eviliguana966

I'm getting reasonably competent with the mechanics of the aircraft so at this point I'm interested in some info on the best practices for actually employing the A-10 in combat. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find much information in this vein. Are there any good resources out there for combat tactics? Specifically I'd be interested in things like what weapons work best against what targets. Are there accepted procedures for things like gun runs against AAA? If I recall correctly the GAU-8 outranges the ZSU but I don't recall the safe zone for a gun pass on such a target. In general I'd like to know how close I have to be for the gun to be effective on various targets, and how close to them I have to be before they can shoot back. Also useful would be proper procedures for beating various types of air defense. What maneuvers can defeat missiles and what CM programs work best? The tutorials available on the Wiki and this forum have been invaluable for learning to fly the plane and I'm just trying to find similar resources for the tactics part of the equation, if such a thing exists.

Thanks for the reply. Do you know if there are any other programs besides the SST software that can recognize the ministick and allow it to be used in such a fashion? I'd use the Saitek program except that it for some reason causes major problems on my PC. I've been fooling around with autohotkey but I do not believe it will do the job. Seems like 6 axes is the max it recognizes and the first six on the X52 are stick X, stick Y, stick twist, the throttle and then the two rotary knobs on the throttle.

I have a Saitek X52 and recently ran into problems with the profile program forcing me to disable it. This means that I'm now working without SFJackBauer's profile to set the ministick to the HOTAS slew commands. My question is whether it is possible to bind the ministick directly in DCS. Any idea what the ministick axes are called in DCS? In the axis commands screen there are slots for HOTAS slew vertical and HOTAS slew horizontal, but I have no idea which options in the key/button pulldown menu might correspond to the ministick. I have the following to choose from: JOY_ARX JOY_ARY JOY_ARZ JOY_ASLIDER1 JOY_ASLIDER2 JOY_AX JOY_AY JOY_AZ JOY_FRX JOY_FRY JOY_FRZ JOY_FSLIDER1 JOY_FSLIDER2 JOY_FX JOY_FY JOY_FZ JOY_RX JOY_RY JOY_RZ JOY_SLIDER1 JOY_SLIDER2 JOY_VRX JOY_VRY JOY_VRZ JOY_VSLIDER1 JOY_VSLIDER2 JOY_VX JOY_VY JOY_VZ JOY_X JOY_Y JOY_Z Any suggestions?