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Thanks, yeah that was the best part, as he's going off to college in the fall. We purchased the HOTAS prior to the existence of Thrustmaster's Hornet grip. We've talked about swapping, and we still might, but we've gotten used to the functions we've mapped to the extra switches. We did at least mod the grip so that it's mounted with the correct rotation.

Other than getting some graphics for the sides and back, I think we're done.

I had it yesterday. One unplug/plug-in, while DCS was up, fixed it. Prior to that DCS was not detecting it.

Thanks erniedaoage. That makes sense. My dispenser switch has three states: BYPASS, ON, OFF. The switch sets one of two “buttons” in Windows HIGH when it’s in BYPASS or OFF. If I bring up DCS with the switch in ON, no buttons are pressed. DCS comes up with the virtual dispenser switch OFF and sees no “button” pressed to tell it otherwise. Kind of a bummer if there’s not a solution, but I can work around it.

On F-18 my home cockpit, I'm having issues with some cockpits switches not initializing to the state of the physical switch. For example, the cockpit's physical DISPENSER switch will be set to "ON", but the state of the virtual switch is "OFF". To get them to sync up, I have to move the physical to "OFF" then "ON" again. In the SPECIAL OPTIONS menu, I do have "Synchronize Cockpit Controls with HOTAS Controls at Mission Start" selected and some virtual switches do init to the physical cockpit switch. I am using Quaggles and the DCS-Community-KeyBinds, and most, if not all of my toggle switches are mapped to the LUA commands with "Special For Joystick" Comparing the LUA entries for switches that init correctly vs. those that do not, I can't come up with a pattern. Is there a trick(s) to get every switch to init to the state of my cockpit's corresponding physical switch? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks all. I was just looking at if there were any switches that I should not bother including or wiring up on my home cockpit. Appreciate the replies.

Are the ECS related functions modeled in the Hornet, such that in cold enough conditions, will I need to enable Engine ANTI-ICE, Windshield ANTI-ICE, the Defogger, etc? Thank you.

Below are some WIP shots of a cockpit my son and I are building. 4 years ago, we build a generic, much simpler setup, that he flew with flat panel display. He flew a mixed reality setup I have at work, and wanted to do MR on his home pit. Our first pit was much wider than real Hornet, so it didn't work well for MR. For the "remodel", my son did all the design work in Fusion 360 and we built it from his plans. He handled all the 3D printed parts as well. I'm doing all the switches and their panels. We took some liberties with the pedestal layout, but dimension-wise, he matched reality around the edges between the virtual out-the-window and the pass-through camera mask. He has the MR mask aligned very well. For the most part, all the remains is for me to do the panels/switches on the sides. He's working on some 3D printed bezels to go on top of the monitor areas we're using for the IEFI, analog gauges, ICAWs, etc. Appreciate any feedback.

Not like the F-16, it moves several degrees

For cold start, most of the same buttons you’re used to, they’re just on the glass

Is the fog a big performance hit, in VR?

Looking forward to the SC deck crew improvements, thank you. We need a video.

I was prompted, given the choice to restart now or restart later. Windows 11.

Purchased a Crystal 2 months ago specifically for DCS, in part because of Bignewy’s review/recommendation of the Crystal & QuadView. Please fix asap. Thanks.

Thanks, I’ll look for it. Yeah, I’ve had a hard time reaching some of the side panel switches in the Hornet.