jeffyd123

Hmmm... I was scouring the area around the base.... Ill look again.

Tried the IFR last night... very good but I couldnt get within range to fire the Mavs without getting taken out by the SA15s. Clouds kept us from attempting bomb runs. We're going to try one of us spotting and broadcasting SPIs (below the cloud layer ~ 7500' MSL) while the wingies do high altitude bombing. Not sure if broadcasting an SPI will work if the receiving wingmen have to use the SPI to drop bombs through the clouds. Anyone have any other ideas on how to get those SAMs? I get within 8.5 miles and they fire their missles... I cant get a Mav lock that far out

hmmmm... chuck in an A-10

pushback 3 was great and now theres more! Thanks Cougar.... U rock!

Like I said... better than Sears LOL. thank Cougar Jeff

thanks viper but I was looking for the night mision.... can anyone upload it to a site that doesnt need some kind of Russian cryptic BS (like its nuclear secrets... but oh wait.... its a mission file for a game... Oh ya thats right.... Lets make it really hard for people to get them anyway.... thanks so much DCS)

this guy's got better customer service than Sears for God's sake...

cant download the night version cougar.... i get some russian site that wants a login that it wont take (what a surprise eh?). Great job there guys... Daytime version was no problem BTW. Any chance that you could upload it somewhere else? thanks

Thanks for the info greb... nice mission. Are you planning on putting out a mix of SP and MP? If so, any chance you can mark them SP /MP so we know what they are for? thanks again... your missions are great. Now Im off to play your new one. Jeff

Archer... do you have all of your commands running in your stick software? If so, how do you like it? ALSO, I was wondering how X65 users have mapped their radio Hat to their sticks?

Its no biggie to reprogram the stick directly in the game... takes me 20 minutes or so.

Hey Greb... is Bombs Before Breakfast MP or single player?

I must admit I have grown to really like the sim. At first I was disappointed how slow the hawg is but now I am loving digging around in the dirt at low-level doing cowboy SEAD LOL.

I play 70-90% online... i ususally will run a multi server to train and check out new missions.

Umm Greb... You Rock! Very nice missions... thank you very much and we eagerly await your next one Jeff

Ya I just got TIR... I have tried freetrack and it isnt really up to spec (neither is Face Track). I was using my POV Hat for looking around. Now its my TMS. A track IR is really expensive but it is very good. It makes the game real next level stuff. I made a couple changes shown here.

OK been tweaking.... I did swap the POV Hat for the bowl hat on the stick and swapped the 2 Hats on the front of the throttle which I found to be much better. I use Force setting 4 for taxi and generally Force 2 for flying. I may switch to Force 1 for run in on a target to help stabilize the stick. I have tried Force 3 for times when I need high maneuverability (like AA battles or evasion) I have also been playing with Helios (panels on another monitor) but Im not sure I want to pay $90 for it. I have mapped engine start/stop, Flaps and Gear so that frees up the "T" buttons. I am afraid to map the engine stop to the T buttons because I have seen my fingers brush up against them sometimes and I dont want to shut off an engine mid flight. I currently have the gear mapped to the "ARM" button. I am also thinking of stacking my control panels so the Panel with the buttons sits on top of the blank panel. My stick is weird BTW. the legs that hold the throttle panels dont match up so I can only install one panel, But I did notice that the two panels can be attached to each other in various configurations which is cool. Still messing with it so no final thingy yet. Thinking of mapping different views to the T buttons and Hat 4 is currently being tested for Radio functions but I dont like it.... its hard to feel the hat and I get it confused with Hat 5 a lot (which is making my TGP boresight which totally sucks). I am considering using the mode switch to map the China Hat but Im also considering mapping 1 mode to allow for mapping the emergency control panel to some of the hats.... dunno. I have been using the lower rotary for analog zoom which is a nice placement but the view sometimes jitters requiring me to touch the dial to stop it. I may try banding the rotary which isnt Ideal either. Too bad the game wont let you independantly map the mouse wheel to zoom without the ALT-C option. but then the button switching in the cockpit would be porked. Im going to try messing with the sensitivity of the rotary axis and will report back. Anyway this is what I have so far..... Let me know your thoughts.

did what you said.... ran some calculations and holy crap it works with Helios! thanks Jeff

ya i got it today and did some minor setup and flew... more like Blew.LOL.... The twist rudder is pretty unusable but the one time i managed to get aloft and actually started flying it was starting to feel pretty dang niiiiiiice. I am experimenting with different profiles for different flight modes as well. This is a very nice piece of equipment. Pretty cool to start the engines using the T3/T4 buttons LOL. I am now seeing the game doesnt support things like gear retract on the stick (among other things) so I will have to program some things using the SST. When I get a working profile I will upload and see what others think of it. Maybe we can trade 'em and tweak.... using this post as a discussion for the best profile. Have a great Christmas boggit Jeff

I havent got mine yet so Im still planning on what to do. I may not use the modes for different aircraft roles like i did in Falcon 4 AF on my trusty x45. I am thinking of maybe incorporating an emergency mode to map the emergency flight control panel hats and switches though. In other words I have no idea!...LOL After dealing with the x45's lack of hats Im going to enjoy the X65's abundant options. Ill be happy to mod the template for you and I just installed a newer version of office if anyone needs a newer format. How do you like your stick boggit? Jeff

Hi all, Getting my new X65 and I started making a profile by first building a 3D button/Hat map of the stick. I am uploading the original Publisher ('03) file so you can play with it if you want. It will print right out on letter sized paper (Ill be using stiff photo paper so i can refer to it until Im proficient). I am also uploading the picture below. If anyone wants me to blank out the areas of text let me know. This way you just print & write on it Let me know if any changes should be made.... hope it helps Jeff Saitek_X65-3D Buttons.zip

It works! It is a bit jittery and you need a decent webcam and your face must be lit fairly well but it does work. I just installed it so I havent tweaked it very well yet But Im excited. There is a catch... The webcam Im using is a Logitech Orbit and costs about $100 but its a great webcam (2 MPixel). to use it in A-10 you will need to run the 32 bit version with fakeTrack which is detailed in the link above Jeff

OK this looks cool... Im installing it with a high end Logitech Orbit camera.... lets see how this does...... .... an hour later.... Well it works fairly well! I have been tweaking the resolution of the web cam from 640x480, 720x 480 and 2Mpix. Interestingly, the higher resolutions dont seem to make much of a difference (so far) and the FPS in the face track app stays about the same (~20). Im having trouble understanding the EWMA thing but it does seem to help by enabling it and putting smoothing to zero. Im trying to figure out how to increase the pitch in game... its pretty minimal. the yaw works surprisingly well. there is some low level drift so the view is a bit "fluid". So far Im pretty impressed. Im gonna read up on the face track website to understand what EWMA does. Jeff

Im praying for the apache longbow.... I thought this WAS supposed to be the next aircraft