paulw10

During cold start and HUD on, turning the HMCS dial does nothing. Tried doing HMCS align but still nothing. HMCS works ok in Instant Action and other cold start missions.

License transfer works from Steam to ED, but not from ED to Steam. I started on Steam. I like to keep purchases all in one place to keep track of. I also want to keep the option to go back to Steam if the need arises. No other reason.

I have 23 aircraft modules (counting FC3 as one), all the terrain modules and quite a few campaigns. I haven't found any time for the Viggen, KA-50 and C-101. I've only done initial HOTAS set-up and cold start-up for F-5E, Gazelle and M2000. I buy all my modules on Steam, and transfer the licenses to Standalone - so no EDmiles for me . I've previously put a lot of my time into the A-10C-II, FA-18 and F14. Really enjoying the Viper, Mosquito and AH64 at the mo. My helo ops are improving daily. I don't crash nearly as much as I used to .

FOUND IT. My HOTAS throttle flaps switch was mapped to the power switch: flaps-up = Main Pwr. Never noticed or used it. Thanks very much for the pointers. And sorry for the bother.

Hi all Thanks for the chatter on this one. Seems there’s a varied opinion on this subject. My opinion is simply related to the checklist that operates the power switch based upon initially set to OFF. My rig set-up (Warthog HOTAS) does sync switches on startup, but I don’t have anything mapped to the power switch. Maybe it’s the way the sync works. I’ll have a bit of a play with that. Thanks again.

When loading cold start missions (instant action or otherwise) the battery is already turned on; I think it is set to main power. That doesn’t seem to be very ‘cold’. DCS standalone v2.8.0.32235.1

Thanks. I’m using the rule to add 1.5kts for each weight increment. 60% power on the base leg turn seems to give a seriously bad sink rate. Having to throttle-up a lot to avoid that. On final the 4.5AoA is either too fast or the sink rate is excessive. Hence I always seem to get a heavy touchdown. I’ll keep practicing to see if there is a trick with this aircraft.

I’ve broken my landing gear on every landing so far. Is it really so fragile? 4.5 AoA is tricky to keep the speed below 100kts on touchdown.

Download links say "File in user's bin", and no download possible. Any idea?

Hi. On OB. Always keep up to date. It maybe that I missed the task complete call. Too busy doing gun runs. The end section is fairly busy, so easy to miss things I guess. Really enjoying it. Cracking job. Thanks.

Finally aced mission 12 with a full 100% score; six attempts I think. After Spec Ops board the helo I do a couple more low level gun runs to mop up stragglers. I look around and there are no friendlies about. No helo, No buddie A10. Nobody. I zoom out the TAD to max and Davy is back at Lavan. No comms, nothing available on F10. I head back on my own (after a bit of loitering) feeling a bit lonely. About one third the way back Davy calls on the radio he is following me home - lol. About twos thirds the way back and Davy is coming back towards me; and flys right on by - more lol. I land, jump out and head for the bar - it's been a long day.

The 'Threats' page is missing info for "SA-8 Gecko". These are numerous throughout the missions so would be very useful. Thanks. P.S. I got hit by an SA-8 at just above 17K MSL during mission 7. So I assumed that was the M3 high altitude missile variant.

Yeah, got really fustrated with mission 5 for the building attack. Nothing but poor position calls from the JTAC. I even set-up a WP on the building MGRS coord and dialed the approach heading to the HSI CRS; perfect approaches every time. On the transit from sector 3 I was attacked by SAM when at 15k MSL, so I repositioned to 20K. No chance of clearing after 3.5 from IP. Dropped back down to 15k but still couldn't get JTAC to call clear. Very dark by now and still doing repeated runs. Finally aborted on bingo fuel and headed for home. Just under three hours in total. My runs were starting from the north-west edge of the island going back along the target heading; initial distance was about 8 miles. I was waiting as long as reasonable to call for clearance. 3.5 miles is seriously tight, especially at night. Also at the time it wasn't obvious to me that the JTAC distance from target is a maximum distance for requesting clearance. Guess I haven't done anything set-up this tight before.

I have a 2.1 speaker set-up on my PC, so I usually set my speaker layout to "2.1 Stereo". This has been ok for at least the past few years or so. However since the last few updates (sorry, I have been a little distracted by another game!) I have had no audio. Finally I discovered changing the speaker layout fixes the problem. With speaker layout set to "2.1 Stereo", the error message below appears in the DCS log. ERROR SOUND: Failed to Initialize IAudioClient: 0x88890008 (AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT) I have attached my detailed dcs.log file. Towards the end I have cycled through the available speaker layouts. You can see when "2.1 Stereo" is selected the error(s) are generated. All other layouts are ok. DCS/2.7.10.19473 Hope this is useful info. P.S. During my problem investigations I have ... DCS_Updater cleanup, DCS_Updater repair, DX11 re-install, Nvidia driver re-install, HD audio driver re-install, et.al. Kind regards, Paul i7 11700K, 32GB DDR4, ASUS ROG STRIX Z590-E Gaming, EVGA RTX3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid. dcs.log

I have Logitech Rudder Pedals and the Warthog HOTAS. I get dual bindings for my stick and pedals for the X,Y and throttle axis. The first flight in a new module is always funny. lol

I've not read all the other posts, but ... Norwegian Sea theater - east of the G-I-UK gap to the home of the Red Banner Northern Fleet. That gives 'Contain the Bear' or 'Break-out the Bear' scenarios. All cold war stuff, so matches current DCS target era's.

Thanks again. That’s seriously helpful.

Thanks. I thought about that after I posted. There’s obviously a relationship between speed, spacing, etc. I was thinking of an experiment to find the limits for what works and what doesn’t. Has anyone done it before?

And here's a bug report ... hope this helps. Bug: aircraft destroyed on Snakeeye release Can I reproduce it 100%: yes If not 100%, how often out of 10: 10/10 How to reproduce/ description: Equip 2 x 3 mk82 snakeeye (statons 4 and 5) Set Ripple Quantity to 6 (anything more than 4) Select A/G Master Arm Fly straight and level at 500knots Weapon release [aircraft destroyed] DCS Version: OpenBeta 2.7.4.9847 System Specs: CPU i5 10600k GPU 2060Super 8GB 32GB RAM SSD 970evo OS: Win10 Peripherals: Joystick: Warthog HOTAS Throttle: Warthog HOTAS Pedals: LOGITECH PRO Others: N/A Headtracker: Smoothtrack/Opentrack Mission File: see attachment Log: n/a Track: see attachment Video/ Screenshots: n/a. Mods: none f-14b snakeeye ripple test.trk f-14b snakeeye ripple test.miz

Did this to me in campaign. Mission gives 6 snakeeyes and requires single low level pass to take out EWR. Kept blowing up upon release. After a little investigation I found it happens when Ripple Quantity is set greater than 4. Anything up to 4 is fine. Guess the rack eject sequence doesn’t like lots of bombs. So workaround is to set Ripple Quantity to 4 and do multiple pickles. Open beta 2.7.4 For retard bomb like snakeeyes you need tail fuse; else the retard won’t activate. So set fuse as N/T.

I’ve been using SmoothTrack and opentrack for about the last six months. SmoothTrack is on my iPhone SE and I keep it plugged in to power when using for DCS. I’ve have a cheap desktop holder for it that sits just in front of my monitor. As it uses the camera you have to keep line of sight clear. Works it fairly poor light conditions, although I have a light source on a shelf above the monitor. The settings took me a while to sort, and I generally set for linear response across +/- 15 to 20 degrees of head movement. I minimise roll and vertical response since I’m sitting in a chair that shouldn’t move. Overall I’m fairly pleased with it, and the price of £10 is great. And I don’t have to wear a silly hat.

Ok. Thanks for looking at.

The coupled autopilot captures a set course going away from a selected destination. Therefore I miss arriving at my destination on the desired track. For example... Flying north from Batumi to Kobuleti Tacan 67X, ON Steer mode selected = TCN CRS 069 for runway 07 A/P, CPL Aircraft turn right to capture 069 track travelling away from Kobuleti, i.e. 069 FROM TCN67X See track file attached I had expect the aircraft to turn left to capture 069 TO Kobuleti (TCN67X). Should the default bahaviour be to capture the track TO the selected destination. Is there a way to select the TO/FROM behaviour? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks CPL autopilot CRS incorrect capture.trk

In the fight zone have radios set for channels 18 and 17 as per mission sheet. AWACS calls out BRA for the blue unit(s). So no need to call yourself.

Sale is up on Steam. Spending time.