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Might be time to migrate off that mission critical MySQL db that runs on the old machine under Jeff's desk in the corner... I know it comes down to money, but not having redundant and reliable data infrastructure that's corruption resistant in this day and age is a bit shoddy.

Confirm this no longer works in 2.9. Unable to go to VACQ direct from boresight regardless of HMD on/off. Always been possible before 2.9 with HMD off.

I'm a bit confused as to what's supposed to happen at the campaign end. It seems to be running 'End mission victory' mission and I sit an watch it for a while but nothing seems to happen, left it for an hour just in case. When I quit the mission it comes up as Score 0 (failed) and the campaign never ends, can't even skip it. Is it bugged or by design ?

tease!

I experienced the best moment I have yet had in DCS. Trying not to spoil too much. Mission 6, already tremendously good, primary mission complete and egressing. Target of opportunity, managed to get bombs on target but lost my entire right elevator and shut down right engine (which I now know how to do from earlier mission!) to 30mm BMP fire. Radio check-in takes account of my planes condition! The attention to detail in these missions is second to none, absolutely incredible. Queue a tense limp home and what can only be described as a 'successful' crash landing. Mission complete, at the cost of a wrecked F18 but I walked away. Now just a few missions from the end and loving every minute of it. I would agree that it's not for everyone, it does need a good level of F18 experience but for me its perfection.

Yes! finally. Grat's on the release, loading up now!

It would appear that the left wing is clipping 'Z_Ord3' and 'Z_Plane Captain 2'. Moved them back 10ft and all works as intended, Blade gets to the cat undamaged and takes off fine.

Did you turn on ECM Jamming ? I just flew the mission with it on transmit and they never got a lock.

Can't really help much with your locking with ATFLIR, but consider that both the TGT pods and GMT radars are just 'helpers' for the IR Mav's to give it a location to look at when caged. It's still the IR seeker head on the Maverick that determines its target, when caged it will try and slew to a TGT and detect a suitable IR signature from its field of view. If you are able to identify the rough location of the target, you can use the normal IR Mav 'hold Target button and Slew' sequence to lock it directly from the seeker head. Hope that helps a little.

It’s the new 2.7 clouds mainly, if the area is overcast the AI does not identify any ground targets and just goes into a holding pattern south of the carrier. Each time of day has a Clear, Medium or Rain variant but this is not displayed from the mission text that I could find.

Thanks for the reply Badger, I noticed the bug post about 10 seconds after sorry... I've run through the whole campaign now and have to say, totally awesome.

I had the same problem, whatever trigger is supposed to fire to signify the spec ops taking the ship seems to be temperamental. I ran the mission 3 times and it failed, ended up using the auto win at the start and skipping it.

Since 2.7.4.9632 open beta (21.07 update) on take off my wingman pitches up to 70-80 AoA right off the deck on full afterburner then crashes into the water about 2-300 metres after ejecting. Happens every time regardless of loadout. Reverted back to the the Stable DCS 2.7.3.8494 build and its fine, no problems.

Yup, I can second that, works for all campaign missions I’ve done since applying it, including Pontus.

Flight tasking is set in the mission itself via F10 options at startup, not in the mission editor. This was updated in a patch and is in the new pdf manual. Waypoints can only be set for your own flight but you should only modify from WP2 onwards in order to keep the awacs checkin functioning correctly.