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Two sorties flown. Both cold start. In the first mission, my start up routine was to prompt Jester to commence his tasks by turning on an engine. Once airborne, I selected TID and was met with a blank screen. I did spend some time trying to get Jester to change radar modes in the hope that it would fix the problem, but I did not find a fix. On the second sortie, I made sure to ask Jester to start up via his menu and then immediately selected TID to see if the display was going to work. I am happy to report that in this case, I was able to see the radar page. I don't know if this is a fix or if it's just dumb luck. I'll test it a bit more over the next few days.

I did not. Problem solved. Thanks for that tip!

You aren't alone in this. It is quite hit or miss for me. Sometimes on Hoggit GAW I can send and receive but not reliably from session to session. I now ask Jester to tune to an ATIS and if I can't hear transmissions, then I don't use that radio for that session. I can't identify a cause and can't tell if it is a Tomcat module issue or an SRS one. It is frustrating.

Isn't weapon and pylon drag a bit off in DCS at the moment?

Real life it is an analog input. Most of us are using on/off input. It might not matter much but worth keeping in mind.

There was something in the patch notes a patch or two ago about tweaking the rate at which trim is applied. I found it more instinctive before that change but there were also drag and thrust changes too, so I might be remembering with rose coloured glasses.

I knocked down a Foxhound on Hoggit GAW two nights ago in TWS at 72nm. Seems okay to me.

I'd buy the F-14D for sure, even at full module price. But I'd also buy nearly anything HB produced.

Happening to me on roughly 50% of my flights this week on the Hoggit GAW server, and there seems to be very little in common between those crashes. System specs: i5-7600k @ 5ghz, GTX1070Ti, 16gb DDR4. DCS runs from an SSD. I have Tacview and Voiceattack running. dcs.log-20190527-134714.zip

That looks amazing. Thank you very much for sharing this. I've got fewer and fewer excuses to not buy a printer now.

That's a great seat! Looks really practical and well made.

Did you wave off at all prior to the trap?

Can confirm collapsed gear does happen. It happened to me once during start up! Must have been a pretty bad storm I was in. Taxiing over to the cat, there was a noticeable slant.

It's seriously an easy AP to use. I have a warthog too, I still put in a very small deadzone. I only use alt hold though, I haven't gotten my head around the other ones as yet. All I do is activate the main AP switch which is a bit like an attitude hold. Then when I am approaching an altitude I want to maintain, I switch on the alt hold switch and when I reach that height, I press the nosewheel button. You will see when you have AP active and altitude hold on but not yet engaged, there will be a warning light that says something like AP hold or the like. It's on the left side of the VDI from memory.

I'd love for there to be a mouse interface for Jester. I find using Track IR as my pointing device a bit tedious, Voice Attack is finicky and the keypad too easy to make incorrect inputs. A mouse or a mouse-like input would be great.

No worries. :)

Debolestis, do you have a replacement for the CMS switch assembly on the Warthog?

Same issue here as DERacing. No mapping conflicts, also on WH throttle but the hat at the front of the right lever. Radio 1 is right, radio 2 is left, forward is F10 radio 1, aft is F10 radio 2. Have uninstalled and reinstalled. Have only used it in the Tomcat. I can hear communications fine, am not sure if I can transmit because I have a ridiculously quiet mic and haven't had a response to a mic check yet.

I can't disagree there! Glad the OP worked it all out.

+1, kneel it down and then U key. The switch is near the landing gear lever. It is a toggle. Up to raise, down to lower. Lower that thing til it stops moving. It is fairly important that your actual alignment is within a couple of degrees though. Off-centre cat shots are somewhat hazardous.

Cardboard Aided Design. Kudos. This is a really good way to reuse otherwise wasted materials, and its far cheaper to change things if you aren't happy with your layout or want to accommodate other things.

The patch prior to this one seemed to fix it but it is now back every now and then. I can't reproduce it but it happens periodically.

Good, looking forward to those changes.

Yeah, that article did it for me too. Gonna need bindings for g-suit and BN-on-pilot violence with it.

With the lack of seat adjustability I've mapped camera height to the same hat I've got trim on, just with a modifier. Makes it a bit easier to see the carrier in the groove too.