erjdriver

How do I change the paint scheme. Didn't see any options in mission planner - i'm in a campaign mission

Confused as to why you took my response as in the negative - seriously. The quote in your reply was from someone else and I thought you mis-posted to the wrong thread. Absolutely I'll try it.

I landed next to the target to get the elevation and did some rough math with the measured distance blah blah - and yes if i set the evelation data to 0 - i get a point where shkval uncage positions itself - within 5 meters. Well this bug is not that elusive - happens everytime on that training mission and some others. I'm playing the first campaign and happens there also. Is there something I can do - load another map? Because as is - the datalink target info received is useless.

Ummm...was that solution for my problem also?

I'm still having this problem when I start my campaign - intermittently - sometimes takes 4+ tries before it works. I cleared my temp\dcs and logs folder. Attached is the contents of the logs folder on crash. Logs.zip

Thanks for testing. I see this in at least a mission - this makes it very difficult because in real missions there's terrain and trees and makes finding the DL target almost impossible.

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No that's fine - at least on the shkval it's on the target - on the abris the yellow box is set incorrectly but after I re-lock it's set correctly. Here's the track file of the original problem. datalink-target.trk

I'm in the instant action SHOOTING RANGE mission. Send out the wingman on a recon - he comes back with 4-5 targets. I save it and RESET. I then select one of he air defense targets, press data link and then uncage. If I have auto-turn enabled - the aircraft turns. The shkval target marker is on an empty field. But the schval view on the ABRIS is short of the actual marked target. If I now slew the shkval straight up - i find the target and lock it. Now the distance to this target matches the one that was on the hud when I initially uncaged - so it's the right target. If you can do this easily reproducable steps and get the shkval to position right over the target - then I must be still doing something wrong. Now curiously - if I receive the DL info and fly to the other side of the target and then uncage the shkval to the said DL target - the shkval is now positioned on the other side of the target - I have to slew down to find the target.

yup did that. the aircraft turns towards the target - but the schwal is not over the target. but if i slew straight up - i find it. again this is on the practice target range - so no terrain. also since I received the DL target - i haven't moved - in a hover. it's like the DL target marker is lined up across the lateral axis but not the vertical axis.

I sent wingman for recon and saved the data to abris. I selected one target (saw it flashing) and uncaged the schwal - had auto turn on and the aircraft turns - but there's no target at the point. If I slew straight up - then I find it. This is in quick action TARGET RANGE mission - so nothing fancy going on.

I believe you communicate with the ground crew on intercom. What mission/campaign does this happen on and what freq do you have on the radio? Try the instant mission - weapons range (last one i think) - works?

Here's the log file - the uploader doesn't accept .log files for some reason..renamed it .txt There's also crash and dump files - not sure whether they're helpful. dcs.txt

When I open a campaign mission - sometimes it crashes and then works after 3-4 retries. When I open BS in training or other missions - works fine. So I'm thinking something wrong with the campaign mission cache - as i wrote it does open it eventually. Any help?

just review this thread - the solution is there.

1. I understand this - need to hold the pitch steady before release trimmer. 2. Not sure about this - I understand translational lift and see that there'll be an increase in the rate of climb - but pitch up? I'm talking about pitching up 15-20 deg where I want. Isn't the gain in lift equal (or close to equal) thru out the blade area. On further testing and input from users - I think I found the main reason for the major pitch up I was experiencing. Users have told me that normally the AP will maintain pitch mode unless in route mode - in which case speed is maintained (or attempted) As I was accelerating after t/o - I used to enable route mode. As I did this soon after t/o and accelerating - the AP was trying to maintain the speed - ergo the major pitch up. So now, as I accelerate and climbing - I do NOT enable route mode - fly manually and try to set the trimmer at -5 - and it stays close to that. Once I've leveled off and achieved my route speed, I enable route mode and then release the trimmer - and that sets the speed and pitch close to where I released it. Hope this helps the next poor soul.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=144739 Please review my thread. It's not \ - some other key combo.

So flying with the AP channels on and... Pressing and holding the trimmer is the same as flying in FD mode - aside from the HUD symbology in FD mode. So if I'm in FD mode, there's really no need to press the trimmer, do a maneuver (e.g. change heading) and then release trimmer. I can just do the maneuver and the press/release the trimmer. If the above is the case, then I can see where in combat scenario enabling FD mode is beneficial and a good compromise. You're not fighting the AP and also have stabilization/damping effects.

Fish Isn't flying with the 3 auto-pilot channels ON and NOT in route or hover mode - flying manually (i.e. active AP off - it's helping up to 20%). In the above scenario what's the difference with having FD off or on besides the HUD symbology.

Sure - but why not hold the trimmer down (that disables all the channels) - do what you need to do and then release the trimmer. Seems much more efficient - but to each his own.

What does flying with "AP OFF" or "AP ON" mean. I understand, if you're in route or hover mode - AP is working actively. If both those modes are off - then AP is just assisting you up to a certain limit - but you're flying manually. When you say fly with "AP OFF" - do you mean turning all the channels off also?

ok - then makes sense. I was using thinking that the AP would maintain pitch - but it maintains speed you say. I was setting the trim right after t/o as i was accelerating...so makes sense that if i've set the trim at 50 and accelerating - it'll immediately pitch up to maintain 50. Thanks.

I sent a target to wingman and then told him to attack - but he says 'unable' or 'negative'. Am I doing something wrong or do I have a scaredey-cat wingman. When I press the datalink send/mem - the light doesn't blink - so i assume it's received. Do i need to uncage the shkval after sending? I didn't save it on the abris - i locked on a target with shkval and sent via datalink.

Still having some issues/misunderstanding with this. 1. On t/o, i pitch down around -10, release the trimmer and then center the joystick - shouldn't the aircraft hold that pitch? it doesn't - pitches up 4-5. 2. does the auto-pilot ever "move" the collective by itself - e.g. when maintaining altitude. 3. if I have the switch on the right panel set to "RA" (as opposed to altimeter) - and am 100 RA when i release the trimmer (and have ALT HOLD off) - shouldn't the autopilot maintain 100 RA over varying terrain? Getting back to #2 - does it adjust the collective as needed.

disregard