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If you also ordered a physical item (shirt/vinyl) it is supposed to be shipped by the end of february as stated on the preorder page. So maybe the release date has been in plain sight all the time. I mean you can´t wear the shirt if you don´t fly the F-4 right?

This thread may be helpful: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/169380-experienced-bf-109-pilots-help-needed-right-roll-level-flight/

I don't know the technical reason for this. Maybe engine torque? But I am neither pilot nor engineering so not competent. I thought the behaviour is intended. I struggled with this as well (constant rudder and stick input needed). My settings are now aileron trim -25 and rudder trim -5.

From the manual: "The 109 K series featured Flettner tabs on serial production aircraft to reduce control forces, but these were often not fitted to production examples, with many of the K-4s using the same aileron system as the G series. Some aircraft rolled off the production line with only ground-adjustable aileron Flettner trim, but no elevator trim, which resulted in uneven force distribution on the stick, making control more difficult at higher speeds." From another thread: "German fighters in general did not have in-flight adjustable aileron and rudder trims. Only ground-adjustable (bent by mechanics) ones are available on K-4. By default the plane is set to fly relatively straight with cruise parameters (a bit above 1 ATA of boost and ~400 kph IAS), but you can change adjustment in "special" settings tab with trial and error method." So my understanding is that it is intended to work like this, because it´s how it was in the real aircraft. The DCS special option for thr BF 109 to set ailron and rudder trim simulates the mechanic setting the trim flapon the ground the way the pilot wanted it to be. That way you can choose at what speed you want the plane to fly straight without stick force.

Flight Manual page 35 + page 37 explain it.

IIRC Sensor Control Switch to the right. Works only if you are not in ACM Mode.

You can use the "axis-to-button" function of the Virpil Configuration Tool. For example I use the Flaps Lever of my CM3 for Gear. Lever up = Button press for Gear up. Lever down = Button press for Gear down. There are some nice tutorial Videos on YT.

Not quite sure what you mean, but check the special options for the 109. There you can adjust whether pov is centered to the plane or the gunsight or auto.

Did you warm up the engine? In one of the recent patches there was an update to the cooling model. Since then the 109 engine ist much more sensitiv to not warming up properly. If you do it according to the manual and watch your gauges you should be fine. Other then that check the circuit breakers, the fuel pumps and the magnetos. That´s all I can think of. I don´t know what you mean by "switch to fuel tank" or switch to "MW tank"

I use the Openxr-Toolkit. That only works ingame if you are on openxr. And I have a Reverb G2. So if SteamVR doesn't start and my Headset is working I must be on Openxr.

Is that not pretty complicated from a consumer point of view? Shouldn´t starting the game be straightforward no matter whether I use VR or not. Maybe some kind of selection on startup would be possible to decide whether I want to play VR or 2D. Maybe different .exe would be possible. How do other games cope with different headsets? I have a Reverb G2, I select the runtime Steam or openXR in the Headset software and when ingame (in another flight simulation) a button press switches between VR and 2D. Maybe VR is still experimental. No matter what, I really enjoy DCS in VR and all the personal effort to get it running is worth the xperience.

I had the same problem. I created a new shortcut on the desktop and tried again... it worked.

Turning off motion reprojection in Openxr-Tools solved the problem for me.

That helped!!! I had Motion reprojection set to "always on" in Open-XR-Tools (the windows store app) and used OpennXR Toolkit to switch it on and off. Switching motion reprojection to "off" in OpenXR-Tool seems to solve the problem. Game did not crsh on startup and I could start a Mission. I have a Reverb G2 and use OpenXR and OpenXR-Toolkit.

Same Problem. Reverb G2. DCS always freezes when loading to startscreen is done. I tried open open XR and Steam VR. All drivers up to date. I tried the repair function and deleted the shaders. MSFS works fine so I suppose last DCS update is the problem. I tried the repair function and deleted the shaders.

You can bring up the "F10 map" by pressing "F10". Doesn´t matter if you ar in VR or not. Mapping to HOTAS should not be a problem. I fly in VR, have a button on my Throttle to bring up the "F10 map". Go to control options and just press f10. This should highlight the line with the command to show the map.

Yes

Yes, I had the same Problem. Later I often forgot to use the flip cover and was flying some time with gear down

I´m not quite sure if the video shows someone who intentionally killed himself to "steal" your "well deserved kill" which you could "easyly claim if you contacted the server admins". It could just be some unexperienced 109 pilot who dived to fast and couldn´t recover from the dive because the 109 gets unresponsive if you are too fast. Maybe you should not care so much about about the statsistics. You obviously got a maneuver kill, no matter if it is written down in some database. Good job!

Use the comms menu "rearm an refuel" once you are in your plane.

Flaps lever works fine for me. I assigned the Flaps axis of the Bf 109 in the DCS options. For the FW190 which has 3 flaps positions I used the "axis to button" option in the virpil software: Lever Forward, lever middle, lever back The rotary zoom wheel is recognized as two buttons in DCS (Forward and back). You cannot assign It to an axis in DCS, but only assign the "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" to the scroll wheel in the DCS options. Or maybe try "Zoom in/out slow". I think there is a button to axis option in the Virpil Software which assign an axis to the turning of the wheel which is then recognized AS axis in the DCS options. But I never tried that myself. Search youtube for tutorials how to use the Virpil Software. Hope that Information is useful to you.

I found this overview helpful: List of weapons of military aircraft of Germany during World War II - Wikipedia

It´s called "Bomb emergency release". Default keybind is LCtrl +R.