could never ever reach your country as it is my case.

Hey Pilotaso, I just read about IDE and AHCI settings in BIOS you talked about and wanted to know more about it and if it would be good thing to change to AHCI and from what I read pretty much only benefit from going to AHCI would be to enable NCQ but I am thinking this would have benefit for normal HDD that have spinning disk, in SSD there are no moving parts so I don't see how it could have any benefit for them? According to a bulletin on the OCZ site; And an example of what p***es me off when people make claims and have no idea what thet talk about: This guys wants to claim how setting his BIOS to AHCI does not causes this performance degradation with his SSD... then says he DOES have slight lag and how it's because the drive has to start spining? :lol: By the way this is from this website: http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-hardware/18767-ahci-ssds.html

Such whining. It's sad. Please stop cluttering up every thread with the silliness.

Why is it a Panzer III in that pic?

There are some nice pics here: http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=67931&start=0&sid=7c1a5e4c34c6487baddbbf314bed2d04 If you consider it a good source or not, it's up to you..

OK I've added the 2 regional fields you mention at Kutaisi and the one north of Batumi to the maps and to the regional map as Banodzha, Kvitiri and Ochkhamuri regional airports, I will scratch around a little and see if I cant find the real names. Will update the file when I do the next release.

Итак, сегодня, а точнее, вчера ко мне попала замечательная вещь под названием Photoshop. Не долго думая, я решил попробовать что-либо нарисовать :music_whistling:. Получилось следущее: http://files.lockon.ru/ru/614/

Если добавить эту фичу-в рафе курсантам совсем весело будет :) - у нас одно из аттестационных заданий это дозаправка в воздухе :joystick: П.С. есть юбилей, 1000-ный пост :)

@coke23: yes, thanks! I've gotten a little further. The following is (at least on my machine) reproducable: 1. contact the FARP via radio and request land (and get ack) 2. land on any platform, the wingmen will follow, one by one (takes approx 5-10 mins) 3. re-arm/refuel in any manner you like 4. before you take-off, turn OFF your engines (left-hand red handles DOWN) and wait for all wingmen to spool-down their rotors 5. request engine-start, start, request takeoff (get ack) 6. takeoff and hover near by 7. watch with F2 the other wingmen - you will hear them eventually spooling-up their engines to auto and then take-off one by one haleluja!! expect the FARP visit to take 10-15 minutes! (argh!!)

Wonder if anyone in the US got theirs yet...this product launch is an epic fail....I think they underestimated demand and got caught with their pants down.

Got warthog today and I got it on my hands after 23hrs from dispatch. Amazing hotas it is.

Check the first post in this link http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=54353

Hi guys, few more screenshots:music_whistling: :

OCZ VERTEX 2 120GB REVIEW OK I installed everything I had when I swapped my HD for an SDD+another HDD. This is comprised by a OS clean install+Spyware doctor+CH manager+Logitech manager (G940). Thats on the Western digital and the SDD. I have not tried the same for the Samsung (only synthetic benches) hence the lack of program loading times at the bottom of this review for that drive. Here are the results, firstly Western digital 400MB RAID EDITION, Secondly Sansung F3 1TB and finaly the SDD thirdly: HTUNE PRO This was a standard drive 4 years ago This makes the modern hard drives twice as fast nowadays. A whopping 4X increase over my original drive and twice as much as standard modern HDD's today. DCS A-10C Settings: GUI entry: Western digital 400MB RAID EDITION=13s OCZ vertex 2=9s Mission loading time (First instant action Georgia) Western digital 400MB RAID EDITION=1min, 55s OCZ vertex 2=1min, 9s NOTE: There are alot of disk idle times while loading so the difference is less pronounced here. Windows load at button start: Western digital 400MB RAID EDITION=1min, 5s OCZ vertex 2=44s It has to be said that BIOS posting takes about 21 seconds so the actual drive loading times are 45s for the HDD and 23s for the OCZ vertex 2, thats 50% reduction right there. In the end Im very happy, not only because my loading times have been reduced but because its so easy to multi task now. The numbers do not show the full story: While HDD read/write sequentially making multiple program openings a pain in the back side, SDD's can do it all the same time with no waiting times as long as it has bandwidth remaining. This is a huge advantage. For game play alot less stuttering, but I need more time to fully assess the differences in game play.

Thats the way how it works (all credits go to the user "tolgamat" from http://www.lockonforum.de & sry for my english ;)) First of all, it is important that you use this settings for your G25: On the screen on the right, the box that the pedals are recognized as 1 axis have to be unchecked!! After this, you start Black Shark, in the Options Screen Select "Axis commands" - klick on "Flight control rudder" and press: - the Accelartion pedal for Rudder right (and select JOY_Y for this) - the clutch pedal for Rudder left (select JOY_SLIDER2 for this) Your options screen should now look like this: Now you klick "AXIS TUNE" in the right bottom of the screen - Select the axis you wanna tune and be sure you have exactly the same settings as in my screen: For "JOY_Y" (Rudder right) For "JOY_SLIDER2" (Rudder left) Thats it :D Finally, for the Wheelbrake, just select the option "Wheel brake" and assign it to your brake pedal: If you have any questions, feel free to ask - as i wrote before, it sounds a little bit complicated, but try to make this step by step und take closer look to the options menü and you will see, its easy going :thumbup: (again, sry for my english^^) have fun