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I went back to some carrier practice missions I use for random stuff yesterday and now when I spawn in position 1 I have this issue where the flight directors have position 2 move to Cat 2 first, which causes my wingman to run into me. This is with the F14, in the F18 he just sneaks by me without hitting me. In this mission previously I was directed to Cat 1 before my wingman was directed to taxi to cat 2. I did this 4 times with the same result each time, not sure why this has changed as it has worked with me taxing first since flight directors where introduced. I have other missions where I am in position 4 and 14 with a full deck of planes launching and those still worked for me. I understand this is a very complicated system and still under development, so I am just throwing this out there not really looking for any answer. It's been a great addition for immersion. Flight Diretor issues .trk

I agree, this sounds like a really cool setting and I love the WW3 going hot idea. I’m in the middle of a campaign right now but I will give this a download this weekend and get it on my list of items to play! In my limited mission editor experience I realize how time consuming it can be so campaigns like this to try are much appreciated!!

Wrapped up this campaign this last weekend and I have to say I really enjoyed this campaign. The story was fantastic, the combination of strike, Air to Air, and Sead made for great mission variety. The start up procedure with the crew chief was something I didn’t know I would enjoy that much but now starting the jet without that interaction seems boring The mission where we got retasked to destroy that bridge and immediately having to commit on the MiG 31 was awesome!!! Job well done Reflected !!

Appreciate the help! Thank you

I had designated a different SPI at steer point 4, and after that is where things got skewed when I went egress. So I need to hit CZ on the pod before I switch to the next steer point? I have been flying the viper for a minute and somehow I had avoided this issue by pure accident it seems lol.

Over the last week I have had an odd situation arise. Three of the last four missions I have played,(three on Kola and one on Syria) have resulted in my HSI being very skewed from where my HSD says waypoints are. The HSD remains correct while the HSI is very incorrect. The image below was after mission 1 of First in Weasels over Syria. Approaching H4 you can see on the HSD the airbase is about 6 miles off the nose at bearing 265 and that is where it really is. Meanwhile the HSI is saying this waypoint is 040 for 15 miles. Any thoughts on how this might happen? I am doing a stored alignment on start up and non of these missions involved much for high G maneuvers. Guess I am a little confused. This just popped up this last week and not sure what changed or what I’m doing different.

Thank you for that explanation!! For the last few months learning the Viper I have struggled with this also, but have survived using RWS Dual Target Track since I was rarely engaging more than two anyway, but recently started to revisit this. Good info !!

I think what happened is he shot at the Black Shark and I was right next to it. The AMRAAM went after me instead, nothing I could do. I was slow and out of options

Haha 10/4. Limited time to fly sometimes so gotta make that call if I move on in the story or replay. I hate not completing a mission all the way, so I’ll probably give it another go as I am still learning the F16 anyway and it’s more flight time. And getting shot down like that is truly bad luck lol.

I’m aware he can’t. Just seeing if anything else interesting happens in this mission.

So........ get 2 hours into this mission and my own wingman shoots me down with a Fox 3??? I am not replaying this. Anything exciting happen on the way back after the Black Sharks are destroyed? This is the second time I have gotten shot down by an AI F16 in a long campaign mission. The other was in an A-10 on Persian Freedom. Please tell me I am not the only one having this happen.... Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket. Tacview-20250118-072615-DCS-Arctic Thunder - Viper - 03.zip.acmi

So, after three play throughs I can only come to the conclusion that this mission is designed to make me go Winchester mavs on the T55 tasking. Forcing me to gun run the SA9? I notice on tacview the T55’s just blow up shortly after my last Mav is fired. Has anyone completed the t-55 tasking with a Mav left? I have not taken out the SA9 as I got shot down once(bad flying), crashed once (bad flying), and exhausted my guns with the SA-9 at 50 health left. (Bad gunnery skills). Finally on the last try I just flew home and completed the mission, knowing a couple UH1s would get shot down. Don’t like that. What’s others experiences?

I was a counsel gamer before this and bought a computer just to try DCS. That was a couple years ago and many thousands of dollars later, and it was definitely a large learning curve with just getting setup and started, not to mention running into the issue I just did. Without YouTube or these forums I don’t think I would have been able to get started. All worth it but definitely a different experience from someone whose computer knowledge is only as good as I need it to be to get over the next hurdle lol.

Haha, that was it. Thanks for the help. Much appreciated!!

I’ll give it a shot. Haven’t had this issue before