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After finishing the Basic and Advanced Campaigns, which I enjoyed pretty much, I am now 5 missions into the TTQ. Unfortunately the TTQ is not on the same level as the other two. 1. The voice acting in the TTQ feels awkwardly weird. For some unknown reason this campaign's instructor is yelling all the time. He can't sound neutral. He is either hostile or overly enthusiastic, never "normal". The loudness of his voice would be appropriate when he'd try to shout from a neighboring trench while us being under heavy artillery fire. His voice would fit a long retired guy who has for some weird reason been recalled into active duty and is now trying to overachieve vocally so we younger guys agree he is still up to the game, while constantly approaching his next heart attack. Why would one shout on radio to convey simple regular messages like SATTLED! and STRIPPED! (his voice almost flips over with the last one)? This is distracting, annoying and feels totally unnecessary. BTQ and ATQ were much better, they felt just normal, calm, precise, disciplined. This here isn't and it hurts the immersion. 2. There is plenty of mission documentation available, which should be a good thing. Only its often inaccurate, presenting wrong frequencies and callsigns and many times overloaded, drowning the important information in walls of text and tons of data you won't really be interested in. I can imagine this might aim to mimic real world briefs, only in real world briefs, you would - still highlight the important factors for your flight and - very likely not present the wall of text format. The mission cards apparently try to remedy this, yet even in these frequencies and callsigns are wrong in some occasions (seems this has been reported already) I am in the 5th mission and none of the briefing material has actually been briefing me about the upcoming flight. Maybe the aim is to throw me into unforeseeable situations, to practice handling ad hoc situations. Still at least this is something a mission brief would explain to me. In the first missions I had no idea in advance what my IP would be that the IP will be available on WP51 in the CDU which other units I will get in contact with Necessary frequencies weren't preprogrammed as presets in the radio. I had to pause the flight, go into the mission briefing, look across the wall of text to find the callsign my instructor told me to contact, then translate the TAD number in the frequency list, then adjust the radios. The whole idea of returning to the IP after each mission and receiving the next tasking there had never been explained. The ingame mission briefing did contain the chart of the Vaziani training range, though the map is just overloaded with all the IPs there are (while needing only a very single one per mission). A familiarization flight would have helped btw. The training area has questionably close limits to the IPs, so any orbiting at banks less than 45° will have you violate the MOA and end the mission with a hostile instructor. 3. Sorry but the mission design has serious issues this time, unlike its 2 predecessors. There are cases in which the targets called in by the JTACs are that close to your IP, that its virtually impossible to spot them with the TGP because your optics' field of view is just too narrow already. Together with the problems arising from the lack of real mission brief, it often feels like the campaign intends to present a challenge (which is good) by generating such unfair situations (which is bad). In the 4th mission (SEAD), you don't even arrive at the IP before the SA-3 is already tracking you. Your instructor will tell you to hit the deck (while still flying at 8000 ft) seconds before the SA-3 launches its first missile on you. Its impossible to anticipate when starting this mission for the first time. So its kind of necessary to experience these failure moments to then focus on getting low and scouting the target with your TGP in advance in following attempts to fly this mission, before your RWR and eventually your instructor will alert you. The loadout had 2 mavericks. You put one on a Shilka in the first task, a second task demands one on a moving convoy consisting of a ZU-23 truck and an SA-9, so naturally I aimed my 2nd Maverick on the SA-9. Only this one didn't track and missed. Since I had no guided weapons left, I could abort the mission at this point. When I finally ended the 4th mission "successfully" (no complaints by my instructor during flight), I was given an Unqualified for not killing all targets. Which targets I allegedly missed will stay secret with my instructor forever. I only know the FACs didn't have any further taskings for me. I just aborted the 5th mission in frustration. After 2 successfull JDAM drops, I was told to egress. While peacefully heading out, my instructor suddenly says that the mission will only count as success when an After action report supports it. No idea what he would want from me now. He already confirmed I killed the targets when we were departing the target points on his order. Should I scope these locations again with my TGP? Who knows, its not explained anywhere. Following the flightplan lead me to the fence out waypoint. Shortly therafter my instructor yelled at me I would have exited the MOA without authorization. Ok. Well I am kind of done of being kept in the dark. The rapid chain of JTAC/FAC tasking is good practice and fun. Yet the whole mission around it isn't. It feels carelessly assembled, not saying it has been, but in its current state its just not solid anymore. I'd really recommend this whole campaign would be reviewed completely. The amount and level of issues seems beyond what some quick corrections here and there could fix. The previous two campaigns did a brilliant job to enforce practicing and relearning stuff. In contrast and unfortunately though, this TTQ campaign (in its current state) is far from this level.

how would you know its on? Is there any indication? Mine looks dead.

Cant find any controls setting to switch it on.

any module is complete by itself. If you want to fly the A-10C II, you only need to install the A-10C II

Any IFF challenge wouldn't receive any response. Civilian aircraft don't have Mode 4 transponders. If they appear as friendly via datalink, some AWACS or GCI might've designated these contacts as friendly, relying on other sources. If there is no such controlling instance, then any appearance as friendly is realistically impossible.

considering the terrain elevation in the example above, this could simply be parallax error

The R-speed didn't change. And btw -:07 actually means I am already 7 seconds late, so reducing speed further makes no sense.

Of course you can. Don't think you should though.

I think you still don't get it (please don't take it the wrong way, I appreciate you participating here) Flying the R-speed in the example above wouldn't have prevented arriving 7 seconds late. It would only have gotten me even more late. The 195 kts did keep me right on time. (7 seconds is nothing at this distance, basically equals right on time). Reducing to R-speed did increase the negative delta rapidly. Just do the math: 195 : 170 = 1.147 13:25 = 805 seconds 1.147 * 805 seconds = 923 seconds (15:23) Flying R-speed would have taken me 15 minutes 23 seconds. I would have arrived at 18:28:35, more than 2 minutes after DTOT. Here is another example which might make it more visible, because two pics this time, I fly constant speed of around 260 keeping the delta at zero, while the R speed tells me to do 233. 1st pic at 43 Nm distance, 2nd at 25 NM distance almost 4 minutes between these pics. The R-speed doesn't make any sense here.

Tried it again today, again allegedly missed the rendezvous. As you can see in my HUD, I should be right on time to arrive at WP4 at +00 at the DTOT 18.26 in 2 minutes and 31 seconds. [Btw if you look at the R speed on the left side of the HUD, there seems to be some issue with the DTOT based R-speed calculation. I'd say it might not be connected to the issue here, as I would arrive even later when reducing to R231. Still a problem which I'll report in the A-10C subforum] I accepted the Q- in advance and have arrived at the tanker, between WP6 and WP7. Now I face the problem that the examiner doesn't seem to acknowledge my successful connects, He just doesn't comment anything besides the "little bit more stick and throttle" advice. Just in case this might be a trigger thing: I kind of bypassed WP5 and WP6, since before arriving at WP5 the examiner told me I should follow the tanker into the turn while it was turning at WP5 ahead of me, so since I was already "too late" I shortcutted into a dog pursuit directly aiming at the tanker, yet remaining on 14000 ft. So I am afraid this mission might fail by resulting in a U-rating. While I am actually doing perfectly After 9 successful connects (without examiner commenting) he told me "enough for the day" when we arrived at WP7, RTB to Kobuleti went without issue. The IFR CAT-III approach was pretty cool - although the rwy 25 ILS seems to have issues) As expected I received a U-rating. Still after ending the mission the score was 80, so I am free to continue with AATQ3

While the initial developer still seems to be AWOL, may I ask how it is possible we still receive patches on the map? Can we expect to see the map developed further by ED or who is now responsible? Is there a roadmap for "completion" or is this entire SA map project rather sidelined but occasionally receiving small adjustments?

You won't need 588 GB for an update, rather for an entire installation from scratch.

sure? null

Wouldn't surprise me at all, keep in mind how suspiciously often it was included in many of ED's videos. I expect the Germany/cold war/central Europe map we already've seen in videos. Then likely some more C-130 footage, MiG-29A, added stuff to Afghanistan, Iraq, Supercarrier and the CH-47. Maybe some Pacific WW2 stuff. Beyond these its purely speculation.

It doesn't really make sense to slow down from 195 to a constant R170 to shave off 7 seconds deviation when I have to go for another 47 NM right? The reason I was doing 195 kts is that by experimenting for some minutes before taking the screenshot I found out that maintaining this very 195 kts speed kept me on time.

Is there any way to adjust (tone down) the brightness of the clock, the NMSP, the ARC-164's front dash frequency repeater, and on the left console the ARC-210 and ARC-164?

R-speed wants me to fly 170 kts, while I am very right on time doing 195 kts.

I have some problems with confusing contradictions of the Delta Rendezvous the mission claims to suppose us to follow. - Calling the tanker at the RVIP doesn't actually make it turn to arrive at the RVCP in time (RVCT) - setting TACAN to anything else than T/R doesn't give any readout, to get the tanker's bearing and range, you have to set it to T/R, not A/A as demanded by your examiner. - (this one only during the training mission) maintaining the long distance towards waypoint 4 (RVCP) had me fly inside of clouds most of the time. Getting above them at around 14200 of course triggered a Q- rating for deviation from the demanded altitude - examiner calls out friendlies from 11 o'clock at least 2 times. Unlike during the daylight mission I didn't see any of these, it was pitch black, NVG only showed stars, no aircraft, no idea how my examiner might have spotted them - we are told to fly at "appropriate speed" several times. Since we learned how to deal with DTOT during the BFT course and also keeping in mind that its mission critical to arrive right on RVCT, I flew the R-speeds correctly. This made me end up 15 NM trailing the tanker (at a slower speed than the tanker) and the examiner claiming I failed to arrive on time, while the DTOT clearly shows I am right on time. Quite frustrating, as this occurs 40 minutes into this rather long mission... situation seconds after I "failed" to be on time at the RVCP: I am 6 NM out and will arrive in 1:40, right on DTOT (deviation is less than 10 seconds). Tanker is 15 NM ahead though, 9 NM beyond the RVCP...

This is neither an A-10 specific topic nor is ED responsible for this project. Visit Ciribob's Discord https://discord.gg/2atSs7kT or the pinned thread here

In many missions these 2 wingmen just get uncomfortably close. Especially with slow speeds, their simple flight model makes them shift around at almost teleporting speeds, often then jumping around directly in front of your nose in less then an aircraft's length distance, giving you headaches while landing. I had one of them crash into me during the early missions when I was rated for landing performance. This made me fail because "you damaged the aircraft". Similar issue when doing the no engine landing on the little air strip. One of these guys must have followed me until I was close to the ground, then he ejected and his aircraft crashed into my wing. "you damaged the aircraft" I understand these 2 guys might be usefule when demonstrating the benefit of the clearing turns. In all other cases, a 3rd wingman shouldn't be required and assuming we have our instructor being a single wingman for us, why not keeping him at 1000 ft (or more) distance? Right now it seems more risky than beneficial and it does in fact occasionally ruin the mission.

First I want to say thanks for this mission, its a good challenge to get you back into being more proficient with the CDU. Today I flew this one almost flawlessly. Only at the very first waypoint, I arrived too early. Sometimes its difficult to determine from when the 5 minutes timer is supposed to start. At the beginning of the instructor telling me the coordinates, at the time he states I have 5 minutes left or when he is done with all his advice? Besides that confusion, which cost me being on time at the first waypoint, everything else in that mission went perfectly. So as usual when everything but a single item goes well, I expected to receive a Q- rating. Instead: The last task is to navigate to Batumi by TACAN, which again confused me as I wasn't certain what kind of trigger would test me using the TACAN at all. I wasn't that far north from Batumi, I could've and would've called Batumi ATC regularly at this point to get the vectoring to the approach segment. instead I followed to the TACAN's 75° radial to enter the traffic pattern's downwind leg (as we learned to do some missions earlier) and then called Batumi tower while in the extended downwind. Did a lefthand U turn into extended final rwy at 2500 ft coming from 230 kts as usual in these missions. Instructor never complained. After landing I parked at the tanker as usual and shut down. After calling sierra delta complete, instructor was very happy with my shutdown procedure. Then it got weird: He didn't - as usual - continue with my ratings for each segment of the PO. Instead the "You failed.." message played, which we usually only get to hear when the instructor cancels the PO mid flight. Not sure if this was connected to my TACAN use (instructor wasn't that specific about what he would expect me to do with it, so I used it with best intention), only mentioned it just in case...

Another minor issue is at the engine restart item before. Instructor tells us to wait for the ITT to drop below 100°C. This actually never happens, clearly remaining above 100°C and you run out of the given 30 seconds, so you ignore the ITT and engine will relight.

otoh, lost opportunity though