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Wow, some strange magic here! I opened the Steam install (coincidentally while I had DCS opened) and looked for a place to put in a serial, Steam does not have the module manager, oh well. I exited and then that's when it got weird- DCS downloaded and installed it... cue weird spooky music Cool, thanks guys... I think :music_whistling:

Well here's the thing, no place I can find in Steam to activate it.. however, I installed DCS from the website and signed in; there is the Mustang, okay where can I put the key from Steam for the A-10C? Which I have been told is possible, I now feel like the proverbial dog chasing his tail :doh:

Actually I found that info just now but I'm also finding out I can't put it into my steam install, so now I have to Uninstall that and Install the version from the Website. Hey Progress! :thumbup:

I lost my ability to play when DCS went from 32 to 64 bit, now that I've upgraded Steam remembers my A-10 but I guess I bought the P-51 when it was on sale from the site and it doesn't show up. My question is how can I get my activation back and can I integrate it into my Steam install. I can locate my paypal info but the activation e-mail is lost :(

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I have noted a small annoyance. When you Spawn the throttle is at full open regardless of Hotas setting. Not a big deal on the ramp, but if you spawn on the runway you immediately go to full throttle. It would be nice if this were fixed somewhere along the way.

I know about holding the stick back to lock the tail wheel and it is still doing weird stuff, full right rudder and it turns left like a brake shoe is locked. The other thing I had happen was going through the start-up sequence exactly and getting no start so after a while out of frustration I tried just using the auto-start sequence and it still doesn't start although it says it's ready to fly and then after finally succeeding getting the aforementioned weird stuff. After my first post I went into the stick settings in Windows control panel and gave all the centers a small deadzone, there appeared to be a little noise in the trim wheels so I went into the game and everything worked fine. I rebooted then the problems all came back plus some graphical flickering on airfield fences I never had before I just don't get what the issue is because it's so random. Oh Well, Back to the drawing board..

I got the sim over the Easter weekend and I set up everything for Sim. I had no problem using my basic knowledge about the Mustang and looking up a couple of keystrokes to getting up and flying, did most of the training missions with no surprises. However this morning it is driving me crazy.. doing counter clockwise rotations while taxiing with full right rudder, wandering all over the runway like a drunken sailor, and even a slow speeds rolling off the runway and exploding..WTF? ( the damage is way over done) I started in the air and with neutral controls it's rolling and diving and cannot get trimmed to a reasonable state, not hands off mind you just flying without lots of corrections to maintain straight and level. A quick check of other sims had no weirdness so it's not the stick itself which is an X52, I just don't get it I tried putting deadzones and curves on the axis in case it was shooting random inputs but it still acts like it's possessed.

Could someone upload a quick 1v1 mission for testing (for those of us who don't know the Mission Editor)? :joystick:

I have a question about skins and markings; How do you use custom skins or at least choose a skin included in the Sim Online? I don't see an interface for it and what is with the odd numbering down the fuselage? It looks to me like numbers for both sides run down the fuselage through the Nat'l Insignia, for ex. an Aircraft might be marked B6*E with the * where the Star is. In DCS it's B6 E B6 E and it goes right through the Star. Is this a Bug?

oops never mind I found it: http://www.m-merkert.de/files/p-51-v1121-default.pdf

Is there a list of key commands somewhere I can print from, you cant jump into options while running the game and I'm having some issues with my stick profiler not sending keystrokes and I'd like to be able to verify the commands.

I downloaded the Su-25 Training Missions 3 times before I got one that would install then the game crashed when I tried to run the first one. I'm not sure what the problem is.