McVittees

It will be interesting to hear your thoughts on how this simulation sizes up against its big brothers. Your in for a treat!

Jaw droppingly good work! Nice!:worthy:

I could be way off point here, but it sounds to me like you have a large rudder input trimmed as your taking off. Do you use the contorl inputs box (R Ctrl+Enter)? I always try to make sure the rudder is centered when I release the trim button, because even if you trim a heading, a large rudder deflection will stop the autopilot holding it and you'll end up yawing all over the place.

I suspect both!

Don't feel like that SDeath. Your checklist is excellent! No harm in having two different styles of checklist in the same place - especially when they're both so good!

nice checklist. I like the technical presention. I would however, suggest you reformat the layout so it fits more comfortably on 2 pages of A4.

Thanks for the replies guys. I need go back and get screen shots of what I'm doing. Hopefully once I post them you can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

The thing that amazes me about BS is that just flying around is fun - blowing stuff up is the gravy! I remember initially being disappointed about the terrain engine, but it has grown on me, I love the huge forrests, valleys and hidden little towns. Having said that, it's not perfect - never will be - but damn it's fun! :-) Did I mention I think it is the most stable v1.0 computer game I have ever bought bar none. These days that really counts for something.

This looks very promising, even though i can't understand any of it. I'll have a look at the links in your sig when I get home.

Does doing this mean you only have three different levels of zoom - min, normal and max? I was considering trying to map the view zoom to the mouse wheel on the Saitek - that works well you press the esc key and you get the mouse look activated because it zooms in discrete stops.

Okay, after a hour or so this is beggining to frustrate me. Want I want to do is create four map points which will be loaded into ABRIS when my mission starts. From the manual I undertand I must use 'prepare mission', add my addititonal info, save it (as per 3-24 of the manual), exit mission and then save in the mission editor. Ok. However, when I fly the mission the map points do not appear. I have the correct folders in my mission file when I extract it (the addional, route and navigation and routes .lua's) I then went into the mission editor and prepare mission again, go to Plan, loaded my route, but the one thing I changed (the additional data) is not there! As far as I can see the procedure for saving is very simple, but I must be doing something wrong! Create points, go to DTB, onboatd storage, highligh additional info and press SAVE FSK. What am i doing wrong??? :cry:

What size paper is the manual printed on? A4 or A5 like the Lockon manual?

While I whole heartidly support your sentiment, I doubt ED are making any money on the manual (or very little). I think it is more for our benefit than anytrhing else. If you want to support them buy a copy of the game for a friend and get them hooked on sims!:smilewink:

Thanks for that Skypat - you seem to have the answers to all my questions lately! I take it you did your adustment in the BS axis mapping panel, not via the saitek software? Could you post a screen shot?

Now, here's a thing that has been bugging me from day one with BS but I've just lived with it: I currently have the zoom view action mapped to a rotary axis on my x-52 and often find I get a zoom-in / zoom-out 'juddering' that requires me to fiddle with the rotary until I find a sweet spot and it stops. I used to have zoom mapped to the slide control where it would also do the same thing. Has anyone experienced a similar problem and did they come up with a solution? I have mapped the zoom to the rotary from within the game itself.

Whenever I get Apaches in a mission its time to pull the yellow and black handle! They smoke me every time! Hinds I can just about handle. I think the only time I smoked two Apaches was when i'd accidentaly left invunerability on from some mission testing and then was amazed as their 30mm rounds ricocheted harmlessly off my bird. :doh: Closed in on 'em and smoked them with my 30mm in manual mode. A hollow but fun victory! Back to your post: I think some units in the missions are randomised and if your lucky all the bad stuff (or less of it) isn't activated. I must say though, I do hate it when you fail a mission because your ground units roll ahead without you and then get slaughtered without even so much as a 'we need help' message. I guess Wags was making a whole load of missions and couldn't get that level of detail and syncronisation into every mission. If the mission is the one I think your refering to, I intend to edit it so that the ground units wait a bit before moving forward. :smartass:

Wow! I had no idea about this mod! I'm definitely going to try this one out at the weekend! One question: it's not goin to remap any of my X-52 buttons or axis is it?

Agreed. +1

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So would I! (but I'd prefer something a bit more racey!):thumbup: Lets hope ED have some good contracts in the pipeline - I suspect they do but they probably can't talk about them!

Seeing as what ED will produce in future depends on what contracts they get from the military, I think the question that needs to be asked is what military contracts are ED working on at the moment and does ED have any contracts lined up? Presumably the A-10C contract for USANG is (or nearly is) completed if ED are able to divert resources to creating an A-10 DCS module. Also, the implication of this policy is that if ED does not get a contract to create a training tool for an operator of the AH-64, then we will never be seeing an Apache DCS module!:cry: Who knows, the next DCS module could be "DCS:Mi-8". Not quite what some people are expecting...

Another fun mission Mbot - I found the comms to be both atmospheric and useful. Keep 'em coming!

Enjoyed the mission MBot - mainly because of your voice comms. I really liked all the messages going about. Well done! Oh, I would have put a TP right on the tree line. That way there can be no doubt about where you want players to attack.

What crew? There isn't one (in the game anyway).:confused: