Maulkin

UPDATE: The appears to be affecting all DCS Modules. :(

I jump into the quick mission "Attack insurgents" and without touching anything I hit the '\' key to communicate with my wingman but the menu will not come up. But the second I touch the ground (with wheels or belly, does not matter as long as I am touching the ground) the radio suddenly works. I am also unable to communicate with the tower unless I land first. It is pretty funny that I must land in order to ask the ATC if I can land. ;) To be clear, the menu does not come up at all. NOTE: the 'radio assists' in the Options menu is unchecked.

I am trying to learn more about the ARK-22 and I am able to get it to home onto the outside and inside markers of airfields (even though the audio tones don't seem right), but I would like to learn this (quoted from the manual): The ARK-22 ADF can also be slaved to the R-800L1 VHF radio. In this case, the RMI needle on the HSI is directed toward the transmitter on the frequency currently selected for the R-800L1 radio. For example, the flight leader can maintain bearing to his wingman when the wingman is transmitting a radio call. Anyone know how to do this or a good source to learn it from?

Ah well that explains it! Thanks for letting me know so I can move on to my next lesson :) I will wait for the patch that fixes it befor trying again.

I am currently testing the VOR/ILS navigation using the AN/ARN-82 VHF navigation set, using the first UH-1H quick mission where you start on the ramp at Tbilisi-Lochini. I tune the radio to the ILS frequency of 108.90 MHz and ensure the set is turned on. I can then verify that a signal is being tracked by the radio compass indicator. But I was expecting the hear the morse code sound over the intercom but I hear nothing at all. I tried moving the volume control around and it didn't seem to change anything. Anyone know what I am doing wrong here? A good example of what I was expecting can be seen here in this YouTube video:

Thanks guys and I love the sig! ;)

I noticed under the axis commands for the Uh-1H that there is this thing called a 'corrector'. I done a search of both the forum and the pdf document and have found no explanation of what this is for. Does anyone know?

I opened a ticket with ED and Daniel Agorander from their support team got back to me and he solved the problem so I thought I might post it up here in case anyone else runs into this. Despite the driver fix nVidia recently put in to solve the SLI issues, apparently the GTX 295 fell through the cracks. The GTX 295 is sold as a single vid card but is in fact two vid cards packaged together running in an SLI configuration. To solve the problem I had to go into the nVidia driver and turn off SLI mode (multi-GPU). Now the blue flickering is gone but I am stuck with using only half of my vid card, but this is better than nothing and the frame rate is not bad if I turn things down.

Hey folks, I just installed DCS world onto a slightly older machine (that I am hoping to set my son up on) and what I am seeing is that when I start the single player the main menu looks fine, but then when I go into instant action, the loading screen is flickering blue, and then when I get into the Su-25T cockpit it is also flickering blue. The interesting part is that the single player main menu does not do this, but the multiplayer main menu also will flicker blue. The system info is: Intel i7 920 (not overclocked) 6 GB RAM Asus P6T deluxe V2 motherboard nVidia GTX 295 (running in SLI mode, not overclocked), driver 320.18 Windows 7 64-bit version SP1

I currently don't understand most of what you said there but now I have something to work with, thanks! I'll go play with this for a while and come back with more specific questions. I have not been using WEP as my interface was bugged and would not let me use it but now that I fixed it i just forget WEP is even there. :)

Thanks I have been trying side slipping but perhaps not aggressively enough. So I should use a fine setting on my prop (lever full forward?)? I have not noticed the effect of full flaps acting like a boat anchor. I will need to confirm that they are deploying properly. Lately I have been dropping the landing gear early just to slow it down.

Yes I have done that mission several times but even with those the trainer is say "reduce speed to XX on final" and I'm struggling to maintain approach and decent rate while reducing speed. So technically I was able to complete the mission several times but I have never felt good about it.

So I have done all of the training and the only part that has me working with the cooling systems is the startup. Is there any material that covers general engine management, what to be looking for, and standard practises to prevent engine failure during flight. More often then not I find myself in situations where the engine seizes and I have no idea what I did wrong. Also, when coming in for a landing what is the best method to bleed off speed? I find I am always coming in a bit too hot even if I back the throttle right off. I typically keep the prop pitch to fine in case I have to abort the landing (yeah that happens alot when I discover I am just too fast) but sometimes I feel the only thing left is to set the prop to coarse to attempt to use the prop and an airbrake. Is there something I am missing?

I'm just taking a wack at it here but one thing I might try is to go into this directory: C:\Users\<USER NAME>\Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input\ Then remove all the config files, and put them somewhere safe in case this does not work. When you start DCS World all of these files will be regenerated with default values and I believe it looks at your controllers and builds those config files as well. If it does not work then remove all the new files that were created, and replace them with the backup of your original files so that at least you are back where you started so that someone else might have a fix for you. :)

Ah-ha! http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=94810 Or what Cichlidfan said ;) Thanks guys... and impressive response time. :)

Hmm... I did have it in beta. How would I fix this?

I read in the manual that it exists, and I also saw it in the control list under "Flight controls" but it wont let me bind anything to it and I cannot push the throttle past that bloody wire. How to I activate WEP?

What might be happening is that DCS World is not seeing that you own this module. You may need to reactivate your P-51D module. Dont worry too much about using an activation as they regenerate one per month. I have had similar problems and now I keep a zip file that will delete the registy entry for the key of each module that I own. You can find it here: DCS_regDelKeys.zip

Thanks MadDog I just saw your post after I hit the reply on mine. :)

Nevermind I forgot that the mission does not calibrate to the joystick until after I have touched something on it. Despite my throttle being all the way back, the sim didn't know that until after I wiggled it a bit. Then I could start the engines. :) I forgot how much fun it is to fly this plane :)

I am trying to do the single mission "Ramp Start and Navigation" and the first thing it gets me to do is turn on electrical power which I am able to do. It then gets me to start the left engines with LALT+HOME and I can see the engine start light breifly light up but then nothing happens. Same with the right engine. Anyone know what I am doing wrong here?

Oh I like the second idea! Thanks!

Hey guys I am fairly new to the mission editor (last time I touched it was when Flaming Cliffs 1 was released) and things seem very very different and yet the same so I get confused easily. I thought a good place to start was to edit the P-51 vs P-51 quick mission and set it to P-51 vs Fw190 but when I set the Fw-190 to Germany it flips it to blue and I cannot seem to change it. I can see the definition for which countries are Red and which are Blue in the briefing but it does not seem to let me change it there. So where can I put Germany on the Red team?

They have a strange name but I have attached them to this post.

Now we need some with the P-51 facing the Fw-190!! :)