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  1. Wow, after a week of playing with the replays, I have found that about 8 out of 10 times I get a total B.S. return from them. Not only do they change the outcomes, but I'll have strange things like P-51's emitting jet engine sounds instead of prop sounds, them shooting with weapon systems they don't have, and total revisionist history. They are less than unreliable, they are total BullS--t.
  2. Looking for a way to practice aerial gunnery on some simple target drones. Just want to set up a bunch of them and be able to target practice real quick without having to listen to and cycle past the long lesson narration of the m61a2 gun lesson....Just place a bunch of planes or drones flying a straight course to be able to approach them at various angles and shoot them down without them reacting, and quickly reload the mission for fast repetition and building up experience and practice. I tried setting a bunch of friendly planes up and then ambushing them from behind, but then my pilot got smacked for Fratricide. So I tired using other planes from the other side, but they all scatter whenever I approach them. I just want to shoot simple target drones to develop reflex experience with the gun (and not be ripped for Treason afterwards every time).... Thanks,
  3. No high power settings, 20-30 inches at max when slowing down, but mostly below 15" to almost idle, temp needles are always solidly in the green, right up to the failure, and then that occures way after the maneuvers during basically a level cruise flight to set up speed. I'll use about 40" during a speed building dive, but then I'm already going fast because of the dive starting out. The last two incidences I purposefully used power off dives to recover from the maneuvers and then just glid at best range glide speed to wait for the inevitable engine failure, and there it came.... I have used higher power during cuban eights & Immelmans before without problems in dogfighting, it's only during these ballistic dump overs that I'm having the problems. I'm thinking oil? during the low G part, but that's just a second or two. But then I see other planes doing the same thing w/out incident. Seems like a poor weakness for a fighterplane to have..... But then again, I have flown the plane inverted until fuel starvation quit the engine, but once righted, it came back w/out problems. So I'm at a loss here.
  4. Done a search, haven't found.... Recently started doing a bunch of aerobatics in the P-51, and I've found that, whenever I do any ballistic maneuvers, like hammerheads, tail slides, or nose-overs, I find my engine breaks very soon after, like within a minute or so ---> the engine overheats, power dies, and then it stops. I'm not pushing it during these maneuvers, I'm using lower manifold pressures, sometimes at idle, the prop speed is set around 28-29 hundred, and the maneuver is actually pretty gentle all the way through, yet every time, the immediate result is a broken engine. The engine is always running cool during the flight, right up to failure, then, overheat, power loss, and prop stops during a level recovery cruise. I'm not overspeeding the aircraft either, I rarely go over 350-400 indicated. Are there other maneuvers I need to avoid to avoid breaking my engine? thanks;
  5. This has happened before; I'll fly a bunch of dogfights. Lose some, then get a fantastic win, so I hit the save track button to preserve the record of it. Then when I replay it expecting to enjoy my win, instead it shows a defeat I don't even remember flying. Then I discover that the record of this cool and hard fought victory is lost forever, and I have instead this bewildering track showing my opponent drilling me from behind with like 20 solid seconds of machine gun fire, my plane plunging into a field, and then followed by seven minutes of him drifting out to sea afterwords, cycling his landing gear, then eventually landing at the airport on Saipan.... I don't remember ever recording that. I have flown flights before, hit save to track, but then when replayed, got back something totally different than what I had just flown. Once the track looked like something that I might have flown the month before....
  6. Not sure if this is the right forum for this Q but.... How can I fly my P-51 around the Marianas Islands? I'm finding I can't access many of my planes in places I want to fly them. Is there limitations on what maps each plane is allowed to fly in? Specifically I was hoping to fly the P-51 and MiG-29 around the Marianas Islands, and also to try some P-51 T.O.'s and landings on one of the carriers. Thank You,
  7. Hello, I just made a mission where I populated a harbor with 2 AC carriers full of planes. 1st attempt had some planes missing from the deck which I most definitely placed there and linked to the ship unit. I have repeatedly re-linked the missing planes with the ship to no avail; they show up in the mission editor, but not in the game. I then tried deleting the missing planes and replacing them with new ones. Still no success. The replacements don't show up either. Eventually, I changed one of the ships from the Carl Vincent to the Harry Truman. Now, in addition to my 4 missing planes, all the planes I do have on that ship are now underwater. How do I fix this? Thanks,
  8. The other day I was watching a video on YouTube trying to learn how to set up cameras and a guy was discussing snap views. He said to save, use the keystroke [ALT] [numpad 0]. It then saved this crazy distorted view, terribly off center and low in the cockpit which I can't seem to get rid of. I've been going crazy moving my head around with the TrackIR, trying to relocate the view and resaving, but it just keeps getting worse. It is so far out of whack now I cannot fly anymore.... Is there a way to go back to the original factory default view, just looking straight forward in the cockpit view again? Thanks,
  9. Hello; Recently I aquired a new HOTAS system consisting of a complete Thrustmaster M16000 stick, throttle, and rudder system. I swapped out the TM stick for a VKB Gladiator NXT Kosmosima stick. This works just fine, with each pair of periferrals appearently running off of separate .lua files in the aircraft folder. I have a separate lua file for the TWCS Throttle/Rudder combination, while the VKB stick runs off a separate VKBsim Gladiator lua file, and a separate USB port. The setup appears to run great, however, when I start to do the button and axis mapping, the computer, and game, start f-ing with me in the following way - I map the buttons and axis and get them running beautifully. Once I get a good running copy, I copy each lua file under a backup name, so that if anything goes wrong with the origional, I can just delete the bad copy, duplicate my backup and rename it to the working file name, which is some terribly long name involving the company and product name along with a long string of numbers. I copy/paste the original file name back into the duplicate file name, and then everything works just peachy again. Or used to. Problem is, now, when I copied the VKBsim Gladiator lua files, the copies appeared to have exactly the same names as the originals. So I would rename them with a new "copy of...." prefix and be done with it. But then, when I would sub in the new file with the newer key and axis mapping, the newer files won't work, it keeps reverting back to the very first default mappings for the joystick. (...and joystick only, the throttle/rudders still work fine....) It doesn't happen for the throttle/rudder part with the TWCS lua file, just the Gladiator stick lua part. Then, after staring at the files in the folder for awhile, I realize that every time the game makes and saves a lua file for the VKB Gladiator stick, it adds a white space character " " (space-bar hit) to the beginning of the Gladiator lua file name. (It does not do this for any other of my gaming periferrals.) Now, as soon as I copy that file, or re-name it, or do anything at all with it, the computer strips off that initial " " space character and won't let me save the file again with that empty character at the front of the name..... The Problem is..... that DCS will ONLY run the VKBsim lua file if it has that blank empty space at the head of the rest of the file name for the VKB Gladiator stick. So, if anything happens to that One Working Copy that I originally wrote and was using for the game, then it is lost, and I have to start all over again from scratch. The copy backup scheme doesn't work for the VKB stick. (It does work for everything else, previously I used a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, and a Thrustmaster.) Anybody know what to do here? I can't replace the VKB lua files with an empty space character at the head of the file name to get my stick functions back, and it took me several days to get everything set up right in it. I have the completed file, but I just can't get it to save with the necessary name in order for DCS to run it for me....Or get DCS to stop adding that pesky blank space character at the head of the file name. Alternatively, I can't get DCS to run the file WITHOUT it having that blank space at the head of it's name, either. Thank You in advance for helping with this very annoying problem....
  10. I checked all those in the cockpit views, all switches were in operating position. Will the cockpit view not represent the actual condition? I have not mapped engine controls to my current stick. But I will review the file.
  11. No, either straight & level, or starting to turn towards opponent
  12. It happens during the P51 vs P51 dogfight instant action in the Caucasus region. 1st time it was about 30 seconds into the flight right after the merge. I didn't see him fire at me, but assumed I had been hit. After that, it kept happening, but only seconds into the game (like 2 or 3 seconds after start). Each time I would do an emergency landing into a field. And I don't know if the game allows it, but on the way down, I'd try for an emergency restart, but get absolutely nothing. When starting the gameflight, the engine is already at the default game starting throttle setting, and again, this is now happening within the first 2 - 3 seconds of gameplay. All my engine gauges appear normal when it happens, only thing I see happen is the ammeter drops from normal to zero when the engine quits, but all else seems normal, unless I'm missing something deeper here.... I started saving and reviewing the tapes, and the opponent is not shooting at me, so I am not hit at the merge. Can someone tell me what's going on here? I have the 2.7 DCS version that is *not* the open beta one. Thanks,
  13. I don't want to get shredded for my simplicity here, but last year I simply ordered one of them pre-made gamers from an outfit called Cyberpowerpc. It has an i5, an envidia geforce gtx 1660 super 6, 550gb SSD, and 8g memory, and so far its been ripping very well thru DCS and other things I have, like Space Engine, & Blender3D. and i'm using a big television monitor on it hooked thru hdmi, with trackIR, and logitech extreme 3d pro joystick in the games. Still waiting on delivery of my Thrustmaster stick, throttle & rudder combo, and VKB NXT joystick, so I don't know how those work out yet. Hope that kind of benchmark helps you out....
  14. Thanks for the steer guys, finally got it to come in thru the game. Got the Flaming Cliffs thing as well as a few extra regions and the supercarrier and some deep planes. Took about an hour to download and install. Gotta hand it to the developers, this is one sweet simulator...
  15. I've been farting around the game module download menus for the last hour and I can't find a way to add the supercarrier to my purchase cart in the game menu. I have 7 items waiting to be purchased, but I can't find the carrier shown anywhere in the available choices. I read on the website notes that this can be purchased through the module manager, but that whole thing is just blank. All the buttons are gray and don't respond when pushed. My machine is hooked up to the internet now with the game open, but I'm stuck at this stage unable to complete my 1st purchase.... BTW, I would also like to get the Marianas download as well, but that doesn't show up anywhere as well..... Thanks, Appreciate any help,
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