David OC

These days when binding my controls, I just go to the options, switch to the axis and clear the ones I don't want set. You can move your pedals, toe brakes, joystick etc and see them moving when just looking at the menu axis page. (A little line moves under the control when you move it around) If you see the control moving in two spots, it's not set right and just clear the one set you don't want.

Don't be a scared and join in on the conspiracy:thumbup: It's probably his mum messing with him. hehe, This little line will mess with his OCD and get him tripping right out.:D EDIT: Then again seeing that dust all over that case above is messing with my OCD.:) and clean the front and bottom clip out filters too.

When learning the break go pass the carrier 1 to 1.5 miles. You should have the TACAN set, carrier course line set and have the HSI scale set to 10. Have TACAN selected so you can see the ship distance in the HUD. The HSI can also help you to see if you are roughly the right distance on the downwind, as the little plane icon wings should be just touching the carriers course line (HSI 10 scale) If the carrier and wind speeds are correct (They need to be) 25 to 30kts combined. Then you turn in when abeam (Straight across) the rear of the carrier at 1.2 miles accross (Check TACAN here) as this 1.2 miles and (when you turn in) will allow you to learn what you need to do to hit the next 90 degrees point and adjust. Say you are 1.4 miles, you will need to ease up on the 30 degree bank (softer arc) or widen the distance around to the groove entrance. The problem here when you need to do that too much, it's going to lengthen the groove length also. You then to deep in the groove (airbus cut me off) Same with late turn in from the abeam and way past the rear of the carrier, you will need more bank to start heading towards the carrier quicker because she is driving away from you and lengthening the groove more. Also remember that when you turn in at the abeam, it looks like your turning to soon when it's not and takes getting used to. The wind (if set) is pushing you downwind away from the carrier + the carrier is driving away form you until the 90 degree point in space. That's the point you need to learn to see this picture, this is the only time you glance over at the carrier in this turn (To see how it looks) Does it look long? (Tighten turn?) Short? easy up on the bank, 25 degrees lengthen groove. The pattern is dynamic and flowing. Even more so IRL with very unpredictable weather, wind shear etc. It just all comes back to hitting EACH of the numbers the best you can in this pattern and adjusting as needed at each of the check points for the next. there is no perfect 100% pattern. If you are long than watch this one of Lex's videos a few times. Starts at the 2:00 mark

If you have that many fan(s) pulling fresh air in (Front ) and (Bottom), you should be able to keep the rads cool pulling this air out through the top. I would try it with the fans on the inside pulling this air through the rads as an exhaust. I would also set the rear GPU rad like this also. That way you would have 5 or 6 fans pulling lots of fresh air in over the components (less heat, your GPU is water cooled) and 3 fans pulling it out through the top rads. Just my 2 cents. Well, until you workout how your going to setup the water loop. I think i'd to do it how BitMaster sets it up. I would much rather keep as much water out of the case as possible just in case.:D Then have it all nice looking.

I was thinking about this the other day. Having button box or cockpit panel would be hard to use. A good compromise would be if you were able to lightly touch the button and the button in dcs would highlight so you know your on the correct key. It wouldn't be very hard to do on dcs I'm thinking. It would be setting up the extra signals for touch sensors on the controls.

"2 more 120s on the CPU's radiator blowing in from the top" That doesn't sound like the best setup, I don't think you are pulling enough of the hot air out. From my understanding you want to vent at the top if setup this way (Hot air rises). I have my AIO radiator at the front pulling outside cool air in through the radiator and is vented at the top rear fan and has been fine for heat. The other way is to have fans at the front and top mount the radiator and pull the air from inside the case up out through the AIO radiator. This is not quite as good as the other setup from what I've seen. As you have preheated air going through the radiator. The other way also has it's own problems as you are heating the air and throwing it over the GPU, motherboard etc. This is my setup (Front mounted AIO) and my case being used here.

My page file is normally 20+ Gigs for DCS. You might get away without a page file with 32 GB, that would also depend on how much windows is using in the background and if DCS starts to use more, boom. 64GB I'm guessing would give much more wiggle room with no page file. I just have it set to 32 GB.

ElCuco68, I hope you realize going this way you will need to build / install a water loop and if you are going down this route with all that work, you may as well cool the CPU too and throw out the Corsair H100i AIO. Here is the connection example for the CPU Go to 6:20 to see the GPU dismantle

I'm at 250kts normally just past the 90 mark off the break, many here don't pull enough G's I think for the break, from many of the post I have seen. You hold 1% of the speed as you break. 350kts 3.5G's - 300kts 3G's - 275kts 2.7G's (Watch the speed and G in the HUD, it does't need to be perfectly matched, just get it close) Also make sure to (hold) and extend the speed brake all the way out just before entering the break etc. This will set you up for gear and flaps down at or just past the 90 degree (See Pic below at gear down) and you will be holding a 30 degree bank and zero throttle still. As the speed comes down I add a little up trim as I start to roll level my speed is around 140 and I start bringing the throttle back on, now I'm only trying to use enough throttle to keep the flight path marker level, at the same time trimming up or bring the E bracket down to the level flight path marker and on speed. As I come wings level I'm on speed AOA and still at 800 feet, then descend to 600feet on the downwind. The way to check if you are pulling enough G's in the break is to check the abeam distance with TACAN. It should be close to 1.2 miles, when level straight across from the carrier on the downwind.

I've been practicing this with the new FM and I try and match the trim and throttle when leveling out from the break. As your speed is approaching 130 to 140kts, start adding power to catch it and at the same time start adding a little trim while balancing the (power movement) to hold a level flight path marker 800 feet. While still adding more trim until you are on speed AOA and level all at the same time.(To easy):) Then drop down to 600, If that makes senses. The whole thing is more of a dance and the whole pattern is trying to do the waltz and hopefully you don't have two left feet.:D Edit: The trick here is adding the correct amount of throttle as you come out level because the wings + flaps will gain more lift when in level flight, so go easy on the throttle while adding more trim and leveling out on the downwind. This takes some practice.

BitMaster is the guy you need to talk to about this, his the only one I know that runs a custom water loop here with the Asus 1080GTX-Ti Poseidon. He's normally around to help, must be busy with the fam perhaps.

Here is a simple French wepons guide for the A10. Bonjour,voici une doc sur le tableau des armes du A-10C Warthog (format PDF ,traduit avec l autorisation de son auteur (Tobby23)) With things like the AIM 120 or any weapon really. There is just so much info out there and so many different ways it should be used or people think it should be used.:) The best simplish overall read about deploying these missile types is this guide here :DCS F-15C Combat Guide for Beginners. Because using any weapon also means learning the quirks of the aircraft sensors that are deploying that weapon also. Same with the A-10C and the tactics using the TGP and Maverick missiles with mark points etc.

At a guess you had a computer bug....:) Perhaps not this exact bug, but you get idea. Something probably dragged itself across the top of you pc. Nice case;)

Yep, what would you know Taylor. Not like you have done it for real. Oh wait, that's right you have LOL.:D Are you liking the new landing config FM? Seems good to me for this type of jet, but what would I know....

Like others have said here, there is no need to trim the F18 unless for load-outs asymmetry because of the FBW, in other words it should go where you aim it, unlike the A10 where your are constantly trimming with every change in flight. "I think it’s a combo of air speed changes" No, this is how the A10 flys, not the F18 with it's FBW systems. Fly with a clean jet with no weapons when testing your controls.

I will be very interested to see how your 7700K preforms with the new cards.:thumbup: It's also going to be more how DCS will handle this new tech with their new Vulkan pipeline then the old pipe, when the new gets released...?

Need to be careful with the throttle when coming wings level into the groove as you have much more power from energizing the system for the correct descent rate from the 180 bank. Back off the throttle as you come out wings level so you don't start this ballooning transition when entering the groove. I was doing his a one point until watching Lex's video's on how to energize the system then catch it as you roll in. The opposite when rolling wings level as you will gain lift with the energy that's already in the system to hold the bank angle.

Have you bound the two separate comm channels? I think comm 1 is right shift \. Check in the key binds under HOTAS. There could be issues with the quick start? Don't use it myself. I would learn the startup, it's very quick if you cancel out all the checks.

If your landing at an airport on PG what do you go off IRL? You cannot just go into a carrier break pattern. Whats the standard pattern the other aircraft be using then? First post airfield and rules was asked.

The 476 are working on all the charts for PG now I believe. So they must be out there, not looked myself. I would say that you do not allow for the height of the carrier and fly it "by the numbers" the same as you do at the carrier and as wags does in the video. Wags has USN pilots to speak to and I find it hard that they would not have explain that when flying and recording this video.

As far as I know you do standard pattern using the airport charts. The USN pilot's do the break pattern at their airfields for practice. I did read somewhere? That USN pilots sometimes will do a carrier break pattern at other airfields when they ask ATC if it's possible or allowed? If not they will stick to the charts. If allowed, then it will always be practiced the same as it's done at the boat. The main difference is the downwind is longer to allow for a stationary runway and you may need to correct for more crosswind as the runway doesn't turn into the wind. This video by Wags shows how to do it if allowed at the airfield, it would always be practiced correctly without any special versions as not to introduce negative training when back at the boat.

If you cannot see the meatball you could be to long in the groove, as I can see it quite well with a PD of 1.5. Make sure to turn in on the downwind when "abeam the stern" of the carrier. This only all works if the wind over deck is 25 to 30 kts, this can be a combination of wind and ship power. 20kts carrier plus 10 kts wind etc. The reason to also have this speed correct is because once you start the turn you can feel that it's to soon when it's not. The carrier is moving away from you and the wind is pushing you further away downwind too on the crosswind 90 deg, so hopefully when you roll out into the groove it's only around 18 seconds before landing. In other words think of the abeam turn in, as one continuous spiral down to the deck. 600ft downwind 500ft at 90 deg 300ft at the start of the groove. The practice bit is the picture when at the 90, should I back off the 30 degree bank a little? Bring it back to 25 degrees for a bit then return to 30 so you hit the groove correctly at the same time controlling your descent rate to hit the groove at the correct height.:) This is flown as close as possible, it's still only a guide tho, if you miss one fix the next position, that's the whole point of practicing this pattern and the navy practice this is when landing at airfields to keep the skills up for the boat. Watch all Lex's video's too more than once;) Also the VFA-113 STINGERS have some good info about this. Here is the little invisible box in the sky your trying to enter for the start down the groove. Also when practicing, leave the hook up and do a few touch and go's around the boat.

It's designed around the hook to deck. As you come down the heavy duty gear retracts at the same time you hit the wire, that's why on speed AOA is so important. Look at how the hook is pretty much level with the main gear in the full extended or uncompressed position. It's basically trying to hold down the hook and drag it along the deck. The hook can move up and or bounce, they call that a hook slap when you AOA is to high and the hook hits hard first. You can see the hook here being pulled back off the deck by the cable.

I have my OS on the 500GB M.2 NVMe and also run 2 x 500GB EVO 850's Keep 20 to 30% of the drives with free space on them. (Factor this in to your plans) You must have a lot of games to need that much storage.:) I will possibly add another 1TB and use one 500's for videos. I cannot comment on the Kingtson, only every had Samsung. It would be hard to go back to a standard drives for anything;) Don't really have the room as my AIO is at the front of my system and I like the airflow throughput without stacking drives in front of it. I would need to move the AIO to the top to reinstall the drive rack. You can see my system with no drive rack and AIO install HERE The 2 x SSD's are behind the motherboard.

Hopefully the clean app didn't mess up the win 10 registry. I would start by stripping the graphic driver completely using DDU Uninstaller. Also check that DCS is still using all the CPU cores and something hasn't affected DCS using all the cores. We have see this here many times before. Skip to 2:00 He shows you how his system is stuck on one core using DCS and shows you how to force to use all the cores in windows. If this is a problem now? You can use process lasso to force settings when using DCS.