[Pitch trim ignoring inputs?]

It was driving me mad why the pitch trimmer was so flaky but it turns out roughly 50% of trim inputs are being ignored by the aircraft.

Compare the number of inputs (how often the hat switch moves) to how many times the joystick/plane actually responds.

And when it does respond it's in very coarse/large increments. It all makes trimming a nightmare.

 

[A P-51D Cockpit that Looks and Feels... Right.]

Careful, Fen - he's got a knife.

[A P-51D Cockpit that Looks and Feels... Right.]

On 10/28/2024 at 5:40 PM, Bowie said:

What the Pilot in the cockpit would see

Only if the pilot was wearing one of these...

In your quest for realism you've sacrificed two vital ingredients on the altar of correct scaling.

1: Peripheral vision

2: Moveable eyeballs

Peripheral vision allows us to be aware of things in a cone of appx. 100° around the centre. Our eyeballs can then swivel to focus on whatever takes our attention - all without moving our head an inch.

But with your scheme we are trapped looking down a rectangular tunnel. If we want to glance at our instruments we need to move our head. If we want to glance to the left we have to move our head. Only owls think this is normal.

So, while adjusting the games FOV to produce the correct scaling initially looks kinda cool, it bears no resemblance to how people actually see things in real life.

 

[Official Announcement?]

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[Official Announcement?]

7 hours ago, YoYo said:

currently we know that MiG-29A FF from "DCS 2024 and beyond" will not appear this year

Is this official?

[How Did I Kill My Engine?]

Air start, engage MW-50 - engine blows after 1 min 45 secs.

 

Fw-190D-9 engine blown.trk

[Payload Symmetry Checkbox]

[What's the reason for this caution?]

A little experiment with our own FC Mig-29A. 100% fuel used.

2:00 Invert aircraft

3:10 AEKRAN reports 600L fuel remaining

3:53 550L warning

12:46 Engines cut out

13:09 Level aircraft - engines restart automatically

13:43 550L warning extinguishes

13:46 AEKRAN 600L warning extinguishes

It took 1min 53secs for our 550L warning to appear after inverting compared to the RL aircraft which appeared immediately. Also at no point did our master caution sound, not even when the engines conked out.

 

[What's the reason for this caution?]

Well spotted!

[What's the reason for this caution?]

Occurs when he flies inverted - is it something to do with fuel starvation?

 

[Cockpit shaking]

Flappy HDD shroud.

 

[Individual mirror control]

[Special Options that ALL modules should have as standard]

[DCS Failure to launch - only works on 2nd or 3rd attempt]

22 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

which antivirus do you use? 

Windows Defender.

Both the main Eagle Dynamics folder and the User/Saves folder have been excluded already, but I'll specify the .exe too, thanks.

[Canopy reflections almost totally removed after last patch]

Bump for this.

Baked-on reflections are terrible, we can all agree - but currently it's like having no canopy at all.

 

[Fade In trim option]

For ALL helicopters, yes?

[DCS Failure to launch - only works on 2nd or 3rd attempt]

On 11/12/2024 at 1:12 PM, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, when you have the issue can you attach the dcs log from that session. 

Just happened now and these are the log files..

dcs.log

autoupdate_log.txt

[Cockpit shaking]

Watch the HUD/mirrors when firing the cannon!

 

 

[DCS Failure to launch - only works on 2nd or 3rd attempt]

Not a biggie, but it happens almost all the time.

Double-click the DCS icon, the little grey 'Checking for updates' box appears and disappears, and then....nothing.

Only after the second, sometimes third attempt does the launcher app appear

[Isn't this a cheat?]

1 hour ago, Raffi75 said:

Where do you get the cartridge selection? My countermeasures menu looks different.

That was my addition - as a rough solution to the gamey kneeboard counter.

I've put the idea in the wish-list section - see if it gains any traction.

[More realistic countermeasures management]

The current kneeboard counter is unrealistic (and looks a bit War Thunder)

So here's an idea to improve the realism and aesthetics!

This addition to the AI GUI more closely follows the layout of Petrovich's countermeasures control unit, and indicates remaining stores by active/expended cassettes instead of individual flare/chaff cartridges - much more realistic.

[Start-up training mission text issue]

Once you get to activating the radios the text has filled the screen and starts going a bit mad.

 

[Isn't this a cheat?]

20 hours ago, Raffi75 said:

The copilot can provide information about the amount of combat resources at any time

I agree - so have Petrovic relay realistic information to the pilot.

Unless Petrovich is literally counting exactly how many flares he (and the pilot) has used (which seems un-realistic) then the only reliable information either of them have is from the countermeasures panel. 

And the only reliable information the countermeasures panel gives is when you've expended 1/3 or 2/3 or ALL of your countermeasures.

Let Petrovich relay this information to you; let him warn you when you are down to your last third etc.

Here's an idea to add this info to the AI pop-up...

 

[Isn't this a cheat?]

The kneeboard gives the player a running tally of flares/chaff remaining.

[Controls not synchronizing with HOTAS]

Even set to slider it still does it. Watch...