Bumbblbee

Hi all, Been flying DCS F18 C with my hotas warthog no problems until I tried to map the tdc slew on my throttle. Now it would seem that the x and y axis for the warthog stick are not being detected by the game. They are detected by windows just fine in the game controllers advanced options. But dead in game. In axis assign there is nothing and can't figure out how to map them for flight control surfaces. Only the buttons seem to be mappable in the control options. Any ideas? I'm probably missing the obvious answer here. Thanks, B

Since I must have misunderstood your post (as you and a few have so kindly pointed out LMAO) as having read the whole thing. A simple courteous correction could have taken place. This series just goes to remind me why not to post around here.

You are so mistakenly wrong. If there is another jet that can carry as much A2G ordinance as an A-10, can stay on station for 2 hours + and can take as much physical damage all while staying in visual range for CAS then you need to inform the USAF ASAP!! Lol. The A-10 has been in service as the premier close air support aircraft for the USAF for good reason. A little research goes a long way. Here is a taste.

The ANG needed a procedural trainer to allow their pilots to learn all the new changes to the systems of the A-10C in an economical manner. Who's to say that the Navy didn't regard the product that ED/TFC/DCS (whatever the company is that provides software to the military) made a great trainer at a substantially less cost to help their pilots learn the new suite upgrades to the Superhornet? I heard somewhere that it is on average of $9000/hr to operate a fighter. Therefore it could be probable that enough information could be procured by ED to make a sim at the same level of fidelity to A-10C. For the F-35, don't think you can look in it's direction without some sort of classified clearance. B

Here is my wish, I wish that DCS continues to release these amazing flight sims and continues to expand upon it's already wonderful product. I wish that with each modular release that there will be compatability patches and continual updating to the older modules so they can all be flown together. I wish that ED, TFC and DCS continues to have a solid fan base and can grow as a company so they can provide us with these sims for many years to come. It seems to me that our "wishes" (lol) are resting upon the shoulders of DCS and their team to continue to provide the simming community with great products such as A-10C and the KA-50. The flight sim world has changed over the years and were running out of options as consumers. It's such a relief to have a new, fresh sim to fly rather than decade old revamps. Thank you DCS, keep up the good work. B

You know in my personal opinion about the F-18 (regardless of C or E, etc) is that all of these so called shortcomings that most people seem to feel the F-18 have can actually be seen as positives. For example the smaller payload. After flying off the carrier and a longer than average ingress to target than what we're used to (being on airfields close to the front lines for the most part) making sure that you get bombs on target or intercept the correct enemy flight is very important with a smaller ordinance load. When your used to carrying 6 mavs and then are reduced to four, you better make sure you are right on with JTAC and taking out the right set of armor. Next example the smaller fuel load. ED seems to have given us ample time and opportunity now to practice air-air refueling in a very easy to fly and "slow" jet. How about taking off from the carrier, flying a SEAD mission feet dry far inland and then it being a requirement to refuel just to make it back to the carrier. I personally can see that being an awesome implementation to the series. Sure anyone can dump some bombs on target but are your formation and refueling abilities up to snuff...? There is of course an entire realm of air-air combat that ED has not focused on in the last two sims. But there have been many years now that they could be developing things behind the scenes. Carrier ops, obviously the ability to land on a standard airfield, air-air, air-ground, SEAD missions! If anyone has a doubt that ED would release a sim that isn't of superb quality needs to get back in the pit of A-10 or Blackshark and remember the quality that they produce. If you disagree with me I'm sure you could just go back and reload Falcon... just imagine the possibilities of the introduction of a carrier based air frame. Not only for the next DCS module release but for all the future possibilities. When (who knows how long) before all the modules get tied together but you mission designers could certainly have some fun between having the ground attack air frames and interceptors all working together. Then throwing in an air frame that could perform both tasks would certainly be awesome. It's not like ED has never touched base with carrier based aircraft. Of course that was man years ago now with the release of Lock On, but, we know it's been in their head before! Thanks for reading my rant!

Thank you Fish. That was great!