Clark

Often the mission primary target is a building and there is no explicit "attack building" command for the wingman. What is the expected method to tell the wingman to attack the primary when it is a building and he's got the big boomy thing for it? (PS really enjoying this campaign! Great job!)

I was actually trying to just be really efficient turning into the target about 8nm out. A high altitude bomb run isn't that exciting.

Oh, apparently it's because I fly "too smooth". A wing waggle re-aligns them. I'm changing my callsign to "Smoothie"

Still happening after Steam install file verification of .47168 Open Beta. Only happens if starting the mission on the ramp or runway. Starting airborne is fine. 9-19 minutes after engine start -38's trip and show "ALN RDY" whatever that means.

"Fixed in 2.9.0.47168 Open Beta" Not for me. At least not in Steam MT VR. GBU-31 & -38 keep bouncing between green "Ready" and white "ALN RDY". Edit: the white/green is just the Master Arm status. Not part of the bug.

I'm on mission 4 of TEW 3.0 at the part where we are attacking the first group of enemies that are in a mountain pass. Whenever I start down from 15k and pass through the cloud layer at 7000 ft MSL, the airspeed dial and HUD tape fall to zero, even the stall horn activates. No warning lights. But I still have the airspeed and I can maneuver and everything like normal. When I climb out and get back above the cloud layer, the airspeed gauges come back. What is up with that? Multi-threaded exe running in VR. Steam. Verified the installed files using the Steam utility.

In my A10C at 20k at pre-contact point in formation with the tanker at 180kts, I send "Ready pre-contact". The tanker replies "cleared precontact" then immediately full throttle accelerates to 200kts leaving my A10 in the dust. Takes me another minute to catch back up and then try to connect. Why does the tanker accelerate away?

Update: VAICOM 2.8 is making my DCS 2.7 crash after a few minutes into any mission. I'll try to join up on Discord to find out if this is expected. The Github page says VAICOM 2.8 is not compatible with DCS 2.7 so I'm not hopeful.

It's working for me now, Horn. It took a mission restart to finally close the loop and let the plugin detect the A10C modules in use. Thanks and have a great holiday season! (if that's your thing )

Ok , DCS shut down, VA shutdown, scripts folder cleared, VAICOM 2.7 plugin removed, VA restarted, VAVAICOM 2.8 reinstalled, profile reimported, custom steam directory, steam / release / debug set. VA and and VAICOM plugin working as expected with TX buttons and joystick button working. "Options" "Magic" and "Request picture" all recognized and XMIT'd to plugin. Plugin is not recognizing A10 module as active but VA is receiving messages from game. VAICOM PRO logfile Plugin version 2.8.0.0 License: PRO Executing automatic lua code installation. DCS World version 2.8 not found. DCS World version 2.8 OpenBeta not found. Using custom install path for STEAM Install path = E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld Saved Games folder = C:\Users\clark\Saved Games\DCS Unchanged: Export.lua Reset: VAICOMPRO.export.lua Reset: RadioCommandDialogsPanel.lua Reset: speech.lua Reset: common.lua Reset: TabSheetBar.lua Reset: gameMessages.lua 6/7 DCS-side files were updated. Checking VA profile. Importing RIO extension pack... Done. Initializing database tables... Done. Loading keywords database... Success. Loading F10 menu items... Success. Updating aliases.. Done. Adding 0 imported ATC aliases. Adding 0 imported menu commands. Building master keywords table... Success. Building kneeboard tables... Success. Building master labels table... Success. No new DCS modules to import. Adding themepack collections Chatter theme set to Default Adding chatter resources.. Default Resources added. Chatter initialized. Startup finished. Ready for commands. Allied Flight (Colt11): Colt 1, passing waypoint 2 at 16000 Allied Flight (Colt11): Colt 1, in from the southwest, engaging _AUXILLARY_EQUIPMENT at bulls 116 for 400 Captured sentence: options Have result, identified as command: Options TX4 | SEL/AUTO: [ ] , [ Show Options ] Constructing message... Done. Allied Flight (Enfield21): Enfield 2, tally armor at bulls 117 for 400 Allied Flight (Enfield21): Enfield 2, tally armor at bullseye 117 for 400 Captured sentence: options Have result, identified as command: Options TX4 | SEL/AUTO: [ ] , [ Show Options ] Constructing message... Done. AWACS (Magic1-1): Hawg 1-1, Magic1-1, BRA, 024 for 40, at 10000, hot Captured sentence: magic Have result, identified as recipient: Magic (awaiting additional input) Captured sentence: request picture Have result, identified as command: Request Picture Allied Flight (Colt11): Colt 1, tally armor at bullseye 117 for 400 AWACS (Magic1-1): Hawg 1-1, Magic1-1, BRA, 021 for 40, at 10000, hot But nothing seems to be picked u pby the game when saying Options or Magic call. Restarted the mission and it works! Merry Christmas to me! Thanks Horn!

(Sorry for the delay) For 2.8 I just used the zip file from Gitub and copied its folder after deleting the other one. I also deleted VAICOM folder and scripts from the saved games Scripts folder. I'll reinstall v2.8 and get to where I was before. Everything worked on the VA side but nothing was happening in game. I'm using Steam/release/custom folder for the settings.

Thanks Yep, VA recognizes the button press and voice input like "Magic", but the TX buttons on the plugin PTT dialog do not light up. I can press on the TX buttons directly and they work so I know how they can light up. It seems like the VA process and the plugin process just don't communicate. (The plugin even connects to DCS fine.) Even looking in the profile, the button presses are mapped to the "VAICOM for DCS World" plugin. All looks normal. I don't know if this is related but the plugin window does not open with LSFT LALT C (not even as a hidden window). The log indicates the plugin has started, just no window. 11:55:43.606 Plugin support enabled. 11:55:44.048 VAICOM PRO for DCS World. License: PRO 11:55:44.048 Press LCtrl+LAlt+C for config. 11:55:44.048 Initializing.. 11:55:45.213 Plugin version 2.5.28.0 11:55:45.214 License: PRO 11:55:45.583 Executing automatic lua code installation. 11:55:45.595 DCS World version 2.5 not found. 11:55:45.596 DCS World version 2.5 OpenBeta not found. 11:55:45.596 Using custom install path for STEAM 11:55:45.596 Install path = E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld 11:55:45.599 Saved Games folder = C:\Users\clark\Saved Games\DCS 11:55:45.599 Unchanged: Export.lua 11:55:45.601 Reset: VAICOMPRO.export.lua 11:55:45.602 Reset: RadioCommandDialogsPanel.lua 11:55:45.603 Reset: speech.lua 11:55:45.604 Reset: common.lua 11:55:45.605 Reset: TabSheetBar.lua 11:55:45.606 Reset: gameMessages.lua 11:55:45.608 6/7 DCS-side files were updated. 11:55:46.635 Checking VA profile. 11:55:46.640 WARNING: Could not load the AIRIO plugin extension. 11:55:46.680 Initializing database tables... 11:55:46.729 Done. 11:55:46.761 Loading keywords database... 11:55:46.772 Success. 11:55:46.773 Loading F10 menu items... 11:55:46.774 Success. 11:55:46.776 Updating aliases.. 11:55:46.777 Done. 11:55:46.789 Adding 0 imported ATC aliases. 11:55:46.806 Adding 0 imported menu commands. 11:55:46.808 Building master keywords table... 11:55:46.810 Success. 11:55:46.815 Building kneeboard tables... 11:55:46.820 Success. 11:55:46.821 Building master labels table... 11:55:46.822 Success. 11:55:46.824 No new DCS modules to import. 11:55:46.932 Listening suspended 11:55:46.958 Startup finished. 11:55:47.106 Ready for commands. 11:55:47.132 Plugin 'VAICOM PRO for DCS World' initialized. 11:56:02.802 Shortcut : 'Configuration' No plugin window appears, not even off screen. I have to click on VAICOM.exe to get the plugin window to appear. But maybe that is a different instance of the plugin? There is nothing in the logs to indicate the plugin is not working as expected. Edit: while VAICOM 2.8 doesn't seem to work with my DCS 2.7, VA and the 2.8 VAICOM plugin do behave correctly with each when I tried them: LSFT-LALT-C opens the plugin window and the plugin TX buttons light up in response to VA commands.

Running DCS 2.7 but this problem is before even running DCS. DCS v2.7 and VAICOM v2.5 I've got the VAICOM profile loaded and VA detects when I press a TX hotkey or joystick button (VA window says "Joystick: Transmit TX4 press" for example). However the command doesn't seem to be forwarded to the VAICOM plugin. There is no response on the plugin PTT page. I can mouse click on the PTT page on any TX channel and it plays the sounds to open and close the channel, but commands from VA don't trigger the channel. The plugin initializes fine and says ready for commands but it doesn't hear any from the VA process. "XMIT" does not appear for example. Any idea why the plugin isn't listening to VA?

The last answer I found on this was a year ago so maybe things have changes since then? I see training missions for upgrade a10 but no missions or campaign. Am I missing something? Thanks Clark

Cool project, Extranajero! Clark Fellow Arduino hobbyist