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So after 2 months of waiting, my Rotor TCS Plus base finally arrived. And I realized I hadn't really given it much thought where or how I'd mount it. Hadn't ordered the chair mount, because this is my office as well as my cockpit. A buddy uses a self-built wood-stack with the base on top, that looked super smooth. Except I don't have tools or materials for wood works, and asking friends for help would likely mean a delay. Sooo, while I was searching my place to figure out roughly where I wanted to put the base and what else needed to be considered - I realized I had almost all I needed. Ultimately, the mount cost me 1.50 Euros (until I return the beer case, that is). I present to you: the Rothaus TCS Plus Base. What are your creative solutions?

Dieses Problem haben in letzter Zeit mehrere Leute berichtet. Es gibt eher wenig, was ED und Heatblur dagegen tun können, und ich meine, dass sie sogar auch aktiv bemüht sind, solche falsch-positiven Klassifizierungen zu vermeiden. Aber am Ende entscheidet der Hersteller deines Antivirus, was er als Bedrohung klassifiziert, und der sagt auch vorher niemandem Bescheid, wenn das passiert (geht letztlich auch gar nicht). Persönlich gehe ich davon aus, wenn mir ED oder die Drittanbieter Malware unterjubeln wollen, dann werden sie das auch mit aktivem Antivirus schaffen. Mir ist aber in 15+ Jahren DCS kein einziger Fall bekannt, in dem sowas passiert wäre, und ich sehe auch künftig keinen Grund für diese Annahme. Insofern würde ich an deiner Stelle nicht einzelne Dateien ausschließen, sondern sowohl das DCS-Installationsverzeichnis als auch das Gespeicherte Spiele-Verzeichnis. Kleiner Bonus auf meinem alten PC: Damit waren die Microstutter verschwunden, die mich immer mal wieder genervt hatten. Auf dem aktuellen PC habe ich die Ausnahme einfach sofort hinzugefügt, keine Ahnung ob der sonst auch Microstutter hätte.

Awesome! Happy flying.

Thanks for the track! The one control combining all these effects is the "Emergency Disconnect Lever" on the stick (controls category "HOTAS"). Unfortunately it's not animated in DCS so I can't say for sure whether this is really what's going on, but this lever disconnects all 4 SAS switches, that in turns kicks off EAC and it disables Anti-Skid - all of which happens simultaneously in the track. A working theory would be that there's a kind of short circuit in your stick where it's sending this command. Or maybe the button is physically stuck? Maybe a lot of dust or some grease that prevents it from releasing? Or your keybind ALT + e is stuck, but I guess that would manifest in a lot of different ways. When you go to the Control bindings screen in DCS, does it jump to this Emergency Disconnect Lever? Does it do so when you move your stick like you would when flying?

No, this is a known issue and has been reported publicly and internally almost two years ago. You didn't provide a track, but I assume you failed to monitor the ENG START CYCLE light on the caution light panel, which must switch OFF for a good engine start (in the real world, it would be a ground abort if the light stays on - don't recall how fast it must switch off after engine start, probably within 30 or 40 seconds or thereabouts). So with the engine start cycle still going for the first engine, the APU can't provide sufficient bleed air for the second engine to spool up (at least that's what I assume is happening). As a workaround, you can spool the first engine to around 70% core RPM, but as soon as you spool it back to the idle stop, the ENG START CYCLE will light up again, so this is really only a workaround if you can't control the outside air temperature and still need to fly the mission.

Thanks, will take a look!

Yeah, but we can look around the cockpit from a track. I'm sorry but the video is useless. Your aircraft has a caution light panel on the right console, but you don't look at it even once, so it's almost impossible to tell what the issue is from the video, and it's also near impossible to tell what you're inputting. A track allows to figure out pretty much all of that. Anyway, it sounds like your entire A-10C setup is broken. With TrackIR not working, I guess the autopilot is now the last of your worries. At this stage I'd recommend to remove your Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input\A-10C folder (be sure to keep a backup just in case) so you can start with a blank config. Then from the DCS launcher, I'd recommend to run a DCS repair. Get your installation fixed first, then you can deal with other issues. MAXsenna may well be right; if you have "Synchronize Cockpit Controls with HOTAS Controls at Mission Start" checked and your physical EAC switch is in the OFF position, DCS might place the in-game EAC switch to OFF just as well. However, setting EAC back to ARM should also silence the Master Caution and it should be possible to activate the autopilot again, as long as the aircraft is within the usual limits. So maybe your hardware is sending random EAC OFF inputs to DCS, or maybe it's a completely unrelated issue. At this stage, very hard to tell.

I use the Instant Action -> A-10C II -> Caucasus -> Free Flight mission quite often to test random stuff, and the autopilot always works fine for me there. The easiest way to figure this out would be if you can try again and send us a track so that we can virtually look over your shoulder.

The "Airplane Simulation Company" -> "DCS: C-130J" -> "Controller Questions and Bugs" part of the forum would be a good start. Just look for the "Start new topic" button. https://forum.dcs.world/forum/1394-controller-questions-and-bugs/

It's literally the first thing noted in the known issues:

Holy thread resurrection Batman, I know! Styx: Master of Shadows and Styx: Shards of Darkness are both going to be free on Epic from 15 to 22 January 2026. That is "free" as in: no strings attached, free as in free beer, just put them into your Epic account and play them whenever, doesn't need to be before the 22nd. I think Styx: Shards of Darkness is just so much better on all accounts, I enjoyed playing it a lot more than the first game. With Styx: Blades of Greed due to be released next month, this is an epic (pun intended ) opportunity for anyone interested in the franchise to try out the first two games. But be warned, you might like them.

Please start a new topic or find a fitting post. This seems to have nothing to do with the original issue, like not even close. Also, you can restore bindings if you click on each of your controller categories and select "Reset category to default".

Looks stunning! Thank you so much for your work. Quick bug report: Cyclic Trim Left/Right work in reverse for me.

@Someone @Nighthwk can you take a look?