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Go over to the HOTAS/HOSAS/SIMPIT Discord and look for Qr4rigs. there is your solution... Quick release 4 rigs..... bingo bango... from F/A-18 to F-16 in less than five minutes... Instant Invite: https://discord.gg/szqaJE7 https://qr4rigs.com/ Hoss

I agree, with your opinion... but I'll just come out and say it.......... I'm a Thrustmaster Warthog fanboy.... there.... I said it... and no, I don't need an intervention. I have a TMWH, Crosswinds, BlackHog, K51 Trim box, Master/Arm panel, Virpil CP#2, and PTO2. There's a TM Viper Panel due to ship here on Oct. 12th. When it gets here I'll be able to formulate my opinion on some of these. I love my Warthog, I changed out the Slew and Pinky Switch with DeltaSim replacements and put a 10cm curved extension on the stick. had a friend make new panels for it and the BlackHog, I've had it for over 10 years. The BlackHog most people would disregard because it's blacked out... no lights... but it's very solid. I have the Virpil CP#2, with a landing gear handle... It's nice but there are some cheesy switches. (I'm donating it to a friend) The Guarded switch doesn't even stay latched...(three position that doesn't latch in either direction).....WTF... why even have a hinged guard on them... LMAO.... I agree with the opinion on the PTO2 Hook and Wingfold handles.. it does have nice tactile-shaped switches.. mine works, loaded up SAP and it works as advertised. I'm hoping TM's Panel isn't a lick and a promise on the build quality of the TMWH. Virpil and WinWing are fair to middlin' in my eye. They get about half of it right and blow it on the rest... Once I get the panel, and finish building the quick disconnect Left console I'll let you guys know how I like the PTO2 and Panel. Use some J/B weld on that screw insert, it won't come out again...

The A-6E carried the AN/ALR-45, ALR-50, RHAW, AN/ALE- 29, 39 & 41 Chaff dispensers and could carry two AN-ALQ-126A Deception Repeaters. The Prowler could as well. They most always carried weights in the Turtleback position. The Prowler would carry weights in the Dog House position. The A-7E, carried the same, but only one ALQ. The ALQ-126s are Deception Repeaters..... period, they do not jam... They only transmit when they are within a pre-determined range, of Fire Control RADARs received signal strength. They will repeat on a pulse-for-pulse basis of a Fire Control RADAR, ONLY when falls within parameters set in its Threat Library... i.e..... only if it's fingerprint matches (PRF/PW). Most of your Airborne RADAR/DECM systems only generate 1000w of power or 60db. For reference, I was an Avionics tech in the USN for 20 years (77-97), I exclusively worked on all the DECM in A-6, A-7, F/A-18A/B/C/D, and the Repair Benches they were tested on, in AIMD/IM3/64C. The EA-6B Prowler's ECM is exclusively the ALQ-99 and it does JAM. That was in the Van's hanging in Hangar Bay 1, which is W/C 64B. AT NAS Whidbey, the ALQ-99 room is lead-lined. After retiring in 97, I started working for Boeing's Avionics Repair Facility in the MOD of what's now VFA-122s Hanger at NAS Lemoore.... for almost 25 years. I Repaired AN/APG-65, 73 RADARS, FIRAMS, MSDRS, IFEI, EMD, FCES, UFC, BADSA, ADC, MDG, HUD, HUD cameras, CLIP, IBU, ICE DET., ICS, I was also a Micro/Miniature Component Repair tech, for 40 years. Hoss AT1(AW/SW) USN (ret)

I don't use all the buttons and switches on the throttle, they are too hard to use with the throttle forward. I mainly use the ones on the throttle handles. And on my BlackHog button box. Freakin Voice command is the way to go, but it takes just as long to set up.. and who can remember all those lines... CUuuuuuuT!...... Cheers....

I'm a TM fan, I've got the TMWH, Crosswinds, BlackHog button box. Currently I use TARGET with Sedenion's Complete 120dx hack.... I'm getting 96 dx presses with Long/Short TEMPO presses. On the BlackHog I use Joy2key to program it. What's cool I can use it to program a keystroke on the HOTAS while still running a SCRIPT. And I use the TARGET event tester to see if the BH is working correctly. I'm completely tearing apart the Office/Mancave/Cockpit...... and I've got a PTO2 and Viper Panel coming... in fact I got an email saying the panel will ship Oct. 12th. PTO2 is on the way. This looks to be a good program to use. It programs just like TARGET GUI, button presses can be Pulse or Hold.... Chain events, Sequence events, press/release events, but no TEMPO in GUI. I like TARGET because when you run it, the game only sees one controller... that could include, stick, throttle, Viper Panel, TPR pedals..... MIP.....etc.... in joy2key I have seperate profiles for P-51, P-47, Mosquito, A-4, and then a single profile to cover IL2. And I can switch profiles on the fly too. Has there been a problem with support lately?

One day soon Deacon..... probably a Devastator too...... ssshhhhhhhh BBOB......

This thing mounts like the individual MIP pieces mount to the over-all system.

Thanks, I'll find it in the list now. Cheers okay; it's LSHF + LWIN + Pause It's in the UI Layer at the top of the list.. all kinds of generic stuff. fps etc.... Thanks

This is not really a bug, but it's buggin' the hell out of me. I have been looking for this keystroke command (Active Pause) and do not seem to be able to find it. Was the name changed? doing a search for it does not find it. so I'm hoping the command is still there but called something else. Any information would be brilliant. Love to use it while I fumble about learning a new plane. Thanks

That hack might work for some, but it doesn't work on my rig... Will just have to wait for old ED to get the cranial rectimitus situation under control...

I found it the same way, I use Sedenion's 120 Complete DX SCRIPT. It assigns dx button assignments to all switch, button positions. So it's easier to do, but you get TEMPO presses when the stick/throttle combination is run. So this is another way of doing it. Thanks for sharing...

Yep...... I know those folders, and I have placed in them exactly what I want. But every time I get in the plane there are other things on the kneeboard I did not put there. That, is the crux of my problem. No biggie I guess...

I have been trying to get everything nice and tidy for the Jug, but I'm still amazed at all the places they find to hide the same functions. Now, if I have a P-47D, there is a model -30, -40, and some hodgepodge of a -30 . Now If I wanted to find everywhere there is a kneeboard folder, where would I find all of them in an OB install?

Petercove, were you looking into getting into a squadron after getting this sorted?...

Does anyone know if there is a print for the TMWH Throttle Friction handle? To exted it up and to the right to make it feel like a "pitch" RPM lever on a Warbird throttle housing? Or just know of a repository where I may find the specs? Thanks Hoss

Learn how to use TARGET... You have IN/OUT mode on S3 stick button, which can be toggled (stays that way till you press it again) or un-toggled, which means you need to hold it. On the throttle the UP/MIDDLE/DOWN Boat switch I leave un toggled because I don't need to hold the switch forward or back, OUT & MIDDLE are your default normal conditions. However many different U/M/D - I/O variations you need is entirely up to you.

it's available for pre-order via Amazon... all three iterations of it...

He's definitely the guy to go to for these custom faceplates. I've got a set for the TMWH throttle, and two for my BlackHog buttonbox. Quick turn around times too....

Auto update next OB release?

I highly recommend you install the pull-up resistors to keep your VCC at either +5 vdc or +12 vdc. no matter the load placed on the board or controller.

The Fleets are static. You move or chop into different fleets as you cross certain points on the earth. East Coast US is the Second Fleet to the Straights Of Gibraltar, then they become the Sixth Fleet.... it doesn't change. Go through the Suez into the Indian Ocean you chop into the 5th Fleet. The third Fleet is East Pacific, Seventh Fleet, is West Pacific. Escorts stay the same with the Task Force from start to finish. I found what you needed to know in five seconds with Google..... USS Monteray CG-61, USS Mitscher, DDG-57, USS Laboon, DDG-58, USS Mahan DDG-72, USS Thomas Hudner, DDG-116. CAW-7. During the same time, I was on the USS Enterprise with VA-94 on MODLOC, GONZO Station. "Straights of Hormuz" April 18, 1988, was Operation Preying Mantis, after four previous WESTPACs, three on the Connie, with the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the war between N/S Yemen, and an excursion through the Suez Canal into the Med on my previous cruise on the Enterprise to relieve two carriers that bombed Mommar in Libya. We finally let Iran know if they Fu<ked around they would find out real quick what would happen.... Hoss USN 77-97

Ask Raptorattacker, he does that in his videos of the skins he makes.

Use this, there is a DCS setting to see what CPU, GPU, and Monitor resolutions for AMD and Intel CPUs and GPUs... https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1le1ci/4a/dcs-world/10240x4320/

Never mind about the GPU..... I wondered what happened to the Sempre Fortis in my signature... I've just got an MSI 3080ti and an Intel i7-8700k...

With what GPU?... I'm going to build myself a new rig this winter, and I've always been an intel fanboy. Although I let my buddy talk me into an AMD CPU a couple of times, that was eons ago. One thing I will never do again is go with Radeon GPUs. That page (PC-builds) is pretty useful to see how well things work with DCS. I would like to get VR, but my old eyes are not what they used to be. The NLR F/S rig and triple monitors are a viable option for me. Curved ones........