CrypticVillain

Totally forget I made this thread but for anyone who may stumble across this thread I thought I would post the solution. Leaving the APU on especially after take off is generally the cause of this issue. I have speculated on possible reasons why this is (bleed air valve closing, APU gen shutting off cooling fan for the apu, etc etc), but I won't list them all here since I am far from an A-10C expert lol. The manual does mention something to the effect of shutting down the APU before take off. So my general rule of thumb is double check that the APU and APU gen are off before doing your run up to 80. Honestly just following the normal startup procedure and turning it off as instructed is the best approach since we never do ground power starts with the A-10 in DCS anyway. But if for some reason you followed the ground power startup procedure then double checking the APU before run up is a good back up habit to have!

I feel like it happens far to often to be a bird strike. I have had it occur 4 times on my VFW's server. Once while idling on the taxi way.

Sometimes I get random engine fires in multiplayer and can't explain why. I asked the server admin if there was a random failure settings or something he said he doesn't thinks so and if there was it shouldn't be on. I thought maybe I was over stressing the engines but I just had a right engine fire with the throttle at 80% at angels 12, flying level in a slight right bank. Also once I put the fire out I can't restart the engine which to me indicates its not a flame out but actual engine damage. I should also mention this has happened to me while sitting on a taxi way at idle. Any ideas on what's causing this?

So I know there have been lots of posts about this but here are 2 clips from my stream. If I am doing something wrong please point it out to me but there is no reason the tgp should move like it does. I promise I am not accidently hitting the slew it happens way to frequently for a slip of the finger like that. Side note on the first clip why do the vehicles get knocked back from the explosion then get sucked back in like they are made of paper? https://clips.twitch.tv/RenownedGlutenFreePancakeDansGame https://clips.twitch.tv/CogentStormyEchidnaRickroll

So I have never set auto pilot without trimming first when the plane is running a really unbalanced loadout. But I have many times set the autopilot with the aircraft ever so slightly out of balance in the original a-10 and never had this massive drift issue. But I will endeavor to trim every time regardless from now on. Just thought I would point out how much of a issue this is or appears to be.

Auto Pilot path seems unable to hold a slightly unbalanced airframe on the path. It will slowly lean in the direction of the extra weight on the wing. If I trim it out it will then be able to fly a mostly straight path. Anyone else experienced this? Did something change with the new A-10?

This did not work for me. I set multiple things to ON. Including SPI, Steerpoint and FM and whenever any of them were in my hud the HCMS would switch off. What am I doing wrong?

I have the same issues if you go quickly enough you can get it to work but 90% of the time it doesn't work and I would ofc like at least more then 30 seconds to set up my jet. I obviously don't have the source script in front of me but I would bet good money that the issue lies with what ever lines of code trigger the "Press space bar to let saint know you have been hit. Use the F10 menu to call hits on saint". Whenever that message appears during start up regardless of where I am in the voice chain, I can no longer progress the mission. I've had it pop up right away during start up, a few minutes into it and even mid convo with saint asking me to check in on PRI. Regardless of when it happens I can longer progress dialog at least dialog set to play while on the cv.

One is there a way/will there be a way to boresight the TGP like you could in the previous patch? Second when I switch my UHF radio to the backup radio the input freq changes on the DED to whatever I had the backup set to. When I then switch back from the backup it does not remember the old freq and instead keeps the frequency from the backup radio. Is this how it works in the real jet? Thanks in Advance!

IS it possible to bore sight the tgp at all? If not will there be?

Yeah if real jf-17 had a third radio or if data link was also used for communication I would definitely use it. But I haven't heard anything like that. Thanks for the info though!

not the direction i wanted this thread to head in but I also generally draw the line at 'was it used". The triple rack mavs has never been used in combat by the f-16 but those rockets have been. Thats why i was wondering if we could get them. I have been flying the jf-17 a lot and basically decided to learn the aircraft solely for the laser guided rockets. I love those rockets and would really love to see a nato version on the f-16 or a-10.

Any chance our f-16 in dcs will get this weapon or some version of laser/electro optical guided rockets? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System

Any chance we will see this weapon or some version of laser guided rockets on the a-10c 2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System

not part of the real jet so I must likely won't use it

Ah ok that was my fear I was hoping it was part of the jet but if its just something srs provides then I guess i won't be using it :(

So whenever I'm connected to the hoggit server with the jf-17 I have a third radio show up on SRS kinda like the a-10c. Its called VHF/UHF Expansion and it's tuned to 251.000. At first I thought this was just a ui mistake on SRS's part but then I heard someone talk over it directly to me. Warning me of an incoming mig 29. So long story short I was wondering if there was anyway inside the jet to change this freq? It really sucks having to dedicate one of your radios to data link and being stuck with only one radio. I have included a screen shot of the SRS overlay.

I would also love to see brm's on the inner pylons again as well!

1. Increasing the deadzone helped but its still pretty finicky. I have the deadzones set to 25. 2. This worked perfectly thanks! Why does combat not turn the CLDP on? regardless thanks for the info!

So I have two issues with the JF-17 tpod. One I can't seem to consistently get a lock. No matter how many times I press the tdc lock, 90% of the time the tpod locks the target then loses it immediately. The other 10% of the time it works just fine. Ive tried adjusting the contrast and gain to make acquiring a lock easier but no matter what I do its still very difficult at any range. My second issue is that whenever I try to turn on the TPOD from a cold start the Align message pops up with a 60 second timer but then the message just disappears and the tpod stays off. The work around I found for this is to press the tdc lock key. But even though that will turn the tpod on it acts very weird and sluggish not like it normally functions. I've heard of the IFF work around but that A doesn't work for me and B is not the same issue as the one I am having. My tpod refuses to align, the issue that the IFF interrogate button solves was with the align timer getting stuck. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Are these issues known bugs?

Off and anti skid work fine but Parking Brake binding does nothing in the sim.

The air frame itself appears to be invulnerable to collision damage. I have smacked my jet into the ground at 400 knots and the airframe/pilot survived just fine. The "only issue" was my jet was then stuck in the ground. Another guy from the hoggit server collided with a MIG and took zero damage but his pilot somehow died inside.

Will the sniper pod make a return? Its definitely one of my most look forward to features.

See I think your looking at it the wrong way. Something like a b-1 could be an asset that is strong enough to do some serious damage but it requires coordination. I think that would only encourage people to start working together more instead of having 40 solo flights on server. We see it already with the f-14 the Rio seat has encouraged lots of people to work together.

Woohoo!