Zimmerdylan

Jeeze!! Thank you........lol:cry:

Yeah...I see a lot of particles of stuff floating around there. And your plug is identical to mine. It really does help to clean it out and put grease on the friction points. Cool! Thanks for showing me the pics. I have taken my X52 apart a few times but never really found anything that could be adjusted to make things better. I did install a washer between the spring and stick to make it more stiff. I find it to be waaaay too lose for my liking. And I put graphite/ grease in the half ball joint to make it move more smoothly but you don't have to take it apart for that. I loosened the clutch on the throttle from the inside. I hated those catch points on it. My X55 is just fine so I have never taken it apart.

LOL......You must be bumming right about now. I hate when I think one thing and find out another. Especially on something like this.

If only Santa would deliver one of these under my tree. I'd never go on a computer again because I would be busy with other things.......

Oh.......I think it was an honest mistake. All of us have been there at one time or another. Often times I misread something, or I overlook it altogether. Lots of times, many people (myself included) opt to use YouTube to learn some of this stuff. We all know how unwise that can be. To the original poster: I'm glad if we were able to help you on this if that indeed was the issue.

I completely get what you are saying. But you aren't understanding that I am pulling back on my stick to get the AC off the ground as soon as possible to avoid the blowout. It just won't lift off until the tire blows. When the tire goes, it's like the plane loses a ton of weight and lifts off the ground. This surely must be a bug as I have never blown a tire on any AC before all of this. In the 4 tracks I posted for you, there is nothing unusual about the takeoffs. At least 2 of them have the plane going right down the center of the runway with no deviation. So what do you mean by "outside of normal"?

Yes....you will hear a faint click and the light for the corresponding gun will light up at the bottom of the center panel. It takes about 3 seconds each button. :smilewink: LOL.....You sound like me at times..........................

In that respect they're pretty useless. The Huey gunners are the same way. Couldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside.

14 days and we'll all be doing this!!! Hopefully.............

For me....It doesn't matter what I do. I pull the stick and the plane has no lift whatsoever, until the tire actually blows and then it takes right off. It's like the plane won't get off the ground until the tire is actually blown. Very strange. It's one of those bugs that effects some but not others. :dunno:

Here are 4 tracks. 3 from the F5 and 1 from the A10C that I had never blown a tire in before yesterday. This only happens from cold start. Never from runway start. A10blowout.trk F5blowout II.trk F5blowout III.trk F5blowout.trk

I'm going to have to download some Recording software for this. DCS is saving all of my tracks into my music notation (Finale) software format. What the???? I'll post stuff in a day or two.

Will do this evening. Tracks that short should post ok. I'll do 2 or 3 of them for you. Happens every time I take off no matter the load or speed.

Hey guys. I have been dealing with this "tire blowing" issue since the last update. I know that it's not uncommon as I see all of the posts pertaining to it. So.....is it a reported bug? I've not heard anyone address it as such. If it's not, how do I avoid blowing tires upon takeoff these days? I've tried just about everything. Every time I take off this happens. It seems that as soon as I start to raise the nose of the AC......Blewey!:dunno:

To me, this AC was THE aircraft in it's day. Nothing compared to it. Where do I sign up????????????????

I'm not understanding you on this. There is a top, and a bottom on mine. You cannot approach from the pedal side because the bottom plate is pretty much all that comes off. When I took mine apart, there were only 2 springs that were very easy to get back into place. Do you have the more expensive pedals?

I think that it is safe to say that no one who flies helis in DCS does it without rudder pedals. I don't know that I would even keep trying it without em. Just going to meet with frustration and failure most of the time. Sorry to break that news to you............................. Oh yeah.....and even after you get a set of pedals it's pretty hard to get the knack of it if you have never flown them before. My best advice about that is to just watch YouTube videos until you find one that works for you and don't give up on it. Even real heli pilots had a very difficult time of it when they started. It's not easy getting something off of the ground that wasn't meant to fly.

Hmm...... I was looking at the boards last night. Pretty interesting.

Maybe we'll know for sure when ColdViper opens his up to have a look. I'm thinking that they may have changed the board post production. I know that I was pretty surprised when I took it apart.

Other than adding switches or other hardware, what would the benefit be?

If you have the same setup as I do, I would be very interested to know if the main plug is rigged up the same way that mine is. Please let me know if you go into it. :smartass:

LOL.....I'm pretty sure that my warranty was way over expired anyway. I bought them used 2 years ago. I was amazed at how hap hazardly the electronics were assembled in that thing. No wonder the sticker was there. They didn't want you looking at their shawdy work. I can't really complain. The pedal works and has given me no real trouble in the time I have had it. And it works really well now.

I remember buying "Lock On" and "Blackshark" on disk at Best Buy some years ago. Both were pretty cheap. It was my intro to DCS. At first I thought is was way too involved, but it lead me to become a flight sim junkie.

Yeah.....Tried again last night. No luck. Did a repair and all was good. Confusion all gone!!

Wow....did the update yesterday. Still just goes into the F10 page. I'll mess with it and see what's up.