Crashmo

I just loaded the update: 2.0.5.3521.198 (The latest). Now if I carefully trim up before engaging in ALT mode, AND over 20° bank it holds fine. I tried 10° bank and it was much less pronounced than before, but still there. :glare: Acchhh! This was my way to gather targets in the TGP. Sadly, no more.

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Solution means mission editor Thanks for posting this. I too was in the same boat. After reading your solution I went in and found the Karavan in the mission editor. Then I just activated at start. I slowed their speed to 15 kts and everything triggered. Not in the same way as before, but it allowed me to finish the mission. Thanks again. :thumbup:

Link to podcast with Pete I know these posts are a bit old, but Pete did a podcast for the 476th. http://www.476vfightergroup.com/content.php?303-476th-Podcast-Episode-12

Pretty thorough, Tweet. I used to fly a CRJ. It had 2 degrees nose down sitting on the ramp ( for reason of getting the main cabin door low enough that it didn't require a slide) so an advantage of dropping the nose wheel down early was to dump all of the lift. It did have a nasty habit though. If you bounced a landing or even skimmed it nicely and became airborne again, all of the sensors would indicate a landing and the ground spoilers would deploy. This does not bode well if you're back in the air--say 5 to 10 feet. The nose pitches down abruptly and the pilot response is reactionary. We pitch up. The only effect that serves is to drive the main wheels onto the runway with a good deal of force. It was ugly and the resulting comments from passengers was enough to keep the door closed during deplaning. :music_whistling:

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Good Reads [ame]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/Close%20Air%20Support.pdf[/ame] [ame]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/A-10%20FAQ%20rev1.2.pdf[/ame] [ame]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/armyA10andAH64combination.pdf[/ame] [ame]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/Not%20Fade%20Away.pdf[/ame] [ame]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/Visual%20Aircraft%20Recognition.pdf[/ame] Here they are. The first is the JCAS and the others are just good A-10 reads. I got them from this community elsewhere on this forum so you may have seen them already. :thumbup:

From the horses mouth We know there aren't any more tanks to melt, so... is it just precision guided bombs and Mavericks now? It's been a couple of years since I flew but the gun system is still the primary weapon. It is great for close contact employment. Point effects and high certainty where the impact will be for the JTAC. I have seen film of pilots shooting with less than 50 meters to friendly forces. Only the a-10 can do that. If not, what is the gun commonly used against these days? Is it more of a last ditch weapon and an economical weapon against soft skinned vehicles, or is it the first choice compared to PGMs? As mentioned above and it is the quickest weapon to make an effect on a target. Point, shoot, dead. Bombs require specific conditions and targets move. For JDAMs moving targets are impossible. LGBs are possible but not practical. Maverick is great, but the environment makes or breaks the employment. Clutter, trees, buildings, etc may cause the lock to break while in flight. Gun also allows for more standoff than a bomb at low altitude. Also you can hit 2 targets effectively in one pass. Mixing ordnance within the flight is also nice. Normally flight lead shoots to make and wingman drops a larger weapon on the target. It also helps for fragmentation considerations. Flying through a bomb explosion normally results in bad things happening. Oh, and see if you can ask him if they still use binoculars to search for targets, even with the inclusion of the targeting pod. Do A-10s fly low enough to ID targets on their own or do they exclusively rely on JTAC to point out targets for them? Binos allow for seeing color. A-10s can I'd targets, but ROE may dictate that is not allowed. Targeting pod is great for ID. Binds help too. In all cases for CAS, a JTAC has to have a target I'd somehow. It can be from an aircrew. That's all for now, thanks, You may want to see if you can find a copy of JCAS online. It is the CAS bible. It may be very hard to find as it is an official document. :thumbup:I have a copy of the JCAS in pdf form. If anyone wants it I'll publish a link to my dropbox when I get home. My Canada connection is not friendly with my dropbox account.

He indicated that most of the work is with precision guided these days to avoid collateral damage. The guns were still employed often for close air support. I can ask him about the binoculars and get back to you. He said they used NVGs a lot. He told a story of a guy that had thrown his NVG case on the aft left console. It was getting in the way of his left elbow and he shoved it with his elbow. It turned something hydraulic off and he either landed gear up or ejected, I can't remember the exact details. I'm sure he was promoted. :smilewink: Yep, total loss of airframe after ejecting. 1996 or 1997 New York- I haven't been able to find anything about it, though. The TGP was used a great deal in the C. I'm not so sure about the A. I'll forward the other questions and get back to you. I just put the email out to him. Trev seems to be up to speed on most of this stuff anyway.

Let me know if you find errors or would like to see something added. jpeg, pdf included as well as a link to the psd file if you want to make changes in photoshop yourself. It's not the best or snazzy, but everything else I've found has errors and is out of date. [ame]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/CA%20WindowsKeyboard-6.psd[/ame] This is current as of today 01/07/2016 CA WindowsKeyboard-6.pdf

We talked for 3 days over the trip. He is available for Q & A if you have any. He was in the seat for about 3000 hours including several deployments from Kuwait onward. He was also trained in the F-35 (I noticed your sig). Most of his time was in the A model, but the last years and about 300 hours including tours in the Charlie. He seems amicable to help us. His last stint was at Fort Lewis as liaison with the army, writing CAS manuals and coordination. He knows what is still classified and is not afraid to say so--as I found out. I don't know why, but the document area where I posted a link is a big blank box to me. I'll try again here: [ame]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/VOL%202%20Suite%204.xls[/ame]

We talked a lot over 3 days and he forwarded this to me: [ame=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/VOL%202%20Suite%204.xls]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/VOL%202%20Suite%204.xls[/ame] It is a combat deployment syllabus that they used for proper weapon deployment on various targets. For reasons of mod checking, me thinks, the link is not showing just yet. Give it a while and I'll repost if necessary.

You Know When You're Playing too Much DCS... My wife walks around the house and every now and again she says, "Terrain, Terrain, Pull up, Pull up!" :pilotfly:

:helpsmilie:During a recent round with the UH-1H, I was starting mission 8 of the campaign and BAM, Point-Of-Reference BSOD. The Point of Ref is something new, but my machine is no stranger to BSODs. Upon recovery a few minutes later, the campaign was back to zero. In fact, all of the campaigns were at zero. I looked into the saved games folder--all around there--and nothing. So, Question 1: Where are the campaign progressions saved? 2: Has anyone else experienced and/or fixed a total loss of campaign progression? Thanks for and input. Bill

More on the Mav So, I have been flying the A-10C for a while and here is what I garner from that experience. In the A-10A I don't yet know if the seeker head makes a difference in this "city and buildings" environment. In the A-10C there are 2 fine ways to get around this problem. One is to target a threat with the TGP and then slave the Maverick to it. The other is called force correlation. Instead of letting the Maverick seek a target through white or black hot, you point the seeker at something and tell it: "Go here." It is a method of selecting something as distinct as a window, instead of the whole building. I cannot remember now if the A-10A has this force correlation available. I don't think you can grab a moving target with force correlate, though. So the tanks in motion have one up on us in the towns of FC3. Either way, my A-10A does NOT slew opposite and then reverse course correctly. So, my friend, you may have a glitch. Time to diagnose. :(

HUD Vids Well, these are not perfect. For some reason, the camera has a really hard time picking up the entire HUD picture the same way the human eye sees it. When I look through the combiner, I see everything if my seat setting is in the right place. Even though I move the camera around, I cannot seem to get the full sight picture. Sorry. Remember: Without the great mechanics, pilots are just pedestrians with cool sunglasses and leather jackets. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/Unstow%20Operation.mp4 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/Dimmer%20Demo.mp4 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/Exit%20Cloud.mp4 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48882875/Pit%20Scan%20into%20the%20morning%20Sun.mp4

dds file conversion Jay, I have used this program for over a year. It is very simple to set up and use. Just drag a bmp file into it and convert to a (save as) dds5 file. You can also take any .dds file and convert back to a bmp file to see it with a PC. http://www.mwgfx.co.uk/programs/dxtbmp.htm this is just one download site. The program is DXTBMP 16/32. I googled it and about 10 download sites came up.

bort #s I don't have a perfect answer for you, but I remember the bort numbers belonging to the texture files. Look into Belsimtek and the Huey. Look into skins threads, someone was talking about how to make a squadron of successive bort number aircraft. There may be some info there. I have moved bort numbers around on some BlackShark skins. I'll take a look and see if I remember anything from a year ago. If I find something, you'll hear from me back here.

CRJ HUD Bingo on the make. I fly the Q400 now, it is the same system. I will make a short video in the next few days just for you guys and show the dimming feature.

Beating the Dead Horse Hi, Some folks, and I completely believe them, say that the A-10 HUD drivers have to "suck it up" in terms of projected light onto the HUD combiner. They do good things with HUDs these days, I can't imagine why they would not spend some $ to upgrade the A-10 HUD projection. Here is a HUD that I fly every day. It's not perfect, but the brightness adjust knob is set about 30-40% in this photo. It will get really BRIGHT if you turn the knob. BUT, the clarity goes away and the edges get all fuzzy. Unless you are flying into the sun, then it seems sharp and bright. Consequently, at night I have the brightness turned almost all the way down. About 5% normally. Sometimes the guy before me leaves the brightness wayyy up from a day flight, then I climb into the seat at night and drop the combiner down. The light from the projector does a soft start with brightness, but if I'm not paying attention, it is like getting a green camera flash right in the eyes at night. My night vision is toast for a minute after that. You can see in this photo the combiner glass has a piece of mylar or something like that sandwiched between 2 pieces of glass. It has a bit of purple hue to it. I think maybe that has better reflective properties than the A-10 HUD, which may explain the difference. Here's a night shot: This is probably around 10-15% brightness. You can see that the edges of the text are a bit fuzzy--it might be that the camera gathered a lot of light from them, but that's how it is to the human eye as well. I normally turn it down so the text is a bit dimmer, but very crisp. Easy to see. Not like the A-10C. Modern stuff works better. I have a short vid that if anyone wants I'll upload to dropbox. It has a part where I scan through the morning sun and you can see that the sun does blot out the text, but only where the ball of yellow light is. Outside of that everything is readable.

HUD Color Change This thread: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=68562&highlight=HUD+transparency It is older, so research the later pages. Try this: DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\A-10C\cockpit\scripts\HUD\indicator HUD_init.lua Edit with notepad ++ At the bottom are lines that contain the RGB values for day and night colors. day_color = {255/255, 0, 0, 255/255} night_color = {243/255, 116/255, 13/255, 255/255} This is mine. I have changed the day color to solid red. The first value is Red, then Green, then Blue, and Opacity(I think). All RGB colors are a value 0-255. My problem is making the opacity darker. Full red is really transparent pink in the game. I need and want to see the HUD text against bright sky backgrounds and it is near impossible. Here is a site for gathering RGB color numbers, look toward the bottom of the page. http://html-color-codes.info/

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=120889 Please look at this thread and see if you have any suggestions. Many thanks, Bill

Cheers to you Hans Thanks for the info. This did not work for me. I will try it with the winzip next and let you know. The winzip DID work when used as you said. Thanks again for the reply. Bill

:helpsmilie:I am trying to solve a HUD view problem. So by trial and error I am trying to change some views in a .lua file. The .lua file was extracted from a .miz file. I have tried opening and rezipping the files with WinZip and WinRAR. The changes are made with notepad++. The changes are very minor, a view parameter is changed from 5.0 to 20.0. Then the file is recompressed and renamed .miz. When inserted into the missions files in game and run, DCS locks up with a zipped file in the loading screen. When done with a .rar file and the mission is started, it returns me to the home screen. I have tried uncompressing and compressing files in this manner and making no changes. The results are the same. So I know it is not the .lua changes that are affecting the process, but rather how they are uncompressed, recompressed, or renames .miz. Any ideas and help is appreciated, thanks. Crashmo