jvandemark

ah, interesting, thanks guys

I'm wondering there's a way to control the radius of orbit for a circling AI bandit? It looks like the default it ~ 2.5 miles? Thanks

Sabre, Removed mods, and it looks like I'm in business now! Thanks

Sabre, 3 mods installed Gripen, Mig-31 & Su-35. I tried DCS repair, but that didn't fix it. I'll move the mods temporarily and see if that helps. Yes I have the F-18 and have been flying it lately I'll post a little later, Thanks for the response. ---- just curious is the Task Force Challenger mission suppose to be there?

I was really looking forward to the campaign, unfortunately F1 doesn't put me in my FA-18, I can see everything else, but I can't actually fly my plane. I'm running the latest version of Open Beta. Possibly/Probably doing something really stupid? Any thought on what's going on? There's no F10 menu, and only the last mission BMF actually puts me in a FA-18 Hornet e.g. it's the only mission that appears to work. Tried a delete and reinstall, that didn't fix it either Thanks

I don't recall there being a requirement that you run open beta? I have the same install issue.

I may just break down and buy the F-16 winwing throttle :sigh: Anyone own this throttle, would you buy it again? any problems?

figured it out `undesignate` for 3 seconds breaks the STT lock. Three seconds is a long time when WVR dogfight falcon_120, nice, hadn't thought of this. thanks

If I'm flying against 2 targets, ACM high off-borsight locks the first target it sees. Is there a way to remain in ACM and swap to the other target i.e. break the STT lock and lock the other target? In TWS (non STT) you can undesignate and it will swap targets (assuming you have 2 locked). Undesignate in ACM drops you back to the previous scan mode TWS/RWS. I've tried to simply point LOS (line of sight) at the other target and `designate` but that doesn't work. I'd like to be able to fire an AIM9x at the first target, and then immediately swap (and lock) the second target for another shot, and then swap back if need be. I've also tried to uncage after hitting the first bandit, and the radar remains locked on the first (now dead) plane until it's practically hit the ground. How do you break a STT lock? Thanks

I just upgraded to DCS 2.8.4, and I have a problem with the antenna elevation using winwing's f18 throttle (Hotas Max). The antenna elevation has always been questionably functional with the f18 throttle (while flying a Viper) in that it makes huge jumps up and down. Thus in the middle of a fight you can't move the antenna elevation with any level of accuracy to get a lock. In DCS 2.8.1 I worked around the issue by simply creating a couple additional entries in `default.lua` to reduce the vertical movement. so instead of the default `THROTTLE_ANT_ELEV_UP` = to 1.0, I set it to 0.2 and everything worked great. Unfortunately with 2.8.4 this workaround has been negated by some integrity check I suppose. So this modification is not, in my opinion, giving me any unfair advantage (I only play single player anyhow) but allows me to operate the radar effectively. How can I work around this? Can this check be overriden? Taking your hand off the throttle to mess with some slide on the base is a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. I find this very frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Japo32, Thank you! this is the sort of info I have been looking for. I will give it a shot, much appreciated.

didn't even look did ya :smh: If you're filming top gun, sure that's how it would be done. But that's not what I was asking about

you can't film a dogfight in short snippets (as seen on youtube channels like GS or LS, and others), you'd need to able to record it in some sort of track file so that you could use the camera to get different view for all the different events. I don,t buy that you could finesse a dogfight with thus said approach. If you did you'd have multiple dog fights parading one. Go look at a dogfight on Growling Sidewinder's channel and tell me that was done in snippets of different dogfights

Yes, this has been a problem forever, but how do guys like Growling Sidewinder & Long Shot actually work around the terrible dislocation/sync issues with track replay???? I'm hard pressed to believe they just record the actual live play. I've searched for a solution and the closest thing I can find is to have a separate sever to run DCS, and connect to it. I don't have a second high end server just sitting around to do this with. Anyone? help If ED can't, or don't have the time to fix this why don't they open source just this piece of the code? I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of developers, that play this game, that would be more than willing to volunteer their time to fix it. I would. This issue is really frustrating. Is this lua code? or compiled binary of some other language? anyone? Thanks, Joe

In ED video with Wags, he simply switches from RWS to TWS and shows the radar sweep following the TDC. DOES not work as shown. why? Joe