Redsavina

Yeah, that part works correctly. However, when I am under that speed, the flaps should be functional, correct? Mine are totally unresponsive under that speed. The cockpit button will not even depress when I fly under that speed, but as soon as I land, the button works, and the flaps are perfectly responsive.

Nope. They are unresponsive when I click them with the mouse pointer.

So I have gone through the tutorials for the L-39 Albatross and am feeling initially comfortable with this plane. One thing that I cannot figure out is how to operate the flaps in the air. Because this aircraft has specific “flaps up” “takeoff flaps” and “landing flaps” options in the settings instead of “flaps up” and “flaps down” like other planes, I set my 3 different flap positions to my throttle hat. Up for “flaps up” forward for “takeoff flaps” and down for “landing flaps.” When I am on the ground, the flaps are fully functional. I can select a flap position, the cockpit button depresses, then .5 seconds later, the light indicates the new flap position, and I can see the mechanical flap indicator on the wing. As soon as I take off, I have no control of my flaps. When I hit a hat direction, the cockpit button does not depress, the indicated light does not change, and the mechanical flap indicator does not move. After taking off with takeoff flaps enabled, the plane automatically moves to “flaps up” after a certain speed. That is correct, however, I cannot put flaps up manually before that. I have tried to adjust flaps at ALL speed ranges, and with landing gear up and down. I have tried to change flap positions climbing, descending, in level flight, and throughout the entire landing approach. The second I land, I have full flaps control! Any idea why my flaps don’t work at all in the air, but are fully functional on the ground both before takeoff and immediately after landing?

Just finished the 4th training mission in the L-39 Albatros, and its going great so far. Um, I need to mess with the flaps more. I tried to deploy them on my last approach, and I was at like 200km/h at 600m and the flaps wouldnt deploy. I had the landing gear down already too. All 3 flap selections work just fine on the ground, and I can successfully put the flaps up after takeoff. Kinda weird, huh?

Aight, Based on some recent forum recommendations, I watched some startup videos on the L-39 Albatros, and got the manual for the plane. This time, I walked through the cold startup tutorial, and successfully made it through! I had to Google search why I couldn't get the engine power to 60....I discovered there was a throttle lock and the tutorial doesn't mention that to you. I probably need to program that key to a HOTAS button. Oh, the ground steering was super freaky. Had to look that up, and discovered how to actually manage ground steering, so I am good there too now. I was able to take off, fly around, follow the programmed heading to return, and successfully land and park the plane where I started. Not sure why I couldnt put the landing flaps on during my approach. I think there are speed limits, but I need to look that one up. The button pressed, but the flaps didnt switch. Still had a sweet landing though! What a satisfying experience. I am now learning what DCS World is really about, and I love it so far! I think I will do all of the tutorials for the L-39 Albatros, since thats why I got the plane....to learn how to fly in this game. I can tackle the other planes once I feel competent in the Albatros.

Aight, I see where you can find these in each of the airplane DOC folders. Terrific! I think I can study up and use these as references to find the aspects of each plane that I need to learn. I really like the realism and level of detail in DCS and its planes. I hope to learn how to fly well enough to engage in the campaign content that I own so far, as well as do some multiplayer with other pilots!

Here are the aircraft I own so far. I have flown the F/A-18C the most. A-10C F/A-18C UH-1H L-39 SU-25T TF-51D Oh, and I have the SuperCarrier too.

Ok, so I found these, which will be helpful for the planes they have and that I own: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentation/index.php?SHOWALL_1=1 Do they make these for all of the aircraft available in the game?

Ok, I found this video based on the 2nd link you shared: The guy clicks like 10 buttons in the cockpit, then starts getting into the different screen display settings, and I was lost after the first switch he clicked on. Seems like most of the content I have found does that. A pilot jumps in a plane, clicks a bunch of buttons, then shows you how they shoot a gun or launch a missile. I literally need: Step 1: Click this switch to activate weapons. Step 2: Flip this switch to arm weapons. Step 3: Go to the right green screen and press this button to get into the Air to Air options. etc..... Not looking to be spoon fed, but just need a direction to content that actually shows me what I am doing to get my weapons up and running. Never done this before, but I am not unfamiliar with complicated games or concepts. I ran into the same experience when trying one of the starter tutorials in the game. They were like "ok, lets set your heading to 245 degrees" and I was like "um, how do I do that?" and I was lost after the first 10 seconds of instructions. The rest of the tutorial played out like I actually got my heading set, ha ha ha. Mission fail.

I have been messing around with DCS for about a month now. I feel competent enough to takeoff (no cold start yet, lol), fly the plane, and land it successfully. I have all of my controls setup on my HOTAS and pedals, and my TrackIR 5 is working beautifully across three 27" monitors. Seems like the next thing I need to learn is how to arm and fire weapons. What resource should I use to learn about it? Is there a general concept for this, or is it highly plane specific? Also, it seems like the radar system is really involved in this game. I am used to things like Ace Combat 7 where you get a red image of a plane right there on your screen, press a button to target it, and click the trigger to fire guns, or button 2 to fire a missile. I have no idea how to manage the radar system to identify Air to Air or Air to Ground targets. Any suggestion as to how I can learn to manage the radar system would be great. I don't mind reading or watching YouTube videos, but I need a serious step by step instruction, ya know. With those two things, I think so much more of the game opens up for me.

Excellent, found the DCS file. Thanks for the help. My game now launches in Eyefinity mode!

Just a quick question about running DCS World Beta 2.5 (latest upgrade) in the Radeon Eyefinity setting. So I recently acquired my 3rd monitor, and want to run the game across all 3 monitors. I have all of the in-games settings correct I believe (1 monitor, and 5760 x 1080 resolution). When I manually enable Eyefinity, and then start the game, it works perfectly across all 3 monitors (wow, what an experience)! However, I want to to make the Radeon software initiate Eyefinity when I launch the game. This feature works for me on Elite Dangerous exactly as it should, however, in the game selection screen, it doesnt show DCS World as an available game. I manually added it, however, its tied to the DCS World Updater, as thats the link to the icon on my desktop which I use to launch the game (I can't find a DWS World .exe file to link it to). When I use this method, and start the game, it only spans my Monitor #1 and #2, and I still have a desktop image on Monitor #3. Any ideas on how I can get the Eyefinity option of enabling on selected games to work with DCS World Beta 2.5 across all 3 monitors?