Frostiken

Incidentally, does anyone know what the IR Mavericks use to cool the IR aperture?

Edited my post: I forgot that it's not really just 'TV', but specifically a CCD which even in your digital camera do overheat. PS: Vents? It's in a -20C airstream! Cut a hole in the side! :D

Hmmm.... I would imagine actual overheating would manifest on both in similar ways: visual artifacts, though I think the IR would be more affected - IR needs to be kept at a set temperature for sensitivity reasons, whereas a hot CCD usually just manifests as speckles and 'noise'. Still, I would imagine the CCD would be a little more tolerable of overtemp than the IR.

:lol: I hope you immediately followed this post by writing angry letters to Jeremy Clarkson telling him about what a horrible piece of crap he is and that because he's never professionally designed a car completely from scratch, he shouldn't be allowed to criticize any vehicles. Make sure you also tell Roger Ebert he has to have directed and produced a movie before he's allowed to resume his job as film critic. Oh and I'm sure every reviewer at PCGamer has professionally produced game titles. Make sure you tell them you won't read their responses because you're too cowardly to stand behind your own words. PS: Can I also get your name so I can make sure to keep an eye out for it on the 2012 Presidential election ballot? I'm certain you wouldn't be hypocritical enough to criticize a politician if you've never even attempted to run for the job yourself, much less done it. Has your internet cut out or run slow lately? Make sure you tell your ISP about the network spanning thousands of miles that you designed yourself so they know that your opinion matters! If you couldn't tell, I'm totally calling your bluff on the 'won't be back'. I expect you won't respond, but either way I chalk this one up as a win. I only wanted to mention that it was a distraction... think of it in terms of a movie shoot, as being similar to a poor translation of a greenscreen that causes visual artifacts. It's a major mistake, but major mistakes in small doses aren't a big deal. This was a very small dose and it was at the end of the video, so like I said, I don't think it's worth a reshoot either. If the whole video was a sickening roller-coaster ride through pukesville, that'd be a different matter :) I don't think it's worth getting too tied down in this. I did think it was sort of funny with the whole out-of-control thing while you were calmly talking like nothing was wrong... would've been a bummer to have smashed into the ocean in the last 4 minutes of the vid :D

See, my "thing" is I don't jerk people around, and I'm not going to start with you... so here's how it is: I'm not going to make a video because I don't want to and I don't have time. Fish enjoys making these videos and I appreciate them as do others. Don't even try to pretend I'm disrespecting his work or that I don't appreciate it. First of all, given that the point of his videos is to educate the masses, your comment about him having better things to do than explain things to the masses is pretty ridiculous. Not sure what your point there was. Secondly, everyone can tell him how great the video is, but unless someone's willing to be CRITICAL about it, he's not going to know what to cover later or how to make the videos better. "The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is perfect when it isn't." There's way too much about this world that sucks specifically because nobody bothers to be critical, and an artist is always the worst judge of their own work. Would another post telling him how great he is really done anything? I gave him constructive feedback regarding the next video he said he was working on for the TAD. And I specifically wanted to let him know that the JTAC bit with the screen darting all over the place with the plane flying around like there was a drunk* at the controls was awful. Mercifully it was the end of the video and it was only a minor section which mitigated a lot of the damage, but it was *not* a minor mistake that was being made... If he had done that during the whole video it would've been totally unwatchable. I could live with the aircraft kicking out of AP, I cannot live with the TrackIR spiraling around the cockpit. The only point he needs to take away from it is that the 'students' are focusing on the TAD and listening to his words. Every time the aircraft kicks out of AP or starts a dangerous departure from controlled flight, you've caused a distraction that breaks attention and focus. Ensuring the aircraft is trimmed right and minimizing distractions just makes for a much smoother, easier to watch video. I am not an idiot, I don't expect something for nothing, and I don't feel entitled to his tutorials, so as such I absolutely DO NOT expect a 40 minute uncut video to go without a single mistake, nor do I expect him to reshoot and recomment on the whole thing just to fix a minor issue with Auto / Manual map modes. The out-of-control bit was in a minor enough section all the way at the end that I wouldn't expect him to reshoot it just for that either. But I do certainly hope it doesn't happen again. So don't provoke me. I respect Fish and I love his videos and I especially love that he's made literally hours worth of video to help people along. He's helped me out personally himself. But don't ever insinuate that I'm ungrateful. If I didn't respect him and thought so poorly of his work, would I have bothered to listen to Irish Cream being poured into my ears for 40 minutes, talking about a thing I already mostly know how to use, and then offered suggestions for improving the next one? Do you think I'm asking for him to go into Hook modes more in-depth because I need help with them, or because I think others need help with it? Notice how I provided an example of how other Hook modes can be useful, and you should have your answer. I'm not doing this for me. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: * He is Irish... PS: Regarding 'where are my manners': I'm not a groveling simpleton. I'm not going to insult Fish's, your own, or anyone else's intelligence by trying to disguise every single negative thing I have to say in ten layers of honey, like I'm a mud-covered peasant kowtowing before the local lord, trying to suggest that taxes are too high without being thrown in jail and tortured for it...

Thoughts: 1) Didn't cover how to use the TAD to build a flightplan. This ties into CDU usage as well, but it's still something I casually do with the TAD on occasion - finding places using EXP, setting markpoints, turning them into WPs (didn't cover the 'create WP' button on TAD, the '•7?' below the hook options). 2) Didn't totally cover all the HOTAS, just left out the last few minor things (returning to yourself, and the... offset view). 3) Biggest criticism: When you did the JTAC call you wouldn't trim the aircraft or even set the autopilot, you constantly kept bobbing your view up and down because you were flying completely, 100% out of control. You'd say two words and then jump to the HUD and overcorrect as you careened in another direction, look back at the TAD, say two more words, jump back to the HUD because you were now plummeting straight down, you'd pitch around wildly again, look back to the TAD for a moment and then back to the HUD trying to fix your flying... all the while still talking about the TAD, while I was still incredibly distracted by what was going on. I wanted to skip through it because it was making me sick. 4) If you make another TAD video to finish covering the above, I suggest: - Go over why the hook modes are useful. One of the best features of OWN-HOOK is to hook it to the JTAC call and use the bearing measurements to ensure you're within the JTAC's desired attack windows. If he makes a call like "Attack heading 080-100", you hook to whatever markpoint / waypoint you've got for the JTAC's attack point, set it to OWN-HOOK and latch it, and now you use the bearing measurement on the TAD to make sure you roll in at the proper place. - Using the JTRS diamond and the WILCO for the JTAC attack point, rather than using a Markpoint (hitting WILCO vs. CNTCO). Sort of minor, but hey, it's there for a reason. Also, telling the JTAC you aren't going to comply with his attack order is probably going to make him sad. - Flightplan management. - Cover all the symbology (markpoint-Z, diamonds, differentiating weddingcakes (though you promised a MP version of this one so that should be covered there)). - TRIM THE AIRCRAFT. Apologies if I sound like I'm being really harsh about that JTAC bit, I know re-recording 40 minutes because of a dumb goof is pretty unreasonable, but that really did ruin the experience for me. So, except for the nauseating experience with the JTAC bit, that was great. I didn't even know that about the EXP modes being different resolutions. Should be pretty easy for most people to follow. EDIT: I just found one of your first videos that covers flightplan management with the TAD. I still think it should be covered in a TAD video just for the sake of completeness, so that just about every tiny aspect of the TAD could be explored.

You shouldn't have to motor them in-flight, as the airflow through the fanblades itself serves the exact same purpose as bleed air. This is exactly what a windmill start is - in a normal start, the APU's bleed air pushes all the engine bits around until it can survive on its own, in a windmill start, the airstream is pushing the engine bits around all the same.

I usually have to spam the precontact message and get dangerously close for them to do anything.

Just FYI that's terribly out of date. Looked up some known callsigns and they're the wrong airframe, wrong unit, and in one case, the wrong base. Is better. I find some of those callsigns a little odd - like having both 'Duke' and 'Duck', since both will sound almost the same on the radio...

Good thing the F/A-18 and F-15 were made by McDonnell Douglas, not Boeing :) Regarding dogfighting, I would imagine the only thing the F/A-18 pilot would try to leverage for him would be the high-alpha capabilities thanks to the LERXs. If both aircraft try to play the who-can-fly-slower game, the F-15 would lose, but I would imagine the F-15 would realize this and simply put on power and climb, which the F/A-18 would not be able to do nearly as effectively. I mean.... a single F100-229 puts out 20% less thrust than BOTH F/A-18C's GEs combined :)

I'm not talking about the C-model either.

Because 'helping' people by telling them to use a "product" that is, literally, the only one in the world, is in fact completely useless. I wouldn't even try to pretend telling someone to buy a $500 TM Warthog is helpful either, because that alone is an immense expense for a minor luxury for most people.

PeterP, I know you're proud of your creation there, but not everyone has the engineering know-how or even the resources to do what you've done, and since this is like the fifth thread in a week I've seen it in, unless you plan on selling those things, please stop suggesting to everyone to use a center-stick chair with throttle mount and double-FFB TM Warthog. It's really annoying.

.... wat? Dude is the callsign all F-15Es in Afghanistan fly under. The JTAC calls, the dude abides.

And without fuel tanks, you'd just piss through your meager internals in no time. By the way, out of curiosity, why can't the F-15C in FC2 accelerate straight up? I even took all the gun ammo and countermeasure buckets out and flew on half a tank and I still lost speed in a vertical climb. Something's wrong with your game.

We have literally thousands of Rooks (or maybe Ravens...) that live on Lakenheath and just Lakenheath. You go off base and you only see a few - on-base there will be dozens just chilling between PASs'. We never have bird strikes despite this enormous population living right on the runway... Corvids are incredibly smart though so there's probably something to that.

I would suggest setting birds to something lower, around 200-300. There's nothing to see and it does nothing to the game except increase odds of a birdstrike, so if you have it set to 1000% you're going to get strikes a lot. By the way, I've found in windy weather that the A-10 on a single engine becomes extremely hard to control at low speeds.

There is one thing the F-15E can do that the F/A-18 can't: Look awesome. Oh, and fly straight up without falling out of the sky, and fly more than a hundred miles without tanking thirty-three times, but that's just getting pedantic :D

DCS: F-15E needs to make sure it has 'Dude' available :D

The best part was the avionics upgrade he made himself by slapping a Garmin in there :D

The throttles won't kick over the hump if the game thinks that the throttle is physically pushed forward. If you have (for example), the left throttle already over the hump and all the way forward, trying to start it with RALT+HOME won't move the throttle. I'd double-check your bindings. Delete *everything* bound to the left throttle, including manual keyboard adjustments. As suggested, rebind the start to a single buttonpress just for testing. With nothing bound to the left throttle at all, there shouldn't be any reason the game would think it's moving. That's the only reason I can think of as to why neither the key combo nor the autostart would let the left throttle fingerlift. At this point, assuming you have already ensured no other axis are conflicting with it, the only thing I can think of is that your TM Warthog throttle quad is actually broken. The left throttle slider could be shorted or something, always thinking it's all the way forward. WITH the throttle properly bound, you can check this by pressing RCTRL+ENTER in the cockpit, which will bring up the axis repeater... move the throttles around and see what's happening to the sliders.

Make sure you aren't trying to use the TARGET software because the plug-and-play functionality of the TMW goes out the window with that.

Try moving your throttle(s) all the way forward and then back to off... if you have an XBox controller plugged in, unplug it (or delete all the bindings to it).

If you're using a cluster bomb, odds are you don't give a shit about what's in the area anyway. Kind of why I find it funny whenever JTACs ask for CBUs all the time...

Nice 'screenshots' :lol: What software is that?