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No I'm not. I was just sping a single.mission takeoff trying to figure out the airspeed. The mission preload 3 tanks on the airframe.

It was the detents.. I can now pull a hard sustained turn and not bleed off air speed. I have not tried dog fighting. Just did a quick free flight. I'm goo, thank you for mentioning the detents.

F18 acm and gun fight proper energy management Hello everyone. I'm sure this has been discussed before. I'm wanting to be able to succeed in a gun fight with the f18. I use the mission editor to set it up. The problem is no matter what I do the ai plane always gets on my six and I cant shake him. I read another post where it said to be near corner speed at the merge which I believe is around 400 knots. It then said turn into the enemy plane and dump your energy This is how I fight and please give me pointers. I make a turn into the enemy plane. I'm not really sure what the best speed is for a turn fight. My airplane is clean except for 2 side winders. What happens is I try to turn so much into the opposing plane that my speed bleeds down to around 100 knots and have to descend to gain speed. I remember in the Jane's titles there was a caret by the speed indication on the hud to give you, your best corner speed. I'm guessing the real f18 does not have that, otherwise it would be in the sim. Forget about going vertical. I bleed airspeed way too fast. If I pull less into the turn I keep my speed up but then opposing plane stays on my six and i cant shake them. So it's either pull hard and lose speed , then drive to gain speed or pull hard and lose speed and be in an easy target. Now when i fly the bf109 I'm pretty good at a turn fight. I know the basics of a turn fight. Just have trouble in the f18. It seems to me atleast in the sim the f18 loses speed too quickly and takes a long time, even in level flight with full burners to get over 300 knots. With the f18 I fight against mig 29, su33, mig 15, and even another f18. What I would like to do is fight against other players with guns only but having trouble finding people. So for now I just go against the AI. So if anyone could give me advice I would appreciate it. On a side note I did one of the mission of taking off from an airfield. It was night. Had 3 fuel tanks. Went to full burner and could barley maintain 135 knots on take off. Why cant I get upto speed? Something is telling me something is wrong with the flight model but again I could be wrong. Any help much appreciated.

I know my axis are correct. However I did not know about the detent. When I get home I will look into it and see if that helps. Thanks for the info. I will check back once i get into dcs at home. I do know I look at my throttle inside the cockpit it is fully forward so I assumed I was in burner.

Hello everyone. I'm sure this has been discussed before. I'm wanting to be able to succeed in a gun fight with the f18. I use the mission editor to set it up. The problem is no matter what I do the ai plane always gets on my six and I cant shake him. I read another post where it said to be near corner speed at the merge which I believe is around 400 knots. It then said turn into the enemy plane and dump your energy This is how I fight and please give me pointers. I make a turn into the enemy plane. I'm not really sure what the best speed is for a turn fight. My airplane is clean except for 2 side winders. What happens is I try to turn so much into the opposing plane that my speed bleeds down to around 100 knots and have to descend to gain speed. I remember in the Jane's titles there was a caret by the speed indication on the hud to give you, your best corner speed. I'm guessing the real f18 does not have that, otherwise it would be in the sim. Forget about going vertical. I bleed airspeed way too fast. If I pull less into the turn I keep my speed up but then opposing plane stays on my six and i cant shake them. So it's either pull hard and lose speed , then drive to gain speed or pull hard and lose speed and be in an easy target. Now when i fly the bf109 I'm pretty good at a turn fight. I know the basics of a turn fight. Just have trouble in the f18. It seems to me atleast in the sim the f18 loses speed too quickly and takes a long time, even in level flight with full burners to get over 300 knots. With the f18 I fight against mig 29, su33, mig 15, and even another f18. What I would like to do is fight against other players with guns only but having trouble finding people. So for now I just go against the AI. So if anyone could give me advice I would appreciate it. On a side note I did one of the mission of taking off from an airfield. It was night. Had 3 fuel tanks. Went to full burner and could barley maintain 135 knots on take off. Why cant I get upto speed? Something is telling me something is wrong with the flight model but again I could be wrong. Any help much appreciated.

I am frustrated. I am really good at dog fighting with the ai aircraft in single player mode. I want to fly against other human pilots. In single missions and instant action I can take off, taxi, fly, and dogfight. My engine does not seize nor does it overheat. On multiplayer within a few minutes my engine seizes. For the past hour I have been trying to figure this out. I do not go above 1.4. I read something about manual prop pitch on takeoff and then switch over to automatic. I have searched the controls section and can not find how to do that. It is really frustrating to have to go thru the entire sequence of starting the airplane, taxi, and takeoff and then engine seizes. I really want to figure this out. The reason why Im frustrated is because in single player mode I can do the things that are needed and not have my engine seize. On multiplayer it always seizes. Just frustrating. I work a lot. Split days off. Have a family. So my computer time is limited and would like to just fly and dogfight. Anyhelp would be appreciated. I did just purchase this module a few days ago so yes Im still learning, but I cant learn if I don't know how to fix the problem. I have tried with wep on and off during takeoff.

I did have those boxes checked mark. Did not work. I did figure out the problem. I had to exit out of dcs. Close track ir. Open dcs up and external views when watching g tracks worked.

So if they are keyless why do u have to enter serial numbers? I'm asking because I did a clean install of windows and reinstalled dcs and all my modules. Most of then made me enter a serial number. I would think if they are keyless I could log into dcs when launching the program and the servers see I do own these modules and no need to enter serial numbers.

am having a problem viewing external views on saved tracks. I am talking about single player missions. I did a f18 takeoff mission and landed. Saved the track. Went to watch it. It plays fine but only from inside the cockpit or the views I used during the actual mission. can not get external views to work. I then went into mission editor. opened up saved tracks and enabled external views and saved it. Went to play it and same problem. I then created a simple mission using mission editor. Made sure external views enabled. Did the mission, saved the track and went to replay and still no external views. Am I missing something? I know in the past I was able to watch external views with saved tracks. can someone please walk me through this that is easy to understand and simple?

Nevwrmind. I see the English version at the very top. I feel embarr3ssed now. Thank you for the help

I figured that. I go to dcs.com. then forums. I scroll down past the modules until I see dcs world and it's all in Russian. Dont know why I cant find the English version. If u click on a module such as f18 or a10c it's all in English.

I dont understand the reply. I only know English.

I am having a problem viewing external views on saved tracks. I am talking about single player missions. I did a f18 takeoff mission and landed. Saved the track. Went to watch it. It plays fine but only from inside the cockpit or the views I used during the actual mission. can not get external views to work. I then went into mission editor. opened up saved tracks and enabled external views and saved it. Went to play it and same problem. I then created a simple mission using mission editor. Made sure external views enabled. Did the mission, saved the track and went to replay and still no external views. Am I missing something? I know in the past I was able to watch external views with saved tracks. can someone please walk me through this that is easy to understand and simple?

I have done some searching. The problem I am having is trimming the aircraft using my hotas warthog. The answers I have found is using long press for the direction you want the aircraft to trim to. I am able to trim the aircraft to a certain point. if I trim too far left it keeps going left and I am unable to trim right wing down. . Its almost it gets locked into the turn and I cant get out of it unless I roll right and have to keep pressure on stick. It just keeps going left. Anyone else have this problem? Any possible solutions? I am able to trim nose up and down without any issues. I have cleared and reset the trim button on the stick numerous times. This happens in free flight mode, ready on the ramp, and carrier landing. Its annoying.

Ok yes terrain textures are high. 8m using the tm warthog hotas

I did not mean to sound rude. I do appreciate the help. I want to keep my hands on the stick and throttle as much as possible and not have to search for keys on the keyboard. Are textures under the settings menu? I don't recall seeing that option. I'm not at the pc now. I know I put vr settings on high. What should the resolution be? I

I do use labels. Custom views and using the numeric pad? I appreciate the help but I would have to search for the keys on keyboard when using the vive. Even now it seems like it's more work than fun using vr because i have to use active pause to find the switxhes except in dog fighting with the mig or sabre. Just fly, point and shoot. I'm guessing its the limitation of the vive.

I tried doing a search but the box closes too soon. I'm using my phone. Anyway I have read what I could from doing generic online searches with key words "vive" and "dcs" Anyway the problem I'm having is seeing the fonts clearly with the vive. The front part of the cockpit I can live with. Just lean in closer and still see what the aircraft is doing. I'm talking about the A10 primarily. If i have to lean down to see the side consoles it becomes a problem. At times the sensors lose tracking of the headset from leaning down so much. Outside it's fine. I can clearly see targets. So for now I use the vive for mostly dog fighting in the sabre. I'm currently running a gtx 1080. 16 gigs of memory. I7 4770k cpu. Any suggestions on making the font more clear without having to lean down so much or using vr zoom? When i do lean down the sensors lose track of the headset and it takes a couple of seconds for the picture to come back in headset once i move my head back up. Im trying to see if there is a way to improve the font without leaning and losing the picture. I have adjusted the vive as best as possible using the knob on the headset. Fps are great. No problem there.

I will give it a try. Thank you.

Yes. Powered on. Speaking of nttr. What is the ils frequency for that?

I did select ils. So I did the training mission again. No luck with ils. I then did free flight and for one airport that had ils, it begins with a k did not work. Then I flew to batumi and it worked. I also created a mission and batumi w9rked again. So one airport that has ils is not working and for some reason the ils training mission does not work. However now that I know for the most part it works I am satisfied. Thank you all who replied.

I will try it again and provide you with a track. Thank you.

I have done searches on this forum and watched you tube videos. Usually the answer is a certain switch is not thrown or ils panel is not powered. That's not the problem. I have been away from dcs a10 for over 6 months. From what I remember I did not have any problems with ils landings. Anyway I do the ils training mission. When I turn to the runway heading and get close the vertical needle shows up. The red flags for vertical and horizontal disappears but I do not get the horizontal yellow bar. It's not even sitting at the bottom l8ke it is supposed to waiting to pick up the signal. I then do a free flight and find the closest airport with ils. Ils is powered on. Right frequency tuned. I throw the switch from showed to power under the hsi. I click the ils button under the hsi which illuminates green. All I get is the 2 red flags. I did this multiple times approaching the airport from different directions to see if I get any of the needles to show up. I have not done any mods to dcs world or the modules. I have it installed on a ssd which is drive f. I have tried the repair tool. I know I have to be missing something. Like I said it was working over 6 months ago. I recently did a clean install of Windows due to other problems with the computer and that was a week ago. Unless i can figure it out or someone can give me a hint i will reinstall dcs.

with easy coms, doesn't it tune to the right frequency? I mean if I can call them in then I should be able to hear them respond? I'm learning. I had this on my computer for a year and never tried it out. Just got my thrustmaster warthog and so I'm learning. when I have a question I look in the manual, youtube and post questions here on the forurms. I learned so much in the past few days and today I just learned how to maintain a bank angle using the autopilot.

I don't need a lot of aircraft but I get nothing at all. How do you populate the airfrield? if I hear a plane landing it would be nice to see it.