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    TrackIR 5 Issues with DCS

    in View System

    Posted

    I searched all the posts and though people are having similar problems, it is not like what I am experiencing. Any help is appreciated...

     

    It seems after the 1.2.7 patch that my TrackIR 5 works fine for the first flight (both single and multiplayer). Once I land, or usually crash, exit, and get back in the cockpit, the viewing system goes nuts. If you Alt-Tab over to TrackIR GUI, the output of the camera goes from the nice little tracked 3 dots to what looks like a scrambled mess. I have both the clip and pro, neither work until you stop TrackIR, and restart it. I don't have the problem with any other games. I cleared out my INPUTS directory and reset all the config files for axis inputs. Still no luck. It looks like something deeper is interfering with the camera drivers.

    AH-1G Release date?

    in Chit-Chat

    Posted · Edited by cltmmm

    Does anyone know if that pylon mounted 30 mm cannon on the Cobra is effective against tanks? The 30 mm cannon on the Ka-50 is only good against light/medium targets. My main criticism of the AH-1G has been the lack of TOW missiles, but if that cannon makes it an effective anti-tank platform then I may consider getting it after all.

     

    It is/was the XM188. Mainly made for the AH-63, which was cancelled. It was experimentally fitted in the nose turret of an AH-1, but of course, not accepted.

     

     

     

    Needs translated from Italian (I used Google Chrome)

     

    XM188 vs. GAU-8 (A-10 30mm) vs. XM140 (single barrel "version" of XM188 )

    XM188 has about ~20% the energy of the GAU-8 at the muzzle...

    Thermal TGP and clouds.

    in DCS: A-10C Warthog

    Posted

    Even small amounts of water vapour produce greyish and blurry images in thermal optics. Dont expect your thermal view to see through any cloud. This is no radar. Generally your FLIR equipment needs the same line of sight like your eyes do.

     

    DARPA has a program now called ViSAR that is supposed to give true all weather day/night imaging. Extreme high frequency radar to see through everything with short enough wavelength for resolution.

     

    http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/STO/Programs/Video_Synthetic_Aperture_Radar_(ViSAR).aspx

    Laser Guided Rocket

    in Military and Aviation

    Posted

    gotcha, thanks

    so do you think Warthog, Apache will use these missiles/rockets instead of old Hydra FFARs

     

    by the way: have you ever seen/heard Hellfires on Warthog (testing) ?

     

    TY

    Hellfires can't be fired from fixed wing. That is what JCM/JAGM is for. Still a long way off for this... Or just buy Brimstone.

    Laser Guided Rocket

    in Military and Aviation

    Posted

    I worked this program from when General Dynamics primed it. The "Guided Rocket" nomenclature was more for making it seem affordable, "easy", and it uses existing hardware. Bottom line theme was "you really aren't buying anything new and you get all this cool capability for next gen warfare." Don't dig too deep into it.

    Improving TGP resolution.

    in DCS: A-10C Warthog

    Posted

    This is an interesting problem. You do not want to give yourself more resolution than what the pod has or it will be cheating. Below are some leads into why.

     

    Quite simply there is a chain of effects that determine how well you can determine if a target is a target. The summary is this:

     

    Radiation emitted/reflected from target -> atmospheric effects -> sensor system/optics -> image processing -> display -> person interpreting/skill level

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson's_criteria

    http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a254954.pdf

    http://spie.org/samples/TT70.pdf

     

    It would be cool if all of this was modeled in the sim, but it would bring the system to its knees at the same time!

    Very nice programmable keyboard

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

    Posted

    No, I had the delays and everything else in there. The problem was phantom keystrokes that the Cherry POS Keyboards inject in the stream. They also press the keys out of order of what you actually have programmed. The tech support admitted that this was a design decision and that for low-performance, e.g. POS systems, it does not matter. In the case with BS2 that is reading the full keyboard queue with great precision, it screws it up.

    Think I might finally understand Trim problem!

    in DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark

    Posted

    There was an old profile I used to use with my Cougar that Viper made that would somehow virtually trim the joystick external to BS2 and make it think the joystick was "stuck" in place like a FFB or real cyclic. I never had the trim bounce or the wrestling with the trim like I do now. You would lose the nice hover indicator in Auto-Hover mode, though. Viper changed the profile to use the standard trimming method and I thought I should get with the times. Now I want to go back and can't find the old profile.

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