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I've owned the P47 for over a year now and since I've owned it I can't get the wingmen to do anything. I thought it was a bug that would be fixed but 1 year later it is still an issue. Time to report this and get a response on why this happens. Instant Action - A8 Dogfight in The Channel as an example. We are going against 12 Antons. I say to the Flight - Engage Bandits... nothing... I say to Wingman - Engage Bandits... Nothing... Then about 20 seconds later I see tracers shooting me down and 3 P47s flying in formation with me! I just tried an A8 dogfight vs Thunderbolts and when I tell my flight and my wingman to engage bandits they say "2 Engaging Bandits" This never happens with my Spitfire / P51 etc... I have ALL the warbirds and this is never an issue with any of them. You tell them to engage bandits and they break off and do their own thing. P47 wingmen just fly in formation with me while I'm burning. Please let me know if you need more information or if this is a bug or something I could possibly be doing wrong. Thanks!

Incremental update came in and was 10gb for me and it reinstalled all the planes again. Instead of deleting all the folders I deleted them from the module manager this time. Thanks for the help!

I manually deleted all the folders (again) with the last update. I will try to do it manually next time after they all download again. Thanks for the help!

I appreciate the replies! I just don't see where to remove them in-game. Module manager > Modules > the planes just say "buy". Module manager > Installed > the planes aren't there. Is there some other place in the module manager that I can remove them? Thanks for any help!

I have tried numerous planes during the free trials. I delete these planes from the mods folders if I don't choose to buy them. However... Every time I update DCS it downloads these planes again... then I need to delete them from the Mods/aircraft folder again. This is a time waster for me and a bandwidth waster for ED. Can anyone please tell me how to stop DCS from downloading expired trial planes again every time I update? Thanks!

I'm really having a difficult time with this in VR with my Reverb G2 finding the right viewpoint. I have a button to reset the view but I can never find a spot that feels natural. Whatever I find that feels "natural" definitely makes the gun sight unusable. Is the gun sight supposed to be in the middle of the plane and awkward for the pilot to look through? *sigh* Hope they iron this out or I am able to get used to this.

I am having a very difficult time finding the right head position in VR. I have a button setup on my hotas to reset the view. I need to put my head in all sorts of awkward positions to see through the gun sight. I try to reset the view in these awkward positions but it never feels right. The reviews I see for the plane are all using Track IR and it looks like it is not an issue at all. I've only flown the plane for about an hour. Perhaps this is an early access issue or something I will figure out. But the gun sight is awkward in VR for me.

Today is the second update I've seen released and I have not seen any mention of this being fixed. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in the latest beta update 2.7.6.12852 or was it fixed in another release? I quit flying the plane

Well, the original post documenting the bug was posted on the 5th of November 2020. The post has been closed and considered reported. That was 279 days ago today August 11th 2021.

THIS!!!! I changed the curve on my throttle so the afterburner notch is 3k RPM. I was so excited I thought I had found a fix! I had a half tank of fuel because flying around at 3000 RPM is horrible for fuel economy... So I landed and refueled. A few minutes after takeoff the engine seized. The track is 77mb so it's too big to share here. I don't think MW-50 has anything to do with it. I always keep it on. You don't actually use it unless you go full throttle anyway. I don't see how the rad shutters would make a difference and they would just slow you down. I'm not sure there is a fix at this point until our friends at ED get around to fixing the bug What else can we do???

Nope, just blew up the engine at 3000 RPM after flying for about 30 minutes. I watched the track again to verify I did not overheat the engine. It just... dies... randomly. So running at 3000 RPM is NOT a fix.

There is currently a bug with the Fw 190 D9. The engine seizes randomly. It has happened to me numerous times in the Storm or War multiplayer server. It sucks. There is a thread documenting the problem here. The bug has been reported and documented numerous times over 5 pages in this thread over 8 months from November 2020 to August 2021 today but the thread has been locked. Just in case this bug isn't fixed quickly... I am creating this thread to see if there is anything we can do as users to mitigate the fact that the engine blows up randomly. Is there a workaround? The plane has already very little usage in multiplayer and now a bug that randomly blows up the engine. We invest not only our money but our time into flying these planes. I welcome being randomly shot down after 30 minutes in a multiplayer server. But I cannot accept a bug that seizes the engine 30 minutes into a flight for no reason. The last time I had this problem I was just about to dive on an unsuspecting P51 and the engine seized. I admit I rage quit... and then hunted in the forum for a reason and a solution. I really want to fly the plane but I just can't logically fly it if there is a chance the engine will seize and end my playing time in the game; forcing me to restart or just quit. Do I fly the K4? Or do I risk a random game breaking bug that forces me to quit xx minutes into playing if I fly the Dora? I'm hoping there is a way around this while we patiently wait for a fix. For example: the engine seems to seize at 2700 RPM randomly. But other users say they have no seizing problems flying at military power. it seems counterintuitive but can we fly at 3000 RPM and avoid engine failure? I don't have the time or the patience to test this out myself. I keep blowing up the engine!!! I hope this leads to a fruitful discussion and workarounds while we wait patiently for this bug to be fixed

This has happened twice to me now on the Storm of War server. Flying at 2700 RPM carefully watching temps and the engine seizes for no reason. Is this an "old" mission? If SOW is not an old mission then it does not only happen on old maps. Because it happens in SOW. I can't logically fly the plane in SOW anymore if I run a chance of a bug randomly blowing up the engine. I can't logically fly the plane at all with a bug that blows up the engine. For what it's worth... I work in tech. If 20 clients came to me with a product breaking bug with numerous examples of them clearly experiencing the issue... and I told them "I can't consistently reproduce the bug so we can't fix it"... they would have my head and never hire me again for that response to the problem.

Just read through 5 pages of this post looking for an answer to this problem. Just wasted 20 minutes of my life in SOW again trying to fly the dora and... the engine died at 2700rpm for absolutely no reason. Why would anyone fly a plane in multiplayer that has a bug where the engine randomly dies? Why would I fly this plane again now when I risk a random engine failure bug 20 minutes into a flight? Why hasn't this been fixed when so many people have documented the bug over and over? It's nice to see how calm everyone is in here. We all spend a tremendous amount of money on this game. I'd expect more people to be flaming and asking for refunds on the plane until they fix this. *shaking my head* Does ED have a fix coming for this in the next patch or should I request a refund on the plane?

That seems to do the trick. Don't switch to external until you are in the air. Thanks for the help!

I am on the second mission now. I completed the first one a while ago. Coming back to this. I auto start the plane... With the engine started I switch the selector to left tank on. Then switch the main selector fuel valve to > external on. The engine runs for about 30 seconds and then sputters and dies. I've tried this at least 5 times now. I'm absolutely sure it's external on. With it set to external on the engine dies in 20-30 seconds. Is there something I am doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

If I want to play multiplayer I need to have the beta. 2.7.1 1057 online in the beta > 143 online in the release. Not sure if this is just a phenomenon with the current beta. But there is absolutely no reason for me to even keep the release on my system anymore. Storm of war is a beta server now as well. It's just a bit sad that new players who try the game will not see any of these beta servers with 10x more players online. Meh.

Ok so here is something.... When I play other planes, the A8 and P51 for example, I say "flight engage bandits" and my wingmen give me a verbal acknowledgement that they are engaging bandits. They break off independently and each engage a logical target. With the P47 no matter how many times I say "engage bandits" or "cover me" they just fly behind me the whole time in formation. Is there something I am doing wrong here or is this a bug? Why aren't these commands having any effect on my wingmen in the P47? Update: I've tried this now on several identical maps with P51 and P47. "Engage bandits" with the P51 my wingman attacks a target and then actually tells me when he rejoins. "Engage bandits" with the P47 does nothing and he just stays at my wing.

Just a thought on this as a new player. It's just a little crazy that the beta has 966 people online and the actual release has 163 at the time I took these images. If you want to play online you need to have the beta. New players will have no idea about this. They would take a look at the rooms available in the 2.7 release and assume DCS has very few people playing online. It may be off putting for new players who probably won't even consider installing the beta. It is what it is I guess.

I reinstalled 2.7.1... There are very different multiplayer rooms on beta vs non beta. The standard version has no warbird servers much less people online. No growling sidewinder and no storm of war. Beta it is then

I'm new to DCS. I only play warbirds. Shortly after I drank the DCS kool aid the 2.7 beta was released so I started using that. Now 2.7 has been released and we are on to beta 2.7.2. Question: are the beta and non beta servers completely separate? Now that 2.7 has been released will everyone be using that client? Or will a large majority of users continue using the beta client? To beta or not to beta after the 2.7 release? (For warbird multiplayer)

I really appreciate your reply sirrah, Setting the wingmen to "ace" sounds like a solution! I don't see where to change this. For example I select mission > P47, The Channel, Merchant Convoy Defense. I set the difficulty level to expert in the F10 menu. Regardless of what I set the difficulty to my wingmen are idiots. I went after the K4s. Two of my wingmen were almost immediately shot down. Never once did I see them engage the enemy, they always had a K4 behind them. I turned around and one of my wingmen was on me like glue in formation. Why? Go do something! The entire time I'm giving them the command "flight engage bandits" Why is he still flying in formation with me making turns? I engage one of the K4s... Shortly after that I'm hit. I turn around and I my formation wingman is gone... and there are 3 x K4s right behind me firing at me. Quick and humiliating battle... P47s - 0, K4s - 4. I would really appreciate it if you could tell me how to change the AI wingmen to "Ace". I don't see anywhere to do this. Thanks for any help!!!!

I only play warbirds. I have all of them. I mainly play multiplayer IL2 but I bought all the DCS warbirds as well. Whenever I play any mission or instant action in DCS with AI wingmen they are absolutely useless! Meanwhile my AI opponents are hardened killers out to humiliate me. The AI enemy are impressive in DCS. I just don't understand why my wingmen are so stupid. My AI wingmen are all shot down immediately doing ridiculously stupid things. Example: I was behind a K4 in my P47. My A! wingman flew directly in front of the K4 I was chasing out of nowhere and got shot down. Why? It compelled me to write this here to try and find out if there is anything I can do to fix this. It's frustrating. Is there some way to turn up my AI wingmen intelligence level? Every time I play it's me against the entire AI team because my wingmen are *immediately* shot down like idiots. Thanks for any help!

I had a look at the data structure and it makes sense. Thanks for the tip!!!

I have all the warbirds. Love them. As I buy a new one I have had to go in and reset all of the controls from their wonky default settings. I was ok with that even though it's a little time consuming and tedious for every control... There really isn't that much to warbirds anyway. I just bought the Flaming Cliffs planes and it's getting a little ridiculous. Each time I want to fly a new plane I need to spend a considerable amount of time resetting all of the controls. I know absolutely nothing about jets and the thought of setting each plane up control by control does not sound like fun. Is there any way to set a default general setting for controllers and copy them to other new planes? Meaning in "general" changing the default axis controls and sensitivity and then a way to simply copy that over to a plane that is not set up yet? It would be ideal to keep changing "general" as I learn Jets so the default settings can be copied to new planes instead of setting EACH ONE of them up control by control. I know some planes have unique controls but setting up common general settings would make things much easier and less time consuming. I would love to know if there is an easier way to set up default settings for new planes! Thanks for any help!