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I'm not sure which one you mean Tucano? I saw him turn on the fuel pump switch and verify on the fuel pressure gauge that there was pressure but I never saw him turn it off and on again. I think you guys may be right that the pre-oil was a modification but it is the same switch we have that is labelled "oil dilution". Not sure if that means anything or not.

According to the manual: I have tried turning the knob to change the heading but it does not do anything. I have also tried to cage it and it does not appear to do anything either. Has anyone figured this thing out? Also, where is the magnetic compas for the P-51D? EDIT: nevermind I found the magnetic compass.. It is in fact the "Remote Indicator Compass"

I am not sure if anyone else has seen these videos but it really gave me a better appreciation for the P-51D module for DCS. All the sounds appear to be very similar and the procedure is almost the same except for some key differences that I can only assume would differentiate the P-51C and the P-51D: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: The two interesting things in these videos was the part where he takes two minutes to 'pre-oil' the engine before a cold start. I don't think that is modelled in the P-51D but I cannot understand why it would not be in the 'D' variant. Does anyone know why the 'D' would not need/have this? It throws me off a little bit because the starter is on the lower right side instead of the lower left but it looks like the switch would have been to the left of the starter. Second was watching his stick placement during takeoff. We are told to keep the stick back to keep the tail on the ground and let the aircraft fly itself off the ground but I thought I saw in this video that he lifts the tail off. Anyone else see that?

Yup I just found it and was about to post a link to that exact post. Thanks Bewsher!

I'm getting this too. Would love to know what the fix is.

Wow am I ever glad I stumbled onto this thread! Thanks AlaskanGrizzly for that amazing app. I have been going gangbusters converting all of the QuickStart docs for each aircraft into kneeboards. Your app has so many more features than I would have expected. I would recommend it to anyone.

Whoa... What's that? You can select a parking area? I thought it was always random. How do you select one?

Next Month....so far away.... *gasp*

I opened the mission using the editor and found the following weather settings: at 10m: 5m/s @ 55 degrees at 2000m: 9m/s @ 90 degrees at 8000m: 9m/s @ 73 degrees Turbulence = 0 Nothing there that I feel would account for this behavior. I will try out the mission again and post a track. @ratkandy: It has been a long time since I have flown the Su-25T so it is possible this has been changed. I just remember doing it once. Maybe I am thinking of the Ka-50......

It is the last mission in the 'Instant Action' for the Su-25T. I believe you only need it in the circle to get launch authorization but once fired you simply need to keep it lased. I am going to try firing the missile in pairs to see if there is a case where both missiles fly off in the same direction, implying a targeting issue, or where one flys off and the other stays on target, implying it might be a setting in the mission for missile accuracy.

Hey guys, A buddy and I are going throught the instant action missions and he mentioned to me today that when he tried this mission the 9A4172 Vikhr would suddenly vear off into the ground despite having the target clearly painted. I tried the mission out myself and sure enough the first Vikhr I fire flies true for a little while then suddenly vears off into the ground well short of the target that is clearly painted. I try the rest of my payload and I would estimate about 50% of the missles I fired would fly halfway there then suddenly decide life has no meaning, take a dramatic turn off to the right and slam into the nearest patch of ground it can find. I have confirmed that I have the optical sensor locked onto the tank, and the laser is painting it and the timer is counting down. I am flying straight and level. Anyone else ever encounter this?

Yes same here. Weapons will not deploy in training missions but they will in the 'Instant Action' mission, except for the guns in air-to-air mode.

I had the same problem last night. I was testing using the Instant Action mission called "Target Practise" and I was trying to shoot down the circling Huey. I have attached a track of this above mentioned mission where the guns were not able to fire. I tested this again tonight on the same mission and it appears this issue is not 100% reproducible as my guns in AA mode were working PS: I also noticed during the CCIP training mission that I cannot release the bombs but I can in this mission. Su-25T A2A guns wont fire.rar

Thanks that did the trick! :)

Not sure if I am using the right term but basically I am talking about the peice of angled pipe that deflects the jet exhaust up into the rotor wash. I noticed in some videos that this particular thing sometimes is missing but every mission I build seems to have that there. How do I get rid of it? I have even tried making the chopper 'slick' with no armaments or gunsights but I always have that thing there. I assume it is a setting somewhere in the mission build but I cannot seem to be able to find it.

I have and old TrackIR 2 I am trying to get working but the OS won't even recognize it! Has anyone got this working that could give me some advice on how I could get this to work?

You could create the shortcut manually by navigating (using File Explorer) to where the DCS_updater.exe is, right-click on it and 'copy, then go to your desktop and right-click anywhere and select 'paste shortcut' You then would have to right-click on the shortcut you just made and edit the 'Target' field to look something like this: "C:\Games\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe" update But your path might be different so keep that in mind.. That covers the shortcut to the updater....now for repair you would do the exact same thing but this time the 'Target field will look something like this: "C:\Games\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe" repair

I run the repair and get a screen pop up with a big red 'X'. Did you need a blue screen of death? Would you prefer I just said I get an error message and then it closed? Does it really matter? Great! I am really glad I included the log so that it would help diagnose this issue and so others might be able to reference this in the future. I dont recall ever specifically updating the Mi-8 module but if I did it was at the intruction of your support team so long ago that I dont remember. I have only ever been using the standard Start menu items and I just modified the standard Start menu item as per your recommendation above so it looks like this "D:\Games\DCS World 1.2.0\bin\DCS_updater.exe" update release and that looks like it is working. Thank you. Although now my Start menu item is no longer the standard....should I put it back? (ie remove the 'release' part) With that being said I want to say thank you for the help. But I could have really done without the condescending attitude that went with it.

I did try the repair and it crashed with the error: "404 not found" When I look at the log file it shows me the following: === Log opened UTC 2014-05-01 02:04:05 INFO : DCS_Updater/2.3.8.55 (Windows NT 6.0.6002; Win64; en-US) INFO : cmdline: "D:\Games\DCS World 1.2.0\bin\DCS_updater.exe" --apply repair STATUS: Initializing... INFO : basedir: D:\Games\DCS World 1.2.0 INFO : DCS/1.2.7.23803.355 (x86_64; EN; MI-8MTV2,A-10C,UH-1H_video_EN,WORLD,KA-50bs1,P-51D,FC3,UH-1H) INFO : branch: Mi-8MTV2 STATUS: Connecting to update servers... ERROR: update.eagle.ru replied HTTP 404 Not Found ERROR: update2.eagle.ru replied HTTP 404 Not Found ERROR: update3.eagle.ru replied HTTP 404 Not Found ERROR: 404 Not Found === Log closed.

I tried that...nothing happens. But the updates for the beta worked, and the updated on my other PC worked as well. Just won't work on my main install on my main PC :(

I believe it was released today....but my updater is still not triggering the update. Anyone know how to force an update?

I had the same problem :) "Use right-alt- \ while airborne, \ when on the ground." http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=112181

I had uninstalled the mod and the problem persisted but I think I must have screwed something up along the way. I did find this little gem: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030 and so I tried the following command: >DCS_updater.exe repair Mi-8MTV2 and viola! Everything is fine again. Now the question is how do I get the english cockpit mod working again.... I really can't live without it now.

Not sure when this happened or why but the gunsight is now a grey opaque polygon. I can see the reticule when it turns on but nothing behind it which makes it useless to aim with. Anyone else getting this or know of a way to solve this? Is there some way to repair a DCS module?

Also, here is the DCS version of that video above :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopq52ncaBk