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For me the Maple Flags were more like a series of tests from a kind but very strict instructor. Very intense but very rewarding once missions were completed. I would not play them again just for fun, only to test my skills. Some missions made me nervous before restarting them after failing before, knowing the stressy moments that were bound to happen. The Iron Flag feels way more loose and relaxed with less grading and has a nice storyline feel to it. They both teach differerent things. I recommend flying and enjoying all of them.

Agreed. It now looks silly in VR flying an empty seat. When switching to another airframe with a body gives a totally different feel

Thanks will do!

Ahh. thanks. I did not search to see if others asked for it before. Good finds! Just read these other threads and I can't disagree with any of the shared opinions. In a forward unit during wartime I could understand that might actually happen. In DCS I use the older cockpit look and to me this maintenance worthy compass would fit in nicely. It really gives a nice additional feedback on the vibrations, same as short blurring of the HUD during firing. Just makes it a bit more real for me. On the other hand I understand if others would say the compass needs replacing and it could get on your nerves if you don't like it.

I just flew a bit lower as the indicated UAV alitude so I could spot the UAV better against the sky.

I use a workaround using Voice Attack to program my HMCS at startup. When I say a specific command (in my case 'display'), or press a programmed HOTAS combination it executes a string of controls for the HMCS. Takes less than a second to execute the whole list. For example see below video.

Would it be possible to improve the Hog compass during GAU-8 firing? Please see attached video. I really like the violent shaking of the compass in this video. Currently the simulated compass is not really noticing anything. Please see below.

Yes we noticed it too. So much better! I asked BIGNEWY because I was amazed and it was not included in the released change log.

Can't wait. It sometimes is a hit and sometimes is a miss. I sometimes can't get anything clear. BHOT or WHOT, no matter how I much I adjust settings.

I noticed this too and thought it was a bug. Thanks for clearing it up!

Yeah sure. I loved that mission. It can be done! I think I shot it with different weapons at different times, including the gun. At first it was quite hard to spot it. Just fly a bit lower and listen for the bogey dope. It flies very slow. Easiest is to just get on its six and clip a wing.

Would it be possible to get an option to have the hog start with a random set of systems switches being on when starting cold and dark, same way as sandom system failures can be configured? The current way that the hog is launching in missions allows me to be a bit of a lazy pilot. Every time I could skip the whole launch cockpit / flight preparations checklists/flows and just focus on the things to get her started up, because the configurations are always the same. At least, this is my experience. The MASTER ARM is always switched on at cold and dark, which in real life would be a big issue I guess. Did the former pilot not follow proper procedures at fence out, or did a mechanic or ground chief touch it by mistake? Mistakes happen so I think it would be nice to have this kind of human error as a factor in the simulator, same way as systems can randomly fail. (I haven't found this setting. If it is out there, I would love to know!)

Thank you, will do.

Thanks, but I saw somewhere I could change VID/PID right? So I could just write it down, save the profile, install the beta, load the profile and change the VID/PID?

Thanks but I know that, as I wrote in my original message. I am looking for more granularity in order to set up a fool-proof 3-way function for the flaps axis. In the double clicked axis tab I can only select one 20% zone as the middle. I would like to have a bigger zone so I don't need to worry and always know that when the handle is not fully in or fully out, it will be in the middle position. I just checked your links. Actually also looked at your videos before. Great stuff! Well done.

Hi so last week I started with the CM3 throttle. Fantastic product. I think I am hitting a software limitation though. It seems there are only 4 axes to button postions. I would like to have a few more. I know that by double clicking the individual axis I could set some bands, but that is not very useful. For example I would like to set the large flaps lever to have 3 positions. All the way back, all the way in front and everything in between. Anybody know how to get this done? Thanks!

Hi sorry, you can find the links in my signature.

The SRS thing happened to me too. Also using VA and VP

For anyone interested, I practice a lot of A-10 standard operations and maneuvers with instructor pilots and post these videos on my channel. Welcome to check them out!

Thanks, will give it a try!

Same here, about similar hardware configuration and I also get these shimmers everywhere I look. I am starting to ignore them, because of task saturation while focusing on flying maneuvers and operations. Turning down scenery details helped me a bit. When I look at your settings I see some other settings that I turned down without much/any visual difference, but with quite a performance improvement. (terrain textures, Clutter/grass)

Hi fellow virtual pilot! I practice everything A-10 as realistic as possible and fly lots of training flights with instructors, missions with my squadron and single player campaigns (and sometimes just fool around and try challenges like crazy impossible landings). I record my progress and post all videos on Youtube. Feel free to have a look, subscribe or leave a comment. If you are looking for specific topics or would like me to focus on something, just let me know! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1MRJcn9K-89F6qnK0DVIQ

I understand the sentiment and also continuously have to tinker with my settings and mods after each update to get the best performance out of my VR rig. Being fortunate enough to have quite a decent setup. I should not complain. Having said that, I am hopeful there will be some real VR optimizations coming soon, because I would really like to be able to turn up those eye-candy details, which right now are set quite low, just to get smooth performance.

Am on my 3th or 4th G2 cable and 2nd headset. Bad quality production, good service. I don't think HP is earning anything on the G2 with all the replacements.

We use it for buddy lasing as a stand off weapon. Very accurate and very lethal. See example below.