KillEmAll88

Ok, maybe didn't present my self correctly ,or perhaps posted this in the wrong place ?. I am not sure where to properly search for a wing and proper server for my level of abilities. I can really help someone very new (preferably) , but I can not fly a complicated mission like Spudknocker or down a plane like G. Sidewinder I can not properly at this time effectively communicate a cluttered and complicated battle space ,but I can deal with basic air to air threats seek and destroy them. I can navigate and fly all weather the F16 is my plane because I started with the FREE F16 sim several years ago. I get sketched about a server to randomly pick because next thing you know I am thrown into the hornets nest with no multi player communication experience. (LONE WOLF) Just give me directions please. I can not get a single friend I know personally to give this sim the time of day for the following... -does not own a PC and will never consider $1500 +\- ,and 300 +\- for equipment then spend $60 for the plane. -Could not care less about aviation enough to give a rats *** about spending some time to learn at this depth.

I own: knowledge of avionics top to bottom F16* F18* AV8 F15 A10 I can navigate land in all weather conditions and handle most air to air weapons (I am not very good at combat) and looking for some more casual fun formation/practice flying buddies light combat rolls and share some knowledge and maybe even learn new things my self. I have never played multiplayer and given up on trying recruit friends I know. (They wont play or buy into this sim) and I finally got a mic. I play using console controller ,track IR 5 and mouse keyboard. I am available weekday nights western mountain time. (Arizona) I don't care about how advanced or new you are just understand I am no ace but not completely ignorant to most of the basics. Hope to fly with some real people in a relaxed play style.

I have the cloud jitter as well in 2D ,Track IR 5. If I look around in the cockpit there is a lot of jitter. It's nothing extreme they just shake/vibrate while looking around.

Apreciate it ! Rain 2 works perfect. Immersion is back thank you.

Thanks I will try the 1 and 2 tonight. 3 does work for the Viper though ,but at this point I don't even care I will try anything cause just want to move on with creating my mission outside of weather and time of day lol.

I cannot seem to get a ramp start (F18) on the carrier deck to rain during takeoff. Im fine with static. I figured maybe I needed to adjust placement (a dozen times) with no luck. I have no problem if I use mission genererator however this ends up with a world wide cloud blanket. Summertime 90° Overcast and rain 3 (See attached)

It's like a motion blur (motion blur is off) when turning. Its not a jitter or a lag just the picture gets this wierd blur effect around the out side of the cockpit only while meneuvering. This didnt happen in 2.5.6

I think I figured it out apparently I have to command prompt to change to open beta to have 2.7 under one install. I am kind of hesitant now I downloaded 2.7 (separate install) and had a lot of issues !. beta will have issues but I had lost all sound (not just DCS) could not load or save custom control profiles I could not even fly the jet...

After installing 2.7 (seperate from 2.5.6) My PC had no sound at all. Did not recognize speakers in windows. Could not save missions in editor. Custom controller saves would not load in 2.7 or 2.5.6 I uninstalled 2.7 and all problems fixed.

Every one is saying Start/eagle dynamics/update This says 2.5.6 is already up to date. Idk.. tried going into filer explorer dcs updater as well and this does nothing.

I have been messing with this in editor and pretty annoyed with it. Anyways I guess I could fight some turd aircraft that will take rear aspect only missiles. What I wanted was to fight some 29s,27s,30s, list goes on but I have to try and dodge their 12 o clock shots while I imagined it being merge and get their 6. These aircraft just don't accept Vietnam era IRs (which may be accurate IRL but sucks) I see Growling doing these types of fights with IRs all the time,perhaps he is running some light mods where the enemy isnt getting some cheap 12 O clock launch. It's not that I cant CHAFF\FLARE, turn,merge, then fight the 6 ,but that's not really what I wanted... Guns only is fun,but nothing better than a tough position fight with a couple missed IRs that then turns into a gun kill. I have more fun air refueling than launching AMRAAMs

Thanks for the reply. See I thought the Aim9-X was all aspect And the M was the most basic Bluefor IR missile. I have cjecked with the in game encyclopedia but doesnt dive too much into degrees of capablilty. I know very little of the redfor side missile capabilities.

I'm trying to setup missions with IR missiles that only track from the general 6 o Clock. I know the blue US is the AIM9-M ...but gave the red R60 and they shoot me down face to face prior to the merge. I want a position dogfight not a quick draw.

Thanks I was wondering if AWACS was needed I will add one tonight.

I like to 'create fast missions' then take it to the editor to tweak it. When I have wingman they are not providing data link. I have MIDS turned on I have the DL switch fwrd I have HSD OSB FR set to on I am on the same UHF (not sure what VHF they are using) *Do I need to setup data link to be active in editor ?. *Do I need to enter my wingman in Link 16 P2/P3 of the DED page ?. (They are either shown as 002/003 in briefing. Sorry im not sure where the problem is.

Figured it out. It only works coming in on the °305 radial. Rather than the 125°

Thanks to your replies I got the magnetic bearing and Persian gulf is -2° and has **fixed**my problem with lining up on the HSI and ILS. I end up in the opposite problem. Now ILS will not give me the glidscope bar or the cammand steering 'Symbol' (Refer to screenshot) *PLS/NAV selected (HSI). *proper QNH set in HSI directed by tower. *elevation set in active steerpoint page. *set radar altimeter switch fwd. *recieving audio tone. *CMD STRNG* highlighted (ILS ON). Edit:. This is also not because of fying above gliscope. The bar sits at the bottom from 10 miles out at 3,000

This is all new news to me. Driving me a little nuts. So each map has a different mag value I need to subtract from my true hdg ?. Where am I supposed to find these values. I have Persian Gulf Cauacus In the future I will own more. That have different -magnetic values im guessing ?. I really wish the sim would just provide proper information for the aircraft youre flying.

Ok thank you. Is there a proper place for it in the map or do I have to draw a line down the runway ?. That method isnt working very well for me either.

The HSI course deviation line puts me way off the side of the runway. *INS is aligned to /6 *steerpoint coordinates in DED are perfect. *I tried the runways painted course *I have drawn a line down the middle of the runway in F10 map and used that course. It consistently lines me up way off to the right or left.

*I want to cold start the Viper like normal* but just skip or speed up the INS alignment to a, /6 , If I use STOR HDG that's a little quicker but seems to give me at best a /10 alignment and in flight align can be just as bad as waiting for it on the ramp. It was fine waiting for it the first few 100 cold starts but after some time I began to start the aircraft and go make some food or refill my drink haha.

Slightly old thread and you have already got a possible resolve but I had the same issue and found that I had to use specifically CVN-74 prior to finding that out I was trying to set up using CVN-70

Thanks I am doing the standalone then. It sounds to be the better idea overall dealing with ED directly. Do I have to re download all the files though ?.

Ok. Haha I literally just snapped pictures to post it. So do you Mean it's planned to return and 'down for maintenance' or are they removing it all together or did steam never support it at all ?.

Has any one seen the terrible movie Vivarium on movie streaming networks ?. They end up imprisoned in a virtual fake world and all the clouds in the movie are little puffy blotches identical to DCS cloud system. At one point the female is looking at them depressed mentioning in the real world they came in all shapes and sizes but these are all the same. I wanted to make a meme of it Love DCS still as is.