MeanJim

When cold starting the F-16 the laser now starts in training mode. Is it supposed to do this, and if so, when did it change? The server I regularly play on only has cold start slots, and I've never had to switch it before. It's been a couple of weeks since I've played DCS MP, and last night when I dropped my first two GBU's they missed. On the second drop, I noticed a flashing a T instead an L, looked on the laser DED page and saw it was showing TRNG for A-G. To make sure I wasn't missing a step during startup, I tried the auto start and when it's finished, it's still in training mode.

When I've had the TRP warning, the tanker just refuses to connect even though I'm in the correct position. I did notice in the first track that the TRP warning came on right as you got to the tanker. It also looked like you opened your fuel door before or just after takeoff, so I was wondering if having the fuel door open too long was causing the issue. The second track looks like you opened it just before pre-contact, so probably not. I have suspected (but had no proof) that something changed recently and/or may be bugged with AAR in the F-16. I don't do it that often and I get rusty. The last few times I've done AAR, I have had several times where the tanker refuses to connect and I don't have the TRP warning. It usually happens if I connect and take on some fuel, then get disconnected because of my fault. Sometimes after that disconnect the tanker will not hook up to me even though I'm in position and stable. I've tried aborting the request and starting over, but once it happens the tanker will clear me for contact and just refuse to make contact even though I'm in position and holding steady. It's probably worth doing more testing and reporting it as a bug if you can consistently repeat it. I'll try it if I get a chance tonight. It's too bad they merged the topic from bugs already, because there may be something going on. I wonder if that can be undone rather than start a new topic. FYI, you can attach files to your post, so you don't need to upload them to external sites.

You have a TRP Fuel warning in your HUD. I've had this happen a couple of times. Once I was able to clear the problem, the other I had to abort and land.

It's a bug. They jiggle a lot more IRL.

I didn't notice it yesterday when I was dropping LGBs on moving targets. I definitely had the box around the point track target, but maybe I didn't notice it disappear when the laser turned on. Today I was just slinging MK-82s, and not using the laser.

What did I do to remove crosshair (and point track box) when I enabled XR in TV mode? I still had it in IR mode and regular TV mode, it would just disappear in TVXR mode. Pressing TMS down long only declutters while held, but I lost it completely and couldn't get it back. I just checked the manual to see if there was a declutter toggle that I may have used by accident, but the only declutter it mentions is the one while holding TMS down.

Vakarian just answered as I was typing my reply. I'm getting it on both F-16 and F/A-18. If I just click the weapon properties (yellow arrow) and press OK it fixes it. I hope they'll fix this though so I don't have to go through all of my missions and fix each one manually. As for the new ATP, are you doing a FLIR Calibration? It clears up the image some. You will need to re-calibrate it after some time too. From page 395 of the manual:

Today's update fixed it. Programs 5 and 6 are back to normal.

I've never had to create and load a DTC before and it loaded the correct default programs. In the manual on page 418 it says that in MAN mode, dispense switch forward dispenses manual program 5, and dispense switch aft dispenses the selected program on the EW page. At the bottom of the page it says: "An additional dispense button mounted on the left console near the throttle may be utilized to dispense a large volume of chaff and flares (40 cartridges of each) over the span of 15 seconds, which should only be used to egress an area with heavy air defenses and return to friendly airspace." That button now just dispenses 4 chaff by default.

It's been a few months since I flew the Hornet, so I loaded up my personal training program to re-familiarize myself. I got the CMDS switch for/aft functions mixed up, and I pressed CMDS forward while in MAN defending a missile thinking I was dispensing the manual program selected, but instead it was dispensing program 5. Program 5 used to be 1 flare, 1 chaff repeating 2x, but it's now 2 flare, 2 chaff, repeating 20x, which was the default for program 6. Program 6 is 1 chaff, 0 flares, repeating 4x. I went to the DTC editor and the defaults there are as they've always been. I had to go to the editor and select the aircraft, and check the box to preload the default DTC otherwise I get the wrong program 5 and 6. Shouldn't it do that anyway? I get the correct defaults in the F-16 without having to check that box.

I wonder if this is some kind of auditory illusion like a Shepard tone, or where different people hear different things like the Yanny Laurel thing.

Would this apply to AAR as well? A few months ago I was on a PVE server doing a deep strike mission. It was late and there weren't as many players on, so decided to go with just a center tank so I could bring more ordnance. My plan was to top off at the tanker on the way in. I was just under 6000 lbs. of fuel when I got to the tanker. I connected, and didn't take on much fuel when it disconnected and told me to return to pre-cotnact. I returned to pre-contact, was cleared contact, moved in and the tanker would not connect to me. I was sitting there under the tanker staring at two green lights, but it the boom wouldn't connect to me. I've had that happen before, but both times there was a TRP FUEL warning flashing in the HUD. Not this time though. DCS tankers seem to know you can't take fuel, but will still clear you and just won't connect.

That sounds like exactly what happened to me last week on a MP server. I posted about it in this post in bug forums. I did turn off the HTS and it returned the TGP returned to normal. When I turned the HTS back on, it started looking off at some random spot. I did not even use the mark point page on the DED that flight. I did command the SEAD page using the TMS so I could cycle targets before it became unresponsive. I don't believe it's a scripting problem. When it happened to me, the SAMs I was trying to target were alive and shooting at me. I was going to try to test something out in SP, but I haven't been able to play DCS since then.

I hear it. I assumed it's supposed to be the JFS shutting down. You can hear it in videos of real F-16's starting up, but it's faster, higher pitched "pew" sound, but what I'm hearing in DCS is a lower pitch and longer sound. In this video from in-cockpit, you can hear it right about 0:59: This one from outside, you hear (and see a black puff) around the 2:12: For comparison I just recorded a startup in DCS from inside the cockpit and outside. I've never started the jet from outside before, and (to me) it's much more noticeable from outside. Inside I hear it begin right at 0:33. While watching it back I also notice it happens right as the FLCS PMG and TO FLCS lights go out, and it's 2 seconds later when the JFS switch cuts off: Outsie I hear the sound begin between 0:38 and 0:39:

I think this might have happened to me last night. I searched before making a post to ask what I might have done tonight to cause me to not be able to lock targets with the HTS. I was on a MP PVE server trying to thin out a SAM net. There were SA-5s surrounded by SA-2s and SA-6s. I didn't have anything under PGM5 on any radar. After dodging several SA-5 launches at me, eventually the SA-5 quit firing at me. I thought maybe it was out of missiles. I moved in closer to see if I could at least get the search radar or an SA-2 or SA-6 in the way. I had managed a PGM2 on an SA-6, but I could not lock it, or anything else. I've flown on this server quite a bit and had other F-16s initiate TDOA, so at one point in between dodging SAM, I noticed a couple of other F-16s in the area, so I did try to initiate TDOA. It showed TDOA in the HUD, but nothing happened. Eventually I got low on fuel, tried to AAR, but after a few disconnects I had burned more than I took in, and was dangerously low and had to divert to a neutral airport to refuel. After refueling, I took off, and was still unable to lock targets. I tried cycling power to the HTS and HARMs, but it didn't work. I gave up and decided to RTB. Then something weirder happened. After switching back to NAV mode, I pressed CZ on the HSD, turned to my home waypoint, then realized it was taking me nowhere near my waypoint. I looked at the HSD, and CZ was still there, I pressed it again, and it resets for a second then slews off to something. I switched through each sensor, FCR, TGP, etc. and pressed CZ, but it would do the same thing. It didn't stop doing that until I turned off the HTS. Since it was on a MP server, I do have a track, but it's large. I can play around with it in SP and see if I can reproduce it, but I won't be able to fly again until Friday or Saturday.