Rettick

Been having a blast with the A-10A! Thanks again! Merry Christmas everyone!

Flaming Cliffs 3 Thanks for offering this and I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas. A-10A Flaming Cliffs 3 : ) Sry Cichlid, forgot the A-10A part!

Videos are up and running. Taking a bit of a break, as some of our hardware took a bit of a break as well. The next video will be CCRP bombing.

Where did the videos go? Hey guys, sorry about the videos being pulled, but the fact is, I take these kinds of things very seriously as the implications of these accusations are too serious to blow off. We are hopefully not taking the videos down permanently, just removing certain parts that could, in any way, breach my agreement with the Federal Government to keep my mouth shut on sensitive matters. The content that directly applies to DCS will remain, but everything else will be removed. Sorry for the down time, but we're working hard to get these back up and available to you. I didn't want to post anything until I knew more. As for the person that posted the message, I don't care who it was or why they posted what they did. The accusation was made, and I took immediate action to ensure that any information I provided was not something that could hurt the US armed forces. Thank you for all your support guys, and we will being working as hard as we can to get this content back up as soon as possible. If needed, we will remake the videos. You guys are the reason we started in the first place so we won't leave you hanging.

Sorry about that K2. It was a little short notice but we'll have a video up soon and I am more than happy to go over it with you one on one if you'd like. Just pop on to the TeamSpeak, ts3.digitalthemepark.com and we'll get you spun up. This one is a little more involved with actual implementation and practice needed to get it right. As always you can just PM me here and we can work out a day or time.

Hey, I just wanted to say that we're not trying to bash Paul here. Regardless of what has happened, I've seen what Paul has put out and it's good stuff. I personally believe I should have just left the part about +/- (X) lbs. out of the video altogether. It is my fault for going too in depth on a video for new players. No one who is trying, or has actually helped the community sets out to do so by admonishing others and tearing their material apart. I know that wasn't Paul's intent. Paul, I learned a lot from your videos and documentation when I first started. As a matter of fact, I still have a dropbox full of info from the ED forums, and I'm glad to say that your material is a part of it. What I'm trying to say is that input from the community is welcome. If we make mistakes, we'll fix them as best we can. But there are some things that really don't matter that much. Like the limits on a fuel gauge. Let's be honest, this is a game, not real life. Unless the error percentage is above 0% in the mission options, we'll never see a bad fuel gauge, or a hung gun, or any of the real life code 2's and 3's out there. Now there are those of you out there that may play this way, but I have yet to meet anyone that builds their missions with aircraft failures installed. I'm not knocking that, but I am saying that it's rare to see people using this. Especially new players, to which this content is aimed. One last thing I'd like to say is that Jetliner has put as many hours into this project as I have. From editing the video, to highlighting switches, animating parts of the cockpit, and breaking down visually what I never could verbally. There was a lot of effort put into this project, and it's still getting better, but please, don't come in talking about the 5 minutes you spent watching and how you couldn't find time in your busy schedule to tear up the rest of the video we spent hours making. Respect is a two way street and the impression you gave was one of conceit and superiority. It may have not been intended that way, but we only have text, not eye contact, verbal inflection, or body language. I'll take your hits boss, but I won't let you swing at anyone else on my team. I hope that you see this Paul, and I hope you continue to put forth effort to help us get better at making these training videos. As I stated before when I first posted, I don't want conflict, only to learn, and share what I've learned.

Originally we did record the ejection seat control handle. Where it was and how it worked. Unfortunately that clip got left out. In answer to your question, usually the ejection seat handle is lowered at the end of the launch while the pilot is preparing to taxi out. The radios were touched on, but we only talked about the front radio as that is the radio used for talking to tower. The APU is turned off at EOR where, in real life, the pilot would stop to have his safety pins removed and his gun armed up. CMS system is armed just after takeoff to ensure that there is no accidental release that could harm ground crews. You could set up your CMS program without arming the buckets, but it's all about safety. The pitot probe is normally switched on during the launch but only long enough to let the crew chief make sure it is warming up. After that, it'll stay off until the pilot reaches colder temperatures whether due to altitude, or location. The reason for this is that the pitot probe will melt.

The title of the thread is not under my control, I may be "Former" Air Force but I'm still a maintainer at heart. You were absolutely right about the SAS panel thing and I am working to figure out a way that myself and jetliner can correct some of these minor errors. I don't have access to a real world manual anymore, so I went with a safe bet of +/- 200lbs. for both which is still technically within limits. Not to be too picky, but the 1A-10C-6WC-1 is pulled from the 1A-10C-1 which kinda means stating both is redundant. Thank you for watching the first five minutes and I hope to fix future errors before QA tears me up again.

With custom flightplans, you are creating a new flightplan in game instead of having it in DTS already. I don't believe that the custom flightplan will remain in the CDU as you are technically getting into a new jet every time you load back into the session, which means you have only the flightplan from the mission editor in your DTC. So you'll have to manually enter the waypoints and create a new flightplan every time. However, you can just write down the LL or MGRS coordinates, expand your TAD, and find those coordinates on the map. Once you're in the air, you can slew your TGP to those coordinates and set markpoints on those coordinates by setting your TGP as SOI and then setting the area as SPI. Then you just press TMS right short once. Then you go to your AAP and set the STEER PT rotary switch to MARK and you can use your markpoints to locate targets that you had previously found in game. You could also use these markpoints as steerpoints if you really wanted to.

Hey guys, Rettick here. I haven't really been on the forums because I mainly hang out on the Teamspeak channel and fly with the guys that come on. The first class I gave got a lot of flack on the forums, so rather than feed the flames, I just let them burn out. I am indeed out of the Air Force now. I got out last March. I served 5 years and 3 months. I recieved an honorable discharge under the DOS Rollback and am currently attending college. I've been flying DCS since about February and have been going completely off the DCS A-10C Flight manual for all the classes. I will say here and now that I was a 5 level, not a 7 level, I am no expert on the A-10C but I had some badass maintainers training me constantly on swings. I hope this puts the rumors to rest. I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers, just wanted to get the new guys spun up and have some fun times. As far as my job in the Air Force applying to the game? I know the airframe and the basic control layout fairly well. That's about it. I've been building missions and training myself as best I can so I don't give false information to anyone. In fact, if you watch the training video recorded from the last class, you'll see that I blatantly state there are things I don't know. Hope this clears up any mess I may have created.