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Topdog TIR and 3D are not mutual exclusive. 3D projects two images on the screen slightly offset from each other. One uses a red tone another a green. The filtering is done with the glasses having green and red lenses so that one lense absorbs the other picture etc. TrackIR works completly independendt of that and simply decides what to show on the screen.

In DCS:BS you can actualy walk around when in third person or first person view when you hit the ground after a eject.

Arma 2 is cool. But i cant go back to anything less then DCS:BS now that ive tried it. Everything else just feels shallow. Playing FC2 is just silly now. But yes ive seen some videos of how the soldiers on the ground can use the laser to mark targets for planes in the air on youtube in Arma2. Its a really great implementation. Must be alot of fun in multiplayer with some organized teams playing each other.

Actualy Toadster alot of people have stated that real KA50 pilots are not allowed to fly with Autopilot channels off. Some have even said that flying with FD on and channels on for dampening isnt advised since it invokes bad habits so to each his own. I say it depends. If you fly over open and flat land you can fly low with the AP engaged. If trimmed properly the KA50 will keep a level flight. I have the AP emergencey disengage mapped to my joystick for the reason you describe. That said i agree that if you fly low and fast using terrain masking i do prefer to do it with FD on for the control but then you also cant do much else other then looking ahead and focus on flying. Advantage of the AP is you can scout and operate the avionics while flying.

Hallo. Will the AI be upgraded for A-10C? Im thinking in terms of missions. I understand that there will properly be some WW3 or cold war scenarios where you have to kill alot of tanks etc. But will there also be low intensity missions like the current ones in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where you will fly CAS missions using FAC's and JTAC's etc. It could be cool if there was a AI system inplace that could guide you into a strafing run on some insurgents and talk to you. Can ground forces lase targets for you so you can use your sensors(ie. pave penny ex.) to detect your targets etc. Or even no lasing so you really have to trust the FAC to give you right cordinates not to strafe your own units in close proximity. I feel that A-10C wont really be complete without this kind of capability in the simulation. Since today i guess the A-10's are used alot for on call CAS that ground units can rely on. Or will we only be flying pre planned sorties against pre planned targets? A AI system where the FAC's would talk to you and you could talk to them(like you do wingmen now) would really lift the experience. I read up in one of the miltary manuals on this forum how the whole CAS stuff is playing out with the ground forces issuing a request and how the A-10 is then handed off from a airborne controler to the man on the ground to guide him in etc. It shouldnt be much different from the system in FS2004(latest one ive played) where your handed off from tower to tower as you go into different airspaces or are given headings and holding patterns when you approch or stuff in general when in a busy airspace. Thanks for any info.

You can use the PVI800 to the same effect as the datalink panel. Example: Set laser to standby. Set PVI800 to EDIT mode. Set the INU/UPDATE switch to INU(next to the mode selector knob). Find target and get range on it. You can either enable tracking or just point it out in the shkval. PVI800 Toggle TGT mode. PVI800 Press 1(or another number to set target point to use for storage) Press the Cage/Uncage shkval on the cyclic. PVI800 Press Enter. You can now repeat for more targets. Simply select a new number, find a new target and hit the cage and then enter. When done: Return PVI800 to OPFR mode and set the INU/UPDATE switch back to UPDATE. Now to use this set PVI800 to TGT mode. Select a target point. Hit the uncage and the shkval will slave to the point. Select a new target point on the PVI800 and hit uncage and the shkval will slave to the new point. If you dont set the INU(Shkval)/UPDATE(ownship) switch to INU it wont store target info from the shkval but the ownship cordinates instead. Hope this helped you.

Here is a track file of me flying around in a city going into auto hover a few times. Its not hard :D Nothing to fancy. Overall the flying is properly pretty bad but i got crappy joystick so i have to take hand off throttle to use rudder etc. HoverFlight.trk

The soundtrack creeps me out. I saw another clip from the same movie where he literaly uses the cannon to snipe people. Wish my shkval had his kind of zoom :D

The sim aint perfect but very little in life is. But to try and make this game sound like its poor or badly executed is crazy.

Dont use ingress point. Use one of the other 3 options being Ground, AA or static. Ingress point is only for use with other points. Say you want your wingman to attack or do something from a specific vector. You can then send him a target point(ground,aa,static) + a ingress point. He will then fly to the ingress point and from there move to the target point. Try using the static instead of ingress and you will see it working with the recon.

Calling this game "another nail in the coffin of the sim industry" is just idiotic. If anything ED have saved the sim games on the PC platform. Otherwise we would all have ended up with nothing but Ubisoft HAWX games.

I cant get it to work either. I checked it in the options F8 is my key but it dont do anything. I lock up a target and get the TA tracking que but nothing happens. I have toggled external views. And to all you hardcore people. Please give us a break. There is nothing wrong with using external view unless you use it for cheating in mp games or whatnot. I like to see my missiles in flight from time to time or see my chopper external while blasting cannon rounds through the windshield of some poor enemy.

Well rudder is important for lots of stuff but not if it bleeds into your flying when you dont intendt to. Anyway. If you read the links i provided please let us know if you understood any of it or you just left you even more confused. It boils down to this. Do you know how the FD works? Do you know what the AP channels do? Do you know how to trim and what it do? Do you know what the collective break do? If you dont im not supprised you think the chopper is hard to control :D

First of all go to options and turn off the rudder axis for your joystick. That way you can learn to fly it without having rudder bleed into your movements atleast when your still learning to fly it. Try and turn FD to ON with all 4 AP channels ON. This should give you that normal helicopter feel that you properly know from other flight sims. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=36246 http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=35444 Read these two links and come back here and ask any questions you have :)

Do the ABRIS pin point targets? I dont understand this. You mean they are pre coded into it before a flight?

Hey RichardG Make sure you got Modman 7.3.0.0 1) Open Modman. Select DSC:BS if it ask you, i think it do. If it freaks out becausey our on windows 7 ignore it. 1a) Modman opening menu click "Mods Installer" 2) In the top row of buttons click "Add" and select the noCloudSHadow.zip file. 3) A picture should now show in the box to the right and above the picture click the "Install !" button. it should now be installed as Package Type: Landspace Texture. 4) press the "EXIT" button and say Run Game from the modman opening menu. If it for somereason dont work and you are on windows 7 we can talk about that xD but windows 7 security is arcane to say the least.

Hey Frederf. So far ive been using the 1km recon and it works ok. But often if i do it with some forward speed the wingman calls out targets with bering like he usualy do in recon mode unlike the 11. clock thingy. But he dont DL the targets to me. It only seem to work when im in a hover. Ive never tried having him stuck in recon mode. I feel that no matter how slow i go i never spot all the AA or targets. Just finaly finished the Convoy Hunt mission where i didnt get shot down. Even my wingman survived though he had to RTB early with smoke from his engines after some AAA hits. Looking at the ACMI i found out i had been doing a hover in 300m inside the stinger umbrella provided by one of the convoys Avenger escorts. No clue why they didnt light me up, but never got a LWS warning.

Is there a way for me to get wingmen to datalink me targets even though they are not on recon missions? Often i hear stuff like "enemy air defense 11' clock" but i look and look and cant find em. It would be nice if you could order your wingmen to datalink you targets my default when he spots em. Usualy my wingman is much much much better at spotting anything then i am. I do know how Recon missions and datalink work so thats not my problem. Thanks for any help :)

I have been thinking about buying the CH pedals. but i read somewhere on this forum that you wont use them a whole lot. So ive been holding out untill i get my stick and throttle to see if i was satisfied with just those. But i find i need good rudder control for lots of stuff. When in a hover you need to align your target well or Vikhir launch will go south. General manouvering can go much smoother with the use of rudder. So is it stupid to get rudders? will i be disapointed in how little i actualy use them one i get them?

Dammit sometimes i miss my playstation. Apparently modman dont reconize my black shark folder located under steamapps\common\dcs blackshark anyone who knows why? OK think i got to work now. with the NoCloudShadow that Nate linked. Yep never looked better. Thanks alot to everyone :)

The side is in french? But anyway i found it i think, so modman is a mod installing utility i take it? I downloaded another CLOUDSHADOW.zip file and it contains a dds file, i guess thats for use with the tool?

Wow ok so where do i get a hold of this modman and DXTbmp.exe to set the alpha channel of the picture? im very lost.

I bought TrackIR and the CH HOTAS setup. By CH stuff havent arrived yet so ive been playing with TrackIR + Logitech Attack 3 Joystic(8 buttons + thorttle) Tbh i dont know. The TrackIR is nice and lift the experience to a whole new level. But having to take my hand off both throttle and joystick to do every little thing just makes it impossible to play properly. I cant tell you how much i look forward to my joystick arriving. Having to slave shkval, designate, and all sorts of other stuff using the keyboard + mouse is a pain in the ass and enables you to only being able to attack from a stable hover position. Trying to target stuff on the fly is next to impossible unless your in a perfectly trimmed forward flight. So all in all i say get both but with prio on the HOTAS.

How do i turn off cloud shadows? i have the same problem. Thanks.