Ramstein

I didn't6 have the Harrier. I had the chance to pick up another aircraft, I don't have al of them... probably never will, but anyways... I know others who bought it and flew it for a while, until the next new toy came out. I had come to expect it to work pretty good. MY friends were buzzing around in it, and seem to enjoy it. I serviced the British harriers that went to the Falklands, when I was in the USAF. So, I bought it on sale. I spent a week coding my commands, Hotas, etc... and went to use some weapons, and for the life of me I couldn't get some stuff to work. It turned out there was a mistake in the commands, and (two commands for sperate functions had the same command, so that weapon command would not work...) So, A zillion hours of frustration, and asking in forums why doesn't this work. of course everyone asked the basic questions, 'did you plug it in? like questions...' it was coded wrong out the gate, easy fix but a fews days of frustration. I never flew one in real life, so I can't know how close it is to real. I know Beta means, not yet ready for prime time. Ok, Fine. The products from this developer are good, so I am not worried. I have other aircraft. But, if someone comes on saying that something is not working right... there is a 50% chance the product is bugged, and needs work. If it is around the Beta stage, fine, and if it is a really hard thing to code, fine. But, if it is something stupid like a weapon won't slew or release, then, it gets very annoying. I enjoy the products, aircraft, made by RAZBAM. I hope they thrive for all of us.

Fixed,, the aircraft controls turned out had a flaw in the commands from the setup... 2 of the same command to different functions were built in,,, I found this after a lucky search turned this up for the Harrier using another search... I reprogrammed the key in the commands so there are no repeated copies any longer, to my knowledge.

dammit!%$$$#$$% I am so happy and pissed at the same time,, this caused me grief for many days, only to find the menu is all bugged ,,, same command is double in mine too! nightmare!!! thank you guys,, I know this thread is older, but finding it through an Internet search,, is great! how and why did this stupid thing happen to us! :cry:

ok, so in a video on Youtube, I can clearly see the full MPCD displays, I can't when I am in the aircraft because I don't have or use TrackIR, and the inside part is not visible with the labels of the buttons on the inside blocked by the stupid control panel that sits over it... so, even though I mapped the controls, apparently having direct access to seeing the MPCD's and buttons I can see if directly punching in the control buttons,, instead of using keyboard or HOTAS. Now I have photos of the buttons that are blocked and their commands. See what happens.

I will do another run through,,, then if needed a track will be posted.. to answer all the questions... yes, rdy is there... I have seen the in range several times, but no launch the locks seem a bit flaky... sometimes they lock other times no... some times they even lock on moving targets.. but I am really trying on any target I can... slewing the lockbox around with my old Saitek X52 Pro is pain (it takes a lot of moving in increments to move the box to the target).. maybe it has problems,,, but I fly lots of other aircraft without these problems.. I will try again very soon... yay! we have a new patch too! Thanx :joystick:

Update: Fixed ! =========== Cannot get the mavericks to pickle with the Harrier. I can drop LGB's, and other, but the Mavericks will not pickle and drop with the rAlt & Space keys. I tried 100x. Yes! 100x more or less. No clue why. I tried the training missions, DCS, and others. Still, do not work. :doh:

this is crazy slow! my up/dn speeds are 100 mb up/100mb down through my local isp…. but I am lucky to get 3 mb… off dcs speeds downloads... torrent... something is seriously throttled! it would benefit everyone if it were opened so we could move the files! IMHO.. Frustrated!!

while I find it useful and good, it also help extend my bonus points one more year.

that is broken,, no way a stock spring will ever be that sloppy. Look for a new spring.:joystick:

my space key is also porked…. I mean really,,,, someone didn't see this before, or just a few of us are unlucky?????? up for hours looking to see what craziness is going on... and see that I am not alone....

well, speaking for myself, I will enjoy it,,, and am not a new player... :joystick:

I hate the breaking xmas lights sound, it makes me jump and drives me mad.... I will be so happy when that graphics is gone in our beloved DCS forums..

yes! I am happy that it is being looked into, it is a pia to try to use the slewing

apparently no one else has this problem, I have asked others.... not sure why it is messed up for me only in the interactive training. in OB, haven't tried the release version yet.

When I ran the update with Open Beta, and the training missions, the weapons will not fire in the F/A-18C A-A training. The weapons work fine in the regular missions. I could not fire the A-A missiles in the training missions with the F/A-18C in the latest OB.. I looked to see if there was a thread for these issues, and could not find any posts. :joystick:

Yes, we definitely need a solution, without this aircraft we have a large gaping hole in our defenses.... :helpsmilie:

secret stealth wings...

I went after some migs and ended up with the engines so badly damaged it would not longer fly after running them open for a while.... and lost so much power the aircraft would no longer stay up.... it was no more then say 15 minutes of hard running... with occasional backing off... also some climbing because of mountains... was about 15k to 20k feet.... :joystick:

we payed for Bump Mapping with Matrox, but it was never finished,, got screwed... but, I used the Matrox video with special features for video rendering with both hardware and software... :joystick:

In the past, I was able to see the target a whole lot better with the scope... now it is just to hard to see and lock targets. The little opening in the crosshairs was much bigger, now I just can't see with such a small opening, to lock and unlock targets. The contrast and brightness are harder to use, need much more adjustment than before. is there a way that they can be put back the way they were before the updates and patches made them harder to use? Thanx photos attached.

I could not get hide control stick to work in the Skyhawk. I don't have track-IR, so I cannot see around the stick. is it not working, will it ever be able to use 'hide control stick' in this aircraft ? Thanx

I was doing the same, and I decided to change to another A-A missile after already obtaining lock on an enemy. I changed to the other, it was either like the ones you used or reverse.... anyways, it kept lock during change and I fired. I don't remember being able to keep a lock while changing weapons before. I would have to look up the missile info. As far as I knows sparrows, by themselves, have never had this capability. But I never got to work with the 120/x series in real life. I thought TWS hadn't been implemented yet in F/A-18C ?

Maybe it only got all messed up with Saitek.... I don't know... but it's all messed up... all the other aircraft are ok..???

'eternal'

I have a 2 stage trigger and followed directions, and I probably wrote down the wrong things, but I know it is correct as it works right in release version... plus when and if the Saitek HOTAS doesn't work I can press the keyboard.... and the keys don't work in OB either for the crosshairs and Mavericks.. sorry, keep going around and around and wrote the wrong thing (my bad), getting dizzy,, from explaining, that it isn't me.... like I said works in release version, so the keys are entered correctly. I guess I should have posted photo earlier...