Drippy

Hello all, This may be a dumb question but I am having trouble getting my "End Game" conditions correct. I think I might be confused by the Units Alt and Speed. The mission was just a simple test. Strike a Scud and RTB to the Stennis. The flag and message come up for delivering the strike. But I cannot get the message when I land on the carrier to work. Currently my set up is the following. Trigger Once Conditions Flag is true 6 (This works as it also sets off other txt and that is all fine) Units Speed lower than 1kts Units Alt lower than 1 (I also tried 75 as my Baro registers 70 sitting on the stennis this is NOT the AGL lower than that is also a condition). Also the Stennis is just sitting in the water. According to F10 it is 0 bearing, 0 speed. Is there a simple solution?. Thanks for the help and stay safe

Turn on your SA page. There is a small box with a dot and that is where your tgp is looking at. You can move it to your waypoints easily this way or get a better idea where you are looking. Once i discovered this it was a game changer to find targets.

Did you make sure the height was set for the tgt waypoint?. If not and its a custom mission the default is 7k feet? and you will NEVER hit your target. You can change in the mission editor OR in the pit on the HSI Data page.

Make sure your on Zulu time. If you on the Cacaus map you are 4hrs off and the carrot will never be correct. If you look on the attached image from Ramsey it shows the IFFEE @ 10:04:04 (Local time) and on the HUD it shows 06:04:04 (Zulu time). You need to set you TOT via Zulu time for it to work. IE: 06:20:04 ZULU for a local time On Target of 10:20:04. On the IFFEE you can press the Zone button and the clock there will display Zulu. Hope that helps as that is what really confused me. Cptn Drippy

I had a issue with air starts in the PG map. All of my Harms would ripple when I pressed the pickel button. When I did a ground start no such issue. Attached is a track that rippled. I only had 2 HARMS on so it was a double ripple. When you have 4 it launchs all 4. Any one else have this issue. HARM.trk

The big thing that got me was ZULU time. In the black sea its 4hrs off. so you start at 08:00:00 and you set your TOT to 08:15:00 thinking you are going to reach the TOT at 08:15:00 well you are all ready 4hrs off. You need to set ZULU for the TOT. Look at your HUD or fuel panel and hit zone to bring up Zulu. Then you know what the real TOT should be. Also Ground Speed is not needed to be set. BUT as others have said if you DO NOT set ground speed the the TOT will be divided by the number of waypoints and the computer will tell the constant speed for the TOT. If you set a Ground Speed you can have the RUN IN faster. IE: 400 Ground Speed at Waypoint 2. (With 3 being tgt). The computer will figure out how fast you need to fly to hit waypoint 2 so you can Increase speed to 400 for you attack run. it should would look like this. (Numbers are made up fyi) No ground speed you go 300 for all waypoints to hit your TOT. With ground speed you go 250 until waypoint 2 at waypoint to it would jump to the 400 you set so you are engaging the target at a faster speed. But both ways you hit TOT the same.

Under the mods section you can find the deck crew and gear (Or at least used to be they took down a bunch of mods). The planes are all ready in game. You use the static object selector in the mission editor. There is a box to select link to unit (Or something along thoes lines) and then use the drop down menu to select the CVN so there linked. you need to place each plane in what ever position you would like. Most naval aircraft have stowed positions so wings are folded etc. I have not found a way to make a template so I have to add the effects each time I make a carrier group. I found a youtube vid explaining it so you might want to try to search there. Im at work so I cannot link for you. Hope that helps

Thanks for the help. I also was setting Std time NOT ZULU time so my indicator never worked as the TOT is in Zulu i was 4hrs off before. Hit my target today +/- 5 sec within TOT time set. It would be nice if we could use ZULU in the mission editor.

Hello, I was looking for some info on what indicators there are when you set a TOT in the F-18C. For instance in the Viggen it tells you when you should take off with a timer. Then on the HUD it lets you know if your slow or fast. I must be missing something right in front of me. I would think there is some help from the computer to get you to your target on time. I set TGT way point, TOT Time, Ground Speed. It shows the proper info on my Data page of the HSI. I just don't see any ques on the HUD. and the hsi info didn't really make any sense. Thanks for any help on this.

You can allways load out with Aim-120's to make BVR easier. Fire your first 120 deselect and lock up another target then fire again. At that point you can either merge or run back toward the boats for SAM support. Also make sure to have your wingman active so he will also engage targets to take the load off you. The Migs are the only real issue the SU's are not much of a threat.

Hello Guys, I am finally going to start my simpit and had a question on Mini monitors. I have been looking at some cheap monitors usually for car use. They are under $50 usd ea. I am wondering about the hit to performance and also a question on setting them up. I want to do 3 mini monitors for my MFCD's. My Specs. I5-4670k @ 3.4ghz 1080ti 16GB ram Windows 7 Running 27" 1080 monitor 60hz. I also have a extra GTX-970 sitting around from my last upgrade. Can I install the GTX-970 and run the 3 extra monitors from there to lighten the load from the 1080ti?. (Never tried to mix cards NOT SLI but as a second card to power the monitors) Or just use the 1080ti as I am only running in 1080 and not 2k or 4k. Just trying to see if the hit to performance would be bad OR if it would be worth is. Seeing the working MFCD's has me jealous. Thanks for any help, Cptn Knucklehead

Thank you Glyn for this great campaign. I never fly formation as I mainly fly SP. I had so much fun with the first 2 missions so far. Looking forward to the rest. Really fun campaign so far.

If your system tried to update yesterday sometime it will take 24hrs. to reset and check again. You can go to your DCS Bin folder and use the DCS_Updater that usually will kick in the update. OR I have had to use the manual method in the past. You need to search on how to manually update as its not fresh in my head but can be found really quickly. X:/DCS Open Beta/Bin/DCS_Updater. or something similar depending on your install.

You find it on the F10 Map. Or if the mission builder put it in the description you can get it there as long as its a non changing course. You hold your CSEL switch on the top right of the MFCD (Middle Screen) for a few seconds and CSEL appears on the UFC. You then just type in the course you want. Hit reply late LOL. Real life I would assume you just contact the carrier.

Hello, I want to purchase a few modules for a friends bday. On steam I can purchase as a gift for a friend. What is the correct way to get a ED plane direct with out having to send him my CC info or have his login and password info??. I have all the planes for myself so I want to hook up a buddy to fly with since he only has A-10C. I just dont want to buy and then have to open a support ticket if I can not just give him the SN#. Thanks guys, Cptn. Drippy