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Perfect answer, and makes my decision easy. I thought they would just be extra mouse buttons, which seemed completely useless to me, but knowing they're programmable is a whole different game, especially since I've been struggling with a few controls I want on my HOTAS but just don't have a free spot for, and I've got an x56. I'm also disabled and mostly bed bound, which means I have my stick mounted on a side table to my right, my throttle on a desk to my left, and usually leave my mouse on my chest/belly, where sometimes it tries to hide from me when I need it FAST!! Thank you!

P5 is what happens if you hit the fwd(?, the one for "flares") button on the dispenser, which for me is a totally different button because I don't have the 3-way switch. If that's not right, it's the opposite. Aft will get you P1, again unless I have it backwards. I have different custom setups for both, but every time they update it, they change the file so I have to remember to copy and paste it back. P6 is the slap switch I think. I think the default dumps like half your stores (or more), then again it is a switch of desperation. Because I'm a noob with total "classroom" time (meaning reading manuals and watching YouTube vids) of about 40 hours, and in the bird time about the same. Real Hornet pilots have 300 classroom hours and 300 simulator hours before they're even allowed to look at a real Hornet, and that's AFTER flight school and pinning on their wings! So, basically, I suck lol...

Thanks, guys, but it's the planes I don't even know are there who are my problem. Guess I just have to keep my head on a faster swivel.

I'm sold, but I need a tad bit of advice. Why would I want the advanced system over the standard? I don't mind spending the extra money if it's truly useful, but I'm not sure I understand why having an additional set of buttons on my HMD would be useful in any way, or if there's some other benefit of the advanced kit. Also, is the lead time really sitting at a year, or is that old news? Thanks, Kev

I can't wait for the 40-series to hit the streets, because when that happens, I'm either going to buy a firesale 3090 for $500 or so, or pick up a brand new 4080 for the $899 that the consensus is it will be priced at. Right now I'm using a 2070 Super (paired with an i5-10600K) that both hold fairly high overclocks and I'm actually doing pretty well, mid-40s or higher on the fps almost all of the time, though I really judge based on what my eyes see, not what some benchmark is telling me. If the 4080 is as much more powerful than my 2070S as is alleged, it may be the last GPU I'll ever have to buy! (Famous last words...)

I do. In fact, I have a customized .lua for programs 1, 2, and 5 that in theory anyway should be superior to the default, I just don't see those damn inbound IR missiles, and I'm not sure what I can do to fix that. Only issue with that custom file is it gets replaced with the default every time it updates.

Do the auto countermeasures defend against heat seekers? And if so, how do they know they're there. I usually don't until I blow up in midair for no reason.

My point is that if you achieve every mission assignment, whether you knew about them when you took off or not, but then fail to RTB alive, I do not think that giving your life for your country should result in an automatic mission failure. Of course, IRL that would mean that you will not ever be flying another mission, ever, this is not real life and to make dying an auto-fail even in consideration that all mission goals had been accomplished it too extreme. But, hey, maybe that's just me. In fact, before the SAMs started flying (and it seemed like they all went in my direction like I didn't even have a wingman), and I question if they had real life ammo loads because I did dodge quite a few of them, I was actually thinking about bugging out of my bird and hoping for a rescue as I'm as close to certain as I can be without sitting down with a sectional and calculator that I didn't have enough gas to get home, but I guess that would have also resulted in a mission failure. I tried putting it at WP59, but even if I managed to get that setup, it wouldn't go to WP59. Just 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-0. Although I can't in any way discount that I did something wrong, as this is the first I've dealt with this.

Damn, dude, you made this thing hard as f to win. I did all the atc procedures correctly for takeoff, even though I went a bit over 1,500' for a bit, and then turned to 085° like told, when released I went to WP1 at mach .75, hooked up with my wingman, figured out how to make a new waypoint for bullseye, went and found the bomber, escorted him out until he hit his burners, then despite being almost bingo, went offshore and got the intel Sentinel wanted, only to get shot down by a SAM that it seemed like shot ALL his missiles at me, though I did dodge quite a few of them, and still only scored a 50. I've gotten a 50 before when I never even took off. I think I'm just gonna take the draw and move on,, I've had enough of this mission. I'm not the kind of guy who likes having to train for it 55 times before I finally get it right. Even if the SAMs weren't there, I'm not sure I had enough go juice to get home.

I did not take this step. Will it speed up my VR if I do?

OK, I'm a relative noob to DCS, and maybe this campaign is just too advanced for me, but I need help with mission 3. (And 2, I never could find the hill with the tower and just gave up...) SPOILERS: When I get retasked to go see what's going on with an inbound Russian plane, I'm given BRA from the bullseye. Problem is the F10 map is so limited that I can't see my own plane, or where the bullseye is, so I'm really not sure where to go. I did manage to get a red plane on my radar, but couldn't get it locked up in RWS or TWS mode. I also got yelled at for going into Turkey, but since the map is all but useless, I had no idea I was even close. So, is this a "me problem" because figuring out a BRA from the bullseye should be easy, or am I missing several pieces of knowledge and skills to even take on this mission yet? Oh, one last thing... I've trimmed this thing to the right so far (based on the time I hit the trim button), but the imbalance is still causing me to roll left if I'm not counteracting it, or don't have the autopilot on, and even that isn't working correctly, for example I input a heading, hit heading select, and it doesn't even try to go to that heading, so that's not helping a bit.

It happened twice during the training missions. Generally speaking, there were text instructions but not vocalized, in any language. I don't know if that's how it's supposed to be, but that's how it was. I checked all my settings, and anything related to language was set on English, unless I missed something.

What does this phrase mean? I've got everything installed and apparently running properly, so I guess I had that set properly, but I am curious.

Sounds like an excellent reason to delete it! Thank you.

What are the symptoms if you fail to delete that file? I don't think I'm having problems, I'm just curious...