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This is why I was asking about expanding the ground stab options in another thread, and I would like to echo Larkis' suggestions. Right now, Jester is practically a loud and personable RWR. I need a Radar Intercept Officer, ie someone providing the front seater with information to conduct an interception. Preferably sophisticated enough to not place me on a course to be inside the target group's radar scan. I either need to be able to control the ground stab functions myself from the front seat, or preferably have Jester providing me with options to prosecute the contacts he is calling out and exclude calling out irrelevant contacts I'm not committing to, provided that they're not a danger to me. The flow would basically be to have Jester call out contacts and at that point provide a context menu selection to commit to a specific contact from what is currently visible. From that point I either need Jester to provide calls for bearing, range, altitude and target heading so I can calculate my intercept correctly, or I need Jester to know how to make that calculation. I need to be at a point where at 10nm I have 40,000ft of lateral separation from the target. That's my objective in an intercept. Arrive at a point where I'm close enough to conduct a stern attack immediately or have room to turn in pursuit in order to conduct an attack with my sidewinders, whilst being outside of enemy radar gimbal limits the entire time. All of that stuff is probably very hard to do, but I think if anyone can do it, it's the Heatblur people.

Logbook is broken and has been for a long time. DCS issue, not a Heatblur one.

On the topic of the gun, what load should I be selecting for air to air?

Yup, I had it tonight too. Current open beta. It is certainly rarer than it used to be.

I see two kinds of sliding and they're both different. There is a small x/y axis slide that almost looks circular from a bird's eye view as the boat is rocking back and forth. Easiest place to see this is when you are hooking up to the cat. The nosewheel will slide a short distance to and fro. It looks strange but it's not a dramatic problem compared to the second kind. The second kind that I see a lot is in MP. I mostly play on GAW and PGAW, and when the Stennis turns, there is a dramatic slide forward that happens almost as a slideshow (while the rest of the sim is operating at 60fps, the script for the carrier turn seems to update the clients once every second or two). Three minutes into start up and you look up and suddenly you're blocking cat 3 without disengaging the parking brake, it's somewhat annoying. It would be nice to see a fix to this eventually.

Also a binding to recentre ground stabilised radar would be great too!

Okay, I've just experienced a similar thing with AP but in this case it is unable to disengage by key command. I can use the mouse to disengage it. This is in a mission with an air start. I'll test it out a bit more tomorrow to see if it is repeatable. Could be same bug, could be different bug.

Thanks IronMike. :)

I know there are serious issues with the replay system right now, but I've got a second issue where the Jester menu remains on the screen and I am unable to close it. I can move the Jester cursor line with my head tracker, but it doesn't seem to do much in terms of selecting from the options presented. I have seen a couple of threads similar to this in the past but there's been very few comments on it. I don't recall it existing in the initial release but it has been a problem for a few patches now. Is this something that is only causing issues for a small number of people, or is this a universal problem?

Working fine for me on current OB patch. Could you have inadvertently turned off one of the SAS switches?

I've been averaging two to three CTDs a night for a few weeks now. As of this second (and hopefully it's not just my lucky night), I am no longer experiencing CTDs. Well done on fixing or reducing the severity of the issue and what appears to be a good patch all round.

This really is one of those cases where hardware makes a pretty significant difference. I have exactly the same stick and base combo and it's honestly like cheating now. When I was using the WH gimbal, I could hook up with the bigger tankers reasonably reliably with the AP auto-trim function engaged. If I did not use the autopilot, then I could not maintain contact for long enough to get more than 2-3000lbs if I was lucky. I didn't realise how bad the 'stiction' had become until I replaced the original base. Now I can even manage to drain an S-3B in a single connection with no AP engaged, although it is quite hard. Here's tonight's effort with a Stratobladder, my first online attempt at getting fuel. Ended up disconnecting at 16,000lbs with no other disconnections between the end of the clip and my intentional disconnect. I usually use bomb mode but I have tried auto a few times. It can be manageable but it's not worth the effort. Things can change unpredictably. I might play around with picking manual wing positions other than bomb position but I suspect that the greater the sweep, the slower the rate of change on the VSI will be. To a point, anyway.

Thanks :)

That's positive news!

This bug reappeared for me. Current open beta, on GAW server. Thankfully PAL mode worked without crashing.

Current open beta version, GAW server. Engaging a pair of hostile Su-25s from their 9 o'clock, with maybe 5000ft height advantage to me. Select PAL, lock first target. Jester calls "that's a friendly" on confirmed hostile target. I lock the second target with PAL again and crash to desktop instantly. Logfile was too large to upload. Is there anyone posting in this thread that isn't using Tacview?

In two months of online flying, I have had two people ask to sit in the back. Two. I feel as if some of the commenters in this thread would be happy for me to leave the Tomcat in the hangar for 58 nights out of 60. It is unrealistic that the premier long range precision strike platform of the USN from the late 90s to the mid 00s cannot employ the LANTIRN pod. I hope HB considers making the workaround official and then provide some control for server admins to allow or disallow it.

Before I even click on a listing, I look at the number of sales and the seller's rating. After that, I check the reviews. I've ordered about sixty individual items so far this year and I have only had two fail to arrive. My only real issue is that I keep adding cheap components to my cart and then discovering that I've gone over my budget. Buying on Aliexpress is almost a hobby within itself.

I buy a lot of my stuff through Aliexpress if I can wait a month or so for it to arrive. Descriptions usually include enough information to find a datasheet. I often use Arrow and RS Electronics for things that are either urgent or are being used for things that I believe warrant it. Tactile switches, for example. For some things, I'm fine with using Aliexpress switches. $2 for a bag of 50. If the switches are going somewhere that will take me significant time or effort to replace should they go bad, I spend the same money on a single Omron switch from Arrow. It might not really make a difference but the prices are so low for the effort expended that the peace of mind is worth it.

Normal Notepad changes the file a bit when you save it, and that's why it wasn't working for you, BuzzU. Notepad++ preserves the 'invisible' formatting. It's a tiny download and far better for poking around files that aren't strictly text files.

I have not had the bug again since I started prompting Jester to run through the start up. I get ground power and air, turn on the o2 and set ICS to hot mic, and then I open the Jester menu and select 'start up'.

Tonight's hop on GAW.

I am excited for this. I have a Warbrd on it's way already, and I'll be buying this stick when it becomes available.

Thanks Bailey! Your profiles are greatly appreciated.

I just watched a phoenix I launched at a hostile aircraft on the GAW server. When it missed it's target and ran out of energy, it fell towards the earth. It reported 311kn and 24111ft on the missile view although there was no way the altitude was correct. Several hundred feet above the ground, the missile disappeared and the camera continued moving as if the missile was still there. I have seen many instances of missing missile models but burning rocket motors in F6 view since the latest open beta patch. Something is seriously amiss here.