Buehgler

It would be great to see some "official" reply to this one. We attempted to neutralize a Tung with one AGM-65D from each of two aircraft. Tung shot them both down, first went down at 3-4nm from target second probably made it to ~1nm. We came around and tried again with everything we had (3 or 4 more AGM-65Ds plus guns) and managed to kill it. I have not tested the effect on HARMs yet, but it seems that if they are even firing at HARMs this is probably an actual bug and not an intentional feature.

Great guide. Thanks very much for taking the time to put this together. I am afraid that we had only figured out about 1/4 of this functionality and capability from reading and experimenting.

That would be incorrect. Just visit http://support.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ and click on the "user support" tab on the lower left.

According to the Ergodex web site they are not the same. Although I suspect they are the same physical devices, just with different (unchangeable) firmware and drivers. It seems that the only support for the Ergodex device is via Virtual XP under Windows 7. Not a very viable solution IMO.

The "E" something mentioned above would be Ergodex. As best as I understand, the CH MFP is actually based on technology and components from Ergodex. However, they are not interchangeable, and there is quite a bit more than "2 or 3 cardboards" added. Ergodex has a comparison of the two at http://www.ergodex.com/faqs/Buyer_Selection_Guide.htm As best as I can tell, Ergodex never managed to produce drivers for Vista or Win 7, although people have found workarounds using VirtualXP and the like. As for using this device with DCS, did you see this thread?

It looks to me like you are using the digital zoom feature but leaving the TGP on the wide FOV setting. If you use china-hat forward short to switch to the narrow FOV you will get a much clearer view. Switching the FOV via the china-hat actually switches the optics to higher magnification so that the sensor will have more pixels on the target. The digital zoom you get from using DMS up just zooms the pixels you have -- those "horizontal lines" are actually the borders between the pixels in the sensor.

I am also unable to experiment at the moment. But I agree with colts' diagnosis. TMS right-short will set a mark at the current SPI. Dragon, I believe you just need to TMS up-long to set the SPI before you use right-short and your problem will be solved. Also, I believe you do not need to activate the laser designator to execute this sequence. It is possible that activating it may improve the accuracy of the mark, but that would require some experimentation.