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Thanks! Haven't considered building it myself (not my area of expertise) but I might... Interesting you mention the audio/video control devices... I've been looking at some at Amazon but what stops me from ordering one is that I don't know if DCS would recognize them or not... I might just buy one , test it and return it if it doesn't work.

I'm looking for a small footprint USB slider (I guess a knob or lever would work too) to map one axis. Does anybody has any recommendation? The intended use is to map the Nozzle Stop axis for the AV8B.

Today, I added a few mk.20 ranges to my practice area to test something I read about them and DCS... The plan was to fly a A2A radar practice sortie with the Hornet (carrier launched), return to an airbase and switch slot to a Harrier in a road based FARP that I also added today to my practice area... Well, Hornet sortie went not so good (radar/tpod/user issue) so I jumped into the Harrier, reamed it with mk 20 and started admiring the FARP... Did a STO, configured the bombs, set course to the target and designated it the DMT. First pass was a 5000' AGL drop in auto... Pickle and nothing felt off the plane...WTH moment... HUD was right, showing what it should. Checked Master Arms and fuze, all good... Weird, checked my control mappings and all good... Well, who knows, lets do another pass and nothing dropped... Long story short, I tried like 4 or 5 passes at different altitudes, leveled, diving, auto and CCIP... Got bingo and decided to jettison the ordinance and get back to the carrier and as soon as did it, I realized that it was a missed opportunity to practice a ship rolling VL... Oh well, next time... Got into the pattern and after the break, my hand went to the nozzle control to set it to downwind leg... Just to find out that my nozzles were already at 50 degrees ... OOOOPPPPPSSSSS

I have (not installed at the moment) a push through AB detent . With 0 curvature, I reach the detent at about 80% RPMs. I did try an user defined curve to get to 100% RPM at the detent but I did not like the feel of the throttle after that, It didn't have enough definition for VL and the force required to pass the detent made the Harrier jump...

Received and installed mine. Ordered it in early January. Installation was easy (no springs to worry about! but that is a different hobby). This is how the warthog should come from the factory! Thank you!!! Now, off to retrain my left middle finger....

Yeah, I saw it... No details unfortunately Couple of videos: I don't see any yaw, So I'm guessing roll right with some left rudder perhaps... My landing don't look like those

Yes quoting myself to eat my words ... Maybe @netizensmith , @JorgV Looks like we need to bank instead of using rudder ... Found this mission , here, in user files. I looked in the Natops Manual and in "00-80T-111 - VSTOL Shipboard and LSO Manual" and in the VMAT-203 Syllabus and couldn't find a reference on how to do it... Most likely is uder a different subject ... I'll keep looking.

Interesting.... My disconnects started last evening.... The upgrade to v25 happened a few days ago... I'll send them the logs as well

Excellent! I preordered back in January and received the confirmation email... Do I need to update the order form? Sorry, not clear to me (must had missed a post or something...)

Negative... They have been behaving properly as of late.

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I dunno how the real thing looks like ... But from my perspective a bug is a logical error in the code... This is just a terrible choice of font

Yup that is why I'm asking... Can't get the IPD right, so my virtual stick matches the real one .. Nick picking perhaps but I do this for fun

Not a "bug" per se but a very bad change that need to be reverted

Trying to adjust my VR setup... Does anybody here knows the distance between the back of the seat and the stick?

https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/261299-irmav-and-tpod/?do=findComment&comment=4563107 Eventually, they will stop changing the process

That's sounds like a bug... Next time I see that they do not respond to guidance, I'll try reselecting them. I used the APKWS last night in one range session... 28 launches, 27 hits , The miss was caused for a faulty hotas/chair interface.... I forgot to fire the laser on that one ... I was testing some changes to my HOTAS setup: mapped the TPOD zoom and laser fire MFD buttons to my HOTAS. Also mapped the IRMAV FOV toggle ... This allow me to fire laser guided weapons & IRMAV without taking my hands off the stick & throttle.

Use nozzles position & throttle for speed... keep the witches hat on the horizon ... During transition from wing borne flight to hover I use trim but once hovering I use the stick, since trim seems to have no effect while hovering... I assume (might be totally wrong since I haven't researched it, nor I am a SME on this, mind you) that the reaction control system does not respond to trim inputs but only to the rudder pedals and stick... My way to develop the muscle memory necessary to beat the PIO was the starting with a moving (straight line) Tarawa at 27 knots (real life has a max of 24 knots but I did not know at the time...) and do a rolling vertical landing (link posted above) , when it became easy, I reduce the speed of the Tarawa, which forces a reduce of the approach speed... Eventually I was able to fly in formation with the Tarawa (see tip about using nozzles to match speed) ... After that, most of that low speed PIO was gone.

bummer.... I have an upgraded slew switch inbound and was hopping that was the solution... I'm having fun with the Harrier but kinda frustrated at the same time with all of these issue, specially the readability of the cockpit. Today I decided to jump into the Hornet's cockpit and boy! Those MFD's and instruments are gorgeous ! I can read them very easily with the same setup which I cannot read the Harrier's! I'm sure the Hornet has its own issues as well, I haven't really done much with it yet I have the feeling that is about to change. The discussion here, inspired this newbie to do some dogfighting... AV8B vs A4E 2.0 and F18C vs A4E. The rookie IA on the A4 kicked my rear end on the Harrier... But I easily defeated it with the Hornet.... The A4 had Sidewinders, I had only guns.... For what its worth ...

@Fri13Are you using a TM Warthog with the TDC axes mapped to the slew nipple/mini mouse thingy by any chance ? I have and experience something similar when my finger touches it while moving the throttle ... It is kind of detecting a TDC down even though my TDC down is mapped to a different button and I have nothing mapped to the slew nipple press action...

This sounds more like a case of laser burnout .. I read somewhere that it was implemented last year

"Tiny" amount of rudder towards the carrier, and keeps wings level. Forward speed will take care of the rest. At least that's how I'm doing it.

Well, thank you! That was the piece my puzzle was missing. Trimming & stick (trim seems to react too slowly sometimes) to keep the witches hat at the horizon and nozzle angle for speed. It's amazing the difference than 1° does!

I've seen this too...Usually when I fired them under a 3km range they don't track. I think they might have a minimum range

@netizensmithsorry for the thread hijack but it does seems that we are having a good conversation. I noticed the similarities between AAR and flying in formation with the carrier too.