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Already bound a center when held button. That's not the problem. It's moving around the cockpit. I'm working on it.

That's kinda sad. Janes had that in like the 90s

That looks cool! Wait, do paid campaigns have cut scenes? It seems like DCS doesn't support cut scenes.

Does the cage button do anything apart from locking the sidewinders?

It may have been a bug fixed in the last OB update. I think they did fix it.

For the last part, there is an attack azimuth I thought you could set for GPS guided bombs. It shows on the MFD, but nothing happens when you press it. A gps weapon can attack from a different direction than the launch airplane. Or a cluster shot would just be lined up better (what I was trying to do).

I'm trying to use head tracking, and I'm not loving it right at the moment. I created another thread about how it kills my POV switch, even when toggled off. With a certain padlock improvement, I might not even need it: Allow the view center button to work while it's held down. It can be totally disorienting sometimes when padlocked to a target, especially a bandit, but being able to glance forward by holding the view center button would fix that. The F-16's clear cockpit dome just doesn't have any reference points. I have no idea where my nose in pointing. I'm sure IRL, a pilot would subconsciously glance forward, or at least have the proprioception to know where they are in 3D space, but we don't have that sitting at a desk looking at a screen. I pilot IRL would just sense they are looking over their left shoulder a certain amount, or whatever. Part b: also maybe make view return to center/where it was when padlock is turn off. Right now, it just stays where it was. Ugh.

Maybe this is on purpose, but I can't use the POV hat with head tracking on. I just downloaded OpenAI and Open Track and I'm figuring it out/getting used to it, but it's a little weird. I'm middle aged and I've never used a head tracker before. I'm getting nauseous, lol. There are times I would like to just have it off, I think, but even with the hotkey in Open Track to toggle tracking, POV still doesn't work. It works on external views just fine. Head tracking doesn't seem to effect that. I'd like to still have to option of using my POV hat. Especially poking around in the F-16 cockpit. It's kinda hard for me to get the headtracking to allow me to look in all the corners or it doesn't stay still enough, etc. Not really sure why that's a thing. The free look with alt-C doesn't work either. TL;DR version: Trying to click on stuff with head tracking can be hard, but having any head tracking software disables my POV switch, even when toggled off.

TBF, the F-16 (or most any fighter jet) is basically a fuel tank, an engine, and a cockpit. It is annoying though. A few BTR hits to the tail and all your fuel goes bye bye without even a vapor trail to say goodbye. Anyway, the new drop cues for A2G seem different. The circle flashes, I hold the pickle button, it doesn't drop. Then I have to wait for the little horizontal line to come down to the FPM again. Is there some kind of manual range cue? Also, when are we gonna get attack vector for GPS bombs? Figured JSOWs or CBU's would have it by now, but they don't. And is it me, or did SFW's and the like get less effective? Am I just missing? Just been messing around with the Instant Action mission that starts hot on 31 at Vazani and attacking the ground targets available.

That would be amazing, because changing A2G weapons is oddly difficult. Is that what it is IRL?!

Yeah, I don't see it.

Oh, ok, thanks.

Can someone explain the new drop cues to me? the auto lase

I am also having this problem. Been trying low level snakeeyes runs and can't hit squat. I try it CCIP and pickle right when the little circle is on a target. And yes, it usually seems to go long.

OK, great, but this is for a campaign I've been playing, not my mission. And I would have to look up how to do that to edit it. Anyway, are they ED objects or custom to Syria?

When you say buddy lase, does that mean I can lase and order my wingman to attack? Because that is sorely missing right now from DCS.

not only should that be a thing, but IMHO empty tanks should be available in the loadout selection. That way if the mission starts in the air, you don't somehow magically have 12,000lbes of fuel and full external tanks.

That's weird. Was hoping to basically just have the bit that illuminates the tail/belly/whatever. I find it hard to believe that's real. Those red and green lights can go for miles; just look at any airplane passing overhead.

You can't have just the "formation" lights (whatever they are, they aren't green tabs) without the gree/red lights? That seems odd.

Need FC3 for this?

Fuel tanks seem way stronger than 1 would expend them to be. Like 1 500 pounder should set 1 off and start a chain reaction that blows all the nearby ones up. Right now 500 pounder on a delay makes a scratch. Really messing up a campaign I'm trying. Not sure if it's an ED object or something particular to Syria. Pretty weird and frustrating.

AA mode is different functionality of the TGP. It is slaved to the radar, basically. If you were looking for enemy radars with the HTS, why wouldn't you be in AG mode?

Would also be nice if autostartup switched it back to elec. Autostart isn't quite complete.

Kinda makes sense though that basically any hit would result in a fuel leak. The F-16 is pretty much a cockpit, fuel tanks, and an engine. Most fighter jets are.

I wonder if this is what was causing the problems I mentioned in other threads. Haven't been able to reproduce, but it could be a weird setting the first steerpoint type of issue. It comes and goes.