Maulkin

I was very careful to keep the aircraft level when I dropped the gear. It should not have enough pressure to engage the locks so when I slightly rock the aircraft I should see the gear move about, until I complete the full rocking motion to cause them to snap into place. Ill see if I can create a video to demonstrate it.

Just a quick question regarding the hydraulics. When I use the pressure release valve for the hydraulics I see the pressure quickly go to zero on the indicator, and the gear doors drop down as they should. But when I set the gear in the down position I kinda expected them to fall down from gravity, but it almost appears they are being operated by what should be non-operative hydraulics and they even lock in place the moment the are fully down. I was expecting to have to rock the plane a bit to get them to lock. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

I've been flying around this region for so long (LOMAC -> FC -> BS -> FC2 -> BS2 -> A-10C) that it almost seems like home. :)

I am sincerely hoping that my current licenses for Blackshark-2 and A-10C will be able to migrate into DCS-World so everything is integrated. I am worried that I will have to purchase new licenses for both. :(

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So now I know when I was going to get the details for Black Shark.... in the Black Shark 2 upgrade! Money well spent and the airfields look great!

When either deploying or stowing the landing gear of the Ka-50, there are two pairs of doors for each rear landing gear. Currently only the smaller one appears to move, but the larger rear one does not, resulting in the landing gear clipping through it. The top pictures shows it working correctly in BS1 and the bottom picture shows the gear actually clipping the door as it is closing.

Trying to find the location where they are saved... anyone know? I found the single player ones in the /Ka-50/temp/ folder but no multiplayer tracks seem to be saved there.

I checked the PDF properties but the date given is the one when I put it into that folder, and does not reflect the actual creation date of the file. Is the one on the webpage right now the most recent version of the file?

So I had the manual printed out, but then I discovered I have three different versions of the manual on my computer!!! One that I had in my thumb drive (which I used to take to the print shop), another in the DCS A-10C install directory, and then I downloaded a new one from the DCS website to discover it is different from the other two. Is there some kind of version number hidden in the manual somewhere that can tell me which version it is or at least a date or something so I can determine which one is the most up to date? I fear I have spent $50 CDN for nothing. :(

Thank you so much for killing the micro stutters I would get when I would fire a weapon for the first time or when something would explode. I am so happy right now it should be illegal. :)

What are the various TS/Ventrilo servers?

I had a similar problem when trying to buy the A-10C. To be honest I have no idea how I finally got it to work. :( I just kept trying different ways.

I remapped the arrow keys as my trim control. Using the default key mappings were too tedious for how frequent I use the trim, and I have a joystick so I didn't need the arrow key default function.

Many of the videos references are pre-release. Are they still valid? I was watching the ones by Tigerpwrr, specifically the Maverick ones, and even those had annotations indicating the some processes have changed. I would really love it if someone simply did all of the training missions included with DCS A-10C. They would not even have to talk, simply follow along with the training script. That way I would know what to expect as I performed them. Kinda like what Matt did with the two engine startup videos.

I understand how most people here might not see much of a use for it, but for complete n00bs like me I would find it very helpful to the rest of the tutorial missions completed similar to the two you did for the startup procedure. It just helps to know what to expect and allows me to study it in detail. I found it a great help when I was able to examine the producer notes for Black Shark and that really accelerated my learning. Cheers, --Maulkin

KosPilot I really enjoyed watching your track and thought it was pretty exciting to watch you challenge yourself. That tank kill was spectacular BTW as well as that high speed landing approach thingy you did at the end (without benifit of a HUD due to the previously mentioned tank destroying it). Great demonstration of your piloting skills. While I do fly with the AP channels engaged, once the feces hits the occillator, I tend to slam on the Flight Director so I can have full authority of the aircraft. I do like having the dampeners engaged to smooth out my panicked jerking around of the cyclic. ;)

Thanks alot guys for your support! I guess my problem is that I am not the type of person that 'learns' from a manual. Once I fully understand something I can 'refer' to a manual just fine, but until I have all the concepts down the manual tends to confuse me. But I will take your advice and look at the landing section to see if it clears things up. In answer to some of your questions: Yes I set the ILS panel to what the CDU told me was the ILS channel for Bakumi and then turned the switch to the 'on' postion. I did know that it was an AOA indexer but had no idea how to handle it or what to do. I just assumed that the up arrow meant I was too low on my approach slope. What you said there makes alot of sense. I have always had trouble understanding " control speed with your pitch, control alt with your throttle" sort fo thing. Hard to get my head around. Yes I never saw the red/white lights turn on at all during the approach and landing. Thanks folks!

To be upfront, I know almost nothing about the A-10C or US military aircraft (no, I never flew Falcon). I did pretty good with learning most about the DCS Ka-50 however and that is alot due to the Producer Notes videos on Youtube, the training videos that came with it, and the SimHQ videos. I can see someone doing it the right way. I really like the new implementation of the training as it makes you learn where everything is, but I also hate it because unless you already know where everything is, and what to expect, you might miss-time something and get completely lost. Or get to busy trying to figure something out and miss half of what he says and then get completely lost. I just tried the landing training and everything seems to go well right up to the point when I am following the steerpoint the ATC just gave me (heading 228 for 30 for Batumi), and the instructor is telling me I should expect something to happen on my HSI.... but it never does. From there everything starts to get wonky. I turn towards what I think must me Batumi AF and I see the yellow UP arrow appear next to my HUD but it never changes from that. The instructor mentions that there should be some lights at the AF to give some kind of indication, but that never happens either. Eventually I just land the thing using the old Mark-1 eyeball, but that is rather disatisfying.... I really wish Matt had completed all the training videos and posted them on youtube like he did for the engine startup sequence..... That would help ALOT. :)

In regards to the lack of tracers, wouldn't that contradict what it says in the manual here: From page 56 of the DCS A-10C flight manual: Does the aircraft carry all three types at the same time (kind of like the Ka-50 which carries two different types of ammo)?

So I just bought DCS:A-10C (never did the beta thing) so I am learning this from the ground up, and I have some odd things that I am trying to figure out so I thought I would just list them off here and see if some of you guys who have been in the beta can help. :) 1) Where is the nav and beacon lights? I have seen videos of night operations but I'll be damned if I can find the switch that turns them on. Did manage to find the headlights however. :) 2) I jumped into a quick mission, which convienently had the guns enabled and ready, so I squeezed off a few rounds (oh who am I kidding... I unloaded the thing) but I did not see any tracer rounds at all! Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? 3) Another odd thing is that the TrackIR software detected DSC:A-10C as DCS:Black Shark and loads up the BlackShark profile. This is despite the fact that it has DSC:A-10C in the program list. Any workaround for this? I am trying to use a different TrackIR profile than my BS one as I feel A-10C requires more sensitivity in head movement than BS. (BWT I am using TrackIR version 4.1 build 38 with a TrackIR4)

I have it downloaded and left my computer on all night and today to act as a seeder for torrent. Can't wait to get home and pay for a key so I can start learning this bad boy. :)

Currently you DCS: Black Shark and LOMAC:FC2 are compatible both in missions and multiplayer, but the plan will be to make DCS: Black Shark compatible with DCS: A-10C and LOMAC:FC2 will not be compatible with either.

Me too thanks :)

Checked some of the other links and it appears that not all links have corrupted files.