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WarriorX

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  1. Well I see while I was typing it up, you got your answers...glad to hear it.
  2. Hey Dropbear, let's try and get this cleared up for ya. Regarding your first question: You can verify SPI creation by looking at the Targeting Pod Diamond in the HUD and notice it changes from a simple diamond pre SPI designation, to a diamond with a straight line or "tail" coming off it, at an oblique angle. This is how you can verify whether or not your TGP target is the SPI. Now regarding TGP/MAV interaction, you seem to have a good grip on it, but let's review. For clarity's sake let's identify some terms. TMS UP or TMS Forward are the same as they sometimes are used interchangeably in both the forums and the manual. There are a few HOTAS buttons that have a dual function depending on whether you press them quickly, or hold them for > 1 sec. TMS UP Short is a quick press, TMS UP Long is a long press of the TMS UP button. Ok, so you slew the TGP diamond on to a target. You need to have the target within a direct line of sight with the TGP. The plane itself can block the TGP and you will see a flashing or solid M indicating "Masking" this means the TGP can not lock a target or range it with the laser. But all is not lost the great thing is the TGP has an inertial memory and will keep track of your target for you, all you need to do is turn the A-10C around so that the TGP is facing the target. Now with the target with direct line of sight with the TGP you hit the TMS UP Short to go from inertial tracking (INR) to Area Tracking (AREA). One more press of the TMS UP key will take you into TRACK mode. This is where you can set the TGP Track point as SPI, with a TMS UP LONG. Confirm the "tail" on the diamond and then switch to your MAV page. Make the MAV page is your SOI, and then hit your CHINA HAT FWD LONG to automatically slew the MAV seeker on to your TGP's SPI. Once the seeker is slewed on the SPI, you can zoom it's view in by hitting the CHINA HAT FWD short once to magnify your view. The rest of the Maverick engagement will proceed a tiny bit differently based on factors such as whether or not you target is in a highly cluttered environment or on a barren plane with nothing else around it. Basically you will wait until you believe based on previous trial and error when you should proceed with your final button press before hitting the holy grail of button's..... the Weapons Release button. Now here is where experience and trial and error come in to play and you will have to learn this part for yourself, but for a rule of thumb you can engage most targets with an AGM 65 D at around 7 nm. Some will be further, some closer. When you feel the range is right, hit the TMS UP Short, and look for the Maverick crosshair symbology to change from non intersecting crosshairs to a tightly intersected crosshair that kind of flashes rapidly. Once you have this symbology, hit the Weapon Release button and egress. I hope this helps you out...and welcome to the Forums.
  3. Ok, let me try this again, sorry for any confusion. Normally you start a mission and it drops you in the pit, everything goes live. Without this feature, you get what Tusler describes. With this feature, you get dropped in the pit on a semi pause. The cockpit switches are set to what the mission designer wants them at, and then you sync your HOTAS switches to sync with the Sim. The world outside the pit is paused until you hit the Pause/Break key. After the keypress, everything goes live...pit, switches and outside world.
  4. I concur and add that having the target waypoints elevated also reaks havoc with the cannon engagements as you get a CICU error. This forces the pilot to solve this error by lasing and creating a markpoint beside the target that has the correct altitude you want to engage. Then the gun pipper solution is correct.
  5. Sorry for the mistake in calling it centripedal, that's what I get when I'm not careful with my mouse clicks with the auto spell checker suggestions. Thanks for the correction.:doh:
  6. Yes Andrew, it works for me. Just so we are clear, enabling this means the game looks at the Warthog switch positions and then gives you a chance to sync the switches before you go "live" in the pit. It should work with any Warthog.
  7. Try creating a AutoHotKey script. http://www.autohotkey.com/
  8. FYI dwardlow, the quick way to find the game controller applet in Win 7 is to go to the Start Menu and type "USB Game Controllers" in the search box. Then select the USB game controllers app.
  9. Dont forget the RPM setting below HOF. I think lowering the RPM will also provide a tighter grouping of submunitions/bomblets/skeets. A slower RPM setting should lower the centripetal force on the submunition, therefore the dispersion cone is tighter. So if you really want a tight grouping with a high PK, go for a low HOF, and a slow RPM. I will test this and see how it goes. Please keep posting your results. Over time I'm sure we will all find a sweet spot we find is the best comprimise between CBU footprint coverage, and PK.
  10. Nice work there Tommy, thank you very much. Rep inbound.
  11. Hey Ranger79, just a note of caution. If your Fry's in TX are anything like mine here in CA, be sure to check that the WH is not returned. My Fry's is notorious for putting returned stock back on the shelves with a small white sticker, indicating a return.
  12. King neptune, I believe it was due to rapidly pulling the throttles back in the dive. This has happened to me a few times in Beta's and in final release. It was mentioned in a previous thread about a month or two back, and one of the ED testers confirmed that a quick cutting back of the throttles to idle can cause a engine to shut down. They will relight if you have the time/altitude. If I remember correctly, the solution was to pull the throttles back down slowly. Since that thread, I now move my throttles with a lot more care in a dive, and have not had the problem repeat itself. I hope this helps.
  13. Congratulations DCS! Thanks for all the hard work.
  14. First off, welcome to the Forums Ranger79 and thank you for your service. There are a whole bunch of threads discussing the Thrustmaster Warthog and the other HOTAS setups you are considering. Check those out for the most diverse information possible. I can only provide my experience with the Thrustmaster Warthog, as I have never owned either the Saitek or Logitech hardware. A little history, I previously had the Thrustmaster F22 (old) and then replacing that with the Thrustmaster Cougar (newer). I saw the need to replace the gimbal system in the Cougar with the NXT Mod, and also replaced the potentiometers with Cubpilot's Hall Sensor upgrade. The Warthog replaced the Cougar. Here are my pro's and con's on the Warthog: Pro's -all Hall Sensors, which gives me outstanding accuracy and service life. -Joystick gimbal feels great to me, force distribution is smooth and even. -Joystick can be center mounted on a pedestal, or desktop. -Switches feel just as advertised, mil spec. -Throttles feel hydraulic smooth. -Throttles can be easily locked together to work as one, or unlocked easily to be independent. -Pairs up effortlessly with the DCS A-10C, I mean true plug and play, as if they developed it together. -Provides a ease in pilot workflow in the DCS A-10C Sim as it is a replica. -Build quality and weight look and feel outstanding. It really is a beautiful HOTAS. Cons -I have not experienced this but there are many, many threads on the 'bricking throttle" check it out. -TARGET programming software was released "not ready for prime time" in my humble opinion. There are improvements that have already been made and are planned to be in the future per Thrustmaster. The saving grace is that you really dont need it if you fly the DCS A-10 Sim. -Thrustmaster Support is spotty and they do not have a Support Forum on their website. This means getting an "official response" in a timely manner is hit and miss sometimes. You will be relying on emails to communicate with Thrustmaster Support. -Lack of Rudder Pedals included. If you want rudder pedals you will need to find 3rd party pedals, which at this time, TARGET will not "recognize" unless you use the Simped Rudder Pedals that run through the older Cougar base. But you do not have the older Cougar per your video. Well that's my .02 cents. I will say that if my Warthog was stolen from the house tonight, I would go out and replace it with no hesitation. I wish you the best of luck in your quest, I hope this helps you.
  15. If memory serves me right, wind is usually reported as the direction it is blowing from. This is in the meteorology standard weather report format. Now the CDU may be set up with a format for the ballistic calculation computer to handle, mind you, this is pure speculation on my part. I thought I remembered reading on the Forums that the wind reporting in the CDU is fubar, and was being addressed.
  16. Mission Briefing is referring to 131.00 VHF AM. This is the top radio in the "stack" of three. Set the left most Frequency Selector Knob to 13 Set the Frequency Selector Knob to the right of 13 to 1 All the other Frequency Selector Knobs to the right of the 1 remain at 0 Assuming your 2 dial switches are set for MAN and TR respectively, then hitting the HOTAS Mic Switch FWD will activate the VHF AM radio to Transmit.
  17. Hey Maxmax, welcome to the Forums! There is a link in my signature line to my Radio Tutorial. Give it a look. Make sure you have access to the Beta Forums. If you don't yet have access, there is a sticky forum post in the top of this forum.
  18. The one angle to this discussion that has not been covered is what the other pilots on Teamspeak with you are gonna think of hearing your cockpit sounds when you are transmitting.
  19. To add to the OP's question, the other thing that you need to remember is that you really need to get control of your landing airspeed. The closer you come in with your airspeed around 130 kts, the less you will need to use extreme braking to stop. The other idea that is to not overshoot your landing and therefore create a need for heavy braking. Just keep practicing, you will get the hang of it.
  20. Just to reinforce what Winz posted in an earlier reply, with the Night Vision Goggles enabled, at night, you can see the Infra Red (IR) Pointer not the Laser Designator. Do not expect to "see" the Laser coming out of the Targeting Pod.
  21. Take the SAM out with a Maverick, using low altitude passes, below the cloud deck. Find the SAM with the TGP, then reengage with the Maverick.
  22. The reason is that if you did not own one, then the point of this thread would be based on your opinion of hardware you did not own.
  23. Just a quick question hreich, do you own a Warthog?
  24. The calibration tool should be included with the next version of TARGET IMHO. It's not being included shows just how rushed out the door TARGET seems to have been.
  25. Wrinkley, the Sim was set up to work with both single throttles, and double throttles. If you only have a single throttle, the Sim can throttle both the left and right engines with your one physical throttle. Alternately if you have dual throttles available, the Sim can be set up to have each throttle assigned to an engine. And if you have no throttle hardware, you always have the keyboard.
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