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Hi Grimes, Thanks for your reply. I only exited to the main menu. I'll try exiting the sim altogether the next time I encounter this situation...

When I accidentally delete a unit from a mission, and exit the mission editor without saving the unwanted changes, the mission editor still saves it, and when I open the mission the next time it includes the unwanted changes that I didn't want to save. In other words, when I exit the mission editor it always saves the most recent changes, no matter what option (save or not) I click on in the dialog box that asks if I want to save the latest changes. This is not an issue with a particular mission, but happens always. Anybody else have this issue, or is it only my install? B.t.w. I have always had this issue, from the Warthog stand alone version to the most recent DCS world. It is rather annoying, since there is no way to undo an unwanted action... Help!

I find knowing where in the world you are one of the more challenging things in DCS-P51D. I found sections in the manual describing homing and ranging radios. These sections are very brief and end in a statement saying they are not implemented in this simulation. Why not? I guess those radios is what the guys used back in the day to find their way around, right? Would be mighty useful in this sim, too. Does anybody know why they are not implemented, and if there are any plans to implement them? Same question applies to the IFF radio...

Regarding the barrel roll: one of you said to give it (e.g.) left aileron and some elevator up. The amount of elevator up should be chosen to keep a constant angle of attack (AoA). How do I assess my AoA, there isn't an instrument to display that, right?

Thanks guys! I'll try all your suggestions tonight after work...

Does anyone have/know of youtube tutorials that teach you how to perform various aerobatic maneuvers in a P51? Ideal would be a tutorial that for each maneuver tells what you have to do to stick, rudder and airspeed...

No, I don't overclock... Your post made me curious though: If I wanted to try overclocking, what procedure/software do you recommend?

Hi Nate, I attached my DXDIAG report. I didn't do that right after the crash, but just now when I read you reply. Hope that's OK. I use windows 7 home 64 bit. DxDiag.txt

Hi Nate (or any other moderator), Can you at least tell me whether the logs I attached are useful, so I can submit a ticket. Generally I love DCS products, but I have to say world 1.2 has been a nightmare so far in terms of crashes and FPS...

Hi Grimes, What probably happened is the following. First I tried to reimport my P51D contol setting of the previous world version, but I accidentally imported the A10C settings. Noticing my mistake, I cleared all the columns. But apparently all the control options of the A10C remained in the list as empty fields. Still a bug, isn't it? I am not absolutely postive if all the A10C fields where there before my erroneous import, but I would assume that's what explains the difference between your install and mine. If you have some extra time, you can try this out. Not a big thing, but I thought it might be useful to report even small bugs...

As we need to delete the saved games folder before installing world 1.2, I had to reenter all the control options. That's when I noticed that, e.g. if you select P51D real, that all the options for the A10C also appear. There is no point in listing keyboard commands for the CDU, if there is no CDU in a P51D. Only switches that exist in the cockpit of the selected airplane should show up in the controls menu, right? Also, some switches appear twice, e.g. landing gear up/down. Please change that in the next patch, please.

Hi Nate, Here you go. I attached the crash and log files. I saved the track, but when I replayed it, the trk file did not contain the right track. The particular crash happened maybe 5 minutes into playing P51D escort mission (from users files), but as I said in my original message, any mission from the user files I played so far crashes sooner or later, whereas I didn't have any crashes with the previous version of world for the same missions. Let me know if you need anything else. Your help is greatly appreciated. DCS-20120718-004127.zip

I had no problems playing through the user created missions (the ones I've tried, I play A10C and P51D) using the previous version of world. But with the new DCS world 1.2 I get crashes several minutes into all the missions I have tried so far. I can give additional details, but as a first step I would just like to know if I am alone, or if this is a problem other people experience too. It has already been mentioned that the FPS took a serious hit with the new World version... B.t.w. I checked the MD5 check sums, they all checked out... Any help would be greatly appreciated...

What is the new trigger action "radio beacon unit/zone" good for? Can it be used as a navigation aid for DCS Mustang? If so, how? On a related question: Am I right that DCS has not yet released the DCS World GUI manual?

Does anyone have a recipe for achieving the maximum turn rate. Throttle open/closed? Ideal airspeed? Ideal g?

Hi Sobek, Thanks for your answer. Nevertheless I am surprised by what you say. If you are right, why then do the wingmen start their engines exactly when I request "start-up engines" by radio. I must have played Warthog (where it is immediately acknowledged by "2 ready") and Mustang several hundred times, and each time the wingmen start their engines exactly when I request "start-up engines". Seems like an astronomical coincidence to me...

Reporting another bug. In the attached track you will see the following: I request "start-up engine" by radio to ATC, but, by mistake, I forgot to select any radio button. Therefore ATC never gets my request, and never gives me a clear engine start-up. My wingman and flight somehow get the message though, since they start up their engines anyway. That's a bug, right? My previous bug reports were greeted with utter silence. Wouldn't mind some sort of response this time to make sure my messages get forwarded to the relevant people, or, if not, let me know why my reports aren't useful. I'll try to do a better job next time, then.:) FlightShouldntStartEngine.trk

Hi, Just reporting a little bug (see attached track), concerning a flight of 4 P51D. They are in each other's way and won't taxi to the runway. FlightWontTakeOff.trk

Now that I have everything neatly together in DCS world, there is one glaring asymmetry: whereas the P51 and A10 have interactive training modules, the most difficult craft to fly, the Ka50 doesn't. I don't find the presently supplied non-interactive training videos for the Ka50 useful. Therefore, ED, please put together an interactive training session for the Ka50.

I installed the new 1.1.2.1. A10C. Even though I select the mirror option in DCS world, the mirrors appear folded up/stowed away in the cockpit. I thought maybe I can click on them to fold them down, but they appear to not be clickable. How can I fold down the mirrors in the new A10C sim?

TM HOTAS profiles for 1.1.2.1 beta I read in this thread that I shouldn't import my Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS stick and throttle profiles from 1.1.1.1. True? If so, does anyone have profiles for the new 1.1.2.1.?

When I use ATC to guide me to the airport where I am going to land and when I use a military overhead pattern, I get a "runway occupied go around" as I overfly the airport in the upwind leg, even though I am the only aircraft in the mission. Presumably this happens because DCS mistakes my own airplane as a second airplane that is already close to the airstrip.

In the meantime I am successful at keeping the Mustang on the runway for take-off, but, even after a relatively smooth touchdown, the pony will sooner or later start to slew off the runway, and my attempts to correct it almost always lead to a ground loop, and my plane lying upside down and on fire on the grass. What's the trick to controlling the bird after touch down? Should the rudder trim be set to a specific setting? Do you reduce the throttle quickly or slowly after touch down?

If I use the mission editor to set two different frequencies (in my case an ATC and AWACS), depending on which frequency I use first during the mission, the other frequency becomes inoperable (not set to the proper frequency). When I recheck the mission editor after completing the mission, I find that all frequencies other than the one I used first got reset to 100 AM. I wonder if someone else had this problem.

This is not so much a bug but rather a suggestion: navigation in the Mustang is tricky compared to the A10 because of the absense of electronic navigation aids. So, I added an AWACS flight to my mission. But when I asked it for my vector to home plate, it gave me coordinates relative to bullseye, which are pretty much useless in the absense of an electronic map, right? My suggestion is that vectors for Mustang pilots should always be given relative to the plane's current coordinates (b.t.w. I am using the latest beta 2.1).