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I bought Harrier and Mirrage as first my two jets. Love them both. Have spent more time in Mirage than any other aircraft. Love it and recommend it. A nice thing about mirrage is that you can perform ground attack. The bundled and commercial campaigns are also excellent. I can't speak for the Viggen but only hear positive things about it as far as fun to flying and bombing.

Two Harrier aircraft technicians reported that the game appears less stable than the real aircraft, after having observed many hundreds of vertical take offs and landings. I don't have link but one was in the DCS forums. It's also possible sensitivity relates to controls vs the flight model.

Thanks WeakLink, I'll have to experiment more with that AFC Reset.

It's probably realistic in terms of their current graphical lighting simulation. However our eyes perceive 1 million : 1 contrast but screen usually shows 255 : 1 contrast at best. Even games doing HDR well still mostly behave like poor quality cameras photographing a window from inside a building. I'm sure they can find a solution to make it appear more visible.

Thanks @veenee, sounds like I'm doing all I can. I just aim in the general direction rather than use the 20deg circle or similar.

Trying to launch all Phoenix missiles at a bunch of targets. I'd like to play pilot and request Jester do what he needs to assist. I'd like to stay out of the RIO seat. I can get it to work... 1) Master Arm On, AA mode, Select PH missile 2) Use TID repeater so Pilot can see radar and numbers 3) Jester -> TWS 4) Fire x 6 (Firing in general direction) This works, but I don't see the radar lock diamond nor have the target circle on top MFD display, so can't aim well. If I use STT, I do get the lock behavior but can't easily cycle through targets. Is there a way to get lock behavior each time the 1st/primary target changes?

@VdK Your video shows a FLOLS overlay. Is that a SuperCarrier thing only? I just got the F14 and have never seen that or option to enable it. I don't have SuperCarrier.

Yes, or close. If you place AV8 on boat but don't set Player, it will start mission with player and aircraft will be on deck runway to short take off. If you place AV8 on boat and set as Player, it will start mission with aircraft at end of deck.

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I'm from the Mirage, so no problem there. Step 1: Ground Crew, Remove Chocks. In fact I'd only just kicked the habit moving back to Harrier

Same, tried to watch my carrier landings to improve but replay is nothing like what I did, ditches into the see shortly after start.

Just bought F-14. Crashes when switching sides for tape player. DCS Beta v2.5.6.58125

I think we're doing almost the same thing. I use a HOTAS with 'AFC Toggle' and 'Alt Hold' buttons bound. After reading Chucks guide, wondered about the 'SAASH Disconnect' because he shows it on the HOTAS setup, but never mentions it again. We're speaking in circles a lot, so I'll try re-phrasing my question: 1) When the trim is in extreme position, is there a button you press that always centers the trim, other than AFC On? (AFC On will re-center trim, but only if it actually turns on.) 2) Asking another way, do you ever have to manually center trim from an extreme position? (Or is there a button that re-centers trim for you any time it's pressed.)

There's a step with the new TPOD that appears important, otherwise pressing TDC Down (ie. lock/target) keeps resetting target to the aircraft direction or waypoint: I must press SSS Aft to do (some magic) which sets the TV/TPOD to target the new location. But since TPOD is present, not DMT, I then must press SSS Down 2x to return to the TPOD, otherwise display shows TV. I might share my list of 'fool proof steps to target IR Mavs with TPOD'. But those steps above confused me the most.

Just got the Tomcat. Came here to try and find how to turn up brightness on the indexer. I see it was already at max brightness setting 9. Looks to be a common issue.

I'll have to test some more. I think you're saying: 1) You only have bound Automatic Flight Control On (not toggle) Emergency SAASH disconnect Altitude hold On 2) Your disengage, reengage sequence looks like SAASH disconnect maneuver aircraft Hold Emergency SAASH disconnect Hold AFC On, until control is regained I didn't realize AFC On could be held. EDIT: Tried holding AFC On. Seemed to have no effect. If it could engage it would. If it could not engage, it would immediately flip back off. Holding had no effect. Instead I must press AFC On repeatedly to try again. Holding SAASH disconnect appeared to persist as long as I held the lever button. In all cases, trim only reset when AFC actually turned on.

Thanks for your continued responses @WeakLink. I carried out quite a bit more testing, but am not getting consistent effect resetting the trim with 'Emergency SAASH disconnect'. When the trim has 'runaway', I've tried using the SAASH disconnect button and the AFC Off button. Both turn AFC off. I've only ever seen trim reset on AFC On. If you are consistently able to reset a runway trim, that is not something I have been able to reproduce. That is also the only thing that is useful to me. So if it's possible, I want it. I've also tried the 'Automatic Flight Control Reset' input binding. That had no effect for me. Can you please check which bindings you have ie. 'Emergency SAASH disconnect', 'Automatic Flight Control Reset', 'Automatic Flight Control On/Off/Toggle'. I have 'Automatic Flight Control Toggle' on throttle button and 'Emergency SAASH disconnect' on stick lever button similar to warthog. I assume you have the same, but the wording of the sim bindings and our discussion is not precise.

Others can reply also, but yes, you must designate a target waypoint for the CCRP line to appear. For some other weapons, the waypoint seems optional.

Not compatible with Easy Comms. The mission will tell you what radio channel(s) to switch to while playing.

That's okay, was wondering about that, with mention of cyclic etc. I actually bought the Huey as my first DCS aircraft, then Harrier. Coming from Huey, apart from occasionally treating the throttle as collective and moving in the wrong direction, I thought I was quite good at flying and hovering the Harrier. But after six months of flying the Mirage almost exclusively, returning the Harrier has been a quite a re-learning curve which made me question if the aircraft flight model had changed. With the chopper, it is common to 'stir the stick'. Sadly very few YouTubers display their controls on screen, so it's hard to observe what they are doing. I notice some move the stick and throttle a lot, others don't.

My mistake. I had unlimited fuel checked in Gameplay settings. The aircraft will neither consume fuel nor dump fuel with that setting enabled. Please consider if it is desirable to have this behavior or change it. The reason is that this aircraft must meet certain weight requirements for vertical flight. If possible, allowing unlimited fuel, but ability to dump fuel during flight to reduce weight would make this a useful accessibility option for players. Otherwise, unless forced off by mission, the player would have to start on the ground and reduce fuel via rearm/repair ground crew option, or modify the mission. That is, to take advantage of unlimited fuel with this aircraft.

Thanks for sharing your comments and tips. I'll try to put them into practice. A few more questions about technique: 1) Try to keep AFC on or off while landing? (I believe it disengages below 160kts.) 2) Use manual trim at all, or just stick? 3) Use rudder to try counter roll or intentionally move sideways? 4) Are there critical HUD or other visual cues to follow?

I enjoyed the mini campaign, looking forward to more.

Not only does it jump (or oscillate between two HUD locations), sometimes you get two targeting symbols stationary on HUD at the same time. That is the rectangle with plus sign [+]. I should have taken a screen shot.

I spent an hour testing IRMV with TPOD today. Twice I could not uncage Mav. Mav was definitely RDY. Stores page was on left MFD. Work around was to switch away from stores page, then back to stores page and uncage.