paulw10

Maybe a Norwegian Sea theatre, east of the GIUK Sosus barrier. Reenact the northern scenario of Red Storm Rising. Red Banner Northern Fleet attempt to push in to the Atlantic and control the shipping lanes and threaten the Eastern Seaboard. It’s all based around the mid-80s so fits the general DCS modern era aircraft that we have. Maybe even extend the helo models and do some sub hunting. AI or multi crew P3C Orions and MR2 Nimrods.

Having flew over the area a few times, I really can't tell where Margate is. There is no pier, sun deck, clock tower or Sea Bathing hospital in evidence. These are Victorian features that are fairly easy to distiguish from the air.

It’s a very valid point. The Tornado, for example, is a very backseat driven beast. The front seater takes off, turns the TFR on, engages autopilot and wakes up an hour or so later for tea and medals. Lol. Seriously, a very two seat operation. The work levels in both seats can be fairly high I understand. Just running the EW DASS is boffin stuff. Getting the best out of it may prove tricky in the single player mode.

I just came across this problem myself, after buying the rather costly Warthog HOTAS for my rig. I reversed the detent in the throttle so I could use the detent. I jumped in my F/A-18 and found the afterburner would not kick in. I fiddled about with the mapping and all seemed ok. Then I jumped back in to my A-10C and couldn’t get more than about 85% power. The detent was restricting the full range of the throttle. So some more fiddling with the mapping. Thinking about it, the afterburner detent should probably just have been a switch rather than the high range of the throttle. Is this how a real afterburner detent works? The Warthog HOTAS has a switch for the idle detent on each throttle, so that one was thought about. For DCS, we need to be able to recognise whether a physical afterburner detent is present in the controller, and be able to adjust the 100% military power position. This is relevant to all aircraft whether they have afterburners or not, i.e. A-10C or P51D when the controller throttle afterburner detent is fitted. We DCS players tend to jump in and out of multiple planes. So don’t want to have to change the sim hardware each time. Thanks for listening. Paul

Now that it is finally out of service, surely game on. You could exclude the latest stuff, or just do the older GR1. Fancy running down a runway and releasing the JP233 under a hail of AAA. The thought makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

What a plane. 550 knot bombing runs at 50 feet off the deck. Full auto terrain following. 3g pull-up lob bombing. Marker, target, slew and insert. Hold the pickle and watch the mud fly. Even the back seater gets some fun. Nothing on the RHWR. JP233 away. Please can you add this epic aircraft.

Can they be downloaded for the Steam edition? I’ve only got Enemy Within 3.0 for my A-10C II, although I have a lot of the old A-10C campaigns. I’d like to do them with the new a/c.

Yeah. That’s the guide I used to base my changes. The detent and mapping for the A-10 is also very useful if your throttle is desk-bound, like mine. It reduces the full travel of the throttle so the HOTAS button don’t get awkward with the throttle fully forward. I find it a bit too flat when it’s positioned in front of me. I can’t position it to the side because of the desk layout.

If you fit the afterburner detent (i.e. reversed from factory fit) you may find the standard throttle setting do not give the wanted aircraft behaviour. For example 100% mil power up to the detent for F/A-18C, or getting above 85% power in the non-afterburning A-10C. I tend to swap between these two aircraft so the throttle always has the afterburner detent set-up. The problem is that the Warthog Throttle afterburner detent (position or state) is not modelled by DCS. So you need to re-map the throttle to mimic the general behaviour. With the afterburner detent fitted, these Throttle HOTAS Warthog settings give a good fit. Axis Assign Throttle - HOTAS Warthog JOY_RZ and JOY_Z Axis Tune Deadzone = 0 Saturation X and Y = 100 Slider, User curve A-10C/A-10C II (for linear power and 100% at the detent) 0,0,0,0,4,16,30,46,62,80,100 F/A-18C (for linear power and max mil at the detent, afterburner past the detent) 0,6,13,21,33,45,56,68,79,90,100 For the F/A-18C, I also mapped to turn the engines off past the idle detent: Throttle (Left) - OFF = JOY_BTN30 Throttle (Right) - OFF = JOY_BTN29 Note there is no JOY_BTN in the afterburner detent region of each throttle, so you cannot turn the afterburner on/off this way, i.e. map to Cycle Afterburner Detent - ON/OFF. Sorry, I only have these two aircraft at the moment. So cannot give for any other aircraft. Hope this info is helpful. Paul