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Thanks. That helped. I had read through the briefings but didn't notice the SOP manual.

I have finally stepped out of the A-10C and Hornet, and started properly flying the F-16 I pre-purchased so many years ago. This campaign is great, but I haven't been able to decipher where I am meant to be marshalling in the missions. I have been through all the documentation, but steerpoints aren't mentioned, and while there is great info on the marshalling requirements such as the pattern to fly and what altitude to fly, it tells me my marshall point is "Alaska". Where is Alaska? Thanks.

I'm currently playing through the F-16 included missions. I have played "Coiled Viper" a few times. If I order the wingmen to attack targets individually when first approaching the intercept point, they do seem to engage and attack the aircraft. A couple of times though, I have specifically gone after the escort Migs, and that has left me short of ammo to take out the cargo aircraft, the main targets of the mission. After chewing through all my missiles and gun ammo, I lock on to the cargo aircraft individually and order individual wingmen to attack the target, and they all reply "Unable". They are nearby, they all have full ammo except for one fired AIM-20, they have not reported bingo. What are the conditions that lead to wingmen becoming this useless?

Please revisit this ED. It has always been an annoyance in VR, as spectacular as VR is in DCS. Makes it very hard to bring up the SMS page, select two tanks to drop, to drop your tanks while you are doing 550 Kts at 100 feet in the F-16. It is fine while you r sitting in your cockpit at startup, but flying and hitting multiple small buttons become a PITA when the mouse cursor keeps moving all over the place from minute head movements in VR.

I get shot down by a Mig-29 that follows me as soon as I dive down to WP4. E-3 also gets shot down by either Mig-29 or Mig-21, and Wingman is Bingo before even reaching WP3, while I still have 10,000 lbs remaining. Not sure how Mig-29s and Mig-21s came into the picture, as I never even get a warning from the E-3.

Very old thread, but ATC frequency is also incorrect for Dawn Raiders mission. Mission info lists it wrong frequency and the preset is the wrong frequency. It must be manually tuned to 251.10. Not sure but it may also be incorrect on Island Style, as that also departs from Al Dhafra.

OK, issue solved, in a way. Flew the entire mission again today, and after hitting enter on the DED on each Lat/Lon field and altitude during alignment, the navigation issue was solved, range and distance was showing on the EHSI, datalink was working, and bombs hit targets. I can't say that solved the original issue though, because as written in the above post, I had successfully guided the bombs on target with the TGP before I had figured out I needed to confirm the Lat/Lon during alignment. So, still not sure why the guidance wasn't working the first 6 times I flew the mission. It's probable that I forgot to hit a button somewhere, but can't be sure what. In any case there is no issue now.

Update - After flying Dawn Raiders again tonight, I FINALLY got the LGB to guide onto target. I did change a whole heap of things, so not sure which helped, if any. Instead of using pairs I used a single LGB on the Scud launchers (although I then successfully dropped a pair of GBU-12s on to the building at the airfield). Before startup I set a completely different code in the kneeboard (1521) and then changed to that code on the TGP. I set lase time to 15 seconds instead of 18. I bypassed the hold at WP1 and headed straight to the target. I flew directly over the target instead of orbiting. Will report back if I narrow down any issues. Now I just need to figure out why the TACAN isn't working and the EHSI won't show direction or range, although I think I just read why on another post (not confirming L/L during alignment).

Yes, as far as I can tell they are identical. I haven't touched the kneeboard codes, and they show 1688. Also haven't touched the TGP codes previously, but they showed 1688. Tonight I did go into Laser settings during startup to set time for laser firing, and those codes originally showed 1688 but then changed to 0. I went to set them back to 1688, but then they reset themselves to 1688. May have just been something that happens during startup. In any case, as far as I can tell, codes match up. Next step is to try different codes I suppose .

I only seem to have this problem in the mission "Dawn raiders". I have created a few practice missions in the mission editor, and the GBU-12 is hitting target designated with the TGP. In Dawn raiders, which I just flew again, the laser is firing, the code is set to 1688, but the bombs just free fall. laser gbu12 miss 2.trk

No idea why the track is so large, but I only use single player. This track is from the Dawn Raiders mission so maybe it's large because of that?

Hi, I've been flying DCS for quite a few years, on and off, but mostly flying the A-10C and the F/A-18, with some shorter time in the F-16, F-14 and other older jets. I have just started getting into the F-16 properly, but am having some issues getting the GBU-12s to follow laser guidance. They just seem to come off the jet and fly their default trajectory, despite the TGP having a point track/lock on a target, and the laser firing. I am just using the default 1688 code and have not changed that on the bombs or the TGP. I have mostly been flying the Dawn Raiders mission over and over trying to correct my mistakes, but I can't figure out what mistakes I'm making to not get the bombs to follow the laser. It is firing, I have the targets (launchers) in view in point track but the bombs just miss by a mile. I am dropping from about 27000 feet and have the laser firing time set to 18 seconds. I will attach a track from the last flight if that can provide insight into what I am doing wrong. Thanks. laser gbu12 miss.trk

I do mean 50Mb/s. I'm in Australia, and yes, our internet is that crap . I don't have wired set up at all. Currently living with others and we have a router to share the internet. The incoming connection is nowhere near my PC. In any case, there is no problem with my internet. There is either a problem with the install or with the servers. I'm hoping it's the latter. Cheers

It may be. I did consider that due to some of the error messages. Thanks for the info. No cable currently. Wifi is sufficient. not great, but sufficient. About 50 Mb/s.

Hi, Trying to do a new install on a new PC. I started a couple of days ago, then my 5GHz wi-fi went down yesterday, so just did a little bit yesterday. i have stopped and started the Updater about 3 times. Today I got home from work, reset the wi-fi to get the 5GHz working again, then not long after opened up updater the updater as Administrator. It should have only had about 14GB or so left to download. Now it just searches for updates, then shuts down after about 2 minutes. This has occurred 5 times now. Same happens if I try to run the game, which I guess just runs the updater first anyway. Here are the messages from the autoupdate_templog: 00000.031 --- Log file: C:\Users\scott\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\autoupdate_templog.txt 00000.000 === Log opened UTC 2024-02-12 05:36:17 00000.009 INFO : DCS_Updater/2.16.2.17 (Windows NT 10.0.22631; Win64; en-AU) 00000.009 INFO : src-id: 5972e82a1851d36865c17506579c27cbd5b8e3b4, lib-id: b88ea51ae2210987a3865f77cc1802548216d7a8 00000.010 INFO : cmdline: "D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe" 00000.030 STATUS: Initializing... 00000.031 INFO : basedir: D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World 00000.031 INFO : DCS/ (x86_64; EN; WORLD,CAUCASUS_terrain,MARIANAISLANDS_terrain) 00000.031 INFO : branch: 00000.032 STATUS: Checking for updates... 00029.911 ERROR: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com replied HTTP 502 Bad Gateway 00029.911 INFO : DCS/ (x86_64; EN; WORLD,CAUCASUS_terrain,MARIANAISLANDS_terrain) 00029.911 INFO : branch: 00029.913 === Log closed. 00000.000 === Log opened UTC 2024-02-12 05:38:48 00000.013 INFO : DCS_Updater/2.16.2.17 (Windows NT 10.0.22631; Win64; en-AU) 00000.013 INFO : src-id: 5972e82a1851d36865c17506579c27cbd5b8e3b4, lib-id: b88ea51ae2210987a3865f77cc1802548216d7a8 00000.013 INFO : cmdline: "D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe" 00000.051 STATUS: Initializing... 00000.051 INFO : basedir: D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\ 00000.053 INFO : DCS/ (x86_64; EN; WORLD,CAUCASUS_terrain,MARIANAISLANDS_terrain) 00000.053 INFO : branch: 00000.054 STATUS: Checking for updates... 00024.043 ERROR: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com replied HTTP 500 Internal Server Error 00024.043 INFO : DCS/ (x86_64; EN; WORLD,CAUCASUS_terrain,MARIANAISLANDS_terrain) 00024.043 INFO : branch: 00024.044 === Log closed. Any ideas please? I really don't want to spend another 3 days trying to install this for the third time on my new PC. Installed it once successfully a few weeks ago, but then had to do a full Windows reinstall. Thanks