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Was trying some toss bombing with waypoint as target designation and when you go below the min safe altitude (before you pull up to toss) the bomb fall line disappears until you get completely out of AG mode or undesignated the target. This may be the way it is, but i'd assume that the line should reappear as you get above the safe delivery altitude.

Apologies everybody, life has been busy for a while now. Just getting back into DCS, I'll start rejuvenating the missions as time permits. As always suggestions are welcome, may take me a bit to get started back up depending on the new broken things in mission editor, been out of the game for a long while.

I've been flying the blackshark since it's release and I find it useful, the ability to set mark/target points in your hud as well as have a visualization of your LWS is nice. I still use the datalink panel but the other features work well. If you deny yourself a little additional situation awareness, then you must be a better pilot than I.

Replaced the file, what does this fix?

Perfect. Thank you so much.

So back to the mod discussion; Has anybody been able to assign the cougar buttons in-game to the mfd section of the controls? I'm using "joytokey" which is software that allows you to assign keyboard keys to buttons on hardware. The control cells in the game control section will not let me map any buttons from my hardware to anything besides the keyboard row for the mfd. I've had this issue before but deleting the control.lau allowing the game to reassign the control profile has fixed it in the past. Any methods anybody has used to map the buttons in-game would be helpful.

All I know is this game will never be "fair" according to that thought process unless it's limited to the hardware it will run on. Example: I run 2 monitors, a 65 inch 4k for my main and a 32 inch for the shkval. I'd say that having this mod running pales in comparison to the advantage the large monitors give me. This mod helps your situational awareness, it's not like it's an aimbot or gives you enhanced shkval resolution. If you want to get down to the pure vanilla experience they should disallow TeamSpeak or any other communication software, because after all it wasn't placed in-game there for it would be seen as a hack to the purists.

Great work, disregard the naysayers.

It's a PITA but you can get the cords off the f-10 map and put it in as a waypoint.

Datalink requires you to reset your targeting system before it will send a datalink. So before you could lock a target or ingress point and dl to all or specific wingman and sendmem. Now you have to save tgt to your abris reset all weappn systems and then send while caged.

:cry: that sucks. one of these days maybe.

So just made a quick mission to test and it looks like it's working the same way as when I made my video you're talking about. I'll post the mission and the track of me flying it. edit I made a video tutorial of the mission creation and flying it, uploading now i'll post links soon as it's done. els.miz homing ELS.trk

My mistake. I was basing this off having the HSI acting like it was tuned to a VOR when it was tuned to an ILS in the a10 a while back. Upon reading more about the behavour of the ILS I conceed that you guys were right. Learned something new today. :thumbup: Now if we can implement FM communication with the JTAC i'll be happy. Somebody posted a mod to make JTAC work with the blackshark and I wrote him asking if he could point me in the right direction as to which .LUA files i need to edit or possibly write a version for the huey.

The ILS course setting is broken. As of now the ILS is fixed on runway heading with is fine if you're just using it for ILS, but thats not how the ILS system works. You need to have the course correct to properly aline the ILS needles. ILS is not a ADF transmitter with no course correction ability. I guess it helps to know how ILS works IRL and in other aircraft in DCS.

Yes, IRL life you can do it (see my above post) and last time I tried in the a-10, it's possible in-game. I'd settle for the ILS working properly in the huey (course setting working correctly) anyways but being able to use ILS as a near field (15-20 miles) navigation source (as you can IRL) would be a bonus. Also full functionality of the FM radio.

I may be able to help you, thats my video. I tried to recreate that mission in the latest release and I may be doing something wrong but I couldn't get the sound file I put into the mission editor to play. Might be a bug or something, it did however give my directional radio data.

To simplify what i'm describing; Imagine not having to only be able to navigate to an airbase (via radio) only if it has a ADF transmitter at the field (which is few and far between). If this VOR NAV radio was working as IRL, you could tune to the ILS freq ( which many airbases DO have) and get directional information in the huey instead of flying by map.

One or more of them may have been my tutorials on the huey. I made some videos that the huey dev's listed as unofficial training videos. To my knowledge the things i showed in my videos still work. jojothecircusboy on youtube for the videos, I believe they're also listed in one of the stickies in the huey forum.

ILS IRL is semi-omnidirectional. As an example I can pick up ILS signals in my area with my SDR while i'm not in beam of the ILS directional array. Most of the ILS is faced in the direction opposite of the landing runway to give the ILS needle guidance. That being said, you should be able to pick up an ILS signal regardless if you're in the main beam of the ILS approach beam, because of signals broadcasting omnidirectionally. The ILS works, but not as it should. It's fixed to the course (regardless of the course bearing selection in the huey) of the runway when in reality and in other aircraft as the a-10 you have to adjust the course setting to get a proper alignment with the runway. Not that I expect the sim to replicate the proper working of an ILS system (ILS is 3 carriers that modulate on both the upper side and lower side of the center freq) but you can use the current ILS system in the a-10 as a navigational aid even when you're not in beam of the array.

You should be able to tune the am nav radio to a ILS freq and have directional finding when within range. Currently once you pick up an ILS freq the course setting does nothing, IE needle stays on the same course regardless of course setting on VOR gauge. *edit You should also be able to contact JTAC with the FM radio for talk on and smoke marking of the target.

Had to redo my PC and they were deleted. I'll reupload them ASAP.

Thanks for the feedback, it looks like a couple things are broken right now in the editor, like waypoints, they kept going off road then freezing. The trigger zone are also kinda weird right now.

Nice job. :) Next mission will be a bit better. This was just a test run to see what the update broke with the mission editor. Give the QuickStart easy ground attack a go with the AI controlled mini guns. Remember you have to go into your username directory and delete the Huey config folder to gain those mappable controls.

Made a quick mission if somebody wants to give it a shot, just to get back in practice, short mission and no music on this one. good luck. https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqcmjo2j4g98z21/raid.miz