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Only 5 days! and you did that?! You're a GD Ace!

I was thinking the label "wilco" changed. But that doesn't really make sense once I thought about it. Its apparently those buttons that I had no idea what they were for! :doh:

oh so those buttons change? Or are you talking about the BIG yellow New Task message? I havn't had to me to fly the mission again so this will probably be a lot clearer after I do so. thanks

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lots of stuff to still learn. thanks

Map the zoom to something else and not track_ir. I use the mic switch to zoom in and out and trackIr to move my head. Many map zoom to a slider but I never liked putting it on a slider as it would jitter. Anyways try mapping, zoom in, zoom out, to some switch on your HOTAS.

I get that you hooked it but what is Wilco? A radio response? Like I said I never even used the radio on the mission :doh:Anyways at least its a way to be able to slew the sensors quickly to the area. From there I shuold be able to lock'em upi with some weapon.

Cool Mark ..Been wanting to try some online but was afraid to noob it up. PM sent

Thanks I didn't even know that mission had JTAC all I ever did was fly towards it and eventually they call out the columns. I see that once you talk to them they mark it on the TAD or are you doing something to get it there? I didn't se you enter any info into the CDU so I'm assuming they transmitted it?

Cool info. Look forward to the video.

You might say I cheat as I use labels on. Those targets have nice big red lebal on them once someone sees them and my wingman is far better at finding them than me. So once he sees them They're easy to find :thumbup: Also I was watching some videos on Youtube where the guy uses the ZOOM as binoculars and you can zoom in pretty far and I was surprised at what he could find that way, you might want to give that a try. Lots of good tips and it looks like I need to learn how to 1. Use hud as SOI more and use it to make SPI 2. Learn how to use Mavs in bore site or as someone mentions the wagon wheel, which I see a lot in game and never really knew I could move it around :doh: 3. Learn what he heck the TDC is again LOL Also once your wing man spots a target isn't it relayed to me on the TAD? If so why don't I ever see anything on the TAD? Anyways my next big learning will be these types of attacks (one where the targets are not at known way points and, or, moving and learning how to quickly lock them up and kill them.:pilotfly: Keep'em coming. Thanks all!

Well I finally finished the first instant action mission for 10c. I used it to learn the ends and outs of the weapons systems, tgp, tads etc etc. Took a month plus. So I thought I knew what was up so I start a mission and quickly learned I still don't know SH%t. LOL The mission is "surrounded" and there are several groups that move in on my buddies on the ground. I'm supposed to take them out before they get there. Well the problem is I still have no idea how to quickly target them with the tgp if they aren't at a way point. So can you make a spi from looking through the hud? How do you make the mavs bore sight? so I can fly at them and not have to slew the thing all over the place? In short whats the best way to target moving forces quickly with the tgp or mavs? All I can do is dive at them and use my cannon and that generally leads to my quick death or at least a non working a10 I'll be reading some more tonight but thought I'd get some advice from the experts also. Thanks

Whats your point? IF you research the TM WH you will find almost universal agreement that its a 5 star product and even though some of the other sticks are nice their satisfaction ratings aren't even close. There is a reason for it, that doesn't make me a fanboy it makes me a satisfied customer. :doh:

Just an FYI the G940 has been discontinued and if you can still find one it is more $$ than a WH.

Its stiff because the handle is so heavy it takes that to center it. However unlike other stiff sticks I've had it breaks from the center position nice and smooth. The other stiff sticks I've had all jumped from the center and made it hard to make fine movements but I don't find that to be the case with the WH. If you do its very easy to remove the big heavy spring and either use the small ones that are already in the base or find others that have a better feel that you like.

Where did I say you were? Here I'll break it down for you. 1. I think it would be great IF they reach the same or nearly the same level of third party devs as FSX. Don't you? 2. You claim NO they don't have the customer base. 3. I said "YET" Note that doesn't mean you are wrong at this point in time and it actually is in agreement with your statment. Although I have no idea what there customer base size is, it has kept them in business for like 20 years so it must be ok. Do you actually have numbers? 4. ED is obviously trying to go the same route as FSX by opening up to third party add on makers by making DCS world an Op system for combat air frames. Do you think they opened it up so no one would make modules? 5. MAYBE someday ED will have a much LARGER customer base and more partners that make, some good, some not so good, some great, planes just like FSX. 6. The fact that YOU don't think they have the customer base doesn't mean they aren't going to try and attract more customers or that it isn't going to ever grow and thus attract more devs. 7. :doh: 8. Have a nice day.

Yet. :music_whistling: And since they already have a number of "partners" making modules now your statments seems a little off. Its obvious DCS wants to attract devolpments for DCS so as I said it would be great if it happnes. FSX didn't start out with all those third party add ons. If you build it they will come. (Where have I heard that before :music_whistling:)

What would be great is if DCS could reach the third party dev level that FSX has.

Actually I never knew ka=50 was out until I saw it on the shelf at Best Buy so it was in fact bought on a whim for me.

Mine is just the opposite and is always off.

Glad to see I'm not the only one!

I feel your pain:pilotfly:Obviously its going to be some time before we see an ED study sim plane. I'd say 2 years min. if we're lucky:cry: Can I wait that long? Really what other option do I have? on the bright side I may a10c down pat by then!

So what that's you? Sorry we aren't the Borg collective :music_whistling: I bought it because I liked what ED is doing with DCS and they're a small company, need to keep them alive. I also do at time like to fly the easier sims but after flying their AFM/HF sims its hard to enjoy FC3 planes, but that's just me. I can understand how they would like to dump the lock on requirement but they should have done it from the start. (guess they really wanted to use the name Lock on real bad) If their is a cheap upgrade for FC3 owners I'll probably buy the (again) just to support them, again. Bottom line is, just because you do something doesn't mean we all have to do it that way also. Take care and happy flying:pilotfly::joystick:

How did you "understand" that? (of course I may have missed it due to all the crying I was doing) What I got was that they are going to pull the f-15 and su-27 out of FC3 make them modules and add an AFM this year. The f-18 is probably several years down the road at best. I have to say I'm a little more than a little disappointed. :mad: Guess we have to put our hopes on 3rd party developers for anything high fidelity in the near future. I bought FC3 to support ED but it looks like they may have misinterpreted many of their customers. :huh: This news sucks!

I can't find the announcement for this but I'm confused. Why would we want an f-15 and su-27 that's not complex when we already have simplified versions of them in FC3?

I gave up on those interactive tutorials. They were always either not responding to the space bar or would ask me to do something, and I would miss what it was and the text would roll off the screen, so I would sit there going "what? What am I suppose to do again?" lol So between me not listening and the tutorial not responding I gave them up. I hunt down good YouTube tutorials now. I now watch so many of them I never have time to fly the sim :doh: If they worked and there was a way to have them repeat what they wanted me to do they would be great though.