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I find the Russian language fascinating, but it took long enough to learn English and then me residing in NY (USA), New Yorkers tend to trash the King's English rather well, but not quite as bad as down south in the Cajun territory where I have spent some time. I always thought Star Trek was poking fun at the Russian language with its Klingon spinoff. The translator utility I use through Firefox Add-Ons does not get the Russian to English syntax quite right when I let it translate the Russian posts and web site links here to DCS. The English sentences just do not flow correctly. (So, an English teacher will critique my post here---LOL!) Thanks for the replies.

In 1.0.1 , yes. In 1.0.2 , no. Or if so, I never found the transition items. Thanks for the reply.

I have Black Shark version 1.0.2 with the Russian lettering in the cockpit below the control switches, knobs, etc. and the Russian lady speaking. Does the new version 2.0 still retain this? Is / are there workaround(s) or User downloads for English substitution and also downloads of the training tutorials? I am still a newbie with the helicopter. I have version 1.0.1 running as to me replaying the training tutorials to relative perfection, eventually. I use Capn_Crunch's CH Products .map for my CH trio controllers. I did previously have version 1.0.2 up and running but it lacks the training tutes and I do not speak or read Russian. If there is no workaround, I doubt I will buy the 2.0 update. Thanks for any insight.

re: Forums Message post #115 ( http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=58470&page=12 ) I have not found this. It is not listed in my Start: All Programs listing under Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C listing. It is not in my C:GAMES\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\Doc It is not in My Computer, Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit >>> tree. I even dumped the original A-10C Warthog stash to the Recycle Bin and reloaded the original program and all the patches, one by one over each to version 1.1.1.1 and looked for this Doc folder and any key command related items in each version. I have not found it. All that displays is: Video Capture API . Is it located somewhere else within C: Eagle Dynamics ? (I have copied every useful utility in this thread and printed out hard-copy and saved them in a folder in my filing cabinet. Thank you to all for the utilities.) I have not played in almost a year. I bought a much faster PC recently. I forgot almost everything and had to relearn. I just discovered by accident, about the Snap View keys of Left Windows + the number-pad, six useful instrument views, and three external out the cockpit views, a really great feature. My keyboard is a Logitech G15 with 18 programmable G keys of which I will learn how to set it up. My PC, do not hit Left Windows key+L, which in game, locked my PC in Windows---LOL! I experiment. I stil use Konkussion's CH .map for my CH trio. Thanks guy.

Yeah, well, that instructor is a pain in the butt. If you fail to do what he says, he just waits until you do. Might just start the lesson over.

I went back into the lesson. Just like I said 2 posts back, Left Alternate key plus the Number-Pad (right block keypad) Plus key. You press both keys together at the same time. But the Backslash key will also bring up the menu. You use the F-keys that pertain to the numbered steps. I think everything is in the documentation manuals or the forum archive. You just got to dig it out. I setup my plane for full sim mode, but I add in some helps to make life easier, offline. I check mark in the GAMEPLAY drop-down in OPTIONS: RADIO ASSISTS, TOOL TIPS, EASY COMMUNICATION, LABELS, and PERMIT CRASH RCVR. The lessons may over-ride these as not to function. The learning curve gets worse. LOL! Some servers online will not include these helps and there you sit in the plane as in real life scratching your head, and asking yourself, "Now what?" But I started out easy, then did without the helps later. This sim is rather intense as to learning it. I started with A-10C. The helicopter is harder to learn. My DSL download speed is so slow, using the online multiplayer option is mostly a worthless option. I play offline. Maybe some day my out in the boondocks area will get a fiber optic service provider.

Maybe so, but within OPTIONS, the CONTROLS menu, setting the controllers, has the keyboard commands listed for the flaps; night vision goggles ( right Shift + "H"" ) with the added gain controls are within the drop-down titled, SENSORS; and everything else, under A-10C Sim. I setup this sim a year ago, played it awhile and went to something else. I recently got a better PC and much faster processor and had to setup the whole mess all over again. I am age 60 and my mind is not as crisp as my younger days. I do have my saved notes in hard-copy. I totally forgot how I did it, except the bits and pieces that are slowly returning. Last year, my setup took over a month to figure out how to setup my CH Products gear. This time around it was just a few days. I came to this thread looking also for a listing of the keyboard commands. I read the entire thread and thanks you guys that have added the helpful utilities and included the helpful advice.

I use a .map profile for the CH Products Control Manager created by a guy here, S77th-konkussion. I have a snap view of the 3 radios console that incorporates my Pro Throttle's upper HAT or maybe it is titled HOTAS, CH calls it the POV up button. I still have to hold the radio position HAT up button while setting the radios, but it is just one button. I can also set a one button key press snap view to one of my keyboard's Logitech G15, 18 programmable, G-keys. (Since this post I purchased the Logitech G510 keyboard with 54 programmable G-keys; which is very handy.) But except for the Right Control + Number Pad 0 key , I don't think you can get a steady hold view unless you rig up a 2nd or third screen to be set as a MFCD. In the Black Shark I can set the ABRIS screen to a single button key press using my Logitech G510 keyboard and simultaneously press the OSB keys using my mouse arrow underneath it to change the ABRIS screen views.

A-4 SkyHawk http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=165 The plane I misquoted was a prop job. When I was in Cuba at the Seabee base I saw a pilot go up in an A-4 and really give the Cubans a show for their money. That was 1977 to Gitmo.

The other game I play, Aces High II, WWII era aircraft sim, there are a few old farts in a specific squad within the game that flew NATO era jets, USA. One guy flew the F-4 Phantoms and then the F-15, a 30 year career vet; another guy flew the F-14 Tomcat, another guy flew the Viet Nam era Skyraider ? (the delta wing, carrier based jet with the long landing gear) and another guy also is a fairly recent vet, but all the guys are age 50 or older. Most everybody playing in that sim, the older guys, are some kind of former military, me too, but I'm not a pilot. Guess that is why they run a short ad on The Military Channel every once in awhile. I don't want to speak for them, but if you were to play the game and read their forums, they are not too hard to find.

FRUSTRATION! Here you go, try here: http://www.hitechcreations.com/help.html The two week trial period is free, then $15 per month. Not A.I ! Real, thinking people. You think you suck here? I know guys playing this online sim for 10 years and they still suck! Then return here and relax. Month of December I got Ace of the Base award for level bombing sorties in Mid-War on my new Alienware machine. A.I. is eventually predictable. Not so dealing with real human beings you are facing to fight with. After playing Aces High online for 5 years, going back to an offline, boxed game is not fun anymore.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I did not know about these. Thank you.

I have the tutorials on my dual boot homebuilt. One hard drive is Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit; the other drive is Windows 7 Home Premium, 32-bit running a less intensive antivirus to gum up the works. I put the latest patch with the tutorials on the 32 bit drive. It just seems odd to me, to create a new product and not make it easy for the beginners. I can fly the dam thing, but I can fly the Warthog better. Maybe I can add the tutes to the game. Maxed out was my intention in Warthog, but I see it still bogs down, but my frame rates are much faster even in a snowstorm with lots of A.I. around. Thanks for the reply.

You forgot to knock the nVidia 3D... And my case is all black with weird color lights. I scratch built a machine just about two years ago, all parts from NewEgg. Made some mistakes, though not uninformed decisions, re: TomsHardware and others. So, I did the process. The GT 545 in dual SLI is better than the single GTX 260 I am typing this on, though it is adequate. The GTX 580 is still too expensive. My current power pack is more than adequate to run the 580 as is the Alienware case to cool it. Lots of good reasons to buy a Dell Alienware. Their tech department is not as bad as from the hearsay I have heard others complain about. I'm happy. But Dell is not as good as they used to be. Would I buy another Dell? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I was USA Navy a lot of years. One thing I learned is, live with it, make the best of it, make it work, quityourbellyaching. Are you speaking from experience? Ever own an Alienware? Yeah, I should have, but I didn't. I regret it, but I will keep it. I can gut it all out and rebuild it if it becomes necessary and without Dell. Alienware machines were very good before Dell bought them. Well, there were issues. But, it works great, now. My recommendation to anyone contemplating buying a Dell---D_O_N_'_T !! My 2004 purchase, Dell Dimension 3000 was a great machine in its day. I never had a problem with it. I rebuilt it several times with mostly non-Dell parts and it still runs with Ubuntu on it. Thinking about using it with my milling machine and convert it to all CNC with a dedicated CNC programming utility for it.

The people that make mods to Orbiter (the space flight aeronautical physics engine) have utilities, also, to create and model the exterior spacecraft apart from the internal programing for 3D modeling.

Hi, I have not played in awhile here. Just purchased a new Alienware Aurora-R3 with 2 GT 545 cards in SLI in a RAID0 setup of two hard drives that is overclocked to 3.9GHz. I purchased it to run this DCS sim maxed out. Does Black Shark 2 include the tutorials like the couple patches did of the older version, before they omitted them? If not, is there a workaround using the tutorials? My older machine was just not fast enough to play Black Shark. I have the older version on my other machine. I figured I would copy the modules over to my new machine, one by one and piggy back them, then purchase the new patch for the #2 update. How do I work the fee for switching the older to a new PC and new operating system. I now have Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. Or maybe it would be easier to just purchase the newbie flat out. Might be less painful. I found the 1.1.0.9 version of A-10C to Best Buy last week for $40 in a boxed set in English, not Steam. I bought it for the new machine and then updated it with the 2 newer patches. Man, I can, now play DCS with rather high frame rates. Problem is, I've been playing the other sim I like to play and will have to relearn what I forgot. If anybody needs help with Alienware tweaks, I know a few. Thanks for any help.

I now have Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit as my C: drive and I play Warthog and the last Black Shark update on it. I also have Windows 7 Home, 32 bit on a second drive. I have the next to last Black Shark set up so I can use its tutorials. And I play Flaming Cliffs on it, too. I am also getting ready to install my Staples purchased (not OEM) Windows XP Pro, 32 bit to play legacy games on a partitioned third drive. And learning Ubuntu on the old Dell I took the XP Pro off of. The Dell's original C: drive still has XP pro on it, but I will slave it on my current scratch built machine. But in a pinch it would still work on the Dell. All as a second thought dual boot over my original C: drive. Thinking about getting a SSD set up as a faster hard drive might be a good idea. I am still learning on my 1st scratch built machine and mistakes learned here will be helpful on my next scratch built, probably this winter. I definitely will get a faster CPU as a base without the need to overclock it, then build the new system around it similar to as above and 64-bit. I came in using DCS: Warthog first. I have been working backwards learning Black Shark and Flaming Cliffs, as I am new to the LockOn series, not even a year, yet.

Actually, the images on the TC-1 map, Edition 1, as to arrows, jet aircraft and the helicopter and its shadow images are represented as it is on the map, lower left hand corner and its bar-code. The map measures approximately 41 inches high by 54.5 inches long. I will visit a print shop and pick brains for ideas, but thinking I will mount it on something like FRP fiberglass shower board as a backing board that will not absorb or hold water and a top piece of clear acrylic. I will probably use rubber cement as glue to the back of the map and the clear side of the FRP and #8 diameter machine screws and nuts to hold the acrylic top together. Then I can use a grease pencil to write with and it wipes off when done. This map is really too large for my small computer, office space. Mounting it on a big sheet will be practical for me to have ready access to it. Since the Warthog has its own map in its computer, (don't know much about the Black Shark), the map's main purpose, for me, will be using it with Flaming Cliffs. This map reminds me of my miltary map reading and training days. It is a very good quality map, but a better material would be like my previous message link. http://www.nynjtc.org/catalog/15/maps Those maps are like a USA dollar bill, hard to tear, waterproof and you can wad it in a ball, un-wad it and good to go.

Hi, Thanks to you guys. I just ordered the Tactical Map for FC2 (same ISBN as the England site), and the Flight manual for FC2 from the same guy I bought the Black Shark flight manual from, but through Amazon.com The reason I want to mess with FC2, even with the Black Shark is it is more interaction with real people in a more combat environment other than just taking out AI targets. Oh, yeah, you know I cannot wait until DCS gets more aircraft to dodge from or aerial dogfight combat and guys have more servers to play on that are not locked. Thank you,

Yeah, long flights can get a bit boring. I always get a window seat and enjoy the view. I usually grab a magazine and/or a book as standby at the airport. But I usually end up sleeping. I love flying over a good lightning storm at night and watch the cloud to cloud lightning. I was Navy Reserve Seabees for 8 years and volunteered for a construction remodeling job to GITMO in Cuba in 1977, before the acronym GITMO was recognized worldwide by the news media. We flew out of Willow Grove Naval Air Station, then, in some kind of Reserve fleet 4 engine prop plane, sub-hunter. It took 7 hours at 10,000 feet to get there. But my window seat, man I remember almost the whole flight. I could see the sea pretty good and all the junk floating in it and the various cloud fronts of interesting and varied cloud formations. And had a smoking engine. Life raft hanging off an internal bulkhead, we each had our mae-west life preservers and our captain's reassurance that this plane, if we ditch, floats the longest in the inventory. LOL!

How does this England / English component of this site http://www.thebattlesim.com/ relate to DCS or LockON or does it? http://fighter-collection.com/pages/tfc/flight%20simulation/index.php YouTube link: ========= Well, even DCS is intense enough for the amateur, but the guys in the sim-pits look to me to be VERY intense and I was wondering if they were professional, military pilots experimenting with the software. A lot of the links are defunct and some link here to eagle.ru Did "The Battle Sim" integrate to DCS? And / Or is it also a stand alone entity? The YouTube clip is intriguing and the work-station, flight sim setups (sim-pits) to the trade show are enough to drool about . I ended up here looking for the Tactical Map from this link: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=55011 I am still looking for preferably a USA source for the map or send the url link to my wife's print shop where she works and she can print me out something better than 8.5 x 11 . I would think any professional print shop / jobbing shop could do the same for a fee; don't know if DCS would be in agreement as to doing so. I think I remember downloading the freebie .jpg tactical map and was wondering why I needed the map. Now I know why as to FC2. I am very tempted to come to England just to go see this air museum.

Thanks for both Amazon links. That is the same outfit I purchased through Amazon to get the Black Shark manual. The BS manual was a steel ring binding, but not a coil binding. My wife has an account with them. I will try to get the manual ordered this morning before this hurricane comes rolling in. (I live northwest out of NY City but they are still expecting 65 mph gusts and a lot of rain. It probably will be a tropical storm when it gets here tomorrow night. Unless that thing turns, we will be on the northwest quadrant of that thing. Hurricanes' rain machine is especially bad on its northeast quadrant, except current reports say our side is going to get the increased rain. But I expect we will lose power and internet for awhile. I bet KonKuSSion will get hit hard, he is in Richmond, Virginia and he was pretty close to the earthquake earlier in the week, also. We felt the quake here and I am 7 hours driving time from Richmond. I need to get me a gas powered electric generator. Home Depot and Lowes, locally, were sold out already. Forget flashlight batteries, but I am good. We used to wilderness backpack in the mountains, even in winter, we have our survival gear. I worry more about tree damage hitting the house or no electricity too long and my cellar sump pump going out. That brain hemorrhage I had ten years ago, I can't do the mountains anymore. I can go about 4 miles then the migraines kick in. We used to hike 20 miles a day. I suppose age 59 might have something to do with it. I have been in backcountry in really bad rain storms---that is not fun.) Your ejecting pilots need a search and rescue component---LOL! I was Navy Seabees awhile. One of our battalion guys was a survivalist type and actually volunteered for SERE school, for fun, no less. SERE school is not fun. That guy was kind of nutty.