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The "Dump" position on the Temp Press is a better option for going happily off into la-la land. The cabin pressure regulator is essentially off until 10k feet. From 10k to about 18k it will maintain cabin pressure at what would be ambient pressure at 10k feet. Above 18k it will maintain the 18k-10k pressure differential (~2.8psi, 190mbar), so the pressure in the cabin will decrease as you climb above 18k.

Obviously the deck hands are all off duty. Them twirly things really need to be lashed down immediately.

Best airshows I ever saw where not open to the public. KC135 practicing extreme airshow style manuevers (in retrospect not the safest thing that close to an large urban area). A mock attack by a wing from Tinker (afair). A F16 factory pilot demonstration flight. The F16 demo was amazing because it was displaced from the McConnell flight line towards the Boeing side and I just happened to be working on the ramp that day prep'ing a test flight.

I worked at Boeing in Wichita adjacent to McConnell AF base in the 80s when they got the B-1b's. It was funny to hear all the car alarms going off in the parking lot when a B-1 did an afterburner takeoff.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDgQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrac.navy.mil%2Fdocs%2F2009_FINAL_Jet_Noise_Report_4-26-09.pdf&ei=qoqcU-iDDsqsyATRvIDwAw&usg=AFQjCNEVKJJaBIgCFr_WjDcGR9SzYDaCXA&bvm=bv.68911936,d.aWw&cad=rja "Afterburners increase the jet noise levels by 5 to 10 dB above military power." (remember decibels are a log scale measurement) Can't judge noise level from a video without knowing the cut off frequencies of the camera's microphone and digital compression method. Additionally it is likely the microphone and amplifier are simply saturated. They are meant to pick up human speech not deafness inducing noise fields. My computer system just isn't up to the task of generating the low frequency power of an jet engine in afterburner, so as a compromise I imagine DCS's sound editor just adjusted the overall sound to be louder in afterburner. Much easier and cheaper then keeping a jet engine in your room for sound effect purposes.

Doh! Wow, slapping my forehead that hard had me seeing stars. Just knew there was a DCS Repair but couldn't find it in the directory. Don't know why I didn't like in the start menu. Repair did fix a file up didn't catch the name of it. The check disk came back 0 errors and 0 bad sectors so I'll keep my fingers crossed and blame it on a power problem due to a thunderstorm when it was booting.

Strange problem. A10C release version works fine in single player, but in multi-player I don't get a roll axis input from my stick. Other axis work fine and in UH-1 all axis are present. Tried re-assigning etc. (see below). Is there a DCS file checker available to check for a corrupted file? In the mean time I'm d/l the current version for a re-install. My system burped the other day. Not sure why, but I got a disk error on startup for D: disk array. I have the beta version of DCS on my D: disk, regular install on C: disk. After that I had problems starting multi-player which I tracked down to a pid.dll error. Unplugging all my sticks, and renaming my input folder cleared up the error problem after plugging back in my MSFF2, but I still have the subject problem.

I really love just flying around in DCS World and saying 'oh wow' at how realistic the look of flying is. Unfortunately that ends on the ground with an extremely sterile environment. Ok for a civilian airfield (I have actually landed airports, got out and felt very alone, like in game). But a military airfield should be much more active. Some of the A10C tutorials liven things up on the ground more. I'm sure that took considerable effort on mission designer part. So that raises the question of is it a DCS problem or a mission designer problem?

Only place I've seen fittings that size in the US are on some oddball (read very expensive) hydraulic fittings at Grainger. Probably have a lot more luck getting someone in Europe to ship them to you.

The garden hose connector that will work with the Warthog is the European size. I believe the Warthog/Cougar base thread is M36x2.0. You're serial number shouldn't make a difference since the Warthog's handle is interchangeable with the Cougar's.

Great! I really like having missions with a chance of main driveshaft failure at a random time. Really adds the realism of constantly thinking about wind direction and landing spots. Always wondered why tail rotor driveshaft failure wasn't also selectable. Those chip detectors must be there for a reason.

Wow, those armed guards really get mad when you drop their cargo shipment of Playstation 4s, Xbox 1s, and Nintendo 64s. Thanks for mission that is fun. Sometimes it's like a giant hand is trying to rock me to sleep.

Going back to this. What I recommend is that you open the refueling port, stabilize behind the tanker, send the ready precontact radio call, and do anything else that might mean taking your hand off the stick. After that trim quite a few clicks, and re-stabilize behind the tanker holding the stick in the untrimmed position. The idea is that you are not trimmed level so your stick is preloaded in one direction. Since the stick is preloaded against the spring all the slop is taken out and any change in pressure should have immediate results. Also since you are not near the center you are also not having to fight deadband + slop + reversal of pressure on your hand (there is a reason the Blue Angels fly with substantial nose down stick load). Just be sure to note how many clicks of trim you used so you can replicate or refine it next time.

Ah, ok. To me what your describing is electrical noise from dirty or worn pots. Slop, I think of as mechanical looseness in the mechanism so the joystick moves without actually moving the pot. To clean up your pots you can cut the 4 little melted plastic buttons off the face of the pot, open it up and then spray in some electrical contact cleaner (Radio Shack still sells it) on to clean and lubricate them. Additionally you can still buy some replacement parts from Thrustmaster. Register on their support page and send them an email requesting new pots. After I install a new pot at the first sign of spiking I immediately do the cleaning above and they seem to last much longer.

Because of the slop I found that trimming so that you need some constant nose up or nose down (your preference) pressure makes it steadier. With the trim in you are no longer working across the slop, you are just increasing or relaxing pressure slightly.

I've always wondered about this in DCS: When you call the tanker the boom is lowered to, let's call it first position. When you get close to position the boomer raises the boom. Is the first position the center of travel for the boom, then the boom is raised so those planes with the A/R port behind the pilot can pass beneath?

Is it correct behavior (or bug) that after landing the TACAN is deselected on the nav panel after the CDU does its data save?

Yep that's what I mean.

Well the anti-collision and positioning lights go on, but not the lights in the boom itself or underwing illumination and belly lights.

Can the KC135RE be induced to turn on its refueling boom lights, etc for night refueling, or do you have to use NVGs?

Thanks. Oddly in my house the bluray player will no longer turn on, but my MSFFB2 does now. Now the problem is getting any forces out. Controls work in 1.2.7 beta, but there isn't any forces being applied.

Got a craigslist special FF2 red trigger joystick, but it is missing the power cord and doesn't have a manual. Microsoft's website seems to deny they ever made such a product. So can anybody verify for me that the ac power cord is similar to simple one that goes into a laptop's power brick? Anybody have a link to a manual for it?

Did you use the PgUp key to twist the throttle up to detent? Analog control won't do it have to use the key to get it to the idle stop.

Was running the landing training mission and the narrator/caption twice says "hit the escape key to exit" the radio menu. It should now say hit F12 to exit the radio menu.

Remember the longer the extension the more travel the top of the stick will have. You might want to rubber band a pipe, piece of wood or something else to the Warthog and see what the limits are before you start hitting stuff (including yourself), and what is comfortable for hand position.