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Ditto where the metal meets the flesh. A Black Hawk would be nice or a Jolly Green Giant perhaps even a Chinook they used those in Nam.

I can confirm path hold does work for landing. Whilst doing a number of circuits and bumps i used path hold for landing. Once i had the ILS glide slope firmly in my sights and crossed up on the gimmble, i engaged auto pilot path hold which held the aircraft straight allowing me to descend using throttle and speedbrake coupled with trim nose up/down. Leaving it on down the strip kept the aircraft straight to and did not dissengage until i had took off again climbed then made my turn to come around for another go thats when it kicked off.

Mr Badger i got my trackir5 pro bundle the other week and no problems in win7 64 seems fine to me. As for the X52pro its good but is limited unless you work out how to program it with keyboard functions if you are having any problems with that then pm me i am quite well versed in how to program that stick now. However as many others i have moved onto the uber good TMHWH stick now which is a vast leap in functionality with this game and opens up a whole new experience. As it happens if you are in the UK i still have my X52pro and was about to put it on ebay, still got the reciept for it as its only a couple of months old pm me if you're interested could save you some money there towards the TMHWH stick for later on as you will want to make the jump later.

Spoke to a couple of real pilots and they said they use path hold to lock onto ILS glide slope and can descend holding the path using just speed brake and throttle tweaks.

Opps my bad I stand corrected you're right man that's jumped over night at the airport last night the US dollar rate to was $1.38 = £1.00.

Mmm but at the current rate of exchange this one still cones in cheaper.:P

Spoted that this morning and mine is on its way mmmm.

Selyan I have DCS World already, just got my trackir 5 pro bundle to lovin that better than ftnoir.

Cheers for the PM Mark i'll get on that just got a result today though got the whole A10c flight manual printed up in colour for 0.04p per sheet all 671 pages due to a miss understanding between the manager and his young assistant lol.

Selyan To tall lolthat reminds me of the one liner in "W were soldiers" To tall Sir you call we haul. How are you finding the X52pro, i have finally got my head round programing took me a while tried every available profile none of which really worked properly unsure as to why, so made my own from scratch and now i have full fuctionality. Using just about every function through the X52pro, i am surprised no one has done a tutorial on how to program it as it really is childs play.

That really is quality like Shadow said EPIC.

Yeah it is discovered it last night so had to re-bind it as it seems thats the only place space works for the tutorial

So am I but i didn't getit through steam so i don't think we can.

Yes clearout the vjoy for some reason its in there twice i think it conflicts and remove all other functions from cockpit view if you have no luck i will chimein in the morning of to bed now.

LOL quality striped of wings no longer allowed to fly 12 month ban from DCS world must remember to USE AIRBRAKES all the way in and full upon touch down I very rarely have to use the wheel brakes just cruise down the strip and exit wheel brakes applied only for parking up. And i'm a newb at this game.

Are you using FTNOIR i had that problem with that

Heres a little tip if you're strugling its taken me 2 weeks of trawling through posts and topics to find the answers. If using Saitek products makes sure you have the upto date software and programing software to goto their website and download if not once done make sure you restart to get it to take. Next go into the game options and for all devices listed there clear everything and start from scratch most importantly don't bother trying to bind buttons in the game waste of time well sort of otherwise you limit the ammount of functions you can do espacially if you have the X52 pro. Next back out of game making sure you save the clear functions first and give it a name easily remembered. Now if using Saiteks programing software can be confusing this is why i said clear everything as you are going to assign functions in the Saiteks programing suite. Now for my own simplicity i started at the top and worked down so the first button i look at is Trigger so i bind it to A then secound trigger to B and so on in alphabetical order, you will get to Z and run out so then you need to use numbers 1 to 0 then i used num pad 1 to 4. The above are all assigned to mode 1 pinkie will need to be bound to shift either one just as along as you remember it remember here that shift only works with the joystick pinkie now so forget binding it in it won't do anything. Moving onto mode 1 + pinkie which is shift creating your shift state here and not in game. Now for this mode pick a modifier i used Right Control so the Trigger is now Right Control and A second trigger is Right Control and B all the rest are the same as the first ones but with Right Control input first then the next key am i making sense its late i can waffle alittle. Now these can all be duplicated right across the programing software of Saitek it really is childs play once you've worked it out. Now save it give it a name and back out, go down to ribbon where the joystick icon is click on and load profile the name should show up there. Now fire up the game goto options then controls and select which ever you cleared out don't and i mean try to load any profiles here it won't work. Now for example on my X52pro i have Mode 1 Toggle 3 which was bound to letter K in Saiteks software as Gear up, so in keyboard NOT JOYSTICKS forget its even there you only really need that for axis. So click on the box in KEYBOARD for Gear Up click add and flick Toggle 3 up it will assign it to letter K simples yes and then do the same for the rest easy huh. No comes the part which took me hours to work out so now I want to use Toggle 3 again forget about shift its already assigned to pinkie do not use it for anything else its gone. So Mode 1 + Pinkie using Toggle 3 i have as Navigation Lights On so in keyboard again click box Navigation Lights on click add then flick up Toggle 3 yes i know its going to say its already being used as Gear Up this is where you need to add the MODIFIER so push Right Control on keyboard or which ever modifier you used, and the box that said K is already being used for gear up will disappear click ok and you will see in the box Right Control + K. You have to assign the modifier you used in programing your joystick in the game options that way it gives you another fuction for that key K but that modifier also needs to be in the joystick to or you will be reaching for the keyboard everytime, this applies to all the functions for Mode 1 + Pinkie. Make sure you save it and over right the previously cleared save oops and remember to open that one up before you start i am tierd and trying to remember what i did. Ok so far so good all done but remember to use Toggle 3 as Nav lights on you will have to hold on to pinkie first try it out in the options and throw a few switches and you will see the white border highlight the one you assigned. I hope the above makes sense as i have just returned from anight shift and slighly sleepy appologies for my punctuation spelling mistakes and grammer. If someone whos not sleepy wants to edit this please do so but i will be putting up instructions myself as there seems to be alot of us that have the X52pro or other Saiteks and programing software looking for help. Goodnight all PM me if you want some help and i will do my best. And remember TEAM Together Everyone Achieves More

Slight technical problem with keyboard configuration i'll try to explain. Ok so i cleard everything from the options for keyboard assignments, then programed my X52 pro in the simplest way which took me a while to get my head round it but once you do its complete childs play and so easy. Now the problem i have is in training still learning lol, but the idiot keeps asking me to press the space bar to proceed mmm but i don't have the space bar assigned to anything and am totally at aloss as to where it needs to be for him to continue with his naration. Oh and the X52pro and Saitek software is so easy to program if anyone needs any help gimme a shout and i will do my best to guide you through it. I currently have everything loaded and functional apart from just a few which will be done by keyboard.

Plus in reality the ground at each end of a runway is always softer exactly for this reason, its abit like the gravel trap in F1.

And me although i haven't destroyed anything yet i have been perfecting my ramp start take off and landing comprising of circuits and bumps, as well as night time and refueling. Little steps eventually eqaut to bigger steps.

Just looking through some of my peripherals and my logitech keyboard g510 has an lcd display on it which can be sripted to display game information but i have no idea what or how to do it as of yet. Would be cool though to get both devices to display information that i want at quick glance comes with quite a good tutorial as well on how to program lau and script editing for the display looks like i got some revision to do. Why do i feel like i am back at school lol ya never to young to learn i suppose.

Good work guys liking it still tryimg to get my old head around as i come from an era of computing that was the zx81 ugh.

Thanks Algerad3 Just got my new system up and runing which don't ask me what the specs are as i got it off my son its only 6 months old and he just wasn't using it any more so i blagged it of him. I'll find this note++ and have a play around as i am sure this x52 pro can and will be good. I like Thrustmaster hotas stick and could easily afford it but to me its unique to the A10 so as new and different aircraft are added i just don't see the point in buying something gimmiky. I will get to work then.

Trub ditch the not so Super superhub its not all that and most of those functions don't work that well. Buy a good gaming router and switch superhub to modem only mode took me about a month to work out the superhub provided by VM is a POS.