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AlpineYoda

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  1. Thanks! I’ve checked in a few missions that did not work previously — but it looks like the latest updates fixed the bug. Thanks for the good work.
  2. I also posted this in the general release v2.5 bugs thread. Which was probably the wrong place. When you turn on the "view enemies" or "view all objects" cheat options - I know, I'm cheating. But I have a hard time seeing a single pixel 3 miles out... The markings are in the wrong place. The little cheat red dot and the text saying, say, "T72" is half a monitor screen away from where the tank actually is. And when you bank, the text drifts. I am running three-wide on the main displays, plus 2 small screens for homebuilt MFDs. So, this is probably a more complicated set up than most. Happy to provide more details if needed. On the same monitor set up, the text and dots worked just fine with v1.5 and v2.5.
  3. Reporting a bug with the current version, at least with the A10C module - when you turn on the "extended view - view enemies / view objects" options (Yeah, I know, it's cheating a little, but a pixel for a tank at 3 miles is hard to see with my old eyes... The red dots and labels do not indicate the actual location of the enemy. They seem to drift and bear no relation to actual locations. I'm using a 5 monitor set up (three displays for wrap around effects and two for MFDs) - which may complicate things. However, the proper locations did work correctly in v1.5 and 2.0
  4. Got it. So, one camera is better since a single zoom command applies to all. If you have three cameras, I'm guessing that your zoom levels on the view are really hard to calibrate each time out.
  5. Skatezilla - that looks really great. Can you share the .lua file you used to run that? On the video, it looked like the image "rubber bands" or stretches a little, as the camera angle moves around and you look to the extreme sides. Is that distortion just on the video or does it happen while flying, too?
  6. Thanks for the advice! To keep up my real world instrument currency, I train sometimes in a TruFlite simulator with a wrap around projection screen and a handful of projectors. Has anyone ever tried to run DCS in a system like that?
  7. Just started a new job far from home and I'm finding myself with too much time on my hands. So.... It is time to improve my setup. I'm currently running a single 27" Doublesight monitor and a pair of 9 inch displays as MFDs. I'm thinking about buying 3 more monitors and setting them up in the following configuration: _____XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Where the two side monitors are angled in a little and the top one is angled down. Not a perfect wrap around sim, but pretty close. Has anyone else tried something like this? Any suggestions on the crazy .lua programming I would need to pull this off? Which monitor should be primary? Thanks in advance!
  8. Whoops, I forgot about that. Then why have an Army?
  9. I can't imagine there is anyone on this forum that hasn't seen this video, but here it is just in case. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8XexZ5kwQ If an Apache was in the area, it could have done this. An F22, F35, F15, F16, B2, or B52 (which has had a 60 year service life, given its unique role) could not have done the job like this A10 and his wingman.
  10. I disagree. "What sucks the most for all involved" is the Army and Marine lives that will be lost. Google or YouTube the incident where a bunch of ground guys are literally running through an orchard, pursued by Taliban or AQ and a pair of A10s is orbiting overhead, talking on the radio to the ground, and GAU'ing everything they are cleared hot to hit. (I think someone even recently made a DCS mission out of this.) Please tell me how an F35 with 181 rounds of 25mm and a few bombs at 30,000 feet would have kept those guys alive like the Hawg drivers did. The Army or Marines should ask for all the A10s.
  11. I agree with everything you said, except your analogy doesn't go far enough. The cost of maintaining the A10 fleet for 5 years saves 3.5BN in the new budget. So, let's say 15 years for $10BN to make the following math easy. $10BN versus that GAO $1TN estimate is more like a new $10 blade for your existing saw or $1000 for a new one that looks really cool, isn't made to cut deck wood especially well (your primary need), and tends to fall apart during testing.
  12. Farmers with rusty AKs have killed a lot more Americans over the last ten years than Chinese stealth fighters. I'm guessing the next 10 years may not be much different.
  13. I'm putting the odds at 95% that the US is primarily fighting dispersed and decentralized guerilla fighters for the next 20 years. 4% that the US needs to stop a wall of North Korea forces coming down the peninsula. <1% that the US fights a conventional force on force action against China, Russia, or anyone else who can field 5th or 6th or 7th generation fighter aircraft. Even in the event the US did find itself in a limited conflict against China over some disputed islands, most US air power would need to be carrier-based, not land based. If the US has to fight North Korea (who doesn't even have a 3rd generation air force of note), the ability to pick off tanks and trucks will be the primary mission requirement. So, that puts the likely mission needs (by my calculations) at 99% for a heavily armed CAS platform. Maybe the Army or Marines should take the A-10s. The Air Force generals clearly want fast, cool, sleek, and loud fighters. The Army and Marines want somebody to stop the bad guys from overrunning their positions. The service branches simply aren't on the same page.
  14. Let's see... The US can field A10s against Al Queda - loitering for hours over a battlefield, providing true low and slow close air support to ground forces with more weapons than a platoon of tanks. Or, the US can send in F35s that fly 5 times as fast, burn 10 times as much gas, and drop one quarter of the weaponry. If I'm a Marine, I want the first option. If I'm a defense contractor, I want the second option. In today's America, guess which one wins....
  15. I sent the "me" file as requested. The whole thing just got stranger -- I went into the new logbook using Notepad++ to edit the flight hours, kills, deaths, etc like I have done dozens of times before (who among us hasn't deleted a death or two now and then?) Based on ballpark numbers, I edited Flight hours, landings, kill ratio, deaths, ejections, etc to numbers that I thought were reasonable. Then I reloaded DCS and found that my logbook was reset to zero again. As well as the progress I had made in a campaign over the last couple of nights -- the campaign that I was a couple of missions into was listed as inactive. So..... I guess I won't be editing the logbook anymore......
  16. Nevermind. No files were attached to the previous email. This forum does not allow attaching .log files. Any advice?
  17. Per request, the me.log file is attached. I also attached me.log.old
  18. Out of town again until 2/19 - will attach files as requested on return.
  19. Nope. Old logbook is gone. All hours, kills, medals, campaigns, everything. I even did a global search of all my hard drives for any file titled *logbook*.* and the only thing that showed up was the current log with 2 hours of time on it. And, since the prior post said he was using Steam, I will note that I am NOT using Steam. So it must fail both ways.
  20. Thanks for the help, everyone. I've been out of town for work the last week and I will check into that saved folder when I get home.
  21. My DCS version was automatically updated to 1.2.7 per the usual process and is working just fine overall. However, all my custom tuning of my HOTAS setup was reset and required re-customizing, my display settings were all reset to stock, and my log book was deleted. I'm still working through it, looking for other stuff that was deleted or reset. So, two questions.... Why did this update do this (and is there an archive of my settings and logbook that I can use to repair it)? No other update ever reset everything like this. Beyond the HOTAS settings, display settings, and log book, has anyone seen anything else get messed up? I'd like to repair everything else "on the ground" rather than discover more problems halfway through a mission. Is there any way to recover the log book? I don't care about my records, but my young son flies from time to time and is really sad this went away.
  22. My DCS version was automatically updated to 1.2.7 per the usual process and is working just fine overall. However, all my custom tuning of my HOTAS setup was reset and required re-customizing, my display settings were all reset to stock, and my log book was deleted. I'm still working through it, looking for other stuff that was deleted or reset. So, two questions.... Why did this update do this (and is there an archive of my settings and logbook that I can use to repair it)? No other update ever reset everything like this. Beyond the HOTAS settings, display settings, and log book, has anyone seen anything else get messed up? I'd like to repair everything else "on the ground" rather than discover more problems halfway through a mission.
  23. No engines. One rudder gone. Half a wing gone. No gear. Belly landing on an airstrip.
  24. I heard from my CFI that hornets don't count as multis. I didn't realize A10s didn't either. I did my test in a Piper Seminole, not a fighter.
  25. I passed my (US)FAA test today for my multi-engine rating with instrument. Please tell me that this will help me with my A-10C skills!
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