ErichVon

They have been doing the revenge thing ever since The Crusades and USA was not even involved, then. Suspect no less after the 1st Iraq war. Always be looking over our shoulder for the next 1,000 years or so. Most you people are too young to remember the airline hijackings of the 1960's and 1970's and airport bombings in New York City even then and why they took out the airport rented lockers. Erich

I popped a small blood vessel in my left central cerebellum in 2001. I still have balance issues, elevators sometimes give me the whoozies and my left leg is still a bit crippled up. I had a stroke type bleed, but no major paralysis. It took me about 3 months to walk a mile after hospital. I had no surgery. I think basically it was an AVM. I hiked a 1200 foot "mountain" in Acadia National Park, 9 months after, but got into some pretty painful migraine and no meds at the time, but I did top it out. I have flown several times, 5 hour flights to Seattle in commercial airlines as a passenger. You professional, real, pilot guys: ===================== Could I go get flight lessons either sailplane or power and be allowed to solo? Would the FAA allow it? Or am I forever restricted with instructor by my side, just in case, and limit my fun to just lessons, never attaining a license? Erich I am age 59

Question Very Nice! Small question. How did Fed-Ex store get access to the .pdf manual to print it out? Here? : ======= http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentaion/?PAGEN_1=2 Erich :pilotfly:

Yep! Learned that in Aces High. Also allow enough time for WWII ordinance to arm itself, do not drop too low. Erich

My wife goes to fancy hotels on knitting parties. That is where she was today, for the day. We did a Cousin Brucie weekend to Mohonk Hotel for a few days back in March. She has been trying to get me to learn how to knit. LOL! That will be the day... I bet learning how to knit is easier than learning this sim! Thomas Edison and Edgar Allen Poe knitted. LOL Maybe you guys can do a Gamers Weekend somewhere. I miss the old days of the computer clubs. I fly every day. I like replaying the video tape. I also spend some time learning FC. A learning session for me can be to the point I can barely keep my eyes open to concentrate and fall asleep in my office chair for 4 hours! I don't remember Microprose sims being this hard to learn, but that was about 20 years ago. My Navy years, school was taught in all day phases, 7AM to 4:30 PM, break for lunch for an hour, 5 days a week. We learned one thing to focus on in 2 week sessions. Then exam. Pass, you move on. Fail, they recycled a guy back a month. Fail 2 or 3 times, they find something else for you to do. I really thought building timber bridges to support deuce and a halfs was pretty cool. Heck with another plane, put me in a S-11 mobile SAM with all the bells and whistles. I play full sim mode, set for hard and add a couple check-box cheats, sometimes. THE only way to learn. Don't go knocking the cargo pilot guys, those guys can do some amazing stuff in country. Read Chuck Yeager's 1st book. That guy could fly anything. Erich :pilotfly:

I built my own PC from scratch. My WIFE showed me how to work all the office related software and moves as far as the office world is concerned, like using Ctrl + F in Adobe to bring up the search box. Among several of her jobs, one used to be running the printing department. I know how to touch type, but I still hen-peck the keyboard with one finger... Yes, wife comes in handy once in awhile. :smilewink: Erich :pilotfly:

Same mission, I have deliberately dropped down half-way into the trees and suffered no ill effect, as in real life at speed my plane would be in pieces.

The Stealth Fighter, I think it is the F-117, the little stealth bomber has several as the computer flies it and it needs various pitots inputs. I am sure I will be corrected by a retired F-117 jock, soon, if I am wrong. LOL! Erich :pilotfly:

I did not know that. Thanks! That is why I value reading the forums. Erich :pilotfly:

I fly offline, "In the weeds" a lot. I think the trees on the hills are fairly dense and I don't have my stuff turned up to max in all areas. I fly inches off the deck and above the trees and between buildings running from missles. Erich :pilotfly:

500 knots downwind! LOL Wonder what would happen to it at speed of sound? Would the wings suffer structural damage? Or just typically lockup the ailerons, elevator and rudders, or cause an engine stall? Erich :pilotfly:

Hi, I do have TARS downloaded and it is in with Teamspeak. I am not too sure yet if I have it setup correctly but it is now a requirement to play with the 77th Savage group. I think somebody said they were using it instead of or in conjunction with using a password to get into a private game. I was playing with these guys online but could not talk to them since some went with the TARS system. I owe KonKuSSion a lot. He and his stuff is how I got into DCS: Warthog. I am still too green to be much value to a squad just yet but I sometimes hop in to practice. He must be using VAC, too, to have a separate VHF AM button setup to use. As to VAC, $18 USA is not so bad. I bookmarked your links. This sim thing is getting better and better. Anybody building A-10C plywood mockups and cockpits for sale to setup in my backyard? My machinist group to Yahoo!, some guys build replicas of R2D2 or other robots. I knew a local guy that had a stripped out Huey, VietNam era helicopter in his front yard; it had the rotor blade on it. He could not get his war years out of his head. I think his local VFW got it when he died. Just saw it recently. All war vets suffer PTSD. Some guys do better than others getting on with living life. Thank you. Erich :pilotfly: I like this little guy...

Hi, Thank you. I have a throttle button programmed in CH gear through KonKuSSion's .map that I can PTT through TeamSpeak to my online fellow pilots. And the Shifted Mode FighterStick pinky button is designated VHF AM using the same throttle button---but I have no idea if that is speaking with my voice to the airfield tower, tanker or JTAC. I do not know how the VHF AM button functions. And why a few JTAC questions by me this morning. I will be a noob here for awhile. Will VAC work with Teamspeak? Or is it like Teamspeak, but an entity by itself? Erich :pilotfly:

In real life? I don't know. In game: Nice to use in a dark cockpit doing a ramp cold startup. Don't turn any instrument lights on or until necessary. Nice to use looking around airfield at night taxiing out to runway or to park it after your sortie, but turn off landing/taxi lights. Instrument lights can be dimmed to minimum---right console by seat. Nice at night looking for an emergency runway that is not lit up, yet. Or some runways online at night are not lit up at all! Maybe I landed on an enemy airfield! And of course, online, if you are JTAC and want to identify targets and smoke them or identify them as forward observer. I have not done this yet. I also have not done this yet, but why could not the JTAC laser designate targets like Special Forces did in the 1st Iraq war? Erich :pilotfly:

Best example of Windows 7 or XP is Guitar Guru: http://www.musicnotes.com/guitarguru/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2ZBPgbD7g As to actually using your own voice to actuate commands. Can JTAC receive and understand voice through a headset microphone? Re: me to him Online an A-10C actual player could be JTAC I would think and use Teamspeak. Erich :pilotfly:

Voice commands works with this guitar utility: http://www.musicnotes.com/guitarguru/ Erich :pilotfly:

64 bit, Windows 7 I did not load the 32 bit side of the game/sim. Finally somebody created something I can use my 64 bit machine on instead of running in Compatability mode. Erich :pilotfly:

I remember my grunt training in Seabees in night time warfare and patrols. It is amazing how a person's night vision can be quite good allowing for enough time to acclimatize, as long as somebody doesn't pop a 10,000 candle power parachute flare. I knew a Korea era guy that was selected especially for his night vision expertise in grunt combat patrols. He was American Indian. He told me his night vision was as good as day time. I've seen the night vision goggles Army surplus for around $400. Thought night time hiking would be fun. Erich :pilotfly:

Thank you for both replies. I do use the radios online. Some servers only operate in fullest SIM mode, no shortcuts allowed. (I will edit this later as to the radio settings I am referring to, by page number.) At a later time, I will gladly take you up on your offer via Teamspeak. Erich :pilotfly:

Hi, And DITTO also: Thank you. Now I can fine tune. Fumble---Yeah, what you said. I get a kick switching to SAM view and see how the AI rocket functions. It will actually chase me until it runs out of inertia or kill me. Erich :pilotfly:

Hi, Thank You. At least now I have some terms to specifically look up and work on. Erich :pilotfly:

YEP! But that is not what I want to accomplish. Yes, M_A_N_Y !!! LOL! I play in not GAME mode, though I do use some shortcuts in SIM mode. I cannot seem to figure out Kon's .map for CH gear, to work in GAME mode and his intention was SIM mode. So, I have to find the targets without the very useful icon shortcuts. Maybe some of the other "cheat" check-off boxes in SIM mode will give me this feature. Nice thing about this particular sim is, off line it is not dynamic. Eventually after trial and error I will find the targets and will learn what I want to know. It would be nice if AI actually had variables and "intelligence" to not always be in a pre-programmed state and keep the intruder (me) in a high state of anxiety as to rapidly changing conditions. But this game / sim is FUN! Thank you for replying. Erich :pilotfly:

I use KonKuSSion's CH Manager .map for CH gear. It took me a month to figure it out so it actually works as he intended. I still am on baby food as to the CH Control Manager and this @#$% game / sim. If you need help with his .map , CH specific, other than Kon helping you, I am the guy to ask. Yesterday, after about 2 months, I now know what the difference is between the SHORT and LONG commands concerning HOTAS. LOL! Maybe go to a X-52 forum and see if somebody has already created an A-10C profile you can copy, is my best advice to doing it easier. I found Kon back in February by going to Google. He was top of the list concerning CH gear and LockOn. I got into this A-10C sim by finding LockOn Platinum to BestBuy back in January. I am not impressed at all, the training tutorials in the Platinum series and maybe why I got it, 2 CDs for $20; nobody wanted it, they knew... My Saitek adventure was the AV8R-01. It slops out after about 2 years of heavy use. I decided to go with the best, my CH trio. Not cheap. When it craps out, back to the factory for R&R and I'll get another set. Erich :pilotfly:

Hi, 2 point questions... I have searched the big 700 page Training Manual for how to use and incorporate the communications jargon of the JTAC guy, forward observer. Where do I find this information? And I have read about the radio in cockpit for this purpose. It seems the radio is not actually used, but the backward slash and F-key commands suffice to that end. Is the radio actually ever used? I do run in full sim mode, but I also use radio gaming shortcuts check-off boxes as to easy radio communications. "In the weeds" mission, it took me awhile to realize the blue tank on the F10 map was actually JTAC sitting in a jeep, on top of a ridge. Erich :pilotfly:

Hi, Using Mavericks, how do I target the S-11 SAMS? Using the Maverick video screen in MFCD, I cannot seem to find them to target them. I have played around with this mission 20 or more times, I know more or less where 2 sites are. I know where the initaial targets are at the waypoints. I thought 20,000 feet above them would be sufficient to target them, without SAMS coming at me. But I was 20K feet altitude above sea level, not above them which may be much less. How do I change my waypoint so when I make the MAV' MFCD SOI when I slave the wagon wheel it will more or less at least get close so I can slew around to target it, LOL---them? My main concern is their central area radar. I am assuming once I kill their mobile radar unit 1st, that will put the SAM units blind. ASS_U_ME, yeah, I know the phrase. How do I configure GPS or military coordinates to target SAM sites or is this specific to the bombs? I wish I could purchase the training manual as a spiral bound book as Black Shark has. For me, a book is much easier to absorb, search and reference. I am struggling through the 700 page manual. I want answers, NOW. And I realize this now thing is going to take awhile. The 3, YouTube movies from the 74th concerning Mavericks was much appreciated by me. The problem I have found just using one weapons system is the necessity to understand several control inputs from the various tools such as MFCD, Navigation, CDU, HUD, etc. And not easily learned in one sitting or even several. So, my current situation is being concerned with just one task I want to achieve, specific to one mission. Thanks for any help and insights. Erich :pilotfly: